What If The United States Was Powered Entirely By Nuclear Energy?

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Nuclear energy was all the rage back in the 1960s and 1970s. But after the near disaster at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in the United States and the complete disaster at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union, global interest in nuclear energy soured. But aside from these highly visible disasters, and a pesky (though relatively small) radioactive waste problem, nuclear energy delivers an abundant amount of electricity without any climate change inducing emissions. So what happened?

This video explores what if the United States had converted all of its power plants to nuclear power, as opposed to leaning even more heavily on coal and fossil fuels. How much would it cost? Would it have an impact on climate change? What would be needed to supply that much nuclear energy? And just how do we treat, store and manage nuclear waste?

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Read more about nuclear energy here:

Nuclear power safety: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Nuclear power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power
Economics of nuclear power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_plant
Nuclear waste remediation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source/
Electricity transportation and ditribution: http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-much-electricity-disappears-between-a-power-plant-and-your-plug/

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