You forgot the most important part: Uranium is named after Uranus, a name that gets constantly ridiculed by schoolchildren; Thorium was named after Thor, the badass lightning god.
@@JailTheSun you both are wrong, Uranus wasn’t named after a Roman god first of all, it was named after a Greek god. But second of all earth was named earth because it was named after the German word for ground or life, I don’t remember which. It was always considered a planet, even in the geocentric solar system
As someone who worked on a nuclear reactor you did pretty good on your info, the only thing I will say is that relative to what people think, nuclear power plants make WAY less waste than you actually think, and at least within the navy, there are practices put in place to attempt to minimize nuclear waste generation just because its such a hassle to deal with.
@@nickmickky2714 Simply put, it hasn't had as much research done on it yet. Where as we started making typical uranium reactors for nuclear bombs(as it produces weapons grade plutonium) thorium hasn't been looked at much until recently, due to climate issues so many countries are researching it more. China is actually about to start up its first Thorium reactor soon though!
I agree with you. But normal reactors still produce a ton of waste comparatively. Including the highly dangerous plutonium. Where as thorium makes much less waste and the waste it does produce has close to 10,000 times shorter half-life. Not to mention that it can literally eat plutonium and other nuclear byproducts for fuel. Thereby reducing even more waste that has been accumulated.
@@covekkojipostoji131 While there is consensus that a total of approximately 30 men died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster, respectively, with 60 in total in the decades hence, inclusive of later radiation induced cancer,[2][3][4] there is considerable debate concerning the accurate number of projected deaths due to the disaster's long-term health effects, with long-term death estimates ranging from up to 4,000 (per the 2005 and 2006 conclusions of a joint consortium of the United Nations) for the most exposed people of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia), to 16,000 in total for all those exposed on the entire continent of Europe, with figures as high as 60,000 when including the relatively minor effects around the globe.[5] we aren't talking about immediate deaths but instead overall. Also why are defending uranium so much? What is it that grinds your gear about thorium?
You have one of those teachers that plays a youtube video that opens you to a new channel that you love i had a English teacher that put on oversimplified ww 1 because we were reading war horse
For anyone wondering why thorium hasn’t always been used, the US decided to research and develop Uranium reactors mainly because they are easier for Nuclear bombs and if they were using and researching uranium for nukes it would be easier to use uranium reactors rather than thorium reactors. If you were looking for reasons to get rid of nukes, a more efficient energy source is a reason.
There are also a lot of laws/regulations that indirectly target Thorium reactors, primarily through draconian licensing measures against liquid fuel nuclear reactors vs solid fuel. And those are there because Big Oil owns the American political system, and is very interested in staying in business and not being out-moded by what is a vastly cleaner and more efficient power source.
Ah yes the bs story of thorium being a more efficient fuel source, except youd have to irradiated the thorium with uranium to make it work in the first place. You're whole theory is dumb.
I love how in the tags instead of putting tags like Thorium or nuclear accidents, he puts tags like adhd, jaegar bombs, ben and jerrys and kendrick lamar.
“Powerful clean reliable. And if things go wrong at the end of the day you can still kick it’s ass” that’s it. That’s how the founders envisioned America.
After deeply thinking on this subject of whether Thorium reactors are possible, I have concluded that pushing some cripples is the best we can do as a collective.
You are thinking about it wrong. This means we have to waste less of the fun stuff on powering the world and can put more of it to fun Japanese fireworks displays.
to be honest, thorium actually has to wear uranium's clothes (breed thorium-232 to uranium-233) before he can get the party started and have a couple shots of plutonium, of course but at least when he gets wasted, thorium (which at this time is already wearing uranium's clothes) goes home full with chips instead (aka uranium-232, which absorbs neutrons instead).
That was actually one of the reasons the US went after uranian and plutonium for nuclear reactor over thorium: the waste and byproducts from U-235/238 reactors could be used in bombs, helping reduce the cost of nuclear weapons. The US knew before they went with uranium for reactors that thorium was way safer, cheaper and more efficient: politics ruined everything, as usual.
I used this for a science project on why thorium kicked ass. I got a 100 plus extra credit for determining sources and making facts that could actually be used in the unit after that project.
Eh I feel like the experience would be better if you just did a calamity playthrough then a thorium playthrough, both are great but the calamity items just steamroll most if not all of the thorium content making it kinda useless
DUDE I was wondering why this video was showing up in my recommendations again. I was just looking up a bunch of Terraria vs. Starbound comparison videos, because I'm thinking about getting into one, and I happen to own both. Wild how interconnected things are nowadays.
@@WhompingWalrus wait terraria is about to have a massive update with alot of content plus its amazing modded or not all you need to know is you can get a fart in a jar
The thing is, Thorium isn't new. When nuclear reactor was first introduced Uranium was chosen precisely because it's by-product is essential to nuclear weapon. Back then where coal and oil are still the major source of energy the purpose of nuclear plant really was just needed to help making bombs.
Correct! During the development of the nuclear reactor, Alvin Weinberg had a Torium reactor running for roughly 15,000 hours from 1965 to 1969. But the US discontinued this research because they settled on uranium. What a gigantic mistake.... Imagine if they didn't, the US would now be the world wide supplier of cheap, clean reliable energy.
I had an 45 min long presentation about the advantages of nuclear power over fossil fuels like coal or oil that my country (Germany) so heavily relies on, while hating nuclear power. Turns out all my co students had to say:" so you are a slave of nuclear power lobby or what?" And "but how do you personally stand on the matter" or why I didn't speak more negative about it. My whole presentation and scientific research paper was about how public misconceptions exist and what hard facts actually show us. That seemed to have went straight over there head I guess😂
and they were warned by Trump to not become vulnerable and then they became Russia's bitch. Took Poland and the rest of the Baltic states to get Germany on board to help Ukraine bc Germany fucked themselves switching too fast.
Germany, of all countries, should know more about nuclear power you wankers are the most efficient people on the face of this earth but you'd rather burn coal over having the cleanest, safest form of energy because you're too stupid or something
@@mariocortez8853no it's not, if the following things are true: 1) Nuclear Power is more expensive than renewables, if you factor in the whole life cycle and that proper waste disposable isn't solved yet 2) It would take Germany >15 years to build new reactors, so that's way too late for our climate goals, so again, betting on the wrong horse (since we are very behind our climate targets and need sth that helps fast) 3) Nuclear accidents are still a thing even with a Thorium + Plutonium Mix 4) since Germany switched off its last nuclear plants, we are still on average exporting energy, so apparently our economy doesn't need it, and it is not the reason behind our high energy prices But maybe giese39 can enlighten us, wether some of those are misconceptions.
Cold War-era governments (including ours) backed uranium-based reactors because they produced plutonium - handy for making nuclear weapons. And now its very expensive to switch to thorium. That's why most nuclear power plants use uranium for those of you wondering.
I have presented this video in multiple consultations with energy holding groups... suffice to say that none have made a switch but one power plant changed it's front door locks so I can't keep going back talking about Thorium
This video is retarded, that's why. Thorium is a precursor decay product to Radium, the largest producer of radon gas. Bust out a chart of nuclides. 238 can be fed to breeder reactors, enrichment is only necessary to make weapons or special reactors. Thorium needs to be bred into Uranium 234, which has a virtually identical fission yield coefficient to 235. It produces the same nuclear waste.
@@chadthundercock7897 I'm pretty sure thorium has to be combined with plutonium and not uranium. Plus. Thorium does more work and is more efficient then uranium.
