If they are probably built, they’re really really good, but the problem is with the word nuclear. It scares people a lot. It’s really clean and effective though.
LoL everything is about steam. I think it's the most efficient and cheap way to generate energy compared to new modern tech such as solar panels or betavoltaic
LoL everything is about steam. I think it's the most efficient and cheap way to generate energy compared to new modern tech such as solar panels or betavoltaic
@@azizsetyawan3038your definition of efficient here only encompasses the efficiency in energy per raw resource and stability. solar energy is far more efficient when it comes to infrastructure, energy per resource, and passive generation. honestly this is just my shallow reflection and ALOT of other factors i have not considered is definitely needed to really know whether if an energy production technology is far more efficient than the other.
LoL everything is about steam. I think it's the most efficient and cheap way to generate energy compared to new modern tech such as solar panels or betavoltaic
fr, modern-day reactors are so hard to have meltdowns in that it's impossible. Chernobyl was literally just the USSR not keeping them right and Fukushima was just the side effect of the tsunami (which was 15-16 years ago). tech has come a long way, sad to see people being scared just cuz the word nuclear is in it and it has some bad memories
@@existentialguy21 Another thing to add to that, Chernobyl was a blowout, not a meltdown. All that causes blowouts is just too much steam pressure blasting a hole in a closed loop somewhere, which is actually more common in non-nuclear power plants since they generally aren't inspected the same
@@existentialguy21that's the problem, incompetent management can easily lead to the meltdown. As you said Chernobyl happened because of the incompetent people in power. Fukushima in a way was also caused by neglect from the higher-ups and them placing it on hazardous areas. I know newer technologies are made to highly prevent it from failing. The issue is it isnt fool proof. Once someone in power makes a stupid decision, the technology wont help at all. And if it did fail, do they have the means to contain the meltdown to just the site itself? Because everybody knows a meltdown would be disastrous not only to the place but also to the wider surroundings, sometimes an entire city.
@@qu3st1nzonly when the people operating it are idiots or if the reactor isn’t maintained. Or if the government who owns it doesn’t give a shit about safety(Chernobyl)
Probably becausw you need to understand why a neutron particle hitting a uranium atom even causes a chain reaction in the first place. And before that you need to understand steam engines as well as basic chemistry. Theyre not teaching specifically how a nuclear reactor works, they're teaching the laws that were the basis for creating a nuclear reactor.
A very important thing that wasn’t mentioned are the control rods, these are rods made of a neutron absorbing material that can be inserted and withdrawn from the reactor, they’re both the on and off mechanism. Take a rod out, you get more reaction and therefore heat Put a rod in, you get less reaction and less heat. Put every rod in you shut it down Take every rod out you lose complete control of the reactor
@@DeepakKumar-lv4te the rods don’t block radioactivity, they block the neutrons, and radiation is blocked, thats why they’re so heavily shielded. Even an old reactor like the RBMK-1000 (The Chernobyl type) you could literally walk on top of while it was running with zero risk.
Hey, a nuclear nerd over here, the cooling towers aren't used to release steam, they recirculate water in pipes for the condenser, as it needs low temperatures to condense steam.
@@lami_nar3662 the big towers are used to cool down the condenser, the condenser is condensing turbine steam into water, the big towers aren't mainly used to dump steam Incase there is too much in the core, that's done via an steam ejector valve.
@@kiwenmanisunoactually before the smoke goes out it will be filtered/scrubbed and +90% of CO² are filtered, it may still realising CO² but it is better than 100% CO² smoke released from tower stack
yeah nuclear energy is almost completely clean with the only downside being waste, nuclear energy is also alot safer than the media portrays incidents like the chernobal indecent only happen though immense human stupidity and modern safety makes meltdown extremely rare
That's basically an oversized kettle with uranium rods instead of copper wires. I wish more people knew about that. Nuclear would not be so scary for the public
Yeah. Its not like I would want to make one. Its not like I have the resources or skill to make one. Want tl learn how to make one for educational purposes only :›
Hey, Fking nerd here. So the Giant Towers you are talking about are Cooling Towers. These condense the steam from the turbine and put it back into the system, which depends on the reactor type. Now this video I find a simple, but good explanation yet I must add some bs of my own. Here are some basic nuclear reactor types: BWR - Boiling water Reactor, this directly boils the water. The "fuel assembly" sits plopped in the water. Now, this reactor can have a loss of coolant accident casued by evaporating. Basically if you disable pumps, the thing melts into a 3400° radiactive goo. Its doesnt go boom. PWR - Pressurized water reactor. The cousin of the BWR, but the fuel heats water at a high pressure, that doesn't get boiled, but rather exchanges that heat to enother bunch of water thru heat exchangers that spins the turbines. RBMK - Reaktor Bolshoy Mochnosti Kanalnyy (Russian). This is the scary Chernobyl reactor, inseatd of wate as a moderator (the thing that slows the neutrons and makes them more likley to hit U(235)O²). And insetad of the water surrounding the fuel, the fuel surrounds the water in channels. Nuclear Power despite Incidents like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima, is the greenest and safest way to a sustainable and green energy grid thay can last for decades, and with proper maintenance up to a century.
