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Beau outlines a summit where countries pledge to increase nuclear energy use, sparking concerns from activists advocating for quicker renewable solutions.
Climate activists, policymakers, environmental advocates
The full transcript provides additional insights into the potential consequences and debates surrounding the decision to increase nuclear energy use for combating climate change.
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Well, howdy there, internet people.
It's Beau again.
So today, we are going to talk about nuclear energy,
civilian nuclear energy.
And the climate, and a summit that occurred,
and the decisions that were made at that summit,
and then some of the concerns that were raised
about those decisions, and how, well, it may not be enough.
Okay. So what happened? A whole bunch of countries, around 30, met and they have
signed a pledge. And the pledge is to increase the use of nuclear energy to
create electricity to combat climate change. That's part of the reason
And that's the main reason for it.
The countries that signed on to this, the US, Brazil, China, Saudi Arabia, France, France
being a country that actually exports electricity, it's major players when it comes to energy.
And it also says that those countries are going to help other countries develop their
own nuclear energy infrastructure so they can provide electricity.
So this is something that is surprising in a lot of ways because of things like Chernobyl,
because of Fukushima, because of things like this, there's still a lot of concerns when
it comes to the actual facilities themselves. But beyond that, beyond the
health and safety concerns that typically accompany this, there's another
one that is being raised by climate change activists. And that's
all fine and good and everything if you're gonna
deal with all of these other issues and you can do that, it still takes too long.
When you're talking about nuclear power plants, they take a really long time to
bring online and it's not something that you can cut corners on. They are
expensive. There's a whole bunch of downsides to it from that aspect.
The thing is, at this point, what the activists are saying is that there needs to be a greater
focus on renewables that can be brought online quickly, wind, solar, stuff like that.
Now the summit occurred, the pledge was signed.
So the concerns raised by the activists, they might be taken into consideration, but it's
going to be an afterthought because the decision apparently has already been made.
Now obviously this is one of those things where a bunch of countries get together, they
have their summit, they sign the pledge.
have to wait and see how much effort goes into making that pledge a reality
because we don't know yet. But this is a unique development in the sense that it
kind of flew under the radar and given the topic itself, if the pledge starts to
be acted on, there's going to be a lot of debate about it. Anyway, it's just a
thought, y'all have a good day.
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