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@imaginativeskydadytm1389

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the very enlightening video.

@yashswimehta2286

Жыл бұрын

You should reallly mention about coal when it is burned it releases heavy metal and radioactive materials as well iin the ash which is a major cause of death

@SharingIdea

Жыл бұрын

I think Dolores Cannon said well, when Nuclear Energy invented it was for negative purpose (war) so it has bad negative Aura around it and this is resisting to become power source for good. (i know it's metaphysics but still it make sense at some level)

@Mtl-zf9om

Жыл бұрын

Nuclear energy is the most efficient and cleanest energy that we have to this day. Yes, the previous accidents are terrible, but I'm pretty sure that with recent technologies, these risks can be reduced to almost zero.

@powerofanime1

Жыл бұрын

Another thing you could research on the subject is companies like Thor Energy, and the types of reactors like LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) and the people working on those ideas like Ron Sorenson.

As a nuclear physicist who deals with rad waste daily, I appreciate the thought put into dispelling common radiation fears, it only makes my job that little bit easier.

@jamesli926

Жыл бұрын

I know nothing about this, but is rad waste all solid? why was i udner the impression that even the water that the rods are submersed in essentially radiocative forever and we also need to take care of disposing it as well?

@evanwalker4672

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesli926 heavy water is not radioactive. Let me do a better explanation. Neutron activation is the process that causes stable elements to become radioactive. This is caused by free neutrons interacting with nuclei. When water is hit by neutrons, there are two atoms that can go through neutron activation (obviously) hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen gets hit and forms deuterium which is stable, though the deuterium can then get hit by a neutron and become tritium which is mildly radioactive. This is a very small amount of water as most of the water is still going to be regular hydrogen. Now oxygen has two heavier versions than the most common, Oxygen-16, and those heavier versions are oxygen 17 and 18. Both of which are stable. The only radioactive isotope of oxygen (that doesn’t decay almost instantly) is oxygen 15 which is less than 16 and cannot be formed from neutron activation. Thus water in a nuclear plant is not really radioactive at all. Water is only good at moving things that are radioactive which it doesn’t in a nuclear power plant.

@reddragonflyxx657

Жыл бұрын

​@@jamesli926 I think there are trace amounts of material dissolved into the water (more if they melt), but fuel pellets have cladding specifically to prevent that (and corrosion). That gets filtered and the filters eventually end up as LSA rad waste (I think I followed a convoy for around 15 minutes on the highway, I noticed because it had a RAD III placard which is rare, and the LSA classification means that the high radioactivity comes from a lot of moderately radioactive waste (also it didn't list isotopes, so it was probably a mix). The neutrons do produce some tritium (much more in heavy water reactors like CANDU) but the typical policy for that is to ensure the water doesn't have significant organic material, dilute it, and release it into the water. Tritium is produced by cosmic rays and doesn't concentrate in the environment, so the release limits are surprisingly high. It just doesn't move the needle much. Also tritium has a 12 year half life, which is really annoying (too long for "decay in storage" to be the obvious choice, but short enough to have high specific activity and become less useful to work with over normal timescales). In an accident short lived isotopes like Iodine-131 can be released. Those are extremely dangerous because they have short half lives and correspondingly high activity. That's why you want to stay inside for weeks if a nuclear bomb goes off, and people are told to avoid dust, food, and drink which may be contaminated. In the case of Iodine you can take a large (actually somewhat toxic, so don't take it unless you think you're going to consume radioiodine in the near future) dose of regular iodine, the idea is to saturate your body so that the radioiodine gets excreted rather than retained in important organs (there are also some medical conditions which are treated with radioiodine because it targets specific organs, people tend to ignore biological half life and focus on the nuclear). The exclusion zones are mostly due to things like Sr-90 and Cs-137. They don't dilute nicely, have high specific activity, emit radiation which can penetrate skin, boil out of a reactor if it loses coolant, and have half lives of around 30 years. I think if you magically deleted those two isotopes the Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones would be tiny to non-existent. The long lived isotopes aren't very radioactive, so they're pretty much toxic waste. Also note that spent fuel will probably be reused (if you separate out the components it can go back in a reactor, and the other isotopes have uses) so geological repositories should probably consider the safety of workers recovering the spent fuel in a century or so. The main reasons we (OK, at least one country does) don't reprocess currently is that it's expensive; we can already meet demand with mining, non-fuel neutron targets, particle accelerators, et cetera; and a reprocessing plant is a make way to get plutonium for nuclear weapons (US reprocessing was done by military contractors, and secrecy protected them from accountability with the notable exception of Operation Desert Glow, where the DOE was raided by the FBI and EPA).

@minibuns5397

Жыл бұрын

@Divisiblebyzero Radioactive Wasteland Thank You 😊

@alst4817

Жыл бұрын

I used to say rad in the 90s, didn’t know I was referring to radiation 😂

I literally submitted the draft version of my Bachelor's thesis on nuclear energy policies in Germany and France last Friday. And now this video comes out!!!

@BokoMoko65

Жыл бұрын

Can you share it with us?

@benthomson1132

Жыл бұрын

And to think, you could have just waited a week and deep-faked your face onto his, then submitted this instead! But seriously though, wishing you success with your thesis. 😊

@__-yz1ob

Жыл бұрын

​@@BokoMoko65 +1

@terrorkind

Жыл бұрын

Hope you emphasized how stupid my countries (germany) nuclear policies are.

@peterbachlechner2277

Жыл бұрын

Hey, I wanna read your Bachelor Thesis! It sounds incredibly interesting! Lets connect!

Amazing how much impressions play a role in our perception. Nuclear went from being a promise of an energy savior to a societal terror. Getting over that negative bias isn't easy and one accident like Fukushima can cause public opinion to backslide. Great collab!

@mattk8810

11 ай бұрын

Lmao. They miss a lot of things. For example solar uses children mining in Africa who will definitely die and for Nuclear if something does happen a ton of people die over a long period of time. Nuclear is horrible and this idea that capitalism wont cause issues with maintenance you are fooling yourself. Nuclear meltdowns will happen and tons of land space will be lost

@Powerhaus88

11 ай бұрын

That's because people are uninformed idiots.

@Ugly_German_Truths

10 ай бұрын

they left out two important factors in nuclear power that arte total game killers... the environmental damage it causes to mine Uranium ore (mostly in open mines like a lot of coal) and the limited supply of nuclear "fuel". You do not WANT to set everything on NPP only to have nothing to run them with in 100 years or less.

@cupcakke1294

10 ай бұрын

@@Ugly_German_Truths Uranium is incredibly abundant, mining for renewables is just as bad if not worse.

@zacolton

9 ай бұрын

​​​​@@cupcakke1294 @Ugly_German_Truths And drilling and fracking for oil and natural gas not too mention coal is on a whole other level we just ignore. Isn't the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico still ongoing despite being the largest oil spill of all time in 2010?

Nuclear has extreme regulations that the skeptics tend to ignore when their goal is just to fearmonger mostly. The real reason we don't have more nuclear is because of the immense amount of inspections and regulations that comes with nuclear energy which is understandable. However, this makes nuclear energy significantly more expensive for an investment than other forms of energy. And with low investment and no larger public option (yet!) in America, this leads to less nuclear energy. Another great video, Johnny Harris.

@joellynch6686

5 ай бұрын

It's not regulation, it's cost of capital. NPP are inherently large projects, and investors need a larger return to justify financing the enormously expensive (and lengthy) construction period. More broadly, nuclear isn't competitive because each 1 billion in investment goes (roughly) into producing 1 GW of power, whereas the same investment in renewables yields a factory which produces a continuous supply of individual units in perpetuity. If we invest the same amount in nuclear and renewables year after year, nuclear will grow linearly, and renewables exponentially. This is what we are currently seeing.

@bagfootbandit8745

3 ай бұрын

^Why couldn't both regulation and investment cost be true? Nuclear energy isn't the only solution, but it's still a key technology to combat climate change. Even areas that can currently use renewables still need a diversified grid to reduce vulnerability to natural disasters, or are limited by space or other factors. It's within everyone's interest to make it as safe and cheap as possible.