They’re far from scary. But you really did a good job explaining them. You missed a few important things (like the backup generators to keep things on in an emergency to prevent a meltdown. And the fact that the used fuel (which can be recycled we just don’t because funding was cut for the company that was researching it because of the three mile island meltdown) is kept in casks that are safe enough to lick or kiss
@@user-pd6ev9gb7j all power plants are. Anything that’s not Solar or wind (and some water turbines) use energy in the form of heat to create steam from water to turn a turbine to create usable electricity. Fusion will be too. We don’t know how to do it any other way yet
Apple pie recipe for you Ingredients: Crust: • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small cubes • 1/4 cup granulated sugar • 1/2 tsp salt • 1/4 cup ice water (more if needed) Filling: • 6-7 medium apples (Granny Smith or Honeycrisp work well), peeled, cored, and thinly sliced • 3/4 cup granulated sugar • 1/4 cup brown sugar • 1 tsp cinnamon • 1/4 tsp nutmeg • 1/4 tsp allspice (optional) • 2 tbsp all-purpose flour (for thickening) • 1 tbsp lemon juice • 2 tbsp unsalted butter, cut into small pieces Topping: • 1 egg, beaten (for brushing) • 1 tbsp coarse sugar (optional, for sprinkling) Instructions: 1. Prepare the Crust: • In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, and salt. • Add the chilled butter cubes and, using a pastry cutter or your hands, mix until the dough resembles coarse crumbs. • Slowly add the ice water, a tablespoon at a time, until the dough begins to come together. • Divide the dough into two equal parts, shape them into discs, wrap them in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. 2. Prepare the Filling: • In a large bowl, combine the sliced apples, granulated sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, flour, and lemon juice. Mix until the apples are well-coated. 3. Assemble the Pie: • Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C). • Roll out one of the dough discs on a lightly floured surface to fit your pie dish. Carefully transfer it to the dish, leaving an overhang. • Add the apple filling to the crust, spreading it evenly. • Dot the filling with the butter pieces. • Roll out the second dough disc and place it over the filling. Trim any excess dough and crimp the edges to seal. • Cut small slits in the top crust to allow steam to escape. 4. Bake the Pie: • Brush the top crust with the beaten egg and sprinkle with coarse sugar, if using. • Bake for 20 minutes at 400°F (200°C), then reduce the oven temperature to 375°F (190°C) and bake for an additional 40-45 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the filling is bubbling. • If the edges of the crust start to brown too quickly, cover them with aluminum foil. 5. Cool and Serve: • Let the pie cool on a wire rack for at least 2 hours before serving. This allows the filling to set.
Indeed, reactors are designed to operate in prompt sub critical, and delayed critical, and even that is far from the super criticality of a nuclear warhead, very different leagues and a whole magnitude different enrichment required
@@TheAdmiralMosesyou are not incorrect, but id specify "prompt criticality" for nuclear weapons as using "super critic" is vague as nuclear reactors go super critical all the time, otherwise they could not increase power
Slight correction: the fuel rods used in reactors are subcritical. In other words, they aren’t dense enough to cause a runaway explosion like in a nuclear bomb. They can still melt down if the cooling system fails, but they don’t explode
I think there’s a problem with this video, the neutrons have to be slowed to be able to start a reaction, the water slows it down because it has a similar mass, and also it has a side effect, if the water is boiled off a meltdown cannot occur due to the fact that the neutrons are too fast to sustain the nuclear reaction so the reactor stops, that’s why nuclear disasters rarely happen these days except for Chornobyl which used lead instead of water P.s they actually also remove the control rods that have alpha emitters that start the reaction to stop the reaction
What you're talking about here is a moderator in a nuclear reactor. I thought Soviet-designed reactors used graphite as a moderator. Most others use water as a moderator, likely for the reasons you cite. Boil-off of water as a moderator is a bit of a safety mechanism.
