S1E77: How safe and green is nuclear energy now that it's an option for S’pore: Green Pulse

The Straits Times Podcasts · May 15, 2022 · 19m

Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change.

Nuclear energy is a controversial source of energy that is gaining prominence globally, including in Singapore as a potential solution to tackling climate change. Nuclear is considered a clean form of energy as the generation process does not release any greenhouse gases, unlike the traditional mode of energy generation from burning fossil fuels.

But following the nuclear disasters in Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011…