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@jipangoo

6 ай бұрын

Who the hell are you?

@wesallen3926

4 ай бұрын

I just found your channel today and I must say that I love your sense of humor, and that I find your videos very intriguing. ☢😁

@BeNGALi4LFE

2 ай бұрын

@@jipangooshes Sabine Hossenfelder, a scientist. you are jipangoo, the most lowly form of goo.

@AlexeySherstnev

Ай бұрын

Why do we all agree that fossil fuels are a problem? I disagree. Energy is not electricity. It is necessary to burn something in order to obtain not electricity, but energy to create something: Goods, heat, tools. The blast furnace is not powered by electricity, it uses fire.

@jamesfackert6044

28 күн бұрын

So forget the nuclear waste and the cost of safe storage. Solar and wind plus battery storage is waaaay cheaper, safer, and as reliable, and all can be recycled. Oh, and there's radiation and meltdowns to guard against, and years of engineering and construction and safeguards.. So who cares about nuclear? Makes no economic sense out of the gate! And the nuclear waste of a shut down plant, whoh.

"Think of fuel rods like world leaders, but a bit more reliable". SHOTS FIRED!

@SimonBrisbane

Жыл бұрын

Putin is reliable at releasing propaganda.

@msxcytb

Жыл бұрын

In this analogy Putin is like well recycled nuclear fuel in a breeder reactor(20times the original energy content). Uhh that's too dark even for me 🤣

@paulhawkins6415

Жыл бұрын

Think of fuel rods like world leaders, toxic for years after they have 'retired '

@durbythedog8081

Жыл бұрын

oh oh, that's good 😂 I like this game 😋

@durbythedog8081

Жыл бұрын

Think of fuel rods like world leaders... when no longer useful, need to be entombed in an underground bunker

The biggest dissapointing fact about nuclear waste, is that eating it won't give me superpowers.

@thomaskraus5125

25 күн бұрын

Only in Troma Films is that possible. "The Toxic Advenger."

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

19 күн бұрын

Quite so. The various movies of high level radiation producing yard long dangerous ants are amazingly stupid. See J.B.S Haldane "On Being The Right Size" which points out that large insects would need complicated things like gills or lungs, of which they have not the slightest trace. Supplying oxygen is more complicated than flying, or seeing things, or even in the case of nectar-fueled insects finding nectar!

@vf12497439

3 күн бұрын

Just drink beer, I become such after 18 beers😎

Came for the nuclear waste education, stayed for the jokes.

I've been hooked on your video since the first one the amount of information that you deliver is phenomenal and your sense of humor is hysterical much appreciated

"And pray that shit dilutes quickly", oh God that is why I love you Sabine. You've solidified my opinion on the subject thank you so much.

@user-nr9yb7zj7n

Жыл бұрын

✍️✍️✍️✍️🤳🏿

@piotr5566

Жыл бұрын

I don't remember Sabine swearing and it only made it hit stronger 😂

@kindlin

Жыл бұрын

@@piotr5566 Exactly. If you always choose your words wisely, you can make your words matter more in each moment.

@justaskin8523

Жыл бұрын

"every once in awhile, something blows up and we're asked to close our windows and pray that the shit dilutes quickly!" Now that's pretty much a matter-of-fact attitude right there. Nicely done, Sabine; it's not worth getting ourselves into a conniption fit over it all!

@matsv201

Жыл бұрын

Its interesting how everyone knows about TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima, two of didn´t kill a single person. But hardly anyone know of Bhopal chemical plant accident, that killed 20 000. Also Banqiao Dam falure that killed about 170 000 people. And then there are stuff like Great Smog of London that people have a vague knowledge of, but don´t know that 5000 people died of acute respiratory problems... yea.. they suffocated.

The dry storage has nothing on the dryness of your humour and I love it ❤️

@loodog555

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that sass.

Wow. I have not seen these videos or this woman before and I would love to use these videos in school classes as a teaching tool. Something about her is very fetching (good qualities to engage children are for the presenter to have a neutral, approachable and wise demeanor, the ones who exude wisdom cause a sense of awe and really make the students brighten up) and the videos have an authentic scholarly and easy-to-follow format.

@Conservator.

9 ай бұрын

Hi, Saying that you haven’t seen videos of Sabine before sounds a bit more friendly than ‘this woman’. (Just a friendly hint)

@philliusphoggwick8299

3 ай бұрын

​The person probably didn't confidently know her name when commenting. (Just a friendly observation).

I'm sure someone else has noted this, but the Keith Richards reference was a classic. Delivered in a very German manner. Love your work.

"... like wealth distribution, the highest 3% is the most toxic" ... 😂🤣 LOVE it!

@BlokenArrow

Жыл бұрын

THIS

@lor3999

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂👏👏👏😘🤣🤣🤣🌹

@estudiordl

Жыл бұрын

@@slink4956 well, viewers keep growing, so mayority has spoken, we love it. That's democracy. Learn to accept it... ✊

@robinwallace7097

Жыл бұрын

@@slink4956 To avoid a hangover, never mix the gripe and the grin? 😂

@splat752

Жыл бұрын

World leaders are far more toxic than nuclear power plant radioactive waste is a great comparison

Ah, straight laced German humour with efficient scientific delivery. Love it. Subscribed

@guyvandenbroeck8405

11 ай бұрын

I always wondered why there are only French and British humour sitcoms on television thinking the Germans had no humor but it justs takes time for the roasts being "not too soon". It's like they are avant-garde in the area. Who knows we someday see the humour of 40-45. Just joking here, love German M.O. and we all are reminded by Russia again how people get forced in doing stuff that they do not endorse. Roast the leaders not the crowds!

