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@@inotoni6148 I am not monitoring active situations in real time. I am aware of Germany selling peak solar and peak wind at negative prices, and then buying power at positive prices when solar and wind aren’t producing. I’m unaware of anyone depending on Germany to provide power in any reliable way. I am aware of the entire grid being unstable and the possibility of Brownouts and Blackouts during this winter which may lead to countless deaths (I really hope that doesn’t happen) but the completely irresponsible behavior by politicians and direction of policy is leading toward this.
need moar better memes! also, it kinda feels bad that you have these misinformed green activists being sooo against nuclear power... and often they don't even have any viable alternative plans, some of them straight up promote fossil fuel propaganda instead! i.e. biogas or wood chips and all that bs but solar and wind per se, they are definitely still part of the greenification solution! just add some batteries :)
So, if we are going to mention Chernobyl, we should also acknowledge the fact that the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is working, without incident, in the middle of a literal War Zone.
The Zaporizhzhia plant has been shut down since September, it is not running but relying on the outside grid to keep the rods cool it as they have lost it's emergency generators
also, people don't know or dont want to admire, that Chernobyl happened not by nuclear plant itself, it is a human error. If we make nuclear plant completely automated with software, the chances for another Chernobyl are abysmal. Much more people are dying to get all of the hardware for renewable energy than from a functioning nuclear plant.
@@maksymisaiev1828 I that case, nuclear power plants might be hacked or something. So you will need a decent hacker guard for such power plant to work safely
@@timosha_1366 yeah, it can be hacked if any core component is exposed in the other world. Such systems have actual digital defense on multiple levels. First of all, they are all in restricted local network without any access to internet, second, they are also human guarded to prevent inappropriate break in. Also, there are protections against foreign usb or other devices etc. Hollywood made a lot of misconceptions about how such hacks appear, but in general, unless it is very thought terrorist attack, chances are 0 to just randomly hack inside nuclear plant.
Yeah but how much effort has it taken from the IAEA to avoid a contential disaster? There are pictures of holes in roofs and the plant has run on emergency power multiple times. Working at that plant is probably a more stressful job that being on the front lines.
Man "when I do have conversations with other people that do bring up chernobyl as argument", how I'd love to have a conversation with you at a party or something. I'm really interested in nuclear power, but wouldn't nearly be smart enough to study it, I'd be learning so much from you.
Well, Madam Curie was the woman to win a Nobel prize, fist person to win 2 Nobel Prizes, and the Nobel Laureate parent of a Noble Prize winner. 2 of her children went on to win the Nobel Prize of their own. She is truly and impressive woman.
From what I read, the construction companies in Fukushima ignored the type of once-in-a-hundred year tsunamis and earthquakes that could hit Japan and did not build adequate structures to contain and deal with them in order to cut costs. There were, also, questions raised about the level of training that the workers received that was apparently not as thorough as it should have been, done, as well, to cut costs. These are human and management failures, not nuclear energy failures.
I love this. I'm not a nuclear physicist, just a regular paramedic and I love that you're "mythbusting" nuclear misconceptions. I have the small knowledge of how a nuclear plants work and how safe and clean they are (we still need more research as to how deal with nuclear waste or re-use it in some other way). Lovely channel and I really enjoy your happy attitude towards your vast knowledge.
I am so happy to see a professional in this field doing good UA-cam videos! Hopefully you will only get more popular over time so people can learn the truth about nuclear energy and associated scientific and engineering marvels! Thank you.
3:21 I always say: Bringing up Chernobyl against nuclear powerplants is like bringing up the crash of Concorde against aviation. Just because a plane crashed and killed people, nobody wants to get rid of airplanes.
@@Limpi43 well those crashes led to a rework of the Boing 737 MAX because the chrashes showed that there was an error. Did the Japanese Power plant get reworked to be safe against Earthquakes and Tsunamies?
@@ShirosTamagotchi Since I know what happened with Daiichi and what with Daini after the tsunami, I'm pretty sure that they do as well and wouldn't/haven't leave everything like it was before.
So glad we have Elina so common folks can learn the correct information about nuclear technologies. Nuclear power is clean and safe we need it to save our climate.
Sorry, but climate change is something we have little to no impact on, aside from the fact that Climate change happens already for Billions of years... In other words, we're wasting energy and money against forces we have no control about; mother nature is the boss after all. But do you know what we have control about? The amount of pollution and unnecessary created waste by humanity (Toxic & pointless facial masks, Plastic, inefficient and harmful Solar panels & Wind turbines, mining industry for the purpose of Fake green sustainability etc.) That being said: I fully agree about the nuclear technologies part. Way too many people are educated with outdated information about this matter.
It's not always that easy. Some countries have to deal with things like hurricanes, earthquakes or tsunamis. Others have droughts that limit the availability of cooling water. Also can we trust every country with nuclear energy? They won't build nuclear bombs with uranium rods, but the potential to harm people is big and it stays big for a pretty long time. Therefore we have to handle the active material and the waste with great care and secure it against environmental and human activities for thousands of years.
In France 70% of the energy they produce is nuclear, but last year (I think) all the rivers dried out after a massive drought and they have to close most of the power plants, and then they imported power from Germany
I mean, there's also Fukushima which had the opportunity to show the resiliency in catastrophic conditions but showed instead showed a cascade of competence failures and coverups. :\
I love how you're adding more memes to your videos(aside form the ones you're reviewing). Weather it's a reflection of your humor or just trying to make this subject fun i appreciate
My 2 cents as a German to the topic ( I like nuclear physics but also understand the problems with nuclear power plants): 1. Fukushima had in my understanding much more modern reactors than Chernobyl had. Nonetheless, the lesson here is that human minds seldom can imagine all worst case scenarios. The plants there had an anti Tsunami wall, but the Tsunami that happened was going higher than ever anticipated and flooded the plant area, which lead to the meltdowns and hydrogen explosions. Much more contained than Chernobyl, but nonetheless totally out of control. so there is no 100% fail proof reactor design. 2. It happened at a time when in Germany a debate was going on because there were a lot of (luckily harmless) reactor incidents in our reactors that showed that none of the German power providers sticked to the "rules". they all tried to save money by violating service intervals, saving on personnel etc. in their NPPs. And A crucial factor of reactor safety is to service them regularly to keep them in safe working condition. also, after 9/11 studies were made to see if our plants could withstand a crash with an airliner and as far as I remember, results were not promising. Then after seeing Fukushima incidents happening, a rushed decision was made that "reactor safety" is a real problem and that they have to go. So no new reactors were built since then, however, there was and is a lot of discussion that remaining reactors are needed on the Grid longer and their duty time needs to be prolonged. And yes, German Government in my opinion is making a mess with the forced shift to electric vehicles without a proper charging infastructure, and still buying nuclear power from other countries to compensate, and by over-regulating some areas like car manufacturers while leaving other parts of the industry untouched which produce even more CO2. Biggest CO2 producers in Germany are of course energy providers with their coal power plants. Isn't it ironic?
