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Kirsten Engel: “Nuclear power is unbelievably expensive now in comparison to…”

Featuring: Kirsten Engel, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Arizona, District 6

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Kirsten Engel 9/12/2022

Published | Video Starts at 23:15

And I have responded to some questionnaires about this and I'd be willing, happy to share them with you. It's sort of like desalinization. Nuclear power is unbelievably expensive now in comparison to solar and wind. It has, as you mentioned, the issues of proliferation, that people can use the nuclear materials for weapons, it can be stolen. There's all kinds of security. (23:15–23:24)

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Asserts that nuclear power is currently much more expensive than solar and wind energy.

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