Nuclear power is about as popular as a three-eyed fish, but it still provides 10% of the world's electricity (and double that percentage in America). So how bad IS this stuff? And is there a possible future in which nuclear power provides almost ALL of the world's energy? (Spoiler: there is!)

Join the boys for an irradiated romp through the science, history, and future of nuclear power.

In this epidode:

• Don't call it "nucular"

• Willhelm Rontgen

• Plasma

Bose-Einstein condensate

quark- glucagon plasma

neutron-degenerate matter

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. 

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