This video gets my friendly stamp of approval, fantastic video as always Elina. I'm glad my country (The UK) has faith in nuclear and is investing in sites like Sizewell C in Norfolk and Hinkley Point C in Somerset. So we're not going to be as worse off as the Germans.
You mentioned something else that is important: While the west had (in particular) Green peace and other anti-nuclear movements (heavily supported by USSR) the Soviet Union did build a lot of nuclear reactors. And while China talks a lot about their insane water power dam (displacing tens of thousands of people and causing water shortage and earthquakes), and a few solar and wind farms (large by "renewable" standards but a drop in the ocean when it comes to energy production) they are also importing huge amounts of coal from Australia to run their coal power plants, and as you said, they are building nuclear reactors as well.
I don't know why I found that sneeze at the beginning this funny but you made me laugh out loud ! All jokes aside I just want to say that I'm a really big fan of your work and I really hope your channel will grow fast. I've been trying to inform people about nuclear power for a while and, despite the fact that I'm very interested by this subject... sometimes people ask good questions and I just don't know the answer. Your videos are trully helping me understand nuclear power better myself and help me to give more accurate answers when I get in a discussion about nuclear power. I'm currently studying mechanical engineering and your channel alone is making me consider specializing towards nuclear power. I listened to Kyle Hill's or Kurzgesagt's videos about nuclear power and even tho I find them interesting, they never made me consider a career path like you did. I thought you might be interested to know that your videos are making someone consider a career in nuclear engineering/physics. I also have a question : Would you consider doing more in depth videos about nuclear physics and nuclear energy ? A bit like "3Blue1Brown" does with math or "Engineering Explained" does with mechanics once in a while. I'd be really interested by more in depth videos about the subject and I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one.
I'm looking forward to the opening of Olkiluoto 3 here in Finland. It has been delayed a lot, sadly. I have been to Olkiluoto on a field trip with my advanced physics class and it was a really interesting and exciting experience. My boyfriend (now husband) went there too with the class and he had the Olkiluoto schematic poster of the reactor up on his wall when he was still living with his parents. This must have been back in like 2011 or early 2012 I think.
I like this video, but i dont like how it downplays renewable energy sources for a few reasons: - first of all, solar and wind CAN fix energy problems alone with sufficiant energy storage facilities - second, nuclear is more expensive per kWh produced atm then solar and wind (about 5 times as expensive). of course this price difference wil drop massively when energy storage becomes a factor, and is partly due to the inpopularity of nuclear, but it exists at the moment all the same, and as long as we are not switching ~100% to renewables on windy/sunny days it is probably best to replace fossils with the cheapest alternatives. _ third, hydro power blows nuclear out of the water, it is cheaper and almost as reliable. Its also doent depent on a suply chain that can be disrupted by global instability, as we became all to aware of in europe recently, wich nuclear definately does depend on. my fourth point was going to be that i thought that nuclear wast as scalable and powerfull as it is portayed, but i kind of changed my mind during the back of the envelope research i was doing for this comment because of the insanity that is burning coal for power in 2022, just a comparison in mine workers alone, the us employs ~24000 coal miners to produce ~100% of their coal, while canada employs ~2000 uranium miners to produce ~33% worth of the us's uranium consumption. Their energy production is verry similar. so it takes ~4 times as much coal miners to produce the same amount of energy of coal to uranium. it is insane to me that we are stil burning coal.... Overal i am of course fully in favor of reasearching and expanding nclear power, but i do think it is inferiour to wind solar and especially hydro, and i think some of these memes are a bit disingenues.
Thanks for brightening up this otherwise cold and dull Sunday. I'm a very strong proponent of nuclear energy. We ignore it at our peril. Keep up the good work!
Nuclear Physicist: Joking about Germany switching from reliable nuclear plants to unreliable renewables Germany in 2022: Exporting 1 TWh of renewable energy to France because their reliable nuclear plants are offline for months Nuclear Physicist: ☢
Another thing about Germany is that it is mostly geologically stable. So, for most of the country there are no earthquakes that could be felt by humans. Germany would be one of the safest countries in which to build nuclear reactors.
In my option it would be very interesting to see you reacting to Sabine Hossenfelders video 'Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With It?' (or one of her other Videos regarding nuclear energy)! 🙂Of cause you can right away complain about her background image in the first minute of the video (the classic: cooling towers as a symbol of a nuclear power plant), but I would describe her as a person whose views and positions I don't always like, but whose videos I watch anyway because it's not about confirming my already established views over and over again, but about questioning them too.
Once you've finished your Chernobyl series Vanity fair has a vid on their UA-cam channel where they had a doctor who was actually there review some scenes of that show. Titled "Chernobyl doctor fact checks HBO series" might be worth looking at to bring the saga to a close
Germany failed in energy policy, agreed. But things aren't that easy. All German nuclear power plants are old (mostly 70s). Building new reactors is very expensive and nuclear energy was substituted to keep it economic. In addition there are cost for storing and handling the nuclear waste. In the 70s it was cheap and easy to just dump it into the ocean. Renewable energies are much cheaper. Of course they have the problem, that they are still not enough and not consistent in their output. Nuclear is not the feature, but a solid and available energy source which can help in the transition. Better than coal anyway. "Kurzgesagt" did a great video on this topic on their channel. Btw. the high energy price in Germany is not because the renewables are so expensive, it's how energy is traded and it's a mess (state is also involved by doing to little).
Great memes! I like the clown in the dark without power. my fav was the workers watching gas/oil/coal doing all the work. thank you for sharing your thoughts!
9:53 In the north of Germany we have coasts to the Northsea and Baltic Sea. But that is not known for being a problem with tsunamis caused by earthquakes. But... In 1962, there was Orkan Vinicinette which caused a terrible storm surge on the northern coast. Stadland is a town which was involved as well, where later in 1978 a nuclear power plant was built. We have faced terrible floodings due to heavy rains not long ago (2021). You can inform yourself about Ahrtal, where a whole region with several cities/towns was destroyed like a tsunami came in. Fortunately there was no nuclear power plant built there. Thanks god there was a decision not to built one there 50 years ago! The next nuclear power plant to this region is nowerdays actually just about 50km away (Mühlheim Kärlich)
The cinnamon stick is the joke but yup the source is real. It is however from the 50s so while still hotter then hell, it is nowhere near as bad as it originally was. 😲😵
I see a lot of mentions of solar and wind when talking about renewable energy options… but what about hydro power? Are we the only ones using it up here in Canada?
not super related but... what are your thoughts on the recent Helion hype and fusion power? is there any chance that we could actually get fusion for real this time and skip fission?
In Finland last year electricity was produced less than 5% from fossiles. Mostly renewables, hydro, wind, biomass and 5 nuclear reactors making more than 1/3. We buy hydropower from Norway and Sweden if it's no wind. And we have large thermal energy storages and heat pumps for areal heating. Some people in the green party are promoting small reactors next to Helsinki for heating. It's simply not viable to stop burning stuff and keep Helsinki warm. Burning wood processing "waste" by tens of truck loads a day is not very good either. Our newest reactor is running half power in windy days, when electricity price is negative. They produce only for long term contracts.
