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@r0dani3lb

7 күн бұрын

Why is there a waiting list if it's so easy to skip it ? I would like to meet the morons who are still waiting...

@bytesback.

7 күн бұрын

Any chance of an ethical sponsor ?

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

Ethical sponsors don't pay that good than the ones we see on nearly every channel on YT.

@-vz-

7 күн бұрын

so many red flags with this one

@ticron

7 күн бұрын

I like your videos, but I can't stay subscribed to someone who continues to promote Masterworks. Please listen to what your viewers are telling you and choose a better sponsor.

Ehm, Slovakia was never part of the USSR. It was part of the Eastern Bloc, which is by far not the same. Back then, it was Czechoslovakia, which split into Czechia and Slovakia in 1994.

@himaro101

7 күн бұрын

While technically correct, I'd say it's splitting hairs. For all intents and purposes, the eastern block was governed by the USSR. Eastern Europe wasn't so much freed from Nazi Germany as put under new management at the end of WW2... I know it's probably taken in the same way as calling a Scottish or Welsh person English though.

@waffle3709

7 күн бұрын

🤓

@MrSkipLim

7 күн бұрын

@@himaro101 They could not move freely between the Eastern Bloc and the USSR There was a different language

@bastisonnenkind

7 күн бұрын

@@himaro101 If that is splitting hairs then let me declare that th USA and Canada are the same country, or that the State of New York bekongs to Texas. See what I did there?

@semibbc

7 күн бұрын

@@himaro101 Thats not splitting hairs.. thats going bald

Thank you for the instructions. I shall dismante my nuclear reactor tonight!

@Leo23XR

7 күн бұрын

Haha

@beaudavis3808

7 күн бұрын

You better not be an American, then.

@ohzone6464

7 күн бұрын

Don't be afraid < just what they want

@brendansully12

7 күн бұрын

booooooooooo

@blaydCA

3 күн бұрын

I'm not touching mine until it's wheels fall off, or it explodes.😂

Bohunice 1 & 2 are WWER-440/230, the same type as Greifswald-1 to 4, so not that new, when the Bohunice units shut down, the Greifswald units were already 11 and 13 Years into their dismantlingprocess. Also Slovakia was never part of the sovietunion, Czechoslovakia was only member of the Warsaw Pact.

I’m probably one of the few people who watched this video that actually has worked on nuclear power plants. I’ve been fortunate enough to work on the containment vessel at a nuclear power station, the refueling machinery and the sacrificial shield walls of a nuclear reactor. I really believe that nuclear power has a role to play in our energy production matrix. And that opinion isn’t based on my previous work in the field. I’ve worked in multiple coal power stations, biomass and municipal waste stations, natural gas cogeneration plants and hydroelectric energy systems.

@BelaJuTe

7 күн бұрын

From your experience, what are the best forms of electricity generation?

@1968Christiaan

7 күн бұрын

There is a great video from a well known professor of energy resources, who proves with numbers, facts and graphs exactly the opposite. He shows that PV in Germany is even reducing the usage of nuclear in france. Nuclear is just too expensive and is too much of an economic risk. His video is called "droht das Atom-Aus in Frankreich"

@briangarrow448

7 күн бұрын

@@BelaJuTe I’m a huge fan of hydroelectric power. I also think that tidal power has great potential promise for our future. The fact is that every type of power generation has its positive points as well as downsides. I believe we are going to need a BROAD mix of different types of power sources to serve our future needs. I am enthusiastic about small nuclear power generation systems, tidal, solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal energy generation. Variety is the key for the future.

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

@@1968Christiaan And with the prices for Battery storage dropping fast right now cause of scaling up of the production will make it more and more a no brainer to have all houses with a PV and battery. So the storage close to the consumption and less usage of the grid.

@aggonzalezdc

7 күн бұрын

​@@toggleton6365what are you going to do with all those batteries at their end of life? Decommissioning is something required of nearly every power system, and batteries are some of the worst.

Bulgaria also shut down it"s VVER-400/WWER. They don't meet some requirements for safety and bioshield. VVER-1000 work fine. However ours were not disassembled. Interesting video

@lukasvrabec5783

7 күн бұрын

VVER 10%0 are newer design, with containment, which is missing in 440 design, or rather be using barborage instead, but that is not up to the EU standart, as there are no such type of reactor, construction philosophy in EU-15.

