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Over here you can see this is the distribution of power in favor of civilian nuclear energy today, this is what that power block is predicted to be like by the late parts of 2010, early parts of 2011.

CA: You argue in the paper that it's a matter of luck that when we discovered that nuclear power could create a bomb, it might have been the case that you could have created a bomb with much easier resources, accessible to anyone.

NB: Yeah, so think back to the 1930s where for the first time we make some breakthroughs in nuclear physics, some genius figures out that it's possible to create a nuclear chain reaction and then realizes that this could lead to the bomb.

And we do some more work, it turns out that what you require to make a nuclear bomb is highly enriched uranium or plutonium, which are very difficult materials to get.

That maybe by baking sand in the microwave oven or something like that you could have created a nuclear detonation.

CA: Although, couldn't you argue that for life to evolve on Earth that implied sort of stable environment, that if it was possible to create massive nuclear reactions relatively easy, the Earth would never have been stable, that we wouldn't be here at all.

So, nuclear weapons were actually very close to this, right?

What we did, we spent over 10 trillion dollars to build 70,000 nuclear warheads and put them on hair-trigger alert.

Then it might have been very tricky, in a crisis situation, to refrain from launching all their nuclear missiles.

It could have been harder to have arms treaties, if instead of nuclear weapons there had been some smaller thing or something less distinctive.

That's really how we survived the nuclear threat, was by going out there and going through the painful process of negotiating.

And I found myself the last quarter juggling chemical engineering separation processes, logic classes, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and also producing and choreographing a dance production.

This carbon core continues to collapse and as a result, the temperature increases, which allows further nuclear reactions to take place, and carbon then burns into oxygen, into neon, silicon, sulphur and ultimately iron.

And again, it's actually a relief for what's going on in China because I think on the table right now, there's 27 nuclear power stations to be built.

I mean, from 1965 to 1973 there were more munitions that fell on Cambodia than in all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.

So far there is only three sources of baseload electricity: coal, some gas, nuclear and hydro.

Of those, only nuclear and hydro are green.

So with hydro maxed out, coal and lose the climate, or nuclear, which is the current operating low-carbon source, and maybe save the climate.

So, between coal and nuclear, compare their waste products.

If all of the electricity you used in your lifetime was nuclear, the amount of waste that would be added up would fit in a Coke can.

And does nuclear really compete with coal?

That's where you see some of the source, not from my fellow environmentalists, but from people who feel threatened by nuclear power.

Well the good news is that the developing world, but frankly, the whole world, is busy building, and starting to build, nuclear reactors.

In terms of proliferation, nuclear energy has done more to dismantle nuclear weapons than any other activity.

And that's why 10 percent of the electricity in this room, 20 percent of electricity in this room is probably nuclear.

And I was glad to see that president Obama supported the nuclear fuel bank strategy when he spoke in Prague the other week.

This is a nuclear waste storage and encapsulation facility at Hanford site in Washington State, where there are over 1,900 stainless steel capsules containing nuclear waste submerged in water.

Stalin, Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders forced Russians out to the far east to be in gulags, labor camps, nuclear cities, whatever the case was.

Nuclei and nuclear reactions, of course.

We don't see those nuclear reactions in stars.

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