But the overall cost of renewables is lower than of nuclear power, so their crop should be bigger as well...I see it more like the viewable plant stands for the media and publicity while the crop stands for the proportions of today's usage of these technologies. And sorry, but it's indeed possible to produze the same amount of energy only with renewables, even including all types of fuels. It even takes much less space than you would expect. The cosistancy is an issue as of today, but as several efficient storage technologies are available, it's rather a matter of getting it done than a real technological hurdle (the biggest issue with the transition in Germany from my opinion btw, only having a few storage examples today and no sufficient grid at all). But yes, nowadays it makes sense to use nuclear power to close the gap.
Germany was more a case of: Gov: We have a plan, here. Nuclear power plant operators: Ok, then we stop maintenance to save money. The plant will run this way until it is shut down. New Gov: Hey, i have an idea. Let's trash renewables and push fossils. That has absolutly nothing to do with the millions we take from fossile fuel companies. Also, we don't need no plan, we have coal and gas! Nuclear power plant operators: Fine, we keep our scedule then without maintenance. Current Gov: Uhm... our energy sector is kinda lopsided. Renewables make up less then expected and the infrastructure for it is lacking (Hello old govs policies of renewable bans, red tape and diverting of subsidies to fossiles). And now, with the gas crisis, we may need to replan.. Nuclear power plant operators: Not with us. Our plants may run a few month longer then the dead line, but after that? They are already falling apart due lack of maintenance and we finished divesting from them. The plants are now your problem. Gov: Fine, we keep the planed shut down. Better that then having the next Fukushima, just without a natural disaster to blame. AAAAAND the US just blew up our backup plan, literally. We are so boned...
Im in favor of nuclear power plant but i'm also a pilot and aviation historian and hydrogen airships were already obsolete and nearly phased out completely when the Hindenburg exploded (only 2 were regularly flying in the world). And RBMK reactors are still being used in 2022 and will be used at least until the 2030s. Also only 35 people died from the hindenburg and between 4000 and 16,000 deaths resulted from chernobyl. That being said the message overall is still on solid ground. Samsung especailly is making amazing modern reactors today.
RBMKs will be with us even longer than that. If all goes well, Smolensk Unit 3 will not be shut down until 2050(!). It is the most modern of the RBMK type reactors. After the Chernobyl accident, the remaining RBMKs were drastically improved with regard to their safety, stability etc. There is still the matter of not having a full containment building, but as far as RBMKs go they have cleaned up quite well.
Well France produces most of its electricity from nuclear power and had to activate old oil powerplants to import electricity from Spain and Germany, because intermittently they were 32 of 56 Nuclear power plants been shut down, since they had not enough water for cooling or due to maintenance of the reactors. Doesn't seem to be the most stable energy resource to me.
I do have to wonder what they were thinking when they decided to place a reactor where they did in Fukushima with the knowledge they had about the fault lines.
Just discovered and joined your awesome channel. I am just an electronics technician, but love nuclear physics and all about radioactivity. I own a Geiger counter and some radioactive minerals. Greetings from Mallorca, Spain !
2:31 - very clever, and I like this too! People are very "Simpsonised" in their way of thinking about nuclear power. The first thing I had to learn when talking to people about my job at a nuclear plant, was how to explain that I don´t glow in the dark.. So I showed quite a few of those girls... But they didn´t learn? Most of them wanted me to show again?
About Fukushima. It wasn't just that an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami knocked out power plant. There were some multiple decades old design flaws that would have prevented the cores from melting down, such as having back up generators on the roof instead of in the basement. And even with the unprecedented tsunami and flooded back up generators, the release of radiation was still relatively small compared to Chernobyl. Point is, a rational look at Fukushima should be encouraging about nuclear power, not discouraging. I see a world in the near future that the vast majority of residential power is provided by private solar panels on their roofs/ in their yards and nuclear takes up all the slack and also provides for industry and business.
I´m giving my friendly nuclear physicist a thumb up. Hold on. I just want to show my appreciation... Let´s just leave it at that. 0:58 - I can confirm, working at a nuclear facility, this pattern would form on every camera close to radiation, even behind lead glass. This is why I don´t think this is very radioactive at all. These specs can´t really tell anything about the radiation levels, but I guess they are a cool effect in paintshop. The specs would not be concentrated around the object like in this picture, but more evenly distributed. There are some areas totally free of interference, it would not happen around a source as I know it. 1:22 - This is the best part about nuclear! It has next to no footprint, but it delivers massive amounts of power. It is, in fact the perfect partner for renewables. It will always be able to provide power, regardless of wind or sunshine, and it does not emit climate gases. As much as I like the depiction of renewables being all talk and no money, I come from a land built on hydroelectrics, so... I can´t really get 100% on board with that ;) Wind power is bullshit, though. And the people owning it would tell you so too, if they had any balls. But they won´t as long as governments keep throwing money at them for keeping the scam going.
3:27 if the risk of catastrophic failure gets decreased by 90% but the amount of planes/nuclear power plants increases by times 10, then you'll still get the same amount of catastrophic failures.
The meme is correct about Germany, but it is now slightly out of date. Germans have decided to stop decommissioning reactors (at least for now) and leave a few nuclear plants still running until April 2023. We will see if they come to their senses and keep them on after that. (seach: Germans delay nuclear phase-out) Funny enough, it was the lack of access to FOSSIL FUEL (the Nordstream pipeline from Russia) that caused them to keep the plants open.
The temporary extension just glosses over the problem for one winter and next year they f***ed. Never been more ashamed of my country (for current actions, not past ones) than when they decided to exit nuclear power production. Bunch of clowns.
As a german I can't say that we ran out of power after shutting down nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants are also far from running 100% of the time. Due to maintenance and breakdowns, they only generate energy around 50% of the time. It takes two days to a week to start up. This is too slow to compensate for wind or solar lulls.
Have you done a video on nuclear fusion reactors? I keep hearing about new gains fusion, but I can't tell if it's all hype or something we will see in the near future.
I think hydro electric power should be used where it can be, and nuclear everywhere else. (Now this is based on the assumption that hydro electric is safer and cleaner, if I am wrong, please correct me, ideally with evidence)
If you enjoy this channel I would recommend the Decouple podcast. It’s a Canadian ER doctor that is pro nuclear. There you can get a great understanding of energy, history, economics, activism ect that mainly relates to nuclear energy.
Hello, new subscriber here. I live in Bermuda, a very small island that is essentially shackled to fossil fuel. There's been a major push to switching to renewables (which ARE feasible due to our small size) that has been largely brushed aside by the government. In addition, due to the central power plant, solar is less viable around the center of the island. Would nuclear be a viable alternative?
For all that it´s worth, and I see all the humour about these memes as well, I really want to end on a positive note, and I really do feel that nuclear has a much better chance today than it ever had in my 20 year career in this field. Even after Fukushima, and that brings me real hope. Because that disaster actually killed almost 20000 people. I will not defend Tepco at this point, so some of the aftermath might lie on them, but all their staff seems to have done all they could in a more than stressful situation. Please remember that these people also worried about their loved ones during the tsunami, even though Netflix want you to believe that it was always the other way around. It was a national crisis, not limited to one power plant. Aftershocks were also a concern, even though those of us that are privileged does not understand what that means.
