On Thursday, April 21 at 19: 30 GMT:
As the enviornment seeks solutions to transfer faraway from carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels, some worldwide locations are extra and extra taking a peep in direction of nuclear energy to fulfill their rising vitality wants.
Nuclear energy has been considered unfavourably due to important accidents and the introduction of radioactive raze that will perchance pose an environmental threat for thousands of years.
Nonetheless some environmentalists who perceive fossil fuels as an even increased environmental threat own now reconsidered their opposition to nuclear energy. Supporters argue that the hazards and issues linked with excessive prices and radioactive raze storage would be minimised with improved technologies and building of smaller reactors.
How mountainous of a role will nuclear vitality play in the approaching years? China now leads the enviornment in the advance of present nuclear energy crops. In South Korea, the UK and France, nuclear energy pattern is considered as a key factor achieve carbon neutrality. For some European worldwide locations, renewed interest in nuclear vitality is additionally a strategy of countering rising worldwide vitality prices and vitality dependence on Russia.
In this episode of The Movement, we’ll discuss the professionals and cons of nuclear vitality.
On this episode of The Movement, we talk with:
Umair Irfan, @umairfan
Senior science reporter, Vox
Kirsty Gogan, @kristygogan
Founder and managing director, TerraPraxis
Shaun Burnie
Faded senior nuclear specialist, Greenpeace East Asia
Published On 21 Apr 2022