Introducing AP1000 and Dr. Helen Caldicott - TR2016c 3h18m44s26f
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-03-23

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Incremental improvements to existing nuclear technology are already being constructed: The AP1000 by Westinghouse. This Pressurized Water Reactor offers common-sense passive safety systems which would have survived a Fukushima like incident including total system blackout.

Dr. Helen Caldicott and anti-nuclear organizations mischaracterize  passive safety systems (replacing active safety systems) as a cost-cutting measure.  "The AP1000 is called an egg-shell reactor in the industry" Dr. Helen Caldicott falsely claims.

Such blatant falsehoods going unchallenged raise the possibility that radical improvements in reactor technology could never accrue their full value within the established nuclear industry. If an industry can not fully communicate the value proposition offered by new technology, then people's attitudes will not change.

Dr. Helen Caldicott is then shown to be uninterested in society's need for reliable energy. And unconcerned with the developing world's need for more energy... going so far as to say "If China goes the way of U.S. and everyone gets cars and refrigerators, we're done for."

Of course it is not up to Caldicott, or Western/developed nations to dictate what developing nations may or may-not have. People who do not have access to reliable energy want that access to reliable energy. It improves their quality of life, and ultimately slows population growth then stabilizes a nation's population.

Developed nations do not see population growth due to domestic birthrates. Immigration is what increases the population of developed nations.

Dr. Helen Caldicott's prescription of energy scarcity is cruel, and ultimately ineffective in dealing with our environmental challenges.

Clean, reliable, inexpensive energy is the answer.

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