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Bad Idea #34 “Nuclear? No Thanks!" With Bryony Worthington
Is nuclear power too slow, too expensive, or too essential to ignore? In this episode of Saving the World from Bad Ideas, Mark Lynas sits down with Baroness Bryony Worthington — crossbench peer, climate policy architect, and co-host of the Cleaning Up podcast — to take on Bad Idea #34: “Nuclear? No Thanks.”
🧠 Topics Discussed:
● ⚛️ Why nuclear costs haven’t fallen — and why China may change that
● 🇫🇷 What France got right (and wrong) in its Mesmer-era nuclear buildout
● 🇨🇳 China’s nuclear ecosystem: HTRs, molten salts, SMRs, and industrial policy
● 🧱 Why huge gigawatt-scale reactors fail —…
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