Humanity’s rejection of Nuclear power was a massive mistake, and the environment has payed dearly for it as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity
@@DK-hw6xs I think you mean radioactive waste, and radiation fades over time. Luckily there are multiple materials which radiation cannot travel through. So we put the radioactive waste in boxes made out of these materials until they are not radioactive anymore..The amount of boxes we need is not increasing, its depending on how much energy we use.
Mychael Hunt when we heat the water though, the steam turns the turbines which generate the generator, making electricity. The water is pumped back into the container so it can be used again.
Thank you so much for this optimistic piece about nuclear power. I just wanted to add more about the positive effects. In the worst case scenarios of a massive earthquake and tidal wave with Fukushima no one died of radiation poisoning. But rather from the overreaction of the government not allowing people to return to their homes. A lot of people could have returned to their homes with very few mitigating factors. With Chernobyl, the RBMK reactors primary design was to create plutonium for nuclear weapons. Electricity was just a byproduct. The accident occurred because of the reckless ambitions of the lead engineer on duty. The deaths were created by the Soviet government not being upfront about the disaster. Just hundreds of feet away was reactor number three and then reactor number two and one. They kept running for about another 15 years. In both these scenarios today there is tourism including people that are walking right up to the reactor for a limited amount of time. Everyone knows that the news sells fear and anger. The news is part of the problem with keeping this truly green energy source from being deployed. There are forces that want to make nuclear power so expensive it can never be bilt. Principle among them are oil companies. The deaths and expense of global warming with its extreme weather is obvious and plays out everyday. I'm excited about generation 4 reactors. They're about six different designs and they have about six different characteristics. Some of the best characteristics are -They're considered walk away safe. -They burn more nuclear waste than they create. -The waste is considered hazardous for far less time. -They're non-proliferation so they can't be used for nuclear weapons. - The designs are small and can be as common as a hospital. They take up the footprint of about a Walmart. A truly local power grid to accompany wind and solar. This is truly the future that's going to power our electric cars and trucks. Some of the byproducts of nuclear power is creating hydrogen. This could power our airplanes, trains and ships. I look forward to clean skies without smog or inversion layers. I would much rather live next door to a nuclear power plant then a power plant admitting CO2 gas in other poisons and toxins.
Just to add a bit to what you said: In 1992 the eye of a category five hurricane (Andrew) passed over Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Southern Florida. The plant sustained only superficial damages and was able to start up just days later.
Indeed, many seem to believe that nuclear power creates a toxic environment but this is entirely untrue they produce very little waste and pose a very small threat as long as they are properly maintained and operated. Unfortunately some cities actually refuse to buy nuclear power and many have been shut down with no plans of reactivating instead they say solar is the future. Solar however creates much more waste than most realize and will most of it is recyclable it is not always recycled properly or at all.
It's good to see there are actually people who are both environmental conscience AND properly informed on nuclear power. We would have a wonderful world if the Green Cult could get a clue on the matter.
@@jimh472 ACTUALLY THEY ARE I DO TIGHTEN OF NUCLEAR, NUCLEAR BARBARIANS ALONG WITH DECOUPLE PODCAST ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTIST IS FINALLY COMING AROUND THAT NUCLEAR POWER IS THE ANSWER. SMALL MODULAR REACTORS WORK PERFECTLY WITH WIND AND SOLAR.
that was really funny cuz it's so true!!! but I wanted to know the science behind what happened! although someone below said that it was a different type of reactor, the theory is the same and that's what this video explained! so, all in all, I think it helped, but ill go back to watching now!
yeah I did, It was a lot harder than I anticipated so if I could go back I would practice the hardest questions I can find, then anything else will be either the same or really easy. I got an A overall though so you don't have to stress about it. Just make sure you revise a lot in the run up to the exam and you do AS MANY PAST PAPERS AS POSSIBLE (this is the best thing you can do!)
So much technology has advanced and when we look at steam engines from the 1800s people laugh of how primitive it was, yet they don't realize that we're still relying on steam engines for energy.
@@milanradulovic3915 Some people may have more advanced ideas ... I think that, using CRISPR, a specific fungus from Fraser Island, Australia, and glass sea sponge DNA, we could essentially *grow* super-efficient solar cells that would absorb far more of the UV spectrum than today's photovoltaics as well as other spectrums like IR, X-Ray, wind energy, maybe eventually even CME (Coronal-Mass Ejection) events - maybe it could even absorb EMPs!