Slowing the neutrons down in a nuclear reactor actualy increases the reactivity. It seems unintuitive but imagine this It's very hard to catch a bullet with your hand but it's a whole lot easyer to catch a ping pong ball. This is because ping pong ball goes slower. When you slow down neutrons it becomes easyer for the uranium to catch the neutrons.
I think there's a missing step for safety, notably a heat exchanger for the heated water from the reactor to another water loop so IT can drive the turbines connected to the generators.
They dont slow the neutron to contain the bomb Tje nucklear need to the neutron to be slow to make unstable 236 uranium If the neutron hit fast it will just hit and move the atom The way we contain it is with some kind of rods that absorb or destroy the neutron
Correction: nuclear power plant use enrich uranium U-235 to collide with neutron, there's also U-238 but it is just useless because the neutron aren't strong enough except in CANDU reactor.
Great video! I'd just like to point out that the water slowing the neutrons does not actually slow the reaction, but quite the opposite! The neutrons need to be slow (so called thermal neutrons) so that the probability of them getting absorbed by the uranium is higher. Fun fact, the slow neutrons are almost 600x times more likely to get absorbed by the uranium than the fast ones!
How nuclear energy works explained for cavemen: Angry rock make water angry and turn into steam, steam spin fan thing with magnets (magik rock) make magik
Well, no. The giant cooling towers do something about different. When the steam has turned the turbine, it has nothing else left to do and so the lower pressure steam is condensed by a condenser, located directly under the turbine. The condenser uses pipes of cold water that exchange heat with the steam, condensing it into water. This hotter water is then released into the cooling tower which cools the water, in which the water then evaporates because of its heat and turns to steam, which condenses AGAIN due to the surrounding temperature and these water molecules are what is seen going out of the cooling tower. The cooler water now goes back to the condenser and this cycle repeats
@georgesovietico288 No. Tidal power is generally considered the greenest, since it has minimal impact on the environment and requires little to no infrastructure. Is it the most efficient & practical solution? Heck no
The towers dont release all of the steam and a bit of the steam goes to a compartment with cold water and turns in to water. On the first type of reactors (rbmk) wich was used in chernobyl there was also graphite wich slowed the neutrons. The reacktion also creates two lighter uranium atoms
Just one correction. The towers are not for steam evacuation, but they'r designed to cool down the steam and recreate water that come back into the reactor to make steam again and again.
There are things called moderators near the fuel rods (the uranium) to slow them down making it even easier to control the rate of fission inside the reactor.
I just want to clarify a little: 1. In the equation of special relativity, the letter representing energy is a capital E. (It is not a small e because it represents either the elementary charge or the Euler's number.) 2. In the nuclear reactors, neutrons are slowed down in water to increase the reactor efficiency.
im pretty sure, water isn't really for slowing down neutrons. It ofc does that but from 1 fission you get 1-8 neutrons. To keep it from blowing up you need to get 1 neutron from 1 fission to attack an atom again. That means that its not only slowed down but also you need control rods that absorb the access neutrons (depending on a reactor they can be from boron or other neutron absorbing materials). Water is used to transport the energy (depending on a reactor again, it can get the hot water to cold pipes and boil there (water is not radioactive) or get into steam and go directly on fan blades (water gets radioactive but it is also the cheaper method) but otherwise the video shows how it works
There id a bit of errors in this video: -The nuclear reactor needs control rods, they absorb the neutrons to stop/slow down the reaction. -The towers are used to condense the steam that was passed trough the turbines, not to vent steam.
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They pollute quite a bit
@@joeymatusno they dont! Unreal...
Already done
If they are probably built, they’re really really good, but the problem is with the word nuclear. It scares people a lot. It’s really clean and effective though.
"It's all steam?"
