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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at what role nuclear energy has to play in a renewable energy transition to combat climate change. Specifically, I figure out whether nuclear energy is emissions free or low carbon. I look at the problem of nuclear waste by weighing the differences between long term storage, on-site storage, and reprocessing of nuclear waste. I also look at the prohibitive cost and construction barriers to nuclear energy in order to understand whether it’s actually a feasible solution to climate change. Finally, I look at the issue of safety in relation to nuclear energy by comparing the death tolls of other energy outputs to that of nuclear energy.
A huge thanks to Dr. Arjendu Pattanayak for helping me out with this video!!
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Resources:
1. How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt? We Rank The Killer Energy Sources (Forbes): https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/#2de82869709b
2. Is Nuclear Good or Bad? (PBS Studios): https://youtu.be/6lbjxk1Lexs
3. Nuclear Waste (Union of Concerned Scientists): https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-waste
4. Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Kharecha and Hansen): https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3051197?source=cen
5. Nuclear Power Cost (Union of Concerned Scientists): https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power
6. Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development, Emissions Graph on pg. 732 (IPCC): http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/report/IPCC_SRREN_Ch09.pdf
7. The simple argument for keeping nuclear power plants open (Vox): https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/4/5/17196676/nuclear-power-plants-climate-change-renewables
8. Nuclear Power & Global Warming (Union of Concerned Scientists): https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-power-and-global-warming
9. It’s time to go nuclear in the fight against climate change (Grist): https://grist.org/article/its-time-to-go-nuclear-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/
10. Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (Lazard): https://www.lazard.com/media/450784/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-120-vfinal.pdf
