by "people" if you mean social rejects that roam the bottom rungs of society but larp as intelligent and become 'activists' to brush away their personal shortcomings under the rug...then yes.
As a South American i can say that to you, when government solution to everything is "raise taxes", what they are saying its that "i dont have the solution, but i want your money anyway".
Thank you for this comment! As someone who has lived in USA, South America and Canada ... Not sure why Americans aren't listening to their actual human neighbors? But they've got Obama smartphones now, they don't need passports 🙄
@eblman Seems like California and Canada have much in comon. Both are increasingly populated by lazy woke tossers that vote for handouts and want to steal from those that work to get them. Both are also run by governments hell bent on ruining a good thing, for nothing, with ever increasing government that costs a lot, does nothing and discourages entrpreneurship with excess taxes and regulation..
@Hank MacBurger #94 you know there types of energy like windmills hydro France or Germany has a hydro power dam France plants trees they pay to fix roads bridges and many others and the Republicans can't do that here that shows they don't care for the country and just want money for them selves
@@calebguajardo8236 it is cheaper. John stossel also explains that this power source that you mention are so expensive and need to pay high engineer to manage them, any how the windmill doesn't produce much energy. The hydro Dam does but it kill fishes and we can't put every fam in every river, it is so expensive. The fossil fuels make most of the electricity
@@TheCrusaderInk but what when the gasoline runs and what if the nuclear power plant blows up what then and same with coal and others what then when they all run out
@@calebguajardo8236 guess what they are plenty that will last centuries. Nuclear plants Chernobyl failed because it wasn't safe in the first place because poor engineer communist at Ukraine. John stossel covered up.
I did some quick calculations. If you purchased enough lithium batteries to store 12 hours of electricity generated by a 1000MW nuclear plant (that simulates a battery backup for a similar amount of wind/solar production), you would triple the cost of wind/soar energy. Yea, that's what I want to do.
@@Carwash301 Each of those wind mills can only provide enough power for about 80 homes on a good day, and each blade costs 350 k, how is that economical?
@@gerardcote8391 Let's not forget there is only one company that has cracked recycling carbon fiber used for the sails and the end product is untested! The fact that virtually every bit of open land would have to be used to get enough wind capacity to do the trick..........
@@travissmith2848 And here is Mass Cape wind wanted to build a bunch of windmills in the ocean, but the eco politicians that vacation on Cape Cod and the Islands have been fighting them for almost 20 years now, because they don't want their ocean view ruined by having windmills there.
I really wish someone would have said this to the physicists that designed the first nuclear plants. Took them a century to figure out how to make a fail safe that was safe from failure.
Nuclear power was my red pill about a decade ago. As I was doing research into clean energy and discovered what amazing technology is possible that we are refusing to pursue I realized the whole thing was more about control than trying to reduce carbon emissions.
same my friend! my only positive thoughts, about the general public not fully understanding the potential or is scared of nuclear, is that the stocks will be cheap :^)
Thorium nuclear reactor technology has already been tested and proven as entirely safe. One of the many benefits of a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor is it can use existing nuclear waste as fuel. TMSRs can NOT be used to make nuclear bombs. They cannot melt-down. They produce virtually no waste. And, best of all, Thorium is a plentiful nuclear fuel readily available throughout the world from monazite sands which is, in fact, an unwanted and currently seen as useless byproduct of rare earth mining. Using Thorium would increase rare earth minerals production, reduce reliance on China and hence LOWER BATTERY and MAGNET costs which lowers EV costs and increases EV usage. Google "US rare earth minerals Thorium" for more...
Back in 1993 while I was visiting my uncle, he said to me "come". Motioning to the garden...we stood there him looking at his watch. Knowing him, he had something up...I waited, not knowing. After waiting he looked at me and spoke..."Congratulations, you now have been exposed to more radiation than at Three Mile Island"
I remember a place in California called Rancho Seco Nuclear power plant. It was about 20 miles from Sacramento. It had a recreation area next to it with a lake and picnic tables with BBQ’s and pavilions. We would swim for hours in some of the clearest water I’ve ever seen. The lake was where the power plant drew water from for the giant cooling towers at the nuclear plant. It had fish and ducks and wildlife from miles around would go there to drink the water. My family and most of my friends loved it there. We are all in our 50’s and 60’s now and none of us have ever had cancer or tumours or anything else like that. Maybe that crystal clear water was good for us lol
@@TurtleChad1 Doesn’t really matter who is grifting though. It’s the same formula either way. -It’s a crisis! -Pay me (give me power) to solve it! -Never gets solved because the solution ends the grift and because the people wielding the power are under no obligation to let go of it. You can vote for grifter A or grifter B and get scammed for different big government power grabs. The left is currently grifting for “equity”.
@@TurtleChad1 Oh you got triggered by this video, didn't you? Last time I checked, the democrats were the true war mongers, climate fear mongers and race baiters, despite of what the movies say. Let's have a discussion if you are up to it.
The mental gymnastics that guy does on camera talking about nuclears impact on the environment then saying to use wind, solar and batteries (all of which require rare earth metals) is astounding.
Plus wind energy is not nearly as safe as people claim, it’s devastating to bird and bat populations. Several studies have indicated there may be long term health effects for mammals living too near the turbines. If Mr Wasserman ever talked to people who lived near wind farms he would notice they make basically the same claims of poor health as the people in Pennsylvania.
If we outlawed fossil fuels and nuclear power and went with solar, wind, and batteries, I imagine the toxic waste problem to increase 1000 fold or more.
I was just surprised to find out that over 50% my home state of Illinois is only powered by 11 reactors in 6 facilities. 7 million people being powered by only 6 plants is damn impressive.
If it were up to those anti-nuke people, you'd have 10,000 wind turbines slicing birds and 30,000 acres of solar panels where you used to grow your food. They have no solutions, only complaints. Same with no-new-oil people.
@@leofortey7561 you could just put solar panels in the desert. Food crisis solved, at the cost to habitat destruction. Wind turbines slicing birds isn’t too much of an issue, (I think cats are the greatest threat to bird populations, thanks to us humans) but wind farms need large amounts of flat land in order to work and that results in extreme deforestation, flattening of large hills that contain countless nest, burrows, and other underground structures built by wildlife. Hydro is probably the worst renewable in terms of habitat destruction. The only good ones that don’t affect the environment in any way are nuclear (both fission and fusion) and geothermal. Unfortunately nuclear isn’t renewable, but we have plenty of unused uranium lying around.
@@Nico-qs5dy Not John, the reporter claiming that people died of 3 mile Island when scientists found no evidence of it after reviewing thousands of reports
There are Navy vessels that are running on nuclear power. Some for decades. Joke I heard was that 2 sailors on board a US carrier we’re on the fan tail as they were going through the Suez when they passed a nuclear reactor with houses nearby and one sailor said “I wouldn’t want to live that close to a nuclear reactor!” The other sailor said “do you realize where you are?”
I grew up with 30 miles of TWO separate nuclear plants (four reactors total). They both had a perfect safety record for something like 40 years. Hell, the one plant even paid for every homeowners' property taxes in an entire township where it was located. Imagine that, NO PROPERTY TAXES.
@@floobertuber The Byron nuclear plant in rural Illinois had the highest property tax bill in the country outside New York in 2017, higher than Disneyland.
@@eriklakeland3857 I'm not talking about the nuclear plant's tax bill. I'm talking about the tax bills owed by the residents of the same township. As part of the permitting to operate the plant, its owners agreed to pay for EVERYBODY'S property taxes in the whole township, every year.
"A reactor running at 470 degrees doesn't cool the planet" ....this guy is seriously supposed to be a leading figure and intellectual in the anti-nuclear movement? I can't even begin to wrap my head around how idiotic the above quote is/
The sad thing is that even with the core of TMI turned into slag, containment worked, and minimal activity was released. It should have been celebrated that meticulously crafted safeguards worked even when the operators failed to notice symptoms. But no, we got endless propaganda, and needless pumping of CO2 via hydrocarbon burn which the eco-zealots claim to oppose.