@George.Andrews.

11 ай бұрын

A 7 year old German boy who has never spoken a word is sitting at the dining table one evening. Suddenly, he said, "My soup is tepid." His parents are overjoyed, but eventually, his mother asks , "Darling , why have you never spoken before?" the boy replied. "Until now, everything has been satisfactory.

@TomCruz54321

10 ай бұрын

There's a lot that can happen in 100,000 years. She massively underestimates the duration. 100,000 years ago modern humans just started appearing in Africa. 10,000 ago humans were still in the Stone Age. Being so sure about a sketchy hypothesis is unscientific.

@Conservator.

9 ай бұрын

@@George.Andrews.😂

@Conservator.

9 ай бұрын

@@TomCruz54321used Uranium rods could be re-used in thorium reactors that would incinerate plutonium. (Source Wikipedia)

Very impressive, Sabrina. Had a good laugh that I never expected, only you can make a topic as this entertaining, well done, and thank you

This video needs more views. It is valuable information and there are a lot of misconceptions about nuclear power this helps dispel.

Yucca Mountain was abandoned not because of the resistance of the inhabitants but because it a part of a volcanic region made of Tuff stone, a volcanic mineral. It was cancelled because of the high possibility of a recent volcanic eruption. Not only U235&238, Pu238 to 242 are isotopes to be regarded: Over 100 other isotopes exist due to radioactive decay network and most of the decay is producing Helium4, which induces gas pressure into the containers. The He4 2+ radicals due to the alpha decay are emitted with the speed of about ~5% of the speed of light and cause deathly damage of cells, if the decay takes place in alveoles or in between intestinal villuses. The high risk of deathly injury out of an alpha decay can be understood, if you know that the conversion factor to transform the decay energy from Gray (the energy the decay induces into a calorie meter) to Sievers (the biological impact factor of an decay particle) can be up to 70 (20 for alpha decay itself and a linear function for the maximum impact als a function of the depth of the impact in the biological tissue: In the German law StrlSchVanlage 18 C and D). In short term about 10% of the heavy metal will be emitted as He4! This He4 has the second highest gas constant behind hydrogen (2077 J/(kg K) and will crack the containers due to the high temperature caused by the decay. Other scientists say, this will happen (look in the video about Pu from the Professor of the University of Nottingham). The bentonite, that's will be disposed around the containers will also expand due to the humidity in natural environment and will produce crack in the deposit for the emitted isotopes out of the cracked containers into the biosphere. I do not see, that the real problems are introduced to the public by this video. Funny (or not) jokes may not hide the real problems!!!

@ForbiddTV

Жыл бұрын

If Yucca were to experience an eruption, now tell the informed viewer how much radiation would be released even without nuclear waste in the mix.

@mikeburkart8028

Жыл бұрын

He4 will flow harmlessly through the containers just as it does through everything else. They will lose their charge and eventually make their way to the surface where they could be collected and used in theory (The same process under salt domes that contain oil deposits causes it to be in natural gas where we collected all the world helium from, yes every helium balloon has nuclear waste inside of it.) Your worries about disposal do not take into account the extremely low volumes produced and the ability for certain extremely small elements to travel through containment. It will not be an issue as described.

@klamser

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeburkart8028 He4 is inert and not radioactive and as a decay product itself not direct harmful. He4 is a producer of leaks in the depository due to induced gas pressure and will open the door through the barriers for the radioactive ☢️ harmful isotopes into the biosphere. Therefore the He4 caused cracks into the barriers is the main problem for the safety of a deposit of highly radioactive heat producing waste and is really dangerous and must be considered in the safety assessment.

@bgold2007

28 күн бұрын

Wow!! Superbly detailed! Any studies of how to bleed off the He4? On a lighter note, if the Sheriff of Nottingham can't help, how about Robin Hood?

I love how you sneak physics into your comedy routines.

@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth1301

Жыл бұрын

Nice comment . . .

@courtlandcreekmore1421

Жыл бұрын

She's hilarious all the more so, as her droll delivery just keeps moving on while the joke hangs out there.

@RavingMad

Жыл бұрын

@@courtlandcreekmore1421 This is my most favorite type of comedy, when the comedian dwells in it as little as possible, not at all is best, let me figure out if it's funny or not and how I should react.

@DNulrammah

Жыл бұрын

"...Take my Neutrons! PLEASE!"

@JeffGatto

11 ай бұрын

Sabine tries to dumb the basics down so 'special needs' folk *might* understand physics, 'and stuff', that is her fault

20 Seconds and the sarcasm is already killing me. Or it might be the thorium sources from my collected smoke detectors i glued on my head hoping for superintelligence. It's giving me the vibes my teachers in primary school gave us. Only they didn't roast you for the audience's entertainment, just for their own fun. Love the presentation as always! Since the roasts never intersected with my way of thoughts yet(come close sometimes but not intersecting), I will push that subscribe button. Knowingly that those buttons in general will throw my email address around shouting : "Send me whatever you got!". Thank GOD(Guy's odd disorder) I'm feeling crazy today.

@aaroncosier735

8 ай бұрын

Smoke detectors use Americium sources. Thorium is probably most abundantly available in gas light mantles. I cannot recommend using any radiation source in an attempt to boost cognitive ability.

@guyvandenbroeck8405

8 ай бұрын

Are you familiar with responsive sarcasm/humor? I was rather hoping on a funny response, not being taken seriously. Still can't believe I got fact-checked on a joke.