@KarlKarpfen

6 күн бұрын

​@@lukasvrabec5783 You can license reactors with the same containment type as the VVER-440/230 in the EU, like the AP1000, for example. The key point of the VVER-440/230 is, that the containment was not designed to withstand most of the expectable damages. It was only designed to withstand a slow gradual leakage of the reactor vessel, but no major failures, like a pipe rupturing or a corroded through RPV-head bursting or such. In those cases, the VVER-440/230's reactor building would just burst together with the primary loop.

Now _this_ is a subject I wasn't expecting to learn about in this week's B1M video

@L17_8

7 күн бұрын

God sent His son Jesus to die for our sins on the cross. This was the ultimate expression of God's love for us. Then God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day. Please repent and turn to Jesus and receive Salvation now before it is too late. The end times written about in the Bible are already happening in the world. Jesus loves you with all His heart ❤️ but time is running out.

2:01 formerly part of the ussr????? How do you fact check your stuff?

@Gecmajster123456

7 күн бұрын

he is right, wasnt part of the Western countries, or the Europen Union.. do you get it?!

@Gecmajster123456

7 күн бұрын

its an officail document, Csendes, keeps silent, thats your surname..

@Gecmajster123456

7 күн бұрын

the Szomszedok was a really depressing HU-USSR series.. btw, don't even dare deny it

@heinzaballoo3278

7 күн бұрын

Yeah it's sloppy as hell

@kristoffer3000

7 күн бұрын

@@Gecmajster123456 Bro, you're drooling.

30 years old? i'd say well over 50 years for most of the reactors. And since when was slovakia part of the ussr? :o

I wish you would stop taking masterworks sponsorships.

Before SMRs can be fully adopted they have to uh you know ... exist.

@1968Christiaan

7 күн бұрын

Yeh the only company that actually got half way to making one went bankrupt with the explanation " it was just too expensive". Very honest, if a little late.

Love the reports, but the ads oh boy pls dont

@Leo23XR

7 күн бұрын

What ads ?

@PhilliesNostalgia

7 күн бұрын

@@Leo23XRMasterworks

@user-ds8rj2vc4v

7 күн бұрын

@@Leo23XR The one that occupied like 25% of the video.

@Leo23XR

7 күн бұрын

@@user-ds8rj2vc4v I don't have any ads. It's on you bro.

@GeekyMedia

6 күн бұрын

you get this video for free. How else can a channel like this function and put out weekly high-quality videos?

Confusing. It happened in 2011-2022 . So it's done. But is it expected to cost 1.3B US? And then you lead into Masterworks.

@edyee1647

7 күн бұрын

"Confusing. It happened in 2011-2022. So it's done" Bro, he already said it at 2:40.

@donc-m4900

7 күн бұрын

@@edyee1647 right Bro, so why is it expected to cost 1.3B? It's over.

Did you just say that Slovakia was formerly part of the USSR?

@gryff8400

7 күн бұрын

Yes he did. Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia which was part of the Warsaw pact. USSR was something else and also part of the Warsaw pact. Did you expect accuracy on KZread?

@user-dt5nj3uk2s

7 күн бұрын

Same thing lol no country in the poop pact had any free will whatsoever.

@MichalBrat

7 күн бұрын

@@user-dt5nj3uk2s Sure, that is why they had to literally invade several of them (1956, 1968...) because they were the same thing, right?

@Gecmajster123456

7 күн бұрын

do you UNDERSTAND that Slovakia was ruled by the Soviets???

@MichalBrat

7 күн бұрын

@@Gecmajster123456 it WAS NOT, no matter how much you SHOUT. Czechoslovakia was under heavy influence of the USSR, but was never ruled by the Soviets, whoever that is in your understanding of the history.

In modern era, one disadvantage of nuclear reactors is their inability to rapidly adjust to demand/supply (for instance ramp down when solar/wind produce enough to supply the load and quickly ramp back up when wind dies down and the sun sets).

@spacecube8561

7 күн бұрын

so, unreliability of solar and wind is the problem, then?

@joshgardner4879

7 күн бұрын

it's called 'base load' and you need it

@luc_libv_verhaegen

7 күн бұрын

@@joshgardner4879 Easy, buy grid level battery storage. You can buy 88GWh worth of expensive tesla megapacks for the price of building one EDF EPR. And that's before that reactor has had uranium fuel loaded, with all the costs that entails. This is about a years worth of battery storage production today, but this production capacity increases by 2/3rds every year since 2017.

@juimymary9951

7 күн бұрын

@@luc_libv_verhaegen the problem with that is that we don’t have batteries that are cheap enough and energy efficient enough to be used on an industrial scale… pumped hydro is working pretty well, but unless cheap solid state batteries become a thing they won’t be happening any time soon.

