This is the listening list for PBC Vancouver.
Fukushima. Chernobyl. Three Mile Island. Thereâs been some big nuclear accidents over the past few decades, but how dangerous is nuclear power really? We take you inside the core of Americaâs biggest ...Show More
You may think low carbon power generation is a recent innovation. On this episode, we consider a source of electricity which has been providing zero-carbon power for decades â nuclear power. Our first...Show More
The first serious accident from a nuclear reactor happened in the United States in 1960. It wouldn't be the last. And in the coming decades, a new word will be used to talk about accidents of these ki...Show More
Every day, we go about our lives doing thousands of routine, mundane tasks. And sometimes, we make mistakes. Human error. It happens all the time. It just doesnât always happen in a nuclear missile s...Show More
Todayâs episode is about nuclear fusion, a technology that might save us all or might be a complete waste of time and money. Guests: Charles Seife, professor at NYU and author of Sun in a Bottle: ...Show More
Are broken arrows are a problem? After all, they are incidents and accidents involving nuclear warheads. Like, sometimes they go missing. But it hasn't happened much since the 50s and 60s. OR HAS IT? ...Show More
The nuclear waste we produce will be dangerous for a very long time. Weâve figured out how to safely store it in the earth until itâs no longer a biohazard. Now we just have to figure out how to warn ...Show More
In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. They wer...Show More
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Great 101 on nuclear power. Half hour and you'll learn how nuclear power works, the risks and mitigation factors, the human perceptions, and more. The analogy of nuclear power reactor failures to chea...Show More