Bjorn Lomborg
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Feb
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And you've just made the very eloquent argument that you do need some regulation, but regulation has costs and you need to weigh them against the benefits.
Now, this is a very, very hard argument to to win, as you also just pointed out, because in some sense you're saying,
hey, what if we made nuclear power plants a little less safe, but then we could afford them?
That's not going to play very well.
And I think that's why everyone is thinking it's much more likely that we can do this with fourth generation nuclear.
Fourth generation nuclear is going to be inherently safe.
So you can't have these runaway effects like you had in Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, that kind of thing.
They will just simply shut down if you don't
keep them going all the time.
And so you can have something that's both much safer and much cheaper because you'll have it certified in the factory and then you'll just have all of the types approved in one go.
So you will have much less regulatory cost and you will still have a safer nuclear power plant.
I think that's the way to go and that's the way you're going to be able to convince people.
It can be large size, but almost all of the ones that they're working on right now are also smaller.
And as I understand it, again, I'm not a nuclear engineer or anything, but as I understand it, the point here is to say, if you want a big one, you just buy five of these containers instead.
So the beauty is, in some sense, it's still much cheaper just to buy these five and put them up in one place or however many you want.
and then just run them.
That's why you probably also want them to be pretty small so you can get any size power plant as you have.
If you've ever looked into a Tesla or any other car, it's built with literally hundreds or thousands of small batteries.
So it's sort of the same kind of thing just for nuclear power.
Yeah.
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