I want to add that there are many reactor models, the one shown in this video is a PWR (pressurized water reactor), whereas some can boil the water directly in the RPV, these are called BWRs (boiling water reactor)
Good video and understandable animations, but you missed 3 key elements (especially for a PWR system, like the one in your video). A pressurizer to keep the water in the containment shell circuit liquid. This water would otherwise turn into steam. The next key element is a third circuit to cool the steam from the second circuit. And the last element is the condenser. The place where the steam from the second circuit (high and low pressure turbines) will collect and condense to water, with the help of the third circuit. Other from these 3 points good vid
Hey hey, I know the answer to this one! There are rods in the core that absorb neutrons. These are called control rods. When the rods are at the bottom (fully inserted) they absorb enough neutron flux to prevent fission. To start the reactor, simply put, you slowly pull out the rods to specific heights and monitor power. Pulling too fast can cause something called prompt criticality
While I was onboard nuclear boats I was continually asked by friends and family members about the nuclear reactor. most did not realize that the reactor was used to eventually produce steam for our turbines. nothing hard to understand about that. I used to tell them that once the steam was produced, our propulsion system was like a typical 1,200 psi sytem similar to a typical destroyer. They still were in awe as I but I was more so in realizing how a highly engineered system came into existence.
yep it just blows my mind that something we can't see with the naked eye can create massive amou nts of energy and how human ingenuity has been able to harvest it.It's absolutely amazing.
@@soosplays2306 Would you rather have billions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere or material that you can easily seal away in an uninhabited place such as siberia or the antarctic? Think about the pros and cons
@@taxfraud1212 Exactly! The waste can be contained! No filters or carbon waste like fossil fuels! Nuclear is the way to go and it will save us when fossil fuels deplete. Allowing us to get the energy we need to discover other renewable resources too.
U235 is the only isotope that's fissinable. U238 doesn't have a chain reaction. U238 is enriched to around 5% U235 in order to be used for nuclear power. The U235 is what creates the energy.
Uranium-235 is initially used but it bombarded with a neutron to form Uranium-236 which disintegrates or breaks down into fission fragments.Otherwise Uranium-236 is abundant but cannot be directly used.
Boron in the reactor coolant is also used to control the neutron population. When a reactor is first started up the boron concentration is high. And the fuel is used up the boron is removed from the water.
2 things i dont understand: 1. is the cooling water contaminated since it passes through the fuel/rods? 2. this "cooling" water gets hot, circulates to the heat exchanger and there it converts its water to steam? then , the cooling water should be steam too already, right? please explain, i am an intern at a nuclear power plant, next week i have to perform a shutdown test :S
The cooling water is not contaminated. This video is very simplified. In a nuclear plant, there are usually 3 circulations. The liquid which is heated by the reactor directly is contained, then the water that is indirectly heated into steam, turns the turbine, and converted from steam back into water, which is also a contained circuit. Finally, there is the water that cools the steam in a condenser, which comes from a water tower or nearby water source, which is never comes into direct contact with the radioactive liquid.
@@kvsalahuddin5 test went fine with a few mishaps, that i took care by jumping in the water. i got promoted to shift manager, but still havent got used to having 3 arms 🤪
Wow this seems completely efficient and safe. Since it is not a fossil fuel and waste is contained! Why are environmentalists not talking about how nuclear is the way to go! Nuclear will save us when we run out of oil and it will help us get the energy needed for discovering renewable resources too.
So how does the power plant actually start the fission reaction? I watched a video that was saying the rods aren't even dangerous when arriving at the plant, but the power plant are the ones that will start the reaction. I'm just curious as to how they do that.
Fresh reactor fuel is pretty benign stuff, you can bare hand it perfectly safely. The chain reaction starts when you get a sufficient amount of fissile U235 in close proximity to each other and introduce a neutron source to 'light up' the reactor. Control rods are used to restrict the movement of free neutrons in order to maintain the required output from the reactor.
