"Naval aircraft were summoned to strafe them with machine-gun fire..." Considering we're talking about waste disposal, that may just be the most American thing I've ever heard.
Fabian Mango - Agreed, and his show often pick up extremely important stories, that all the other news really should be coveringt. Like civil asset forfeiture, the terrible state of US infrastructure and net neutrality - All subjects that should be debated at length other places.
Instead news outlets are too busy talking about how 13 people died in Barcelona for 3 days. Meanwhile there are over 27 homicides and 105 suicides every day in the USA. There are almost ten times more people every day in France (where I live) who dies to air polution at a DAILY rate but suddenly, because he's some lunatic doing this shit "in the name of god" or whatever, 13 becomes more important than 115 daily ... Another interesting thing I noticed when looking for these numbers, is the amount of pages google gave me showing how many people of the same nationality than I were victims, because clearly that's the most important thing to know apparently, right ? The medias are doing the terrorists' work for them.
Bryce Kunkel they are no different then regular gators they just have mutations. And gators don’t even mess with you unless they’ve been fed and are expecting food.
Fun fact: That rocket (5:30) crashed since its accelerometer was literally installed upside down. EDIT: First of all thanks for the responses. I have since been studying nuclear engineering in-depth and this piece does miss a few crucial details on nuclear waste. Firstly, a football stadium of nuclear waste from all nuclear power plants across the US over 50 years (providing 20% of clean, safe, non-intermittent energy) is actually remarkably little. I would say it is the necessary evil we need to overcome since at the end of the day nuclear power is a reliable source that is in most respects superior to conventional solar and wind. In the long term, nuclear waste will not be an issue - rather a waste material we can reprocess and generate electricity from - fast breeder reactors.
Hearing him call Hartford a "Big City" basically gave me the same reaction as the Roku guys did to being called a "Big Tech Company." "Look! The TV man called our city a 'Big City!' We aren't boring as fuck and useless to the USA! It's finally happening!"
Just want to point out that Yucca Mountain was something they had been working on for decades. It was a done deal and the entire industry was preparing for it. Then, when it was shut down, it was done so just before it was scheduled to start receiving waste. It was a major blow. I know this because my wife *is* a nuclear scientist who had to do PR work for the NRC trying to keep them from shutting it down.
As of writing this, Harry Reid passed away a couple of weeks ago, and while others hailed him for his work otherwise... I keep coming back to this video. Harry might have done a lot of good while in office... but he also did this.
Shutting it down "was a major blow" you say. A financial, egocentric blow, obviously. As in: Not in My Back Yard - unless it's very financially rewarding for me, my family and local residents. Ha! Paul G Paul G
@@evukelectricvehicles no, as in a "we have nowhere safe and secure to put our nation's nuclear waste now" kind of major blow. Yucca Mountain WAS SAFE AND SECURE. The whole "not my backyard" movement is fueled by ignorance. Nuclear waste, as of this writing, is currently just sitting in barrels on the grounds of nuclear plants. It is not secure at all and it is not a viable, long-term option.
Dear Shark, there's an even better unit of radiation measurement. One banana's worth of becquerels. One becquerel, Bq, is one radiation event per second. The very rare and long lived potassium isotope 40, which is the source of nearly all the argon in the atmosphere (argon is astoundingly inert) is of course present in all samples of the potassium our bodies and just about every other living organism needs. A banana emits at a rate of roughly 15 Bq. Your body internally receives about 4000 to 5000 Bq, or 4 to 5 kBq. Every living thing on the planet has been adapted by evolution to cope with this.
As a working Civil Engineer I must say whoever came with the dumb idea to use wood as beams to hold up the tunnels either did that on purpose to cause danger or they are just that stupid. I did inspection for tunnels before and it's usually 13 inch+ walls with rebar everywhere.
a lot of the nuclear issue has been engineered by so called green movement people trying to scare people away from nuclear which the world should have 100% switched to as a temporary while switching to renewable. But groups like Greenpeace are more than a little intellectually challenged just look at the Greenpeace v Norman Borlaug fiasco in Africa. they claimed that the savior of a billion human lives across the globe, Father of the Green movement was trying to poison people and that is why we still have starvation in Africa because they didn't know he was the better party, just because he was a quiet savior and they a loud, stupid but well known group. Another great example of the stupidity of the Green movement is when Penn and Teller went to a green rally to gather signatures for the banning of the use of Dihydrogen monoxide and collected a hundred signatures within a short period of time. They didn't even lie about what it does or anything... and after people signed they told them that Dihydrogen monoxide is water.... something every high school graduate should know. so I guess the green movement is made up of dropouts, the dumb kind.
@@VladLad I'm not sure where you got that information. Yes, bananas have plenty of K-40 (half-life = 1.25 billion years), though we have far, far more naturally occurring K-40 in our bones. I think you might be considering only two of the fission products, Cs-137 and Sr-90. But the 3 major players in the spent fuel rods are U-238, lower radioactivity, half-life = 4.5 billion years (about as long the Earth has existed); unspent U-235, higher radioactivity, half-life = 700,000 years; and Pu-239, very high radioactivity, half-life > 24,000 years. Some of the fission products will decay much faster, but the major players are there for the long haul. Ten half-lives is the standard for radioactive material to be disposed of, and for the major player, U-235, that's over 2 billion years. Oh yeah, the product of U-238 + 1 neutron is Pu-239. As U-235 decays, it provides neutrons for this reaction. (That's how we make Pu-239.) That's where the plutonium in the fuel rods comes from. It's a byproduct. I do think underground storage is our best bet though.
illyounotme what is the "Bellamy salute?" The US alt right has sponsored most dictators and fascist states over the last 150 years... Not a conspiracy theory when it's so blatant and obvious...
Quick thing about the doll sidenote. For some reason back when I was about 5, some of my sister's old stuff was stored in my room to make room for more of her stuff, and I woke up one night to find the closet door open with one of those dolls staring at me. And for some reason right as I woke up and stared into its eyes, the eyelids fell shut. I used a nightlight until I was 10 after that.
To those commenting that he is bashing nuclear power, where does he do it? All I saw and heard was concern over storing the waste byproduct that is harmful to all forms of life. Seriously, where is is saying nuclear power is wrong? Link the timeframe if he did. If he didn't, stfu with the fake news.
The whole idea of the waste effects and health hazards of nuclear power. Not once did he distinguish alpha, beta, or gamma health effects and a lot of the health effects he described were gamma radiation. Most nuclear waste is alpha, which cannot go through paper and is only problematic if ingested. It also would not result in 4 toes or radiated alligators; but most likely result in death or cancer (in high amounts over a short period of time). It isn't going to irradiate alligators, turn you into the toxic avenger, etc. Also, as an alpha emitter it is perfectly fine being stored in a barrel, the spent rods are also perfectly fine being stored in water (They even have divers that do maintenance in some nuclear power plants). The whole thing is very very loosely based in any radiation science and is more of a hyperbole piece.
Ideally, he'd have the ability to do that, being thorough and factual while taking an in-depth look at this complex subject. However, this is a comedy show that's 20 minutes long. I don't think we can expect much more than it to be a show that begins discussion on the topic. Most people don't really think much about these issues until they're brought to light. American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Game of Thrones, the masses are easily enthralled. So presenting subject matter to them in a way that's appealing, so they'll take interest, sometimes requires it be mixed in with a lot of detritus. At least it's being discussed now?
I expected the video to end with Felicity inexplicably being present in the footage from the 70s and John Oliver screaming bloody murder. It didn't happen. I am disappointed.
13:13 Watching him act like that doll scared the shit out of him is so damn funny. It's really well edited too. His reaction has me in stitches every single time. If I watch it more than 3 times in a row, I can't breathe from how hard I'm laughing.
I live 41 miles downwind of Hanford. Every family I know has had multiple members go through cancer. I had Thyroid cancer at 34. EVERY single person that helped me in the hospital said they'd already had it. My sistern-in-law, who grew up closer to Hanford than me by about 15 - 20 miles, had Thyroid cancer in her early 20s. If you want to really dig up a mess, look in to the decades of families in Umatilla Oregon that have been trying to get medical assistance from the government and keep getting denied (I mean, maybe some aid has been awarded I'm not aware of, but no where near what their community deserves). A friend of mine worked for the state of Oregon in some fashion as an intern during law school, his summer job was literally to find a way to not admit huge volumes of radioactive material was leaking into the ground water when stacks of paper work clearly showed it was. You can see the bunkers pretty clearly on google maps, SW of Umatilla. They go on for miles. As I understand it, they're all exclusively for storing nuclear material.
You do know know nuclear waste from nuclear weapons is completely different from the waste nuclear plants make right? The liquid forms of the waste from those nuclear weapons production are the cause of all those people getting cancer in the Hanford site as well as the Savannah River. I'm really sorry to hear about all those people, including yourself, but it's not right to include nuclear plants in this issue since it has nothing to do with it.
I have lived in Richland my whole life. I have never known someone younger than 60 with cancer. I never have heard that someone I knew with cancer got it from the Hanford site. No one who doesn't work at the Hanford site gets cancer because of the Hanford site, that is not a thing. The Columbia River is packed with people every summer. People get cancer here for the same reasons as everywhere else. I literally facepalmed at 11:11
Stop using person anecdotes, they don't help. What is the number of cancers in the population, compared to national averages accounting for life style choice like smoking. Account for the fat randomness clumps. If you care about the issue, the is the logical way to get attention; otherwise the people you are trying to reach will, rightly so, just dismiss you anecdote.
WalkaCrookedLine: why don't we build "the" wall out of stacked-up spent nuclear waste barrels? Encased in concrete and stacked sideways. We can put a little flange on one side so they don't roll downhill. We wouldn't even have to "wire" them for extra security. The fear of the radiation should do the trick.
Cameron Reyno I'm the kind of person who has all my American Girl dolls XD Then again, I only have four, my grandparents gave them to the family, they've been handed down from my sisters, and they're way too expensive to just give away XD
Recently I completed a short internship at a company which makes storage casks for spent nuclear fuel. Those things are near indescribable. You can hit it with a missile, a plane, or a truck and it is designed to be completely secure. I’m not joking about the missile. The company actually paid for the military to fire a missile at the cask to test it. Another thing is that these casks are SUPER heavy. They are large steel cylinders with a honeycomb type insert where the waste is placed. Once the cask is delivered to the site it is filled with a concrete ring between the honeycomb and the interior wall. At this point the whole thing is just too damn heavy to realistically transport any distance. Just wanted to share some information to whoever is interested. I was just happy to know something about this topic. PS while this information is true as far as I am a-where, I am not an engineer in the industry, just a short term intern so please take my comment with a grain of salt.
It was quite a few years ago. I remember a scandal where they were transporting large amounts of nuclear waste. in casks similar to what you described on flat bed semi trucks. through the State of Idaho on interstate 84 and people were making a big stink about it.
@@HarryRenner-h9q That's because people are afraid of things that they don't understand. It's why people are afraid of nuclear power plants. But the engineers and scientists who DO how they work, including me, are not afraid of them.