I always thought that about cars. If there was no "gas shortage" in the 70's (I think that was all a put on any ways), and we didn't have stupid catalytic converters and what not to make our cars environmentally "friendly" we would have had better cleaner more efficient cars today in the 2020's than we even do now. Things always improve with time, so all that time we lost, would have been spent developing better cars. Same thing with the nuclear stuff.
@@AlanTherby During that time we did develop a lot of better technology for cars, maybe not as fast without the barriers but it still happened, there was also a lot of progress on better fuel alternatives along the way. To this day they're trying to stop research from happening on "wrong subjects", only being somewhat successful recently by silencing research and people in universities.
It does not work that way, when car become more efficient with fuel we just build bigger, more equipped cars thus not lowering the consumption. I’m in Europe so the situation is probably not exactly like the us but an average car consume 5l/100km since the 60s but they are now about 2 to 3 times heavier (safer, faster, more confortable, with AC…). The limiting factor with travel is cost, plus there is a limite to how much we can improve systems so we probably will never improve that much more. It’s a common thing with environmental actions call rebound effect and see it every were like the fact that better insolation in homes leads to people heating more thus keeping the consumption the same.
I'm so glad Stossel finally did one of these. Keep them coming! My wife is a physicist specializing in radiation and loves nuclear power. As usual there are scientists, and there are activists. Also, does that activist seriously think that the heat from reactors will warm up the earth?
Activists who say, "Here is a problem, give me power so I can solve it" will not actually solve it because then you wouldn't give them the power they want.
Power runaway. The excuse is always that they never have enough power. If by some miracle they claim all power, the problem is moot then and forgotten.
If they ever "solved" the problems they claim to be addressing, they would be out of work. That's why they are so dangerous. As soon as they "solve" one problem, they look for more so they can stay employed. That is why many people fighting racism have now morphed into advocates for segregation. No logic is too dumb for them.
@@betacuck3145 thank you for saying it. We're losing our country because we appease these idiots and criminals. I don't think good people will be able to sit by much longer as we watch parasites destroy our once great nation.
Sweden increased the amount of nuclear and their energy became cheaper, more abundant, and decreased emissions. Germany got rid of several nuclear plants to rely on more solar and wind, their dependence on fossil fuels went up, their emissions went up, and costs to consumer went up. Nuclear is literally the way to go. What’s wrong with investing now to reap benefits for decades?
You have to spend money to skim money, and the more you spend the more you can skim. Politicians will absolutely never make a decision which cuts spending.
That was such a stupid idea by german conservatives to abolish nuclear 2011; plus another tech we stopped to develop to go back to the coal age burning coal while neighbors decreased their emissions by nuclear Of course renewables are the future but we need nuclear to bridge it
My husband works for our local nuclear plant that's no longer in production, but still requires a lot of upkeep. Thank you for bringing light to this. Nuclear really is the safest way to go. Environmentalists would do well to get on board with it.
Tell that to the millions dying of cancer in Japan. I mean really you think Nuke power is safer than natural gas? Stupid comment, your husband is a fool also.
@@luchacefox259 No civilian is dying from radiation exposure from Fukishima. You liberals lie, you know you lie, and you do not care that you lie as long as it advances your War.
I am sorry, but if we did do this where would we get the parts from. china with its biggest nuclear manufacturing complex. we would be building for a new energy source on cheap garbage Chinese parts that are probably set up so they can press a button a cover the US continent in a big old radiation cloud.
@Bogdanmeoff have you not realized how much safety protocols have evolved since then? Not to mention, Chernobyl wasn't the fault of nuclear power as a whole, it was the fault of bad design, and the workers screwing around with it.
I was taught to fear Nuclear energy, I didn't really investigate why, I just went along, then one of my kids asked my why and pretty much said the exact same thing that is in this video. Great job on the information. The trouble is people get set in their beliefs and their minds close and no matter the evidence you cannot change their minds.
I grew up fearing it as well. As a young woman I remember passing by Limerick, PA and going "was that 3 mile island"? Fearing the looming cooling towers because I didnt understand them.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 It's neurological. People who are emotional thinkers don't respond well to logical challenges. Their brain processes it as an attack and can even trigger fight or flight response. The chemical dump of dopamine and adrenaline from the fight or flight response actually drives them deeper into their belief and they can become chemically addicted to it. Read "The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided on politics and religion". The author spends a good amount of time going into actual scientific studies on the neurological differences between left and right leaning people. One of the studies was able to consistently determine a persons political leaning based solely on a CAT Scan.
Look at the Navy, they have been using nuclear power in their equipment for years without a single major meltdown. Update: 5400 reactor years of operation.
The US leads the world in nuclear technicians. These people in the military work on so much more complex reactor designs and when they leave the military they often have to go overseas to find work. The US should be leading the world in nuclear energy and we would have cheap sixth generation realtors that are incapable of meltdown by now. We would be contracted by governments all over the world to build them and AOC wouldn't be a thing. Absolutist activists suck the life out of everything.
@@djricecakes6035 you gave me an idea! Floating nuclear powered city... could build it on top of the pile of garbage floating around in the middle of the Pacific :)
Meltdowns occur when an accident is made in the attempt of maximizing efficiency. Nuclear was still a new tech for us with how few reactors there were around the world. Its not so new anymore and we are getting better and better at how we produce power from it.
I always give respect to the people who come on to Stossel's show because giving answers to the questions the opposite side is asking is way more important than being silent.
i notice more and more media hysteria in the video evidence clips. what they all have in common is the New York Times logo. has anyone held them accountable?
Agreed, at least Harvey Wasserman was unapologetic and honest about his activism. I would much rather have clarity and know why someone stands the way they do. But then again, I do like how some debate by gluing themselves to objects to.
Good summary. Where was the science behind Wasserman’s arguments. Sounded more like fear talking points. When pushed about battery disposal...oh yeah. We have to work on that.
Production too. Lithium, lead, strong acids like sulfuric, and waste from refinement. Add to that lifespan. Everyone with a phone or laptop knows this. The issue is the activists that get stuff passed use emotional arguments nearly exclusively. You can't argue facts against feelings.
I’ve got so much respect for this man. I used to watch his 20/20 shows and loved every single one. If journalists these days would have half of Stossel’s integrity, sincerity and responsibility... Just dare to imagine that world.
Not to mention how "nasty" solar panels are... They don't last forever and have to be replaced every 10 to 20 years and you can't just throw them into landfills.. because they leak toxic chemicals as they decompose... Solar in its current form isn't the answer...
@@garyhendershot9153 25 years up to 40* Modern residential panels have warranties that last 25 years, and if you buy enough to replace your overall power draw, will pay for themselves withing a decade.
??? So that's why they want everyone to have solar on their own roof that they control??? If they wanted control of energy wouldn't 'they' WANT centralized nuclear over distributed solar?
@Sub Scriptions ??? All the heating at my house is electric... with a heat pump. Wasn't hard to replace with PV... I produce >4x more than I use annually.
@George Mann .... really not that expensive. I bought a ~20kWh bank of batteries for $3k. I only need the grid maybe 5% of the time. If I wanted that could be a generator. 100# of propane would last 10 years. The penultimate is an electrolyzer so I can use solar I waste when the batteries are charged to make H2. Then use that H2 later instead of the grid or propane. Basically have a propane tank I can refill with solar :D
I have two three mile island stories, the first one is that much of my family lived in Harrisburg Pennsylvania in fairly close proximity to 3 mile Island. A couple cousins got scared because of all of the yellow journalism associated with it but no one got sick. The second story is that I worked near Brookhaven national labs were many of the physicists and scientist that developed the systems in 3 mile island worked. I had one friend that was a manager there who said after 3 mile island happened these guys were having a party because all of the safety features and the safety measures the design worked perfectly! Exactly as designed to not cause any problems and health risks. So anybody screaming it was a terror and a national disaster didn’t really know the details.