"Always has been."
and that's underrated
LoL everything is about steam. I think it's the most efficient and cheap way to generate energy compared to new modern tech such as solar panels or betavoltaic
steam engine v2
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@@azizsetyawan3038i think ill stick with geothermal energy if that's the case
Nuclear energy is just another way of boiling water to make a fan spin
Truly Steampunk
@@rico-228 haha steam-punk
LoL everything is about steam. I think it's the most efficient and cheap way to generate energy compared to new modern tech such as solar panels or betavoltaic
@@azizsetyawan3038 ironically Nuclear energy is more bio-friendly and cheaper than whatever the government is trying to advertise to us.
@@azizsetyawan3038your definition of efficient here only encompasses the efficiency in energy per raw resource and stability.
solar energy is far more efficient when it comes to infrastructure, energy per resource, and passive generation.
honestly this is just my shallow reflection and ALOT of other factors i have not considered is definitely needed to really know whether if an energy production technology is far more efficient than the other.
Boiling rock to spin fan = energy
Si 🗿👍
Mm
@@becua1007 si 🗿👍
Explained perfectly👍
They're not really boiling the rock though
"How is electric made"
"Steam"
The Steam Engine never went away
We have entered the era "SteamPunk"
you can also use other sources that makes rotation to make an alternator make electricity
All AC electricity is made from spinny things, you either spin them with steam or with chemical fuel/gas.
What about Stirling engines (hot and cold Air)
“That’s it?! That’s just boiling water??”
Yes
Most of our energy is just "water"
LoL everything is about steam. I think it's the most efficient and cheap way to generate energy compared to new modern tech such as solar panels or betavoltaic
Yep, Boiling Water is actually an Extremely Efficient way of Converting Heat into Mechanical Energy
Always has been
Nuclear power plants aren't scary if you actually understand how the plants function.
fr, modern-day reactors are so hard to have meltdowns in that it's impossible. Chernobyl was literally just the USSR not keeping them right and Fukushima was just the side effect of the tsunami (which was 15-16 years ago). tech has come a long way, sad to see people being scared just cuz the word nuclear is in it and it has some bad memories
@@existentialguy21 Another thing to add to that, Chernobyl was a blowout, not a meltdown. All that causes blowouts is just too much steam pressure blasting a hole in a closed loop somewhere, which is actually more common in non-nuclear power plants since they generally aren't inspected the same
@@existentialguy21that's the problem, incompetent management can easily lead to the meltdown. As you said Chernobyl happened because of the incompetent people in power. Fukushima in a way was also caused by neglect from the higher-ups and them placing it on hazardous areas. I know newer technologies are made to highly prevent it from failing. The issue is it isnt fool proof. Once someone in power makes a stupid decision, the technology wont help at all. And if it did fail, do they have the means to contain the meltdown to just the site itself? Because everybody knows a meltdown would be disastrous not only to the place but also to the wider surroundings, sometimes an entire city.
It's scary when humans make mistakes
@@healis *it's scary when humans cut corners* is what you mean.
Summary: Nuclear reactors = big fancy kettles
Yeah lol
and deadly
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@@qu3st1nzglad you're not a politician
@@qu3st1nzonly when the people operating it are idiots or if the reactor isn’t maintained.
Or if the government who owns it doesn’t give a shit about safety(Chernobyl)
Bro just taught me how nuclear reactors work in 30 seconds while my teacher would've taken 2 business weeks
Of course, your teacher is paid to teach you. The faster they teach you, the faster their job is done and their no longer needed / paid
Probably becausw you need to understand why a neutron particle hitting a uranium atom even causes a chain reaction in the first place. And before that you need to understand steam engines as well as basic chemistry. Theyre not teaching specifically how a nuclear reactor works, they're teaching the laws that were the basis for creating a nuclear reactor.
@@Duck_sidebro teachers take a whole lecture to teach you this shit
It's because he over simplified it and didn't explain much
@@Duck_sidewhat? They have an entire school year either way, and how could a teacher be done if every year they get new students to teach to.
A very important thing that wasn’t mentioned are the control rods, these are rods made of a neutron absorbing material that can be inserted and withdrawn from the reactor, they’re both the on and off mechanism.
Take a rod out, you get more reaction and therefore heat
Put a rod in, you get less reaction and less heat.
Put every rod in you shut it down
Take every rod out you lose complete control of the reactor
Wow
Take every rod and you get nuke + elephant’s foot
@@ariesleo7396you don't get a nuke. Just elephants foot
so why not surround the reactor with these rods so there's no issue with radioactivity leaking out?
