Alana Afzel And your embrace of nuclear energy? Which is also in this bill? How’s that for “distributed systems of power”? Kate Morris I embrace nuclear energy because I can do math. The coal-fired power plants set to come online in India and China alone—it’s apocalypse. But those countries also need energy, particularly air-conditioning, because they’re facing land temperatures that are killing people by the tens of thousands every year. Renewables won’t provide that quickly enough, and the only way to square the circle is nuclear. Do we need to pay attention to the trade-offs involved?
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