It really is a testament to our design capability. The reactor operators reacted in exactly the worse possible way (due in part to a sensor malfunction) and the outcome was basically nothing.
@@davidcox3076 From what I understand and this is really coming from a layperson I’m not a physicist a don’t know anything about the construction of reactors but the design of the Chernobyl plant was fundamentally different from 3 mile Island around the containment systems for the reactors. From what I understood and again please see my previous disclaimer food containment systems were not the same at all. Which is why the explosion was much more violent.
@@robertcohen1888 I'll confirm for you. I am a physicist and was a nuclear reactor mechanic in the Navy. On a very basic level, the Chernobyl reactor was built to be unstable. It required constant corrections and calculations done hundreds of times a second to keep from melting down. If they lost all power to the control rods, the plant would have exploded. All modern reactors and all reactors ever built in the US are inherently stable. They require constant corrections to maintain operation. If a modern reactor loses all power to the control rods, they slam shut and turn off the reactor. Our reactors are designed to fail in a safe way. Chernobyl was designed to fail miserably... and it did. As a side note, the USSR had nuclear submarines like the US but they decided it was cheaper to exchange crew occasionally than to properly shield their reactors. Looking back at it, it seems like they were trying to kill people.
@@MM3Soapgoblin thank you so much for adding to this thread. Your insights are absolutely invaluable and I'm so glad that you could educate me on these things. And thank you for your service in the Navy! In the USSR human capital was always much cheaper than anything else and they treated them as such.
I guarantee the three people that hit the dislike button (@ 7:46am on 20APR2021) had their minds made up before hitting play. Thank you again John Stossel!
UA-cam is taking away the dislike counter. I can't even see how many dislikes there are on this video and I get a message about how they are testing this on a small group of users.
It pains me when "environmentalists" say renewable technologies are advancing and will be better and cheaper, yet they assume nuclear technology isn't advancing. Chernobyl and Fukushima plants were from the 70's yet they're using their failures as excuse that newer, safer and more efficient plants shouldn't be built, thus we have to resort to burning fossil to provide consistent power because renewables are still struggling to do just that.
My grandparents in PA have been on nuclear power for decades. It's a 20 minute drive from their house. Nothing happened. They're more concerned with the radon seeping out of the ground than the nuclear power plants.
Even radon isn't nearly as threatening as gov't regulations make it out to be. The mandated "safe" level is far, FAR below the amount that actually causes any statistically significant increased cancer risk. Guess who pushed hardest for those regulations? Radon mitigation system installers.
@@grantjohnson5785 yeah I know. They've lived there since at least before 1974 when my dad was born and still haven't gotten cancer. They really aren't worried about it and even less worried about the nuclear power right next to them.
My father was a nuclear engineer who worked for Gulf Atomic until the industry collapsed in 1972. The second collapse was after Three Mile Island, but my father lost his job and the industry was originally crushed in 1972.
The president, Jimmy Carter, literally walked around the site of 3 Mile Island right after the incident. The worst case scenario happened, and everybody was okay and the plant is still running.
Carter also knew a bit more about nuclear power than the average POTUS. He served on a nuclear sub in the 1950s and also helped in the cleanup of the experimental NRX reactor in Canada after its core melted down. TMI-2 which melted down was never restarted. TMI-1 was offline at the time for refueling. It eventually was restarted in 1985 but was permanently shutdown in 2019.
The conflation of Chernobyl and regular reactors always confuses me. There was so much wrong with the Chernobyl plants, it didn’t even have a containment dome. Imagine if we banned cars because some car in the USSR didn’t have brakes
Chernobyl used graphite (flammable) to dampen neutrons, while everyone else uses a kind of water. (non-flammable). If they had just engineered things a little differently, the disaster wouldn't have been a disaster.
The USSR didn't shield their nuclear submarines either. It was cheaper and easier to swap out crews than to build decent shielding... It's like they were trying to kill people with nuclear power.
@@ROGER2095 the RBMK reactors kept being used with some added safeties, Chernobyl's engineering could have survived if it wasn't for plain old Soviet incompetence. The plant was operational even though it was behind on safety testing. Obviously the plant manager wanted the tests to be rushed because everything is based on lying to higher ups. They screwed around with power generation before the tests because it was the end of the month and factories needed to fill quotas. The inherent danger of the design was theorized by scientists but the paper suppressed by Soviet censorship. So when the Xenon poisioned reactor was about to stall they pulled out as many of the control rods as possible to surge the power back up, and doing so triggered the positive void coefficient as the water turned to steam. The scramming procedure forced the graphite to go through the part of the reactor that was going out of control before the boron neutron absorber control rod could tame the reaction.
My parents work at the site in Idaho and they are working on getting reactors the size of a fridge that can go in a home. It is the cleanest and most efficient energy we have.
@Charles Larkin Well, it sounds nice on paper. But there's always the issue of nuclear materials being used for nefarious purpose such as dirty bomb, if they're that easily accessible.
@Charles Larkin Classic false equivalency. There's huge difference between a car running over a few people, and multiple city blocks rendered inhospitable. People like you are exactly why we can't have nuanced sensible discussions anymore.
@@DejectedCat "a few people" over the last decades the number was 40k to around 30k a year. In fact a few years of road fatalities are enough to match the casualties from the detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It’s a very great long term solution too. Thorium reactors means there’s 4x as much nuclear material that we can react out there than we thought and fusion reactors would solve the energy crisis for centuries
"Store energy in batteries", which is mined lithium, which is harmful to the enviroment and has to be mined with diesel equipment, what a solution! it almost seems like it isn't one!
I'm pro nuclear and think battery storage is a crock (if you need to store energy at scale: pumped hydro), but: 1: A large fraction if lithium mining looks more like a water well then a strip mine (it can be dissolved in water and pumped up) 2: If you don't care about weight, *sodium* ion batteries work nearly as well and and there is >100M tons of sodium per cube mile of ocean water (compared to
I lived in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania a couple of miles away from Three Mile Island I had no ill effects from that and knew no one who had any ill effects
I recently did a pavement for a battery waste facility. I do that asphalt pavement every 2 years because the acid in the battery eat the asphalt in no time. The guy who use the bulldozer to move the battery waste has to do blood transfusion every 6 months because of the high levels of plumb in his blood for the battery waste vapors. After you separe the acids and metals from the plastic you have to melt the metal parts to separe the varius kind of metals and reuse them. That process creats A LOT of CO2. A normal battery for a car weights 30 kg and you can read some of the "costs" above. A new electric car from mercedes with eco-incentives from europe that makes it cheaper than the regular one has 600 kg of lithium batteries. I think that climate change could become a real treath if we continue with this nonsense.
lithium batteries dont have lead or acid in them. there are begining to be places that actually recycle lithium ion batteries. but they are not the solution to the grid
Jesus there's people who recover lead from such sources for bullets and despite working in their home shop they have enough safety to not get their lead levels that high.
I worked around radioactive equipment for nearly 40 years. Safety is an individual responsibility. each individual is a member of the team. The team is only good of all members work together. Neither I nor my team has suffered any problems. And productivity was better with the equipment.
My boss used to work as structural engineer in sweden, with nuclear power plants. His experience is that draconian regulations makes nuclear power plants many times more expensive than they need to be. Governments are aiming for a safety level that is many times higher than in oil & gas. I currently work as an engineer in the offshore wind power, and seeing the offshore wind from a designer stand point is making me the biggest advocate for nuclear power.
I'm more of a left leaning and don't agree with him on everything but this is something I definitely do agree with him on. People fear things they do not understand and those who fear nuclear energy definitely don't understand it.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 AND EVEN WAY MORE SO by Stalin and Mao. and Pol Pot and Kim Jong Un and Niclaus Maduro and every fascist Marxist tin pot LEFT WING dictator since AND they ARE STILL ACTIVE calling themselves "Progressives" and "Democratic Socilaists" from Hell. THOUSDANDS of trianed Marxist economiists and Politicians and Academics in and OUT of Governments WORLWIDE like the United Nations and European Union. NEED a WORD COURT TRIAL OF ANYTHING Karl Marx !
