Illinois EnergyProf

Illinois EnergyProf

Professor David Ruzic
Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

cpmi.illinois.edu

Ukraine's Nuclear Reactors

Ukraine's Nuclear Reactors

Decarbonizing Air Travel ?

Decarbonizing Air Travel ?

Thorium Video Coming Soon!

Thorium Video Coming Soon!

Lithium for Fusion Energy

Lithium for Fusion Energy

I'm Back, with New Markers!

I'm Back, with New Markers!

Why is the Sky Blue

Why is the Sky Blue

How Solar Cells Work

How Solar Cells Work

How Windmills Work

How Windmills Work

New Content Coming Soon!

New Content Coming Soon!

What Is a Plasma?

What Is a Plasma?

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  • @maxasaurus3008
    @maxasaurus3008Күн бұрын

    So am I the only one super impressed that the lecturer is writing backwards so easily? 🤨🤔

  • @KG84C
    @KG84CКүн бұрын

    Great content, cheers from Australia

  • @Feelthefx
    @FeelthefxКүн бұрын

    Is the future here yet?

  • @suhankumarchoudhury9958
    @suhankumarchoudhury99582 күн бұрын

    No, the question is what is radioactivity.

  • @georgeherod4252
    @georgeherod42522 күн бұрын

    This educator could make paint drying interesting

  • @tropifiori
    @tropifiori2 күн бұрын

    I was at Chest- an international meeting yearly on Pulmonary Medicine Diseases. There was a Ukrainian physician who presented his data on nuclear related disasters he had seen. It was extensive and terrible. Frank

  • @kimwaisanen8693
    @kimwaisanen86934 күн бұрын

    Wow man u are amazing ❤

  • @SMGJohn
    @SMGJohn4 күн бұрын

    Of course when it is Soviet, it is worst accident, but when in america digging nuclear fuel rods into peoples backyards causing 1 million extra cases of cancer and heavy metal pollution in newborn babies, its merely "smol incident"

  • @jeff-w
    @jeff-w4 күн бұрын

    Its crazy to me that the USA believes they have the authority and responsibility to police others on their nuclear weapons, meanwhile they're the only ones who have proven themselves to be sinister enough to deploy nuclear weopons.

  • @jeff-w
    @jeff-w4 күн бұрын

    The weight difference (1.0043) is not 4 thousandths of one percent, its 4 thenths of one percent, or 4 thousandths per one unit.

  • @jeff-w
    @jeff-w4 күн бұрын

    This man is writing backwards and has better penmanship than me 🤯

  • @8u88letea
    @8u88letea5 күн бұрын

    this guy explains shit the best for an educated audience I love these videos theyre like docus but for people who don't have tiktok brain rot

  • @8u88letea
    @8u88letea5 күн бұрын

    how is this guy writing so fast in reverse/mirrored loool

  • @8u88letea
    @8u88letea5 күн бұрын

    best video on youtube, good for aleady intelligent educated audience, unlike rest of the other videos explaining like im 5 years old lol

  • @microburn
    @microburn6 күн бұрын

    Good thing Germany turned off their nuclear reactors just in case a tsunami struck Central Europe.

  • @Ashton351
    @Ashton3517 күн бұрын

    Why did Fufushima need more water?

  • @kerentolbert5448
    @kerentolbert54487 күн бұрын

    What is the red in the RMBK? Is it the graphite moderator? Is the water also acting as a moderator? The LWR is a pressurized vessel were the water level remains constant.

  • @brian.westersauce
    @brian.westersauce7 күн бұрын

    3:46 nice math bro

  • @sreng81
    @sreng818 күн бұрын

    Can SMRs follow load? Can they be taken off line for less than a week?

  • @cremebrulee4759
    @cremebrulee47598 күн бұрын

    I've been watching videos about Chernobyl on a channel created by a nuclear engineer. His contention is that a containment building would not have withstood the force of the explosion at Chernobyl.