@joellynch6686

3 ай бұрын

​@@bagfootbandit8745 Lookup Eash-Gates et al.'s 2020 article in Joule, it's easy to find. Safety regulation explains only about 1/3 of the construction cost increase, the rest is materials and labor productivity. All these factors contribute to larger construction costs, which are amplified by the cost of that capital. In other words, safety and labor add cost, but what makes those costs so punishing is the extra profit investors need from the energy to make those investments worth pursuing. You might be able to mitigate some of those costs by reducing safety standards (which is risky), but the real problem is construction time caused by lower labor productivity, which adds direct costs and increases the discount rate.

@dianapennepacker6854

Ай бұрын

Yup. I'm all for nuclear yet it is expensive as hell, and the projects always go over the quoted amount by billions. It is all about cost per MW. Nuclear proponents talk about SMR and all these other technologies like they are already proven to be actually cheaper. Yet I see no evidence of this.

It’s definitely important to note that a lot of people that don’t bother studying nuclear, usually in my experience just associate it with Fukushima, Chernobyl, and for some reason Hiroshima/Nagasaki. Which is extremely disheartening.

@jbmp1390

Жыл бұрын

Mainly Americans do this because they're so proudly ignorant.

@eriklagergren7124

Жыл бұрын

People who think Little boy and Fat man are the same as nuclear power should lose their breathing license.

@JonasSalen

Жыл бұрын

And the other way around. Most people that are pro nuclear only know that the energy source emits very little co2, without thinking about the long term in terms of waste, recycling and cost.

@Mr2greys

Жыл бұрын

@@JonasSalen add in the fact that everyone works to their own level of incompetence

@Sunrisu

Жыл бұрын

@@JonasSalen Waste? if its about safety they now bury them in deep isolation covered in concrete. It will literally outlast human civilization. Even then nuclear energy is the most efficient source of energy and the waste produced is little compared to other alternatives. Cost? it might be bit more costly to maintain but its way more practical for situations and if it was as heavily invested as renewables it can be better for cost. Recycling? Nuclear fuel's 90% can be recycled wdym? other can 10% is sent to the deep isolation no worries.

Here in Ontario, Canada, we get around 60% of our electricity from nuclear energy. This allowed us to transition away from coal. This massively reduced the pollution we had in the Greater Toronto Area and southern ontario. When I was a kid, the smog in Toronto was WAY worse than it is now. I had terrible asthma as well. Now air quality has improved and my asthma symptoms have gotten much better over time. THANK YOU NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

Жыл бұрын

great to hear from a personal testimony

@TheManbeastmike

Жыл бұрын

You actually get 59% of your energy from hydro and 15% from nuclear butt still better than most countries.

@RagsS90

Жыл бұрын

He's talking about Ontario, not Canada as a whole.

@connorisawsome8440

Жыл бұрын

@@TheManbeastmike That's all of Canada, in Ontario it's 60% nuclear

@TheManbeastmike

Жыл бұрын

@Connor McIntyre ahh I see I stand corrected

Great content! As a Japanese experienced the earthquake, the big push back for me is not the accident or trust in technology but it’s lack of trust towards monopolizing corporation and long history of doubtful government corruption nature.

@mattyigreene

Жыл бұрын

💯

@kevinkarlwurzelgaruti458

11 ай бұрын

Hey there. I know that feeling about corporations but from different experiences. However, I can't really blame 100% the company on that case as it was a huge earthquake that led to a tsunami which by itself alone killed tens of thousands of people. Deaths related directly to the accident at the plant (caused by water damage from the tsunami) were just two operators as far as I remember. Nonetheless I recognize the company's fault in not building a higher coast wall as it had been recommended to them to do years before the tragedy. Mostly the damage resulting from the accident was local contamination and according to numbers taken on the aftermath, it's not that bad in the sense that it wouldn't kill you and is highly unlikely to cause sickness. I'm sorry about rambling here in the comments but it just pisses me off that this accident has been blown out of proportion, that the real cause of the tragedy is forgotten and therefore the deaths disrespected, and that it has been weaponized to attack the field as a whole with terrible results;just look at Germany. I hope we see eye to eye.

@alexturnbackthearmy1907

11 ай бұрын

@@kevinkarlwurzelgaruti458 Germany is truly awful. They dispose of nuclear reactors to buy nuclear generated power from france and burn coal and gas. Eco-friendliness, i guess.

@Cowboycomando54

11 ай бұрын

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Yeah, the Green party took a 12 gauge to Germany's foot when they shutdown the last plant.

@tlindsay1007

9 ай бұрын

Me, too. They mess up too many critical things, because their goal is too often to be voted into power, over and over.

I love this channel and these creators so much. In an age where 6-second videos are the “perfect length” its great that I can watch a 30 minute video and enjoy every second

I spent a period working at a uranium mine in Canada. LOTS of people asked me, "Don't you get a lot of radiation doing that?" The answer is actually "Yes". Working a "fly-in/fly-out" camp job increases your dosage significantly - although not nearly as much as say, working as a flight attendant. Working in a uranium mine itself? Not really.

@langohr9613ify

Жыл бұрын

Because it is invisable, it is hard to get a good understanding.

@michaelliu2961

Жыл бұрын

That's hilariously unexpected

@RobespierreThePoof

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Very funny. I'm okay with people being ignorant about uranium ore and radioactivity. I'm less okay with voters being uninformed and paranoid about nuclear energy.

@theshaunsta

Жыл бұрын

Northern Sask?

@DotADBX

Жыл бұрын

people dont seem to understand the disconnect between ore and refined radioactive isotopes, when its in ore form its mixed with other ores that need to be displaced/removed to create the expected refined product that is actually used in reactors. the other one is that people dont understand that the components of radioactive materials are generally "safe" when handled correctly, its only when you force them together and a fissile reaction occurs is where a majority of the radioactivity comes from. follow the rules that have been created literally by people dying playing with this stuff and everything's fine. play god and think you know better and nature bitch slaps you back to the cave where you belong to die in a puddle of your own goo.

This video actually couldn't have come out at a more perfect point. I'm literally writing a text at school about why we don't have more nuclear power.

@olloski5214

Жыл бұрын

yes

@olloski5214

Жыл бұрын

i agree

@loading...1204

Жыл бұрын

yes, i also agree

@existingexpert

Жыл бұрын

*_After deliberating briefly, I realised that yes, i also agree_*

@maakjar

Жыл бұрын

💯

As a geologist, I've been to a nuclear waste storage site. It was created 300 meters below ground level, inside a granite block, which they surveyed so thoroughly, they know basically every cm³ of that formation. There were huge concrete covered halls created down there, the size of two football fields, so impressively huge. The waste is put in those huge halls or silos embedded in 3 ton concrete cubes, and when the halls fill up, they get filled with concrete to the ceiling... There was a several km long ROAD created underground to the storage site, and a large area around the entrance is secured by a private company, basically a smaller army. Getting inside was a diiiifficult thing.😀 If someone would walk up there, and didn't stop when asked, they would be shot immediately. So yeah. Nuclear waste is taken seriously. Way more seriously than anyone could guess. Being down there, next to the concrete crates, the radiation was less than normal background on the surface. And what is stored down there? Low activity nuclear waste: spanners used in the reactor, gloves, coats, lab glasses etc. So yeah. They take it seriously, the high activity storage site is not done yet, but I can't imagine how overengineered that will be. And it's not some fancy rich western country, this is in Hungary... Ps.: the guy there told us that the plans must ensure, that the storage site remains intact for the next 2 million years... Just mindblowing.

A thing that's quite important but often overlooked is that even though a particular piece of material may remain radioactive for thousands or even millions of years that doesn't mean it will stay as dangerous for all that time. Radiation is dangerous when you get hit with many energetic particles but the type of particles that a source can emit will vary greatly over time. Typically the really dangerous stuff is really short lived so most of the danger won't be there anymore in a much much shorter time span. Another important thing is concentration, especially with fluids. If you can treat the material and dilute it it's simply not dangerous anymore

Thank you for making this video. My dad is a retired nuclear engineer, and I have a masters degree in nuclear physics. I have been trying for years to convince people of exactly the things you explain in this video, so it is really heartening to see you using your platform for this purpose. People fear what they don't understand, and it's really easy for people to get caught up in worrying about mysterious radiation and a handful of flashy news stories about rare disasters. The main impediment to nuclear energy is the lack of public education on the topic, so thank you for helping to remove that impediment!

