The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power
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Published 2017-05-17
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All Comments (21)
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The irony is that everyone's worried about a nuclear apocalypse but we're currently already heading towards an apocalypse as a result of fossil fuels because of that very mindset.
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Update:TransAtomics declared bankruptcy. They made there technology open sourced. So that some one else may pick up the torch.
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Meanwhile in France 80% of the energy produced is nuclear with the bill being the cheapest in Europe
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Let's not leave out the fact that some European countries such as France simply recycle the spent fuel to be used again.
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Everyone bring up Thorium reactors and asking why they didn't talk about them. They did, when they were talking about the liquid fuel reactors, they were referring to Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, LFTR.
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I worry that even if fusion is developed, people will still wonder "Oh, like a sun on earth? Sounds dangerous..." ...Sheesh.... All that potential for energy generation and they say "Sounds dangerous".
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These nuclear engineers are the hero’s we actually need. Imagine the technological advancements we could make if we finally embraced nuclear power.
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When Prager U and Vox agrees on something it kinda gives a large hint.
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Nuclear energy as it is right now is already the safest and cleanest form of energy known to man but the general public is way too uninformed.
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If the nuclear power plant was build around my city, I would be positively excited. It is cool!
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"And most recently: Fukushima." Where only one person died of radiation. Not really a big disaster.
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Feels good that the swedish politicians finally start talking about more nuclear power plants in Sweden! Gen4 rocks
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Honestly, as the older generations die out from the nuclear eras and the baby boom eras - newer ideas and innovations will begin to arise due to the lack of stagnated and deeply rooted ideals. Its likely that our generation today will be seen in the future as a stubborn generation like how we see those from the 40's-80's, unless of course our entire mindset changes to become more flexible to new changes and ideas.
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I like this new guy, I've enjoyed every single one of his videos.
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I would love to have more Nuclear power plants in the U.S, just ones that are well built and well staffed.
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thank you for educating me on this. you have helped my fears over Nuclear power.
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Doesn't nibbler poop these out?
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The explanation on the subsequent nuclear waste of reactors is disingenuous. First try comparing the nuclear waste output per coulomb of charge produced by coal in comparison to a nuclear reactor; just a heads up, coal produces 100x more nuclear waste.
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CANDU reactors use heavy water that if it drains out, the reaction just stops. Canada had it right in the 1970s already.
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Environmentalists: The world will burn in a century Me: Lets bulid nuclear reactors Environmentalists: Yeah but