@jfmezei

7 күн бұрын

@@joshgardner4879 Hydro Québec is able to dynamically adjust its hydro electroc production based on how much solar/wind bring into the grid. By turning off turbines, it keeps water in the reservoir for later when it is used. The perverse: HQ normally exports to the USA. But when the USA has surpkus, because their "base load" can,t dynamically adjust (coal, nuclear, though natural gas can be adjusted quickly depending on design), the don't know what to do with surplus, so Hydro Québec buys the surplus for dirt cheap while tring off its own turbines and keep water in reservurs, Later, when tghe USa needs power, HQ will release that water to provide more power and sell it to USA. Where base load cannot be dynamically adjusted, it is useless to have renewables because you don't save anything as your base load continues to produce.

I'm obviously missing something: why is it not possible to re-use parts of these structures to house modern reactors? The buildings seem sound and the sites obviously are already linked to the grid. That said it seems strange to me to see what in the video look like blocks of flats a few dozen metres from the reactor building!

Slovakia is mentioned. Thousands of Slovaks must watch!

@SomeKidFromBritain

5 күн бұрын

Are you a slovak?

@samueltrusik3251

5 күн бұрын

@@SomeKidFromBritain Indeed.

@SomeKidFromBritain

5 күн бұрын

@@samueltrusik3251 Cool

Please no more masterworks scams

@jayg6138

2 күн бұрын

It’s like he is giving financial advice without acknowledging it

@jayg6138

2 күн бұрын

It’s like he is giving financial advice without acknowledging it

It's old news, but if you had to pick an old Soviet reactor decomissioning to cover, why not Ignalina? It has the additional fun fact of being only a small update to the Chernobyl design.

@krashd

3 күн бұрын

Ignalina predates Chernobyl so how could it be an update?

@jaskij

3 күн бұрын

@@krashd Ignalina predates the Chernobyl disaster, not the plant.

Cheers to Fred and the team, y’all truly are the #1 channel for construction

@L17_8

7 күн бұрын

God sent His son Jesus to die for our sins on the cross. This was the ultimate expression of God's love for us. Then God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day. Please repent and turn to Jesus and receive Salvation now before it is too late. The end times written about in the Bible are already happening in the world. Jesus loves you ❤️ but time is almost up.

"Slowakia was a part of Soviet Union" I'm dead 💀

Have been waiting for an episode about Slovakia for so long and the absolutely wrong pronunciation of our towns did not disappoint lol. Gotta love that you just gave up on Jaslovské bohunice and just called it just Bohunice, which is a totally different village instead instead :D

Very enjoyable as always 👍

I'm always waiting for the smooth transition to the sponsor😂

I once stood directly under a reactor pressure vessel, in the only nuclear power plant that was never put into operation and is now a kind of museum. It is located in Austria.

@nicky9499

2 күн бұрын

Tom Scott has done a video about it, from a couple years back

Wazzup from Hanford site 😊!

It sucks that they are fully tearing down the site. Obviously the reactor vessel itself needs replacing if it doesn't meet modern safety standards, but I don't understand why they didn't retrofit the plant to use a modern, safe reactor, and reuse a lot of the other infrastructure like the cooling towers, steam generators, and turbines, to generate power with a more modern reactor. It seems like that would be way cheaper, and would have less impact on their electrical grid and local economy. Also, if we're going to meet climate goals, we need more nuclear, not less. Including Chernobyl and all other nuclear disasters, nuclear has caused less deaths per kilowatt hour than any fossil fuel method of power generation, and even if you go really overboard and include the deaths caused by the nuclear bombings in WW2, nuclear still has less deaths per kilowatt hour than coal does. Coal power has even emmitted more radioactive debris into the atmosphere than nuclear, as the trace heavy metals in coal are released without any effort to mitigate it, while nuclear is highly regulated and emits virtually zero uncontained radioactive material. To put into perspective how incredibly safe modern nuclear power is, if you don't count Chernobyl, nuclear has the least deaths per kilowatt hour of any power generation method, including solar and wind, due to workplace accidents where people fall when installing panels on roofs or maintaining wind turbine.

@KReMieN0K

7 күн бұрын

There are still 2 working reactors there, so they were 5, now 3 are gone, 2 are working and they want to start to build a new reactor in close future

Cool review.

What is the song name at 4:57 and 5:16 which is being played in the back ground ? ? Thanks :)

this is interesting... lesson to learn, when you design something that you are going to build, do it with the end in mind, to make decommissioning easier and cheaper...that complicates the design phase, but makes it better...but will it make the quality of the build better or worse? design better...thank you Fred, for yet another good one...