@@chadthundercock7897 There are currently 7 research reactors that use Thorium and they all use *Plutonium* to kick off the reaction just like the videos states. Takes about 10 seconds to google search that to prove you're wrong and the video right.
my grandad works on nuclear plants using thorium and they work really well. a couple towns in indonesia currently run off a single one built by that company
India's entire nuclear energy program is geared towards producing nuclear energy from Thorium instead of Uranium. The only big issue is, as Sam mentioned, Plutonium. That's why current gen 'Fast Breeder' reactors are being developed, so that they can make enough Plutonium out of the conventional Uranium reactions. And as far as I have seen, India is the only country that is taking Thorium based nuclear energy seriously. It's really a fascinating thing to read about.
@@kl6544 Well, it's atleast relevant to the subject matter of the video. As far as I know, only India's nuclear program focuses on developing methods to extract energy from thorium on a commercial scale. Most of the other programs are either being defunded or reliant on traditional sources like Uranium.
Worth noting when you watch this video- Democrats in congress hate nuclear energy including AOC and Bernie Sanders. Republicans on the other hand support nuclear energy pretty universally, with close to 70% of the Republican base supporting nuclear energy and basically all Republican elected officials believing the same. If you actually support nuclear energy you should ask people like AOC and Bernie Sanders why they don't, and put pressure on them to support nuclear. Nuclear energy can't be used if Republicans are the only ones supporting it, it won't have the votes to pass.
HeathenGeek whole reason it wasn't used was because it couldn't be used in nukes. Making uranium reactors allowed us to make nukes and energy. So you're killing two birds with one nuclear Holocaust. By the time we stopped making so many nukes we also had stopped building nuclear reactors and scare tactics from environmental lobbying groups had made the public fearful of nuclear energy Thorium is our only fiesable solution to get away from fossil fuels. Everything else is a pipe dream and no matter how much money you pour into renewables like solar they can only shave off a fraction of our energy needs Cleaner nuclear energy that can't be weaponized. Funny it's not fuel companies preventing it it's environmentalists. Guess if it took off they wouldn't have the government throwing hundreds of billions at their failing businesses
China is the only country right now developing Thorium reactors. Apparently the reason I read that no other country does it is because since the technology is so different from traditional nuclear reactors that the regulatory agencies don't know how to regulate new plants and say that they are safe. I have no idea how true or not that is, but props to China for developing one of the most promising power sources on earth. Last I read they are making a mini LFTR and if it is successful they will scale up the size through a few generations until they have a full size plant.
China have now put MSRs on the backburner and for thorium based cycles are instead focusing on a solid fueled pebble bed thorium reactor similar to India's reactors which won't even be finished until 2024 (bare in mind this will be a prototype reactor). It looks like they intend to continue work on the MSR experiment after that period so its presented itself a good opportunity for a western country to look into the technology in the meantime and begin working on a modern day MSRe before expanding upon the program. The MSRe built by oakridge national laboratories was the second ever (the first being the atomic plane prototype reactor that was scraped after ICBMs became viable) and the first true MSR. They built it from near scratch in only 5 years after which it was critical for another 4 years without fault, this was done on 80 million USD of funding (adjusted for inflation) with construction beginning in 1960.
You’re getting there, remember to take care of yourself too though, that means daily walks, good hydration, good food, and no matter what your boss says, even people like thorium have off days and need a break sometimes. I believe in you
Thorium is currently living a successful life as a lawyer and has a wife, 3 kids, house with a white picket fence, and a golden retriever named buddy. He volunteers at the local soup kitchen every weekend, goes to church, and is paying for his kids to go to college. Edit: thank you guys for my best comment on UA-cam
Theres alot more to it, like how thorium gets a neutron and turns into another thing, then turns into uranium-233 Which is cool because U-238 is crap U-235 is lit U-233 must be fucking litmas level lit.
check out "Thorium: energy cheaper than coal" by Robert Hargreaves. It's a great read and it clears up a lot of misconceptions about nuclear power in general.
Random Derplord Fukushima was an old reactor. Also, it wouldn’t of failed if it wasn’t for the amount of power from the earthquake (reactors can withstand large earthquakes, but not earthquakes as large as the one that hit Japan in 2011), and the size of the tsunami. Interestingly enough, only one of the three or four reactors melted down, and a nearby reactor survived the earthquake and tsunami by going beyond safety requirements (covering wires in the open and immediately shutting down the reactor and switching to the generator).
I love the environment and Thorium is definitely the way to go. Solar panels are cool and all but they have to have batteries and all that fancy stuff where as nuclear can just keep going along with the fac that it is much more efficient and cheaper.
Otto von Hammersmark Im an ethical thinker in regards to the environment and I agree fourth generation nuclear power such as thorium molten salt reactors and sodium-cooled fast reactors are the way to go, for clean plentiful energy.
Me with ADHD seeing the part about ADHD kids: never before have I been so offended by something I, 100 percent agree with also, Sam has very good points, shit like this is super interesting, i would recommend looking into nuclear reactors and how they work, basically they use the heat from the radioactive element to heat massive steam turbines
@@sushantsharma5441though, they ain't wrong There is radiation coming off our phone The problem is the intensity, which is not very intense on our phone
@@RandomFurry07Also the frequncy. No matter how much radiation is coming from your phone it isnt going to have the same effect as the radiation from uranium. The radiation from your phone is non-ionising so it has no effect on your body (exept for some very slight heating).
@@Benzinilinguine might be middle school. Sam o nella usually gets his sources from Wikipedia (I think), so whereas a high school student might get in trouble for that, middle school would be easy. Maybe freshman year as well.
You want to know the saddest part that Nella forgot to mention? The reason we don't have these plants is not because its too advanced for us, but because nobody wants to spend the money. Imagine that, the next generation of fuel and energy sitting right there for anyone to take but they would rather burn all the oil in the world first.
@@thebiggestcheems Not so much capitalism as politically fueled corporations. Do you think Uranium would be given the time of day if governments didn't buy the stuff for weapons? The government is far more to blame than is the free market.
@@thebiggestcheems Depends. Free market economics is fine. But the "capitalism" we have today is not free market economics by any stretch of the word. So if we were to discard current day economics, I'd be fine with it, as long as it was replaced with less governmental intervention. As it stands, the majority of corporations can exist solely because of the government. Sometimes it is because corporations manipulate the government. Sometimes it is because the government invests itself into corporations through bailouts, subsidies, tax breaks, etc. Most business in a free market would take place on a much smaller scale. Most being local or at most regional. The few that did become international would do so through sheer efficiency, and even then they couldn't stomp out competition as unfairly as corporations do currently.
I understand you're trying to keep things relatively simple, but I'd like to comment on a few things for the sake of clarity: 2:30 - Thorium doesn't just need "help" getting started, it has to be bred into U233., which takes ~27.5 days. Fortunately, Thorium breeds in the Thermal Spectrum, so the intrinsic fuel efficiency is much higher than in the Fast reactors normally used for nuclear breeding. It also means that you can use a "closed fuel cycle" allowing you to breed the fuel in the reactor and then reprocess the U233 into fuel rods on site (for a solid-fuel reactor), or to skip reprocessing altogether (in a liquid-fuel reactor), which greatly reduces the risk of radioactive material being stolen or released during a transport accident. 3:00 - That "cork" is a Molten Salt plug in the bottom of a Liquid Fuel, Molten Salt-cooled reactor. Molten Salt cooling is not unique to Thorium, though they are often advocated together because Molten Salt is inherently MUCH safer than water cooling. Such a reactor could be fueled by any Fissile material though, not just Thorium, and Thorium reactors have also been proposed with liquid metal and water cooling. 4:00 - U233 is capable of being used as bomb-fuel, and it has been done before by the US and India (though yields were far lower than expected), but it's much more complicated due to the necessity of separating it from the highly radioactive U232, first. Fortunately, nuclear scientists know how to design reactors that produce higher concentrations of U232 to prevent this from being feasible.