@aaroncosier735

8 ай бұрын

@@guyvandenbroeck8405 I thought my response was a real knee-slapper.

Thanks for all the links in the description. Many vloggers promise those, yet few actually provide them.

“Please, do not eat used nuclear fuel rods”. Thanks for the heads up 🙌

@captainmaim

Жыл бұрын

the more you know...

@EbonySaints

Жыл бұрын

U-238 pellets are going to be the Tide Pod Challenge for Gen Alpha.

@Tao_Tology

Жыл бұрын

* cancels Deliveroo order *

@Rebslager

Жыл бұрын

She had to include it in case an american would try to do something that stupid..... Then she she can't be sued... I guess the rest of the world will go for the "If you are so stupid you will try to eat it, then it really can't be anyones problem than your own"-approach. 😉... I mean in Europe no one can sue people because you are peeing on an electric fence.... If you can't figure out it is a bad idea without a warning, then you really deserve the pain 😂😂😂😂

@ThaJay

Жыл бұрын

And it's good to know that eating one new pellet a year is fine as long as you live in a low radiation area.

I can personally testify that the vast majority (I guess 90%) is not that bad. I used to work at an environmental analytical lab, and we got weekly samples of effluent and reaction slurry to run tests on, which I conducted myself. The effluent doesn't even register on the Geiger counter if you don't integrate over a day or two. I wouldn't use it to make coffee every day, but I'd rather take a bath in it than spend a day on the beach without sunscreen. The slurry had detectable radiation and other hazardous properties (BOD for example, but not as much as a blenderized sandwich after a warm day). Even that, though, the storage and waste protocols were a tad overkill in that they needlessly turned equipment and materials into low grade waste, which were in fact safe to just throw away. If I contrast those samples with the _other_ samples I came across, there is no contest about which is more dangerous. It's the industrial and mining byproducts, by far. My workload was dominated by cyanides, [C/N]BOD, MBAS (surfactants), and flashpoints, so the big alarm bell is the cyanides. Cyanide is used in some mining and refining processes to chelate certain metal ions, and just a few grams of the solid waste products will kill you dead at several meters away under acidic conditions. They had to be diluted thousands of times just to get a result on our analytical curve, and I ended up just throwing the glassware it touched away. Distilling those samples was scary af. We called it "glass candy" because it kinda looked like chocolate fudge with shards of iridescent glass all through it, and I hope I never see it again.

@jannikheidemann3805

Жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention where the samples come from. Was it coal power plant ash?

@thenonsequitur

Жыл бұрын

@@jannikheidemann3805 He said "industrial and mining byproducts". Doesn't sound like it's from coal ash.

@davidhand9721

Жыл бұрын

@@thenonsequitur we're talking about two different sets of samples, totally different industries and locations. The scary cyanide samples came from mining. The less scary radioactive samples came from a nuclear reactor.

@campbellpaul

Жыл бұрын

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@SabineHossenfelder

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, thanks for your comment!

You are my favorite physicist by far on KZread, the most genuine. What I don't understand, when people talk about the cost of a nuclear plant, is why the storage cost of nuclear waste is never included.

@FernandoWINSANTO

16 күн бұрын

10 years after removal, the surface dose of a typical fuel assembly (24.000 half-life) is10.000 rem/hour.

I live next to a nuclear burial site. It is the low level site located in Barnwell, SC. Basically safe based on our current knowledge. I worked there for a few years before moving to the Savannah River Site, which was a producer of high level material and holds millions of gallons of high level waste. In the area of government contracting, we maintained computer systems for everything from reactors to security. In general, we were very successful in solving technical challenges.. We of course, had much less control and success of political challenges.

@JamesBalmforth

Ай бұрын

Elsewhere containers are leaking and radioactive waste is contaminating groundwater. We should not be messing with the most dangerous materials known to man.

"Even Keith Richard won't be around by then." Thanks for the smile.

@johnnybgoode7983

Жыл бұрын

He will end up being the last man standing on earth! Lol

@Bat_Boy

Жыл бұрын

But Cher will be. Dating someone much younger, I bet.

@phatphish7617

Жыл бұрын

Don't be too sure of that

@brendakrieger7000

Жыл бұрын

Bwahaha😂

@jimmyzhao2673

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnybgoode7983 I have a notion that all the drugs & alcohol in his system has pickled his organs and made him immortal.

The evolution of Sabine's humor has been one of the best things science youtube ever produced.

@CR67

Жыл бұрын

It's dry humor, which is like food. Some people just don't get it.

@TheScytheMoron

Жыл бұрын

@@CR67 But this is just DARK humor. Like the skincolor of many people who don't get enough food.

@rand49er

Жыл бұрын

Still just a little more to work on, though. Maybe just the faintest hint of a smile maybe?

@ozhmium

Жыл бұрын

@@rand49er the lack of the smile is what makes this kind of humor work though.

@cohlroxkim4819

Жыл бұрын

the humor seems very... "German." I love it.

"Its the same physical principle that is behind Twitter suspensions". That is why I keep coming back to Sabine's channel. Keep up the good work!

All your work is very professional and top-notch. I like your channel and videos. Keep it up! ❤

The thing I've never understood, is that people are terrified of the ONLY waste that is actually properly managed. Nuclear waste leak: international crisis. Coal exhaust: dump it straight into our air supply.

@raoul1234567

Жыл бұрын

Actually the proliferation of world ending weapons is up there with the problem of waste. Safe storage of waste requires best practice over decades if not centuries. The track record of large companies not caring about anything other than short term profits tells me that the good ideas of this video will not be implemented. Not saying we shouldn’t look at nuclear. Just saying let’s be honest.