I was here before the thumbnail and title were changed

Enjoyable video, also really happy to see the editing has gone back to visually pleasing smooth and bouncy transitions, and that horrible glitchy aesthetic has fallen out of fashion. I actually watched this one instead of just listening to it.

Ummm Slovakia was never a part of the USSR and I don't get how Chernobyl nuclear disaster is related to these, unlike RBMK reactors used in Chernobyl, VVER design used here is inherently safer so I have reasons to believe it was shut down due to stupid politics, not actual security concern

@xxwookey

7 күн бұрын

VVER is not as bad as RBMK (nothing is!) but there were serious issues in the early VVER designs, meaning they didn't meet European requirements any more. So it's not just silly politics.

Actually, Italy (current government and people) looks pretty serious to embark on the nuclear "adventure", unlike Germany where it has come to an end.

@kingofthend

7 күн бұрын

They will reconsider once they see the price tag for a new nuclear reactor lol

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

My guess would be that you have different needs for other fuels. Cause of different temperatures and amount of power that you want to get out of it. For the same design with same characteristics maybe.

@---...---...---...---...

7 күн бұрын

@@kingofthend The government is the primary cause of expenses in nuclear so if they decide not to be idiots it can be done pretty cheaply, like South Korea does it, but I doubt that is possible in Italy where they make a virtue out of being inefficient in everything they do...

@spacecube8561

7 күн бұрын

@@kingofthend they only need to see how much money germany wasted on not-being-nuclear-powered to see that nuclear is the future

@luc_libv_verhaegen

7 күн бұрын

@@spacecube8561 We no longer live in the 1970s, we have cheap solar, cheap wind and cheap batteries, and all are getting cheaper by the day. So get some actual facts and figures. Do you know what the cost per MWh of Germany's nuclear fleet was. Do you know the usual day ahead pricing per MWh in germany, and how often said pricing matches a price where nuclear power would have been profitable (hint: SMARD)? Do you know who pays for liability insurance for nuclear reactors (hint: Deutsche Kernreaktor-Versicherungsgemeinschaft), never mind dismantling or long term storage (belgium has some info: google for: "Ontmanteling kerncentrales kost minstens"). Do you know the construction cost of a modern nuclear reactor (hint: hinkley point C, and read up on "capacity factor"), compared to the cost of the most expensive renewable; offshore wind (hint: dogger bank) versus the cost of battery storage (hint: tesla mega pack). While you are at it, you can look up "strike price" and compare Hinkley versus Dogger. Please take the time to get some facts and figures and do some simple maths, and then you will quickly see that building new nuclear is economic suicide, and that inserting new uranium fuel rods in Germany's few remaining nuclear power plants by April 2023 would have been bad economics.

The segue into the sponsor read was in really bad taste. Did not appreciate it

I don't know about atomic H bombs. But I know about F bombs. The Fred bomb. The infinite power source we all need...

@GeekyMedia

6 күн бұрын

this is the comment we're looking for.

It seems strange to smash the blocks of the containment walls into "rubble". It would seem easier to contain a radioactive block than a pile of powder. I guess powder is cheaper to deal with.

B1M, now also number one channel for deconstruction 🙂

1:55 Correction. Slovakia was never a part of the USSR, not even when in Czechoslovakia, which was also never part of the USSR. Check what you are saying!

@krashd

3 күн бұрын

Just as you should check for similar comments before adding to the bloat.

@erikziak1249

3 күн бұрын

@@krashd Since when do I need to check other comments?

This was SUPERB. I took many screenshots for myself for example 5:00 and 6:45

It is unlikely that “small” reactors will be adopted. They are still too expensive and take too long to be installed and permitted. Also to be taken into account are the hazards of mining and refining the fuel.

@stickynorth

7 күн бұрын

LOL.... FUD MONSTER ALERT!

@stickynorth

7 күн бұрын

Wrong. They are affordable enough to be deployed now. Why aren't you asking to kill Coal when it kills WAY MORE PEOPLE??????? REALLY... Talk about misplaced priorities...

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

@@stickynorth Then ask NuScale what happened to their project in Ohio that already got quite a big Subsidy by the Inflation reduction act. And the likely hood of SMR projects going big overprice is not low. The fun part is that they are already overpriced when calculating with full load. But with so cheap Solar power pushing into the market the load will need to adjust and the price per kWh will rise even more. And we should have reached peak coal already where the worldwide consumption will go down. Battery storage prices already dropping quite a lot sooner than expected. The next years will mean big changes in the energy system.