I had an office mate who used to be a nuclear engineer. He said the safety features of thorium reactors could pretty much all be built into uranium reactors. The only reason we have risks at all in our nuclear power plants is because we haven't updated the designs since nuclear power plants first came out. Too much political and legal pressure not to update and make them safe. Anti-nuclear sentiment has achieved the opposite of its goal of making us safer. I'm not against Thorium. Just saying the problem isn't necessarily the materials we are using.
@@SimonWoodburyForget Considering how one ton of Thorium is easier and safer to mine and process, and generates about as much power as ~200 tons of uranium, it would make up for its cost pretty quickly. I'm not saying to replace nuclear power plants that use uranium, but if we were to build more nuclear power plants, thorium reactors would be a much better alternative.
Simon WoodburyForget Actually, that is not how it works Alright an example If you could buy a can of soda for 1 dollar would you buy it for two dollars?
@@SimonWoodburyForget Yeah, except for the fact that Uranium-232 costs ~15,000,000 per kilogram (Yeah, that totally costs "nothing") whereas Thorium-232 can cost ~30-150 per kilogram. Thorium-232 is 100,000 to 500,000 times cheaper. Hmm, does that seem like a large enough margin to be cost effective?
@@SimonWoodburyForget For perspective, that means a single power plant will go through ~13,605,000,000$ worth of uranium-235, which actually costs more than the 9 billion dollars estimated to set one up in the first place. Stop pulling those numbers out of thin air. It is nowhere comparable to salt in a soda factory because soda bottling companies tend to be located close to the consumer, nor is salt the main ingredient of soda (Unless there's some weird ass salt soda I haven't heard about).
Thorium reactors have been in the eyes of scientists for a long time. The challenge is that we have not put enough research into them to overcome the challenges of these reactors. It's not like we can get together and have a power plant making one of these in the next year, it will take many years of testing and research before all of the bugs can be worked out. The idea is good but we just have not invested enough time into it.
Mainly because we want to focus on solar and wind. Solar and wind are great and all, but they are no where near as reliable as nuclear power. If we can perfect nuclear, then we have very little to worry about when it comes to our energy crisis. Side note: yesterday, all of South and North Carolina was forced to run on both Nuclear and Coal power because there was no wind, no sun due to it being cloudy, and gas was being diverted to homes. Says a lot about the importance of nuclear power.
howard baxter What's annoying is that they put nuclear energy away from renewable sources. They should come together because their meant to be with each other in our new generation of power sources that should replace coal and oil
I watched this last night and my roommate put on Skinwalker Ranch today. So many of their phenomenons are explained here. Just wanted to say thanks for the education and the show is hilarious now.
XD , the goal of the video is to persue u to like thorium ; so when a politician wants to build a thorium reactor and another politician wants to keep a uranium reactor ; you will vote fo the thorium guy
I've never seen anyone hate on Thorium, ever. In fact, I've never heard a shred of negative things about any popular mod outside of my (very small) friend group. Who are you talking about, exactly?
@@DanielFerreira-ez8qd I’m joking, cuz I saw a video saying why Thorium (the element) was bad, and I made a comment saying “don’t hate on a great terraria mod!”
My name is Thorium. I’m 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don’t smoke, but I occasionally drink. I’m in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I’m trying to explain that I’m a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn’t lose to anyone.
Honestly, if school teachers taught classes like this it would probably lead to an increase in grades, student productivity and kids actually wanting to go to school. It's entertaining and educational.
Mr. Scarecrow I doubt it. While an entertaining teacher can definitely make someone care about something, to an extent at least, it is not only unreasonable and impractical to have every class be taught in this style, but I don't think the teacher is usually the main reason students aren't engaged in school. Also, UA-cam education misses the reinforcement stage of learning, so ultimately, not much would really change even if a teacher was like Sam O'Nella. Basically, don't compare a UA-cam video to school and the engagement of the student isn't solely (or even mainly) on the teacher.
It's more a primer than educational. It mentions conclusions without any details at all as if people were completely dumb. But if it helps get the thinking caps on... why not.
Ive actually spent a few years working (as an electrician) in nuclear power generation and refinement and while Im by no means all-knowing, uranium is the biggest thing Ive worked around and hear about. Its amazing to me that thorium has such a greater use and as someone that has spent years around nuclear power, Ive never heard of them. Thanks for this!
1:59 what school are y’all going to where they let you have a separate classroom if you have adhd?? my school just asks if i took my meds and carries on
yup, that's why the US gave up on thorium. The military wanted a reliable power source for its ships and submarines that also gave it materials for bombs. Power for civilians wasn't considered.
Alternate title “Sam shits on uranium for 4 and a half minutes”
+3 seconds
unoriginal name or i read my finals writing test out to you
@@Mars_555. -1
saba chixradze +1
@@somerguy3527 -1
You forgot the most important part: Uranium is named after Uranus, a name that gets constantly ridiculed by schoolchildren; Thorium was named after Thor, the badass lightning god.
Nice
Thats great
@@Zereze no uranus the planet is named afrer a roman god like every other planet in our solar system except earth
@@goomba-dp3fb That’s because when the planets were being named, earth wasn’t considered a planet.
@@JailTheSun you both are wrong, Uranus wasn’t named after a Roman god first of all, it was named after a Greek god. But second of all earth was named earth because it was named after the German word for ground or life, I don’t remember which. It was always considered a planet, even in the geocentric solar system
Earlier was confused wether to buy uranium or thorium now will definitely go for thorium!
for what?
@@Oxygen1004 not making bombs, obviously
Don't forget the plutonium
@@Oxygen1004 You know... ‘-‘ ... s t u f f.
Hol up
As someone who worked on a nuclear reactor you did pretty good on your info, the only thing I will say is that relative to what people think, nuclear power plants make WAY less waste than you actually think, and at least within the navy, there are practices put in place to attempt to minimize nuclear waste generation just because its such a hassle to deal with.
Thank You For This Information Tsumagi
why arent more reactors using Thorium (I know little about physics)
It really isn't even that hard to deal with. They go to an old salt mine or whatever, stick it in there, and guard it. Eventually they seal it up.
@@nickmickky2714 Simply put, it hasn't had as much research done on it yet. Where as we started making typical uranium reactors for nuclear bombs(as it produces weapons grade plutonium) thorium hasn't been looked at much until recently, due to climate issues so many countries are researching it more. China is actually about to start up its first Thorium reactor soon though!
I agree with you. But normal reactors still produce a ton of waste comparatively. Including the highly dangerous plutonium. Where as thorium makes much less waste and the waste it does produce has close to 10,000 times shorter half-life. Not to mention that it can literally eat plutonium and other nuclear byproducts for fuel. Thereby reducing even more waste that has been accumulated.
Also, waste from thorium reactors is safe after just 300 years, instead of 100K.
@ⴰⵙⴰⴼⴰⵕ ⵏⴰⵔⴰⵖⴰⵙ Well, it depends on the definition of safe. I think 350 years is essentially down to background radiation.
