Host Dave Schlom visits with Tim Gregory, a senior nuclear chemist at the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory at Sellafield, Cumbria. Gregory is the author of Going Nuclear: How Atomic Energy Will Save the World, published in the US by Pegasus Books.
Gregory argues that nuclear energy is much safer than most of us believe. Our fears are based on well-known nuclear accidents like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.
But how bad were those events in reality, especially compared with the hazards of petrochemicals? Gregory makes a compelling case that nuclear power is the best way toward achieving net-zero carbon emissions to fight the ever-increasing threat of climate change.