@wedaringu667

Жыл бұрын

Let's be clear on one thing: if the existing electric companies aren't going to profit from it, it's not going to happen. Profit can mean many different things to a trillion dollar industry that has brainwashed an entire country into voting against their own self-interests in a historically unequalled propaganda program that has lasted over a century. You can be certain that if they wanted this they would be making it happen and nobody could stand in their way.

@steveroman3729

Жыл бұрын

Instead of trying to get people to understand nuclear as U235 being used as fuel, you should be telling people how great Thorium is, how abundant it is, and how it has the least amount of waste. The chances of a meltdown or contamination event such as Three Mile Island would be highly improbable.

@sebastiantops91

Жыл бұрын

Misrepresenting realities = anything nuclear. Nuclear foe example is legislatively not accountable.

@Zero.0ne.

Жыл бұрын

I feel like a breakthrough in solar would surpass nuclear, unless we could do safe localized fusion. Fission requires materials, infrastructure, grids, specialized maintenance.

@noonecares5775

Жыл бұрын

From a technical view I really love NPPs. It was when I started digging into that subject that alternatives seemed way more attractive. The main reason being cost and humans: For me all arguments in this video are subsumed under "cost": Insurance cost to cover for accidents and cost for recycling/enrichment/other types of reactors to manage/store waste. Those should be factored in the $/kWh stats, which they mostly aren't (insurance is capped at very low levels and the cost for disposal of the waste is outsourced so that the public must come up for it in the end). The "human"-argument wasn't even mentioned: You can have a quite nicely engineered plant, but humans just are too dumb/egoistic/aggressive to operate it safely. Almost every accident showed a big human-factor like safety measures not implemented due to greed and neglect. For the aggression part: I'm quite curious about what happens to the Zaporizhzhia NPP, and NPPs seem to easy getting a bomb (even if it "just" is a dirty one). That's why I tend towards renewables + a high cost for CO2-certificates, so that externalities for energy production are (mostly) covered. For NPPs it seemed like even the insurance part would make them economically unviable (maybe it gets better for small reactors, but then we still didn't solve the waste problem).

I think one thing about Chernobyl that played a very big role in why specifically Europe got really weary of nuclear power generation going forward is that eventho the amount of people that died was relatively speaking not that big, the toxic particles carried by the wind blew all over Europe, to the point that even here in the Netherlands, Iodine pills were distributed because of potential nuclear particles that fell out of the sky and onto farmer's crops. The idea that being literally thousand of miles away you could still be affected was absolutely terrifying to many people in my mother's generation.

@jkjk946

Жыл бұрын

And also to this day there regions in Europe, for example southern Germany with higher background radiation because of Chernobyl. You still cannot eat mushrooms from this region because they accumulate the radiation.

@Gundamguy-py3ir

Жыл бұрын

So what's the Alternative? You don't see the way fossil fuel pollution slowly kills people every day but Smog is real. Water contamination is real. Yes you usually have to live in a big city to actually visibly see the effects of politics but it still affects everybody today in a VERY negative way.

@Grey9200

Жыл бұрын

@@jkjk946 and the air all around stuttgart literally kills people for many years already. fuck the mushrooms lol

@Alex-mv3ht

Жыл бұрын

That's why I disagree with Cleo's point about comparing deaths relative to fossil fuels. It's such a different beast. Coal plants have a predictable risk, you can look at the past decade, plot a line and reliably estimate the next. With nuclear, the fear is not about the points already on the graph, it's about the magnitude of the outlier that is not there, but can't ever be completely dismissed.

@SuperCatacata

Жыл бұрын

@@Gundamguy-py3ir Yep, humans have gotten used to putting up with the more dangerous and abundant byproducts of coal and fossil fuel consumption. The nuclear scare simply stems from ignorance on the topic. Fossil fuels are harming you just as much from thousands of miles away. The average person just doesn't realize it.

Johnny, you and Cleo and your respective teams are all global treasures. Thank you so much for putting so much time into these important subjects and providing your sources. We need more of this.

@monostorizsolt2472

17 күн бұрын

Do you know what is her channel? She's seems like a smart cookie, would like to watch her other videos

@HiAdrian

10 күн бұрын

@@monostorizsolt2472 Her channel is in the video _and_ the video description.

Thanks so much for this video. Growing up with a Nuclear Physicist as a father you heard amazing cool and completely confusing things every night, but the majority of the talk was over budgets being low. My dad has over 100 patents from developing Nuclear technology since 87. His job title of Health Physicist did not even exist until Churnobyl. The harsh truth is that the public is scared, the politicians are bribed, and the money is not in unlimited clean power. We live in a world where Fusion COULD have been, but may NEVER be.

@clarkkent9080

10 ай бұрын

Really? I was a Health Physics Technician in the Health Physics Department with Health Physicist as our manager at the Shippingport Atomic Power station in 1974. Maybe everything your dad told you is not true

The scariness is the MAIN issue for a technology that's otherwise (mostly) great. Fun fact: there's a nuclear power plant in Austria/Europe, very close to our studio. It was built in the 1970s and 100% completed but never turned on. Replaced by a coal power plant, far worse for the environment. It's still there - so, in our video, we went there to find out wether we could turn it on today. As Cleo frames it perfectly: it's all a political problem, not a technological one.

@liabe18

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know you were based in Austria-do you ever produce videos in German?

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

Жыл бұрын

or cost

@kentozapater8972

Жыл бұрын

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle nuclear isn't expensive to operate

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

Жыл бұрын

@@kentozapater8972 no, but to build over a long period of time, in a place like Texas it would look costly. However, I don't really care, as I would enjoy the benefits.

@terramater

Жыл бұрын

@@liabe18 Yes, we're here in Vienna. We do produce TV Docs in German but all our KZread videos are in English. (we did try some EN dubbing on YT though!)

As a nuclear engineer, I thank you for this video.

@mattg5878

Жыл бұрын

As a fellow nuclear engineer, hello!

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

Жыл бұрын

10:50 but Chernobyl destroy soviet union economy. Is Made 30% debt of gdp. For cost for cleaning. You don't think that. In poor nation have Nuclear

@Zero-oh8vm

Жыл бұрын

How far off is fusion energy in your opinion?

@schulerlukas2720

Жыл бұрын

@@Zero-oh8vm Always 20 years

@fitfirst4468

Жыл бұрын

thank dee'z nuts

The use of the overhead projector was a great idea and definitely brought some nostalgia into this.

@squibbelsmcjohnson

2 ай бұрын

Editing that stuff takes soooo long.. It's good to go old school once in a while 😂😂

Really great breakdown! The psychological impact of accidents, recycling potential of waste, and cost distribution on Nuclear energy all provide room for growth in this sector, and a definite need to consider it's greater use in the energy pie as a whole come the future! Look forward to the next one Johnny (and Cleo)

This is well done - I'm a Radiation Safety Officer at a hospital and the biggest problem I face day-to-day is Risk versus Perception of Risk. However, some major points you didn't cover: uranium mining has a checkered past with ruining land, and medical imaging uses reactor byproducts that simply have no alternative.

@idnwiw

Жыл бұрын

There are several important points that weren't covered - for example environmental impact of fuel recycling facilities (spoiler: they leek a lot of radiation)

@aldoperera6688

Жыл бұрын

I think we should also talk about where the batteries and materials for wind and solar come from and how its waste is handled. I am not sure they are as safe or environment friendly

@sebastiantops91

Жыл бұрын

Where are conclusive medical findings reported that anything nuclear has even possibly medical benefits. Necessarily including any medical 'quality of life' loss risks, near instant deaths due to radiation etc. Asked AMA but no answers. Read medical journals but no proven benefit concluded, only possibly following surgical removal and combined with other natural health therapies.

@SuperCatacata

Жыл бұрын

@@idnwiw Still much more clean than any alternatives capable of outputting that much power. Also, leek =/= leak. Uranium mines are so much less invasive compared to our current amount of coal mines and oil drilling. Are they still invasive? Yes, but it's unquestionably the better of two evils when it comes to how much land is ruined for our power generation.

@TrollSuperStar

Жыл бұрын

All mining has a checkered past - coal, oil, lithium, gold, rare earth metals etc.

Nuclear has some big advantages that weren't touched on in the video. One of them is that nuclear uses way less land than renewables while the other is nuclear is a consistent amount of energy, unlike solar which stops producing power around the time where power usage peaks. To properly compare nuclear to renewables the cost of energy storage needs to be added to the cost.