@@0pt0gy70 Yet Mars rover used solar power for 15 years in far colder MARS. Texas problem is entirely due to poor engineering, not anything to do with technology.
One of our nuclear power reactors shut down because of the cold, and the majority of the affected power production was natural gas. The problem was nothing was built to handle the cold. Not any specific type of energy production. I’m kinda in the do it all camp. The renewable stuff and build more nuclear reactors.
Gas was the hardest hit and one nuclear power plant shut down too. Texas was screwed because they cut corners when building their infrastructure and because they didn´t want to be part of the national grid.
According to the HBO show, on how you take it, it was a breach of procedure, and a person's push to bypass safety measures to complete testing so he could get his promotion.
I love it when environmentalist want to turn off nuclear power. And when they achieve it, they open up brown coal plants the replace the power.(Germany) Way a go Greenpeace!
Remember kids, people will always sooner act on fear than reason.
Covid confirms that.
Remember kids, people are very closed minded
Passion rules reason, afterall
Can i get Murdoch Chan's phone number?
by "people" if you mean social rejects that roam the bottom rungs of society but larp as intelligent and become 'activists' to brush away their personal shortcomings under the rug...then yes.
As a South American i can say that to you, when government solution to everything is "raise taxes", what they are saying its that "i dont have the solution, but i want your money anyway".
As a Canadian I can confirm the truth of this statement!
Thank you for this comment!
As someone who has lived in USA, South America and Canada ... Not sure why Americans aren't listening to their actual human neighbors?
But they've got Obama smartphones now, they don't need passports
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That's why I drive an EV and have solar.... being energy independent really helps to lower my taxes :D
@eblman Seems like California and Canada have much in comon. Both are increasingly populated by lazy woke tossers that vote for handouts and want to steal from those that work to get them. Both are also run by governments hell bent on ruining a good thing, for nothing, with ever increasing government that costs a lot, does nothing and discourages entrpreneurship with excess taxes and regulation..
Garden City damn I heard Canada is rough rn, is it true the police can just enter your house to check how many people are there
“Down with coal!”
“Down with nuclear!”
“Hey why isn’t my phone charging” 🙄
RACISM!
@Hank MacBurger #94 you know there types of energy like windmills hydro France or Germany has a hydro power dam France plants trees they pay to fix roads bridges and many others and the Republicans can't do that here that shows they don't care for the country and just want money for them selves
@@calebguajardo8236 it is cheaper. John stossel also explains that this power source that you mention are so expensive and need to pay high engineer to manage them, any how the windmill doesn't produce much energy. The hydro Dam does but it kill fishes and we can't put every fam in every river, it is so expensive. The fossil fuels make most of the electricity
@@TheCrusaderInk but what when the gasoline runs and what if the nuclear power plant blows up what then and same with coal and others what then when they all run out
@@calebguajardo8236 guess what they are plenty that will last centuries. Nuclear plants Chernobyl failed because it wasn't safe in the first place because poor engineer communist at Ukraine. John stossel covered up.
"Store energy in batteries"
*laughs in carbon emissions used to mine lithium*
also the toxic gasses emitted from lithium batteries and the toxic chemicals used to make them
I did some quick calculations. If you purchased enough lithium batteries to store 12 hours of electricity generated by a 1000MW nuclear plant (that simulates a battery backup for a similar amount of wind/solar production), you would triple the cost of wind/soar energy. Yea, that's what I want to do.
@@Carwash301 Each of those wind mills can only provide enough power for about 80 homes on a good day, and each blade costs 350 k, how is that economical?
@@gerardcote8391 Let's not forget there is only one company that has cracked recycling carbon fiber used for the sails and the end product is untested! The fact that virtually every bit of open land would have to be used to get enough wind capacity to do the trick..........
@@travissmith2848 And here is Mass Cape wind wanted to build a bunch of windmills in the ocean, but the eco politicians that vacation on Cape Cod and the Islands have been fighting them for almost 20 years now, because they don't want their ocean view ruined by having windmills there.
Don’t listen to activists or politicians. Trust engineers.
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Absolutely. Trust those with logic and know how to build something!!
@@heavy_ang_patay Of course
I really wish someone would have said this to the physicists that designed the first nuclear plants. Took them a century to figure out how to make a fail safe that was safe from failure.
Nuclear power was my red pill about a decade ago. As I was doing research into clean energy and discovered what amazing technology is possible that we are refusing to pursue I realized the whole thing was more about control than trying to reduce carbon emissions.
My dad always said Nuclear energy was the future
Natural gas is the way. We need more CO2.
same my friend! my only positive thoughts, about the general public not fully understanding the potential or is scared of nuclear, is that the stocks will be cheap :^)
The environmental activist Michael Shellenberger went through the same thing. Look him up, he has a lot of interesting stuff to say.
Thorium nuclear reactor technology has already been tested and proven as entirely safe. One of the many benefits of a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor is it can use existing nuclear waste as fuel. TMSRs can NOT be used to make nuclear bombs. They cannot melt-down. They produce virtually no waste. And, best of all, Thorium is a plentiful nuclear fuel readily available throughout the world from monazite sands which is, in fact, an unwanted and currently seen as useless byproduct of rare earth mining.
Using Thorium would increase rare earth minerals production, reduce reliance on China and hence LOWER BATTERY and MAGNET costs which lowers EV costs and increases EV usage. Google "US rare earth minerals Thorium" for more...
Back in 1993 while I was visiting my uncle, he said to me "come". Motioning to the garden...we stood there him looking at his watch. Knowing him, he had something up...I waited, not knowing. After waiting he looked at me and spoke..."Congratulations, you now have been exposed to more radiation than at Three Mile Island"
😂😂😂😂
And then everybody clapped
Your uncle is a good and intelligent man.
@@user-is2zv4sc6y ty, I will tell the family
That's like people who worry about radiation from simple X-rays. They actually get more Rads from watching 5 minutes of TV than from a chest X-ray.
I remember a place in California called Rancho Seco Nuclear power plant. It was about 20 miles from Sacramento. It had a recreation area next to it with a lake and picnic tables with BBQ’s and pavilions. We would swim for hours in some of the clearest water I’ve ever seen. The lake was where the power plant drew water from for the giant cooling towers at the nuclear plant. It had fish and ducks and wildlife from miles around would go there to drink the water. My family and most of my friends loved it there. We are all in our 50’s and 60’s now and none of us have ever had cancer or tumours or anything else like that. Maybe that crystal clear water was good for us lol
It's because they don't want solutions. They can't keep grifting if there isn't a "problem."
You do realize that Republicans are the ones grifting 😑
Absolutely correct. Bingo.
@@TurtleChad1 Doesn’t really matter who is grifting though. It’s the same formula either way.
-It’s a crisis!
-Pay me (give me power) to solve it!
-Never gets solved because the solution ends the grift and because the people wielding the power are under no obligation to let go of it.
You can vote for grifter A or grifter B and get scammed for different big government power grabs. The left is currently grifting for “equity”.
This old grey haired activist doesn’t know what he’s talking about ! 🤦🏻♂️🙄
@@TurtleChad1 Oh you got triggered by this video, didn't you? Last time I checked, the democrats were the true war mongers, climate fear mongers and race baiters, despite of what the movies say. Let's have a discussion if you are up to it.
The mental gymnastics that guy does on camera talking about nuclears impact on the environment then saying to use wind, solar and batteries (all of which require rare earth metals) is astounding.
Plus wind energy is not nearly as safe as people claim, it’s devastating to bird and bat populations. Several studies have indicated there may be long term health effects for mammals living too near the turbines. If Mr Wasserman ever talked to people who lived near wind farms he would notice they make basically the same claims of poor health as the people in Pennsylvania.
