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Ep255 - Richard Wolfson | Nuclear Energy: One Environmentalist’s Perspective

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We Need a Sharp Decline in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030

There's the Generation 4 Consortium, a group of countries and scientists who are looking at some specific designs for much more advanced nuclear reactors. So these are interesting, innovative new reactor designs. But I remind you, we need a sharp decline in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. And something that's still on the drawing boards is unlikely to be producing substantial amounts of electric power by 2030.

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