Nuclear Power: Podcast Brunch Club Vancouver (February 2020)

9 episodes

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This is the listening list for PBC Vancouver.


  • 1

    Fukushima. Chernobyl. Three Mile Island. There’s been some big nuclear accidents over the past few decades, but how dangerous is nuclear power really? We take you inside the core of America’s biggest ...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

  • 2

    Nuclear power in the balance

    Energy in Conversation

    20:45 | Jan 21st, 2020

    1 recommendation

    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 – nuclear power. Our first...Show More

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    When a community is deciding on nuclear power or not, it’s an assessment of risk and costs within generations. Is a nuclear power plant meltdown worse or climate change worse. Also, interesting how t...Show More

  • 3

    Nuclear Energy | Meltdown | 4

    American Innovations

    41:21 | Jul 5th, 2018

    1 recommendation

    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

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    All the nuclear disasters documented. The sound effects and storytelling about the disasters will give you nightmares. 🙉🙈

  • 4

    The Dropped Wrench

    Radio Diaries

    41:50 | Oct 3rd, 2019

    5 recommendations

    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 doesn’t always happen in a nuclear missile s...Show More

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    Wowowowowwwww...Sometimes you hear these stories where truth is stranger than fiction, that sounds like a movie, but actually real life. This is one of them. I’m still in shock and disbelief after lis...Show More

  • 5

    Nukes

    Power Corrupts

    53:28 | Jul 18th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    How did 2 guys you've never heard of save the world from nuclear apocalypse? Can nuclear weapons be hacked? What's the most consequential honeymoon in human history? Why was a British nuclear weapon d...Show More

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    Can nuclear weapons get hacked? Wacky nuclear bombing experiments. Also super interesting fact about carbon-14 dating to detect art forgery and how it relates to the period of nuclear bombing experime...Show More

  • 6

    POWER: Weird Flux But OK

    Flash Forward

    45:39 | Nov 26th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Today’s 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

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    Another safer opportunity in nuclear power generation is nuclear fusion, but the tech is always “five years away”. Should we invest in improving safety and tech of existing nuclear power generation me...Show More

  • 7

    Are broken arrows a problem?

    Stuff You Should Know

    49:14 | Dec 31st, 2019

    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

  • 8

    Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans

    Stuff You Should Know

    53:30 | Aug 20th, 2019

    The nuclear waste we produce will be dangerous for a very long time. We’ve figured out how to safely store it in the earth until it’s no longer a biohazard. Now we just have to figure out how to warn ...Show More

  • 9

    114- Ten Thousand Years

    99% Invisible

    29:22 | May 13th, 2014

    4 recommendations

    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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    Amazing episode about a group of top experts who were called together to figure out how to design something that will warn people living tens of thousands years from now that they should not touch nuc...Show More

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