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The Heterodox Anthropologist of Nuclear Feat: Bret Kugelmass
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English - December 08, 2020 02:43 - 1 hour - 166 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sometimes an outsider's perspective can lead to startling conclusions. Bret Kugelmass is a successful tech entrepreneur turned climate activist. His empiric analysis of the problem of climate change led him towards embracing nuclear energy as the only technology capable of scaling to achieve deep decarbonisation and powering negative emissions. After conducting well over 1000 interviews with nuclear engineers, regulators and analysts, Bret has developed some very bold and very controversial policy solutions to make nuclear energy cheaper then coal and unleash its climate change fighting potential. All he's got to do is convince an industry that it is its own worst enemy and to abandon some of its most central dogmas.