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Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power: An Introduction-Part 2 - The Environment TV
This video is an introduction to the problems/challenges of both fossil fuels and nuclear power.  Part-2, herein, is with Dr. Gordon Edwards speaking about nuclear power. Part-1, a separate video, which can be seen at the link below, has Dr. Courtney Williams speaking about Fossil Fuels and their growing infrastructures. Both experts include the human history of living with feeling the risks and effects associated with these fuels in the short term and through the thousands of years of monitoring and decommissioning some of them require. Dr. Edwards talks of radiation, activation, ionization, decommissioning, monitoring, accidents, bomb trains and barges, short and long term storage and the sicknesses and death associated with nuclear power. He finishes his exploration with the issue of Nuclear Waste and his statement that Rolling Stewardship is an alternative plan, not a solution. While stating that, at present, there is no scientific solution to the nuclear waste problem, he clearly tells us that abandonment of the radioactive waste is not an ethical position for today’s generation or for any future generation at any time throughout the tens of thousands of years required to monitor this waste. As Dr. Gordon says: The Waste is [...]