“Nuclear power gambles with disaster; even proponents acknowledge that accidents are inevitable. Smaller reactors would mostly be clustered together to generate more power and offer no more safety than larger ones … Nuclear power is of course far less dangerous to human lives and the environment than fossil fuel power. But this comparison is irrelevant. The proper comparison of nuclear power is not to fossil fuel energy but to renewal alternatives like wind power, solar power, and geothermal power. These are far less risky, dangerous and costly than nuclear power. Hydropower is also a renewable energy technology; however, it has proven to have unforeseen environmental costs in at least some instances.” (From the FAQs on the @atomic.bamboozle website).
The connection between these shots and nuclear culture might be a little less obvious than photos of defunct cooling towers in Satsop, and that’s by design; this is the HQ of “TerraPower,” one of those companies behind the new wave of nuclear greenwashing known as “Small Modular Reactors.”
It also happens to be a Bill Gates pet project.
You can learn all about this technology and the politics propping it up in @atomic.bamboozle, one of the films we’ll be screening at @uraniumfilm at @nwfilmforum on Sunday, April 14.