Again another great educational and fun video! Don't think you could make fun out of these two suggestions but definitely educational 😉 1. The Goiânia accident 2. The Demon Core But surely these represent a higher radiation public health risk than any modern nuclear power plant? The chances of individual humans being irresponsible with radioactive material is surely a higher risk than modern highly regulated power industry?
That we checked our safety protocols after Fukushima was a good call, take the aviation approach: "Something happened, how would that affect us? And while we're at it, let's perform a general risk assessment of our safety equipment and improve it accordingly." But shutting down half of the reactors permanently right away was stupid. As you said, Germany has totally different design requirements than let's say Japan. And even if we leave that out of the equation, the reactors in Fukushima withstood the earthquake and the tsunami itself, it was the safety net that failed. If the emergency generators wouldn't have drowned in the waves, they would have been sufficient to keep the reactors under control. Memo to every nuclear reactor designer: Don't place your emergency equipment at a lower level than your mains.
Hey i am curious what educational degree one should pursue to be an nuclear physicist/ engineer like you. I am an Electronics and Communications engineer working in semiconductor industry .
Commenting for the alorithm. Also while I am here I will 1 up my own previous comment on another video. Please make a video on LFTR's :D Go deep into the details etc if you can :)
Energy is "Power" over people. Control the energy production and you have the political power. Same for food, water, medical, fuel, transportation, etc. Renewables have their obvious limitations and can't supply the total need. Gas & coal plants must be fed fuel daily / continuously and are subject to rail and pipeline failures, supply. With nuclear power there are far fewer excuses available for the evening news as to why the grid is down today. When minutes count nuclear gives you months. Distribution becomes the target. Point is, when there is only enough of anything for 9 people in 10 then the organization controlling that commodity has all the power. It doesn't matter if the supply source is great but the distribution is poop or the distribution is great but the supply is poop. The end result for the people is much the same. Storms & Earth quakes are one thing, politics and activism are something else. Anyway, Elina, many thanks for your YT content! It's good stuff!
@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist >>> This is NOT really meme related, but I was watching your _Chernobyl reviews_ today, and I thought of this: A _'Rule 34'_ version of nuclear fission power involving _"Inserting a _*_CONTROL ROD_*_ into a _*_REACTOR VESSEL."_* {Yes, I *CONSTANTLY* have to keep my *MIND* on a *SHORT LEASH,* or it tends to *WANDER.* 🤭}
Same elements but starting from lower in the periodic table (elements with smaller atomic number then thorium) since they’re produced by thorium decay. Hence they’re radioactive for a shorter amount of time. Only about 300y
Not able to take decent picture of a radiation source? Well clearly you haven't tried hard enough, with enough lead glass its not too difficult, though depending on the glass used and its lead content recalibration of a color cameras spectral sensitivity curve and possibly compensating for chromatic error is needed for it to look as a normal picture would. Alternatively a camera cased in lead looking via a thin 90° mirror or prism would work too. Probably easier then the lead glass as well
If you calculate the half life of those Co-60 tubes vs manufacture date they’re not ARS tier active anymore. Also tangentially relevant but the ☢️ symbol is the wrong way around on the cylinder 🥲. Also having captured CMOS sensor disturbance on my phone (20R/hr beta emitter) it looks nothing like the fake videos and images. There seem to be a ton of fake images of those floating around at the moment. They’re more sporadic flashes and some of them appear as dashes across the screen. They also appear across the entirety of your video or photo 😊.
Fukushima wasn't a nuclear accident or a natural disaster. It was a government corruption problem. The fact that Germany felt it was a concern to them as well speaks volumes.
As a human species,we’re still behind on discovering how to harness universal radiations that accompany Hawking radiation (those would be the tip of an undiscovered iceberg), to have basically free energy everywhere, but we still haven’t been able to discover a lot of things , among them, specifically the type that Elina radiates for me to say, wow this is a beautiful woman,
about the fan blowing the wind turbines,, but they do right?? the nuclear plant produces electricity which goes into the city, and then becomes waste heat which warms the air and results in wind right? ?
Thanks for watching this video, it was fun to film ☢️👩🏽🔬 shout out to Talmaciu Alexandru, one of my subscribers who provided the memes and idea of the meme review!
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The truth is that Germany exports electricity to France, even though France has almost only nuclear plants
@@inotoni6148yes, Germany pays other countries to take their peak solar, then they pay again to buy power due to the duck curve.
@@jsbrads1 Haven't you noticed that France has shut down many reactors for maintenance and therefore has to buy electricity from Germany?
@@inotoni6148 I am not monitoring active situations in real time. I am aware of Germany selling peak solar and peak wind at negative prices, and then buying power at positive prices when solar and wind aren’t producing. I’m unaware of anyone depending on Germany to provide power in any reliable way. I am aware of the entire grid being unstable and the possibility of Brownouts and Blackouts during this winter which may lead to countless deaths (I really hope that doesn’t happen) but the completely irresponsible behavior by politicians and direction of policy is leading toward this.
need moar better memes!
also, it kinda feels bad that you have these misinformed green activists being sooo against nuclear power... and often they don't even have any viable alternative plans, some of them straight up promote fossil fuel propaganda instead! i.e. biogas or wood chips and all that bs
but solar and wind per se, they are definitely still part of the greenification solution! just add some batteries :)
So, if we are going to mention Chernobyl, we should also acknowledge the fact that the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is working, without incident, in the middle of a literal War Zone.
The Zaporizhzhia plant has been shut down since September, it is not running but relying on the outside grid to keep the rods cool it as they have lost it's emergency generators
also, people don't know or dont want to admire, that Chernobyl happened not by nuclear plant itself, it is a human error. If we make nuclear plant completely automated with software, the chances for another Chernobyl are abysmal. Much more people are dying to get all of the hardware for renewable energy than from a functioning nuclear plant.
@@maksymisaiev1828 I that case, nuclear power plants might be hacked or something. So you will need a decent hacker guard for such power plant to work safely
@@timosha_1366 yeah, it can be hacked if any core component is exposed in the other world. Such systems have actual digital defense on multiple levels. First of all, they are all in restricted local network without any access to internet, second, they are also human guarded to prevent inappropriate break in. Also, there are protections against foreign usb or other devices etc. Hollywood made a lot of misconceptions about how such hacks appear, but in general, unless it is very thought terrorist attack, chances are 0 to just randomly hack inside nuclear plant.
Yeah but how much effort has it taken from the IAEA to avoid a contential disaster? There are pictures of holes in roofs and the plant has run on emergency power multiple times. Working at that plant is probably a more stressful job that being on the front lines.
Man "when I do have conversations with other people that do bring up chernobyl as argument", how I'd love to have a conversation with you at a party or something. I'm really interested in nuclear power, but wouldn't nearly be smart enough to study it, I'd be learning so much from you.