@@TGuard00014 can I see such studies
@@thepope2412 Google is your friend.
If we outlawed fossil fuels and nuclear power and went with solar, wind, and batteries, I imagine the toxic waste problem to increase 1000 fold or more.
@@mrdean2539 it’s not. Google constantly hides results
It’s not about solving any problems it’s about power and control, always has been always will be...
EXACTLY
You forgot money. That's a big one.
@@s.a.2317 if you have power and control, money is what you say it is.
@@s.a.2317 Nope. Power. Politicians buy power with your money, by giving it to those who didn't earn it.
@@s.a.2317 we create money from nothing, i used to think it was about money to, but i believe it is now about power and control
I was just surprised to find out that over 50% my home state of Illinois is only powered by 11 reactors in 6 facilities. 7 million people being powered by only 6 plants is damn impressive.
If it were up to those anti-nuke people, you'd have 10,000 wind turbines slicing birds and 30,000 acres of solar panels where you used to grow your food. They have no solutions, only complaints. Same with no-new-oil people.
@@leofortey7561 you could just put solar panels in the desert. Food crisis solved, at the cost to habitat destruction. Wind turbines slicing birds isn’t too much of an issue, (I think cats are the greatest threat to bird populations, thanks to us humans) but wind farms need large amounts of flat land in order to work and that results in extreme deforestation, flattening of large hills that contain countless nest, burrows, and other underground structures built by wildlife. Hydro is probably the worst renewable in terms of habitat destruction. The only good ones that don’t affect the environment in any way are nuclear (both fission and fusion) and geothermal. Unfortunately nuclear isn’t renewable, but we have plenty of unused uranium lying around.
@@DingusdoofusWind farms are greatly effective on mountains and shorelines as well, but that comes with negatives as well.
John called him silly right to his face. I love it. Challenge always.
F$&cking hilarious! John is badass, I about fell over when he said that
That man is a conspiracy theorist at this point
@@aaronlandry3934 How? Name a single statement John Stossel made in this video that you can disprove.
@@Nico-qs5dy Not John, the reporter claiming that people died of 3 mile Island when scientists found no evidence of it after reviewing thousands of reports
@@aaronlandry3934 Ah. Sorry for the misunderstanding. 😅
There are Navy vessels that are running on nuclear power. Some for decades. Joke I heard was that 2 sailors on board a US carrier we’re on the fan tail as they were going through the Suez when they passed a nuclear reactor with houses nearby and one sailor said “I wouldn’t want to live that close to a nuclear reactor!” The other sailor said “do you realize where you are?”
I grew up with 30 miles of TWO separate nuclear plants (four reactors total). They both had a perfect safety record for something like 40 years. Hell, the one plant even paid for every homeowners' property taxes in an entire township where it was located. Imagine that, NO PROPERTY TAXES.
@@floobertuber The Byron nuclear plant in rural Illinois had the highest property tax bill in the country outside New York in 2017, higher than Disneyland.
@@eriklakeland3857 well it is Illinois
@@gtasaints True but there were only 20 properties in the whole country ahead of it though. DisneyLand was 22nd.
@@eriklakeland3857 I'm not talking about the nuclear plant's tax bill. I'm talking about the tax bills owed by the residents of the same township. As part of the permitting to operate the plant, its owners agreed to pay for EVERYBODY'S property taxes in the whole township, every year.
They are shaking at the thought of the the nuclear family, let alone nuclear energy.
😂👌💯
Good one 😂
Ha ha
Hi, I'm from the Government and I'm here to help!
"A reactor running at 470 degrees doesn't cool the planet"
....this guy is seriously supposed to be a leading figure and intellectual in the anti-nuclear movement? I can't even begin to wrap my head around how idiotic the above quote is/
Such a great way to start the day...cup of coffee and some common sense from Stossel.
Some Stoss and a Redbull haha
2 redbulls and 1 coffee pot later, yep I'm ready for some Stossel.
Not really common sense anymore. I think it's time to start calling it notso common sense now.
@@JustNobodyButME Sad but true.
@@attorneyarrasmith I hope you don't live in the communist parts of the state... LOL!
The thing that has always irked me is to think how much better and safer newer plants would be if we had never had the scare tactics.
The sad thing is that even with the core of TMI turned into slag, containment worked, and minimal activity was released. It should have been celebrated that meticulously crafted safeguards worked even when the operators failed to notice symptoms. But no, we got endless propaganda, and needless pumping of CO2 via hydrocarbon burn which the eco-zealots claim to oppose.
I have seen worse.
I always thought that about cars. If there was no "gas shortage" in the 70's (I think that was all a put on any ways), and we didn't have stupid catalytic converters and what not to make our cars environmentally "friendly" we would have had better cleaner more efficient cars today in the 2020's than we even do now. Things always improve with time, so all that time we lost, would have been spent developing better cars. Same thing with the nuclear stuff.
@@AlanTherby During that time we did develop a lot of better technology for cars, maybe not as fast without the barriers but it still happened, there was also a lot of progress on better fuel alternatives along the way. To this day they're trying to stop research from happening on "wrong subjects", only being somewhat successful recently by silencing research and people in universities.
It does not work that way, when car become more efficient with fuel we just build bigger, more equipped cars thus not lowering the consumption. I’m in Europe so the situation is probably not exactly like the us but an average car consume 5l/100km since the 60s but they are now about 2 to 3 times heavier (safer, faster, more confortable, with AC…). The limiting factor with travel is cost, plus there is a limite to how much we can improve systems so we probably will never improve that much more.
It’s a common thing with environmental actions call rebound effect and see it every were like the fact that better insolation in homes leads to people heating more thus keeping the consumption the same.
I'm so glad Stossel finally did one of these. Keep them coming! My wife is a physicist specializing in radiation and loves nuclear power. As usual there are scientists, and there are activists. Also, does that activist seriously think that the heat from reactors will warm up the earth?
Yes he does. Because Uranium doesn't decay naturally on its own if we don't dig it out of the ground and "burn it at 570°." Right?
What a clown. 🤡
I love that I get older, but John Stossel manages to keep reporting news and creating informative shows without aging. 👏 Thanks John!
I cant belive that he is like 74
@@JoabeRuben bro. I thought he was like in his early 50s lol
@@JoabeRuben WHAT?! I was thinking "man his age is catching up with him. He almost looks 60" xD dude's now he's like a fountain of youth
Right, John gonna be 95 still strutting around giving us amazing coverage that other won't. True legend.
He's a true journalist.
Activists who say, "Here is a problem, give me power so I can solve it" will not actually solve it because then you wouldn't give them the power they want.
Power runaway. The excuse is always that they never have enough power. If by some miracle they claim all power, the problem is moot then and forgotten.
If they ever "solved" the problems they claim to be addressing, they would be out of work. That's why they are so dangerous. As soon as they "solve" one problem, they look for more so they can stay employed. That is why many people fighting racism have now morphed into advocates for segregation. No logic is too dumb for them.
That would be one of the earliest and most repeated lessons in our school system were it not a set of indoctrination centers.
Just use renewable to get the power. :)
*cough* BLM! *cough cough*
We’ve had the solution to our energy “problem” in the palm of our hands for decades. The crazies just won’t let us take it.
It's a shame that we're so generous in giving these people freedom. The downside of being the good guys with principles.
@@betacuck3145 double edged sword for sure
Crazies wanted to sell the snake oil, ie solar and wind at a premium
@@betacuck3145 thank you for saying it. We're losing our country because we appease these idiots and criminals. I don't think good people will be able to sit by much longer as we watch parasites destroy our once great nation.
@@djricecakes6035 subsidized by our money
I'm so glad I found this channel. John Stossel should get a Nobel Peace Prize!
Sweden increased the amount of nuclear and their energy became cheaper, more abundant, and decreased emissions. Germany got rid of several nuclear plants to rely on more solar and wind, their dependence on fossil fuels went up, their emissions went up, and costs to consumer went up.