Thats 100 years
@@covekkojipostoji131 While there is consensus that a total of approximately 30 men died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster, respectively, with 60 in total in the decades hence, inclusive of later radiation induced cancer,[2][3][4] there is considerable debate concerning the accurate number of projected deaths due to the disaster's long-term health effects, with long-term death estimates ranging from up to 4,000 (per the 2005 and 2006 conclusions of a joint consortium of the United Nations) for the most exposed people of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia), to 16,000 in total for all those exposed on the entire continent of Europe, with figures as high as 60,000 when including the relatively minor effects around the globe.[5] we aren't talking about immediate deaths but instead overall. Also why are defending uranium so much? What is it that grinds your gear about thorium?
100k years wat da fawg
AAAAAAOOOO
I remember my chemistry teacher showing this video in class.
This was how I was introduced to Sam O'Nella.
i want your chemistry teacher, mine is just an old boring dude lmfao
your teacher is awesome
@NPC 420 ???????????
Go back to reddit dumbass
@Alex reddit moment
You have one of those teachers that plays a youtube video that opens you to a new channel that you love i had a English teacher that put on oversimplified ww 1 because we were reading war horse
i knew i made the right choice buying $2000 worth of Thorium from that alley guy, thanks Sam-O-Nella
Which alley? That guy who hangs out between Fairfax and Main is selling some bunk shit, so check your supply for quality for sure.
Apparently $2000 of Thorium (purre Thorium) has enough energy to power every aspect of human life for a person for 2000 years. Pretty neat.
@@jacobjackson8155 So, $50 worth of Thoriums would cover me for basically the rest of my life? DEAL. Who's holding?
@@jacobjackson8155 that is why if it ever going to be used as a main energy source it will costs a million times more. because "economy"
why did you get 10^-27 grams of thorium
For anyone wondering why thorium hasn’t always been used, the US decided to research and develop Uranium reactors mainly because they are easier for Nuclear bombs and if they were using and researching uranium for nukes it would be easier to use uranium reactors rather than thorium reactors. If you were looking for reasons to get rid of nukes, a more efficient energy source is a reason.
There are also a lot of laws/regulations that indirectly target Thorium reactors, primarily through draconian licensing measures against liquid fuel nuclear reactors vs solid fuel. And those are there because Big Oil owns the American political system, and is very interested in staying in business and not being out-moded by what is a vastly cleaner and more efficient power source.
@@Raptorman0205 yup ☹️
We're not getting rid of nukes buddy, looking for a reason to is pointless.
Ah yes the bs story of thorium being a more efficient fuel source, except youd have to irradiated the thorium with uranium to make it work in the first place. You're whole theory is dumb.
@@phillipjohnson5739 Holy pessimism batman!
I love how in the tags instead of putting tags like Thorium or nuclear accidents, he puts tags like adhd, jaegar bombs, ben and jerrys and kendrick lamar.
That's Sam for you
where can you see the tags
@@FullKnight51 ok thx
What can we say, he knows his audience.
hes different
“Powerful clean reliable. And if things go wrong at the end of the day you can still kick it’s ass” that’s it. That’s how the founders envisioned America.
THATS RIGHT! WE HAVE TO MAKE AMERIKA GREAT AGAIN LETS GO KICK THE GOVERNMENTS ASS; WHERES THE BATF AT?
'Murica!
'Murica!
I mean, you’re kindof spot on
*cough cough* first ‘nd second amendments *cough cough*
Sam O'nella: * Makes Video about why thorium is better than uranium *
Uranium: "Okay, BUT CAN YOU DO T H I S!"
* levels an entire city *
;D ;D Pewdiepie reference right there
Zuzana Klinovská No, that is not a pewdiepie reference.
@@augmentedfourthssuperfan7297 sure...
Plutonium : bitch do you even lift
@@aneesh2115 No.
After deeply thinking on this subject of whether Thorium reactors are possible, I have concluded that pushing some cripples is the best we can do as a collective.
Finally, my deep love of pushing cripples can be productive...
237 likes damn
Ill meet you at the stairs ;)
um
God, I sure do wish that I could release deadly radon gas when I didn’t want to wake up
I already can release deadly gases in the morning, though the radon would be a nice addition
Anything is possible if you just don't shower long enough
*Geiger meter sounds* I don't wanna get up mom *Geiger meter sounds intensify*
I do, it's a good pastime
a good-sized rock tends to do the trick
"So this is amazing for creating energy"
"But can it kill people?"
"Uh no"
"Well get out of my sight."
circa the 60s I think
@@rushcap2761 circa now too
You are thinking about it wrong. This means we have to waste less of the fun stuff on powering the world and can put more of it to fun Japanese fireworks displays.
@@charper9890 YOU ARE A FUCKING GENIUS
I'm not even sure what you're trying to make fun of
Thorium isn't crippled, he just needs a hype man.
thorium isnt the kind to party without anything, he needs a couple of shots to get him going.
to be honest, thorium actually has to wear uranium's clothes (breed thorium-232 to uranium-233) before he can get the party started
and have a couple shots of plutonium, of course
but at least when he gets wasted, thorium (which at this time is already wearing uranium's clothes) goes home full with chips instead (aka uranium-232, which absorbs neutrons instead).
Yeah, Thorium's just an introvert.
Wraith5k i love this
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Fun fact, lots of vintage Camera lenses get a yellow tint over the years due to the Thorium coatings
so that means movie mexico is full of thorium
actually yes
Lmao
i used this as a source for my chemistry hw and got max points, thanks Sam for saving my academical life and my ha ha funny life as well
My ha ha funny life
He is haha funny man
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I hope you have 15 or less otherwise your education system sucks.
The channel is called "Sam o' Nella ACADEMY" for a reason
You know the radiation is bad when wolverine has 4 claws
I think that's actually Lady Deathstrike
@@mylifeisacomplexpastiche7901 it even changed his identify! Jeez!
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Me: "Then why aren't we using it?"
Sam: "It can't be turned into a weapon."
Me: "Ah okay, that explains it."
Yes
But this does not explain it not being used to replace thorium
@@catinamask5019 What? Replace Thorium?
@@Halfendymion replace uranium
That was actually one of the reasons the US went after uranian and plutonium for nuclear reactor over thorium: the waste and byproducts from U-235/238 reactors could be used in bombs, helping reduce the cost of nuclear weapons. The US knew before they went with uranium for reactors that thorium was way safer, cheaper and more efficient: politics ruined everything, as usual.
I used this for a science project on why thorium kicked ass. I got a 100 plus extra credit for determining sources and making facts that could actually be used in the unit after that project.
nice
Instructions unclear, Accidentally burned poor cripple
Yes... "accidentally".
_instruction nuclear,my reactor turn into chernobyl_
hold on, so we weren't supposed to do that? crap
The ingredients were in very small print
Wait that was bad? I ended up turning Iraq into a nuclear fall out area
Thorium is one of the best mods, especially paired with Calamity
Eh I feel like the experience would be better if you just did a calamity playthrough then a thorium playthrough, both are great but the calamity items just steamroll most if not all of the thorium content making it kinda useless
@Colin Slivinski pp
DUDE I was wondering why this video was showing up in my recommendations again. I was just looking up a bunch of Terraria vs. Starbound comparison videos, because I'm thinking about getting into one, and I happen to own both.
Wild how interconnected things are nowadays.