@@AmIr-dn4od my question is a simple one. I’m asking who is nuclear fission initiated ?? How the those protons enter the core ??? Are they blasted in there somehow ?? How are they contained to begin with?? I’ve searched everywhere and there’s nothing explaining it step by step
@@mponce661 nuclear reactors is driven by the splitting of atoms, a process called fission where neutron is fired at an atom, which then fissions into too and release more neutron and those neutrons released hit other atoms, its called a chain reaction the control rods exist to control the rate of fission of the nuclear fuel which is uranium or plutonium
What amazes me is we still haven't really evolved beyond "spinny magnet go Brrrrrrrrr" and it's just more and more complex systems leading towards a magnetic generator.
Can you PLEASE do a video about the process of electron affinity????? I need to see the way they actually do it in a lab!!! And can you also give some example numbers so we can get an idea on how much energy we are using, and how much we are gaining? Thank you!!
In this model, the steam is recaptured, cooled to a liquid, and then pumped back into the main core reactor casing. Does this method increase the amount of radiation/fusion and energy production, or is it simply used to prevent radioactive water from being expelled into the atmosphere?
first of, it is fission and not fusion, and it does not particularly increase energy production. Its advantage is the fact that, the water being heated indirectly, it is non-radioactive, meaning the steam going through the turbine is non radioactive. PWRs are the most common reactor type at the moment, because of simply how advanced and researched are its safety systems and its optimization aswell as containment. BWRs come next in term of spread of use, although the water is directly boiled in the BWR, so the steam is radioactive, but it does not mean it is dangerous at all.
The basic funda is almost same everywhere,i.e. the conversion of thermal energy into mechanical energy, which further converted into electrical energy by Dynamo. Some directly produces mechanical energy (for rotating the shaft) like Wind, Waves, geyser/hotsprings, etc..
The geysers, which is properly called geothermal energy, uses steam turbines too. They don't just get it from the geyser, that would be too unreliable. They drill two very deep holes, push water into one, and steam comes from the other.
If you think 7 years is a lot of time in terms of science you're really incorrect lol, if they say on the brink of extinction, they probably don't mean only 10 years.
Pretty accurate. Just so you know the neutrons interact with the hydrogen vin the water molecules because the hydrogen is the same mass as the neutron these allowing the neutron to give most of it's kinetic energy to the hydrogen I've been working in nuclear power for forty years of it's a pretty good explanation of how reactors create electricity those fast neutrons get absorbed by u238 if they don't escape the core first.
No, it's not that. It's not about people thinking of nuclear bombs that they say that, it's people thinking about meltdowns. Nuclear Reactors are super dangerous and it really doesn't take much to start a meltdown.
Nikolai Rogers Its fine when its handeld safely, but disasters like what happened to Chernobyl and fukashima are very problematic. But its unlikely to harm said people who say that, ive already accepted death in any situation.
You mention "heavy" water, could you elaborate on what it is? Also, what studies have been done in regards to water alternatives(what other types of liquids could be of better use ie.. Ethylene Glycol or a Gel etc)? Cool to learn about this
Hydrogen has 3 isotopes (protium deuterium and tritium). Heavy water is about 11% heavier than normal water because it contains a higher proportion of D2O (heavy water molecules consisting of deuterium instead of protium).
Everyone's talking about how they came from Chernobyl, but I came from my Physics homework ...
Chemistry homework here lol
I came from curiosity
Same here dude hahaha
I'm making my girlfriends 🤣
Same
Watches Chernobyl once... Becomes Nuclear Physicist through RUclips
same...same! lol
Now I can start throwing people out my helicopters.
Haha i fucking spit out my drink in laughter
So true dude.
Hell yeah. Gotta admit that show made me very curious about nuclear power
Humanity’s rejection of Nuclear power was a massive mistake, and the environment has payed dearly for it as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity
Nuclear power is not only the best energy we have it's clean. People are so brainwashed
Based
@@radicalgreek99 What are your thoughts on thousand tons of nuclear waste produced from nuclear power?
@@DK-hw6xs I think you mean radioactive waste, and radiation fades over time. Luckily there are multiple materials which radiation cannot travel through. So we put the radioactive waste in boxes made out of these materials until they are not radioactive anymore..The amount of boxes we need is not increasing, its depending on how much energy we use.
Shut up nuclear power is trash and can't save the planet and just kill us all
Thanks! Now I can build my own!
don't do that you will get arrested. someone already tried that.