@PlatinumAltaria

Жыл бұрын

@@raoul1234567 You can't make nuclear weapons with nuclear waste, you can only make dirty bombs; which while bad aren't really on the same scale. And as shown in the video the simplest storage method is "put it back where you got it from", which doesn't suggest any imminent danger.

@raoul1234567

Жыл бұрын

@@PlatinumAltaria No you can’t. Weapons are made by tweaking the fuel cycle and enrichment of the same fuel used to generate electricity. Can’t think of a nuclear powered country that doesn’t have or doesn’t want nuclear weapons. Seepage of nuclear waste from faulty containment into groundwater is a real risk as is radioactive water from tailings dams at uranium mines. That’s not theoretical. That’s has already occurred many times.

@PlatinumAltaria

Жыл бұрын

@@raoul1234567 No, weapons are made using highly-enriched uranium. It's not a process any individual is going to be able to do, you need HUGE infrastructure. You should really just look this stuff up, nuclear waste does not make nuclear bombs, it just doesn't. Stopping countries from keeping the lights on is not some kind of noble anti-war crusade, it's demanding that old ladies freeze to death because you don't understand science. Mine runoff is nothing to do with nuclear power, it's a problem with all mining that can be solved with proper planning.

@Pystro

Жыл бұрын

@@raoul1234567 At least they won't be implemented if things are decided by companies.

I couldn't help but laugh out loud with "the higher 3% are the most toxic". Please keep adding this hidden gems while sharing these very interesting topics with us.

@mattblack118

Жыл бұрын

Yes the concept is laughable.

@donkloos9078

Жыл бұрын

Remember in the USA, the top few percent of income earners pay almost all the taxes, and the bottom quartile pay no taxes.

@runalongnowhoney

Жыл бұрын

@@donkloos9078 Hahahahaha

@jonathangwynne1917

Жыл бұрын

@Don Kloos , income-earners aren't the problem. The real problem is untaxed generational wealth.

@donkloos9078

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathangwynne1917 Inheritance tax is confiscating people's private property that has already been taxed many times over. Socialism does not work and killed almost 150 million people last century.

Love the subtle humor injected in the midst of a serious topic👍🏻👍🏻

In addition to your excellent sense of humor and competence, your wardrobe is genuinely excellent. Great upload as always.

"I'd say it kind of works like a water mill, just a little more dangerous." I'm gonna call you on that one. If you compare the fatalities from nuclear power plants vs. the fatalities from actual water mills (hydroelectric or hydromechanical power in all its forms), I'm pretty sure the nuclear plants are safer.

@Nebufelis

Жыл бұрын

Here's the problem with measuring safety by rate of fatalities: The well-known paradoxon that that fatalities might be low precisely because of high awareness of unsafety and lots of safety measures. For example, if you meaure the safety of street types for bicycles and you go by fatalities, you might find that a German Autobahn is safer than a Dutch bike lane - because hundreds of thousands of people cycle on the bike lanes and virtually no one on the Autobahn, and even if one ends up on the road, they will be extremely cautious. Similarly, a worker in a water mill might be much more cavalier with safety precisely because the risk is lower.

@wasd____

Жыл бұрын

@@Nebufelis "a worker in a water mill might be much more cavalier with safety precisely because the risk is lower." If workers being cavalier causes more fatal accidents, then that's a work culture problem _and it makes that workplace less safe than one with a better safety culture._ The risk is not lower. The risk is higher. You are more likely to get hurt working there, which is the bottom line of risk. No one is saying nuclear power doesn't have potential hazards. But if those hazards are mitigated through combinations of hazard removal efforts, engineered controls, safe procedures, and a strong safety culture, then I don't see the issue in saying that this is, in all the ways that matter, a safer work environment than one that lacks these things because there's a failure to perceive potential hazards and therefore gets people hurt. The statistics bear this out. Nuclear is the safest power source by far. _How_ it gets safe isn't the question, what matters is that there's objective and indisputable proof that it _is_ the safest in terms of injuring or killing the fewest people.

@Trylobyte

Жыл бұрын

@@wasd____ ..potential hazards!!!!!

@wasd____

Жыл бұрын

@@Trylobyte Yes, there are many potential hazards at a hydro plant. All that water has a lot of energy. Read the stories of what happens when those dams break.

@sciteceng2hedz358

Жыл бұрын

She was talking about the process by which work is extracted...i.e. via steam turbine. She was not talking about risk at that point.

Sabine, you are absolutely my favorite physicist. From fora where you dispute multiverses to discussions of various topics on high energy particle physics and other esoteric subjects, you make things clear and relatively easy to understand. Thank you.

@mathieudubois3715

Жыл бұрын

I would add that Sabine uses the right amount of humour on her videos.

A great Video Sabyne, very well explained - even I understood it!

Now that's a bold statement about Keith Richards..

"typically it's every 3-8 years. Think of fuel rods like world leaders, but a bit more reliable" "it's similar to wealth distribution, the highest 3% are the most toxic" "I really love how they assume that in 100,000 years everyone alive will be a complete idiot" Sabine, dein Humor ist bei Zeiten ausgesprochen böse. Das gefällt mir sehr!

@marcwinkler

Жыл бұрын

More generally, I/3 of fuel rods are replaced every 1 and 1/2 years and I was told by ingineers nuclear waste is mesured in Curies.

