The Nuclear Power Podcast

COMPSTD 2341: Biography of Nuclear Power

This podcast discusses the role of nuclear power in an society which is threatened by a changing climate. Will nuclear power play a role in a decarbonized energy grid? Should it? What drives public acceptance or denial of a hybrid energy future? Works Cited: Climate Change and Nuclear Power 2020. Non-Serial Publications. Vienna: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, 2020. https://www.iaea.org/publications/14725/climate-change-and-nuclear-power-2020. “How ‘world View’ Affects Public Perception of Nuclear Power : Energy & Environment - World Nuclear News.” Accessed November 22, 2020. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/How-world-view-affects-public-perception-of-nuclea. Illinois EnergyProf. Economics of Nuclear Reactor, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY&list=PL9j1tf8FErQPFr7Y_Hz8Q-Hw1mb6NFSsB&index=2. Our Changing Climate. Is Nuclear Energy the Solution?, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZUMoEfTr7w&list=PL9j1tf8FErQPFr7Y_Hz8Q-Hw1mb6NFSsB&index=5. Park, Eunil. “Positive or Negative? Public Perceptions of Nuclear Energy in South Korea: Evidence from Big Data.” Nuclear Engineering and Technology 51, no. 2 (2019): 626–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2018.10.025. Real Engineering. The Economics of Nuclear Energy, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_BCz0pzMw&list=PL9j1tf8FErQPFr7Y_Hz8Q-Hw1mb6NFSsB&index=1. Simon Clark. Why Nuclear Power Will (and Won’t) Stop Climate Change, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k13jZ9qHJ5U&list=PL9j1tf8FErQPFr7Y_Hz8Q-Hw1mb6NFSsB&index=6. The Good Stuff. Is Nuclear Power Good Or Bad?, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbjxk1Lexs&list=PL9j1tf8FErQPFr7Y_Hz8Q-Hw1mb6NFSsB&index=4. Wendover Productions. The Nuclear Waste Problem, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3kLBo_ruo&list=PL9j1tf8FErQPFr7Y_Hz8Q-Hw1mb6NFSsB&index=3.