LuckyAlert The can't arrest me if they wont catch me, ehehehe
8o8inSquares ok then have fun.
You'll need to find some Uranium first
No problem, just get a lot of the old watches with the glowing pointers.
I love how we're basically just using high powered energy and nuclear power to heat up water
can't wait until Keurig gets a hold of this technology
Getting your morning Joe is as simple as removing your waste pod and tossing it in the radioactive hazard bin.
steam powered technology, lol. surprisingly simplistic
Mychael Hunt when we heat the water though, the steam turns the turbines which generate the generator, making electricity. The water is pumped back into the container so it can be used again.
I love how some folks don't even get the irony.
😕
Thank you so much for this optimistic piece about nuclear power.
I just wanted to add more about the positive effects.
In the worst case scenarios of a massive earthquake and tidal wave with Fukushima no one died of radiation poisoning. But rather from the overreaction of the government not allowing people to return to their homes.
A lot of people could have returned to their homes with very few mitigating factors.
With Chernobyl, the RBMK reactors primary design was to create plutonium for nuclear weapons. Electricity was just a byproduct.
The accident occurred because of the reckless ambitions of the lead engineer on duty. The deaths were created by the Soviet government not being upfront about the disaster.
Just hundreds of feet away was reactor number three and then reactor number two and one. They kept running for about another 15 years.
In both these scenarios today there is tourism including people that are walking right up to the reactor for a limited amount of time.
Everyone knows that the news sells fear and anger. The news is part of the problem with keeping this truly green energy source from being deployed.
There are forces that want to make nuclear power so expensive it can never be bilt. Principle among them are oil companies.
The deaths and expense of global warming with its extreme weather is obvious and plays out everyday.
I'm excited about generation 4 reactors. They're about six different designs and they have about six different characteristics.
Some of the best characteristics are
-They're considered walk away safe.
-They burn more nuclear waste than they create.
-The waste is considered hazardous for far less time.
-They're non-proliferation so they can't be used for nuclear weapons.
- The designs are small and can be as common as a hospital. They take up the footprint of about a Walmart. A truly local power grid to accompany wind and solar.
This is truly the future that's going to power our electric cars and trucks. Some of the byproducts of nuclear power is creating hydrogen. This could power our airplanes, trains and ships.
I look forward to clean skies without smog or inversion layers.
I would much rather live next door to a nuclear power plant then a power plant admitting CO2 gas in other poisons and toxins.
Just to add a bit to what you said: In 1992 the eye of a category five hurricane (Andrew) passed over Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Southern Florida. The plant sustained only superficial damages and was able to start up just days later.
Indeed, many seem to believe that nuclear power creates a toxic environment but this is entirely untrue they produce very little waste and pose a very small threat as long as they are properly maintained and operated. Unfortunately some cities actually refuse to buy nuclear power and many have been shut down with no plans of reactivating instead they say solar is the future. Solar however creates much more waste than most realize and will most of it is recyclable it is not always recycled properly or at all.
It's good to see there are actually people who are both environmental conscience AND properly informed on nuclear power. We would have a wonderful world if the Green Cult could get a clue on the matter.
@@jimh472 ACTUALLY THEY ARE
I DO TIGHTEN OF NUCLEAR, NUCLEAR BARBARIANS ALONG WITH DECOUPLE PODCAST ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTIST IS FINALLY COMING AROUND THAT NUCLEAR POWER IS THE ANSWER.
SMALL MODULAR REACTORS WORK PERFECTLY WITH WIND AND SOLAR.
Brian… 😂🤣😂🤣😂 you a joke.
hey you. reading this. just continue watching Chernobyl. k.
Chernobyl was a different reactor type.
komocode wtf how u know😂😂😂
that was really funny cuz it's so true!!! but I wanted to know the science behind what happened! although someone below said that it was a different type of reactor, the theory is the same and that's what this video explained! so, all in all, I think it helped, but ill go back to watching now!
😂😂
LOOOL DKM
"Now I know how does a nuclear reactor work" Boris Shcherbina.
