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The earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan raised new concerns about the risk of another nuclear reactor disaster. The explosion of the FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT gives our citizens cause to re-examine the risk assumed by the public. At this writing, the full extent of the damage to the plant, the community, and the environment is unknown - it will take years.

At the same time concerns over the high risks associated with extracting natural gas and as noted in a Financial Times article is "energy that comes from the same place as our drinking water. Extracting it had better be safe. The political fault lines over hydraulic fracturing (hence the term fracking) have been easy to predict for anyone paying attention to the controversies over climate change and genetically modified organisms. France’s national assembly voted to ban fracking while in the US its been full steam ahead in 32 states. These are high risk alternative energy sources.

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TED Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? Brand and Jacobson

Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. A discussion that'll make you think -- and might even change your mind.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.

EarthSayers Stewart Brand; Mark Jacobson

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The Last Mountain
Ending Nuclear Weapons by Alice Slater (2019)
What is the Fracking Process by Chesapeak Energy
Transporting Coal through the Pacific NorthWest
TED Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? Brand and Jacobson
Tar Sands Resistance March
From Atomic Bombings to Fukushima, Japan Still Pursues a Nuclear Future
Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Costs Up Another $4.5B by Tom Carpenter
Why is Coal So Angry?
Fukushima's Ongoing Impact by Helen Caldicott
Portland, Oregon: Train Tankers and Tar Sands Oil
Contamination of Ecuador's Rainforest: The Chevron Tapes
How The Exxon Valdez Disaster Still Affects Victims Today
The History of Fracking by Russell Gold
Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn's Arctic Oil Rig
Community Organizing at Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Conference
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons (trailer)
Making A Documentary About Haynesville by Gregory Kallenberg
Deep Drilling Fracking, Deep Pockets by Common Cause
Want the truth about Australia's coal industry?
Promised Land (movie trailer) with Matt Damon
Natural Gas Wells in Pennsylvania: an infographic
Japanese Director A. Funahashi talks about his film Nuclear Nation
The Sinkhole That's Swallowing Louisiana by Ben Depp
Last of Energy Resources are in the Territories of Indigenous Peoples by Erick Gonzalez
Global Warming and Nuclear Energy by Amory Lovins
Nuclear Power Plants and Global Warming by Helen Caldicott
GasLand by Josh Fox
Chinese CoExist with Coal
Energy: The Next 10 Years Really Matter by Alexander Van de Putte
Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, by Professor Burleson
Haynesville Movie Trailer: Largest Natural Gas Field in the U.S.
Hindsight and Foresight: 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Spill
Nuclear: Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive by Kevin Kamps
Frac Biocides DeepLife by Sandra Steingraber
A Danger on the Rails from the The New York Times
Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples opposed to oil development
Trying to Create Clean Coal Technologies by Nicholas K. Akins of AEP
My Water's On Fire Tonight
300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds
Last U.S. Nuclear Test by Konstantin Kakaes

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