@@DeepakKumar-lv4te the rods don’t block radioactivity, they block the neutrons, and radiation is blocked, thats why they’re so heavily shielded. Even an old reactor like the RBMK-1000 (The Chernobyl type) you could literally walk on top of while it was running with zero risk.
Hey, a nuclear nerd over here, the cooling towers aren't used to release steam, they recirculate water in pipes for the condenser, as it needs low temperatures to condense steam.
They are used to release steam. You see it coming out as well. What are you talking about?
@@lami_nar3662 the big towers are used to cool down the condenser, the condenser is condensing turbine steam into water, the big towers aren't mainly used to dump steam Incase there is too much in the core, that's done via an steam ejector valve.
@@lami_nar3662Jit went silent
@@karolekpm2023 they are used to release steam so it doesn't overheat, no idea what you're talking about
@@lami_nar3662 you're still wrong... twice
RIP to the people who thought that the towers are releasing smoke into the atmosphere
@@manyatruefailsame tower different stuff that goes in the air
@@manyatruefailCoal plants have way more toxic waste that goes into the air.
Yea,cooling towers are there just to cool the condenser
@@kiwenmanisunoactually before the smoke goes out it will be filtered/scrubbed and +90% of CO² are filtered, it may still realising CO² but it is better than 100% CO² smoke released from tower stack
yeah nuclear energy is almost completely clean with the only downside being waste, nuclear energy is also alot safer than the media portrays incidents like the chernobal indecent only happen though immense human stupidity and modern safety makes meltdown extremely rare
Animator goin chill this time😂
Si 🗿👍
Nah you gotta look at the reactor…
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no animators this time
yeah what did you expect, the cooling towers having babies?
"scary"
one of the, if not the safest form of energy generation
It is the safest by deaths/KWh
"will literally blow up if not kept under control"
@@ParadiseDB7 planes also crash if you dont keep them under control
@@ParadiseDB7 if I remember today reactors have safety measures for that
@@spqqq_ bud a plane isn't going to just crash on its own, be serious now
That's basically an oversized kettle with uranium rods instead of copper wires. I wish more people knew about that. Nuclear would not be so scary for the public
AN OVER SIZED COW?
@@sree0814 kettle. English is not my native
Now explain how a nuclear bomb works (for education purposes)
He did
Si 🗿👍
Yeah. Its not like I would want to make one. Its not like I have the resources or skill to make one. Want tl learn how to make one for educational purposes only :›
this is literally taught in schools and for literal educational purposes
this thing, but instead of water, and a steam turbine, its just the reactor
nothing else, but the thing where atoms go crazy
Hey, Fking nerd here.
So the Giant Towers you are talking about are Cooling Towers. These condense the steam from the turbine and put it back into the system, which depends on the reactor type. Now this video I find a simple, but good explanation yet I must add some bs of my own. Here are some basic nuclear reactor types:
BWR - Boiling water Reactor, this directly boils the water. The "fuel assembly" sits plopped in the water. Now, this reactor can have a loss of coolant accident casued by evaporating. Basically if you disable pumps, the thing melts into a 3400° radiactive goo. Its doesnt go boom.
PWR - Pressurized water reactor. The cousin of the BWR, but the fuel heats water at a high pressure, that doesn't get boiled, but rather exchanges that heat to enother bunch of water thru heat exchangers that spins the turbines.
RBMK - Reaktor Bolshoy Mochnosti Kanalnyy (Russian). This is the scary Chernobyl reactor, inseatd of wate as a moderator (the thing that slows the neutrons and makes them more likley to hit U(235)O²). And insetad of the water surrounding the fuel, the fuel surrounds the water in channels.
Nuclear Power despite Incidents like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima, is the greenest and safest way to a sustainable and green energy grid thay can last for decades, and with proper maintenance up to a century.
Damn bro interesting thanks
This copy cat lol
@@squigglesz how tf am I copying someone...
@ you copied the doge guys comment
@@squigglesz Both were 3 months ago, you don't know the exact day. Also, our comments aren't the same...
They’re far from scary. But you really did a good job explaining them. You missed a few important things (like the backup generators to keep things on in an emergency to prevent a meltdown. And the fact that the used fuel (which can be recycled we just don’t because funding was cut for the company that was researching it because of the three mile island meltdown) is kept in casks that are safe enough to lick or kiss
He explained what was important , which was that nuclear reactors are glorified kettles.