"Now I don't need you"
@AgentNoxious “fly that plane over the reactor and you’ll be hoping for the bullet”
*twerks*
😂
I'm doing GCSE Physics and this really helped me understand the process, thank you! x
Me too but my exam is next year ! Did you finish the exam ???! If yes please tell me about it ...
yeah I did, It was a lot harder than I anticipated so if I could go back I would practice the hardest questions I can find, then anything else will be either the same or really easy. I got an A overall though so you don't have to stress about it. Just make sure you revise a lot in the run up to the exam and you do AS MANY PAST PAPERS AS POSSIBLE (this is the best thing you can do!)
+Jemima Singer thanks !!!
THANK YOU I HAVE MY EXXAM IN TWO WEEKS
GCSE physics is really easy lol
"Ok, now I know how a nuclear reactor works and I don't need you"
😂
*Reports the video regardless of the fair use disclaimer"
So much technology has advanced and when we look at steam engines from the 1800s people laugh of how primitive it was, yet they don't realize that we're still relying on steam engines for energy.
Yep, just glorified steam power heh
Isn't it time humans level up?
or from something rotating haha. solar panels seem to be most innovative, true?
@@milanradulovic3915 Some people may have more advanced ideas ...
I think that, using CRISPR, a specific fungus from Fraser Island, Australia, and glass sea sponge DNA, we could essentially *grow* super-efficient solar cells that would absorb far more of the UV spectrum than today's photovoltaics as well as other spectrums like IR, X-Ray, wind energy, maybe eventually even CME (Coronal-Mass Ejection) events - maybe it could even absorb EMPs!
@@3nertialet bro cook
@@karama5562 What are you talking about? Let me cook? Me let someone else cook? :/
I want to add that there are many reactor models, the one shown in this video is a PWR (pressurized water reactor), whereas some can boil the water directly in the RPV, these are called BWRs (boiling water reactor)
Good video and understandable animations, but you missed 3 key elements (especially for a PWR system, like the one in your video). A pressurizer to keep the water in the containment shell circuit liquid. This water would otherwise turn into steam. The next key element is a third circuit to cool the steam from the second circuit. And the last element is the condenser. The place where the steam from the second circuit (high and low pressure turbines) will collect and condense to water, with the help of the third circuit. Other from these 3 points good vid
No, not a good video. Not at all. This is full of bad information. I can't even begin to cover them all.
I am missing how the reactor starts also. What do you do to get is started? Throw a match at it?
Why not create your own channel and do better than this?
Hey hey, I know the answer to this one! There are rods in the core that absorb neutrons. These are called control rods. When the rods are at the bottom (fully inserted) they absorb enough neutron flux to prevent fission. To start the reactor, simply put, you slowly pull out the rods to specific heights and monitor power. Pulling too fast can cause something called prompt criticality
yo dad prolly died in a boat sinking
While I was onboard nuclear boats I was continually asked by friends and family members about the nuclear reactor. most did not realize that the reactor was used to eventually produce steam for our turbines. nothing hard to understand about that. I used to tell them that once the steam was produced, our propulsion system was like a typical 1,200 psi sytem similar to a typical destroyer. They still were in awe as I but I was more so in realizing how a highly engineered system came into existence.
didnt ask homo
Am I the only one here because they just find Nuclear processes extremely interesting?
No.
you are the only one here stating the obvious
NO :D
yep it just blows my mind that something we can't see with the naked eye can create massive amou nts of energy and how human ingenuity has been able to harvest it.It's absolutely amazing.
Yeah! I agree! Makes me wonder where technology and quantum physics will be in 50 years from now.
Sometimes a random teenage boy is much more understandable than some of our fellow old man professors out there 😁
Older generation would be talking g about y x z = k which then k x n= w 0.0009456 gz blah blah blah
i was expecting at any moment for you to say "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."
great video..
i agreed with everything until you said "fusion reaction" fission bro. fission.
Zackary Fowler prolly just a slip of his tongue.
Bhupendra Patel no.. Fusion does not occur in a reactor... Fusion needs high amounts of energy.. Stars like our sun is capable of doing it
@@bhupendrapatel5536 also fusion uses deuterium and tritium, not uranium
@@Losshe The sun uses Hydrogen
I'm a bit confused tbh. What kind of radioactive decay emits neutrons? Isn't it either alpha (helium nuclei) or beta (electrons) that are emitted?
