Gina Grad
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It's easy to understand why.
According to the World Health Organization, about 7 million people die annually from air pollution, and nuclear plants don't emit that.
As a result, the climate scientist James Hansen looked at it, and he calculated that nuclear power has already saved almost 2 million lives to date.
It turns out that even wind energy is more deadly than nuclear.
This is a photograph taken of two maintenance workers in the Netherlands shortly before one of them fell to his death to avoid the fire, and the other one was engulfed in flames.
Now, what about environmental impact?
Well, I think a really easy way to think about it is that uranium fuel, which is what we use to power nuclear plants, is just really energy dense.
About the same amount of uranium as this Rubik's Cube can power all of the energy that you need in your entire life.
Yeah.
And he had a partner for over 20 years.
And, you know, it was a fascinating journey for him to be able to compartmentalize that.
Ace, man, I just want to let you know I went to the Not Taco Bell material premiere here in Vancouver, Washington.
I thought it was hilarious.
It was awesome.
But also, I was inspired, motivated.
I came home.
The first thing I did is I went and peed in the sink.
And I didn't even move the dishes out of the way first.
I'll never forget that.
I will shit on your point.