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From page 33...
... will bring more balance and rigor to the debates. Kirsty Gogan, LucidCatalyst, posited that it might be useful to reframe the question away from who holds power to who is being harmed, such as those whose health suffered from increased coal production after ­Fukushima.
From page 34...
... The many nuances in energy production make it difficult to come to straightforward conclusions about who is being harmed, and by how much, he said. The Knowledge Deficit Model Macfarlane asked speakers to comment on the knowledge deficit model, which posits that people are skeptical about technology because they do not understand it, something that can be overcome with more information.
From page 35...
... To answer crucial questions over requisite energy diversity, he encouraged consideration of timescales, resource curves, and relative pros and cons. This involves analyzing diversity more rigorously than simply lumping together "renewables" and comparing these with nuclear energy.
From page 36...
... Joly added that comparing commercial and military applications of nuclear technology is complicated and has a high degree of uncertainty, making it difficult to develop valid economic models of nuclear energy costs. Stirling noted that, depending on underlying views, the industrial interdependence between military and civilian nuclear applications might be invoked variously to criticize or make a case for nuclear technology.


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