Do we need nuclear power to stop climate change?

A nuclear apocalypse is low risk but a climate catastrophe is already underway. Environmentalists are increasingly arguing to keep nuclear power plants open - but should we?

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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International Energy Agency roadmap for net-zero emissions by 2050:
https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050

Safest sources of energy:
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

The costs of Germany's nuclear phase-out:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26598/w26598.pdf
https://static.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin/user_upload/10_Jahre_Fukushima_28022021_v1_EN.pdf

Public opinion:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Josue-Meystre-2/publication/327918849_Current_perspectives_on_nuclear_energy_as_a_global_climate_change_mitigation_option/links/5bb4e547299bf13e605d9294/Current-perspectives-on-nuclear-energy-as-a-global-climate-change-mitigation-option.pdf

Nuclear waste:
https://worldnuclearwastereport.org/wp-content/themes/wnwr_theme/content/World_Nuclear_Waste_Report_2019_Focus_Europe.pdf

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