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many countries have been seeking to reduce their reliance on russian gas by investing in atomic power. one country that already has a strong nuclear industry is the czech republic. but as we'll see in a moment, that doesn't mean it's not dependent on moscow. also coming up on today's show, had the oil rich stays of north dakota is profiting from rising fuel costs. high to clean up the very dirty steel industry. and a bangladesh tech entrepreneur describes her path to success. here in europe, threats of russian gas cut offs have led to a renew debate about the potential of nuclear energy in the tech republic. the government has committed to expanding and modernizing the industry, but the countries existing plant date back to the soviet era and still rely on imports from russia. a special transport from russia in the middle of the ukraine war,

the cargo uranium fuel rods for the cheque nuclear power plant in timeline. without these fuel rods, many lights would go out in the czech republic, 40 percent of the country's energy is from nuclear power. the russian fuel rods in this delivery are enough to keep the nuclear reactors running for the next few years. and 7 on, i'm for nuclear energy. that's all i can say. it's one of the few energy sources where everything works between on the geologist and i know something about it. i have a very clear opinion. we should have been building more nuclear reactors for a long time now. then we will already have energy security the to check nuclear power plants at timberline and duke of any are showing the age. both are in old soviet design. the reactor in duke of any is a mixture of western control technology and soviet engineering. but the reactor

never complied with western safety standards. again and again, they were emergency shut downs, g to defective construction. but expanding renewable energy is a difficult pathway for the czech republic. as let his cargo graphics keep or did yo graphy of our country isn't good for wind energy. we have no coastline where the wind blow strongly. we don't have a lot of sunshine, especially in winter selection. that's why an nuclear energy is so important in our energy mix of drama, but also mix there's never been a strong anti nuclear movement here. carol polanac, he is one of the few opponents. he is critical of the government's decision to build to near atomic reactors by 2036. when you mano out of many people think it's great that this country has mastered a complicated technology like nuclear energy. just got a public proud that the check republic can organize the construction of an atomic

reactor. it's actually seen as something positive and it's true. atomic energy has its dark aside. this uranium mine south of prague has been undisturbed for 30 years, but still admits radiation. it's under constant surveillance to ensure that no radioactivity seats into the ground water, the operating company says everything is under control and completely harmless moment. but we know we're under the supervision of the national nuclear safety agency specialist. then there's the check environmental inspectorate on the surrounding communities with which we observed the monitoring was probably sitting for were under strict supervision. and that's a good thing for them. i think the system is safe. yeah, i think he was, he was of a special radio active water is pumped constantly on the maze of tunnels and this huge underground mine it's then decontaminated in

a special treatment plant. this costs around 4000000 years a year bought to protect the ground water. radioactive waste can remain active for up to 40000 years. contamination is a task for generations. in the area around the nuclear power plant, the nuclear energy companies, all the major employers and of a good pay every town whole. they're measuring stations where people can read radioactivity levels. the spend uranian worlds are stored only 500 meters away from the mayor's office in duke of any but these are the used fuel roads from the last few decades. they're stored at the duke of any nuclear power plant, temporarily the company says,

but there is no safe final storage place where the spent fuel roads can be stored for the next 40000 years. and they continue to emit radiation. the mayor is in favor of building new nuclear power plants, but he doesn't want to endlessly store nuclear waste in his community. reuben, them finding a suitable repository is still an issue and it will be very difficult. because in the areas where the geological conditions for a repository, deep, underground as suitable origin, the communities are opposed to it. but it be nice will not go in the russian uranium fuel rods that have just been delivered will keep the check nuclear reactors on line for another 3 to 4 years. only then will they be replaced by western style uranium fuel roads. despite cold for change, fossil fuels continue to dominate the global energy supply. they have

a rich history and lobby behind them. just take oil as an example. in 1859, edwin. drake retired, a train conductor established the 1st productive oil well in the united states. kick starting what must have become an incredibly lucrative industry. a few years later, john d rockefeller got in on the game, finding the standard oil company and swiftly becoming the richest man in the world . drilling subsequently began on the caspian sea, as well as in saudi arabia iraq underbrush. overtime oil has been the subject of war as, as well as one of the most successful t v shows of all time, family drama, dallas. the rise of oil has been extraordinary. as you can see here in the united states, petroleum production has more than doubled since 1985. now in the state of north dakota, oil is a multi 1000000000 dollar industry, employing tens of thousands of people did help. the reporter ynez pool went there