@drx1xym154

11 ай бұрын

Yes! The main draw of nuclear, is that reliable amounts of power are generated... with wind and solar - it tends to de-stabilize the power grid - too much or too little is often produced - during cloudy days, other weather events and we simply do not have the battery technology yet to store the power, at scale.

@Cowboycomando54

11 ай бұрын

@@drx1xym154 Plus energy storage becomes a problem.

@Stasiek_Zabojca

11 ай бұрын

Solar and wind are potentially dangerous for power grid without energy storage. If you don't have enough conventional or nuclear power plants to support it, there is short way to shutting down some areas and even for blackouts.

@kragoth

11 ай бұрын

(I'm not sure but) I think the KZreadrs name is Ordinal, he has a series on Nuclear all the pros and cons explained well he did an easy graphical representation of the renewable vs nuclear debate too, solar wind hydro pumped hydro (for storage) vs nuclear. Would be great for people who wanna do a deeper dive

@TimothyWhiteheadzm

11 ай бұрын

Although you are correct about the land use, land is often not in short supply so it depends on the location. But you are wrong about the consistent output. Solar has a daily and seasonal cycle yes, but nuclear must be taken offline for maintenance from time to time. (I know full well as I live in South Africa where we get increased load shedding when the nuclear plant is on maintenance). Similarly our coal plants break down frequently. Every power plant has a capacity factor ie how much time it is actually running. Solar and wind on the other hand almost never have complete outages outside their daily /seasonal cycles. But I agree, to compare renewables to nuclear on cost you do need to know what balance of resources you are putting on the grid and whether or not you need storage/ over capacity etc. But to pretend that nuclear is never offline is just nonsense.

I am LOVING the projector for the partnered review! Great touch

Apart from the awesome conversations and insights that the video give me, I couldn't take my eyes off of how well this video was made. It's so well shot, so well edited. It's brilliant.

I know you touched on it just briefly, but I wanted to address to the concern about a "bad guy" getting into a nuclear power plant. I work in nuclear background investigations. If someone wishes to have unescorted access into a plant (meaning they can walk around without two armed military with them) they have to go through an extensive background check. We call everyone, your old jobs, your family, your references, references from your references, your schooling, all of it. My entire company and job is about keeping those bad guys out of those plants.

@sjsomething4936

Жыл бұрын

This is reassuring! I know that the security in Canada is also very high around NPPs.

@mikecapson1845

Жыл бұрын

depends on country

@jacobnebel7282

Жыл бұрын

Even that vetting process is irrelevant. There are multiple layers of security between the outside and anything important. Even then, the only real mayhem anybody could do is deprive people of power by disabling the plant. Which isn't any different than disabling any kind of power plant. Nobody is carrying anything of significant danger away from a nuke plant. Dirty bombs are a fantasy; nothing is paradoxically both radiologically potent and stable enough to fashion into such a device. It takes weeks, if not months to shut down a reactor and let it cool enough to open up the core and remove fuel rods which, again, cannot really be used for anything nefarious. The same is true of spent fuel rods.

@jacobnebel7282

Жыл бұрын

@@kizmiaz513 So what? Reactor containment buildings are bunkers, built strong enough to withstand anything short of literal bunker busting munitions. Then there are all the built-in safety measures inside the containment building. Another Chernobyl cannot happen anywhere because only the soviets were incompetent enough to design, build, and operate a reactor so poorly, and nobody has been dumb enough to do it again.

@eyoutube1

Жыл бұрын

No one ever worries about bad actors igniting an oil rig and causing an eco disaster in the ocean. It's sad how much we misunderstand nuclear energy and the system in place for it.

As an electrical engineering student I cannot stress enough how important videos like this are. Nuclear energy is an important part of our energy portfolio, and talking about the stigmas surrounding it helps people accept it. Very insightful and informative video as always, keep up your amazing work!

@michaelmurray2833

Жыл бұрын

As an electrical engineering graduate I disagree. eg: solar doesn't use a fuel that operates in a critical runaway state that you are constantly trying to cool and keep from exploding.

@Phelps1111

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmurray2833 the same power source that isn't viable for some significant periods of time (after sunset)? Energy storage is a difficult problem to solve and one we haven't. Last time I checked molten salt reactors were runaway safe. We aren't spending enough time/money/effort on nuclear energy research and development.

@BarrGC

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmurray2833 As a mechanical engineering grad I can tell you that you need to google the numerous reactor types out there, specifically CANDUS, that don't use the highly enriched uranium you're thinking of. Natural uranium reactors boost their fuel up into criticality as it will not go critical on its own and is therefore substantially safer at a cost of some efficiency. Old, fundamentally flawed designs have lead to alot of otherwise intelligent people to be afraid of the nuclear boogeyman despite it being hands down the most effective & safe power source humanity has by every important metric. The toxic waste from used solar panels is something else you should google more, though not many people care about that since we ship much of it to Africa anyway...

@kristofmielec

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmurray2833 I highly doubt you are because if you were you would know that solar is a very unreliable source of energy and needs other plants in tandem to compensite for its wild fluctuations. Nuclear is more a lot more comperable fossil power plants but a lot cleaner, and in fact it releases much less radiation to the atmosphere than the burnt fossil fuels do.

Instead of talking with a nuclear scientist, Johnny, decided to talk with Cleo.

@ssgg23

10 ай бұрын

Right? I feel like the journalism has more integrity when they interview actual experts instead of artificially propping up each other’s brands and egos by featuring each other 😂

Nuclear energy is definitely underated and should definitely be taken seriously as a energy provider

Quick correction: casks aren't "good for just 40 years". They're licenced for that amount of time, meaning the manufacturer can prove it will hold up for that time. This doesn't mean that after that they will break, in fact, they are so over engineered they would probably be safe for a few centuries.

@Anttys_WeyTua_CTa_Eu986

Жыл бұрын

What's the difference between 40 years divided by a million, and 400 years divided by a million? 0.00004 vs 0.0004, in other words, on the scale of a million years, nothing.

@danunpronounceable8559

Жыл бұрын

Radioactive material which has a half life of a million years is actually the safest radioactive material. You're in more danger of cancer from ingesting potassium from a banana than you are if you ingested radioactive spent fuel with a million year half life.

@diegosanchez894

Жыл бұрын

@@Anttys_WeyTua_CTa_Eu986 they're not meant to be permanent, but having 100 years to get a permanent solution is far better than having 40 years for it.

@fallouthirteen

Жыл бұрын

@@Anttys_WeyTua_CTa_Eu986 Technically difference is you and everyone you could possibly know will already be dead.

@Anttys_WeyTua_CTa_Eu986

Жыл бұрын

@@diegosanchez894 except if you don't actually find a solution... because physics. What I'm saying is the science is tough on this one; it's better to find the solution first. And who's to say we couldn't if we diverted some real energy into it...

My Dad (who works on refueling nuclear subs and aircraft carriers) and I always conversations about nuclear energy and the main thing he always mentions is how frustrated he is that nuclear has a dangerous stigma when in reality now days it’s crazy safe and reliable. He says that the new reactors have multiple computer and mechanical failsafes so if anything ever goes wrong it can automatically shut down in about 20 seconds. In the past all the incidents (besides Fukushima) have all been from human error. I don’t think back then we as a world were ready for nuclear but now that we have a much better understanding and technology we should give it another shot. (Plus electric cars would actually be carbon free)

@chaoscarl8414

Жыл бұрын

"In the past all the incidents (besides Fukushima) have all been from human error." And that's why I'm no fan of nuclear power. All major accidents (including Fukushima in my opinion) and a fair few minor incidents, have been down to human error. Either related to the design or the operation. No matter how smart we design a nuclear power plant... No matter how many safety precautions we build into it... It's still designed, build, and operated by humans. And humans are flawed. In the immortal words of Terry Pratchett: “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

@manhphuc4335

Жыл бұрын

Actually no, electric car isn't carbon free. All the body plastics are made of carbon, the steel for chassis and springs and engines are made of steel which is made by burning iron in coal. Wheels are made of a special plastic that is extremely toxic when disposed (burn, put in wheel dumps yards, etc,etc) And if you think about itthe majority of energy nowadays comes from fossil fuels. So the electricity that powers your car is just fossil fuels that instead of burning in your car engine, is burning in some thermal energy plant somewhere else. (Energy is constant, you can create more energy efficient vehicle, but energy's fuel and it's waste must always exist). The same logic applies to solar and wind energy. Except the waste and fuel isn't on Earth. It's on the Sun (the Sun create wind too btw). With Hydrogen being fuel and Helium being waste. Basically it's just proxy nuclear energy. A good comparision is having a nuclear plant, but instead of harvesting energy directly from the nuclear reaction, we put a solar panel and wind turbine behind a layer of lead protection and almost vacuum. And that's why solar and wind turbine is so inefficient, it's a proxy harvesting of energy of an energy we can already produce with more efficient method of harvesting.

