Trevor Hughes
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512 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Aug
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It scales up.
And so the American taxpayers are sort of helping jumpstart that research in the way that we have jumpstarted research to the moon, to, you know, under the oceans, all all that kind of thing.
The concern from some of the critics is particularly about nuclear safety, that you know, nuclear may have a fairly good track record of safety, but when things go bad.
They go bad, right?
You know, there's a there's a joke out here in the West that no one has ever had to clean up a spill of sunshine.
And so there's a concern that, you know, we may have decades of nuclear waste sitting on these sites because there is no centralized waste repository in this country.
So any nuclear waste we generate kind of just sits around.
The other concern is that why are we investing in this technology, which is kind of unproven, at a time when we know solar and wind are effective sources of generation, uh you know, especially when it's when it's daytime and when it's windy, but you know, coupled with batteries, why not invest in that kind of technology, which is far less environmentally risky?
The backers would say that unlike solar and wind,
Nuclear power is reliable.
It generates power every single day.
It's called baseload power, right?
It's the thing that makes sure the lights come on every single time, regardless of whether it's sunny outside.
Now, obviously there have been in you know advances in battery technology and storage like that, but we as a country still depend heavily on coal and nuclear power, existing nuclear power plants for that baseload power.
Well, that's the thing, right?
Is that there may be a time when we develop a centralized waste repository.
But as best as anyone knows right now, the spent fuel rods from the Natrium project, and it will have to be refueled every two years, they will essentially remain on site, under guard, obviously secure so that no one steals them and builds a dirty bomb.
But it is it is a concern about what are we doing with this radioactive waste that we are
you know, we will generate more of as a result of this project.
You know, I think the
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