@@WhompingWalrus wait terraria is about to have a massive update with alot of content
plus its amazing modded or not
all you need to know is you can get a fart in a jar
@@muffin8786 i mean there is a mod which among other things buffs thorium weapons to be more suited for calamity
The thing is, Thorium isn't new. When nuclear reactor was first introduced Uranium was chosen precisely because it's by-product is essential to nuclear weapon. Back then where coal and oil are still the major source of energy the purpose of nuclear plant really was just needed to help making bombs.
Well to be fair, you can't make the plutonium needed for a thorium reactor without a uranium reactor.
ooooh that makes sense
I'll do you one better: The Soviets used to have thorium reactors, before switching to uranium precisely because of that reason
Correct! During the development of the nuclear reactor, Alvin Weinberg had a Torium reactor running for roughly 15,000 hours from 1965 to 1969. But the US discontinued this research because they settled on uranium. What a gigantic mistake.... Imagine if they didn't, the US would now be the world wide supplier of cheap, clean reliable energy.
Bjorn J nerd
I had an 45 min long presentation about the advantages of nuclear power over fossil fuels like coal or oil that my country (Germany) so heavily relies on, while hating nuclear power. Turns out all my co students had to say:" so you are a slave of nuclear power lobby or what?" And "but how do you personally stand on the matter" or why I didn't speak more negative about it. My whole presentation and scientific research paper was about how public misconceptions exist and what hard facts actually show us. That seemed to have went straight over there head I guess😂
and they were warned by Trump to not become vulnerable and then they became Russia's bitch. Took Poland and the rest of the Baltic states to get Germany on board to help Ukraine bc Germany fucked themselves switching too fast.
Germany, of all countries, should know more about nuclear power
you wankers are the most efficient people on the face of this earth but you'd rather burn coal over having the cleanest, safest form of energy because you're too stupid or something
Same
It's a shame that Germany, one of the largest economic powerhouses (known for their engineering) aren't taking advantage of nuclear energy
@@mariocortez8853no it's not, if the following things are true:
1) Nuclear Power is more expensive than renewables, if you factor in the whole life cycle and that proper waste disposable isn't solved yet
2) It would take Germany >15 years to build new reactors, so that's way too late for our climate goals, so again, betting on the wrong horse (since we are very behind our climate targets and need sth that helps fast)
3) Nuclear accidents are still a thing even with a Thorium + Plutonium Mix
4) since Germany switched off its last nuclear plants, we are still on average exporting energy, so apparently our economy doesn't need it, and it is not the reason behind our high energy prices
But maybe giese39 can enlighten us, wether some of those are misconceptions.
Me: Can we get some Thorium?
Mom: We have Thorium at home.
Thorium at home: Uranium.
Other way around but okay
@@AverageAlien no
@@jimbojones1848 yes
@@AverageAlien negative
@@jimbojones1848 positive
As a kid with ADHD I can relate to uranium on a deep and personal level.
Grim The Ghastly Are you also a cancerous pain in the ass?
@@0816M3RC when I want to be, yes.
You level cities??
@@0816M3RC Hah, getting salty over just a kid saying that he has ADHD. Glad that humanity has evolved
Cat Getting salty over a joke.. yes humanity has "evolved".
US government and Russian government:
“Give me the Uranium.”
*Presents Thorium*
“No! I don’t want that!”
Hungry Pumpkin approves!
Spy Jon Sachurin I hate that I understand this fucking joke
DC Biscuit me to
Give me the Tesseract
"i'm very hungry"
My teacher downloaded this, edited it and played it to the class. Good day
How'd they edit it? Remove some of the raunchier parts of it?
@@concept5631 yeah pretty much
Me: reads title as "Why Thorium sucks"
me: is confused for 4 minutes and 32 seconds.
*Dyslexia 100*
Same dude
3:51
noob
No because without this comment, I would’ve done the same thing too
Cold War-era governments (including ours) backed uranium-based reactors because they produced plutonium - handy for making nuclear weapons. And now its very expensive to switch to thorium.
That's why most nuclear power plants use uranium for those of you wondering.
Uranium still kicks ass compared to most alternative power sources.
www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-arent-we-using-thorium-in-nuclear-reactors
So cool how we spend our money and efforts to make those nukes we never use :)
@@Newlifestyle307 That's exactly where i got my info lol
@@xXNP4CNuclearXx idk if cool is the correct word ;)
I have presented this video in multiple consultations with energy holding groups... suffice to say that none have made a switch but one power plant changed it's front door locks so I can't keep going back talking about Thorium
This video is retarded, that's why. Thorium is a precursor decay product to Radium, the largest producer of radon gas. Bust out a chart of nuclides. 238 can be fed to breeder reactors, enrichment is only necessary to make weapons or special reactors. Thorium needs to be bred into Uranium 234, which has a virtually identical fission yield coefficient to 235. It produces the same nuclear waste.
@@chadthundercock7897 I'm pretty sure thorium has to be combined with plutonium and not uranium. Plus. Thorium does more work and is more efficient then uranium.
@@chadthundercock7897 For someone called Chad, you sure act like an angry ex against Thorium.
@@chadthundercock7897 There are currently 7 research reactors that use Thorium and they all use *Plutonium* to kick off the reaction just like the videos states. Takes about 10 seconds to google search that to prove you're wrong and the video right.
@@chadthundercock7897 God, you just got destroyed via academia.
my grandad works on nuclear plants using thorium and they work really well. a couple towns in indonesia currently run off a single one built by that company
India's entire nuclear energy program is geared towards producing nuclear energy from Thorium instead of Uranium. The only big issue is, as Sam mentioned, Plutonium. That's why current gen 'Fast Breeder' reactors are being developed, so that they can make enough Plutonium out of the conventional Uranium reactions. And as far as I have seen, India is the only country that is taking Thorium based nuclear energy seriously. It's really a fascinating thing to read about.
Probably doesn't hurt that India has 25% of the world's thorium reserves
Too bad India is basically a giant slum as of 2022. Maybe the future will be good to them.
Not a proper yt comment section without that one india comment💀
@@kl6544 Well, it's atleast relevant to the subject matter of the video. As far as I know, only India's nuclear program focuses on developing methods to extract energy from thorium on a commercial scale. Most of the other programs are either being defunded or reliant on traditional sources like Uranium.
@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD That's correct.
This video and 30 minutes of research got me 100% on my ELA final
Worth noting when you watch this video- Democrats in congress hate nuclear energy including AOC and Bernie Sanders. Republicans on the other hand support nuclear energy pretty universally, with close to 70% of the Republican base supporting nuclear energy and basically all Republican elected officials believing the same. If you actually support nuclear energy you should ask people like AOC and Bernie Sanders why they don't, and put pressure on them to support nuclear. Nuclear energy can't be used if Republicans are the only ones supporting it, it won't have the votes to pass.
thats is incredible well done!
pog
nerd
Great job dude
"Well, Thorium is pimpin in that regard too"
Sam Wolfenstein *as well you mean
boi that is true
SEVEN YEARS THIS HAS BEEN OUT, I HAVE REWATCHED THIS VIDEO MORE THAN 5 TIMES, AND ONLY TODAY DID I NOTICE THE PUN IN THE TITLE
At last, a video the politicians can understand.
your expecting too much of you're typical tenured politician
lefu come on. You used the correct form of "too" but not "your?" I'm disappointed
HeathenGeek whole reason it wasn't used was because it couldn't be used in nukes. Making uranium reactors allowed us to make nukes and energy. So you're killing two birds with one nuclear Holocaust. By the time we stopped making so many nukes we also had stopped building nuclear reactors and scare tactics from environmental lobbying groups had made the public fearful of nuclear energy
Thorium is our only fiesable solution to get away from fossil fuels. Everything else is a pipe dream and no matter how much money you pour into renewables like solar they can only shave off a fraction of our energy needs
Cleaner nuclear energy that can't be weaponized. Funny it's not fuel companies preventing it it's environmentalists. Guess if it took off they wouldn't have the government throwing hundreds of billions at their failing businesses
Stopreadingmyusername 100% acuarate my friend.