@@user-pd6ev9gb7j all power plants are. Anything that’s not Solar or wind (and some water turbines) use energy in the form of heat to create steam from water to turn a turbine to create usable electricity. Fusion will be too. We don’t know how to do it any other way yet
@@youtubersdigest Yeah
The control rods shall not be forgotten:(
I study this and trust me it's the easiest and most wholesome interaction I've seen about Nuclear plants
"There's a lot of energy in very little mass"
Is such a monkey-brain simple but accurate line to explain E=mc^2
i appreceate how shortly you clearfied the whole concept
Thank you for letting me know this.
He's planning on making a bomb
@@belindaloney8839 bro knows too much💀
Apple pie recipe for you
Ingredients:
Crust:
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small cubes
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup ice water (more if needed)
Filling:
• 6-7 medium apples (Granny Smith or Honeycrisp work well), peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp allspice (optional)
• 2 tbsp all-purpose flour (for thickening)
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Topping:
• 1 egg, beaten (for brushing)
• 1 tbsp coarse sugar (optional, for sprinkling)
Instructions:
1. Prepare the Crust:
• In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, and salt.
• Add the chilled butter cubes and, using a pastry cutter or your hands, mix until the dough resembles coarse crumbs.
• Slowly add the ice water, a tablespoon at a time, until the dough begins to come together.
• Divide the dough into two equal parts, shape them into discs, wrap them in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
2. Prepare the Filling:
• In a large bowl, combine the sliced apples, granulated sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, flour, and lemon juice. Mix until the apples are well-coated.
3. Assemble the Pie:
• Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C).
• Roll out one of the dough discs on a lightly floured surface to fit your pie dish. Carefully transfer it to the dish, leaving an overhang.
• Add the apple filling to the crust, spreading it evenly.
• Dot the filling with the butter pieces.
• Roll out the second dough disc and place it over the filling. Trim any excess dough and crimp the edges to seal.
• Cut small slits in the top crust to allow steam to escape.
4. Bake the Pie:
• Brush the top crust with the beaten egg and sprinkle with coarse sugar, if using.
• Bake for 20 minutes at 400°F (200°C), then reduce the oven temperature to 375°F (190°C) and bake for an additional 40-45 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the filling is bubbling.
• If the edges of the crust start to brown too quickly, cover them with aluminum foil.
5. Cool and Serve:
• Let the pie cool on a wire rack for at least 2 hours before serving. This allows the filling to set.
Cool but why?
That’s it? That was nuclear energy? THAT WAS JUST BOILING WATER!
yes, coal power plants are more dangerous than nuclear power plants
@@LucasUrban-f8v Both use their respective fuel sources to boil water
@@arkhamaslumeyeah, but one also releases poison into the air
We humans can boast that we have mastered more than 5000 ways to boil water
@@georgesovietico288underrated comment... Wich i'm gonna steal
Remember kid, pretty much every road leads to steam engine, shut up solar panel
As a self-proclaimed armchair nuclear physicist, I can say with confidence that a nuclear reactor is just a fancy steam engine.
That Elbert facial expressions was so cute 👍
Bro just finally made me understand how nuclear reactors work
bro look how good this is, do not let yourself and the animators go nuts. you got really good content
So nuclear energy is just steam power, but futuristic.
Uhm I say no, because nuclear energy are just modified natural gas/coal energy by only replacing the heat source and fuel
Ironically, it’s also incredibly safe and is one of the better options for the environment. Uranium is also very very common.
"It's just boiling water?"
"Always has been."
nuclear reactors never runaway to a prompt critical reaction
Indeed, reactors are designed to operate in prompt sub critical, and delayed critical, and even that is far from the super criticality of a nuclear warhead, very different leagues and a whole magnitude different enrichment required
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@@TheAdmiralMoses I'd pay someone a million dollars if they manage to force a commercial nuclear plant into a prompt ciritical reaction
@@TheAdmiralMosesyou are not incorrect, but id specify "prompt criticality" for nuclear weapons as using "super critic" is vague as nuclear reactors go super critical all the time, otherwise they could not increase power
> New revolutionary electricity generation method
> *Looks inside*
> Steam turning turbine
> :(
Slight correction: the fuel rods used in reactors are subcritical. In other words, they aren’t dense enough to cause a runaway explosion like in a nuclear bomb. They can still melt down if the cooling system fails, but they don’t explode
Thanks a lot it helped me with my chapter 🐐 🐐 🐐 👑
Si 🗿👍
I think there’s a problem with this video, the neutrons have to be slowed to be able to start a reaction, the water slows it down because it has a similar mass, and also it has a side effect, if the water is boiled off a meltdown cannot occur due to the fact that the neutrons are too fast to sustain the nuclear reaction so the reactor stops, that’s why nuclear disasters rarely happen these days except for Chornobyl which used lead instead of water
P.s they actually also remove the control rods that have alpha emitters that start the reaction to stop the reaction
What you're talking about here is a moderator in a nuclear reactor. I thought Soviet-designed reactors used graphite as a moderator. Most others use water as a moderator, likely for the reasons you cite. Boil-off of water as a moderator is a bit of a safety mechanism.