Well, Madam Curie was the woman to win a Nobel prize, fist person to win 2 Nobel Prizes, and the Nobel Laureate parent of a Noble Prize winner. 2 of her children went on to win the Nobel Prize of their own.
She is truly and impressive woman.
Indeed!👏
From what I read, the construction companies in Fukushima ignored the type of once-in-a-hundred year tsunamis and earthquakes that could hit Japan and did not build adequate structures to contain and deal with them in order to cut costs. There were, also, questions raised about the level of training that the workers received that was apparently not as thorough as it should have been, done, as well, to cut costs. These are human and management failures, not nuclear energy failures.
I love this. I'm not a nuclear physicist, just a regular paramedic and I love that you're "mythbusting" nuclear misconceptions. I have the small knowledge of how a nuclear plants work and how safe and clean they are (we still need more research as to how deal with nuclear waste or re-use it in some other way). Lovely channel and I really enjoy your happy attitude towards your vast knowledge.
Thank you so much ☢️👩🏽🔬
There have been ways to recycle spent fuel, but no one mentions it
@tomashiczi8454 The newest reactors produce very little waste. Plus, new technologies like Nuclear Diamond Batteries might be a partial solution too.
I am so happy to see a professional in this field doing good UA-cam videos! Hopefully you will only get more popular over time so people can learn the truth about nuclear energy and associated scientific and engineering marvels! Thank you.
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
And this video gets our friendly stamp of approval, as always great video Elina.
Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed it ☢️👩🏽🔬
3:21 I always say: Bringing up Chernobyl against nuclear powerplants is like bringing up the crash of Concorde against aviation. Just because a plane crashed and killed people, nobody wants to get rid of airplanes.
And what about Fukushima?
@@ShirosTamagotchi People can bring up other air crashes as well, but still... Should we get rid of airplanes because of those disasters?
@@Limpi43 well those crashes led to a rework of the Boing 737 MAX because the chrashes showed that there was an error.
Did the Japanese Power plant get reworked to be safe against Earthquakes and Tsunamies?
@@ShirosTamagotchi Since I know what happened with Daiichi and what with Daini after the tsunami, I'm pretty sure that they do as well and wouldn't/haven't leave everything like it was before.
No, we should get rid ou airplanes because of the greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, cars being more dangerous than airplanes every day:
So glad we have Elina so common folks can learn the correct information about nuclear technologies. Nuclear power is clean and safe we need it to save our climate.
Sorry, but climate change is something we have little to no impact on, aside from the fact that Climate change happens already for Billions of years... In other words, we're wasting energy and money against forces we have no control about; mother nature is the boss after all.
But do you know what we have control about? The amount of pollution and unnecessary created waste by humanity (Toxic & pointless facial masks, Plastic, inefficient and harmful Solar panels & Wind turbines, mining industry for the purpose of Fake green sustainability etc.)
That being said: I fully agree about the nuclear technologies part. Way too many people are educated with outdated information about this matter.
It's not always that easy.
Some countries have to deal with things like hurricanes, earthquakes or tsunamis. Others have droughts that limit the availability of cooling water.
Also can we trust every country with nuclear energy? They won't build nuclear bombs with uranium rods, but the potential to harm people is big and it stays big for a pretty long time.
Therefore we have to handle the active material and the waste with great care and secure it against environmental and human activities for thousands of years.
In France 70% of the energy they produce is nuclear, but last year (I think) all the rivers dried out after a massive drought and they have to close most of the power plants, and then they imported power from Germany
I mean, there's also Fukushima which had the opportunity to show the resiliency in catastrophic conditions but showed instead showed a cascade of competence failures and coverups. :\
I love how you're adding more memes to your videos(aside form the ones you're reviewing). Weather it's a reflection of your humor or just trying to make this subject fun i appreciate
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
My 2 cents as a German to the topic ( I like nuclear physics but also understand the problems with nuclear power plants):
1. Fukushima had in my understanding much more modern reactors than Chernobyl had. Nonetheless, the lesson here is that human minds seldom can imagine all worst case scenarios. The plants there had an anti Tsunami wall, but the Tsunami that happened was going higher than ever anticipated and flooded the plant area, which lead to the meltdowns and hydrogen explosions. Much more contained than Chernobyl, but nonetheless totally out of control.
so there is no 100% fail proof reactor design.
2. It happened at a time when in Germany a debate was going on because there were a lot of (luckily harmless) reactor incidents in our reactors that showed that none of the German power providers sticked to the "rules". they all tried to save money by violating service intervals, saving on personnel etc. in their NPPs. And A crucial factor of reactor safety is to service them regularly to keep them in safe working condition. also, after 9/11 studies were made to see if our plants could withstand a crash with an airliner and as far as I remember, results were not promising.
Then after seeing Fukushima incidents happening, a rushed decision was made that "reactor safety" is a real problem and that they have to go.
So no new reactors were built since then, however, there was and is a lot of discussion that remaining reactors are needed on the Grid longer and their duty time needs to be prolonged.
And yes, German Government in my opinion is making a mess with the forced shift to electric vehicles without a proper charging infastructure, and still buying nuclear power from other countries to compensate, and by over-regulating some areas like car manufacturers while leaving other parts of the industry untouched which produce even more CO2. Biggest CO2 producers in Germany are of course energy providers with their coal power plants. Isn't it ironic?
Pull em in with the memes and hit them with the science
This video gets my friendly stamp of approval, fantastic video as always Elina. I'm glad my country (The UK) has faith in nuclear and is investing in sites like Sizewell C in Norfolk and Hinkley Point C in Somerset. So we're not going to be as worse off as the Germans.
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
The 'arm' that the mechanic is wrenching at the 4:20 mark is called a tie rod and yes, it's 110% useless. 🤣
So many Marie Curie mentions on the Nobel Day. This is great.
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You mentioned something else that is important:
While the west had (in particular) Green peace and other anti-nuclear movements (heavily supported by USSR) the Soviet Union did build a lot of nuclear reactors. And while China talks a lot about their insane water power dam (displacing tens of thousands of people and causing water shortage and earthquakes), and a few solar and wind farms (large by "renewable" standards but a drop in the ocean when it comes to energy production) they are also importing huge amounts of coal from Australia to run their coal power plants, and as you said, they are building nuclear reactors as well.
I don't know why I found that sneeze at the beginning this funny but you made me laugh out loud ! All jokes aside I just want to say that I'm a really big fan of your work and I really hope your channel will grow fast. I've been trying to inform people about nuclear power for a while and, despite the fact that I'm very interested by this subject... sometimes people ask good questions and I just don't know the answer. Your videos are trully helping me understand nuclear power better myself and help me to give more accurate answers when I get in a discussion about nuclear power.
I'm currently studying mechanical engineering and your channel alone is making me consider specializing towards nuclear power. I listened to Kyle Hill's or Kurzgesagt's videos about nuclear power and even tho I find them interesting, they never made me consider a career path like you did. I thought you might be interested to know that your videos are making someone consider a career in nuclear engineering/physics.
