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Video: Clean Nuclear Energy News Story
This piece was produced for a uni news story assignment. It was to 'air' on an imaginary uni tv station the day before the 2006 Students Representative Council energy referenda. I interviewed Anna Rose from the Sydney University Environment Collective who wanted the university to switch to at least 20% green energy. However Dr. Hashemi-Nezhad, Senior Research Fellow for Nuclear Physics at Sydney University, argued that green energy is currently, unfortunately, not economically viable. But instead of proposing usual nuclear energy solutions, he claimed that Thorium based nuclear power was, in fact, a type of clean nuclear energy. Thorium reactors have no carbon dioxide production, no contribution to greenhouse gases, and produce much less nuclear waste. Thorium is also three times more abundant than uranium, and is therefore a very sustainable energy source, and is resistant to weapons proliferation. The major drawback of course is that thorium based reactors wouldn't be cheap to build.
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