If someone wants to solve the Cube John is holding, use this Scramble with yellow on top and red in front: B L R' B' F' D' . Yes, we're bored and nerds.
Look up "Dry Cask Storage", and you might add the name James Conca. Steel bins in a heavy concrete shell, movable with heavy equipment and kept on a concrete slab.
What makes anybody think that either civilization or the human species has a better that 50% chance of surviving the next 1000 years? Let alone the 24,000 year half-life of ²³⁹Pu. Without global civilian nuclear, oceanic life as we know it will die. Carbon dioxide in the oceans is going to make calcium carbonate fixation by organisms at the base of the food chain, impossible. It becomes calcium bicarbonate, or rather the operations that would produce calcium carbonate simply manufacture two bicarbonate ions for every double-positive calcium ion in solution. The fantasy of "renewable energy" has by now been as signally a failure as I knew it would when Germany's Energiewende was announced.
ThatsRight thats all bullshit. All he did to rebute was talk about how great nuclear energy is, but oliver wasnt talking about nulcear energy, he was talking about nuclear WASTE. Which nobody can deny, that the way we dispose of nuclear waste is an issue.
I realize this comment is a year ago but I've been binging old episodes. Most geoblocking is due to an entity within the local country buying up the rights to a certain program and deciding not to make it available for streaming. It's basically a distribution contract. I'm sure HBO would love to have everyone watching all of their shows but chances are AT&T/Time Warner made a deal they have to abide by somewhere down the line.
He didn't bash nuclear energy, he bashed how we're not dealing with the waste properly. Jeeze, it's like a get together of the Children of Atom in the comments.
EnlightenmentLiberal An analogy: If I told you to throw away the orange peels after eating the fruit, would you think I was against oranges? You need prayers.
Riasiru Neovas there was balance in the piece. Completely one sided pseudo-science at best. But hey...they did spend two whole weeks preparing this piece...they are the experts now 👎
No matter how dangerous it is, I wouldn't want it near me. Even if it only amounted to a mild headache or dizziness,*I don't want it around.* All waste needs to be properly separated from the public. End of discussion. Nobody's saying nuclear energy is bad, but we should bloody do something about the damn waste. Period.
8:38, also worth noting, there are reactor designs in development which would use old waste as fuel, producing non-radioactive, inert waste products. The problem is, there is so much fear around nuclear power that these designs often don't get proper funding, and companies are even more reluctant to invest in constructing new plants, even though nuclear power has one of the highest safety ratings in the power industry.
What do u mean? In la Hague France radioactive waste is pumped into the ocean because its illegal to drop it from a ship. Greenpeace showed how easy it would be to reach for a terrorist attack multiple times in Europe. France sends a part of "recycling" waste i to Russia wehre it is stored outside in a populated area. They say its a recycling circle but it is just PR. The Plutonium is used in MOX because they had something to do with it but its more costly and less efficient than regular fuel pellets. By the way MOX creates its nuclear chain reaction by itself and is way more dangerous. Pease for god sake when u say something about a topic this toxic u get your sources right thank you. Both doc are German if there is the demand i translate them. Greenpeace entering example in France ua-cam.com/video/d0fdUpuMxjk/v-deo.html La Hague France: ua-cam.com/video/XEr9Sk9BGIY/v-deo.html Same doc but complete: ua-cam.com/video/dIq2KxeInxM/v-deo.html At 1:09:50 there is a short english part wehre u see how radioactive wast from Europe is stored outside in Tomsk Russia
Memento Mortis, if Greepeace said something you know its false. They are 100% liars 100% of the time. Russia has plenty of places for storage, including in areas where spills have already occured and they are exclusion zone (like chenobyl).
The US government made recycling spent fuel rods illegal decades ago for political reasons. This entire nuclear waste problem is 100% the result of the utterly inept US government.
James Dickinson France has clean nuclear energy that protects humans and earth from global warming - a REAl danger. This is fossil fuel propaganda. How much did they pay Oliver for this garbage? China is going all nuclear. S. Korea is 75% nuclear with no harm. Many other countries going nuclear, even oil countries. This is pure fossil fuel propaganda from Oliver.
To be fair, this video doesn't try to claim that nuclear power or waste is inherently dangerous, but rather the dangers of improperly/carelessly storing nuclear waste - all those incidents were caused by terrible design choices and criminal mismanagement. But blocking any attempts of properly regulated safe storage like in Yucca mountain actually makes the problem worse, because then that opens room for even more mismanagement. Kyle Hill's video shows how safe disposing nuclear waste is when it's properly reinforced and sealed. So if people keep blocking attempts at proper, regulated storage, that ironically makes nuclear waste disposal more dangerous.
I'm sooo glad John Oliver validated my childhood fear of these dolls. I was given a Felicity doll (really funny you actually used her) as a kid. Seriously made my day!
It could be done sooner. Plutonium is mostly hazardous due to heavy metal toxicity, rather than radiation, as are most of the really high level fission products. As a result, if the visitors were kept in HEPA filtered positive pressure environments and took dust precautions (tyvek suits, respirators) to avoid inhalation or ingestion of waste, it could be done in a few hundred years.
that is if they stop using nuclear power today. by the year 242 017 the world should be able to shoot the fcking nuclear waste to space. Make the space coaster, and put some fuel, and wings on the barrels.. shoot all of it into the sun.
Actually the fund to deal with nuclear waste is already too big. The trust is already something like $30-40 Billion. They've stopped requiring companies who run nuclear power plants from having to pay into it. At a modest interest rate it's more money than would ever be needed. Really, nuclear waste isn't that hard to deal with. All the engineering problems have been solved. And indeed the Yucca mountain facility is essentially ready to go and has enough room for like, 1,000 years worth of waste from nuclear power production.
Yucca Mountain always seemed like an odd place for a nuclear repository given the number of active fault lines in and near western Nevada. North Dakota would probably be the most logical place for this kind of site since it has very little seismic activity and an abundance of underground salt domes (which are ideal for nuclear waste storage)
Even if the Yucca mountain storage facility is opened for storage, we'll spend years getting approval to transport the waste. I'm pretty sure plenty of towns will protest any route that gets close to their towns. And there is the matter of a transport vehicle. The government need approval or develop a lot of vehicles.
subitman12 the government (I really tried finding the law) is oddly enough allowed to transport it secretly. Super strange but it’s totally legal and has some valid points I guess. Their allowed to say its national security, they are allowed access to any public highways, most of Nevada is govt owned and it’s all because: assuming the government doesn’t want it’s own citizens to die, they know best if it is safe compared to citizens who aren’t up to date on their nuclear safety. I’ve had to deal with the DoE and taken nuclear safety: they take it uber seriously.
3:31 "the Nazis who, fun fact, pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time" *checks date* a week after the Charlottesville rally ... that hits hard
While stable storage of the waste would be an improvent, if we had the will to build integral fast reactors we could burn the waste to generate energy. The remaining waste that cannot be burned is lightweight elements that decay in a few centuries, much less than the 120k years for plutonium. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor
Old comment, but those shorter lived elements are shorter lived for a reason, they are generally significantly more radioactive. Plutonium is pretty hot, and being around it is absolutely not recommended But when you compare it to, for example, the isotopes of iodine that have half-lives measured in days, I'll take the plutonium thank you very much. But if it were that simple it wouldn't be a problem. Decay chains, and decay types all play a huge part. While yes we should absolutely strive for more efficient reactors to process what we now see as waste, we should keep in mind the relative risk of the waste produced But plutonium is also ludicrously toxic but that's another matter to what I'm currently trying to say
Most of it is just the disposable clothing they wear. Nuclear Power Plants are actually extremely efficient in regards to what you put in and get out of it as waste. I guess John failed to read up on how large swathes of land in America is covered with natural uranium and thorium deposits. You can get a Geiger counter going over 100x background in the Colorado mountains.
The reason you could never solve that rubik's cube is because it is in an invalid position. I was checking the corner parity of the cube when I realized the Green-White-Orange corner is adjacent to the White, Green, and Orange center squares, but if you imagine rotating the corner either 120° clockwise or counterclockwise, all three of those imagined positions can't line up with the center squares. You'd need to mirror the corner across Green and White, which is obviously impossible. While this wouldn't affect the reason this is invalid, he made only five of the six sides visible in the video when he had it out, so I had to infer what the remaining side looked like. There's only two configurations where all corners and edges are unique, swapping the blue-orange edge with the yellow-orange edge. Neither of these are valid cube positions because of the above mirrored corner problem. I used frame advance to get each side. If you call the front face the one with GYY RRR RGO the unknown side to the left is either of these RYR RBR BBY YBY GYY GYY Top face BBY OYO WGG Bottom face BRW BWG YRG Right face RYO WGG BWW Back face BWW OOO OBO
· 0xFFF1 You just taught me how to solve a Rubik's cube in a John Oliver comment section... I don't know what to feel about... So Thank you very much, I guess.
@· 0xFFF121, the position is valid and can be solved. You need to adjust the contrast or hue settings on your monitor as you got a couple of colors wrong: The top slice of what you called the right face is RWO and the bottom slice of the back face is RBO. Therefore, the left face is: RYO BBY GYY The left face can actually be seen for some frames and you can see many of the colors. TwistyPuzzle's user Skarabajo confirmed this on this post: twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=369111#p369111 He also pointed out the algorithm for generating this position.
Jarvis Webster No, the colors are fine, (and I'm not colorblind) I looked at it again, and you're right. It was simply a transcription error when I was putting everything into the tool I was using to calculate a solution. I had already spent upwards of an hour writing a stupid youtube comment, so I didn't want to recheck all the squares again. But I did check for frames that contained the left side and I definitely couldn't find any (other than perhaps the motion blur for the first few frames when he was first taking it out) Are you not getting motion blur when you frame advance this video? Can you upload his attachments to somewhere else for me? I don't want to bother registering an account I definitely will never use just to see a single post's attachment.
Perhaps if we quietly moved the drums and other containers of nuclear waste to the basements of all the House and Senate office buildings in Washington D.C.?
I have some farmland. I would far rather have a BWRX-300 reactor upon it, or an ARC-100 actually mostly under half an acre of it, than 100 acres of solar panels for 20 years at the leasing rate of $500/acre/year that was offered in something I received in the mail.
@@wewwllad6841 That's what they pay him, but its still a good amount less than just growing crops would give. Tons of solar and wind companies like to rip off farmers and ranchers with stupidly low payment rates, while they rake in tens of millions.
Well, we can't get any fast breeder reactors up so that we can burn the most radioactive waste like they do in France, then it wouldn't be a problem. Most of the waste is just disposable clothing. When you consider that America is covered in natural Uranium and Thorium deposits, nuclear waste doesn't seem all that deadly. We need to keep the plants going, though, a lot of the "nuclear waste" is actually used in radiopharmaceuticals.