@The757packerfan

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I was disappointed he didn't mention this. We use nuclear in !@#$% submarines! If "living next to a nuclear plant" was dangerous, all our submariners would be dead. We use nuclear ALL the time and rarely, rarely have accidents.

@karthage3637

Жыл бұрын

Fukushima IS a human incident The French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission sent warning to Fukushima attendant about the fact that the central was not tsunami proof and that simple adaptation could easily solve the issue. They just decide to brush it off.

@aggiewoodie

Жыл бұрын

Fukushima sparked fear but, to date, ONE person has died as a result.

I think that you put so much emphasis about the number of people that would die per energy unit for different sources, but you didn't mention how these were calculated. I know that some data sources in case of e.g. deal not only with accidents, but also pollution-related deaths. It would be good to know what you were touching on with your research!

@flixelgato1288

4 ай бұрын

If you’re genuinely curious, the source is cited, so you can read precisely how the numbers were calculated.

right see but what they left out of the whole deaths thing is, the land becomes utterly unuseable for literally everything for hundreds of years after an accident...

I m not the kind to think about youtubers more than just watch them , but the first time i was like "these two youtubers would fit extremely well if they made a video together " was you both , and oh man did you deliver

@lourieholl

Жыл бұрын

They worked together at Vox. Johnny left first and I think he may have been the inspiration for Cleo to go out on her own too.

@brandon8900

Жыл бұрын

They have similar styles likely due to the fact that they both previously worked at Voxx.

@frostycometh5822

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a hard time articulating your thoughts?

@annejia5382

Жыл бұрын

They were 'co-workers'

@jasonlongsworth4036

Жыл бұрын

​@@frostycometh5822lul wut?

As a student in engineering looking to become a nuclear engineer, I thank you for reporting on this subject.

@handlemonium

Жыл бұрын

Are you considering to work on Fusion, Small Modular Reactors (still fission but very scalable and safely self-contained), or traditional fission reactor sites?

@WolfvineGaming

Жыл бұрын

@@handlemoniumI hope so too lol

@DougieFresh765

Жыл бұрын

Go to Purdue University. They do tours of their Nuclear Reactor. One of the biggest privately owned ones. Its pretty cool

@handlemonium

Жыл бұрын

@@DougieFresh765 Reed College here in Oregon has a research reactor as well. NuScale is based here as well 😎

@thadquadlebaum3462

Жыл бұрын

me to

Wonderful video, wonderful information, wonderful individuals following their passion to help others. Thank you both!!

I like how informative this video is with the use of an old school projector. I feel like I'm back in school again.

One point I think y'all missed was just how energy dense nuclear is and how little waste it produces on an individual level compared to how much power it really yields.

@bradleysmith9431

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. 50 gallon barrel of uranium can power a city for over 40 years. The only waste is 50 gallon barrel of depleted uranium, and steam. In a 40 year operation, the lunch room where the workers eat, would accumulate more waste than the actual nuclear reaction.

@collinherold8047

Жыл бұрын

@@bradleysmith9431 precisely! I saw something one time that said you could store all the waste it would take to power everything you'd need or use your whole life, in a coffee can

@sillyshitt

Жыл бұрын

​@@collinherold8047 still a coffee can per person. And there are a lot of people. Also calculate the rent of storing that coffee can in a safe designated facility for 100000 years and you realize that you aren't paying for the entire cost of that energy. Kind of like fossil oil but less immediate.

You should probably look into the reactor types that were in use for those accidents, and contrast that with modern reactor options.

@cameroningham211

Жыл бұрын

indeed,its like comparing a 1900's byplane to a Modern day passenger plane,one would crash much more freaquently than the other...

@dfed7673

Жыл бұрын

I was about to mention this until I saw your comment. This would probably be the most important thing to discuss if you want to convey confidence in nuclear energy.

@DNGOOfficial

Жыл бұрын

This right here, the RBMK(soviet design from Chernobyl) is an extremely sketchy reactor where candu ( I work at one) is very safe in comparison.

I just found your channel, and I have to admit I am addicted. Thank you for your work.

Feels like a nuclear energy ad 👀

i think its psychological . even with planes as they are so safe if any accidents occur it becomes a big news. but car and bus accidents are quite common so they don't become news . Its the same with energy

@BeingFireRetardant

Жыл бұрын

Except that it is permanent. A plane crash kills today only. Cherynobl is still killing people... Kiwajalien is still killing people... White Sands is still killing people... Fukashima is still killing people... Tsar Bomba is still killing people... Three Mile Island is still killing people... The list goes on. Also, air travel is safe, until it isn't. Espousing stats obscures reality. When a plane hits a mountain, it is almost always fatal to all passengers and crew, just like a nuclear meltdown. Whereas a bus hits a car, and very, very few people die burning and screaming in anguish before they are liquified. It is entirely different.

@TheAmericanAmerican

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Don't be the For-profit MSM sheeple they depend on for survival! Turn off the Idiotbox and touch grass!

@johnsonnghiem9018

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the news stations are basically giant echo chambers which focuses and high lights the accidents a bit too much.

Johnny and Cleo in this video are like the cool young history teacher and the cool young science teacher getting together to teach a lesson in some underfunded high school.

@SwarumtheForum

Жыл бұрын

You had no right to be this accurate

As a 6th grader, I remember going to Maine Yankee, which was Maine's nuclear power plant in the 80's. I actually remember them showing us films, taking us on a tour, and giving us a nuclear pellet in plastic on a postcard type of paper. I wish I had kept it!

@majestictrain

10 ай бұрын

You're a 6th grader that remembers the 80s? Dang they're making the 6th grade so difficult to pass nowadays

Another thing that need to be considered when it comes to all the different power types is amount of space is used to make that power the overall footprint on the land. Solar and wind take up way more land then nuclear does for the same production.

The images of Hiroshima & Nagasaki were also etched into the minds of Boomers and The Greatest Generation (their parents). These are the people who have ruled the world from the 50s through 2020. Seeing pictures of shadows on the wall where the blast darked the wall, leaving an outline of a vaporized human body, is very chilling. Godzilla and much of modern Japanese fiction is the direct result of being the only nation to be on the receiving end of a nuclear attack. The rise of Japan in the 1980s, and the introduction of Japanese culture into the US also had an effect.

@DarthObscurity

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I hadn't considered the cultural effect of the bombs until my dad pointed out why all of their cartoons have overpowered humanoids that can launch energy beams/balls capable of causing massive destruction.

Thank you for making this. Nuclear isn’t scary if it’s done right! Our world needs this if we want to keep going the way we are.

@nzwj

Жыл бұрын

Depends where you live though. I live right on the Ring of Fire close to active volcanoes (and home to some of the largest recorded eruptions in history) and reasonably frequent earthquakes. With that in mind, I would not feel comfortable with a nuclear power station nearby. If I lived in other parts of the world... I'd probably feel quite differently about it.

@flacdontbetter

Жыл бұрын

​@@nzwj in your case, geothermal would be more suitable. But in geographically stable regions, nuclear could be a real contender!

@alexanderrose1556

Жыл бұрын

@@nzwj Modern nuclear reactors arent in danger of earthquakes, even the fukushima ones and the two nuclear plants next to it survived the earthquake with no damage, the problem was one plant had ignored the rules about their sea water wall and had damage due to that... and even still Japan is going big into nuclear now feeling safe with it.

@user-nv5sn3tb4e

Жыл бұрын

tell that to the communities poisoned by the mining process, especially Diné communities.

I do appreciate the use of the old school projector. That was nice. And I appreciate the both of your knowledge on the subject. Awesomeness!

thats one of the best if not the bes colaboration i have ever seen on youtube and i watch houers of youtube every day... very well done!

