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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. how to clean up the very dirty steel industry and a bangladesh tech entrepreneur describes her path to success. here in europe, threats of rush and 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 check 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 quickly. i'm a 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 would 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 react to another compliance with western safety standards. again and again,

there were emergency shut down due to defective construction. but expanding renewable energy is a difficult pathway for the check republic of good people did. geography of our country isn't good to wind energy. we have no coastline where the wind blows strongly. we don't have a lot of sunshine, especially in winter production tons. why and nuclear energy is so important in arranging it would never be in a strong anti nuclear movement. here. carol, polar nikki, is one of the few opponents. he is critical of the government's decision to bills to new atomic reactors by 2036. when the model is out of many people think it's great that this country has mastered a complicated technology like nuclear energy. just got they're proud that the check republic can organize the construction of an atomic reactor. it's actually seen as

something positive of them. and it's true, atomic energy has its dark aside. this uranium mine south of prague has been undisturbed for 30 years, but still amid radiation. it's under constant surveillance to ensure that no radioactivity seeps into the ground water. the operating company says everything is under control and completely harmless. mama, probably not were under the supervision of the national nuclear safety agency specialist. then there's the check environmental inspectorate on the surrounding communities with which we observe the monitoring systems for we're under strict supervision and that's a good thing for them. i think the system is safe and system was it was obvious pitching, radio active water is pumped constantly from the maze of tunnels in 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. p contamination is a task for generations. in the area around the nuclear power plant, the nuclear energy companies, all the major employers and off a good pay every town whole. they're measuring stations where people can read radioactivity levels. the spend geranium worlds are stored only 500 meters away from the mayor's office in duke of any 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 are 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, a suitable that communities are opposed to it. but if you 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 new chris of 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 you. reporter enos poor,

went there to find out how 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 tioga hope to benefit by an increase in drilling 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 chicken 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 punch here, this, this one's like

a 20 barrels. tioga is mainly in oil production area. if oil is gonna 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, and tioga 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 are for 8. i work in work for go or a company, so i mean, everybody in the family does it show me the 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 he's 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 gonna work. and wish no and colo you got a problem folks. court 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. in a state 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 and 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 ad 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 oil and gas 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 added neurons and 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 carry 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 process is so dirty. the 1st is purifying the ion or need of the steel by heating i annoy choco fires o mixing it with coca cola and big blast furnaces. you can extract pure iron from rock. that's like an oxygen atoms in the iron ore fly off and bind with carbon atoms in the cold. what's left behind is essentially pure iron known as reduced. i'm and a whole load of c o 2. the 2nd reason still sucks that it takes colossal amounts of energy to power. this process that most of that comes from you guessed it, burning cold today. 72 percent on the global level are produced by this production about. this is vito v touch. go

a steel analyst at german climate. think tank a go to in a given the he says we're running out of time the investment decision steel make of make to day a crucial. because these co fire block vanessa have a lifetime of 15 to 20 years. and after that need to be repaired or retired. the 2020 is a very critical decay industry guides because more than 70 percent of the global blast furnace speech lu, reach the end of day campaign life and require the investment entry investment decision. so what should still make of be doing right now? either j hydrogen, hydro jetting hydrogen wonders, all hodgen hydrogen is a gas and fuel that can be made cleanly with renewable energy. oh, much less clearly with fossil gas. if you reduce ion all with hydrogen, oxygen atoms no longer react with carbon atoms to make c o 2. instead,

they react with hydrogen atoms to make a h 2. 0, the beauty about this concept is ah, yes. who needs a new production process? but as a byproduct, you have water instead of c o 2 and, and this is how we can make, ah, the steel making process, ton of the 2nd step and then feeding the purified iron into an electric hawk furnace. these devices meltdown scrapped steel or reduced ion with high currents of electricity that turn them into liquid state. and ideally that they would be running on electricity made from renewable energy. that's pretty much what swedish steel make an essay be did last year when it delivered the wolf 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 to learned doesn't make steel, greek. it's a process with several layers, kind of feels like an onion. this is kaitlin's wallack, a steel analyst at the u. s. based non profit, global energy monitor. 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 and 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. i'm renewable energy, sir. time for hydrogen right? well, unfortunately, over the couch, you need a lot of hydrogen like really blurts, making all the steel into you out of hydrogen would require about 6000000 tons of the gas. just to satisfy the steel industry,

hydrogen needs. you need almost as many wind turbines that you have today is not impossible, but it is a logistical nightmare. one of the big challenges is where we build these hydrogen production facilities and needs to happen in places that have that renewable energy capacity. the problem so far is lots of still making regions don't have that capacity. at least don't have time to build up any time sick and piping more shipping, green hydrogen from elsewhere require the 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 most recycled materials in the world. more than a quarter of the steel may today come from recycled scrap steel the new need that's basically because the 1st step, a purifying i nor is expensive. nothing,

not wholesale. well, that's much cheaper. we have a rising stock of global steel scrap because whenever a car, whenever a breach, 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 could massively help in cutting the industry of energy demand, but there are limits. each time you price a steel little impurities, like cauffron mickle can sneak in and we can the metal. that means you can't recycle forever. a 3rd solution is to keep the blasphemous as we're already using, but catch the emissions before they escape into the atmosphere. that's what advocates of common capture, cooling for fossil fuel company said the principal, as simple. stick a box on top of a polluting pipe and suck up the c or 2 that comes out so you can use it an industry. oh, store it safely 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 company that heavy industries, atlas do broadly agree that ccf of the vital role to play alongside hydrogen, we're way behind and where still the carnival shelton going. and this is largely down to complete an auction on the of a policy level. this is eva penner from the cleaner task force. it's one of the few environmental organizations calling to put money into capture and common. one of the reasons why we know we don't know answers to questions like capture rates or how would it work on a commercial scale is because your companies have had to actually reduce their mission. the international energy agency expects carbon capture to cover half of will steal production by 2050, 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 c c s 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, we'll just keep on polluting. we console steel by giving up on it, but there's a huge amount policy make the company can do to get the tech solutions working. ah, tech solutions are also the focus of the entrepreneur and our next or force from the a t, as in had a vision to expand internet access in bangladesh. and as found it a start up to do just us. 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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go to a music school to go to i school. i used to go to my religious teacher, so i got that's a board some of a young age and i think that is something i do have to feel privileged about the i will read it, please say i decide with was on voted and did these kind of i study for liter science and engineering and i'm just studying and what i like about this subject is that that i will be paying to figure out all the ways and they're always real problems. and which i think is very, very late in real life. because in real life, you keep giving problems, you solve them day by day. i think the 1st thing that i learned from my side here is that he knows how to make to hang,

and also live up to his commitment and live up to his pharmacy. i think one of the most important part of being a business plan are being any in any profession here i want to get to know i want to physician. my advice for me is that she should turn her entire team into representatives for the company about the a bobby, the 8 the ink of the have a major impact on our country, on society, with her work and report the queen back track the party when you come off, the background is an obligation to me help others because i feel like me has brings me for 3 step. if we are not the ones going there, i'm doing the work. then all there's always going to be any quality that there is so much new quality because people do not have and do not go on to pass on

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