The Mindy Lynn lmao that you noticed that. Idk why that made me crack up I was reading all the other comments serious about the issue at hand and then I read about Johns eyebrows aha.
Ugh, as a nuclear professional, the shear misunderstanding in this piece infuriates me. I've held off watching this video for years and honestly I still wish I never did. "So called spent fuel pools"? No, that IS what they are called. I've personally monitored 2 of them on a daily basis, walking around and under them, for years and worked at several more. They are by no means designed for "temporary storage" since "temporary" is ONLY for 100 years. The danger for a "spent fuel pool accident" is also ridiculous. The ability to strike and destroy a spent fuel pool inside the protection of a nuclear power plant is likely not even capable. That also ignores the fact that there are many, MANY procedures for any issue with the spent fuel pools including attack. Even I couldn't think of a way to do it with unlimited funds and my intimate knowledge. Thankfully we do have dry cask storage now and those casks can literally take a freight train at full speed without losing integrity (I've seen the videos, they are pretty amazing). So the idea we have this tremendous amount of nuclear waste all over is kind of ridiculous. We should have a long term storage site, or sites, to put these casks, but there is no immediate crisis for it.
Thank you! I notice a lot of misunderstanding about nuclear power and nuclear waste management in mainstream media all the time and this boils my blood for some reason.
@@realspacenerd Because they won't admit their ignorance on the topic. That is what really upsets people like yourself. Most people don't understand anything about nuclear power or waste and that's okay as long as they admit they don't. Much like wild life activists fighting to protect an invasive species they don't really understand the damage they are doing. Everyone knows the major accidents of our industry, but they don't think how that compares to the industries around them. We never stopped mining and using coal though the amount of people killed by it are astronomical in comparison to nuclear power, yet we've barely added any new nuclear power plants since the 70s. General ignorance and fear from ignorance is holding us back from utilizing our best and most needed power source right now and it's always frustrating to see willful ignorance and fear hold us back. I'm just guessing, but I'd bet that is why you feel so frustrated by it.
@@TheNuclearGeek Exactly, and the biggest example of "fear from ignorance" is german activists and citizens with their so called "anti-nuclear group" (their last plant phased out in April 2023), now guess what? Germany is now gonna spend billions on gas power plants, now they don't care about global warming, and they have the audacity to lecture countries like mine (India) on global warming in international summits! (There are 22 nuclear power reactors which are operational in my country with a total installed capacity of 6780 MW. In addition, there are 8 reactors being implemented, and India aims to add 18 nuclear power reactors with a capacity of 13,800 MWe by 2031-32) I hope people get more educated towards Nuclear energy, at least that is what I can hope for.
i love how murica uses football fields as a measure of surface: i propose standardization of the paper sheet to 0.0000341 football fields. who is for ?
Y'know, Brits do that too, only they're using longer fields! I think we should stick to proper length measures - the SI units. I feel like I'm being talked down too whenever anyone uses a football field (or pitch) as a unit of measure.
Also here in Italy it's almost the same. We also make height comparisons using "n-storey buildings" as units (eg the Tyrannosaurus Rex used to be as tall as a 2-storey building)
"A house without a toilet." It's funny, because when you're actually living in a house without a toilet, you know that you need to go somewhere far away from your home and your water supply, you dig a hole, *and you bury that shit underground where it can decay in peace.* The problem has already been solved. The fact that people are actively getting in the way is madness. It makes me wonder if they never flush their own toilets at home after dinner each night. "Just leave it where it is. It's the safest thing."
My late father was in demolition, blowing up buildings and bridges all over the world. He loved telling stories and I remember one that scared the shit out of me. He was given a no bid contract to blow up an old nuclear smokestack or something. It was a huge project that would take forever to type the whole thing out. He submitted his estimate but never heard back. He wanted to know what the hell was going on so he asked around. He found out that the government decided to instead hire a tree stump blaster who came and stood on the bed of his truck to drill holes in the side and then threw some dynamite in there and blow it up, basically sending millions of bits of Radioactive dust in the air which then blew in the direction of Hanford! Not sure how much of this story is true cause my dad likes to bullshit but he was probably telling the truth because he wasn’t laughing at all.
As accurate as this is, its scary to me that despite nuclear power being far less dangerous and far cleaner (still not clean or dangerous by any measure, but still the best on a global scal ) we dont have the same attitude to other sources of energy that are even more dangerous and are affecting us right now. Responsible Nuclear power plants in the US right now present no danger until an accident happens which is rare. Other forms of power, regardless of how responsible the people running them are, still pollute and produce more waste and make more land unusable than nuclear power. (Namely coal, oil, and natural gas mining.)
@@jeffsmith9351 You call the user's "opinion"... "shortsighted and naive", but honestly, the user's comment is mostly truth by logic, and hardly a subjective statement. I'm going to call it, and say that you just made a comment turducken. Just saying.......
Quick note on the rocket at about 5:30: that video is from the launch of a russian Proton rocket. It flew off course because some of it’s sensors were installed upside down, apparently using a hammer to fit them into place in a way they weren’t designed for.
water is actually a really good isolator for radiation so it's not that bad for the environment as made out to seem from this sketch remember this is comedy not the news
@@barryparrish1585 But it is true... By the way, UK and France did the same in the Channel for exemple. There is a simple way to ensure that it is true: everyone say that it is true! The agencies which did it, the workers, the governments, the anti-nuclear NPO, everyone. So, why do you write that, without checking google for even just 60s before? Then, in your momentum, check the rest, and maybe you would be surprised how accurate the ramdom blabbling is...
Kyle Hill has a video that goes into detail about the solution to nuclear waste, titled "We solved nuclear waste decades ago" and its worth watching to get the scientific side of the story. I like the show and John in general but the info in this episode isn't showing the whole picture.
UA-cam's most reccomended educational youtuber, Tom Scott made an interesting video about a massive underground nuclear waste storage site in Sweden I think that's worth checking out.
@@GTAVictor9128 Harrisburg, Tchernobyl, Fukushima. What can Kyle Hill say to remove these from history? Never forget: _The big Mistake always sits in front of the device._ Always had.
@@maxmustermann9587 He never denied their history and looking into how Nuclear Plants and Waste works is always a useful thing to consider because 1: He actually explains how Nuclear Waste is properly taken care of 2: 96% of Nuclear Waste is recyclable 3: Nobody died from the Fukushima accident 4: People die from carbon emissions more than any cause of radiation
“It takes ten half lives for Plutonium to become harmless” Correction It may takes ten daughter isotopes down the decay chain for it to become “harmless” which I assume means it’s a stable element, but that’s not the same as “ten half-lives.” A half life is the statistical amount of time it takes for half the amount of the parent isotope to decay into a daughter isotope and then for a half of that remaining half to decay into the daughter isotope and so on. That daughter isotope will then have a different half life and will undergo the same thing. The amount of half lives for a safe amount of the harmful parent and daughter isotopes to have decayed into a stable daughter isotope depends entirely on the amount of the initial parent isotope and then the half lives of the daughter isotopes in the decay chain. I understand that going into detail like this is a bit unnecessary but you can explain half lives simply enough by saying it's half of it and then half of that half instead of making false statements like that one. "It takes ten rounds of decay before Plutonium has decayed into a product that decays into a product etcetera to become safe" would be more appropriate, it's slightly longer but at least it's correct. In short I'm physics triggered.
Ten half lives could also mean the time until only 0.000966 times the original amount of plutonium is present, which might be safe. But obviously as you pointed out, there are still a few daughter isotopes left which will still be radioactive.
We don’t even need to think about this stuff anymore, smartbois at TU Delft in the Netherlands have already thought of ways to use nuclear ‘waste’ hehe
Jim Gorb you don't even understand what collectives are... True collectives are replete in diversity, not fixed to one individual ideological identity or nature. Ayn Rand plagiarized her works from others...
Jim Gorb What everyone is used to calling "collectives" is inaccurate. It's not a collective if only one individual ideological nature is predominant over the whole, regardless of the numbers involved. We're hardly individuals when we're comprised of a near infinite number of collective processes... Ayn Rand is spot on backwards and most of americas understanding of political theory was malformed by her.
Jim Gorb intelligence is relative as everyone is stupid in their own ways. I just so happen to understand political theory better than most everyone alive today. I'm no ones adversary, but will object when someone's math is grammatically incorrect. If you've any questions, any regular you tuber who frequents politically leaning channels will affirm this to you. I don't mean to heckle so much as to point out how this stuff actually works. A cultural icon that's shiny and green sound like the Statue of Liberty... course the whole "90s" thing is a variable that doesn't fit due to its timelessness. "We the People" is after all, a collective and thus liberal principle... Money? That's a Capital, i.e. Conservative medium that circumvents the founding principles. Soooo, you tell me... do you get it?
Not gonna lie, I enjoy watching the Toxic Avenger series. It’s one of those “so bad it’s good” guilty pleasure movies, especially when he was in Tokyo.
Sgt. Kabuki Man NYPD running over that old lady always gets me. "This is an American made car. Every time they flip 25 feet into the air and crash down, they blow up. Let's get out of here!"
Except we would be the generation that just lived underground in the bunkers for the rest of our lives. Its our kids that would get all the fun of killing mutants and pip boys lol
hay que tener mucho talento para tratar un tema asi de serio con tanto humor. Quede, literalmente, llorando de la risa. te extraño oliver y me tienes viendo capitulos viejos! sigue con este hermoso trabajo de entreternos e informarnos del mundo y de tus queridos Estados Unidos. Saludos de un Chileno y gracias.
by the way if cattenom blows up I am sure central europe , scandinavia ,and eastern europe will come to france and have a small argument about how many thousand years your country will be enslaved in order to clean the shit up ... greetings from the french-german border (Don´t take it to hard but most of france nuclear powerplants are ticking time bombs)
Yeah, while listening to John, i was thinking "But aren't we already doing that shit for decades??" Well, we're still ahead of the U.S. for some things! France isn't a geologically active zone, so, our powerplants are quite safe... But, they weren't made to last that long.. True... But we don't really have more efficient and cheap way to produce energy, and i guess it's still better than your German coal powerplants that intoxicate our air when the wind goes South-West...
And I high doubt it drives in unmarked trucks through Paris and other larger cities. And although the current proposed bill says "The Las Vegas metropolitan area should be avoided at all practical coasts." What about Reno, or the rest of Nevada? Or the rest of the country.
The point of putting the waste a few kilometers underground is so that earthquakes and volcanoes don't have as much of an effect, and even if something happens that deep, it's more likely to just seep down (where there's already a lot of naturally occurring radioactivity) rather than come up and contaminate water and soil. Plus, looking at IAEA inspection reports, Cattenom seems to have well functioning safety systems, and being in France, isn't very likely to experience much in the way of natural disasters to cause a meltdown.
@@WyattCayer - It depends how you look at it. One puts out more radiation for a "short" time, the other puts out less radiation for a "long" time. The second one is worse in the case where you're talking about storage. Because the amount of radiation is irrelevant. You're storing it safely, so there should be 0 radiation outside of it's container. In that case twice the half-life means you need to keep it stored another couple ten-thousand years.
