Ep255 - Richard Wolfson | Nuclear Energy: One Environmentalist’s Perspective
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Can We Convert Fossil Fuel Plants to Nuclear Plants?
If we have good storage and good long-term energy transmission, that's going to make renewables better. Because they make the renewables solar and wind which have the problem of intermittency much more viable. And they reduce the impetus, I think, to develop advanced nuclear capabilities because we don't need as much of that. But if we lived in a world which we don't, where there was plenty of international cooperation, you could imagine a world that was entirely solar power on the daytime side of the planet. Right.
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