THE CANADIANS HAVE DONE A GREAT THING BY CREATING AND DEVELOPING THE CANDU REACTOR. ITS A GOD SEND. IT IS EVEN BETTER WHEN COMBINING WITH LIGHT WATER PRESSURIZED REACTORS.
Another theory says approximately 300k years after the birth of the universe the early plasma cooled to allow hydrogen atoms to form as well as a bit of helium. Gravity brought clumps of mostly hydrogen together to form first generation stars. At the center of first generation stars, pressures and temperatures fused hydrogen and helium to form heavier elements up to iron. Super novas of first generation stars provide pressures and temperatures sufficient to fuse elements up through iron into all the heavier elements including uranium.
Thanks for bringing that up; as a space geek, I always enjoy reading things like that. I have to imagine that there can't be that much uranium left in the universe that was caused that way (realatively speaking, of course). Urainum has a half-life of just under 4.5 billion years. That means that most Uranium created ~13.5 billion years ago will have decayed by now.
Not many things in life give me the amout of goosebumps that Keefer + Nelson conversations, after listening this podcasts imagining a brigh future full of hope is easy
I’ve seen in-situ uranium mine in Wyoming. Not much to see. Open pad with some well heads and a steel building.We need fuel processing here now. Fascinating discussion of Cigar Lake mine. I need to see if there is a documentary on RUclips about it….
I love that novel storyline of heavy elements including U give rise to the conditions that enabled life to take hold (volcanism and the magnetic shield from cosmic rays) and then life then provides the oxygenation to allow uranium transport and deposition sufficient for humanity to exploit which in turn helps us today to continue to protect life on earth. Love it!
Uranium… It’s a heavy topic ;-) I’m looking forward to this one (as always) Mind Blown! I live on a Sandstone Quarry that operated from the 1840s to 1890ish
I read that there is a company that is planing to extract lithium from sea water. Tha same process can extract uranium from sea water. If true then uranium is inexhaustible or fuel for at least 3000 years. The Japanese have done work on this extracting uranium from sea water.
Great discussion. I learned a lot but i have a question. Is it established that we can have a positive eroi from extracting uranium out of the ocean with current technology? Thank you.
IIRC, the fuel costs are something like 5-10% of the cost of using nuclear power. I've also heard that it would be 4x more take uranium from the water than to mine from the ground. I'm not sure if that 5% includes the enrichment process or not, but if it does, than the cost of mining is much less than that 5%. Short answer is, yes; we *can* source uranium from the ocean's without hurting nuclear's cost effect EDIT: you wrote EROI (Engergy Return on Investment). I think I may have attempted to answer the wrong question. Iocean-sourced uranium *will* return more electricity than it puts out. The 4x figure I read was actually referencing energy demands, IIRC (so I was extrapolating that for costs). Since you get an absolutely massive EROI from nuclear, I think a 4x energy cost for mining it would be negligible.
A gift from the Stars is bad language, wrong Nomenclature and misguided thought experiment expectations, because, for the same reason the Actuality of math-music resonance Geometrical phase-locked coherence-cohesion objective-aspects of ONE-INFINITY Singularity in/of QM-TIME Completeness is buried in terms like Sacred Geometry and the fear of death is the beginning-ending of wisdom.., Chemical Bonding Clarified through Quantum Mechanics type rationale goes directly to the issue of WYSIWYG operation of Nuclear Power Generation devices. Crystallography and Euler's e-Pi-i Unit Circle modulo-geometrical Quantum-fields Mechanism Holographic Principle Imagery perspectives is pure-math relative-timing ratio-rates relevance. Revisionist, Reductionist, and reiterative regeneration of understanding Actuality is central to saving the world in some degree of rigorous sustainability.