@@kattphloxworthych yeah I made that comment as I just woke up, so thanks for pointing those stuff out
@@kattphloxworthych and I also think it’s graphite too, but I struggle with memory related stuff
There is another problem in this video, the water steam turbine turns a diesel generator, great
Also, the outside of the reactor is made of lead and not steel as lead has a higher density than steel.
they’re not scary they are perfectly safe and very green and eco friendly
That is probably the simplest way I’ve ever heard E = mc^2 explained ever
I probably learned more in one day from Henry than one week at school 😂😂
Slowing the neutrons down in a nuclear reactor actualy increases the reactivity.
It seems unintuitive but imagine this
It's very hard to catch a bullet with your hand but it's a whole lot easyer to catch a ping pong ball. This is because ping pong ball goes slower.
When you slow down neutrons it becomes easyer for the uranium to catch the neutrons.
The water does however cool it
"This is the invisible dance that powers entire cities without smoke or flame, and, it is beautiful.."
*new way to make energy*
*looks inside*
*steam*
I think there's a missing step for safety, notably a heat exchanger for the heated water from the reactor to another water loop so IT can drive the turbines connected to the generators.
So every energy generation is basically making a turbine turn
Just a fancy nuke with a fan
They dont slow the neutron to contain the bomb
Tje nucklear need to the neutron to be slow to make unstable 236 uranium
If the neutron hit fast it will just hit and move the atom
The way we contain it is with some kind of rods that absorb or destroy the neutron
Correction: nuclear power plant use enrich uranium U-235 to collide with neutron, there's also U-238 but it is just useless because the neutron aren't strong enough except in CANDU reactor.
Great video! I'd just like to point out that the water slowing the neutrons does not actually slow the reaction, but quite the opposite! The neutrons need to be slow (so called thermal neutrons) so that the probability of them getting absorbed by the uranium is higher. Fun fact, the slow neutrons are almost 600x times more likely to get absorbed by the uranium than the fast ones!
Albert Einstein sticks out his tongue picture
we love it !!!
i think it was to entertain kids or something. cause he is a silly guy like that.
WAS. I WAS SUPPOSED TO SAY WAS
I would literally buy a whole nuclear powerplant just to make my pc stop lagging
i mean it wouldn't really help, or change anything, and depending on where you live, your pc may already be powered by a BWR 😅
Facebook moms: "The smoke from nuclear reactors is bad for the environment!!"
Me: "Thats just steam"
Yea lol. Nuclear power is one of the most safest methods of energy
How nuclear energy works explained for cavemen:
Angry rock make water angry and turn into steam, steam spin fan thing with magnets (magik rock) make magik
Can you make a video on how much the universe is?
Well, no. The giant cooling towers do something about different. When the steam has turned the turbine, it has nothing else left to do and so the lower pressure steam is condensed by a condenser, located directly under the turbine. The condenser uses pipes of cold water that exchange heat with the steam, condensing it into water. This hotter water is then released into the cooling tower which cools the water, in which the water then evaporates because of its heat and turns to steam, which condenses AGAIN due to the surrounding temperature and these water molecules are what is seen going out of the cooling tower. The cooler water now goes back to the condenser and this cycle repeats
Wasn't Albert's voice and animation so awesome and also somewhat cute
I always assumed that they had a buncha stuff in there but this makes more sense
so nuclear energy is the one of the greenest power sources...
i have been lied to
Not necessarily the greenest. More like the most practical for the environment & human needs
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@@kayawvafyjkyfThat's probably the same thing
@georgesovietico288 No. Tidal power is generally considered the greenest, since it has minimal impact on the environment and requires little to no infrastructure.
