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Robert F Kennedy NOT a fan of nuclear power

RFK Jr. , Elon Musk talk nuclear energy, Nuclear Newswire, Fri, Jun 23, 2023

Environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the 69-year-old son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, ……. has been voicing his views on a wide range of issues in numerous interviews and podcasts.

Kennedy spoke with tech mogul Elon Musk in one recent online discussion, a roughly two-hour livestreamed event hosted by Musk on the Twitter Spaces platform on June 5 (and later posted on YouTube)…………..

Nuclear talk: The exchange between Kennedy and Musk on nuclear (beginning at about the 1:18:30 time stamp in the YouTube video) began with Musk saying, “Let me ask, on the energy subject, what are your views on nuclear power?”

Kennedy responded with skepticism: “What I’ve always said . . . is I’m all for nuclear power if you can make it safe and if you can make it economical, and right now . . . it’s not me saying it’s unsafe, [but] the insurance industry regards this nuclear power as so unsafe that they will not give them an insurance policy.” Kennedy brought up the Price-Anderson Act, which, according to him, “absolves [the nuclear industry] from liability,” and he bemoaned the tritiated water storage at Fukushima before briefly mentioning Chernobyl.

Kennedy also commented on some rough numbers about the cost per gigawatt of energy, stating that solar and wind were far cheaper and that “no utility in the world will build a nuclear power plant unless it’s fully subsidized by the public.” He called himself a “free-market absolutist” and stated, “I believe that we should take the cheapest form of energy, that we should have no subsidies, no externalities, and all the  companies should internalize their costs in the way that they internalize their profits. And that means the cost of pollution.”……………………………………………………………………  https://www.ans.org/news/article-5111/rfk-jr-elon-musk-talk-nuclear-energy/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGehSBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHT-HGrinPRkoU3frJBw1evDGFPdSFyBmZk8vtuLemFBBCEQ-K9szuImj4A_aem_7d-lnVYB-3kkYaLuSsS9fQ

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