  • @MA-oj8zk
    @MA-oj8zk8 күн бұрын

    "If you lose the water, the reaction stops". You made my day. With a lot of good will, lets call this statement "theoretically right" but completely wrong in practise, as as you said, water is used for cooling and if there is something that can blow up a reactor, it's the lack of cooling. Since, if it would be otherwise, the guys at Fukushima would have been very happy when they found out that all the cooling water has gone. However, the opposite is true: That's where the party started....

  • @MA-oj8zk
    @MA-oj8zk8 күн бұрын

    The containments of most nuclear plants (still!) today will not withstand the impact of a commercial airliner (90 tons, 100m/s). Officially we only know from Belgium and Switzerland that their nuclear plants have passed related tests. From the US we know that (a) related tests are kept secret and (b) most of the plants have not been built to withstand even smaller planes.

  • @MA-oj8zk
    @MA-oj8zk8 күн бұрын

    I remember a talk from a very well known specialist with more than 35 years of experience in operating nuclear plants and when ask about fusion reactors Prof. Homer J. Simpson calls it "boooooring".

  • @MA-oj8zk
    @MA-oj8zk8 күн бұрын

    Breaktrough in Fusion Energy? Really. Again? Didn't i heared that like 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago? It's becoming a running gag. And guess what: We won't need it anymore as we got better alternatives. And cheaper.

  • @MA-oj8zk
    @MA-oj8zk8 күн бұрын

    Well, the "funny" thing about containments is, they also are not fully solid. Just think about Fukushima, where radio-active material found its way out of the reactor trough the overpressure gas pipes and through the water pipes of the cooling system. So, yes, there is a difference between both reactor types, but none of them is safe. And that 's the important point.

  • @bradwinter7028
    @bradwinter70288 күн бұрын

    My man needs a new dry erase marker the squeaking was nonstop 😂

  • @talusranch990
    @talusranch9908 күн бұрын

    He is an X inversion and looks different

  • @CyclistTy
    @CyclistTy9 күн бұрын

    Although I recognize this is a very simplified example, but he really should be subtracting an extra 1 for the higher O&M at the nuclear plant, and adding a time value to the NG plants profits.

  • @SSteeleify
    @SSteeleify9 күн бұрын

    Wait a minute. 911 told us planes go right through concrete and steel ultimately leading to whatever they hit turning into a dusty pile of rubble.😂

  • @ThePbag
    @ThePbag10 күн бұрын

    Louie Anderson had a hidden talent as a lecturer!

  • @oxpack
    @oxpack10 күн бұрын

    The message: "Air travel much better than it used to be." The unspoken message: "It is still really really bad for CO2 emissions." Stop doing a bunch of the non-sense with jet planes like flying pineapples all over the world as an example. Does it really need to be there next day - probably not unless it is truly an organ transfer. Luckily airlines are doing everything they can do to make people never want to fly again! A future generation will thank them. I would gladly take a slow night train instead of flying.

  • @SergioFersan1991
    @SergioFersan199111 күн бұрын

    How the hell could write all of that on fucking reverse is what really haunts me

  • @mightyfinejonboy
    @mightyfinejonboy11 күн бұрын

    it will never happen, it's a Ponzi scheme of promises. stupid politicians led astray by career romancers.

  • @PunchRockGroin
    @PunchRockGroin12 күн бұрын

    Sir, can you turn your marker down, please?

  • @Chiavaccio
    @Chiavaccio12 күн бұрын

    👍👍👏

  • @chriz9959
    @chriz995912 күн бұрын

    3:30 am - cant sleep, but have to since today is my german test. my brain: Try youtube and figure out the difference between alpha and beta radiation..