Another little tid bit I love about nuclear vs coal. A lot of coal power plants cannot be converted to nuclear because the coal power plant produced too much radiation for it to be in regulation once it is considered a nuclear power plant.

@thebatonmaster

Жыл бұрын

Oh, interesting. Ironic.

these videos have such a homemade but professional feeling to it and it's just my favorite type of mini documentaries on these platforms

Johnny and Cleo are amazing! Love your videos! Thanks for the information on nuclear, in Brazil we had an awful accident in Goiás because the government didn't took the security measures seriously.

Loved the double team approach to this. Genius

What they completely ignored is that nuclear is a stable source of base-load energy. While solar and wind can be highly variable, this requires some sort of large scale energy storage (which was not factored into the cost comparison)

@chrimony

Жыл бұрын

The comment I was looking for.

@nailil5722

Жыл бұрын

exactly, for being a 30 minutes video they really stretched their points a bit too much and didn't go in detail enough in my opinion

@Breadfish290

Жыл бұрын

In addition that renewables are just not sustainable in many places. It’s not all or nothing, it’s a combination of many elements.

@p_mouse8676

Жыл бұрын

Or it instead of energy storage, it requires energy sources that can quickly kick in when there is no solar or wind. Which are not the "cleanest".

@maynardburger

Жыл бұрын

Yea, renewables are great, but they aren't yet sufficient enough to rely on for world-scale energy needs. And honestly, probably wont ever be, as fusion(which is arguably a 'renewable' in a sense) will likely take over at some point and keep renewables as more of a supplementary and localized energy source.

Cleo's data gathering and presentation skills are impressive

@444ui

Жыл бұрын

right!!

@cav8285

Жыл бұрын

Seems like she pretty much did all the work and then he just put it on his channel…

@mattoni6942

Жыл бұрын

simp

Thank you for the very informative video! I like that you guys talk in a very educational way. In my country, Norway, there is a debate this year whether or not we should start with nuclear power in order to get cheaper energy. So it was great for me to learn a bit more about the subject.

I love seeing Cleo and you back together. And I am very happy for covering this topic. People’s minds need to change to change the narrative. Fossil fuels aren’t helping us to a brighter future at all. Your poll results say it all. By the way there also seem to be another variant of a nuclear reactor other then uranium, which is thorium reactor. It just seems likely stopped using nuclear and the research and development on it due to the perception of events

As a cancer survivor who used to get CT chest scans on the regular, I'm surprised my pee doesn't glow in the dark by now. After my all-clear, my doctor eventually said, "The CTs are probably doing more damage than any potential for the reemergence of your particular cancer."

@Simboiss

Жыл бұрын

And yet, for some reason, your doctor prescribed it...

@metamodern409

Жыл бұрын

@@Simboiss because it was medically necessary. Sometimes life only lets you choose between bad and catastrophic, doctors have to make decisions like this all the time; the point you’re trying to make is inane at best

@jancizmarik4345

Жыл бұрын

The one and only reason why the West is abolishing its nuclear powerplats and that is POLITICS. Russia produces most of the Uranium, most of the nuclear reactors and the West rather shoots itself in both legs just to cut away from Russia. The leadership is so screwed they are waling the Europe into a massive energy crisis, stealing all of the savings from majority of its citizens in order to cover high energy costs.. This is a hit job on the highest scale, thats how corrupt or demented the politicians are..

@markusklyver6277

Жыл бұрын

@@Simboiss The alternative is eventual death.

@Simboiss

Жыл бұрын

@@metamodern409 "The CTs are probably doing more damage than any potential for the reemergence of your particular cancer." Maybe you can't read. This sentence means the CT scans do more harm than good.

Nuclear Energy is actually a good alternative to Coal power plants, obviously ideally 100% energy generation should be green in future, but we can get rid of coal quick with relatively less polluting nuclear energy.

@r0N1n_SD

Жыл бұрын

Agree. For transition nuclear is very viable for short term usage.

@TimmiCat

Жыл бұрын

"quick"?

@TimmiCat

Жыл бұрын

@@sirmiles1820 I dont know, but at least 10 years doesnt sound "quick" to me...

@Money_Fox

Жыл бұрын

but nuclear is 100% green

Thanks for bringing attention to this subject

I appreciate you sharing your sources.

When I was in middle school, our state opened a nuclear power plant. Before it went online, there were experts that came to our school to give us the pros and cons. One of the "it's safe" experts discussed how the plant was built to handle a head on collision from a jet crashing into it. That was the first thing I thought back to on 9/11

@nguyenanhkhoa1437

Жыл бұрын

Nuclear energy is a heavily regulated industry, and many public fear will force companies and corps to keep it safe as possible

@JonasSalen

Жыл бұрын

I've got the same briefing from the experts, that were on the payroll of the nuclear power plant. All those plants were build with safety in mind and they were all constructed to be safe at the current situation. So they thought also about Fukushima, which we now know it wasn't prepared for the higly unlikely event that occured. The problem is not that it's unsafe, the problem is that it will never be 100% safe.

@nguyenanhkhoa1437

Жыл бұрын

But they will cut corners as much as possible and with thorium , salt cool reactors , …….

@crusader8102

Жыл бұрын

@@JonasSalen remind me how many people died due to the nuclear accident at fukushima please. Oh and if you could remind me how many people die in coal mines each year that would be amazing.

@daniellarson3068

Жыл бұрын

@@crusader8102 Wiki says one died after the accident in 2018 from radiation. The tsunami (tidal wave)killed 15,500. Not that many people die in the mines in USA these recent years, but the black lung thing can get you later.

I performed subcontractor work on two nuclear power stations for over year. Safety was always, always, always of the utmost importance

@Pontif11

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't help that Fukushima happeend in Japan, a country people assume was running things as up to code as one could. "If it happened to them why wouldn't it happen to anyone else" is a thought i can see people having.

@adamboey4132

Жыл бұрын

@@Pontif11 positive stereotype about a country being “up to code” in all aspects of society can be dangerous. IAEA investigators concluded japanese authorities were acting as both regulators and industry promoters, had suppressed any gov criticism out of a culture obsessed with “saving face”, and had not thoroughly examined earthquake/tsunami response plans…despite living on one of the worlds most active fault lines. It is worth noting Fukashima was an epic disaster not from verifiable radiation exposure (which scientists to this day still haven’t linked to negative population health effects), but from bureaucratic arrogance that thought relocating sick and elderly patients was a good idea, resulting in significantly more death, injury, and trauma than was probably warranted.

@Pontif11

Жыл бұрын

@@adamboey4132 i don't know why you are telling me this. People stereotype anyway. I'm just mentioning it might be an exacerbating factor.

@scaredyfish

Жыл бұрын

@@adamboey4132 The fact that the failures of nuclear are largely human failures is not terribly comforting, because we haven’t yet made a better human.

@nosihi3115

11 ай бұрын

@@adamboey4132 you and I both know that FUKUSHIMA destroyed the ecology of the pacific… the reason the salmon don’t return, the fires, skyrocketing cancer rates… we know it’s your job to claim otherwise.

waiting eagerly for the johnny + cleo couple arc. the hints are all there: 'i'm so excited', 'you want to tag team this?', 'i cant wait'

@MomoSimone22

5 ай бұрын

Isn't he married with kids?

This was fantastically educational, everyone needs to watch this!

The argument in Australia (the country with the worlds largest uranium reserves) is that the cost of nuclear power on the consumer would be more than building the equivalent amount of power generation through solar, wind and battery.

A Johnny and Cleo collaboration??? We're being spoilt and I'm all for it

Nice Video...how do you research what is your method? you explain it just like normal and kinda easy...

I love the use of the overheadprojector

I love it when these two Vox siblings get together to bring news to us.

@steveroman3729

Жыл бұрын

"news"

The collab we didnt deserve, but needed 10:53 its crazy to think when you hear nuclear, you generally think of danger and the graph shows its safe energy source

@tedzards509

Жыл бұрын

The problem I have with this graph is that it only counts deaths. Yet low-dose radiation is rather unlikely to kill a person, but will negatively impact their lives in a severe way, for instance through poisoning the thyroid (Thats why people get iodine pills after nuclear accidents). I have searched and not found a research paper that evaluates the amount of people impacted, and severity of impacts of nuclear energy on human health. My motivation for this inquiry is, that many people in Germany, 1500km away from Chernobyl, many people got thyroid cancer, directly correlating to the accident, yet these people are not accounted for when talking about the safety of nuclear. Now don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say that nuclear is as bad or worse of a health risk than fossil energy, but I feel the equivalence to renewables being a bit too nice.