@marcwinkler

Жыл бұрын

engineers sorry

@Psychx_

Жыл бұрын

@@marcwinkler The use of Curies has been deprecated and the new SI unit for specifying the activity is Becquerel.

@marcwinkler

Жыл бұрын

@@Psychx_ You are right, 1gr Radium - 1 Curie - 37 000 000 000 becquerels

@HxTurtle

Жыл бұрын

do all her listeners know German? I know that KZread also groups people by their location and Berlin is one of this channel's meta tags, so it could very well be that this basically is a gathering of one person that has English as a second language lecturing to a bunch of people with the exact same linguistic background .. also, nur mal so meine Mutmaßungen dazu 😅

I’m always surprised at how many people casually accept breathing highly toxic vehicle exhaust (happens when your car us idling in traffic), but are afraid of nuclear waste that won’t be anywhere near them.

@outerspaceisalie

11 ай бұрын

You're measuring the wrong dimensions for nuclear waste. You're measuring it in space, when in fact it needs to be measured in time.

@EmeraldEyesEsoteric

10 ай бұрын

I mean China gets to keep building Coal Plants while Americans aren't allowed to drive gas powered cars anymore, and in Ireland they want to get rid of all the Cows. How is any of that fair? The UN shouldn't be able to do any of those things until China is shut down for the sake of the Earth. If you aren't going to do that, THEN GFTO!

@Alrukitaf

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, it’ll be somebody else’s problem long after we’re gone!

@igortolstov487

9 ай бұрын

@@outerspaceisalieok let’s measure in time. How many years until carbon dioxide is decomposed?

@cat-yz4ul

9 ай бұрын

@@igortolstov487 My God...do the world a favor and read a basic science text.

Sabine, great presentation. Love your sense of humor !!!

This is excellent - thank you! Great presentation which holds the viewer's attention and contains relevant, interesting (and at times, fun) information. I really enjoyed this demystification.

I come for the information, but stay for the humour. Sabine's humour is dried than a desert drought... Love it!!

@TheWunder

Жыл бұрын

@John smart Let's bang, ok?

@LostInDub

Жыл бұрын

A 2 hour lecture from Sabine would be perfectly fine with us

I was hiking with a friend and talking about nuclear waste solutions about the same time this was uploaded. I also told him about this channel earlier on the hike. Fantastic timing

@HxTurtle

Жыл бұрын

she always uploads on Saturday 😉

Thanks for putting out your channel.

Your videos are great, Thank you!

Keith Richards was asked in the 80's how he felt about his public image as "walking death," and that only he and cockroaches would be alive after a nuclear holocaust. Without hesitation he responded, "I would need something to eat wouldn't I." He's still alive today.

Thanks Sabine very informative as always. Love the top 3% toxicity dig!

@mattmalenda6585

Жыл бұрын

@@egparker5 it is based on their behavior.

@thenonsequitur

Жыл бұрын

@@egparker5 If you don't think the oligarch class deserves digs, you are part of the problem.

@wotireckon

Жыл бұрын

@@egparker5 Sure is; much like my prejudices against other toxic things. Speaking generally, the top 3% control the world and are hastening its demise. There are a few honourable exceptions within this group.

Your sense of analogy is superb! ❤💙

The question isn't whether you'd want to live near a nuclear waste site, it's whether you'd want to live near one built 60K years ago that you don't even know about, or if you live in a tunneling society that lives deep in the ground because surface conditions are inhospitable.

@jesan733

8 ай бұрын

I see no problems with any of that. Of course, a tiny problem for the tunneling society, but they'll learn soon enough and stop poking the material.

Dr. Hossenfelder is great. She breaks down scientific issues into easily understandable pieces. We need more instructors like her. More people would be interested in science if instructors communicated more conventionally and they didn't feel like they were being talked down to. She's also very funny. Love the deadpan delivery of her little jokes.

I think the concept that is often misunderstood is that it is ultra heavy and dense. so while it does seem like a lot of waste it is contained in a much smaller volume than you would expect

@fnulnu5109

Жыл бұрын

And the toxicity of it is contained in a very small volume

@Prometheus7272

Жыл бұрын

The Swiss use nuclear for 35% ish of their energy needs they've been doing it for around 30-40 years, they can fit all their nuclear waste in one room, its a big room, but still.

@sirrathersplendid4825

Жыл бұрын

@@Prometheus7272 - If they did actually put it all in one room, would it go critical? (Only half kidding.)

@MattOGormanSmith

Жыл бұрын

@@sirrathersplendid4825 You'd get meltdown before it went critical. If you kept on throwing waste into the molten puddle on the floor, it'd get hotter and hotter until it melts the floor and forms a radioactive gas cloud. Getting it to explode requires it to be crushed together quicker than it can melt and vapourise. Not trivial.

@sirrathersplendid4825

11 ай бұрын

@@MattOGormanSmith - Interesting answer. Cheers!

Love the video topic. That top is fantastic!

thank you! got inspiration for a safety minute presentation

Love the humour in this presentation. And just for the record, Keith Richards is immortal!

@rockradstone

9 ай бұрын

Oh, I hope so! 😁 Just listened to Between the Buttons---a great album. Their music has a longer half life than plutonium.

This was great. 😃 I would not even mind a 2h lecture so engaging when one knows how to explain complex subjects this well. 🤗

@b_dawg_17

Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely a topic I'd love a 2 hour lecture on! I once watched a 5 hour video on nuclear power and waste straight through without stopping 😅 I'm here for it!

