Why We Are Afraid Of Nuclear Energy

Radiation is often portrayed as a monster from a horror movie, what is it that scares us so much? Let’s look at nuclear power and identify the fears ingrained in us to see if we can step away and look at its potential with as little fear as possible. Here is some of the research material we gathered together for your perusing pleasure: The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart by Noël Carroll Carroll, N. (1990). Philosophy of horror: or, paradoxes of the heart. Great Britain: Routledge, Chapman Hall. World Nuclear Association website https://world-nuclear.org/nuclear-ess... Three-Mile Island https://www.businessinsider.nl/what-h... Fukushima https://www.businessinsider.com/anima... https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/... https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-t.... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-5... Ionizing Radiation https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-.... Radiation Hormesis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2... Radiation hormesis - A remedy for fear https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/... The Manner of Dependence of the “Permissible Dose” of Radiation on the Amount of Genetic Damage https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1... Environmental and Health Factors https://www.healthline.com/health-new... https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-nu... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamescon... De-escalation https://apnews.com/article/internatio... Thanks for watching! Hubble is a small team of curious creators producing accessible explainer videos on the mind, science and technology. Our goal is to provide insight and to transfer knowledge of human nature, behaviour, our choices and how those choices impact the world around us. #chernobyl #nuclear #energy #fukushima