Power Hour with Alex Epstein

"Steps toward decriminalizing nuclear" with Robert Hargraves

03.12.2021 - By Alex EpsteinPlay

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On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews Robert Hargraves on the topic of how to decriminalize nuclear energy so it can provide low-cost, reliable, ultra-clean energy for billions of people.

Hargraves is cofounder of ThorCon and author of "Thorium: Energy Cheaper Than Coal."

They cover topics including:

- Why since the creation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) over 45 years ago not one nuclear power plant has been designed and built to completion.

- Why the Linear no Threshold (LNT) approach guiding the NRC should be abolished.

- What ALARA is, and how it increases nuclear costs.

- Why South Korea builds nuclear plants at 1/3 US costs.

- Should the NRC exist at all?

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