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As I was leaving China, the engineer that brought Bill Gates there kind of pulled me aside, and he said, "You know, Michael, I appreciate your interest in all the different nuclear supply technologies, but there's this more basic issue, which is that there's just not enough global demand.

Let's accelerate the advanced nuclear programs.

And if I could show you this map animated over time, you would see that Tokyo has actually become darker, because ever since the tsunami in Japan, Japan has had to rely on a quarter less electricity because it turned the nuclear power stations off.

A full-scale nuclear war?

But somewhere along the line I'd learned about nuclear weapons, and I'd gotten really concerned with the ethics of science.

We see that Kim Jong Un, just in the last couple of days, tested yet another nuclear weapon.

The French and the British show interest in nuclear power.

China's building 800 gigawatts of coal, 400 gigawatts of hydro, about 200 gigawatts of nuclear, and on an energy-equivalent basis, adjusting for intermittency, about 100 gigawatts of renewables.

First is this area of new nuclear that I'll talk about in just a second.

It's a new generation of nuclear plants that are on the drawing boards around the world, and the people who are developing these say we can get them in position to demo by 2025 and to scale by 2030, if you will just let us.

So what's holding new nuclear back?

We have not used our latest scientific thinking on radiological health to think how we communicate with the public and govern the testing of new nuclear reactors.

We have new scientific knowledge that we need to use in order to improve the way we regulate nuclear industry.

The second thing is we've got a mindset that it takes 25 years and 2 to 5 billion dollars to develop a nuclear power plant.

That comes from the historical, military mindset of the places nuclear power came from.

These new nuclear ventures are saying that they can deliver power for 5 cents a kilowatt hour; they can deliver it for 100 gigawatts a year; they can demo it by 2025; and they can deliver it in scale by 2030, if only we give them a chance.

And within that, we're going to run it just like you run a nuclear submarine, blue-gold team, switching them off and on, running 24 hours a day.

How much weapons-grade nuclear material do you think it would take to level a city the size of San Francisco?

But you can forget that nuclear latte, because today's nuclear weapons are hundreds of times more powerful even than those we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And even a limited nuclear war involving, say, tens of nuclear weapons, could lead to the end of all life on the planet.

So it's really important that you know that right now we have over 15,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of nine nations.

In fact, if you live in any of the rural areas where nuclear weapons are stored globally, one is likely pointed at you.

They regularly protest about the issues they care about, but nuclear weapons are not one of them, which makes sense, because Jasmine was born in 1991, at the end of the Cold War.

So she didn't grow up hearing a lot about nuclear weapons.

And that is really a shame, because right now, we need Generation Possible to help us make some really important decisions about nuclear weapons.

For instance, will we further reduce our nuclear arsenals globally, or will we spend billions, maybe a trillion dollars, to modernize them so they last throughout the 21st century, so that by the time Jasmine is my age, she's talking to her children and maybe even her grandchildren about the threat of nuclear holocaust?

Now, if you're paying attention to the money, a trillion dollars could go a long way to feeding and educating and employing people, all of which could reduce the threat of nuclear war to begin with.

Just this last spring, when four retirees and two taxi drivers were arrested in the Republic of Georgia for trying to sell nuclear materials for 200 million dollars, they demonstrated that the black market for this stuff is alive and well.

And it's really important, because there have been dozens of accidents involving nuclear weapons, and I bet most of us have never heard anything about them.

Just here in the United States, we've dropped nuclear weapons on the Carolinas twice.

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