Nuclear is literally the way to go. What’s wrong with investing now to reap benefits for decades?
It all translates into this: votes and election. Nothing else.
Sweden went nuclear to then sell their oil
lol
You have to spend money to skim money, and the more you spend the more you can skim. Politicians will absolutely never make a decision which cuts spending.
That was such a stupid idea by german conservatives to abolish nuclear 2011; plus another tech we stopped to develop to go back to the coal age burning coal while neighbors decreased their emissions by nuclear
Of course renewables are the future but we need nuclear to bridge it
@@charlesbourgoigne2130 Please dont call the CDU conservative. They are pretty much leftists by todays standards
My husband works for our local nuclear plant that's no longer in production, but still requires a lot of upkeep. Thank you for bringing light to this. Nuclear really is the safest way to go. Environmentalists would do well to get on board with it.
SONGS SRO?
Tell that to the millions dying of cancer in Japan. I mean really you think Nuke power is safer than natural gas? Stupid comment, your husband is a fool also.
@@luchacefox259 No civilian is dying from radiation exposure from Fukishima. You liberals lie, you know you lie, and you do not care that you lie as long as it advances your War.
@@luchacefox259 Bot
Don’t take advice from hippies. We should have many more reactors in every state!
Hippies still suck today.
Solid advice. We should have more reactors and Cuomo is closing them. It's almost like the NYS gov wants to push people to other states
I am sorry, but if we did do this where would we get the parts from. china with its biggest nuclear manufacturing complex. we would be building for a new energy source on cheap garbage Chinese parts that are probably set up so they can press a button a cover the US continent in a big old radiation cloud.
@Bogdanmeoff have you not realized how much safety protocols have evolved since then?
Not to mention, Chernobyl wasn't the fault of nuclear power as a whole, it was the fault of bad design, and the workers screwing around with it.
Do you really want a Nuclear Reactor in your back yard???
Developing thorium reactors should be the top priority right now. I've heard that it's very safe and doesn't produce as dangerous byproducts.
I was taught to fear Nuclear energy, I didn't really investigate why, I just went along, then one of my kids asked my why and pretty much said the exact same thing that is in this video. Great job on the information. The trouble is people get set in their beliefs and their minds close and no matter the evidence you cannot change their minds.
I grew up fearing it as well. As a young woman I remember passing by Limerick, PA and going "was that 3 mile island"? Fearing the looming cooling towers because I didnt understand them.
Either that or just realize that being wrong is profitable and proceed to lie and misinform just to remain in power and control.
It's astounding how many people would rather double down on a falsehood for the rest of their life than admit they were wrong and move on.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 It's neurological. People who are emotional thinkers don't respond well to logical challenges. Their brain processes it as an attack and can even trigger fight or flight response. The chemical dump of dopamine and adrenaline from the fight or flight response actually drives them deeper into their belief and they can become chemically addicted to it. Read "The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided on politics and religion". The author spends a good amount of time going into actual scientific studies on the neurological differences between left and right leaning people. One of the studies was able to consistently determine a persons political leaning based solely on a CAT Scan.
Look at the Navy, they have been using nuclear power in their equipment for years without a single major meltdown.
Update: 5400 reactor years of operation.
I was gonna say something about that, but you did it for me.
The US leads the world in nuclear technicians. These people in the military work on so much more complex reactor designs and when they leave the military they often have to go overseas to find work. The US should be leading the world in nuclear energy and we would have cheap sixth generation realtors that are incapable of meltdown by now. We would be contracted by governments all over the world to build them and AOC wouldn't be a thing.
Absolutist activists suck the life out of everything.
Its okay for a floating nuclear powered city, but political corruption prevents the tax payers from having cheap clean energy
@@djricecakes6035 you gave me an idea! Floating nuclear powered city... could build it on top of the pile of garbage floating around in the middle of the Pacific :)
Meltdowns occur when an accident is made in the attempt of maximizing efficiency. Nuclear was still a new tech for us with how few reactors there were around the world. Its not so new anymore and we are getting better and better at how we produce power from it.
I always give respect to the people who come on to Stossel's show because giving answers to the questions the opposite side is asking is way more important than being silent.
They might be showing up when other's don't... Yet they always end up arguing amoral positions...
i notice more and more media hysteria in the video evidence clips. what they all have in common is the New York Times logo. has anyone held them accountable?
Agreed, at least Harvey Wasserman was unapologetic and honest about his activism. I would much rather have clarity and know why someone stands the way they do.
But then again, I do like how some debate by gluing themselves to objects to.
I could watch John's videos all day, he always presents things in a fair manner. 👍👍
As long as they maintain this fear, their pockets will be full.
John Stossel is a national treasure.
INTERNATIONAL treasure
@@FQP-7024 universal treasure
@@your_waifu_hates_you dang I can’t beat that
@@BertMMA multiversal treasure
@@your_waifu_hates_you haha
Good summary. Where was the science behind Wasserman’s arguments. Sounded more like fear talking points. When pushed about battery disposal...oh yeah. We have to work on that.
legit tho. "they can be and that needs to be dealt with." the most bullshit argument Ive ever heard
Production too. Lithium, lead, strong acids like sulfuric, and waste from refinement. Add to that lifespan. Everyone with a phone or laptop knows this. The issue is the activists that get stuff passed use emotional arguments nearly exclusively. You can't argue facts against feelings.
Did you expect any different from a small-hatted one?
He’s an enviroMENTAList. You expected more?
yo love ur videos on the ender 3
Right on Stossel. At last someone with some common sense. Bravo. Thank god for your clear thinking.
In America we entertain and enable the worst people in society.
Several people have said it, but it’s because problems and struggles make money. Solutions don’t.
Conservatives are the ones that keep destroying our society. We anarcho leftists are the future of America ✊🌹
Pander to the lowest common denominator.
@@TurtleChad1 Yeah. All 17 of you are totally the future. Sorry, but unless you are a Capitalist, your future is going to be dim and short.
@@TurtleChad1 yea your future looks great, overpriced power, defunded police with crime ridden cities. Oh joy.
I’ve got so much respect for this man. I used to watch his 20/20 shows and loved every single one. If journalists these days would have half of Stossel’s integrity, sincerity and responsibility... Just dare to imagine that world.
Absolutely, he's what I thought a journalist was when I was a kid
Amen
The panicked reaction a fear is almost always more harmful than the subject of that fear.
@jaysd63 More eloquent, lol.
"The only thing we shuould fear, is fear itself".
Just shut their electricity off. And then they can't complain.
"But batteries are nasty ."
Glib answer: "Yes they are and that has to be dealt with."
Not to mention how "nasty" solar panels are... They don't last forever and have to be replaced every 10 to 20 years and you can't just throw them into landfills.. because they leak toxic chemicals as they decompose... Solar in its current form isn't the answer...
@@garyhendershot9153 i will have to look this up
@@garyhendershot9153 25 years up to 40*
Modern residential panels have warranties that last 25 years, and if you buy enough to replace your overall power draw, will pay for themselves withing a decade.
@@JS-po8oc And who will pay for all those panels in the first place?
@@brentieXmledor The people who buy them...what
Thanks for telling the truth John. It is sure good to see a qualified journalist back in the mainstream.
They want control over the energy, so they can decide who gets electricity and who does not.
??? So that's why they want everyone to have solar on their own roof that they control??? If they wanted control of energy wouldn't 'they' WANT centralized nuclear over distributed solar?
They can already do that
Exactly
@Sub Scriptions ??? All the heating at my house is electric... with a heat pump. Wasn't hard to replace with PV... I produce >4x more than I use annually.