I also have a question :
Would you consider doing more in depth videos about nuclear physics and nuclear energy ? A bit like "3Blue1Brown" does with math or "Engineering Explained" does with mechanics once in a while. I'd be really interested by more in depth videos about the subject and I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one.
chernobyl was a bunch of soviets fucking with a badly designed reactor and finding out
She preferred to ba addressed as Maria Skłodowska-Curie. We should respect her will
Install home-made wind/solar system: no one cares;
Install home-made nuclear reactor: IAEA invades your house;
I'm looking forward to the opening of Olkiluoto 3 here in Finland. It has been delayed a lot, sadly. I have been to Olkiluoto on a field trip with my advanced physics class and it was a really interesting and exciting experience. My boyfriend (now husband) went there too with the class and he had the Olkiluoto schematic poster of the reactor up on his wall when he was still living with his parents. This must have been back in like 2011 or early 2012 I think.
I like this video, but i dont like how it downplays renewable energy sources for a few reasons:
- first of all, solar and wind CAN fix energy problems alone with sufficiant energy storage facilities
- second, nuclear is more expensive per kWh produced atm then solar and wind (about 5 times as expensive). of course this price difference wil drop massively when energy storage becomes a factor, and is partly due to the inpopularity of nuclear, but it exists at the moment all the same, and as long as we are not switching ~100% to renewables on windy/sunny days it is probably best to replace fossils with the cheapest alternatives.
_ third, hydro power blows nuclear out of the water, it is cheaper and almost as reliable. Its also doent depent on a suply chain that can be disrupted by global instability, as we became all to aware of in europe recently, wich nuclear definately does depend on.
my fourth point was going to be that i thought that nuclear wast as scalable and powerfull as it is portayed, but i kind of changed my mind during the back of the envelope research i was doing for this comment because of the insanity that is burning coal for power in 2022, just a comparison in mine workers alone, the us employs ~24000 coal miners to produce ~100% of their coal, while canada employs ~2000 uranium miners to produce ~33% worth of the us's uranium consumption. Their energy production is verry similar. so it takes ~4 times as much coal miners to produce the same amount of energy of coal to uranium. it is insane to me that we are stil burning coal....
Overal i am of course fully in favor of reasearching and expanding nclear power, but i do think it is inferiour to wind solar and especially hydro, and i think some of these memes are a bit disingenues.
Thanks for brightening up this otherwise cold and dull Sunday. I'm a very strong proponent of nuclear energy. We ignore it at our peril. Keep up the good work!
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
Nuclear Physicist: Joking about Germany switching from reliable nuclear plants to unreliable renewables
Germany in 2022: Exporting 1 TWh of renewable energy to France because their reliable nuclear plants are offline for months
Nuclear Physicist: ☢
Another thing about Germany is that it is mostly geologically stable. So, for most of the country there are no earthquakes that could be felt by humans. Germany would be one of the safest countries in which to build nuclear reactors.
In my option it would be very interesting to see you reacting to Sabine Hossenfelders video 'Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With It?' (or one of her other Videos regarding nuclear energy)! 🙂Of cause you can right away complain about her background image in the first minute of the video (the classic: cooling towers as a symbol of a nuclear power plant), but I would describe her as a person whose views and positions I don't always like, but whose videos I watch anyway because it's not about confirming my already established views over and over again, but about questioning them too.
I really enjoyed this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!☢️👩🏽🔬
Once you've finished your Chernobyl series Vanity fair has a vid on their UA-cam channel where they had a doctor who was actually there review some scenes of that show.
Titled "Chernobyl doctor fact checks HBO series" might be worth looking at to bring the saga to a close
Elina, love this video and I hope you can make it a regular part of your videos.
That's the plan!☢️👩🏽🔬
Germany failed in energy policy, agreed. But things aren't that easy. All German nuclear power plants are old (mostly 70s). Building new reactors is very expensive and nuclear energy was substituted to keep it economic. In addition there are cost for storing and handling the nuclear waste. In the 70s it was cheap and easy to just dump it into the ocean. Renewable energies are much cheaper. Of course they have the problem, that they are still not enough and not consistent in their output. Nuclear is not the feature, but a solid and available energy source which can help in the transition. Better than coal anyway. "Kurzgesagt" did a great video on this topic on their channel.
Btw. the high energy price in Germany is not because the renewables are so expensive, it's how energy is traded and it's a mess (state is also involved by doing to little).
Great memes! I like the clown in the dark without power. my fav was the workers watching gas/oil/coal doing all the work. thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Glad you enjoyed! That was one of my favs too ☢️👩🏽🔬
9:53
In the north of Germany we have coasts to the Northsea and Baltic Sea. But that is not known for being a problem with tsunamis caused by earthquakes. But... In 1962, there was Orkan Vinicinette which caused a terrible storm surge on the northern coast. Stadland is a town which was involved as well, where later in 1978 a nuclear power plant was built.
We have faced terrible floodings due to heavy rains not long ago (2021). You can inform yourself about Ahrtal, where a whole region with several cities/towns was destroyed like a tsunami came in. Fortunately there was no nuclear power plant built there. Thanks god there was a decision not to built one there 50 years ago! The next nuclear power plant to this region is nowerdays actually just about 50km away (Mühlheim Kärlich)
When a video has a BOI edited in, it gets my stamp of approval. Kratos is proud.
The 3rd picture: I think, here the man with a fan try to work against the wind turbine. Check out the smoke from the cooling tower!
The cinnamon stick is the joke but yup the source is real. It is however from the 50s so while still hotter then hell, it is nowhere near as bad as it originally was. 😲😵
Please make a video on thorium reactors! You explain things so nicely
"It's gonna be a tough game". That's a diplomatic way to put it :p.
Hehe indeed ☢️👩🏽🔬
The "Hindenburg" meme is actually quite a good meta meme, because it was hydrogen responsible for both Tschernobyl aswell as the Hindenburg to blow up
I see a lot of mentions of solar and wind when talking about renewable energy options… but what about hydro power? Are we the only ones using it up here in Canada?
Would you be challenged to do a video about the Asse II mine situation?
And particularly about who is picking up the tab?
not super related but...
what are your thoughts on the recent Helion hype and fusion power?
is there any chance that we could actually get fusion for real this time and skip fission?
Such a good video! Please do more of this, it's entertaining and educational at the same time :)
Thank you! Will do!☢️👩🏽🔬
In Finland last year electricity was produced less than 5% from fossiles. Mostly renewables, hydro, wind, biomass and 5 nuclear reactors making more than 1/3.
We buy hydropower from Norway and Sweden if it's no wind. And we have large thermal energy storages and heat pumps for areal heating.
Some people in the green party are promoting small reactors next to Helsinki for heating. It's simply not viable to stop burning stuff and keep Helsinki warm. Burning wood processing "waste" by tens of truck loads a day is not very good either.
Our newest reactor is running half power in windy days, when electricity price is negative. They produce only for long term contracts.
But the overall cost of renewables is lower than of nuclear power, so their crop should be bigger as well...I see it more like the viewable plant stands for the media and publicity while the crop stands for the proportions of today's usage of these technologies.