@@TheMrVengeance Yes, that is correct. However, Uranium is an almost pure alpha emitter. And alpha radiation can be blocked by a piece of paper. Alpha radiation can't even penetrate the outermost layer of our skin. You can handle yellowcake with your bare hands for a year and still get a lower radiation dose than going on a single flight. The only thing you have to be careful about is ingesting an alpha emitter. So wash your hands thoroughly after handling yellow cake with your bare hands. As far as storage is concerned, yes, you have to prepare for long time storage. Therefore, mix the uranium in with some concrete, fill that in a steel barrel and store it somewhere dry. No radiation, no radioactive material leaking into water. As long as this is observed the only possible failure source is large scale geological change. Or human failure.
@@KingQwertzlbrmpf Uranium is a pure alpha emitter, unfortunately it decays into thorium which is a beta emitter with a half-life of only 24 days and then protactinium, another beta emitter, with a half-life of ~1 minute. Uranium 238 is harmful because it's decay chain is harmful not it's direct decay. Handling huge volumes of this stuff over a long term is going to be a pain.
Atomic power plants are build to last fall of airplane. CASTOR - the container used for storage of it, withstand fall from 500m or impact of the train with no significant damage. Coal plant releases more radioactivity to environment per minute than atomic power plant pet year. All the problems with nuclear waste in USA are from military programs, not civil energetic program.
Fredrik Dunge You have to take the Anti war part out of that. Because you can agree that Nazis are bad and still be anti war. Almost all Americans agreed that Nazis were bad. American propaganda made sure of it. Plenty of people were still anti war but the reasoning wasnt "We don't think the Nazis are bad."
"Actually that consensus didn't come until the concentration camps were liberated, before that there were plenty of anti war and even pro nazi setiments in the US. The US didn't enter ww2 because of the holocaust they did it for geopolitical reasons." Kinda missing the point, aren't you?
Geopolitical reasons, including "not having the world run by nazis", since the united states instituted a very comfy liberal order after it took over the world.
I think as far as dolls go, if one is staring at you, 'unblinking' is exactly what you want.
Omg thats gold!
Very underrated commented. XD
My realdoll stares at me unblinking during sex
Samantha O'Hara basically. If it does blink when its not supposed to you should probably see a priest.
indeed
"Naval aircraft were summoned to strafe them with machine-gun fire..."
Considering we're talking about waste disposal, that may just be the most American thing I've ever heard.
The pilots were also drunk and eating Big Macs as they fired their machine guns.
Somewhere in the distance, a Toby Keith song was playing.
On a related note these weren't the plane's guns but those the pilots brought with them from their second ammendment emergency stash
Thomas Saldana : ARE THE NAVY SHIP WORING 24/7 . ? .THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT FACTS .!!!!! .🔥☠️🔥....
@@belkys120 Sorry dude.... what???
It worked didn't it, 'MERICA
I love how he always pick up different topics that aren't talked about 24/7 in other tonight shows
Fabian Mango - Agreed, and his show often pick up extremely important stories, that all the other news really should be coveringt. Like civil asset forfeiture, the terrible state of US infrastructure and net neutrality - All subjects that should be debated at length other places.
Instead news outlets are too busy talking about how 13 people died in Barcelona for 3 days. Meanwhile there are over 27 homicides and 105 suicides every day in the USA.
There are almost ten times more people every day in France (where I live) who dies to air polution at a DAILY rate but suddenly, because he's some lunatic doing this shit "in the name of god" or whatever, 13 becomes more important than 115 daily ...
Another interesting thing I noticed when looking for these numbers, is the amount of pages google gave me showing how many people of the same nationality than I were victims, because clearly that's the most important thing to know apparently, right ? The medias are doing the terrorists' work for them.
I agree with both of you
Except he uses clips from other news reporters instead of actual experts or papers....
Agreed
The problem is that we are dealing with this using politics instead of science.
Yes. Yes it is.
That's the problem with everything today.
Exactly. 👏
Science got us here though. 😢
Politics kinda controls science. We didn't totally allow science to have it's own space in the private sector.
That “alarmingly laid back man” happens to me my grandfather!
Bryce Kunkel they are no different then regular gators they just have mutations. And gators don’t even mess with you unless they’ve been fed and are expecting food.
@@Pwgsnakes mutations like laser eyes?
Why is this not the top comment for this video... make it happen...
May I know alarmingly laid back man's name?
And, does those mutated alligators have normal life?!
wow
Fun fact: That rocket (5:30) crashed since its accelerometer was literally installed upside down.
EDIT: First of all thanks for the responses. I have since been studying nuclear engineering in-depth and this piece does miss a few crucial details on nuclear waste. Firstly, a football stadium of nuclear waste from all nuclear power plants across the US over 50 years (providing 20% of clean, safe, non-intermittent energy) is actually remarkably little. I would say it is the necessary evil we need to overcome since at the end of the day nuclear power is a reliable source that is in most respects superior to conventional solar and wind.
In the long term, nuclear waste will not be an issue - rather a waste material we can reprocess and generate electricity from - fast breeder reactors.
It was also a Russian rocket
Boris had a little too much vodka during installation
Several of them, if I remember correctly.
This rocket (PROTON) is one of the worst rockets on the market. 1 out of 9 launches is a failure.
That's literally a space russian roulette.
@@khenricx
Hold on there comrade, the Proton is a fine piece of engineering.
John has suspicious amount of jokes on American Girl dolls. Someone on that writing team has a history...
It's Jodie, I bet it's Jodie.
😂
My favorite is Samantha the Victorian one.
Hope hes not a part of pedohollywood...
Same could be said about the number of jokes about horse beastiality.
Hearing him call Hartford a "Big City" basically gave me the same reaction as the Roku guys did to being called a "Big Tech Company." "Look! The TV man called our city a 'Big City!' We aren't boring as fuck and useless to the USA! It's finally happening!"
Hartford what state is that in Texas?
@@malikthemadman Connecticut, if you're not making fun of our itty bitty state.
@@theflyingspaget Honestly I don't know Connecticut is it the incest one or the gun one?
@@malikthemadman Neither. We're just the third smallest state, only interesting thing about us.
@@theflyingspaget Damn that sucks
"...she stares unblinking..." yes, but can you imagine how much worse it would be if it did blink?
I wanted to like this comment, but it already has perfect "123" likes!
\m/.
@@sbhb56 Well,you can like it now,as it has 223 likes,after i just retracted mine :P :D ;) = ) ... .
I couldn't like it either. 314 is to nice.
There are plenty of dolls made to blink and they're arguably beautiful
666th like.
Why did we need 5 Sharknado movies when we have freakin radioactive alligators?
andrineslife that was my nickname in high school lol
5 sharknado movies, or freakin radioactive alligators?
you wanna get Gozillas? because this is how you get Gozillas
You clearly haven't seen Sharknado 4...
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Because they're not radioactive enough for it to matter?
Just want to point out that Yucca Mountain was something they had been working on for decades. It was a done deal and the entire industry was preparing for it. Then, when it was shut down, it was done so just before it was scheduled to start receiving waste. It was a major blow. I know this because my wife *is* a nuclear scientist who had to do PR work for the NRC trying to keep them from shutting it down.
As of writing this, Harry Reid passed away a couple of weeks ago, and while others hailed him for his work otherwise... I keep coming back to this video. Harry might have done a lot of good while in office... but he also did this.
Shutting it down "was a major blow" you say. A financial, egocentric blow, obviously. As in: Not in My Back Yard - unless it's very financially rewarding for me, my family and local residents. Ha!
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@@evukelectricvehicles no, as in a "we have nowhere safe and secure to put our nation's nuclear waste now" kind of major blow. Yucca Mountain WAS SAFE AND SECURE. The whole "not my backyard" movement is fueled by ignorance.
Nuclear waste, as of this writing, is currently just sitting in barrels on the grounds of nuclear plants. It is not secure at all and it is not a viable, long-term option.
@@spencerhixonauthor The storage may be secure but getting the waste there sure isn't
@@seeibe and you know this how?
I’m surprised America hasn’t made football fields an actual unit of measurement yet.
Dear Shark, there's an even better unit of radiation measurement. One banana's worth of becquerels. One becquerel, Bq, is one radiation event per second. The very rare and long lived potassium isotope 40, which is the source of nearly all the argon in the atmosphere (argon is astoundingly inert) is of course present in all samples of the potassium our bodies and just about every other living organism needs. A banana emits at a rate of roughly 15 Bq. Your body internally receives about 4000 to 5000 Bq, or 4 to 5 kBq. Every living thing on the planet has been adapted by evolution to cope with this.
*get the fucking METRIC SYSTEM* ... you already got it in your lawbooks... jesus
Miguel Sanchez trying to get a country to agree on one thing is impossible so we just learn both
Es tut mir leid it’s easier to describe something in a way most people know
@Austin Fehr Fantastic!
As a working Civil Engineer I must say whoever came with the dumb idea to use wood as beams to hold up the tunnels either did that on purpose to cause danger or they are just that stupid. I did inspection for tunnels before and it's usually 13 inch+ walls with rebar everywhere.
Wow
I mean, to be fair I don’t think the designers thought there’s be in use even 15 years after they were built
@@giggabiite4417 agreed
a lot of the nuclear issue has been engineered by so called green movement people trying to scare people away from nuclear which the world should have 100% switched to as a temporary while switching to renewable. But groups like Greenpeace are more than a little intellectually challenged just look at the Greenpeace v Norman Borlaug fiasco in Africa. they claimed that the savior of a billion human lives across the globe, Father of the Green movement was trying to poison people and that is why we still have starvation in Africa because they didn't know he was the better party, just because he was a quiet savior and they a loud, stupid but well known group. Another great example of the stupidity of the Green movement is when Penn and Teller went to a green rally to gather signatures for the banning of the use of Dihydrogen monoxide and collected a hundred signatures within a short period of time. They didn't even lie about what it does or anything... and after people signed they told them that Dihydrogen monoxide is water.... something every high school graduate should know. so I guess the green movement is made up of dropouts, the dumb kind.
It was probably a cost-cutting measure by the contractor so he could keep more money.
The procrastination in this country is impressive...
"Hm, we should prob deal with this... ehhh maybe later."
that's how they deal with EVERYTHING........
Tossing it in a big hole and forgetting about it is the best solution. Plus after 200 years even the highest levels of waste is as deadly as a banana.
@@VladLad I'm not sure where you got that information. Yes, bananas have plenty of K-40 (half-life = 1.25 billion years), though we have far, far more naturally occurring K-40 in our bones. I think you might be considering only two of the fission products, Cs-137 and Sr-90. But the 3 major players in the spent fuel rods are U-238, lower radioactivity, half-life = 4.5 billion years (about as long the Earth has existed); unspent U-235, higher radioactivity, half-life = 700,000 years; and Pu-239, very high radioactivity, half-life > 24,000 years. Some of the fission products will decay much faster, but the major players are there for the long haul. Ten half-lives is the standard for radioactive material to be disposed of, and for the major player, U-235, that's over 2 billion years. Oh yeah, the product of U-238 + 1 neutron is Pu-239. As U-235 decays, it provides neutrons for this reaction. (That's how we make Pu-239.) That's where the plutonium in the fuel rods comes from. It's a byproduct.