@diodio520

Жыл бұрын

@@b_dawg_17 Agree. 💯 But also the way it is presented matters; she does it so well. 🤗

@yt.personal.identification

Жыл бұрын

Start with the economics of storage. Do you think the companies that profit from the making of nuclear waste will be the ones to fund the safe storage? If not, who will? Yes...the public. This is NEVER mentioned when we discuss how cost effective it is. Then, let's look at a world map 100,000 years ago, 50,000 years ago and 12,000 ( during the ice age ) and tell me a storage location that will be suitable. Anyone? Now, the comparison between nuclear waste and other forms of waste from energy production. Basically, this argument boils down to, "they make pollution now, that they could deal with, but don't...with nuclear they will suddenly be concerned about by-product magically". Seriously...I expect better from Sabine. This is where her sarcasm should hit...instead she basically says "well they don't purify waste from coal, but nuclear waste storage will be faultless so it wins" WTF?

@dirkdisselpuff7938

Жыл бұрын

@@yt.personal.identification you clearly are an Alien that never bothered to engage or even observe Humans. These Biologicals in their current Evolution will NEVER as a Group do Shit that benefits them as a Group. These Biologicals are to Combative to EVER achieve a Planetary Solution to Topics like Energy Prouduction or Health Care and Education as a Group, a Corporation or Research Institute might do that and then a very interesting aka bloody Time will ensue. The Last Super Power on this Mud Ball keeps it's Citizens in debt on Principle to make sure that a few Control Hungry Biologicals can Feed their urges instead of making all of the above Topics avilable to their Citizens in an achievable Matter. Nuclear Power Is a potent and Right now cheap Energy Prouduction Method, with a high cost for the Public in the Future. It will die when Humans invent a new Method, aka cold Fusion. Until then political needs will dictate the availability of Nuclear Energy to the Public. It Is Not that hard to Understand that, so the question Is what YOU do Not understand about that in regards to this Info Clip. Shine Bright and stay Healthy

@auturgicflosculator2183

Жыл бұрын

@@yt.personal.identification Let's just burn every hydrocarbon in existence then, because nuclear bad. Kek.

Love your work young lady. Precise and dealing with the facts,

"Close the window and hope the shit dissipates quickly" Sabine.

As someone living next to a nuclear waste storage (not a long-term one, stuff is stored above ground), I absolutely prefer this to living next to a coal plant. Radiation levels in my city are actually lower than those in the nearby cities.

@ptech88

Жыл бұрын

Until there’s an accident

@OutsiderLabs

11 ай бұрын

​@@ptech88Statistically still safer than living next to a coal station.

@tharealmb

11 ай бұрын

@@ptech88 next to nuclear storage an accident might happen, and it might make you sick. Living next to a coal plant you'll definitely get sick, no accident required. Since the coal plant being there IS the accident.

@chromolitho

11 ай бұрын

@@tharealmb nice point

I've always considered humor and intelligence inextricably bound. Sabine is a wonderful example. Her channel is a shinning example of unbiased, concise, research - driven information.

@davidnewland2461

Жыл бұрын

Did you mean shining?

@davidnewland2461

Жыл бұрын

Holtec international has a well thought out storage plan for spent nuclearfue it's above ground in New Mexico far away from any large metropolitan area the dry fuel storage casks are stored in a retrievable manner in a nice safe place, in fortunately United States spent fuel recycling was shut down it was a silly act that industry would have to be restarted be because the working knowledge has been lost there would be an initial learning curve hopefully short. The government will most likely have to get in volved, btw I have over forty years as a radiation protection tech notion and a couple of short stints as an engineer.

@bogdy72000

11 ай бұрын

I've always considered scientists and lies for huge money schemes involving inflated fears inextricably bound. Sabine is a wonderful example of a fisisist well versed in lies.

@fireatheart

11 ай бұрын

And propaganda. She won't be around when Earth will have become a radioactive wasteland, so what does she care? Remember Tchernobyl and Fukushima? More such accidents are to be expect as we rely more and more on aging installations and overconfident and careless personnel.

@fireatheart

11 ай бұрын

@@davidnewland2461 Please reread and correct your text. Also add punctuation. You may be an engineer but your explanations make litte sense. "spent nuclearfue it's above ground in New Mexico " what is? "United States spent fuel recycling was shut down it was a silly act that industry would have to be restarted " Etc...

The cost to launch the waste into even low Earth orbit would be insane...send it to the Sun is as hard as sending it into deep space.

Rational argument, always appreciated. Thanks.

Sabine is the perfect blend of wit, wisdom and science. I don't drive long car journeys anymore, but if I did then I would take her lectures with me.

@sensationsuperthrust

11 ай бұрын

Nice pick for a lobby pr spokesperson

@damonreitmeier4539

11 ай бұрын

@@sensationsuperthrust I would call you a Troll, but I do not insult Robots. Find a mirror, and think before you speak...

@sensationsuperthrust

11 ай бұрын

@@damonreitmeier4539 beep boop beep boop :V

@michaiwaniak9992

11 ай бұрын

And music, don't forget about her music :)

@Joe-ym6bw

11 ай бұрын

She does has a sense humor

This video should be required viewing for all major environmental groups.

@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth1301

Жыл бұрын

Sabine long ago made up her mind on nuclear energy - she is for it. This video makes a show of objectivity but ultimately confirms her prejudices . . .

@daniellarson3068

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth1301 Well - Is it good for environmental groups? I figure Greenpeace has a few prejudices as well as some others.

Thank you Sabine!

Hey Sabine, I'm a fan of your channel and I suggest that you look for Thorium powered nuclear reactor, which are liquid fuel, the Molten Salt Reactors. They are even more safer nuclear reactors.