@Cecilia-ky3uw

Жыл бұрын

@@tedzards509 interesting, I've always been a nuclear supporter, chernobyl specifically was mismanaged.

@GodzillaMonsters8

Жыл бұрын

@@tedzards509 Very well said A very nuanced way of looking at this material that it’s not black/white but people should consider health risks as I think you mentioned especially if food and water is contaminated or health risks pregnant women would face

@danielros7798

Жыл бұрын

It's like a plane crash. Everyone remembers the most horrible plane crashes and some people are scared to take a plane because of them while no one talks about car crashes that happen all the time and most people aren't scared of cars while they cause more deaths per year than planes

@tedzards509

Жыл бұрын

@@lateksipumppu Cancer in general has many causes, thats why I specifically noted thyroid cancer as it is caused by the ionization through radiation of iodine, which the thyroid needs to function. And the ionized iodine doesnt work as it should (Im no medical professional so the mechanism could be completely wrong, but there is a correlation). But thyroid cancer is not the only impact that higher radiation has on the human body.

Hi Johnny...you're the best..I always watch your contents whenever you upload them. Thanks.

That collaboration montage at the beginning was the most wholesome thing I have ever seen

What i find interesting is how you explain why radiation sounds scary. Its very similar to the fear of those who wont use microwaves because microwaves (the actual waves) can be terrifying. Like radiation, microwaves are invisible, and like radiation, microwaves can kill us in horrifying ways. Yet almost everyone living in a 1st world country have microwave ovens in their kitchen, but we're all afraid of even living remotely close to a nuclear power plant.

@toreadoress

11 ай бұрын

I think a better example would be with transportation. Airplanes are the safest way of transportation but if a plane crash happens it will be all over the news and the whole world will know aboit it. Compare that to car/road accidents which are the leading cause of deaths and injuries from transportation and technically the most dangerous, but is still the most accepted and normalized. People know car accidents happen but there is something that makes a plane crash way scarier than a road accident because it touches that primal fear of heights and hopelessness if something happens to a plane mid air and cause it to crash. Even tho the microwave thing is still valid point in a way, I think it's much less of a problem for people and more like a conspiracy amoung some rather than a direct parallel with Nuclear. But I'm glad Nuclear energy gets attention recently and clearing a lot of misconceptions and myths about how dangerous it is. I applaud France for actually sticking with Nuclear when almost every other country tries to get away from it.

@SianaGearz

9 ай бұрын

Well microwave ovens make use of radiation but that's a different kind of radiation, non-ionising, RF. With every microwave quarter cycle, the inherent dipoles of water molecules in the food flip orietation and generate what could be inaccurately described as frictive heating. But by and large i don't see what's terrifying about that at all. Other than if you had a hole in the shielding larger than 30mm, the microwaves would start falling out and heat you, they need a correctly built containment device. I mean obviously people should be cognisant of normal causes of death. Heart attack, pneumonia, stroke, car crash, an odd suicide, cancer and diabetes thrown in. That's pretty much it. That's a laundry list of problems you can't put enough effort into solving isn't it. But politically solving fake problems that don't affect anybody is THAT much more convenient isn't it, because you can "solve" them by doing nothing. 100% success rate.

@niftyp2320

9 ай бұрын

I lived a couple miles away from one in Florida, never bothered me especially hearing that coal plants release more radiation than nuclear in normal operation. Now I'm living a 10-minute drive from a particle accelerator in Illinois 😅

@marktaylor3802

8 ай бұрын

I worked in a hotel restaurant kitchen that had a cheap microwave for the wait staff to heat desserts in, When cleaning it I found 2 small holes burnt through the door. Thrown out immediatly but how long was it shooting out waves at staff.

@richardprice5978

8 ай бұрын

my place/house hasn't had a working microwave in 5+ years and im happy without it, at first it broke down/accident but after awhile its something i/90's-millennial-generation found i prefer to live with out one for now

I had to look into the morality behind the usage of Nuclear energy in junior year of high school (last year) for an hour presentation and 15 page paper. I pretty much used all the same sources and got to a similar conclusion haha, glad to see i didn't do horrible at least lol.

@stevemattero1471

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you should have gotten an A

@gordogonk8068

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemattero1471 i think i did haha, been a while

I really love the use of the overhead and slides rather than fancy graphics………takes me back to my youth and a lot of fond memories

wonderfully put together - thank you

I love that KZreadrs making explainers are using OHPs for explaining. It's just so nostalgic. My botany lecturer used these inorder to explain complex tissue structures and anatomy concepts in the most simplest manner. She used to have a whole box of them divided according to the topic and she used to use markers inorder colour them and highlight important things. I terribly miss them.😢

@davidhollenshead4892

Жыл бұрын

Professors liked overhead projectors since they can't lock up like Windows running PowerPoint...

@511kinderheim.

Жыл бұрын

this video mainly felt very lecture like in some university but homemade in some small house at the same time

As someone who has known this for a decade, but is unable to share and articulate as well as you, Thank You! Johnny this was a Grandslam!

Thank you for doing this video.

One important thing to distinguish Is how people die from Energy production, most deaths associate with Coal, Oil and Gas actually come from under developed countries where standards of life are lower, poverty high, and most death actually come from poor cooking practises, people die from intoxication caused by the fumes of burning Coal, Oil and Gas in a closed environment .

As a nuclear engineer, I really appreciated this video. I was taught this information at university and I think Johhny and Cleo have done an excellent job. I believe that the US should absolutely move to a closed fuel cycle. Humanity must build far more reactors to replace fossil fuels faster than we could using wind and solar alone.

@wilhathaway1987

Жыл бұрын

Wind and solar will never work in a large scale. Nuclear is the only option to produce what we need.

The Japanese nuclear incident leaves very clear that the only things nuclear energy cannot solve are negligence and covering glaring faults (on a country where earthquakes and large tsunamis are a thing) rather that fixing them to save face/reputation.

@eyesofthecervino3366

Жыл бұрын

And unfortunately human nature will always be a factor in the potential safety of nuclear power.

@JayPknee

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. I’m fully on board with the idea of nuclear energy. We have the tech to make it safe and byproducts seem negligible when compared to other sources. My main concern with it is the human aspect of it. Unfortunately, the decision makers are often the least qualified and know nothing of the subject. For this reason, I still can’t trust this energy source 100%.

@chasejordan22

11 ай бұрын

The local atomic plant here in southern ohio shut down decades ago. There is still hundreds of people working there dealing with the waste. The nearest school literally shut down because of insane rates of cancer within staff and students. Ive been offered more than double what I make to work there mutiple times. But 100% of everyone I know that has worked there has had cancer. You cant pay me enough to go get that cancer.

@Yzerbruh

10 ай бұрын

The glaring faults you mentioned were record breaking and weren't even the primary causes. If it wasn't for the design flaw of putting the backup generators in the basement, the disaster would've been avoided.

@mr.meeseeks3074

8 ай бұрын

​@@JayPkneehonestly event with a serious accident nuclear energy as a much better impact on the environment than the simple use of fossil fuels and renewable

I don't really subscribe to your podcast, but you and your co-host just look amazing by providing this data. Great job.

One thing you don't talk about here is that nuclear is one of the few energy sources where we CONTAIN the byproduct. Many other sources the byproduct goes into the air.

I wish there were more KZreadrs and people like you, wanting to reveal the truth in things and show people history, as most have forgotten it.

@sunilkumaryadav2183

Жыл бұрын

Their is so many things people cant carr about every fucking thing. Their are many youtuber check sabina hossenfelder , arvin ash, history of universe,vertasium, sean caroll, and many more

I think why the public are more worried about nuclear danger, is because when there is a death or accident, it could effect them, where as if wind/solar has an accident it really only effects people working there. You don't have to worry about wind or water carrying radiation further. Nuclear has a much larger splash damage if you will, and much harder to clean up after.

@l.s.11

Жыл бұрын

Good point. Nuclear is scary for everyone, solar/wind only for the workers.