What I learned today,
Just a complicated way to boil water 😂😂
Yeah I agree haha very Complicated, yet very CLEAN, environmental friendly and effective. 😎 we need more of these!
@@sunnyd9830 yeah what about the waste?
@@soosplays2306 what about it?
@@soosplays2306 Would you rather have billions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere or material that you can easily seal away in an uninhabited place such as siberia or the antarctic? Think about the pros and cons
@@taxfraud1212
Exactly! The waste can be contained! No filters or carbon waste like fossil fuels! Nuclear is the way to go and it will save us when fossil fuels deplete. Allowing us to get the energy we need to discover other renewable resources too.
U235 is the only isotope that's fissinable. U238 doesn't have a chain reaction. U238 is enriched to around 5% U235 in order to be used for nuclear power. The U235 is what creates the energy.
Uranium-235 is initially used but it bombarded with a neutron to form Uranium-236 which disintegrates or breaks down into fission fragments.Otherwise Uranium-236 is abundant but cannot be directly used.
U238 does not have chain reaction however when U238 absorbed fast neutron, it creates Plutonium 239 that causes chain reaction
did he miss the part of the bullets that can not stop?
Firing for 25,000 years!!!!!!
which are Atoms.
Do you know what a moderate is? If you actually watched the video you would
Problem?
You did a good job there mate, really simple yet educative video.
Boron in the reactor coolant is also used to control the neutron population. When a reactor is first started up the boron concentration is high. And the fuel is used up the boron is removed from the water.
I am studying uranium and how it can be able to be used for energy thank you this helped
At 3:45 you spelled Boron as Boran. Besides that, it was a good video.
Vengeful Sinner yea I noticed that too
Thats all what u had found interesting in the whole video? A mistake he had done?! How silly you are
I thought it was ''moron''
me to...
He also said "fossil fuels are on the 'breach' of extinction"
I've learned more in this video than all of high school
Unless you went to a high school that was focused around how a nuclear reactor works, and they did a horrible job, than no lol
Very interesting post.Like and succes.Very,very beautiful.
I like this video. It's not too great, not too terrible.
This will be my entire essay on nuclear energy for Physics, thank you😂
☢ ''Vnimaniye, vnimaniye." ☢
😫😫😫
Chernobyl
Best explanation I've came across so far.
so, will i be recieving my phd via email or what?
You still haven’t received yours? 👀 they sent me mine via email. It was very quick!
@@sunnyd9830 They just sent me a nobel prize award in my email
2 things i dont understand:
1. is the cooling water contaminated since it passes through the fuel/rods?
2. this "cooling" water gets hot, circulates to the heat exchanger and there it converts its water to steam? then , the cooling water should be steam too already, right?
please explain, i am an intern at a nuclear power plant, next week i have to perform a shutdown test :S
ilias_s don't worry. you always have AZ5 button
The cooling water is not contaminated. This video is very simplified. In a nuclear plant, there are usually 3 circulations. The liquid which is heated by the reactor directly is contained, then the water that is indirectly heated into steam, turns the turbine, and converted from steam back into water, which is also a contained circuit. Finally, there is the water that cools the steam in a condenser, which comes from a water tower or nearby water source, which is never comes into direct contact with the radioactive liquid.
@@kvsalahuddin5 test went fine with a few mishaps, that i took care by jumping in the water. i got promoted to shift manager, but still havent got used to having 3 arms 🤪
Wow this seems completely efficient and safe. Since it is not a fossil fuel and waste is contained! Why are environmentalists not talking about how nuclear is the way to go! Nuclear will save us when we run out of oil and it will help us get the energy needed for discovering renewable resources too.
Because they dont realize that Nuclear Waste can be recycled and Thorium reactors will produce MUCH less waste
Thanks for tell about the Nuclear Reactor
Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly skilled professional
4:26:
Due to the enormous amount of heat released during the FUSION Reaction?
It's fission, NOT fusion. Other than that, nice video!
I Agree
I probably just meant Fission.
Probably an accident. He said fission throughout the rest of the video.
very nice easy to understand thank you
Very nice Video Thank you,
can you tell me which tool you used to make this video ?
I liked this video super reaction
Only 17,500 views? And Nicki Minaj gets a billion+ views. Something is basically fucking wrong with this world. (-__-)
It's a sad and has been the way of things since the dawn of time.