There's no fat envelope of cash attached to this video that a lobbyist can use to make a politician understand.
Also if you put Thorium on a stick you can shoot cool magic bolts
I sense a Terraria ref
Just don’t pair it up with a calamity, too many OP weapons
@@MrMetropolis yeah
Nice
but only with some thicc Polonium
Wow thorium is such a cool dude
he doesn't afraid of anything
you stole my line you beautiful person.
Damn thorium leave some pussy for us guys
Imma go out and buy thorium a drink.
But thorium’s kind of a cripple
Literally the fucking magical alien power-source type rock in sci-fi, only instead of being rare, it’s *more common* than competitors.
I thought it was a original thing on Mindustry
Sam O’Nella: says Iran *once*
UA-cam recommendations: Everyone Needs To See This
I’m here from a playlist with all his videos
I'm here watching re-runs because I love this channel. Are you seriously telling me that Sammy was trending? If so that's fucking cool :)
@@xxswagmastermike_7kxx568 >generic template label
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lolno
Eat your cereal
>youtube recommendations
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>2020 anyone?
>bad
one thing to note is that depleted uranium is great for tank armor.
U-238 is used for military they have tonnes of that around they don't need to use nuclear byproducts
1stgamerx I thought MGSV said it wasn't that good for tank armor...
Its better as armour penetrators. It is, though, very good radiation shielding.
1stgamerx and breaking said armor
Uranium is great for tank armor and penetrators, but when it penetrates or is penetrated it turns into EXTREMELY poisonous dust.
China is the only country right now developing Thorium reactors. Apparently the reason I read that no other country does it is because since the technology is so different from traditional nuclear reactors that the regulatory agencies don't know how to regulate new plants and say that they are safe. I have no idea how true or not that is, but props to China for developing one of the most promising power sources on earth. Last I read they are making a mini LFTR and if it is successful they will scale up the size through a few generations until they have a full size plant.
Check your research, CANDU reactors can use thorium, and have been able to for decades.
Um actually China runs on coal
i think you mean india
The only thing India is developing are designated shitting streets
China have now put MSRs on the backburner and for thorium based cycles are instead focusing on a solid fueled pebble bed thorium reactor similar to India's reactors which won't even be finished until 2024 (bare in mind this will be a prototype reactor). It looks like they intend to continue work on the MSR experiment after that period so its presented itself a good opportunity for a western country to look into the technology in the meantime and begin working on a modern day MSRe before expanding upon the program. The MSRe built by oakridge national laboratories was the second ever (the first being the atomic plane prototype reactor that was scraped after ICBMs became viable) and the first true MSR. They built it from near scratch in only 5 years after which it was critical for another 4 years without fault, this was done on 80 million USD of funding (adjusted for inflation) with construction beginning in 1960.
“Damn girl, if you were made of plutonium and i were made of thorium we would be a power couple”
I've tried 4 years to be thorium. And I'm still uranium.
I KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE TO KILL PEOPLE WHO WAKE ME UP WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS
@@juniperrodley9843 sometimes. It do be like dat 🙂
You’re getting there, remember to take care of yourself too though, that means daily walks, good hydration, good food, and no matter what your boss says, even people like thorium have off days and need a break sometimes. I believe in you
@@thevoiceinyourhead7215 couldn't have said it better myself
@@juniperrodley9843 because it's the voice in your head
Thorium is currently living a successful life as a lawyer and has a wife, 3 kids, house with a white picket fence, and a golden retriever named buddy. He volunteers at the local soup kitchen every weekend, goes to church, and is paying for his kids to go to college.
Edit: thank you guys for my best comment on UA-cam
is he boring or what?
@@viljamiritvanen2709 sometimes successful means boring
Little does he know uranium is at his door
remember, all elemrnts except group one are devout christians
@@SourShrimp successful at what? Being boring?
That has to be the best overall explanation of a complicated topic I've ever seen. This video should have millions of views!
Theres alot more to it, like how thorium gets a neutron and turns into another thing, then turns into uranium-233
Which is cool because U-238 is crap U-235 is lit U-233 must be fucking litmas level lit.
Since Sam has returned I'm returning to all his vids and they're just as good as I remember
Using this as my main source for info for my 2500 Word Essay lmao.
Just a few words here and there workes for me well I only had to write like 600 words.
How did it work out
@@icevlad148 guess he's homeless now
@@c2559-z9b big oof
You better pass
check out "Thorium: energy cheaper than coal" by Robert Hargreaves. It's a great read and it clears up a lot of misconceptions about nuclear power in general.
Dennis Grießner yes definitely, and see lftrnow.com
YOU FORGOT FUKUSHIMA
Dennis Grießner nerd
Random Derplord Fukushima was an old reactor. Also, it wouldn’t of failed if it wasn’t for the amount of power from the earthquake (reactors can withstand large earthquakes, but not earthquakes as large as the one that hit Japan in 2011), and the size of the tsunami. Interestingly enough, only one of the three or four reactors melted down, and a nearby reactor survived the earthquake and tsunami by going beyond safety requirements (covering wires in the open and immediately shutting down the reactor and switching to the generator).
Jakob Reagan don’t read into it, you’ll just make problems
Nuclear power is the way forward. You can’t be a proactive environmentalist without considering nuclear energy
I love the environment and Thorium is definitely the way to go. Solar panels are cool and all but they have to have batteries and all that fancy stuff where as nuclear can just keep going along with the fac that it is much more efficient and cheaper.
THORIUM ÜBER ALLES
Otto von Hammersmark Im an ethical thinker in regards to the environment and I agree fourth generation nuclear power such as thorium molten salt reactors and sodium-cooled fast reactors are the way to go, for clean plentiful energy.
Only degrowth and decentralized energy systems can be fair.
@@AmarzzAelin *a mini thorium reactor in every neighborhood, please*
the "most replayed" graph thing perfectly points out where exactly the weird frame is
Me with ADHD seeing the part about ADHD kids: never before have I been so offended by something I, 100 percent agree with
also, Sam has very good points, shit like this is super interesting, i would recommend looking into nuclear reactors and how they work, basically they use the heat from the radioactive element to heat massive steam turbines
I just agreed, although instead of Ritalin it's Vyvanse
Same brother. I was like listen here... You... Fuck off
I was looking for this comment. I feel the same... adhd sucks
same bro.
You know what's worse? No uploads, I need my fix
"Uranium sucks, it's kinda like that kid with ADHD."
*Cries Inside*
Ok ok off topic but what the fuck is a dinosgoroar
Yeah what is a Dinosgoroar?
A Akd oooh waitwait it’s three different words
Dinos go roar
@@lucasmucas9072 OOOOHHH! Thank you lol. I tried to search it on google xD
A Akd wow really
This seems like one of those channels that should have like a million subs why doesn't it
Because it just started a few months ago. Give it time, like, 3-4 weeks and hes going to be up there
Toolman329 wow now its nearly 29 K
Toolman329 unsubbed because of this shit.
+Ben Phone wat?
Offroad circus he needs to start drama with another UA-camr that will get his numbers up
It really bothers me just how much fear there still is about nuclear power. Most people don't even understand what radiation is and how it works.