@seungheechang6293

Жыл бұрын

Basically, it's a bunch of nimbys blocking this.

@alexismoliere4061

Жыл бұрын

Potential splash damage, even the worst estimate of death caused by Chernobyl are in the thousand (3k) because of radiation, Fulushima only killed because of the quarantine enforced and stress it caused. Now compare those possible deaths to accidents to the very real millions of people that die each year from pollutions. Add it to the thousand that die to get those fossil fuels. Nuclear is safe and extremely regulated

@GameBoyMaster-qv9ty

Жыл бұрын

thats a good point i feel like most people have a "out of site out of mind" mentality when it comes to things like this. if there is no chance that a death or accident could/would directly effect them. nuclear power can likely directly effect the life's of people who have nothing to do with it so thats what can make it scary

@killman369547

Жыл бұрын

@@l.s.11 If we keep letting fear govern our lives we will walk ourselves straight into extinction.

The 4th Big Worry was left out: Nuclear weapons proliferation. In fact, the other concerns should also be addressed from the perspective of what about other countries that might be less careful building nuclear power? Having Iran and North Korea develop nuclear power has led to the disaster of North Korea getting nuclear weapons, and Iran getting close.

I think you missed one thing that is incredibly important when talking about Nuclear Energy and why we don't produce more of our energy from it and that is MONEY. When you invest in a coal or natural gas plant, it takes only about a year or two to build it, and about four-five years for that plant to start making money. Comparing this to Nuclear, it takes a lot longer to build a Nuclear power plant (up to eight years) and for that plant to repay for itself and then actually start to make profit from it, takes almost twenty years. It just doesn't atract investors because the ROI is so long and everyone just covers it up with different reasons as to why they aren't investing into this technology and would rather support other more damaging types of energy sources.

I missed in the video that when you want to build a new reactor it will take very long (10+ years) in comparison to solar or wind. When you build a new nuclear power plant you also create CO² and the cost are enourmous. One of the reasons we turned off our nuclear power plant in germany was, that the last check was like over 15 years ago, so that's also a risk to consider. France had last summer the problem that half of the power plants weren't operational, because the rivers had to less water. This is not a good reliability. And where do we get the nuclear fuel rods from? Europe for example are getting a huge part from russia. So yeah you have there a depandance to another country. The development we will have in the far future are nice, but we need the reduction of CO² right now and thats the reason why I prefer the focus on renuable energy. In the end I would prefer Nuclear over fossile fuel, but we have really good renuable energy possibilities.

Great video but I am kind of upset that you did not mention the radiation burning coal set free. The effects of using coal are really scary if you just choose to look into them

@Mtl-zf9om

Жыл бұрын

Also, I don't see why a power plant can't be built in between cities or towns for maximum safety. Instead, just a few kilometers distance?

@carlwergin9147

Жыл бұрын

@@Mtl-zf9om there are some universities that have reactors near or on campus, or even in the middle of town like MIT.

@Crysoft2

Жыл бұрын

@@Mtl-zf9om well most of them are build near rivers for water access for their secondary cooling loop. Citiies are unfortunately build close to rivers too

I think countries are starting to use less nuclear energies beacause frankly nuclear reactor are huge liabilities to national security if lets say a country is heavily deoendend on nuclear energy it becomes very easy to target in case of a war or even makes a country bargaining power in war negotitions much weaker Am i blowing this out of proportion? IDK........ to be honest. But thats the one side that we really need to focus on The main reason why EU countries will support green energies now is because it will make them independent to russia and arab countries (and its agression) and make them guilt free (of their past and their future), well as you might have guessed it nuclear energy fails on both of these key problems, nuclear reactors can become clear weak areas in EU incase of russian aggression and they dont make people guilt free as well ( like solar and wind energies do).

It never fails to astound me how little most people know about the facts of nuclear energy. I’m a nerd, I looked into this issue as a kid, so I’ve grown up knowing nuclear is a lot safer than most people think, I’m surprised Johnny didn’t know very much prior to doing this video though

The safety factor between nuclear and coal, oil, etc. made me think of airplanes vs cars. There are exponentially more car deaths than airplane deaths but psychologically, airplanes seem to be much bigger in scale. P.S. I think we can also consider the long-term effects of radiation exposure though after nuclear accidents..

@Iuslez

Жыл бұрын

In regards to transport tho, the perception is actually closer to what I'd consider the actual safety factor. Planes are considered safe because the stats being used is the death per km/miles, which is skewed in favor of that transportation that goes at 1000km/h and is used for long distance. If you care about the danger of dying each time you enter a plan, then it is about the same as each time you take a car (which factors in drunk-drivers btw). And way way higher than other transports, especially trains

Johnny x Cleo = dynamic duo of KZread journalism 👍🏼😊

@steveroman3729

Жыл бұрын

Liberals

@justanotherbob69

Жыл бұрын

I know Johnny has a wife and kids and all, but nothing can convince me cleo and johnny haven't fucked

@GarrettDevitt

Жыл бұрын

I wonder who really sponsored this video.

@clusterstage

Жыл бұрын

@@GarrettDevitt don't go there. speculation may run wild, but we actually ought to have this tech everywhere.

@saad92862

Жыл бұрын

I think she kind of annoying..

I think something not taken seriously here is the influence of human error in nuclear accidents, which ends up having more deterministic 'power' in these situations than failsafes put in place to prevent meltdowns. Humans will always make mistakes, cut corners, skimp on funding, etc, and that cannot be completely engineered away with technology advances and security measures. These accidents were all supposed to be impossible before they happened.

one important thing to consider ist how compatible energy sources are. if you want to combine something with renewables then you need a flexible energy source to fill in the dips. nuclear is a very poor fit since you can‘t turn it on and off at will. so nuclear and renewables have an anti synergy. second if we start investing in it now we are already quite late since they take so long to plan and build.

This is a really impressive video and I think it settled a new standard in how videos about any topic should be approached. That's what we need, facts, context and easy to understand visualizations. All that backed by scientific papers.

@langohr9613ify

Жыл бұрын

Was nice. But could have gone a little deeper in how the data was collected and what uncertentys come with it.

The way I see it, the problem is NOT with concept of nuclear and the technology behind it, the problem IS us, humans. If nuclear is properly/safely maintained, we continue to further R&D, and we make sure money is never an issue - then nuclear is a no brainer. A lot of problems we experience with nuclear (and essentially all forms of energy) is that we get cheap and try to cut corners where we shouldn't. The benefits to nuclear are absolutely insanely high and ultimately cheaper in the long run than any non renewable (and renewables until we can scale what we have with those) especially now that it's not just fission but there is a foreseeable future with fusion, we are stupid not to harness it. Almost every problem we've had with nuclear was due to cost cutting, aging infrastructure, lack of R&D, and dumb decisions we made that were totally preventable. Thanks for the video!

@ksenss2513

Жыл бұрын

But is humanity going to change and become totally reliable? Not trying to save a penny, not starting wars, not getting bored by routine, not making stupid mistakes? Sorry, can't see it. As long as you do not completely trust any country or government or cooperation... nuclear is not safe, even if it is in theory.

@Infernus25

Жыл бұрын

Very sensible take, I agree, I dont trust companies to not eventually cut costs at these facilities, thus creating unsafe working conditions for the the staff or somehow reduce the safety measures of the nuclear plants

@janjepsen4732

Жыл бұрын

Thanks god people base decisions on economic sense. Wind and solar generated energy is far cheaper than any other technology out there. The only reason countries are so keen on having nuclear reactors is: they want to have atomic bombs.

@triciac.5078

Жыл бұрын

Yes. My high school science teacher frequently said if we put the money and resources that we did into the Manhattan project and applied them to dealing with the waste issue, it would be solved by now.

@maynardburger

Жыл бұрын

Fusion is a whole different ballgame than fission. I dont see much fearmongering over fusion cuz it's still seen as a sort of far off 'sci fi' concept(which to be fair, isn't an invalid perception in many ways), and I think once fusion does arrive, it's going to pass through skepticism a bit better once it's made quite clear that there's little fear of 'meltdowns' or anything like that and it doesn't produce the same kinds of waste and everything. Fusion is genuinely the holy grail of energy, and will be the thing that opens the door to civilization becoming something that will be totally unrecognizable from today.

🏆 Brilliant episode, thank you!.