Personally, I'd really like to hear more information about the possibilities for nuclear reprocessing, presented in such a clear and digestible manner (I promise not to eat it).

Great overview and uncluttered information. Thanks. I also love the humor interspersed in this and your other videos. Here is a quote from the 1960s by one of my college classmates about non radioactive power. However, it mainly refers to getting to an 8 o'clock class on time: "Knowledge is power, but Sleep is more powerful than Knowledge".

@aleksandrpeshkov6172

Жыл бұрын

BY DRINKING STAR : "... AND NOW, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE MOST POWERFUL ENTITY : ....O...P...T...I...O...N.... HUH ?!? YA CHOOSE : TO SLEEP OR ....PRAY.... YEAAAAAAH....LOVE

@aleksandrpeshkov6172

Жыл бұрын

@Sabii Bryan SABRYAN🤣

@deathsinger1192

11 ай бұрын

I should consider this the night before an exam

Great video. Love you Sabine❤

Both the writer and the actor should be given awards. Loved the video … educational and sassy !!!!! Color me impressed

Thanks! I'm working at Kairos Power now and we need all the straight talk we can get.

@jannikheidemann3805

Жыл бұрын

Is that in Egypt?

@TheHorseshoePartyUK

Жыл бұрын

It just seems true that we need Fission ASAP now for baseload, perhaps gas from grass by ecotricity and hydro for peak time, until we arrive at a nice clean harmless renewables grid? :)

@Quroxify

Жыл бұрын

@@jannikheidemann3805 haha, No, it's in CA. Molten salt cooled fission reactors. Nice try.

@Quroxify

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHorseshoePartyUK The public image of fission power has recovered some of the lustre that it had in the 60s. Now that the balance of concentrated power justify the negative implications of concentrated waste it's a better trade off than fossil fuels and the harm those emissions do to the climate. Many people are coming to this conclusion. It's spawning a renaissance in atomic energy. Thanks.

@TheHorseshoePartyUK

Жыл бұрын

@@Quroxify I've heard the latest generation of full size fission reactors are even safer than they already are in good hands? People mean well but they do not quite realise - Fission has been running silently in the background for decades with only one real catastrophic meltdown and a handful of admittedly tragic, but small scale 'minor accidents' where material has escaped into the public and caused serious problems

Fantastic video, Sabine! Thanks a bunch! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

A very interesting talk. Thank you for the dry humour😁. Made it more enjoyable

As someone who used to work in nuclear radiation monitoring, thank you for pointing out how little waste is created and that 90% is low level. Could have pointed out that low level is mostly not radioactive.. (just overly cautious) And really, i would have loved if you used "banana equivalent dosage" like we used to haha.

@daniel.lopresti

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if people realise how much (obivously very low level) radioactive matieral/environments we're potentially exposed to in our everyday lives... wristwatches with fluorescent hands, some old camera lens coatings, smoke detectors, long haul air travel, radon beneath our homes...

@autohmae

Жыл бұрын

I prefer the chest X-ray (70 000 bananas) as a metric.

@Whysicist

Жыл бұрын

Thanks… I forgot the banana dose blurb from the 1960s, Ha.

@CAThompson

Жыл бұрын

How many Megabananas are we talking about?

@daniel.lopresti

Жыл бұрын

@@CAThompson "one point twenty-one giga-bananas... where are we going to get one point twenty-one giga bananas??"

Best documentary I've ever seen! Great content delivered with a touch of humor! I'm subscribing.

I love your humor. And your voice sounds so authoritative!

👍Always a double bonus with Sabine: Technical and scientific content AND Dry wit 👍 12:49 takes some beating: “Every once in a while something blows up there and we are all asked to close the windows and prey that the shit dilutes quickly”

Thanks for a often humoristic presentation or a serious (though perceived so) matter. Most enlightening and entertaining.

I minor correction, the energy density of uranium is much higher than the figure you gave. In a breeder reactor, the mass specific energy density of uranium is about 2.6 million times higher than coal, or 40 million times higher by volume.

There are a number of subduction zones. If encapsulated waste was inserted into holes drilled into the zone, are there any locations where that part of the crust would take so long before appearing in volcanic activity by which time it would be safe?

100,000 years is a time scale beyond my comprehension. Currently we cannot even prevent water companies dumping sewage into rivers or the sea.

@jesan733

8 ай бұрын

Please remember that the reason we have natgas (and oil) in geological reservoirs under high pressure, with methane being an incredibly volatile and tiny molecule, is that nature has put a lid on it for tens of millions of years.

@aaroncosier735

8 ай бұрын

Please remember that fission products are soluble in water and can percolate through salt domes. Natural gas is not water soluble. The two examples are not comparable in practice, though nuclear boosters love to pretend.

@steenjacobsen1474

2 ай бұрын

yes we can. Its called laws.

As one that lived in W Germany in the 80s I can totally relate to chemical exposure.

@LettersAndNumbers300

Жыл бұрын

She doesn’t mean drugs.

@alvarofernandez5118

Жыл бұрын

I live on the US Gulf Coast near Houston, and there are gigantic chemical plants near me from Dow, BASF, etc. And we have some coal fired plants. Texas has a lot of wind power, but in the end our electricity in the greater Houston region is still predominantly fossil fuel based. And I would much rather live near a nuclear power plant than near a chemical plant, or our coal fired plants. Wind would be great, except there isn't room for that many wind turbines near our city.