Sweden set aside money for the very produced kWh for the dismantle instead of subsidy nuclear.

VVER-440s are good for 60 years with a reactor pressure vessel annealing at the 30 year mark. Finland and others have done this with their VVER-440s.

Ah, yes...because fine art will be more valuable in an emergency than an operating power plant. 😂

1:46 "being decommissioned for a different reason". But it was because of joining EU, which had as you already mentioned at 1:37 "new regulations"

Small mistake that i spotted at 1:58, The other 6 reactors are also soviet, and 4 of them stay running with 2 of them under construction again.

Awesome video. I wonder if we'll be doing the same in a few decades to our current power sources...? - Maybe one to answer on the podcast

Im from Slovakia, and now new goverment is making a project for new Nuclear power plant on place where Bohunice were, and it should be similar small modular reactors like that one at the end of the video.

@kpakaify

7 күн бұрын

Thanks for comment. Do you know who will build it?

@etelabaloghova6711

7 күн бұрын

@@kpakaify The new block of the nuclear power plant should have an output of approximately 1,200 megawatts. Due to the lack of resources in the state budget, the government will have to proceed with the construction of the reactor in the form of a PPP project. According to him, a private investor in such cases demands a guaranteed purchase price of electricity for decades.

@1968Christiaan

7 күн бұрын

@@kpakaify According to Wikipedia : Decision made in May 2009 -manufacturer not yet decided.... "Four manufacturers have been mooted as possible suppliers: Mitsubishi, Atomenergoprojekt, Westinghouse and Areva"

@luc_libv_verhaegen

7 күн бұрын

@@1968Christiaan Westinghouse went bankrupt in 2017, which is why they cancelled the VC summers project. They recently got sold again for just 7.9B EUR, which is about a third of what it would cost to build one of their reactors... Areva and the nuclear part of Mitsubishi is now Framatom. Which would have been bankrupt for building an EPR in Olkiluoto if they had not been majority owned by EDF, aka the French state. So really good point.

Slovensko! Rozebírají reaktory i vládu :D

@artofcr1mson

7 күн бұрын

je to tak

@JanNovak-pg8oe

6 күн бұрын

A-1 se rozebírá od roku 1977. Kolik bylo mezitím vlád? 😀

@brabecjakub

6 күн бұрын

@@JanNovak-pg8oe slovensko bylo divoký dycky!

Some of the background music reminded me of Kraftwerk’s album Radioactivity.

Small modular reactors are simply not cost effective on a per MW basis and unlikely to ever see widespread adaptation. The future is still large scale nuclear and renewables with battery storage.

Is the answer “Because they were built by the Soviets and you have be really careful taking them apart”?

For a pressurized water reactor 30 years is as old as 5 years is for a car: not even half the life it has The design lifetime of 40 years for reactors from the 60s and 70s was based on extremely conservative estimates on neutron radiation embrittlement of steel. They chose an estimate that was sufficiently conservative to still meet or exceed the design life. The actual safe operational lifetime of pressurized and boiling water reactors is, so far, unknown, but definitely above 80 years.

Just curious why certain things like the cooling towers couldn’t be reused with a new power plant unless they were also in poor condition. Seems like certain things were destroyed just to destroy it.

It would be cool if the B1M team could do a video on the Transformational Challenge Reactor and its Yttrium Hydride moderator. This could be a real enabling technology for SMRs that do not use water as a moderator and coolant. For example Helium, heavy Nitrogen, Lead, or molten salt cooled reactors. Until now water cooled reactors had an advantage over these types as they had the best moderator, the hydrogen in the water. But Yttrium Hydride contains as much hydrogen and is stable as a solid to well over 1000 degrees Celsius.

Can you make video on, most difficult project of Indian railway in last 100 years, USBRL (udampur shrinagar baramula railway line) which includes 90% tracks on bridges and tunnel, and 2 record holder railway bridges in it, one is world tallest railway arc bridge.

Slovakia wasn't in the USSR!

@lgarestrada

7 күн бұрын

It was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1968.

@AntaurySan

2 күн бұрын

@@lgarestrada Doesn't make any difference. It was still part of independent country of Czechoslovakia. Highly influenced by Soviets, but not part of USSR.

Lucky for them dealing with Soviet nuclear technology that this wasn't a RBMK reactor.

How expensive is nuclear power once you take in account the cost of decommissioning?

I wonder how the contamination got everywhere. Most reactors are closed loop and I thought the fuel would stay in the rods.

how radio active was this waste? and how far away from it before it equals background radioactivity? I only ever hear that it is radioactive, so is my dads wrist watch.