Conversation on Uranium was so so booooring. What wasn’t mentioned was at what point in the extraction, milling and enrichment process of Uranium did its radioactivity become dangerous to living cells. Also NPP’s produce electricity and Globally only ~20% from all energy sources is energy provided by electricity, and currently only ~2% of that is provided from alternative energy (non FF’s) sources, of which Nuclear is one, leaving FF’s supplying ~80% for industrial and domestic heating, transport, industrial feedstock etc and its other uses too numerous to mention. So Nuclear energy is not a panacea to humanity’s problems as a replacement for the FINITE resources of Coal, Oil and Gas, and that’s leaving out Nuclear’s costs, delivery, safety/security and disposal of toxic radioactive waste🤔
Yeah, the Decouple group is pretty stuck on conventional nuclear which is only good for making electricity. However, they were at least positive about "advanced" non-water reactors at 54:00. Generation IV reactors all have a much higher output temperature which will have more demand as direct industrial heat than for making electricity. First to market will probably be Terrestrial Energy's MSR and their first customer wants the industrial heat, not electricity.
@@chapter4travels Ahh Molten Salt Reactors the saviour of the Nuclear industry, the seeds of a renaissance in nuclear energy, energy enough to power every consumer be it, industry, an office complex, shopping mall, housing estate and everyone’s energy using wants, what could possibly stop it happening, or is it just a pipe dream🤔
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THE CANADIANS HAVE DONE A GREAT THING BY CREATING AND DEVELOPING THE CANDU REACTOR. ITS A GOD SEND. IT IS EVEN BETTER WHEN COMBINING WITH LIGHT WATER PRESSURIZED REACTORS.
The best days are when the Twins get together.
Moustache Twins.😜
Another theory says approximately 300k years after the birth of the universe the early plasma cooled to allow hydrogen atoms to form as well as a bit of helium. Gravity brought clumps of mostly hydrogen together to form first generation stars. At the center of first generation stars, pressures and temperatures fused hydrogen and helium to form heavier elements up to iron. Super novas of first generation stars provide pressures and temperatures sufficient to fuse elements up through iron into all the heavier elements including uranium.
Thanks for bringing that up; as a space geek, I always enjoy reading things like that. I have to imagine that there can't be that much uranium left in the universe that was caused that way (realatively speaking, of course). Urainum has a half-life of just under 4.5 billion years. That means that most Uranium created ~13.5 billion years ago will have decayed by now.
Mark Nelson is just fantastic. Great episode!!
NEARLY EVERYTHING WE DISCOVER IS DONE BY CHANCE.
Another fantastic edition to the mustache masterclass!
Scientific poetry from the Super Mario Brothers.
Not many things in life give me the amout of goosebumps that Keefer + Nelson conversations, after listening this podcasts imagining a brigh future full of hope is easy
I’ve seen in-situ uranium mine in Wyoming. Not much to see. Open pad with some well heads and a steel building.We need fuel processing here now. Fascinating discussion of Cigar Lake mine. I need to see if there is a documentary on RUclips about it….
54:00 they spoke positively about advanced reactor technology. Progress at Decouple is happening, great job!!!
This channel is like sweet delicious brain nectar, great great work with content, production, topics, pacing, just amazing to experience.
Thanks. Long live to the best energy moustaches
When I first saw Mark and Chris I thought they were the same person until I saw them in the same video. 😂
Lovely explanation of how Uranium helps life.
ISNT IT FANTASIC TO.DISCOVER THAT NATURAL REACTOR IN NATURE.
It’s like he’s interviewing himself.
Another great episode Team Decouple, well done all, keep up the great content
Meeting of the stashes, good discussion.
I love that novel storyline of heavy elements including U give rise to the conditions that enabled life to take hold (volcanism and the magnetic shield from cosmic rays) and then life then provides the oxygenation to allow uranium transport and deposition sufficient for humanity to exploit which in turn helps us today to continue to protect life on earth. Love it!
Thank you Chris and Mark for your dedication to help humanity. BTW, did anyone mention this before that you two look like brothers?
As mutch as I enjoyd the conversation, I actully want to hear more of that piano.
Ravel Miroirs. I love that piece.
This was intensely educational.Thanks!
Uranium… It’s a heavy topic ;-) I’m looking forward to this one (as always)
Mind Blown! I live on a Sandstone Quarry that operated from the 1840s to 1890ish
Great episode - love the storytelling!
thanks for the update and the hard work.