I do think underground storage is our best bet though.
"Nah... I think it's better to let my grand-kids fix it, when they are grown."
@@VladLad no, it's a terrible solution. Nuclear waste if concentrated in one place still can explode. There were incidents in USSR and USA.
"I'm not a nuclear scientist. I just have the face of one." - John Oliver, 2017
i fucking love him
HE JUST SAID THAT AS I WAS READING THE COMMENT
He is an idiot. Shame he couldn't actually do a bit of research (other than the research of boosting his ratings).
what proof do you have that he didn't do his research..?
lttexan Only idiot here is you buddy.
I don't think I've laughed at a LWT skit harder than Felicity. It was so funny that she's laughing next to me right no-
Are you OK...is it Felicity...talk to-
What have you done to Felicity?
"We were trying to defeat the Nazis, which fun fact: pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time"
i love john oliver
......at the time lol
Silver Legion wouldn't agree, though.
Plenty of Americans supported the nazis. The German American Bund, the silver legion, the friends of progress, and numerous others.
illyounotme what is the "Bellamy salute?"
The US alt right has sponsored most dictators and fascist states over the last 150 years...
Not a conspiracy theory when it's so blatant and obvious...
i hate that i literally have a felicity doll displayed in my room facing my bed
Fantastic
The moment you start noticing it moving from time to time, you gotta bury it deep underground or burn your house down
Burning her won't work, you invited her into your home,
She owns your soul...
Regift her to someone else, then shes someone else's problem
Drop it off at the white house.
Don't worry, you'll find a husband before the nuclear waste hurts you. I promise.
Quick thing about the doll sidenote. For some reason back when I was about 5, some of my sister's old stuff was stored in my room to make room for more of her stuff, and I woke up one night to find the closet door open with one of those dolls staring at me. And for some reason right as I woke up and stared into its eyes, the eyelids fell shut.
I used a nightlight until I was 10 after that.
Oh no 😮😂😂
😖😂😂😂😂
Oooh, no. Don't like that... 😬
Some porcelain dolls have hinged eyelids
Missile: *Exploding*
Audience: *dying of laughter*
Quite litterally
Laughing at something horrific is a coping mechanism
@@ForrestFox626 yeah, only do it within the comfort of your home tho.
@@ForrestFox626 what is so horrific? It was "only" a lot of money being burned.
Missile loaded with nuclear waste: exploding
Audience: Dying.
To those commenting that he is bashing nuclear power, where does he do it? All I saw and heard was concern over storing the waste byproduct that is harmful to all forms of life. Seriously, where is is saying nuclear power is wrong? Link the timeframe if he did. If he didn't, stfu with the fake news.
Also, he shows a complete misunderstanding of nuclear power and radiation in the video.
He did not bash nuclear power. They are simply changing the subject, attempting obfuscation.
Jeremiah Rawson what was the misunderstanding of nuclear power? Link the timeframe.
The whole idea of the waste effects and health hazards of nuclear power. Not once did he distinguish alpha, beta, or gamma health effects and a lot of the health effects he described were gamma radiation. Most nuclear waste is alpha, which cannot go through paper and is only problematic if ingested. It also would not result in 4 toes or radiated alligators; but most likely result in death or cancer (in high amounts over a short period of time). It isn't going to irradiate alligators, turn you into the toxic avenger, etc. Also, as an alpha emitter it is perfectly fine being stored in a barrel, the spent rods are also perfectly fine being stored in water (They even have divers that do maintenance in some nuclear power plants). The whole thing is very very loosely based in any radiation science and is more of a hyperbole piece.
Ideally, he'd have the ability to do that, being thorough and factual while taking an in-depth look at this complex subject. However, this is a comedy show that's 20 minutes long. I don't think we can expect much more than it to be a show that begins discussion on the topic. Most people don't really think much about these issues until they're brought to light. American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Game of Thrones, the masses are easily enthralled. So presenting subject matter to them in a way that's appealing, so they'll take interest, sometimes requires it be mixed in with a lot of detritus. At least it's being discussed now?
I expected the video to end with Felicity inexplicably being present in the footage from the 70s and John Oliver screaming bloody murder. It didn't happen. I am disappointed.
eworm oooh nice..
John Oliver.... Hire this worm now.
eworm I agree.
The episode itself ends with John slowly brushing Felicity's hair and staring with a cold, dead look right into the camera.
13:13 Watching him act like that doll scared the shit out of him is so damn funny. It's really well edited too. His reaction has me in stitches every single time. If I watch it more than 3 times in a row, I can't breathe from how hard I'm laughing.
The visceral reaction took me OUT 😭🤣
The whole Feilicity bit is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
I live 41 miles downwind of Hanford. Every family I know has had multiple members go through cancer. I had Thyroid cancer at 34. EVERY single person that helped me in the hospital said they'd already had it. My sistern-in-law, who grew up closer to Hanford than me by about 15 - 20 miles, had Thyroid cancer in her early 20s. If you want to really dig up a mess, look in to the decades of families in Umatilla Oregon that have been trying to get medical assistance from the government and keep getting denied (I mean, maybe some aid has been awarded I'm not aware of, but no where near what their community deserves). A friend of mine worked for the state of Oregon in some fashion as an intern during law school, his summer job was literally to find a way to not admit huge volumes of radioactive material was leaking into the ground water when stacks of paper work clearly showed it was. You can see the bunkers pretty clearly on google maps, SW of Umatilla. They go on for miles. As I understand it, they're all exclusively for storing nuclear material.
I know zero people with thyroid cancer. I have never lived anywhere near a nuclear reactor or waste site.
You do know know nuclear waste from nuclear weapons is completely different from the waste nuclear plants make right? The liquid forms of the waste from those nuclear weapons production are the cause of all those people getting cancer in the Hanford site as well as the Savannah River. I'm really sorry to hear about all those people, including yourself, but it's not right to include nuclear plants in this issue since it has nothing to do with it.
Just as a counter anecdote, I've lived 30 miles from Hanford basically my whole life and I haven't known anyone who had/has thyroid cancer.
I have lived in Richland my whole life. I have never known someone younger than 60 with cancer. I never have heard that someone I knew with cancer got it from the Hanford site. No one who doesn't work at the Hanford site gets cancer because of the Hanford site, that is not a thing. The Columbia River is packed with people every summer. People get cancer here for the same reasons as everywhere else. I literally facepalmed at 11:11
Stop using person anecdotes, they don't help. What is the number of cancers in the population, compared to national averages accounting for life style choice like smoking. Account for the fat randomness clumps.
If you care about the issue, the is the logical way to get attention; otherwise the people you are trying to reach will, rightly so, just dismiss you anecdote.
Lets build a wall, and make radioactive alligators pay for it!
WalkaCrookedLine: why don't we build "the" wall out of stacked-up spent nuclear waste barrels? Encased in concrete and stacked sideways. We can put a little flange on one side so they don't roll downhill. We wouldn't even have to "wire" them for extra security. The fear of the radiation should do the trick.
@@jilliansmith7123 damn! You have a very creative mind xD lol
@@jilliansmith7123 The irony is it would be pretty much harmless.
Radioactive alligators sounds like a Dr. Evil request.
@575forza: Sharks that shoot radioactive laser beams from their eyes.
Is that really so much to ask?
I love when they can only get Dr. Evil mutated sea bass in instead of sharks, and he asks: "Are they ill-tempered?" lmfao
Nuclear waste can be recycled. France does it constantly
The felicity thing killed me
Cameron Reyno Felicity kills a lot of people.
Rip man wait what oh wait I've realised
Cameron Reyno I'm the kind of person who has all my American Girl dolls XD
Then again, I only have four, my grandparents gave them to the family, they've been handed down from my sisters, and they're way too expensive to just give away XD
It would have been funnier if doll suddenly appeared with the solved cube.
Looked like it damn near gave John a heart attack, too! o.o
Recently I completed a short internship at a company which makes storage casks for spent nuclear fuel. Those things are near indescribable. You can hit it with a missile, a plane, or a truck and it is designed to be completely secure. I’m not joking about the missile. The company actually paid for the military to fire a missile at the cask to test it. Another thing is that these casks are SUPER heavy. They are large steel cylinders with a honeycomb type insert where the waste is placed. Once the cask is delivered to the site it is filled with a concrete ring between the honeycomb and the interior wall. At this point the whole thing is just too damn heavy to realistically transport any distance.
Just wanted to share some information to whoever is interested. I was just happy to know something about this topic.
PS while this information is true as far as I am a-where, I am not an engineer in the industry, just a short term intern so please take my comment with a grain of salt.
what is this company? I want to find out more.
It was quite a few years ago. I remember a scandal where they were transporting large amounts of nuclear waste. in casks similar to what you described on flat bed semi trucks. through the State of Idaho on interstate 84 and people were making a big stink about it.
@@HarryRenner-h9q That's because people are afraid of things that they don't understand. It's why people are afraid of nuclear power plants. But the engineers and scientists who DO how they work, including me, are not afraid of them.
This place is held together with chewing gum, string, and paper clips.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
And tons of nuclear waste.
It is a great place to store nuclear waste. No earth quick, and concrete to seal it for millions of year.
If someone wants to solve the Cube John is holding, use this Scramble with yellow on top and red in front: B L R' B' F' D' .
Yes, we're bored and nerds.
"We were trying to defeat the Nazis, which, fun fact: pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time."
Time really does fly, doesn't it.
John, you are great at pointing out things I am entirely ignorant of and then scaring the shit out of me.
Sir, wood rots, should we still build a nuclear shed with it?
Yup
But sir, I think it needs to last 240,000 years...
Don't worry guy, 40 years is like PRETTY close to that.
Don't worry I retire in 12 years and I'll be dead before any one learns that this is a bad idea
Yeah, and bill the government as if we made it out of concrete and titanium.
Look up "Dry Cask Storage", and you might add the name James Conca.
Steel bins in a heavy concrete shell, movable with heavy equipment and kept on a concrete slab.
What makes anybody think that either civilization or the human species has a better that 50% chance of surviving the next 1000 years?
Let alone the 24,000 year half-life of ²³⁹Pu.
Without global civilian nuclear, oceanic life as we know it will die. Carbon dioxide in the oceans is going to make calcium carbonate fixation by organisms at the base of the food chain, impossible. It becomes calcium bicarbonate, or rather the operations that would produce calcium carbonate simply manufacture two bicarbonate ions for every double-positive calcium ion in solution.
The fantasy of "renewable energy" has by now been as signally a failure as I knew it would when Germany's Energiewende was announced.