@George Mann .... really not that expensive. I bought a ~20kWh bank of batteries for $3k. I only need the grid maybe 5% of the time. If I wanted that could be a generator. 100# of propane would last 10 years. The penultimate is an electrolyzer so I can use solar I waste when the batteries are charged to make H2. Then use that H2 later instead of the grid or propane. Basically have a propane tank I can refill with solar :D
Thanks John from NZ. You really are one of the last journalists
I have two three mile island stories, the first one is that much of my family lived in Harrisburg Pennsylvania in fairly close proximity to 3 mile Island. A couple cousins got scared because of all of the yellow journalism associated with it but no one got sick. The second story is that I worked near Brookhaven national labs were many of the physicists and scientist that developed the systems in 3 mile island worked. I had one friend that was a manager there who said after 3 mile island happened these guys were having a party because all of the safety features and the safety measures the design worked perfectly! Exactly as designed to not cause any problems and health risks. So anybody screaming it was a terror and a national disaster didn’t really know the details.
It really is a testament to our design capability. The reactor operators reacted in exactly the worse possible way (due in part to a sensor malfunction) and the outcome was basically nothing.
It's interesting to compare this to Chernobyl, where chunks of graphic which blew out of the reactor were just lying around the plant.
@@davidcox3076 From what I understand and this is really coming from a layperson I’m not a physicist a don’t know anything about the construction of reactors but the design of the Chernobyl plant was fundamentally different from 3 mile Island around the containment systems for the reactors. From what I understood and again please see my previous disclaimer food containment systems were not the same at all. Which is why the explosion was much more violent.
@@robertcohen1888 I'll confirm for you. I am a physicist and was a nuclear reactor mechanic in the Navy. On a very basic level, the Chernobyl reactor was built to be unstable. It required constant corrections and calculations done hundreds of times a second to keep from melting down. If they lost all power to the control rods, the plant would have exploded. All modern reactors and all reactors ever built in the US are inherently stable. They require constant corrections to maintain operation. If a modern reactor loses all power to the control rods, they slam shut and turn off the reactor. Our reactors are designed to fail in a safe way. Chernobyl was designed to fail miserably... and it did.
As a side note, the USSR had nuclear submarines like the US but they decided it was cheaper to exchange crew occasionally than to properly shield their reactors. Looking back at it, it seems like they were trying to kill people.
@@MM3Soapgoblin thank you so much for adding to this thread. Your insights are absolutely invaluable and I'm so glad that you could educate me on these things.
And thank you for your service in the Navy!
In the USSR human capital was always much cheaper than anything else and they treated them as such.
Ignorance is keeping us from real progress. Thanks for fighting the good fight John!
This a good channel, I hope it never gets cancelled for sharing facts.
Support it
Don't give them any ideas
3 Mile Island was a giant NOTHINGBURGER.
I guarantee the three people that hit the dislike button (@ 7:46am on 20APR2021) had their minds made up before hitting play.
Thank you again John Stossel!
Haha, it looks like an hour later one of them changed their mind.
Their lives are probably just one massive downvote embodied.
UA-cam is taking away the dislike counter. I can't even see how many dislikes there are on this video and I get a message about how they are testing this on a small group of users.
I already had my mind made up choosing the thumbs up. Knew Stossel would nail it. That one interview was funny though.
I've been saying the same thing, John. Let's start our own country.
You can call it “Jon/hn”
@@Xalta_Sailor ha ha! I don't care what is called as long as common sense is allowed
It pains me when "environmentalists" say renewable technologies are advancing and will be better and cheaper, yet they assume nuclear technology isn't advancing. Chernobyl and Fukushima plants were from the 70's yet they're using their failures as excuse that newer, safer and more efficient plants shouldn't be built, thus we have to resort to burning fossil to provide consistent power because renewables are still struggling to do just that.
Btw everyone, the "smoke" you see coming from the "stacks" on nuclear plants is VERY clean. There isn't anything nasty about it..
That's water vapour, not smoke.
@@tjmarx right, pretty much
Correct because those "stacks" aren't "smokestacks: they're *cooling towers*.
My grandparents in PA have been on nuclear power for decades. It's a 20 minute drive from their house. Nothing happened. They're more concerned with the radon seeping out of the ground than the nuclear power plants.
Even radon isn't nearly as threatening as gov't regulations make it out to be. The mandated "safe" level is far, FAR below the amount that actually causes any statistically significant increased cancer risk.
Guess who pushed hardest for those regulations? Radon mitigation system installers.
@@grantjohnson5785 yeah I know. They've lived there since at least before 1974 when my dad was born and still haven't gotten cancer. They really aren't worried about it and even less worried about the nuclear power right next to them.
@WINNER they live in boyertown
My dad worked around uranium mines in the early 50's and coal mines in the 70's. He died of natural causes last Oct. at the age of 93.
@@xtctrader1467 Funny how some "extremely hazardous" materials are a lot less dangerous and deadly than people commonly believe.
My father was a nuclear engineer who worked for Gulf Atomic until the industry collapsed in 1972. The second collapse was after Three Mile Island, but my father lost his job and the industry was originally crushed in 1972.
Well done Mr Stossel, brilliant as always, we need you in Britain.
The president, Jimmy Carter, literally walked around the site of 3 Mile Island right after the incident. The worst case scenario happened, and everybody was okay and the plant is still running.
and then banned reprocessing thereby creating the waste problem of today
Carter also knew a bit more about nuclear power than the average POTUS. He served on a nuclear sub in the 1950s and also helped in the cleanup of the experimental NRX reactor in Canada after its core melted down.
TMI-2 which melted down was never restarted. TMI-1 was offline at the time for refueling. It eventually was restarted in 1985 but was permanently shutdown in 2019.
Nuclear power plants routinely kill birds including raptors...Oh wait, that’s wind power.
You had me there in the first half bgl
I like this guy a lot. No BS, right to the core of the issue, and tell it like it is to every person he interviews. Keep doing these videos, please.
The conflation of Chernobyl and regular reactors always confuses me. There was so much wrong with the Chernobyl plants, it didn’t even have a containment dome.
Imagine if we banned cars because some car in the USSR didn’t have brakes
Exactly! I wish more people realized this.
Chernobyl used graphite (flammable) to dampen neutrons, while everyone else uses a kind of water. (non-flammable). If they had just engineered things a little differently, the disaster wouldn't have been a disaster.
The USSR didn't shield their nuclear submarines either. It was cheaper and easier to swap out crews than to build decent shielding... It's like they were trying to kill people with nuclear power.
@@ROGER2095 the RBMK reactors kept being used with some added safeties, Chernobyl's engineering could have survived if it wasn't for plain old Soviet incompetence. The plant was operational even though it was behind on safety testing. Obviously the plant manager wanted the tests to be rushed because everything is based on lying to higher ups. They screwed around with power generation before the tests because it was the end of the month and factories needed to fill quotas. The inherent danger of the design was theorized by scientists but the paper suppressed by Soviet censorship. So when the Xenon poisioned reactor was about to stall they pulled out as many of the control rods as possible to surge the power back up, and doing so triggered the positive void coefficient as the water turned to steam. The scramming procedure forced the graphite to go through the part of the reactor that was going out of control before the boron neutron absorber control rod could tame the reaction.
I can see the Fermi Nuclear Power Plant 14 miles away from atop the Riverview landfill. It looks just fine.
My parents work at the site in Idaho and they are working on getting reactors the size of a fridge that can go in a home. It is the cleanest and most efficient energy we have.
@Charles Larkin Well, it sounds nice on paper. But there's always the issue of nuclear materials being used for nefarious purpose such as dirty bomb, if they're that easily accessible.
@Charles Larkin Classic false equivalency. There's huge difference between a car running over a few people, and multiple city blocks rendered inhospitable. People like you are exactly why we can't have nuanced sensible discussions anymore.
@@DejectedCat the bomb causes more damage than the dirty materials.
@@DejectedCat "a few people" over the last decades the number was 40k to around 30k a year. In fact a few years of road fatalities are enough to match the casualties from the detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
@@DejectedCat \ My man you can make a home made bomb with common store stuff that could level a building.. Stop the fear
The herd is told it's dangerous, whilst it is the best short and mid-term solution. Nice to see someone showing the truth...