to find out who had the current geopolitical turmoil is affecting the industry. north dakota, the 3rd largest oil producer in the us just buying taxes and new mexico pumps over a 1000000 barrels per day. which is more than oil rich countries like venezuela. this concern said the worldwide energy crisis is getting out of control. small energy towns like tie yoga hope to benefit by an increase in drilling ah matthew craft, one of the many oil workers gives us an insight. why be looking at the freshers on the well had making sure the well, still working on checking trader, building back there, making sure that pressured right, selling gas, not flaring, if it is flaring what it is, checking our daily production,

how much is the production of this plan here, this, this one's like a 20 barrels a day. tioga is mainly in oil production area. if oil is gone, it be just a farming community, just like the rest of the most small areas in north dakota. so it's very vital for the identity right now. lunch break in tie yoga at the site, st. diner. this is the place to go to understand why so many know to colin's are hesitant to switch to renewable energy. yeah, my entire family silly. my grandpa, r t, have records, and i work in work for go or a company. so i mean, everybody in the family does, it should mean industry around here. so do they hold for a boom in the oil business? now, as the western world seeks independence from proteins, oil and gas, or could there be an alternative? you know, it hurts when we can't sell local oil. honestly, i think, i mean,

i don't think green energy is a bad thing. but i think just trying to abruptly change it, you know, is, is, is short sighted. when goes down, when you've the work cloud cover, your solar energy is not going to work and wish no one colo you got a problem folks. for decades, north dakota has been dominated by republicans who have supported the expansion of oil and gas drilling, opposed to cleaner and renewable energy sources. and stayed where 65 percent devoted for donald trump. fracking has been the alternative. but with concerns that this method of gas and oil extraction could devastate the environment. opponents fear that this new boom could pose further danger to north dakota. for 40 years, kathy message has been a consultant for the oil industry. have to remember that each drilling reg right now is much more efficient than the rigs of 5 years 10 years ago. so they're doing

much more work and more efficiently. i anticipate we will see drilling pickup. i do anticipate it will happen. it's not happening as quickly, but i think you're also going to see on the production side and working over the existing wells. and actually, you know, getting more production out of these wells. and some wells that may be, we're down from maintenance companies will be more serious about getting them producing by, you know, as an international labor union. it's north dakota branch represents $400.00 oil and pipeline workers and a space in the states capital bismark right now with the war going on in the ukraine. we're actually seeing an uptick on a push towards fossil fuel energy, not the green power because it's so available. and it's readily produced here in the state of north dakota. there is

a greater voice for fossil fuels in the united states can produce what we need plus export more for the time. being orland guess seemed to remain the driving force in north dakota speaking of driving forces, it's hard to imagine a world without steel, but the industry is a hugely polluting efforts to make it greener are already underway. but it's very much an uphill battle. d w reporter i did neurons on it breaks down the environmental impact of the industry and what's being done to make it greener. this is the metal that makes the modern world tip. imagine a life without it. no cause homes. duchess, electricity. but this one, the material that a lives are built around tarry, the dirty secret that nobody is talking about. the steel industry is responsible

for jaw dropping, 8 percent of the wealth, greenhouse gas pollution. and bizarrely, we're actually going to need a lot more of it to clean up our economies. so how can we make steel green and what's wrong with the industries favorite solutions? there are 2 reasons, the steel making processes so dirty. the 1st is purifying the iron or need of the steel, but heating i annoy the charcoal fires o mixing it with coca cola and big blast furnaces. you can extract pure iron from rock. that's because oxygen atoms in the iron ore fly off and bind with carbon atoms in the coal. what's left behind is essentially pure iron known as reduced. i'm. and a whole late of the year to the 2nd reason steel sat said that it takes colossal amounts of energy to power this process. and most of that comes from you guessed it, burning cold today. 72 percent on the global level are produced by this production