I wish it were different but it isn't.
oh fucking please,
I am taking notes on this, just to let you know. This vid is great!
Well explained! Now I can make my own nuclear reactor.
this is very intreasting so simple but yet so advanced
Execute an emergency shutdown?
Hold my vodka, comrade
Its Designed to do it one handed so you don't need to put the Vodka down!
So how does the power plant actually start the fission reaction? I watched a video that was saying the rods aren't even dangerous when arriving at the plant, but the power plant are the ones that will start the reaction. I'm just curious as to how they do that.
Fresh reactor fuel is pretty benign stuff, you can bare hand it perfectly safely. The chain reaction starts when you get a sufficient amount of fissile U235 in close proximity to each other and introduce a neutron source to 'light up' the reactor. Control rods are used to restrict the movement of free neutrons in order to maintain the required output from the reactor.
@@paulanderson7796 can you explain neutron source ???
@@mponce661 neutrons form when quarks merge with eachother, gluons carry interactions between these quarks, and thats it
@@AmIr-dn4od my question is a simple one. I’m asking who is nuclear fission initiated ?? How the those protons enter the core ??? Are they blasted in there somehow ?? How are they contained to begin with?? I’ve searched everywhere and there’s nothing explaining it step by step
@@mponce661 nuclear reactors is driven by the splitting of atoms, a process called fission where neutron is fired at an atom, which then fissions into too and release more neutron and those neutrons released hit other atoms, its called a chain reaction
the control rods exist to control the rate of fission of the nuclear fuel which is uranium or plutonium
Very nice explanation 👌 👍
thanks, hopefully i can pass tomorrows test
it's amazing how stable we can turn an unstable mineral into a tool.
"I know how a nuclear reactor works. I don't need you now"
Lol
dude you have no idea how useful this was, anytime i tried to wath a vid about this they didn´t acually explain it-- they always just ran over it.
this is a great video! im nailing physics!
Very lucid explanation with superb animations as aid. Nicely Done !!
Thank you so much! Great video! Actually learned about why there are different types of moderators/ purposes of each! 10/10
Such a beatifully explained voice is just superb thnkx man
Watched this video and I have understood everything....keep it up
Who is here after watching Chernobyl.
@@goldnopportunity "Why worry about something that isn't going to happen? "
Me
@@goldnopportunity Everyone
We all are😄😄
What amazes me is we still haven't really evolved beyond "spinny magnet go Brrrrrrrrr" and it's just more and more complex systems leading towards a magnetic generator.
A very good explanatory video. Enjoyed it.
bo aham leacture la ma xan sir (any one from chitral)🤘🤘
Isn't it funny that by all this complex science we still just heat up water to produce steam at the end to make a turbine spin?
What I think is interesting is, if you understand geothermal heatpumps, you basically already understand half of how it works.
Wow... Awesome... Do more videos like this... Animation pakka
one of the best explanation till date i found is your's......
I’m a nuclear scientist now! I need to go a apply for a power plant.
Hold my vodka, comrade
Can you PLEASE do a video about the process of electron affinity?????
I need to see the way they actually do it in a lab!!!
And can you also give some example numbers so we can get an idea on how much energy we are using, and how much we are gaining?
Thank you!!
Hoda G. Im 5 years late, still wanna know?
@@shahmeerhyat I gues no LMAOO
Y’all think she ever learned it?
This is exactly wat I was looking for, Thank you
I fell like im watching a super well made scholl presentation, nice job
Love it!! Explained perfectly👍😃
Nuclear reactor. Now we are going to learn about a nuclear reactor. This is a nuclear reactor. Thanks for watching my video about a nuclear reactor.
Thanks! This video really cleared my doubts about how moderators work.
Thanks. Great video
thanks helped me with my report
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10/10 Boris should see this
It is a good Video for curiocity student
Thanks for explaining.
In this model, the steam is recaptured, cooled to a liquid, and then pumped back into the main core reactor casing. Does this method increase the amount of radiation/fusion and energy production, or is it simply used to prevent radioactive water from being expelled into the atmosphere?
first of, it is fission and not fusion, and it does not particularly increase energy production. Its advantage is the fact that, the water being heated indirectly, it is non-radioactive, meaning the steam going through the turbine is non radioactive. PWRs are the most common reactor type at the moment, because of simply how advanced and researched are its safety systems and its optimization aswell as containment. BWRs come next in term of spread of use, although the water is directly boiled in the BWR, so the steam is radioactive, but it does not mean it is dangerous at all.
