Nuclear power, once the great hope for a clean way to meet the world’s energy needs, fell out of favor decades ago. Brad Plumer, who covers technology and policy efforts to address global warming for The New York Times, explains how one company with a radical idea is now working to bring it back. Guest: Brad Plumer, who covers technology and policy efforts to address global warming for The New York Times.
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I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily nuclear power, once the great hope for a clean way to meet the world's energy needs fell out of favor decades ago.
Today, my colleague Brad Plumer explains how one company with a radical idea is now working to bring it back.
Its Monday, July 29.
Brad, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me.
So you cover climate, and youve been reporting on something that doesnt normally come to mind.
When I think of climate change, and thats nuclear power, it hasn't really been part of the conversation about how to fix climate change really at all in recent years.
But now you've found that that is changing.
Tell me about that.
Yeah, so there is a ton of innovation and a ton of investment pouring into nuclear power right now.
And a big part of the reason for that is there's this growing sense among experts and policymakers that in order to fight climate change, we really need a wide variety of clean energy technologies.
Right now, we have solar power, we have wind power.
Those are growing incredibly fast and really doing quite well, but they don't run all the time.
The sun's not always shining, the wind's not always blowing.