Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands w/ MV Ramana
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Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands
MV Ramana
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by MV Ramana to discuss the tech industry’s push to have nuclear energy power its data centers and why the reality of nuclear power isn’t as great as its promoters often make it seem.
Guest
MV Ramana is a Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Nuclear Is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.
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Links
- Langdon Winner wrote The Whale and the Reactor and Do Artifacts Have Politics?. Timothy Mitchell wrote Carbon Democracy.
- Microsoft made an agreement to try to restart Three Mile Island, but it’s not a done deal yet.
- Data centers are fueling fossil fuel use, despite claims about nuclear and renewables.
- Leaked documents in October confirmed Israel has nuclear weapons.