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Hello again

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in this video on the renewable energies
series,

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we're going to talk about something
that some people don't

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regard as renewable.

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Is it a clean form of energy?

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Yeah, I think it is. Nuclear energy.

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Now there is nothing more basic
than nuclear energy.

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TheAt the end of the day,

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all you're doing is changing one thing
into another thing.

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AIt alters
it's make up at the atomic level

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and energy is released, that energy is in

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heat, gets warm.

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Nuclear energy,

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public perception of nuclear energy,
oh dear.

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Chernobyl, three Mile Island, Fukushima.

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The safety record

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of nuclear power stations is exemplary.

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You only hear of the bad bits
you don't hear of the good bits.

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I do believe that France does produce
80% of its power

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through nuclear power stations.

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Do you ever have an accident there?

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No, you don't.

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But you've heard of the three
I mentioned earlier.

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There are in thermal power plants, ones

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that burn coal, gas,

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oil, even biomass accidents,

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there
are accidents happening all the time.

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You don't hear about them because

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it isn't newsworthy
because it's just another power plant.

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But if something goes wrong,
at a nuclear power station,

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not good, Again, when it does go wrong,
it goes wrong.

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Take Chernobyl, for instance.

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It irradiated sheep in Wales, didn't it?

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They had mass slaughter of sheep
because they were radiated

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by a power plant
that was like 3000 - 4000 miles away.

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It has very, very far reaching effects
when it does go wrong.

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But they don't go wrong.

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The safety record behind them
is really, really good.

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Again, the problem of nuclear waste.

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Now nuclear waste don't

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confuse nuclear waste with uranium
that's spent.

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Yes, that is nuclear waste.

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Yes, we do need to dispose of that.

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But nuclear waste
also takes into low grade nuclear waste,

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such as paper overalls, over shoes, masks.

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Anything that people use inside the power
station is deemed as nuclear waste.

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You get these massive
figures of 7290 tonnes of nuclear

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waste produced last month.

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Yeah, it was.

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But it's not the sludge
at the bottom of the reactor, it's

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the ancillary products,
but because it comes

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from a nuclear power plant
it is classed as nuclear waste.

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Now this fuels
the public's perception of them being bad.

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They are clean.

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They are unobtrusive.

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There are plans

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for Rolls-Royce to produce a mini

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nuclear power plant
that is big enough to service a town.

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I do believe the figure of 5 billion pound
was banded about given to them

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by the government to research

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and produce prototypes
of this nuclear power plant.

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Should our efforts to go into renewable
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not be fruitful.

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I think this has been kept
from the public's eye

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because nobody wants a nuclear
power station in the center of their town,

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the size of a nuclear power plant

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that would be needed to power a town
the size of Grimsby,

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I wouldn't like to guess.

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But I do know for a fact that it is being.

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Researched, so it's the belt and braces
alongside renewable energy.

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Now do you class
nuclear power is renewable.

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It's not renewable sources.

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It is not renewable.

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It's clean.

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It's very, very efficient.

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Next door
to other forms of power production.

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You get your plant running,
you just sit and watch it, maintain it.

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Keep it going.

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Doesn't have to be turned down
doesn't have to be turned up.

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Doesn't have to be clean
gasses. It's there.

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Obviously,
the maintenance has got to be done.

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But you are not producing anything
into the atmosphere, not producing gases.

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The only thing you are looking at
is the waste that comes from it.

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Now, people aren't told how toxic waste

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that comes from a normal thermal power
plant is, it's acidic

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they have to dispose of that
somehow. Again because it's not nuclear

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and because if something does go wrong,
it's not so far reaching.

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It's forgotten about.

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I know three or four accidents last year
in the third World or developing world

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as it's called, on thermal power plants
where many people died.

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You never heard of it.

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But if it had been a nuclear
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it would have been all over the news
again.

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Look at how many people have died
in accidents at nuclear power stations.

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Very, very few.

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So decisions have got to be made.

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Where do we go to get our energy?

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Is it going to be enough from wind?

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Is it going to be enough from biomass?

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Is it going to be enough from tidal?
Is it going to be enough from hydro?

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Is it going to be enough
from photovoltaics, photothermal?

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Probably not.

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So there is your belt and braces and trust
me, it is being addressed and looked.

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I personally think it's a good thing.

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I don't think there is a problem
with producing electricity

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using the most basic form
of energy production.

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The decay of nuclear materials.

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No, it's not renewable, and it's going
to be down to the personal choice and.

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Is there anywhere else to go?

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I hope so.

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But at the end of the day,

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I can nearly guarantee you'll see more
and more of these plants come in.

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It's a good way to produce
electrical power.

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We will see.