Thanks 4 that. I was finding out about chernobyl so this really helps. Thanks
Chernobyl was a very different reactor, graphite moderated. And for some reason the control rods were tipped with graphite! (Happy explosion day)
leerman22 kinda cool that they could use a moderator as an effective rod follower
Excellent.. the best explanation i got in youtube....!!
Awesome video thanks
The basic funda is almost same everywhere,i.e. the conversion of thermal energy into mechanical energy, which further converted into electrical energy by Dynamo.
Some directly produces mechanical energy (for rotating the shaft) like Wind, Waves, geyser/hotsprings, etc..
The geysers, which is properly called geothermal energy, uses steam turbines too. They don't just get it from the geyser, that would be too unreliable. They drill two very deep holes, push water into one, and steam comes from the other.
Alternator not a dynamo. Dynamo produces direct current, we need alternating current, alternators produce that.
I like how he said fossil fuels are at the brink of extinction, *cough cough* 7 years ago
And, you didn't refer to the extinction of some of the human beings due to Covid-19 by coughing twice, did you? :/
If you think 7 years is a lot of time in terms of science you're really incorrect lol,
if they say on the brink of extinction, they probably don't mean only 10 years.
Perfect explanation! 👏🏼 thank you very much! 🤟🏼
The only reason I'm watching this is so I have a reason to make my builds in a game cool
Wherez the graphite tho
Modern reactors dont have graphite as moderators like in chernobyl instead they have water moderators
Pretty accurate. Just so you know the neutrons interact with the hydrogen vin the water molecules because the hydrogen is the same mass as the neutron these allowing the neutron to give most of it's kinetic energy to the hydrogen I've been working in nuclear power for forty years of it's a pretty good explanation of how reactors create electricity those fast neutrons get absorbed by u238 if they don't escape the core first.
Its amazing people can work for 40yrs in a nuclear power plant and be healthy. Like 50yrs ago cancer would be a 100% risk factor.
Great video. Thanks very much.
Who the hell ever even figured all this crap out and even found all these elements and knew what to do with them?? It's just crazy man!!
3.6 roentgen, not great not terrible
Just 400 röntgenphotos
I hate people who state that, "Oh nuclear power is so unsafe it's going to kill us all."
they just dont know, what the technology really is. all they think about when hearing anything nuclear are the mushroom clouds
Some say we would all be using electric cars if we used gasoline for napalm weapons before we used it for vehicles.
No, it's not that. It's not about people thinking of nuclear bombs that they say that, it's people thinking about meltdowns. Nuclear Reactors are super dangerous and it really doesn't take much to start a meltdown.
Nikolai Rogers Its fine when its handeld safely, but disasters like what happened to Chernobyl and fukashima are very problematic. But its unlikely to harm said people who say that, ive already accepted death in any situation.
but there is a reason its called a meltdown and not an explosion lol would be nice if some people realized that
Wow good video.That was wery interresting.
Nice one ..... Very useful for physics ppt fr 10th though :P
You mention "heavy" water, could you elaborate on what it is? Also, what studies have been done in regards to water alternatives(what other types of liquids could be of better use ie.. Ethylene Glycol or a Gel etc)?
Cool to learn about this
Heavy water means deuterated water (D2O), in which the hydrogen atoms of regular H2O are replaced with the heavier isotopic form.
Hydrogen has 3 isotopes (protium deuterium and tritium). Heavy water is about 11% heavier than normal water because it contains a higher proportion of D2O (heavy water molecules consisting of deuterium instead of protium).
Who is INTP/INFP here JUST to feed your curiosity
Why the fuck have I become so interested in learning how nuclear science works after watching that Chernobyl series
Thank u so much.. Ur video cleared my all concepts.. Excellent.. 👍👍
So they use nuclear fission to boil water to make electrical energy so that I can use that same energy to boil water?
Woah...
Same process I experience in my BOWEL daily!
Thanks for the vedio ☺️
Awesome thank you