How do you recycle concrete?

This conveniently come out after a week of public debate in Australia over nuclear plants

I’m interested in your take on why most power plants continue to use the same old technology to generate power: steam to turn a turbine. What other technologies are available?

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

cause it is a proven design. We know how to make a stable power grid out of steam. heat source does not matter. In the future will it be interesting as Solar power and wind turbines usually follow the heartbeat of the grid with a high renewables grid you need to do grid forming a different way.

@gmhs2

6 күн бұрын

It's the most efficient method, and the simplest to set up. Make no mistake though, modern day steam turbines are immensely complex machines that hold and generate massive amounts of power, a single turbine unit can generate nearly a gigawatt alone in larger plants.

Dismantling a nuclear reactor is a complex process: Shutdown: The reactor is powered down, and all nuclear fuel is removed. Cooling: The reactor and its components are allowed to cool down to reduce radioactivity levels. Decontamination: Radioactive surfaces are cleaned or removed to protect workers and the environment. Disassembly: The reactor is taken apart piece by piece. Highly radioactive parts are handled with special care. Waste Management: Radioactive materials are safely packaged and transported to storage or disposal facilities. Site Cleanup: The area is cleaned and restored for other uses once it’s free from radiological hazards. what do you think?!

It powered the entire of Slovakia for 5 years just one nuclear reactor?? Holy cow!!

what did they replace them with?

@luc_libv_verhaegen

7 күн бұрын

Renewables, you can construct 12-15x solar or onshore wind for the equivalent nuclear peak power. So even if you factor in capacity factors, you get out way ahead. And renewables have liability insurance factored into their electricity pricing.

@chodaboydc

7 күн бұрын

@@luc_libv_verhaegen good luck with that 👀

@luc_libv_verhaegen

7 күн бұрын

@@chodaboydc Start looking at some facts and numbers, and do some trivial maths, it is a no-brainer.

@chodaboydc

7 күн бұрын

@@luc_libv_verhaegenyeah, it's all a big conspiracy my man, you just build a caouple of wind farms and that's it 😂 in reality, they probably built another nuclear plant because they actually can do the math

@lukefrahn8538

6 күн бұрын

virtue signalling clowns

this reminded me of Günter Walraff 's Ganz Unten.

im sorry but all the energy and money put into building running and then decommissioning these plants they never break even in profit or energy.

Hah great segue into Masterworks! But not being funny, VVERs are technologically and schematically similar, if not identical to PWRs. Most of the primary circuit would have experienced embrittlement and degradation, so given that it operated since the late 70's, you're reaching the end of life properties for making a structural integrity case. Most of the material grades in the 70s aren't as refined as they are now with a lot more impurities; sulphur, phosphorus and other tramp elements that would affect the start of life mechanical properties; strength and toughness etc. From an academic and industrial learning point of view, utilising the end of life primary circuit materials for mechanical tests will help further our understanding of material properites when highly embrittled and can be used to influence and revise design codes for example. Also, since most SMRs are basically more compact PWRs, the lessons learnt will be hugely valuable.

Regarding safety concerns, another option would be to use the CANDU design. It is more expensive, mostly due to its heavy water moderator, but was designed to be a safer reactor design from the start. It has many other advantages, including the types of fuel that can be used with it and the fact it is almost impossible for a "meltdown" scenario if anything fails. It is also a design that could be used for countries that can benefit from the production of power without having access to weapons grade fissile materials.

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

It is more expensive When the current designs already struggle to produce electricity for a competitive price then building an even more expensive design in 10years will not survive on the market without big Government help.

@tomarmadiyer2698

7 күн бұрын

​@@toggleton6365 Right? Because all infrastructure is completely privately funded. We can't take money away from the next Sports Dome. Or from arms developers. Nah, it's too expensive, we can't be better. We love our shite sammiches.

@tomarmadiyer2698

7 күн бұрын

If not candu, then maybe someone can start thorium runs

The economics of Nuclear fusion just don‘t add up, they never add in the cost of end storage of all that nuclear waste or the cost of dismantling a plant. Its also doesn‘t complement solar or wind energy, as you cannot switch it on or off for a few hours like coal, oil or gas peaker systems, which people claim it will replace. Its on all the time creating energy that is more expensive than solar or wind and therefore pushing the cost of all energy up for the end user, as we cannot say today I just want energy from wind power, its always in the mix and so is the price. And when its off for say maintenance, its off for months so then what do we do at night when wind and solar is down. Invest the same money in wind solar ,hydro, geothermal and storage ( there are now loads of options to suit every location) and you will have a more stable, cheaper and reliable solution without any of the risks.