  • @chriz9959
    @chriz995914 күн бұрын

    i have always been fascinated by atomic energy, and videos like these are exactly what makes me happy

  • @AndrewLambert-wi8et
    @AndrewLambert-wi8et14 күн бұрын

    WHY DONT NATIONS COMBINE PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR(PWR) WITH PRESSURIZED HEAVY WATER REACTORS(PHWR). PWR "238 WASTE" CAN BE USED IN PHWR. CAN THE PROFESSOR SHOW THE ECONOMICS AND WISDOM IN DOING THIS. THORIUM CAN ASLO BE USED IN THE PHWR.

  • @escarfangorn
    @escarfangorn14 күн бұрын

    Regulation is one of the biggest differentiators here except for the amount of sunlight. I have built my PV system 4 years ago where I managed to be included in a scheme where I'm on the grid and I don't get anything for the energy I pump into the system, but I can then take energy from the system at 80% discount as long as my two-way meter shows that I have a surplus (I put more energy into the grid then I consume). With the rising power prices this has proven to be immensely profitable for me, as my power bill is 10% of what I would have to pay now without PV. However the regulation was later changed and now people no longer have the option to use the grid as their "battery". They get paid for what they upload to the grid in wholesale prices and then can buy power back for regular consumer prices. This means that my PV installation had a ROI time of just under 4 years and had to be just 10-15% overscaled over my consumption. Theirs has to be 2x-3x over their consumption and they get less money back, so their ROI time is 10-15 years. Adding battery pack into the mix maximizes your autoconsumption which moves a lot of levers on the accounting charts, but battery pack itself is costly and needs replacing at around 10 year mark, so you're still looking at 10+ years of ROI time. And if you did your project and calculations wrong + at the same time decided to switch from gas to electric heating/heat pump, you may not be happy with the final result. Even such considerations as the type of roof can skew your calculations, because if you have a ceramic roof rated for minimum 50 years and you put 25 years rated PV on it, you're golden, but if you put it on a flat roof covered with roofing felt, then you're in some dire straits after maybe just 10 years. In some places it is essential to mix PV with one or two mini wind turbines to minimize your costs in winter. However turbines require more costly maintenance, which PVs don't. For me however, in my regulatory scheme, the investment proved to be extremely good idea. ROI under 4 years (planned 5 years ROI, down thanks to rising prices) and currently it gives me savings of over 3000 $ / year.

  • @chriz9959
    @chriz995914 күн бұрын

    In Russia you dont test safety. Safety tests you!

  • @milan222314
    @milan22231414 күн бұрын

    Do you really think, that these reactors will be cheaper and more decentralized than wind or solar energy with accumulation in simple systemes (AQUABATTERY, FORM ENERGY)?

  • @milan222314
    @milan22231414 күн бұрын

    Do you really think, that these reactors will be cheaper and more decentralized than wind or solar energy with accumulation in simple systemes (AQUABATTERY, FORM ENERGY)?

  • @iitzfizz
    @iitzfizz15 күн бұрын

    Decent video 3.2/10 ... Not great, not terrible

  • @So1b0w4t3Jah
    @So1b0w4t3Jah15 күн бұрын

    Recent weaponization

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    @arunavadasgupta214715 күн бұрын

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  • @MrEthanhines
    @MrEthanhines15 күн бұрын

    I love this guy he makes radiation so much easier to understand

  • @So1b0w4t3Jah
    @So1b0w4t3Jah15 күн бұрын

    Such a horrid corrupt world

  • @PlateletRichGel
    @PlateletRichGel16 күн бұрын

    It's really refreshing like always when true knowledge is passed, instead of reactive conjecture. Nuclear power is a blessing and really we are foolish not to convert our entire power grid to it. Even the 3 guys who went into Chernobyl did not die, nobody at Fukushima died from radiation. However, I understand the Russians dumped so much nuclear waste into the pacific that one should not eat salmon.

  • @nathandevine552
    @nathandevine55216 күн бұрын

    I don't think 3' of concrete would have contained that explosion

  • @jaesonwheeler9000
    @jaesonwheeler900016 күн бұрын

    Is he seriously writing that all backwards? Or is there some kind of technological wizardry going on here?