Reminds me of the time my parents warned me about "radiation" from my phone
Also uh
The reasons why Chernobyl and Fukushima got into those circumstances
There's also how nuclear waste gets disposed
@@sushantsharma5441though, they ain't wrong
There is radiation coming off our phone
The problem is the intensity, which is not very intense on our phone
You're surprised by this? People are pretty stupud.
@@RandomFurry07Also the frequncy. No matter how much radiation is coming from your phone it isnt going to have the same effect as the radiation from uranium. The radiation from your phone is non-ionising so it has no effect on your body (exept for some very slight heating).
You should have made plutonium stand beneath thorium acting as thoriums missing leg.
That would've been funny
Pine Cone a plutonium peg leg...that works
Plutonium has nothing to do with Thorium.
@@wbaumschlager you have to use the plutonium to get the energy out of the thorium
@@TTTodd Not at all. Thorium (which is fertile) just needs to capture a neutron to make it's way to U233 (which is fissile).
I support that
I used this video alone for a chemistry project.
The result?
Well...
All I can say is thanks.
I can 100% say you didnt do this. No self-respecting teacher allows complete plagiarism outside of fucking show-and-tell days.
You reminded me of school I hate you
@@Benzinilinguine I think he meant as a source. Still pretty shitty tho
what project? restarting the soviet union?
@@Benzinilinguine might be middle school. Sam o nella usually gets his sources from Wikipedia (I think), so whereas a high school student might get in trouble for that, middle school would be easy. Maybe freshman year as well.
You want to know the saddest part that Nella forgot to mention?
The reason we don't have these plants is not because its too advanced for us, but because nobody wants to spend the money.
Imagine that, the next generation of fuel and energy sitting right there for anyone to take but they would rather burn all the oil in the world first.
"Hey, there's this Thorium thingy, let's use it!"
"But NUKES-"
"B-but it's the next generation of energy and f-"
*"NUKES"*
welcome to capitalism
@@thebiggestcheems Not so much capitalism as politically fueled corporations. Do you think Uranium would be given the time of day if governments didn't buy the stuff for weapons? The government is far more to blame than is the free market.
@@noahabel5698
Eh, get rid of em both I say.
@@thebiggestcheems Depends. Free market economics is fine. But the "capitalism" we have today is not free market economics by any stretch of the word. So if we were to discard current day economics, I'd be fine with it, as long as it was replaced with less governmental intervention. As it stands, the majority of corporations can exist solely because of the government. Sometimes it is because corporations manipulate the government. Sometimes it is because the government invests itself into corporations through bailouts, subsidies, tax breaks, etc. Most business in a free market would take place on a much smaller scale. Most being local or at most regional. The few that did become international would do so through sheer efficiency, and even then they couldn't stomp out competition as unfairly as corporations do currently.
after 6 years this is still the first result for the search term "thorium"
lol
"Thorium not weaponizable" *tapes thorium on a stick and beats people over the head*
I really like how you explain things :D
My teacher was talking about Thorium I told her to search it up on UA-cam and this is the video we watched.
At 2:39 you get to see an unused part of the video with uranium spouting out particles
I may end up sending this to my uncle who reposted a video "thorium: a rock no one needs"
I had no idea the public discourse on thorium was so passionate.
Star Wars: Do it
Do it
did you do it
did you do it
“lets start with mining”
No, you have to start with punching trees.
Wood armor
leaves house
This comment reply chain is cursed
stone armor
Bedrock half slabs
0:31 "He's a lot like uranium, just a lot more chill"
Turns Thorium the color of supercritical plutonium.
it's also the color of ice, which is probably what he was going for.
Blue calms the mind so thats what it means to chill and vibe
The hottest fire is blue fire because it's in complete combustion
I don't think it's the plutonium that's supercritical here...
@@weirdTedE91 Good one
Mr. Krabs sold Spongebob's soul for 62 cents.
Abomidable
Bonus points for having “Thor” in the name.
Yeah I guess, but it’s not actually meant to be pronounced the same,
Thor = tor
Thorium = Thorium
Thorium was named after Thor. Similar to polonium named after Poland and many other elements.
Carcinogenic Thalidomide Dang, didn’t know that. That’s one hell of a fun fact.
@@user-pm1gb2eo1s you can thank the internet.
Dude I almost liked this comment though look at the like number
I understand you're trying to keep things relatively simple, but I'd like to comment on a few things for the sake of clarity:
2:30 - Thorium doesn't just need "help" getting started, it has to be bred into U233., which takes ~27.5 days. Fortunately, Thorium breeds in the Thermal Spectrum, so the intrinsic fuel efficiency is much higher than in the Fast reactors normally used for nuclear breeding. It also means that you can use a "closed fuel cycle" allowing you to breed the fuel in the reactor and then reprocess the U233 into fuel rods on site (for a solid-fuel reactor), or to skip reprocessing altogether (in a liquid-fuel reactor), which greatly reduces the risk of radioactive material being stolen or released during a transport accident.
3:00 - That "cork" is a Molten Salt plug in the bottom of a Liquid Fuel, Molten Salt-cooled reactor. Molten Salt cooling is not unique to Thorium, though they are often advocated together because Molten Salt is inherently MUCH safer than water cooling. Such a reactor could be fueled by any Fissile material though, not just Thorium, and Thorium reactors have also been proposed with liquid metal and water cooling.
4:00 - U233 is capable of being used as bomb-fuel, and it has been done before by the US and India (though yields were far lower than expected), but it's much more complicated due to the necessity of separating it from the highly radioactive U232, first. Fortunately, nuclear scientists know how to design reactors that produce higher concentrations of U232 to prevent this from being feasible.
fromkentucky what are you a fucking narc?
Yeah, I'm DEA/FBI, Internet Comments Division.
fromkentucky This summary was super good. Thanks man 💪🐓
+fromkentucky fascinating
are you a nuclear engineer student/graduate?
or the guy who spends time reading nuclear energy
+fromkentucky im looking forward to study nuclear engineering after i finish highschool in a year.
I had an office mate who used to be a nuclear engineer. He said the safety features of thorium reactors could pretty much all be built into uranium reactors. The only reason we have risks at all in our nuclear power plants is because we haven't updated the designs since nuclear power plants first came out. Too much political and legal pressure not to update and make them safe. Anti-nuclear sentiment has achieved the opposite of its goal of making us safer. I'm not against Thorium. Just saying the problem isn't necessarily the materials we are using.
Bendirval it's still more powerful,efficient to mine, not as much enrichment and more abundant than Uranium
@@SimonWoodburyForget
Considering how one ton of Thorium is easier and safer to mine and process, and generates about as much power as ~200 tons of uranium, it would make up for its cost pretty quickly. I'm not saying to replace nuclear power plants that use uranium, but if we were to build more nuclear power plants, thorium reactors would be a much better alternative.
Simon WoodburyForget
Actually, that is not how it works
Alright an example
If you could buy a can of soda for 1 dollar would you buy it for two dollars?
@@SimonWoodburyForget
Yeah, except for the fact that Uranium-232 costs ~15,000,000 per kilogram (Yeah, that totally costs "nothing") whereas Thorium-232 can cost ~30-150 per kilogram. Thorium-232 is 100,000 to 500,000 times cheaper. Hmm, does that seem like a large enough margin to be cost effective?