As someone who lives relatively close to Hanford in Washington, this was very educational, thank you.
I love how this show actually educates and informs people.
Sorry, Natalie, I'm a fan of John Oliver, but in this case it misinforms.
TL;DR : what's is real then ?
That's one sided propaganda, not education.
ThatsRight thats all bullshit. All he did to rebute was talk about how great nuclear energy is, but oliver wasnt talking about nulcear energy, he was talking about nuclear WASTE. Which nobody can deny, that the way we dispose of nuclear waste is an issue.
The video I linked discusses disposal of nuclear waste and how and where it should be done in the United States.
I love this show, but why are so many episodes geoblocked? I don't live in Narnia guys, seriously.
censorship
Get a VPN
I realize this comment is a year ago but I've been binging old episodes.
Most geoblocking is due to an entity within the local country buying up the rights to a certain program and deciding not to make it available for streaming. It's basically a distribution contract. I'm sure HBO would love to have everyone watching all of their shows but chances are AT&T/Time Warner made a deal they have to abide by somewhere down the line.
Yes, I can't watch some videos of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in my Home country
Because its on HBO
The American Girl thing is legit, Samantha haunted my nightmares for about two years before I finally managed to give her to my cousin
It’s been 5 years let’s get a certified John Oliver update on this topic!!!
Nothing has changed. Sadly!
He didn't bash nuclear energy, he bashed how we're not dealing with the waste properly. Jeeze, it's like a get together of the Children of Atom in the comments.
EnlightenmentLiberal An analogy: If I told you to throw away the orange peels after eating the fruit, would you think I was against oranges? You need prayers.
*ATOM WILL SHEILD US FROM HIS G L O W*
Riasiru Neovas there was balance in the piece. Completely one sided pseudo-science at best. But hey...they did spend two whole weeks preparing this piece...they are the experts now 👎
Hahahah! You're so right!
No matter how dangerous it is, I wouldn't want it near me. Even if it only amounted to a mild headache or dizziness,*I don't want it around.* All waste needs to be properly separated from the public. End of discussion. Nobody's saying nuclear energy is bad, but we should bloody do something about the damn waste. Period.
8:38, also worth noting, there are reactor designs in development which would use old waste as fuel, producing non-radioactive, inert waste products. The problem is, there is so much fear around nuclear power that these designs often don't get proper funding, and companies are even more reluctant to invest in constructing new plants, even though nuclear power has one of the highest safety ratings in the power industry.
You should look into how France recycles a majority of there spent fuel cells and has less nuclear waste.
oh but that costs money! If they did that, then they couldn't claim nuclear power's cheaper than solar
What do u mean? In la Hague France radioactive waste is pumped into the ocean because its illegal to drop it from a ship. Greenpeace showed how easy it would be to reach for a terrorist attack multiple times in Europe. France sends a part of "recycling" waste i to Russia wehre it is stored outside in a populated area. They say its a recycling circle but it is just PR. The Plutonium is used in MOX because they had something to do with it but its more costly and less efficient than regular fuel pellets. By the way MOX creates its nuclear chain reaction by itself and is way more dangerous. Pease for god sake when u say something about a topic this toxic u get your sources right thank you.
Both doc are German if there is the demand i translate them.
Greenpeace entering example in France ua-cam.com/video/d0fdUpuMxjk/v-deo.html
La Hague France: ua-cam.com/video/XEr9Sk9BGIY/v-deo.html
Same doc but complete: ua-cam.com/video/dIq2KxeInxM/v-deo.html
At 1:09:50 there is a short english part wehre u see how radioactive wast from Europe is stored outside in Tomsk Russia
Memento Mortis, if Greepeace said something you know its false. They are 100% liars 100% of the time.
Russia has plenty of places for storage, including in areas where spills have already occured and they are exclusion zone (like chenobyl).
The US government made recycling spent fuel rods illegal decades ago for political reasons. This entire nuclear waste problem is 100% the result of the utterly inept US government.
James Dickinson France has clean nuclear energy that protects humans and earth from global warming - a REAl danger. This is fossil fuel propaganda. How much did they pay Oliver for this garbage? China is going all nuclear. S. Korea is 75% nuclear with no harm. Many other countries going nuclear, even oil countries. This is pure fossil fuel propaganda from Oliver.
See Kyle Hill’s video on nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is orders of magnitude safer than fossil fuel waste, aka ash.
To be fair, this video doesn't try to claim that nuclear power or waste is inherently dangerous, but rather the dangers of improperly/carelessly storing nuclear waste - all those incidents were caused by terrible design choices and criminal mismanagement. But blocking any attempts of properly regulated safe storage like in Yucca mountain actually makes the problem worse, because then that opens room for even more mismanagement.
Kyle Hill's video shows how safe disposing nuclear waste is when it's properly reinforced and sealed. So if people keep blocking attempts at proper, regulated storage, that ironically makes nuclear waste disposal more dangerous.
I'm sooo glad John Oliver validated my childhood fear of these dolls. I was given a Felicity doll (really funny you actually used her) as a kid. Seriously made my day!
I love this comment because it amuses me even more that the bit used an actual doll with its actual name😂
Why does America measure everything in football fields?
Edit: wow I did not expect this random comment to get this popular…
Lily H it's big enough to sound scary and pretty much everyone has seen one
We don't have a measurement system, we have sportball.
Lily H because we never learned the metric system
Lily H because fuck you that's why
"Billions of liters" Meh
"Enough to fill 20 football fields" OH SHIT!!!!
My sister has American Girl dolls.... 34 of them. Send Help
Just change the position of one of them every week randomly and report the results ;)
Just move.
Chloee Inkling that’s about $7000 of dolls. I think it’s your parents that need help.
I have5 here after my daughter moved out after graduation from university were should I send them.
Talky Tina doesn't like you.
"We were trying to defeat the Nazis, which, fun fact: pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time."
Time really does fly, doesn't it.
@shocknot welll...
But the two A bombs we produced were used on the Empire of Japan.
So, no Chernobyl Disneyland for 240,000 years? FML.
Bummer.
LOL
It could be done sooner. Plutonium is mostly hazardous due to heavy metal toxicity, rather than radiation, as are most of the really high level fission products. As a result, if the visitors were kept in HEPA filtered positive pressure environments and took dust precautions (tyvek suits, respirators) to avoid inhalation or ingestion of waste, it could be done in a few hundred years.
I recommend Fallout 4 till then
that is if they stop using nuclear power today. by the year 242 017 the world should be able to shoot the fcking nuclear waste to space. Make the space coaster, and put some fuel, and wings on the barrels.. shoot all of it into the sun.
$700 billion on Afghanistan. Wonder what we could have spent that on...
@Jesper Rolleman Please provide a link if you find it
25,350 schools, for starters.
Actually the fund to deal with nuclear waste is already too big. The trust is already something like $30-40 Billion. They've stopped requiring companies who run nuclear power plants from having to pay into it. At a modest interest rate it's more money than would ever be needed. Really, nuclear waste isn't that hard to deal with. All the engineering problems have been solved. And indeed the Yucca mountain facility is essentially ready to go and has enough room for like, 1,000 years worth of waste from nuclear power production.
...can't stop watching this program,wonderful mesh of horror and comedy, much like our lives.
Yucca Mountain always seemed like an odd place for a nuclear repository given the number of active fault lines in and near western Nevada. North Dakota would probably be the most logical place for this kind of site since it has very little seismic activity and an abundance of underground salt domes (which are ideal for nuclear waste storage)
Jersey shore makes so much more sense now.
I don't think that was the sound of a crank, it was the sound of a Geiger counter...
"Ugly 'till i's cute again"
See? Looking into the mirror for that morning affirmation can provide loads of inspiration, John!
THE TOXIC AVENGER: The first Avenger that plays League of Legends
He's the First Superhero from New Jersey
Can't WAIT to see Felicity in my nightmares! #DamnYouOliver
i'm currently seeing alex jones in MY nightmares
@@mysticseer6424 I'll grant you that one, dude. That sounds fucking horrifying.
Even if the Yucca mountain storage facility is opened for storage, we'll spend years getting approval to transport the waste. I'm pretty sure plenty of towns will protest any route that gets close to their towns. And there is the matter of a transport vehicle. The government need approval or develop a lot of vehicles.
Already developed specialty made train cars. Yes, people did complain my state was one of the proposed paths.
subitman12 the government (I really tried finding the law) is oddly enough allowed to transport it secretly. Super strange but it’s totally legal and has some valid points I guess. Their allowed to say its national security, they are allowed access to any public highways, most of Nevada is govt owned and it’s all because: assuming the government doesn’t want it’s own citizens to die, they know best if it is safe compared to citizens who aren’t up to date on their nuclear safety. I’ve had to deal with the DoE and taken nuclear safety: they take it uber seriously.
Jack Sparrow, I said people in my state, not myself complained. I'm fine with the train. I was unaware of the truck transport and not familiar with.
@@Patrick-hs5bd The public being notified creates the risk of a terrorist attack.
Washington...Vegas...Boston...
War, war never changes
Kristie Beasley but why tho
HoibotPlays Fallout
HoibotPlays fallout has been preparing us for this moment
Ill be waiting for some super mutants and a Capital Wasteland
HoibotPlays What about LA, Bakersfield and Mariposa?
3:31 "the Nazis who, fun fact, pretty much all Americans agreed were bad at the time"
*checks date*
a week after the Charlottesville rally ... that hits hard
While stable storage of the waste would be an improvent, if we had the will to build integral fast reactors we could burn the waste to generate energy. The remaining waste that cannot be burned is lightweight elements that decay in a few centuries, much less than the 120k years for plutonium. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor
We can't, because of the radiophobia in the public. That they think radioactive waste is actually a problem, they're too far gone.
Old comment, but those shorter lived elements are shorter lived for a reason, they are generally significantly more radioactive.
Plutonium is pretty hot, and being around it is absolutely not recommended
But when you compare it to, for example, the isotopes of iodine that have half-lives measured in days, I'll take the plutonium thank you very much. But if it were that simple it wouldn't be a problem. Decay chains, and decay types all play a huge part.
While yes we should absolutely strive for more efficient reactors to process what we now see as waste, we should keep in mind the relative risk of the waste produced
But plutonium is also ludicrously toxic but that's another matter to what I'm currently trying to say
@@expertoflizardcorrugation3967 Plutonium is a bad sounding word.
@@infini_ryu9461 i'll admit it's not very flattering to pluto
@@expertoflizardcorrugation3967 Daffy Duck would surely be insulted too.
I AM A WAKING NIGHTMARE!
"OH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! FUCK ME! GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" - John Oliver
Felicity Thomas The doll has taken human form! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
Dammit Felicity, get off my nightstand and go back to the attic, I'm trying to sleep.
Felicity Thomas 😱😱😱😱😱😱
Felicity!?! It's can't be you! I thought you were buried! Please! Have mercy! I didn't really mean tt bury you! HAVE MERCY!!!!!
