Debunking the Myths of Nuclear Fission
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Nuclear has been in the news even more than usual over the past few years. There are over 70 advanced nuclear projects in North America, covering 10 different new designs and types. China is committed to massive nuclear expansion (150 GW in 15 years). Diablo Canyon just received $1.1B in credits from the DOE to extend operations. And, there is progress in achieving net fusion power, real market movements about fusion power being far closer than 50 years away, announcements of new nuclear programs in countries in Asia and Europe, and new nuclear defense partnerships. Gallup reports that 51% of Americans are in favor of nuclear power, up from 44%. Because nuclear is increasingly pervasive in our daily discourse, it is ever more important that we, from the general public to policymakers to scientists and engineers of all fields, be as well versed in nuclear physics, power and policy as in any other societal-level scientific issue.
In this talk, Prof. Short will cover some of the most basic topics in nuclear energy - physics, power, and proliferation - and debunk a few pervasive myths using fundamental materials from MIT's 22.01 course (Introduction to Nuclear Physics and Energy). He will then explore some of the most exciting nuclear developments from the past few years, from the progress and prospects of fusion power in the next two decades to why the recent net fusion energy result is so important. We will even touch upon very limited ways of modifying fundamental physical constants such as half-lives... only in the most specific of situations of course.
Please join us if you want to discover how much radiation you get by sleeping next to someone, expressed in units of ingested bananas. 😊
Relative safety of LFTR ?
Its way past time to finish Dr Weinberg's work developing the Molten Salt Reactor based on Thorium. There is much work to be done and here in the US we have been sitting on our thumbs. Too cheap to meter was within our grasp in 1970.
Tony Heller on CO2
Cleaning up nuclear waste is cheap and easy. The clean up at windscale renamed sellafield in the UK will only cost 350 billion pounds . And it will be finished in only 150 years.
Breeder reactors can burn all sorts of fuel waste of which 90-95% is burnable.
Gen 4 reactors are a new ballgame and show potential for distributed use at small local power grids. Great savings from grid operating at low local voltages and transformers.
The type of guy who would never work in decommissioning a nuke plant for the next 30 years. You can tell by his high pitch voice. Not a man to count on to ensure true safety of populations. An industry plant.
And you aren't the kind of guy who could make the necessary calculations for a safe decommissioning and you can tell this since you called such a plant "nuke plant". So what is your point ? Men are different with different strenghts and abilities. For example, a wise one would recognise his limits, and the experties of a more experienced one, seizing the opportunity to learn something and get better, instead of trying to prove his dominance through a pathetic attempt at belittleing others....... in a yt comment.
@@CraftyF0X Nuke Plant baby as in Nuclear Fission Power Generation via Steam plant with rods that will be contaminative for thousands upon thousands of years with only one "permanent" nuclear waste repository in Finland rated for 100,000 years. Permanent = lol. Only one. Onkolo. Guys who do the calcs know how difficult it is. Chest pumping big talks do nothing but explaim the righteousness of Nuclear Enegy. Efficient comes with a cost. Just maybe Short Pulse Laser technologies will render nuke waste harmless quick. Please submit you calculations of how. You know, how to render the spent nuclear rods that has lost all of its fissioanble properties.
@@CraftyF0X oh wait a minute, you don't know what Short Pulse Laser are....right?
@@h.t.7310 I happen to know what they are. It isn't my are of expertise, but lately looked up the paper on ato sec lasers due to interest in my fellow countryman getting a Nobel prize for it.