. this is vito, a touch go. a steel analyst at german climate. think tank a got any given the. he says we're running out of time. the investment decision, steel make of make to day a crucial because the co fire glass furnace of have a lifetime of 15 to 20 years. and after that need to be repaired or retired. the 2020, very critical became in disregard because more than 70 percent of the global blast phone of sweeps will reach the end of the campaign lives and require reinvestment and re investment decision. so what should still make be doing right now? either j hydrogen, hydrogen gym wonders of hydrogen, hydrogen to the gas and fuel that can be made cleanly with renewable energy. oh, much less clearly with fossil gas. if you reduce ion or with hydrogen,

oxygen atoms no longer react with carbon atoms to make c o 2. instead, they react with hydrogen atoms to make h to the beauty about this is yes, you need a new production process. but as a byproduct, you have water instead of c o 2 and, and this is how we can make the fuel making process planted the 2nd step and then feeding the purified ion into an electrical venice. these devices meltdown scrap steel or reduced. i am with high currents of electricity that turn them into liquid steel and ideally that they would be running on electricity made from renewable energy. that's pretty much what swedish steel make a s s a b did last year when it delivered the wealth 1st batch of fossil free steel to comic of over europe. steel make a betting that hydrogen will be the future of steel right now. it costs more to make it this way. but if gas prices stay high and carbon taxes rise,

switching away from fossil fuels will become increasingly attracted from a business perspective too. but of course, using hydrogen a learned doesn't make steel, greek. it's a process with several layers, kind of feels like an onion. this is caitlin wallack. a steel analyst at the u. s. based non profit global energy one into the 1st layer is to make sure your electric arc furnace unit is running completely on. like green energy, but then you need to make sure that the reducing agent in the direct reduce iron plants is hydrogen. but that's not enough. you have to make sure that that hydrogen is actually being produced through an electrolyzer that's operating on 100 percent green. ah, renewable energy, sir. time for hydrogen right? well, unfortunately there is a catch. you need a lot of hydrogen, like ready loads, make mold steel into you out of hydrogen would require about 6000000 tons of the

gas. just to satisfy the steel industries hydrogen needs. you need almost as many wind turbines that you have today is not impossible, but it is a logistical nightmare. and one of the big challenges is where we build these hydrogen production facilities needs to happen in places that have that renewable energy capacity. the problem so far is lots of steel making regions don't have that capacity for at least don't have plans to build it up anytime sick and piping or shipping green hydrogen from elsewhere requires infrastructure to say. and that all mean hydrogen can't be the whole solution. but the powerful waste simply by the problem that sounds almost too good to be true. recycling you might not expect it, but still is already one of the main recycled materials in the world. more than a quarter of the steel made today comes from recycled scrap steel. the new d need that's basically because the 1st step of purifying iron or is expensive

melting that old steel. well, that's much cheaper. we have a rising stock, global steel scrap. because whenever a car, whenever a bridge, whenever a building beach at the end of the lifetime, this deal scratch is collected sorted and then can be melted in electric oxygen to produce new still recycling, more steel can massively help in cutting the industry of energy demand. but there are limits each time you price a steel little impurities, like copper and nichol can sneak in and we can the metal. that means you can't recycle it forever. a 3rd solution has to keep the blast furnace as we're already using, but catch the emissions before they escape into the atmosphere. that's what advocates of carbon capture cooling for. fossil fuel company said the principal, as simple. stick a box on top of the polluting pipe and suck up the c or 2 that comes out so you can

use it in industry or start slightly underground. the reality is trickier. today, capture rates are often low and casa hot. what's more of the fossil fuel industry has used the promise of carbon capture and storage will cease? yes, as an excuse to keep on polluting. but when it comes to the colonizing heavy industries, i must do broadly agree that ccf the vital role to play alongside hydrogen. we're way behind and where will be promotional and going. and this is largely down into a company in august on the policy level. this is eva penner from the cleaner task force. it's one of the few environmental organizations calling to put money into capturing carbon. one of the reasons why we, you know, we don't know answers to questions like capture rates or how would it work in the commercial scale is because your companies have an hunter actually reduce their mission. the international energy agency expects carbon capture to cover half of will steal production by 2050 in the climate friendly scenario. if it works,

it would free up hydrogen to be used in other processes that are also hot clean. but to date, we don't really know what chair of emission cclc can actually capture from steel. if steel make a stick to blast furnaces, but c c s doesn't quickly become cheap or efficient. the cold a burn will just keep on polluting. we console steel by giving up on it. but there's a huge amount policy makes and companies can do to get the tech solutions working tax on asians are also the focus of the entrepreneur in our next or force. send me a 1000, had a vision to expand internet access in bangladesh, and as find it a start up to do just thus. after all, it's hard to take part in the modern world without us here. she explains what motivates her and how she's carving out her own path in business. we are, yeah. listen, i think the internet in the same bound this we're giving them to the power of internet to the people who need it. more entrepreneurship is all about learning on

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