I am joined by @Heather_mom4nuk on the @DecouplePodcast. Heather is the co-founder of Mothers for Nuclear. She is a materials scientist, nuclear reactor operator at Diablo Canyon and a lifelong environmentalist. anchor.fm/chris15401/epi…
In the words of their website @moms4nuclear is an organization of environmentalists, humanitarians, and caring human beings.
3.) "We were initially skeptical of nuclear, but learned through asking a lot of questions. We started Mothers for Nuclear as a way to share our stories and begin a dialogue with others who want to protect nature for future generations."
4.) @Heather_mom4nuk describes her trajectory as the daughter of an eccentric tinkerer growing up without a flush toilet in the desert in Arizona, to the co-leader of her campus recycling program, to her unexpected employment at Diablo Canyon as a reactor operator.
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I am joined by @E_R_Sepulveda, a telecoms regulatory economist with an interest in the electricity sector focussing on restructuring and privatization for a deep dive of electricity regulation and deregulation and its impacts on deep decarbonisation. anchor.fm/chris15401/epi…
2.) We begin with the first private companies at the dawn of electrification in the 1880’s and the populist push to exert some form of public control to curb abusive pricing, including setting up regulatory commissions to protect the public interest.
3.) Consolidation from this multi-private operator model to the “traditional” monopoly vertically-integrated firm occurred after World War II, when the idea that strategic sectors should be publicly-owned via state-owned enterprises (SOEs) drove a series of nationalizations.
Is China on the verge of a historic moment like the Messmer plan which saw France accidentally decarbonize by nuclearizing its grid in 15 years while electrifying much of its heating & rail? Francois Morin of the @WorldNuclear answers this and more.. anchor.fm/chris15401/epi…
2.) China is currently third in the world in Nuclear Energy capacity with ambitious plans to have the most reactors in the world by 2030. The Tsinghua climate plan calls for a 7 fold increase by 2050.
3.) At great expense in a time of post civil war crushing agrarian poverty and "great leap forward" economic mismanagement China managed to join the nuclear weapons club in the 1964. It was however very late to develop power reactors with its first coming online only in 1991.