@@SimonWoodburyForget
For perspective, that means a single power plant will go through ~13,605,000,000$ worth of uranium-235, which actually costs more than the 9 billion dollars estimated to set one up in the first place. Stop pulling those numbers out of thin air. It is nowhere comparable to salt in a soda factory because soda bottling companies tend to be located close to the consumer, nor is salt the main ingredient of soda (Unless there's some weird ass salt soda I haven't heard about).
I just used this video as one of the sources for an environmental science paper I had to write lmao
Thorium reactors have been in the eyes of scientists for a long time. The challenge is that we have not put enough research into them to overcome the challenges of these reactors. It's not like we can get together and have a power plant making one of these in the next year, it will take many years of testing and research before all of the bugs can be worked out. The idea is good but we just have not invested enough time into it.
Mainly because we want to focus on solar and wind. Solar and wind are great and all, but they are no where near as reliable as nuclear power. If we can perfect nuclear, then we have very little to worry about when it comes to our energy crisis.
Side note: yesterday, all of South and North Carolina was forced to run on both Nuclear and Coal power because there was no wind, no sun due to it being cloudy, and gas was being diverted to homes. Says a lot about the importance of nuclear power.
howard baxter What's annoying is that they put nuclear energy away from renewable sources. They should come together because their meant to be with each other in our new generation of power sources that should replace coal and oil
I got an A+ on my argumentative essay because of this video. Thanks Sam
Where do they send your Nobel prize
To a strip club apparantly.
I watched this last night and my roommate put on Skinwalker Ranch today. So many of their phenomenons are explained here. Just wanted to say thanks for the education and the show is hilarious now.
I release deadly cancer inducing gas when someone wakes me up too!
This video helped a lot! I just ordered my 100 tons of thorium and I can’t wait for it to arrive!
woah
XD , the goal of the video is to persue u to like thorium ; so when a politician wants to build a thorium reactor and another politician wants to keep a uranium reactor ; you will vote fo the thorium guy
@@mochalo4912 i will build a thorium reactor without being a politician
don't forget a side order of 25 tons of plutonium
@@mochalo4912 its not that deep
Finally, someone isn’t hating on a great Terraria mod!
Yh lol
Lol
I've never seen anyone hate on Thorium, ever.
In fact, I've never heard a shred of negative things about any popular mod outside of my (very small) friend group. Who are you talking about, exactly?
@@DanielFerreira-ez8qd I’m joking, cuz I saw a video saying why Thorium (the element) was bad, and I made a comment saying “don’t hate on a great terraria mod!”
@@NameInWorkshop Damn, was kinda curious there for a second...
crazy how entertaining and informative this is. sam is the best teacher ngl
My name is Thorium. I’m 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don’t smoke, but I occasionally drink. I’m in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I’m trying to explain that I’m a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn’t lose to anyone.
Yoshikage Kira moment
iS tHIs a JOjO REfeReNce?
@@antivaxxerchild6170 No it's a mario kart reference.
@@antivaxxerchild6170 no it's titanfall reference
@@antivaxxerchild6170 no it's a warhammer 40k reference
Honestly, if school teachers taught classes like this it would probably lead to an increase in grades, student productivity and kids actually wanting to go to school. It's entertaining and educational.
if only grades weren't so weighted in current schools, that's why people cheat on tests in the first place
I imagine this would be hard to keep up for at least 30 minutes a day. especially if you had to do it 5 days a week.
Not everyone is entertaining though, thats the thing
Mr. Scarecrow I doubt it. While an entertaining teacher can definitely make someone care about something, to an extent at least, it is not only unreasonable and impractical to have every class be taught in this style, but I don't think the teacher is usually the main reason students aren't engaged in school. Also, UA-cam education misses the reinforcement stage of learning, so ultimately, not much would really change even if a teacher was like Sam O'Nella.
Basically, don't compare a UA-cam video to school and the engagement of the student isn't solely (or even mainly) on the teacher.
It's more a primer than educational. It mentions conclusions without any details at all as if people were completely dumb.
But if it helps get the thinking caps on... why not.
I like it how this is Sam's only video that isn't restricted.
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School restrictions
Explain tycoon you racist. Reveal your secrets you communist!
pov you are uranium but im just a chill guy
Stop talking about my Anium.
New Message perfect comment
I nearly clicked on your damn profile picture
Your anium?
*Chokes on spit*
Why do i see you wherever i go?
Excuse me but there is a huge lack of Thor puns.
Aaron McEdgelord
Sam would probably just joke around how Thor is a Cripple. So.
if Thor make his own iron man suit he will be called Thorium man.
That's thorrible
well dont get thor about it
@@fangorn23 I almost thorgot my rage
Watching this after the attack on Iran be like “hehehe ‘safer’ in Iran”
iran can have a little thorium
That attack happened in Iraq, actually. That's where they killed that iranian general
Was thinking the same shit 😂😂
Here after Iran attacked bases in Iraq Ahahaha “safer”
NoteNeighbourhood lmao
This is my first experience with this channel and i am gonna click on every video of your's.
Damn I love this channel, can't wait to see it grow. :D
Unfortunately, it won't. And that's just another mystery of life.
Cure your unhopeful growth problem with Viagra! (brought to you by Pfizer and your girlfriend!*)
He publishes way too rarely to grow big in today's content-hungry YT.
But... da sub count...
me to
Ive actually spent a few years working (as an electrician) in nuclear power generation and refinement and while Im by no means all-knowing, uranium is the biggest thing Ive worked around and hear about. Its amazing to me that thorium has such a greater use and as someone that has spent years around nuclear power, Ive never heard of them. Thanks for this!
I have a radioactivity safety assessment on Friday and I stumbled across this.
Thank you Sam, I praise your teachings. School will be much easier now.
Copied this for my 5th grade presentation and forgot to cut out the swear words. Best trip to the principals office ever.
1:59
what school are y’all going to where they let you have a separate classroom if you have adhd?? my school just asks if i took my meds and carries on
And you live on a 70s tupe of shithole
@@GustavoGomes-nn5np guess I do too then lmao
I can't tell what between the 2 is normal lmao
Huh, I thought U.A would take stuff like that more seriously.
U.A. Been doing you dirty
I feel so smart
That music just enhances the effect
2:40 pause it carefully
For a fraction of a second there's a random frame
@@arthurfeng04 *_neutrons_*
*bobby pins
Worth another look. Thanks for pointing out.
Dancing
It’s uranium dancing with red lollipops
I cited this video in my end-of-high-school research paper and got a 90
3:52
And that’s exactly why Governments don’t want Thorium reactors
yup, that's why the US gave up on thorium. The military wanted a reliable power source for its ships and submarines that also gave it materials for bombs. Power for civilians wasn't considered.
W O K E
@@CarFreeSegnitz the US is the only country I can think of where monthly nuclear meltdowns probably wouldn't incentivise better nuclear powerplants.
@@catatoblob8598 Not sure where your getting monthly nuclear meltdowns from since they only one in recent memory is Three Mile Island
@@spicyice3754as other people seem to have figured out, I'm extrapolating off the actual reaction to another monthly man-made disaster.
I find this very offensi--
Oh look a butterfly
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I dont get it
@@b1ngussy adhd joke
ADHD-
Attention Deficit- Hey nice shirt!
Ouch haha
I still didn't like that Sam pu- Oh hey, Big Zam.
Scishow just caught up with the god tier educational UA-cam channel
At this rate we’ll have a thorium reactor in the US in 5-10 years
@@aidanmaccuish2266 we can have them, but the us won’t make them bc they can’t make nukes out of thorium
I legit used this for a presentation on my college level English class and I got an a