We have lost so much ditching this technology. And those who know know it was done for industry, money and power. Not for the human good.

@1968Christiaan

7 күн бұрын

No it was done for the economics and public interest.

This might be controversial but why don't they consider a planet for disposal like Venus given its atmosphere.

well instead of cutting and relocating all that stuff they might just fill it with cement....

Skip the 3:30 - 4:40 parts. They are just commercial for something else. B1M dude is coming too soave, pushing these over minute long adds in the middle. Not a fan.

Every commercial reactor design that was produced in numbers had a decommissioning plan when it was built, despite what it might seem like. This is universal across the world and maybe even more true for some earlier designs that were not of the quality that would instill the confidence they would not have to take the whole thing apart again. They messed a lot of things up back then, but they did make plans for what to do at the end of the working life of the reactor. Just under different standards and concerns compared to nowadays. Doesn't mean you couldn't still do it that way, heck some actually still do despite the protest of the IAEA.

0:50 oof not Taiwan being shown as part of China

Hello . Hope you make video on China nuclear reactors under in Pakistan and it's safety concerns. Thank and love your channel

What’s the point of destroying steam tanks if the guy doesn’t wear any protection- why not reuse them ?

@krashd

3 күн бұрын

Would wearing protection make them reusable?

5:14 some gardener in 100 years is going to exclaim “where the fuck did all this concrete come from!? Fucking lazy builders!” 😂

Soviet made things may not be the best but they are always long lasting & reliable...

> Why Slovakia is Dismantling its Soviet-Era Nuclear Reactors > Soviet-Era Nuclear Reactors The answer is in the question itself.

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

nah. The VVER 400 get dismantled. The VVER 1000 designs that came out 5years later are fine cause it has the needed safety features.

That looks like it would explode in 2 seconds.

replace the old one with the new one what is broken replace the reactor part with a new reactor

@1968Christiaan

7 күн бұрын

If you are looking at the prices for "building a new one" the numbers just are not on your side. The market has killed-off nuclear... not "fearfull greens".

@user-ds8rj2vc4v

7 күн бұрын

Why? A single nuclear reactor would cost about £30 billion.Which would provide solar panels for approximately 5,000,000 homes. There are about 30,000,000 homes in the UK. So instead of 1 nuclear plant, you could give solar panels to about 1/6th of the entire country - offsetting the need for nearly as much additional energy sources in the first place.

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

nuclear has a steady output solar has sun hours. Would better calculate with PV and battery in a big enough size. But the example is still great. Maybe you can still give PV plus battery to 1/15 of UK.

@JohnnyWednesday

7 күн бұрын

@@user-ds8rj2vc4v - But then less money would go to the energy companies? I don't see how we're going to afford to bribe politicians as much as the energy companies can.

@user-ds8rj2vc4v

7 күн бұрын

@@toggleton6365 The solar has far lower potential risk, far easier to integrate into existing infrastructure and would give the power back to the people. Reducing bills from the start. It would also make us richer. That 5,000,000 homes would effectively shave about £750-1000 per year from their bills. Imagine if each household every year had an extra £750 - 1000. How would that help in things like stimulating the economy? More spending means more jobs.

Couldn't the turbines be reused? Or do this design only work with this style of nuclear power station?

@beaudavis3808

7 күн бұрын

You are asking an interesting question. Steam turbines need steam, just is it. Everything else is in the air.

@Thefox0922

7 күн бұрын

If it’s still functional It could work with other nuclear plants or any other power stations that heat water to create steam

@harrymaciolek9629

7 күн бұрын

Do you want to reuse turbines that are 40 or fifty years old? And if you did, where would you get the replacement parts. Cheaper to buy new.

The share of nuclear power in global electricity production has halved over the last 30 years. It will continue to shrink as so many old reactors will have to go offline. Only France and China plan to even build a substantial amount of new reactors. The others are just dabbling a bit.

@luc_libv_verhaegen

7 күн бұрын

Define substantial. France has 61GWp nuclear capacity. 56GWp of that will have been active for over 50ys in the next decade. Back in the summer of 2022, the french nuclear industry was in dire straits and less than half of the capacity was available for electricity generation. Partly due to the usual refuelling cycles, partly due to defects found, partly due to high water temperatures and low water levels in the rivers that most french nuclear power plants use for cooling. So Macron threw the french nuclear industry a bone and announced the intention to build 6 new reactors, for a grand total of 9.6GWp of new generation. Given that it takes 5+ys of planning, and 10-15ys of building, for new capacity to come online, i do not see anything real happening here. Especially since the economics of nuclear is suicidal, which is a few orders of magnitude worse than abysmal :)

This is just mylta powers. Good drop out of way to loot up befor heading to Pochinki or Gakta fields for final circle.

