In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.
Ukrainian national and Harvard historian, Serhii Plokhy, believes we are sleepwalking into another nuclear catastrophe. Drawing on past accidents, including Chernobyl in 1986, Three Mile Island in 1979 and Fukushima in 2011, he makes the case to Matthew that nuclear can never be the solution to global energy demand.
Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on the Cold War and nuclear history. His books include the Baillie Gifford award-winner Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, Nuclear Folly, The Gates of Europe and The Last Empire. His latest book is Atoms and Ashes From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima.
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