manufacturing components, modeler reactors on assembly lines the way we manufacture jet aircrafts. they are super safe. that s the future. we got to start doing it. on sunday full climate and energy scientists released calling world leaders support development safe and nuclear power systems. renewable s like wind and solar will certainly play roles in the future energy economy but those energy forces cannot scale fast enough to deliver cheap and energy power to the scale the economy requires. while there is no path to climate stabilization that doesn t include a substantial role for nuclear power.
now we re about to use the american nuclear warheads. this is something every peace activist. anti-nuclear weapon person should get behind. the kind of reactors advocated for this film, by this film, are breeder reactors, which actually create more plutonium and more weapons grade plutonium. the kind of reactors that india used to build its atomic bomb which it called a peaceful reactor and a peaceful bomb. so with normal white water reactors you cannot use that plutonium to build reactors. but with the kind advocated by this film you re producing weapons grade plutonium. that s why the clinton administration killed the program to build these reactors in 1994 in this country.
advantage. not only do we have to pay $14 billion for the plant but then you have to store the waste for 30,000 years, which is five times the length of recorded human history and how that can ever be economic is for somebody somebody s got to make that case. robert stern, i guess you re the perfect man to make it, so come on. just your debunked your entire claim. i understand that. the cost thing is a red herring. we haven t built nuclear plants in 0 years in this country. we got a few going up now. you could have said the exact same thing about solar a few years ago. solar plummeted, what, 1,000% in the last decade because we created a market through subsides and mass produce them in china now. the cost has come down. the future on nuclear energy will not be the one off plants, manufacturing components, modeler reactors on assembly
film, are breeder reactors, which actually create more plutonium and more weapons grade plutonium. the kind of reactors that india used to build its atomic bomb which it called a peaceful reactor and a peaceful bomb. so with normal white water reactors you cannot use that plutonium to build reactors. but with the kind advocated by this film you re producing weapons grade plutonium. that s why the clinton administration killed the program to build these reactors in 1994 in this country. they create more weapons grade plutonium. and the idea that you can one of the ideas behind the film is that well these kind of reactors actually feed on themselves and create their own fuel and you can use all the nuclear waste from the existing nuclear power plants and put in these reactors and they ll eventually process it.
they create more weapons grade plutonium. and the idea that you can one of the ideas behind the film is that well these kind of reactors actually feed on themselves and create their own fuel and you can use all the nuclear waste from the existing nuclear power plants and put in these reactors and they ll eventually process it. you have to operate them for hundreds of years in order for them to devour the nuclear waste that exists. i would give you the last word, robert stone, but you ll have the last word tomorrow night when your movie airs as this time tomorrow night. a fascinating debate, robert kennedy, robert stone thank you very much indeed. and we ll be right back.