Bjørn Lomborg

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin · 18 Nov 2022 podcast

modular nuclear power plants.

They would be, instead of being these artwork that we design once for every different plant, which is one of the reasons why they're so expensive, they would just be mass produced and you'd have one, you know, they all be recognized in one go.

So it'd be much cheaper.

They would also be passively safe.

So if all the power goes.

they'll shut down rather than go boom.

So that's another very good thing.

And then they'll also be very hard to transform into nuclear weapons.

So you can actually imagine them being out in a lot of different places where we'd perhaps be a little worried about having, you know, plutonium lying around.

Now, this is all still being worked out.

But imagine if that actually comes out.

And again, remember, the other three generations, we were also told that

It'll be incredibly safe and it'll be incredibly cheap.

And it didn't turn out that way.

So let's wait.

But it could be.

And so the argument is invest in these ideas, for instance, fourth generation nuclear.

And if fourth generation nuclear becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

We're done.

Everyone will just switch, not just rich, well-meaning Americans or Europeans, but also the Chinese, the Indians, everybody in Africa, the rest of the Indian subcontinent.

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