5:27 Okay... who recorded me playing kerbal space program? -_-
huh
i didnt
S🅱️inotto watches LWT. 😯
No one:
America: We measure how much nuclear waste we have using football fields.
atropa ua-cam.com/video/_6VeZAZdff0/v-deo.html
Most of it is just the disposable clothing they wear. Nuclear Power Plants are actually extremely efficient in regards to what you put in and get out of it as waste.
I guess John failed to read up on how large swathes of land in America is covered with natural uranium and thorium deposits. You can get a Geiger counter going over 100x background in the Colorado mountains.
Wait, so you're telling me that people in other places don't use eagles per cheeseburger to measure things?
The reason you could never solve that rubik's cube is because it is in an invalid position. I was checking the corner parity of the cube when I realized the Green-White-Orange corner is adjacent to the White, Green, and Orange center squares, but if you imagine rotating the corner either 120° clockwise or counterclockwise, all three of those imagined positions can't line up with the center squares. You'd need to mirror the corner across Green and White, which is obviously impossible.
While this wouldn't affect the reason this is invalid, he made only five of the six sides visible in the video when he had it out, so I had to infer what the remaining side looked like. There's only two configurations where all corners and edges are unique, swapping the blue-orange edge with the yellow-orange edge. Neither of these are valid cube positions because of the above mirrored corner problem.
I used frame advance to get each side.
If you call the front face the one with
GYY
RRR
RGO
the unknown side to the left is either of these
RYR RBR
BBY YBY
GYY GYY
Top face
BBY
OYO
WGG
Bottom face
BRW
BWG
YRG
Right face
RYO
WGG
BWW
Back face
BWW
OOO
OBO
· 0xFFF1
You just taught me how to solve a Rubik's cube in a John Oliver comment section...
I don't know what to feel about...
So Thank you very much, I guess.
How did I teach you? I don't even know how.
@· 0xFFF121, the position is valid and can be solved. You need to adjust the contrast or hue settings on your monitor as you got a couple of colors wrong:
The top slice of what you called the right face is RWO and the bottom slice of the back face is RBO.
Therefore, the left face is:
RYO
BBY
GYY
The left face can actually be seen for some frames and you can see many of the colors.
TwistyPuzzle's user Skarabajo confirmed this on this post: twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=369111#p369111
He also pointed out the algorithm for generating this position.
Jarvis Webster
No, the colors are fine, (and I'm not colorblind) I looked at it again, and you're right. It was simply a transcription error when I was putting everything into the tool I was using to calculate a solution. I had already spent upwards of an hour writing a stupid youtube comment, so I didn't want to recheck all the squares again. But I did check for frames that contained the left side and I definitely couldn't find any (other than perhaps the motion blur for the first few frames when he was first taking it out) Are you not getting motion blur when you frame advance this video?
Can you upload his attachments to somewhere else for me? I don't want to bother registering an account I definitely will never use just to see a single post's attachment.
· 0xFFF1 Throw the Rubix cube away!
Perhaps if we quietly moved the drums and other containers of nuclear waste to the basements of all the House and Senate office buildings in Washington D.C.?
Good start🤔
Nothing would happen lmao
I have some farmland. I would far rather have a BWRX-300 reactor upon it, or an ARC-100 actually mostly under half an acre of it, than 100 acres of solar panels for 20 years at the leasing rate of $500/acre/year that was offered in something I received in the mail.
@@albertrogers2506 100*500 = 50k a year, * 20 = Literally a million dollars. That's fucked up they try to get people to pay that
@@wewwllad6841
That's what they pay him, but its still a good amount less than just growing crops would give. Tons of solar and wind companies like to rip off farmers and ranchers with stupidly low payment rates, while they rake in tens of millions.
That Felicity gag just killed me. Or maybe Felicity did and this is my ghost writing this...
Plot twist: it's actually Felicity writing the comment...
@@JonasDAtlas it's also Felicity who is standing behind you.
I lived in New Jersey for the 1st 28 years of my life and I can confirm that maybe that nuclear waste dumping, would answer a lot of questions.
Well, we can't get any fast breeder reactors up so that we can burn the most radioactive waste like they do in France, then it wouldn't be a problem. Most of the waste is just disposable clothing. When you consider that America is covered in natural Uranium and Thorium deposits, nuclear waste doesn't seem all that deadly.
We need to keep the plants going, though, a lot of the "nuclear waste" is actually used in radiopharmaceuticals.
I bet they probably dropped some of that in Sussex county
John Oliver has perfect eyebrows. Take note ig girls.
Plucked
The Mindy Lynn lmao that you noticed that. Idk why that made me crack up I was reading all the other comments serious about the issue at hand and then I read about Johns eyebrows aha.
Mindy is the most beautiful woman ever in the history of women.
C.J. Davis no she isn’t but you’re a pathetic weird loser who’s never going to get attention from her or any beautiful woman
@Amelie Howse I wouldn't say anything else if i were you
What about reprocessing? That's what France uses. They've been close to 80% nuclear for decades, and all of their waste is stored in a single room.
Well I'm crying now and I've lost what few shreds of hope I had left in humanity. Thanks for that, Mr Oliver.
Ugh, as a nuclear professional, the shear misunderstanding in this piece infuriates me.
I've held off watching this video for years and honestly I still wish I never did. "So called spent fuel pools"? No, that IS what they are called. I've personally monitored 2 of them on a daily basis, walking around and under them, for years and worked at several more. They are by no means designed for "temporary storage" since "temporary" is ONLY for 100 years. The danger for a "spent fuel pool accident" is also ridiculous. The ability to strike and destroy a spent fuel pool inside the protection of a nuclear power plant is likely not even capable. That also ignores the fact that there are many, MANY procedures for any issue with the spent fuel pools including attack. Even I couldn't think of a way to do it with unlimited funds and my intimate knowledge.
Thankfully we do have dry cask storage now and those casks can literally take a freight train at full speed without losing integrity (I've seen the videos, they are pretty amazing). So the idea we have this tremendous amount of nuclear waste all over is kind of ridiculous. We should have a long term storage site, or sites, to put these casks, but there is no immediate crisis for it.
Thank you! I notice a lot of misunderstanding about nuclear power and nuclear waste management in mainstream media all the time and this boils my blood for some reason.
@@realspacenerd Because they won't admit their ignorance on the topic. That is what really upsets people like yourself.
Most people don't understand anything about nuclear power or waste and that's okay as long as they admit they don't. Much like wild life activists fighting to protect an invasive species they don't really understand the damage they are doing. Everyone knows the major accidents of our industry, but they don't think how that compares to the industries around them. We never stopped mining and using coal though the amount of people killed by it are astronomical in comparison to nuclear power, yet we've barely added any new nuclear power plants since the 70s. General ignorance and fear from ignorance is holding us back from utilizing our best and most needed power source right now and it's always frustrating to see willful ignorance and fear hold us back. I'm just guessing, but I'd bet that is why you feel so frustrated by it.
@@TheNuclearGeek Exactly, and the biggest example of "fear from ignorance" is german activists and citizens with their so called "anti-nuclear group" (their last plant phased out in April 2023), now guess what? Germany is now gonna spend billions on gas power plants, now they don't care about global warming, and they have the audacity to lecture countries like mine (India) on global warming in international summits! (There are 22 nuclear power reactors which are operational in my country with a total installed capacity of 6780 MW. In addition, there are 8 reactors being implemented, and India aims to add 18 nuclear power reactors with a capacity of 13,800 MWe by 2031-32) I hope people get more educated towards Nuclear energy, at least that is what I can hope for.
@TheNuclearGeek everything you said is wrong....
@@GeorgeWashington283 elaborate
i love how murica uses football fields as a measure of surface: i propose standardization of the paper sheet to 0.0000341 football fields. who is for ?
Don't forget the... Watermark!
✋
I think it would be roughly .000001 actually
Y'know, Brits do that too, only they're using longer fields! I think we should stick to proper length measures - the SI units. I feel like I'm being talked down too whenever anyone uses a football field (or pitch) as a unit of measure.
Also here in Italy it's almost the same. We also make height comparisons using "n-storey buildings" as units (eg the Tyrannosaurus Rex used to be as tall as a 2-storey building)
"A house without a toilet."
It's funny, because when you're actually living in a house without a toilet, you know that you need to go somewhere far away from your home and your water supply, you dig a hole, *and you bury that shit underground where it can decay in peace.*
The problem has already been solved. The fact that people are actively getting in the way is madness. It makes me wonder if they never flush their own toilets at home after dinner each night. "Just leave it where it is. It's the safest thing."
Even with today’s half baked system:
Nuclear waste goes in barrels. Coal power plants’ waste goes in my lungs.
Barrels > My lungs.
My late father was in demolition, blowing up buildings and bridges all over the world. He loved telling stories and I remember one that scared the shit out of me. He was given a no bid contract to blow up an old nuclear smokestack or something. It was a huge project that would take forever to type the whole thing out. He submitted his estimate but never heard back. He wanted to know what the hell was going on so he asked around. He found out that the government decided to instead hire a tree stump blaster who came and stood on the bed of his truck to drill holes in the side and then threw some dynamite in there and blow it up, basically sending millions of bits of Radioactive dust in the air which then blew in the direction of Hanford! Not sure how much of this story is true cause my dad likes to bullshit but he was probably telling the truth because he wasn’t laughing at all.
Please bring awareness of the DACA program and it's implications on the lives of 800K young people in this country
Heromar Leite agree 100%
Alex Angerman do you remember anything before age 10? i dont and i am 15. these dreamers dont know anything other than the us.
As accurate as this is, its scary to me that despite nuclear power being far less dangerous and far cleaner (still not clean or dangerous by any measure, but still the best on a global scal ) we dont have the same attitude to other sources of energy that are even more dangerous and are affecting us right now. Responsible Nuclear power plants in the US right now present no danger until an accident happens which is rare. Other forms of power, regardless of how responsible the people running them are, still pollute and produce more waste and make more land unusable than nuclear power. (Namely coal, oil, and natural gas mining.)
I see so many shortsighted and naive opinions on nuclear power, like yours. Its infuriating really
@@jeffsmith9351 You call the user's "opinion"... "shortsighted and naive", but honestly, the user's comment is mostly truth by logic, and hardly a subjective statement. I'm going to call it, and say that you just made a comment turducken. Just saying.......
@@JarretLaMark your simple mind can hardly even grasp your inferiority
@@jeffsmith9351 ??
His reaction from the doll made me laugh and how he shooed her away XD
His reaction, calling "f&cking Christ" made me report him
Fuck Christ he's not even real.
Quick note on the rocket at about 5:30: that video is from the launch of a russian Proton rocket. It flew off course because some of it’s sensors were installed upside down, apparently using a hammer to fit them into place in a way they weren’t designed for.
Threw barrels of nuclear waste into the ocean. Mind boggling.
We still throw stuff overboard on ships. That's also how we get rid of something if it's on fire and we can't put it out. Push it over the side.
