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516. Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?

Freakonomics Radio

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Are We Going to Use Less Electricity?

Matthew nidell: The idea that we're going to just use less electricity, that's not going to work for poor people who're just getting out of poverty. He says the increasing energy use in countries like china and india are lifting hundreds of millions of people out of Poverty. But it's all being done with the cheapest, most available, simplest technology that they can put their hands on, he writes.

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