And sorry, but it's indeed possible to produze the same amount of energy only with renewables, even including all types of fuels. It even takes much less space than you would expect. The cosistancy is an issue as of today, but as several efficient storage technologies are available, it's rather a matter of getting it done than a real technological hurdle (the biggest issue with the transition in Germany from my opinion btw, only having a few storage examples today and no sufficient grid at all).
But yes, nowadays it makes sense to use nuclear power to close the gap.
The Germany one applies to the U.S. too regarding shutting stuff down before having a plan for how to replace the loss of energy.
Germany was more a case of:
Gov: We have a plan, here.
Nuclear power plant operators: Ok, then we stop maintenance to save money. The plant will run this way until it is shut down.
New Gov: Hey, i have an idea. Let's trash renewables and push fossils. That has absolutly nothing to do with the millions we take from fossile fuel companies. Also, we don't need no plan, we have coal and gas!
Nuclear power plant operators: Fine, we keep our scedule then without maintenance.
Current Gov: Uhm... our energy sector is kinda lopsided. Renewables make up less then expected and the infrastructure for it is lacking (Hello old govs policies of renewable bans, red tape and diverting of subsidies to fossiles). And now, with the gas crisis, we may need to replan..
Nuclear power plant operators: Not with us. Our plants may run a few month longer then the dead line, but after that? They are already falling apart due lack of maintenance and we finished divesting from them. The plants are now your problem.
Gov: Fine, we keep the planed shut down. Better that then having the next Fukushima, just without a natural disaster to blame. AAAAAND the US just blew up our backup plan, literally. We are so boned...
Oh snap that picture is what homer drops in his suit in the opening scenes of the Simpsons lol
Im in favor of nuclear power plant but i'm also a pilot and aviation historian and hydrogen airships were already obsolete and nearly phased out completely when the Hindenburg exploded (only 2 were regularly flying in the world). And RBMK reactors are still being used in 2022 and will be used at least until the 2030s. Also only 35 people died from the hindenburg and between 4000 and 16,000 deaths resulted from chernobyl.
That being said the message overall is still on solid ground. Samsung especailly is making amazing modern reactors today.
RBMKs will be with us even longer than that. If all goes well, Smolensk Unit 3 will not be shut down until 2050(!). It is the most modern of the RBMK type reactors. After the Chernobyl accident, the remaining RBMKs were drastically improved with regard to their safety, stability etc. There is still the matter of not having a full containment building, but as far as RBMKs go they have cleaned up quite well.
Well France produces most of its electricity from nuclear power and had to activate old oil powerplants to import electricity from Spain and Germany, because intermittently they were 32 of 56 Nuclear power plants been shut down, since they had not enough water for cooling or due to maintenance of the reactors.
Doesn't seem to be the most stable energy resource to me.
That is France in a nut shell. They know how to make policy so to be nobody's slave (unlike some very bright Germans). But then fail at quality.
Surprised you haven't done a "you laugh you lose" challenge yet!
I never realized how close "bananas" was to "piranhas".
I do have to wonder what they were thinking when they decided to place a reactor where they did in Fukushima with the knowledge they had about the fault lines.
Just discovered and joined your awesome channel. I am just an electronics technician, but love nuclear physics and all about radioactivity. I own a Geiger counter and some radioactive minerals. Greetings from Mallorca, Spain !
2:31 - very clever, and I like this too! People are very "Simpsonised" in their way of thinking about nuclear power. The first thing I had to learn when talking to people about my job at a nuclear plant, was how to explain that I don´t glow in the dark.. So I showed quite a few of those girls... But they didn´t learn? Most of them wanted me to show again?
Thank you for explaining the nuances of those memes, I would have been lost on a few without. :D
"Nuclear doesnt look that impressive"
Its making electricity using spicy rocks. That is pretty impressive on its own.
About Fukushima. It wasn't just that an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami knocked out power plant. There were some multiple decades old design flaws that would have prevented the cores from melting down, such as having back up generators on the roof instead of in the basement.
And even with the unprecedented tsunami and flooded back up generators, the release of radiation was still relatively small compared to Chernobyl.
Point is, a rational look at Fukushima should be encouraging about nuclear power, not discouraging.
I see a world in the near future that the vast majority of residential power is provided by private solar panels on their roofs/ in their yards and nuclear takes up all the slack and also provides for industry and business.
Don't worry, Germany's "getting most of it's energy from renewable sources". These ones being France and Russia XD
I´m giving my friendly nuclear physicist a thumb up. Hold on. I just want to show my appreciation... Let´s just leave it at that.
0:58 - I can confirm, working at a nuclear facility, this pattern would form on every camera close to radiation, even behind lead glass. This is why I don´t think this is very radioactive at all. These specs can´t really tell anything about the radiation levels, but I guess they are a cool effect in paintshop. The specs would not be concentrated around the object like in this picture, but more evenly distributed. There are some areas totally free of interference, it would not happen around a source as I know it.
1:22 - This is the best part about nuclear! It has next to no footprint, but it delivers massive amounts of power. It is, in fact the perfect partner for renewables. It will always be able to provide power, regardless of wind or sunshine, and it does not emit climate gases. As much as I like the depiction of renewables being all talk and no money, I come from a land built on hydroelectrics, so... I can´t really get 100% on board with that ;) Wind power is bullshit, though. And the people owning it would tell you so too, if they had any balls. But they won´t as long as governments keep throwing money at them for keeping the scam going.
3:27 if the risk of catastrophic failure gets decreased by 90% but the amount of planes/nuclear power plants increases by times 10, then you'll still get the same amount of catastrophic failures.
The meme is correct about Germany, but it is now slightly out of date. Germans have decided to stop decommissioning reactors (at least for now) and leave a few nuclear plants still running until April 2023. We will see if they come to their senses and keep them on after that. (seach: Germans delay nuclear phase-out) Funny enough, it was the lack of access to FOSSIL FUEL (the Nordstream pipeline from Russia) that caused them to keep the plants open.
The temporary extension just glosses over the problem for one winter and next year they f***ed. Never been more ashamed of my country (for current actions, not past ones) than when they decided to exit nuclear power production. Bunch of clowns.
As a German I am so embarrassed by the uneducated decisions my country has made about atom energy.
As a german I can't say that we ran out of power after shutting down nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants are also far from running 100% of the time. Due to maintenance and breakdowns, they only generate energy around 50% of the time. It takes two days to a week to start up. This is too slow to compensate for wind or solar lulls.
Have you done a video on nuclear fusion reactors? I keep hearing about new gains fusion, but I can't tell if it's all hype or something we will see in the near future.
I think hydro electric power should be used where it can be, and nuclear everywhere else. (Now this is based on the assumption that hydro electric is safer and cleaner, if I am wrong, please correct me, ideally with evidence)
Austria got the best nuclear power plant you can even touch the core and swimm in the cooling pool.
I know you are mostly knowledgeable in nuclear fission but could you make a video discussing nuclear fusion and the recent breakthrough?
If you enjoy this channel I would recommend the Decouple podcast. It’s a Canadian ER doctor that is pro nuclear. There you can get a great understanding of energy, history, economics, activism ect that mainly relates to nuclear energy.
more plz I am getting so much less worried about nuclear laughing at these
👩🏽🔬☢️ will do! Thanks
Hello, new subscriber here.