Is it the most efficient & practical solution? Heck no
He forgot a main part of a reactor the ,control rods which are used to slow the reaction or speed it up or just shut it down
A nuclear reactor can never cause a nuclear explosion
yes, the fuel rods aren't enriched enough
"OkLIe DoKaIle"
-Albert
We can always depend on this dude to explain us tough this in easy terms
E^2=M^2*C^4+P^2*C^2 is the real equation
The (pc)² portion is irrelevant for anything with a velocity far slower than light, so E=mc² is all that really matters for most applications
@@TheAdmiralMoses yeah I know. That is why it is forgotten.
The towers dont release all of the steam and a bit of the steam goes to a compartment with cold water and turns in to water. On the first type of reactors (rbmk) wich was used in chernobyl there was also graphite wich slowed the neutrons. The reacktion also creates two lighter uranium atoms
Just one correction. The towers are not for steam evacuation, but they'r designed to cool down the steam and recreate water that come back into the reactor to make steam again and again.
You explained this better than year 12 engineering teacher 👍
Literally is the cleanest energy source
Well one of the cleanest, still have to deal with the spent nuclear fuel rods.
Idea for a new video, how do flash bangs work?
Enter Albert Einstein💀💀💀💀💀💀
They use graphite to absorb some of those neutrons to prevent a run away chain reaction
No joke this makes learning things so much easier
In the equation e=mc^2, c is acceleration, not the speed of light
And they sometimes go boom boom
Fun fact: they have to be less than 2 miles of an official sea or ocean in case of a meltdown
"okalie dokalie"this line is just unnecessarily funny 💀
Nuclear energy is basically the most ecological friendly power source
Steam Punk but with dash of physics 😂
How most power plants work:
Angy thing make water angy make steam make thing spin wire with magnet around make electricity
I didn’t know that ,
Thanks. 👍🏻
There are things called moderators near the fuel rods (the uranium) to slow them down making it even easier to control the rate of fission inside the reactor.
Water is actually a relatively good moderator, although it is not used in all reactors
Albert Einstein saying "dokalie dokalie" was so cute and helarious at the same time
All my life time i thought that steam was a evaporated toxic waste
Props to you homie for explaining a small part which is deep in a simple manner🤯😺
Oppenheimer: “Uhh can you skip the water part?
You make it sound like I can do this at home 😂
pretty good explanation.
The cleanest form of energy
Forbidden water boiler
"Okalie dolakie" rolls me through philipines to south america🤣🤣🤣🤣
“How much have we advanced in 200 years from the steam engine?” We now use nuclear power to make steam.
I love how Einstein says the "There's a problem" part. Caught that ;)
Blue forgor the control rods
I just want to clarify a little: 1. In the equation of special relativity, the letter representing energy is a capital E. (It is not a small e because it represents either the elementary charge or the Euler's number.) 2. In the nuclear reactors, neutrons are slowed down in water to increase the reactor efficiency.
Mass"c²✖️
Mass+c²✔️.
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So How you make Energy?
Albert: Okalie Dokalie.
That's why they called it the most clean source of energy
They also need condensers, injection pumps, condesnsers and pressurerizes
im pretty sure, water isn't really for slowing down neutrons. It ofc does that but from 1 fission you get 1-8 neutrons. To keep it from blowing up you need to get 1 neutron from 1 fission to attack an atom again. That means that its not only slowed down but also you need control rods that absorb the access neutrons (depending on a reactor they can be from boron or other neutron absorbing materials). Water is used to transport the energy (depending on a reactor again, it can get the hot water to cold pipes and boil there (water is not radioactive) or get into steam and go directly on fan blades (water gets radioactive but it is also the cheaper method) but otherwise the video shows how it works
"Enter Albert Einstein" one of the coldest sentence in history
This is talking about how a BWR reactor works, there are other types like PWR (the kind at three mile island) and RBMK (the kind at Chernobyl)
There id a bit of errors in this video:
-The nuclear reactor needs control rods, they absorb the neutrons to stop/slow down the reaction.
-The towers are used to condense the steam that was passed trough the turbines, not to vent steam.
Literally the final level of the steam engine
That's probably Nuclear Fusion energy, which we haven't got yet, but we're almost there.
I like ur vids so much I find them really interesting ❤❤❤