@vtbn53

Жыл бұрын

@@alvarofernandez5118 What's the matter with coal fired plants? They don't pollute, they emit plant food.

@BenjaminGoose

Жыл бұрын

@@vtbn53 Coal plants emit huge amounts of pollution, including radioactive particles.

@alvarofernandez5118

Жыл бұрын

@@vtbn53 yeah... nope. They emit burnt plant smoke and ash. :-)

Thanks Sabine for the wittiest and funniest way to learn technology and science!!! You are amazing!

Thank you Sabine.

Although I don’t live exactly in the area, I have heard of stories from this place near the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge about just how bad the chemical plants there have caused cancer within the local population. Even from my own personal experience, this one paper mill that used to operate not too far from where I lived went bankrupt and had to close down during the 2008 market crash and it singlehandedly made a large brake/creek/swamp area near where I live have hazardous toxins within the water there and make it unsafe to as much as fish out of it due to how bad the toxins have contaminated that water, so I mean yeah Nuclear waste can be pretty bad but in many ways it doesn’t even hold a candle to how dangerous chemical waste is to people and to the environment.

That was very up to date and informative. Thanks Sabine,

I just can't help it. I love every video you make, Sabine!! The dry humour pills just make my day even if I try to be serious about the topic. Please, keep on this track! 💜 Love from Spain.

@thecalham

Жыл бұрын

I can't tell if it's entertaining or annoying like the drunk old lady at the bar telling you pointless story's

Given current trends, I would argue in 100k years humans will supplant farm animals as a food source for whatever the dominant species is.

Your humor is brilliant sabine. Just dissapointed that I can't eat fuel rods. No healthy green glow for me.

This was a very informative video. Thank you, Sabine.

I seem to recall suggestions for using tectonic subduction zones to slowly bury waste. There are problems with dependence on uncontrolled natural processes which can have unpredictable violent excursions from place to place, I suppose…

@randydewees7338

Жыл бұрын

I just commented above about burial in deep ocean basins - in those basins the likely hood of some unanticipated process occurring (new riff zone or volcanic hot spot) is very low

An intelligent lady with a sense of humour. Nice to see.

absolutely love the humor in this video!

I've just discovered your channel and want to say, never change a single thing. You are amazing and I love you. You are perfect in every way and I will be watching every video made and ever will be made by you and your associates.

@TheBerserker50

Жыл бұрын

relax

That is an excellent and extremely cogent explanation of the waste issue. Thank you!

@robfer5370

Жыл бұрын

.... It's not waste!!! People really need to stop calling it that.

Wonderful! Go get em Sabine!!

Love Sabine's channel.😍😍😍

as an aside, plutonium is also chemically toxic too.. :)

Thank you for a great episode Sabine! Extremely interesting about how this nuclear priesthood thing developed, had no idea that this was actually real. Also nice to know bentonite clay is being used in nuclear waste storage. I'm a ceramic artist so to me it's awesome to know that this material can be used in such a practical way for this purpose.

@robo5013

Жыл бұрын

How do we get people to do what we want? Start a religion! A solution as old as us.

@henrythegreatamerican8136

Жыл бұрын

Easiest solution is to place the nuclear waste in the backyards of politicians who lie and say it's clean energy.

@mikicerise6250

Жыл бұрын

In fairness, 3000 years after the Bronze Age cults people are still idiots, so why not imagine they will continue to be idiots well into the future? Sociologists tend to assume that past performance indicates likely future performance

@pavelsulc2617

Жыл бұрын

@@henrythegreatamerican8136 nuclear energy is not completely clean, nor is solar, wind, or any other not clean. What is important is whether it is sustainable, and from my point of view it absolutely is. Currently, unless we want to sacrifice our civilization, there is no other feasible solution.

@andrewradford3953

Жыл бұрын

Next best low waste energy source is wind. Bonus is the waste isn't deadly for 100s of thousands of years. Also the cost to build, run, and decommission.

As a former Navy Nuke, I can confirm. The really dangerous stuff has a very short half life. Anything useful is extracted and what's left can be stored pretty easily. It takes up very little space and may actually be useful in the future as technology finds ways to generate power from the remnants.

@iainhamilton6773

8 ай бұрын

Due to the amount of nuclear reactors and weapon production, there is tones of nuclear waste that is not recycled and is being store and will remain dangerous for up to 200,000 years.

@hewdelfewijfe

8 ай бұрын

@@iainhamilton6773 "Dangerous for 200,000 years" -- No. That's not how this works. Google and read "Dr Bernard Cohen the myth of plutonium toxicity" and "ThorCon documents pdf the nuclear waste problem".

@turekt2475

27 күн бұрын

Google Rosatom’s Seversk plant. The technology is already there.

Every minute or so she randomly starts throwing hands and I love how it catches me off guard every time.

12:45 "Pray that the shit dilutes quickly" I love that quote!!!

I am loving your videos! Keep up the good work at objectively looking at topics that have become so polarized and biased

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

wait wait wait can you get super powers by rolling around in it or drinking it?🤣

I've been in a Heavy-water reactor on the McMaster University campus (Hamilton, Ontario, CA) twice. It was so interesting. The 1st time I was 11 and the 2nd time I was 12. They had an amazing science and engineering summer camp

@MrKevb1540

22 күн бұрын

11 year-olds don't like being told that we have to stand on a huge giger counter and if an alarm goes off the take us, strip us and shower us really well... Obviously everyone was fine...

@MrKevb1540

22 күн бұрын

It was used for making isotopes for Nucular Medicine, not power...

I like your style, your hilarious, thanks for the info 👍