I live in Bermuda, a very small island that is essentially shackled to fossil fuel. There's been a major push to switching to renewables (which ARE feasible due to our small size) that has been largely brushed aside by the government. In addition, due to the central power plant, solar is less viable around the center of the island.
Would nuclear be a viable alternative?
Awesome video so glad I found this channel. Were you planning on making a nuclear waste separations video?
Sure that’s a great idea thanks!☢️👩🏽🔬
As a German I totally agree: Germany is a Meme.
OH MY GOD ELINA YOUR SHIRT IS EVERYTHING ❤❤❤ ITS THE DESIGN FROM YOUR CHANNELS??? CAN WE ALSO GET ONE SOMEONE IF WE WANT ??????
Thank you :) it’s something I’m working on! You might see it on my support page soon☢️👩🏽🔬
4:09 accidents happen and risks are involved with almost everything in this world
This was fun indeed💙, Gets the Friendly Viewers stamp of approval😅😅
Glad you enjoyed it☢️👩🏽🔬
For all that it´s worth, and I see all the humour about these memes as well, I really want to end on a positive note, and I really do feel that nuclear has a much better chance today than it ever had in my 20 year career in this field. Even after Fukushima, and that brings me real hope. Because that disaster actually killed almost 20000 people. I will not defend Tepco at this point, so some of the aftermath might lie on them, but all their staff seems to have done all they could in a more than stressful situation. Please remember that these people also worried about their loved ones during the tsunami, even though Netflix want you to believe that it was always the other way around. It was a national crisis, not limited to one power plant. Aftershocks were also a concern, even though those of us that are privileged does not understand what that means.
Again another great educational and fun video!
Don't think you could make fun out of these two suggestions but definitely educational 😉
1. The Goiânia accident
2. The Demon Core
But surely these represent a higher radiation public health risk than any modern nuclear power plant?
The chances of individual humans being irresponsible with radioactive material is surely a higher risk than modern highly regulated power industry?
That we checked our safety protocols after Fukushima was a good call, take the aviation approach: "Something happened, how would that affect us? And while we're at it, let's perform a general risk assessment of our safety equipment and improve it accordingly." But shutting down half of the reactors permanently right away was stupid. As you said, Germany has totally different design requirements than let's say Japan. And even if we leave that out of the equation, the reactors in Fukushima withstood the earthquake and the tsunami itself, it was the safety net that failed. If the emergency generators wouldn't have drowned in the waves, they would have been sufficient to keep the reactors under control. Memo to every nuclear reactor designer: Don't place your emergency equipment at a lower level than your mains.
Luckily I only had 500,000,000 bananas in my breakfast cereal this morning, so I'm pretty sure I'm safe.
You’re good to go hahah!☢️👩🏽🔬
Hey i am curious what educational degree one should pursue to be an nuclear physicist/ engineer like you.
I am an Electronics and Communications engineer working in semiconductor industry .
How many bananas to power I nuclear plant? The banana will be the next great energy source! 🤣🤣
Commenting for the alorithm.
Also while I am here I will 1 up my own previous comment on another video. Please make a video on LFTR's :D Go deep into the details etc if you can :)
Thanks! The video is in the making ☢️👩🏽🔬
Energy is "Power" over people. Control the energy production and you have the political power. Same for food, water, medical, fuel, transportation, etc. Renewables have their obvious limitations and can't supply the total need. Gas & coal plants must be fed fuel daily / continuously and are subject to rail and pipeline failures, supply. With nuclear power there are far fewer excuses available for the evening news as to why the grid is down today. When minutes count nuclear gives you months. Distribution becomes the target. Point is, when there is only enough of anything for 9 people in 10 then the organization controlling that commodity has all the power. It doesn't matter if the supply source is great but the distribution is poop or the distribution is great but the supply is poop. The end result for the people is much the same. Storms & Earth quakes are one thing, politics and activism are something else.
Anyway, Elina, many thanks for your YT content! It's good stuff!
Hahaha amaziiing please keep this series going its so much fun❤️❤️❤️
@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist >>> This is NOT really meme related, but I was watching your _Chernobyl reviews_ today, and I thought of this: A _'Rule 34'_ version of nuclear fission power involving _"Inserting a _*_CONTROL ROD_*_ into a _*_REACTOR VESSEL."_*
{Yes, I *CONSTANTLY* have to keep my *MIND* on a *SHORT LEASH,* or it tends to *WANDER.* 🤭}
those fast spectrum reactors
wha kind of waste do they have
is it just the same but less or does it eventually become something else
Same elements but starting from lower in the periodic table (elements with smaller atomic number then thorium) since they’re produced by thorium decay. Hence they’re radioactive for a shorter amount of time. Only about 300y
thats pretty short for that kind of stuff
that sounds like a great solution then
I could watch your videos all day. :)
Glad you like them!☢️👩🏽🔬
Not able to take decent picture of a radiation source? Well clearly you haven't tried hard enough, with enough lead glass its not too difficult, though depending on the glass used and its lead content recalibration of a color cameras spectral sensitivity curve and possibly compensating for chromatic error is needed for it to look as a normal picture would. Alternatively a camera cased in lead looking via a thin 90° mirror or prism would work too. Probably easier then the lead glass as well
At about 03:21 in this video: I often think of a similar scenario, only using the _HMS TITANIC_ compared to modern cruise ships.
You're damn right they're not going to win that game, however, we'll all pay for it in the mean time.
Are you excited about the recent news of a nuclear fusion breakthrough by the U.S. Dept. of Energy? I hope it's not like lightning in a bottle.
I am studying to become a concrete worker here in sweden and I have a big hope that one day I'll be able to help build a nuclear reactor
Oh this is a great goal to have! I’ll help along ☢️👩🏽🔬
If you calculate the half life of those Co-60 tubes vs manufacture date they’re not ARS tier active anymore. Also tangentially relevant but the ☢️ symbol is the wrong way around on the cylinder 🥲.
Also having captured CMOS sensor disturbance on my phone (20R/hr beta emitter) it looks nothing like the fake videos and images. There seem to be a ton of fake images of those floating around at the moment.
They’re more sporadic flashes and some of them appear as dashes across the screen. They also appear across the entirety of your video or photo 😊.
Fukushima wasn't a nuclear accident or a natural disaster. It was a government corruption problem. The fact that Germany felt it was a concern to them as well speaks volumes.
Could you explain scopes , eligibility and collages for nuclear physics...?
As a human species,we’re still behind on discovering how to harness universal radiations that accompany Hawking radiation (those would be the tip of an undiscovered iceberg), to have basically free energy everywhere, but we still haven’t been able to discover a lot of things , among them, specifically the type that Elina radiates for me to say, wow this is a beautiful woman,
I always think about planes crashing when I had to booard an airplane. Anf there are still plane crashes today and there will be in the future!
about the fan blowing the wind turbines,, but they do right?? the nuclear plant produces electricity which goes into the city, and then becomes waste heat which warms the air and results in wind right? ?