We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More

07/01/24 • 108 min

Professor Alex Wellerstein returns for a part two answering questions about the bomb, near misses, command and control and more.

Professor Alex Wellerstein returns for a part two answering questions about the bomb, near misses, command and control and more.

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Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?

Is overzealous regulation the root cause of the contemporary crisis in deployment of nuclear reactors in the USA? James Krellenstein argues that Nuclear Regulatory Commission critics are trapped in the 1980’s and that the spectre haunting today’s deployments are not primarily regulatory. Due to simplified systems and lower material costs modern NRC approved passive reactors should be cheaper than complex Gen 2 reactors. In addition there are 17GWe worth of combined construction and operating licenses in the USA ready to go. All that and more on this week’s episode.

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Is an AI Energy Crisis Looming?

Mark Mills is the executive director of the National Centre for Energy Analytics and author of “The Cloud Revolution” How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. Join us as we explore how to power an AI enhanced Cloud network and its implications on the grid and climate politics.