I am pretty sure that no nuclear waste has been thrown into the ocean...considering the rest of his random babbling is all a lie.
water is actually a really good isolator for radiation so it's not that bad for the environment as made out to seem from this sketch remember this is comedy not the news
Read the book Trapped Under the Sea (about where sewage is dumped out in one part of the eastern US).
@@barryparrish1585 But it is true... By the way, UK and France did the same in the Channel for exemple. There is a simple way to ensure that it is true: everyone say that it is true! The agencies which did it, the workers, the governments, the anti-nuclear NPO, everyone. So, why do you write that, without checking google for even just 60s before?
Then, in your momentum, check the rest, and maybe you would be surprised how accurate the ramdom blabbling is...
I thought we already designated New Jersey as a dumping ground for waste?
I just assumed Florida was already the Nuclear Toilet, I thought that was why Florida is so..... Florida.
Kyle Hill has a video that goes into detail about the solution to nuclear waste, titled "We solved nuclear waste decades ago" and its worth watching to get the scientific side of the story. I like the show and John in general but the info in this episode isn't showing the whole picture.
I can watch his reaction to that doll for days and it never stops being funny.
Damn you, Felicity!
Gilmore Guirao
no icebreaker like a pocessed doll XD helped take the edge off of learning about radiation
You also have to bear in mind that Homer Simpson is in charge of safety for one of those nuclear power plants! Aiiihhh!
UA-cam's most reccomended educational youtuber, Tom Scott made an interesting video about a massive underground nuclear waste storage site in Sweden I think that's worth checking out.
But storage is no longterm solution.
Methods for recycling and low-risk release back into nature are needed.
Also the channel by Kyle Hill does excellent coverage disproving the many myths about the danger of nuclear power and waste.
@@GTAVictor9128
Harrisburg, Tchernobyl, Fukushima. What can Kyle Hill say to remove these from history?
Never forget: _The big Mistake always sits in front of the device._ Always had.
That site where Scott visited is in Finland, not Sweden. It is called Onkalo.
@@maxmustermann9587
He never denied their history and looking into how Nuclear Plants and Waste works is always a useful thing to consider because
1: He actually explains how Nuclear Waste is properly taken care of
2: 96% of Nuclear Waste is recyclable
3: Nobody died from the Fukushima accident
4: People die from carbon emissions more than any cause of radiation
“It takes ten half lives for Plutonium to become harmless”
Correction
It may takes ten daughter isotopes down the decay chain for it to become “harmless” which I assume means it’s a stable element, but that’s not the same as “ten half-lives.” A half life is the statistical amount of time it takes for half the amount of the parent isotope to decay into a daughter isotope and then for a half of that remaining half to decay into the daughter isotope and so on. That daughter isotope will then have a different half life and will undergo the same thing.
The amount of half lives for a safe amount of the harmful parent and daughter isotopes to have decayed into a stable daughter isotope depends entirely on the amount of the initial parent isotope and then the half lives of the daughter isotopes in the decay chain.
I understand that going into detail like this is a bit unnecessary but you can explain half lives simply enough by saying it's half of it and then half of that half instead of making false statements like that one. "It takes ten rounds of decay before Plutonium has decayed into a product that decays into a product etcetera to become safe" would be more appropriate, it's slightly longer but at least it's correct. In short I'm physics triggered.
Ten half lives could also mean the time until only 0.000966 times the original amount of plutonium is present, which might be safe.
But obviously as you pointed out, there are still a few daughter isotopes left which will still be radioactive.
Thanks Ben, I wish I could understand that though 😂
I'm just amazed that he didn't interpret a half-life of 24000 years to mean it would be gone in 48000 years!
Chemistry 101
We don’t even need to think about this stuff anymore, smartbois at TU Delft in the Netherlands have already thought of ways to use nuclear ‘waste’ hehe
Wait…ALL the nuclear waste in the COUNTRY could fit in a 20 ft x football field size area? That’s shockingly small. I’m surprised.
Homer Simpson did produce a lot of waste at work :-)
Jim Gorb you don't even understand what collectives are... True collectives are replete in diversity, not fixed to one individual ideological identity or nature.
Ayn Rand plagiarized her works from others...
I love double meaning.
Jim Gorb What everyone is used to calling "collectives" is inaccurate. It's not a collective if only one individual ideological nature is predominant over the whole, regardless of the numbers involved.
We're hardly individuals when we're comprised of a near infinite number of collective processes...
Ayn Rand is spot on backwards and most of americas understanding of political theory was malformed by her.
Jim Gorb intelligence is relative as everyone is stupid in their own ways. I just so happen to understand political theory better than most everyone alive today. I'm no ones adversary, but will object when someone's math is grammatically incorrect. If you've any questions, any regular you tuber who frequents politically leaning channels will affirm this to you. I don't mean to heckle so much as to point out how this stuff actually works.
A cultural icon that's shiny and green sound like the Statue of Liberty... course the whole "90s" thing is a variable that doesn't fit due to its timelessness.
"We the People" is after all, a collective and thus liberal principle...
Money? That's a Capital, i.e. Conservative medium that circumvents the founding principles.
Soooo, you tell me... do you get it?
And funny enough, the 'Professionals' are every bit as careless as him.
Not gonna lie, I enjoy watching the Toxic Avenger series. It’s one of those “so bad it’s good” guilty pleasure movies, especially when he was in Tokyo.
I wouldnt even say "bad" considering the camp is all deliberate
Sgt. Kabuki Man NYPD running over that old lady always gets me.
"This is an American made car. Every time they flip 25 feet into the air and crash down, they blow up. Let's get out of here!"
It was just barely before my time, was that in the cartoon or was there a live action series as well? And how many films are there?
@@ApocalypticJoker I believe there were 5 films, but I had no idea about the cartoon.
99% of Americans: how terrible!!
Anyone who's played fallout: I'M READY
I've been saving bottle caps for years. I'm gonna be so rich
I'll break out the Pip-Boy kit!
Except we would be the generation that just lived underground in the bunkers for the rest of our lives. Its our kids that would get all the fun of killing mutants and pip boys lol
@@pauld.b7129
Except if radiation made evryone sterile
hay que tener mucho talento para tratar un tema asi de serio con tanto humor. Quede, literalmente, llorando de la risa. te extraño oliver y me tienes viendo capitulos viejos! sigue con este hermoso trabajo de entreternos e informarnos del mundo y de tus queridos Estados Unidos. Saludos de un Chileno y gracias.
That American Girl dolls joke is true... lol And I loved them as a kid, but I would tell them that I did everyday, just in case they came to life. lol
12:13 we don’t need New York. Let’s be honest. John Oliver is there, we can do without it 😂😂😂😂
(This is a JOKE guys talk know we love John Oliver!)
Here to appreciate the "Fast and Fission" joke that went unnoticed.
Meanwhile in france we store every nuclar waste in a site few kilometers underground since at least 50 years...
by the way if cattenom blows up I am sure central europe , scandinavia ,and eastern europe will come to france and have a small argument about how many thousand years your country will be enslaved in order to clean the shit up ... greetings from the french-german border (Don´t take it to hard but most of france nuclear powerplants are ticking time bombs)
Yeah, while listening to John, i was thinking "But aren't we already doing that shit for decades??" Well, we're still ahead of the U.S. for some things!
France isn't a geologically active zone, so, our powerplants are quite safe... But, they weren't made to last that long.. True... But we don't really have more efficient and cheap way to produce energy, and i guess it's still better than your German coal powerplants that intoxicate our air when the wind goes South-West...
Kaffohrt Kaffi while America has lit dynamite laying on the floor
And I high doubt it drives in unmarked trucks through Paris and other larger cities. And although the current proposed bill says "The Las Vegas metropolitan area should be avoided at all practical coasts." What about Reno, or the rest of Nevada? Or the rest of the country.
The point of putting the waste a few kilometers underground is so that earthquakes and volcanoes don't have as much of an effect, and even if something happens that deep, it's more likely to just seep down (where there's already a lot of naturally occurring radioactivity) rather than come up and contaminate water and soil. Plus, looking at IAEA inspection reports, Cattenom seems to have well functioning safety systems, and being in France, isn't very likely to experience much in the way of natural disasters to cause a meltdown.
Very roughly:
Twice the half-life means half the danger in each second of exposure.
RIGHT!? People doesn't seem to understand this fact! They think, "higher number, bad." "lower number good"
@@WyattCayer - It depends how you look at it. One puts out more radiation for a "short" time, the other puts out less radiation for a "long" time.
The second one is worse in the case where you're talking about storage. Because the amount of radiation is irrelevant. You're storing it safely, so there should be 0 radiation outside of it's container. In that case twice the half-life means you need to keep it stored another couple ten-thousand years.
@@TheMrVengeance Yes, that is correct. However, Uranium is an almost pure alpha emitter. And alpha radiation can be blocked by a piece of paper. Alpha radiation can't even penetrate the outermost layer of our skin. You can handle yellowcake with your bare hands for a year and still get a lower radiation dose than going on a single flight. The only thing you have to be careful about is ingesting an alpha emitter. So wash your hands thoroughly after handling yellow cake with your bare hands.
As far as storage is concerned, yes, you have to prepare for long time storage. Therefore, mix the uranium in with some concrete, fill that in a steel barrel and store it somewhere dry. No radiation, no radioactive material leaking into water. As long as this is observed the only possible failure source is large scale geological change. Or human failure.
@@KingQwertzlbrmpf
Uranium is a pure alpha emitter, unfortunately it decays into thorium which is a beta emitter with a half-life of only 24 days and then protactinium, another beta emitter, with a half-life of ~1 minute. Uranium 238 is harmful because it's decay chain is harmful not it's direct decay. Handling huge volumes of this stuff over a long term is going to be a pain.
@@scragar Exactly, never forget the decay products as this will be a factor well before even a single half life of one isotope.
Atomic power plants are build to last fall of airplane. CASTOR - the container used for storage of it, withstand fall from 500m or impact of the train with no significant damage. Coal plant releases more radioactivity to environment per minute than atomic power plant pet year. All the problems with nuclear waste in USA are from military programs, not civil energetic program.
"We rushed to develop nuclear weapons to defeat the Nazis, which, fun fact, almost all Americans agreed were bad at the time"
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@Fredrik Dunge I wish you were wrong
Fredrik Dunge You have to take the Anti war part out of that. Because you can agree that Nazis are bad and still be anti war. Almost all Americans agreed that Nazis were bad. American propaganda made sure of it. Plenty of people were still anti war but the reasoning wasnt "We don't think the Nazis are bad."
"Actually that consensus didn't come until the concentration camps were
liberated, before that there were plenty of anti war and even pro nazi
setiments in the US.
The US didn't enter ww2 because of the holocaust they did it for
geopolitical reasons."
Kinda missing the point, aren't you?
They Told Me I Could Become Anything, So I became an Eggplant You know thats exactly what Nazis thought about jews and homosexuals?
Geopolitical reasons, including "not having the world run by nazis", since the united states instituted a very comfy liberal order after it took over the world.