It’s a very great long term solution too. Thorium reactors means there’s 4x as much nuclear material that we can react out there than we thought and fusion reactors would solve the energy crisis for centuries
I hate when "comedians" like John Oliver tell us everything we need to know about everything when they don't really know jack sh*t about anything.
And Oliver is nowhere near the only jerk doing this.
Your videos are life-changing. So insightful and tactful in a way that is unprecedented these days. Thank you Team Stossel.
"Store energy in batteries", which is mined lithium, which is harmful to the enviroment and has to be mined with diesel equipment, what a solution! it almost seems like it isn't one!
I'm pro nuclear and think battery storage is a crock (if you need to store energy at scale: pumped hydro), but:
1: A large fraction if lithium mining looks more like a water well then a strip mine (it can be dissolved in water and pumped up)
2: If you don't care about weight, *sodium* ion batteries work nearly as well and and there is >100M tons of sodium per cube mile of ocean water (compared to
The only journalist I trust.
I lived in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania a couple of miles away from Three Mile Island I had no ill effects from that and knew no one who had any ill effects
I'm glad to hear that. I remember the incident growing up and to hear the media in Ks. talk about it, we thought half of Pennsylvania was gonna melt.
3 minutes in and I'M HOOKED! I've always appreciated your work and in glad I've rediscovered you!
This man’s videos are pure gold.
I was thinking about this very nuclear power question in the past week. I can’t believe he’s just come out with this. The topic is HUGE.
Yup... Pure gold!
@@junior.von.claire it bothers me that some people won’t even consider it...
This man’s videos are pure shit.
@@jesperlykkeberg7438 🐂💩
Thanks John For fighting a good fight For America While It's still is😎🇺🇸🤗
Keep it up John!!!
It’s not about nuclear accidents, it’s about power and control.
I recently did a pavement for a battery waste facility. I do that asphalt pavement every 2 years because the acid in the battery eat the asphalt in no time. The guy who use the bulldozer to move the battery waste has to do blood transfusion every 6 months because of the high levels of plumb in his blood for the battery waste vapors.
After you separe the acids and metals from the plastic you have to melt the metal parts to separe the varius kind of metals and reuse them. That process creats A LOT of CO2.
A normal battery for a car weights 30 kg and you can read some of the "costs" above.
A new electric car from mercedes with eco-incentives from europe that makes it cheaper than the regular one has 600 kg of lithium batteries.
I think that climate change could become a real treath if we continue with this nonsense.
lithium batteries dont have lead or acid in them. there are begining to be places that actually recycle lithium ion batteries. but they are not the solution to the grid
Jesus there's people who recover lead from such sources for bullets and despite working in their home shop they have enough safety to not get their lead levels that high.
Please make a second part showing who is really behind the prevention of the surge of this new source of energy
*old source*
@@JoabeRuben who could it be now?
I worked around radioactive equipment for nearly 40 years. Safety is an individual responsibility. each individual is a member of the team. The team is only good of all members work together. Neither I nor my team has suffered any problems. And productivity was better with the equipment.
My boss used to work as structural engineer in sweden, with nuclear power plants. His experience is that draconian regulations makes nuclear power plants many times more expensive than they need to be. Governments are aiming for a safety level that is many times higher than in oil & gas. I currently work as an engineer in the offshore wind power, and seeing the offshore wind from a designer stand point is making me the biggest advocate for nuclear power.
I'm more of a left leaning and don't agree with him on everything but this is something I definitely do agree with him on. People fear things they do not understand and those who fear nuclear energy definitely don't understand it.
We are sorry to hear that. It's a very serious issue. Good luck, hope you get that taken care.
Voltaire
“Those who can make you believe absurdities,
can make you commit atrocities.”
As proven by the Nazi’s
@@prepperjonpnw6482
AND EVEN WAY MORE SO by Stalin and Mao. and Pol Pot and Kim Jong Un and Niclaus Maduro and every fascist Marxist tin pot LEFT WING dictator since AND they ARE STILL ACTIVE calling themselves "Progressives" and "Democratic Socilaists" from Hell. THOUSDANDS of trianed Marxist economiists and Politicians and Academics in and OUT of Governments WORLWIDE like the United Nations and European Union.
NEED a WORD COURT TRIAL OF ANYTHING Karl Marx !
@@lorenzo6mm sir, this is a Wendy's
@@manualspiceyapple3788 Sir,this is MASS MURDER by Karl Marx.
I remember when reporters like John Stossel were the standard for reporters, not the fringe.
John Stossel is a master reporter, and a national treasure. Thank you for all you do.
🎶The best part of waking up is Stossle in your cup. 🎶
thats gay
@@gayrunnycumstain precisely
Ewww
Ah yes. I am glad that more and more people know about nuclear power and how good it has become over the years. Very Epic!!
Nuclear power is one solution to global warming
Stossel is a national treasure! God speed!
Very often I do not agree with John's viewpoints BUT I think he is a very reasonable person to have a good conversation with. I enjoy his videos...
Thanks for taking the time to shower and dress before giving your interview, Harvey. LOL
Damn hippies!
he did look 'un-washed' : /
Well since he powers his house by solar, he can only shower once a month :)
@@KG-th3cr Ha!
I am curious if the batteries in the US would fit in a Walmart.
“I’ll use your fossil fuel energy to charge my electric car”
OR... OR.... just put a dozen solar panels on a carport :) Shade and all the energy your car needs. Win-Win :D
America needs to have many similar designed plants to expand training and safety
‘Activist’ is another word for ignorance, intolerance, and self-importance with truth and openness completely expendable.
In this case yeah but usually it depends
And what are you?
We're still exiting the last ice age... Yeah lets switch to all windmills and solar. Worked well for Texas last winter right guys?
And that was with only 1/5th of energy being supplied by solar/wind. Imagine if it was 3/4. More people would have died than from hurricane Katrina.
You can have a "opinion" on climate change but texas was just dumb. They thought that nothing could harm them.
@@0pt0gy70 Yet Mars rover used solar power for 15 years in far colder MARS. Texas problem is entirely due to poor engineering, not anything to do with technology.
One of our nuclear power reactors shut down because of the cold, and the majority of the affected power production was natural gas. The problem was nothing was built to handle the cold. Not any specific type of energy production.
I’m kinda in the do it all camp. The renewable stuff and build more nuclear reactors.
Gas was the hardest hit and one nuclear power plant shut down too. Texas was screwed because they cut corners when building their infrastructure and because they didn´t want to be part of the national grid.
Nuclear power is the future. Might I also add that the workers in Chernobyl were also neglecting their duty and being lazy (oversimplification)
Not to mention that their core was a piece of crap, even for it's time.
@@Ixmore Today’s lesson: never trust anything Soviet built
They weren't lazy, they just didn't know wtf was going on, because they had such poor supervisors and management.
@@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin negligence of duty and improper training can be lethal
According to the HBO show, on how you take it, it was a breach of procedure, and a person's push to bypass safety measures to complete testing so he could get his promotion.
Please don't forget Hanford when your recalling nuclear disasters in the USA. Thank you for what you do John
You know this is why it's worth watching this channel since you see both sides not only one
Good report John. Thanks 🙏🏻
I love it when environmentalist want to turn off nuclear power.
And when they achieve it, they open up brown coal plants the replace the power.(Germany)
Way a go Greenpeace!
"There is climate change because of hot things." ... good lord
Does he include all the magma beneath our feet? Or the heat generated by uranium decay, whether we harness it or not?
lol that statement was incredible
As always thank you, for cutting through the emotions and pointing out the logic.
John Stossel. One true journalist. Thank You for what you do. ❤️
So glad to see you still fighting back. I know you have had medical problems and we enjoy what you do. Thank you!
Former Naval Nuclear Reactor Electrician here. Nuclear power is the safest way to make power. The U.S. Navy has a FLAWLESS Record.