This is the illuminate manufacturing the energy crisis

Today I learned that Slovakia was part of USSR.

We have non in my country. Saddness :( It's frustrating how demonised nuclear power is and how much of the anti nuclear stuff is misinformation and fear mongering

@JohnnyWednesday

7 күн бұрын

If it can be done to nuclear power? imagine what else is similarly demonized

Where does all that contaminated material and gear go? Who pays for the clean up

@xxwookey

7 күн бұрын

Into an appropriate low-level or high-level nuclear waste store, as explained in the video. One useful feature of radioactive pollution is that it naturally decays so if you leave it for long enough it stops being harmful. Most other harmful waste does not have this 'self-improving' property. There is typically 100:1 ratio between low-level waste and high-level waste. Requirements for storing the latter are strict and most countries still only have temporary stores due to failing to chose sites for permanent ones. Finland is a notable exception.

@estimatingonediscoveringthree

7 күн бұрын

@@xxwookey for how long, who pays for maintenance ? How long is the longest running repository been in operation (historical data)

@xxwookey

7 күн бұрын

@@estimatingonediscoveringthree You don't 'maintain' a permanent waste storage facility. You fill it up (over several decades), backfill it and leave it. So there is no attached cost once it's full/closed.

@estimatingonediscoveringthree

7 күн бұрын

@@xxwookey lol! Yes you do! Name one that isn’t maintained!!

@xxwookey

7 күн бұрын

@@estimatingonediscoveringthree I'm only aware of one (Onkalo) and it's only just been opened so of course it's not full yet, so it's a long way from entering the 'completed and no longer maintained' state. Are we perhaps talking at cross purposes, and you are talking about temporary storage sites rather than permanent ones?

WOW WOW WOW !!!

You answered your own question with the question, because they are soviet nuclear reactors

waste storage aka burry it for a future generation to worry about, woops

nuke is cleaner than solar and wind too

wery wery carefully

@L17_8

7 күн бұрын

God sent His son Jesus to die for our sins on the cross. This was the ultimate expression of God's love for us. Then God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day. Please repent and turn to Jesus and receive Salvation now before it's too late. The end times written about in the Bible are already happening in the world. Jesus loves you so much ❤️ but time is almost up.

@Thefox0922

7 күн бұрын

@@L17_8what does that have to do with nuclear reactors

I'll have to say goodbye. I've realized that your channel is ideological posing as science. Have a good life...

they could use the acquired "know how" to build a reactor in its place.... and maybe even more throughout Slovakia.... just sayin´....

@michaelnguyen9348

3 күн бұрын

The know how is no longer there, its in czechia, in pilsen, Škoda Nuclear heavyworks which built around 20 npps all around the world, sadly its been quietly gutted and gutted like most of Czechoslovak industrial base, ČKD Works, the largest tram manufacturer in the world with trams exported to around 130 cities all around the world from Peru to North korea has been with all 50,000 employess left to despair in the 90s,

0:55 "much cleaner than fossil fuels ... there's a drive to build more powerplants" Unfortunately no drive in World's 3rd economy: Germany 😢As far as I remember when they agreed to stop all nuclear powerplants, they started digging and consuming more coal, because green party wanted to stop nuclear power

@toggleton6365

7 күн бұрын

are we talking about 2002 nuclear stop or fukushima based stop in 2009? 2009 was CDU and FDP. greens have been not in the government at that time. And the plan of the greens was to accelerate renewables a lot more than the CDU ruled government did in their 16years. The coal consumption in Germany was mostly steady since 2000 till 2018. With some heavy winters more and some years less. And is right now as low as it was in 1956. At the same time as the last nuclear reactors have been shut down and gas prices have been used as weapon by putin. Would it be better to get rid of coal first sure but this was a development that fueled a lot of discussions nearly every year. So it is what it is. Fokus now on getting the co2 emissions down of the country instead of repeating the discussion again. Enough work to do.

@spacecube8561

7 күн бұрын

@@toggleton6365 shutting down coal power plants instead of nuclear power plants would've gotten germany's co2 emmisions preety low. i mean, just sayin'

@rustix3

7 күн бұрын

@@toggleton6365 I was talking about the recent event, the full stop under the traffic light coalition