I read that there is a company that is planing to extract lithium from sea water. Tha same process can extract uranium from sea water. If true then uranium is inexhaustible or fuel for at least 3000 years. The Japanese have done work on this extracting uranium from sea water.
Cheers gents🎉
Is there any way to get those 2 Mustaches into the MMA Ring?!
this was masterful❤
Always wanted to know how uranium ore concentration gets in the ground
Great show, guys
The big question is: Do they both use electric shavers to trim their moustaches, with electricity coming from nuclear power plants? 🤔
Great discussion. I learned a lot but i have a question. Is it established that we can have a positive eroi from extracting uranium out of the ocean with current technology?
Thank you.
IIRC, the fuel costs are something like 5-10% of the cost of using nuclear power. I've also heard that it would be 4x more take uranium from the water than to mine from the ground. I'm not sure if that 5% includes the enrichment process or not, but if it does, than the cost of mining is much less than that 5%.
Short answer is, yes; we *can* source uranium from the ocean's without hurting nuclear's cost effect
EDIT: you wrote EROI (Engergy Return on Investment). I think I may have attempted to answer the wrong question. Iocean-sourced uranium *will* return more electricity than it puts out. The 4x figure I read was actually referencing energy demands, IIRC (so I was extrapolating that for costs). Since you get an absolutely massive EROI from nuclear, I think a 4x energy cost for mining it would be negligible.
Damn, miners are smart!
Another Gaia mechanism promoting techno species hedging cosmic existential threats, very insightful
What piece was that on the piano?
Osmium is heavier than uranium, and not by a small amount either.
Thorium is more abundant and convertible to fissile uranium-233.
see ...Thorium fuel cycle. (2023, April 10). In Wikipedia.
You two really are lookalike lol
WAKE UP
A gift from the Stars is bad language, wrong Nomenclature and misguided thought experiment expectations, because, for the same reason the Actuality of math-music resonance Geometrical phase-locked coherence-cohesion objective-aspects of ONE-INFINITY Singularity in/of QM-TIME Completeness is buried in terms like Sacred Geometry and the fear of death is the beginning-ending of wisdom.., Chemical Bonding Clarified through Quantum Mechanics type rationale goes directly to the issue of WYSIWYG operation of Nuclear Power Generation devices.
Crystallography and Euler's e-Pi-i Unit Circle modulo-geometrical Quantum-fields Mechanism Holographic Principle Imagery perspectives is pure-math relative-timing ratio-rates relevance.
Revisionist, Reductionist, and reiterative regeneration of understanding Actuality is central to saving the world in some degree of rigorous sustainability.
Conversation on Uranium was so so booooring. What wasn’t mentioned was at what point in the extraction, milling and enrichment process of Uranium did its radioactivity become dangerous to living cells. Also NPP’s produce electricity and Globally only ~20% from all energy sources is energy provided by electricity, and currently only ~2% of that is provided from alternative energy (non FF’s) sources, of which Nuclear is one, leaving FF’s supplying ~80% for industrial and domestic heating, transport, industrial feedstock etc and its other uses too numerous to mention. So Nuclear energy is not a panacea to humanity’s problems as a replacement for the FINITE resources of Coal, Oil and Gas, and that’s leaving out Nuclear’s costs, delivery, safety/security and disposal of toxic radioactive waste🤔
Yeah, the Decouple group is pretty stuck on conventional nuclear which is only good for making electricity. However, they were at least positive about "advanced" non-water reactors at 54:00. Generation IV reactors all have a much higher output temperature which will have more demand as direct industrial heat than for making electricity. First to market will probably be Terrestrial Energy's MSR and their first customer wants the industrial heat, not electricity.
@@chapter4travels Ahh Molten Salt Reactors the saviour of the Nuclear industry, the seeds of a renaissance in nuclear energy, energy enough to power every consumer be it, industry, an office complex, shopping mall, housing estate and everyone’s energy using wants, what could possibly stop it happening, or is it just a pipe dream🤔