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It's Time to Expand Nuclear Power

Open to Debate

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Climate Change

We have a paris climate agreement that pledges to get to two degrees centigrade global warming over preindustrial levels, or better yet, one point five degrees. By 20 50, electricity consumption will increase by a hundred%. Scientists tell us we've got to cut carbon emissions from electricity production by 100 %. Nuclear weapons do not, have not historically, spread through commercial nuclear power. To the contrary, i can tell you of a case. When the soviet union broke up, i was privileged to be part of a team that negotiated the purchase of 500 metric tons of highly enriched geranium and blended it down to commercial reactor fuel. Supplied one half of us commercial nuclear requirements for

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