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In this video, I review memes based on nuclear energy from the perspective of a nuclear physicist. I go through memes based on nuclear energy. I look through what is accurate information about memes based on nuclear energy in this meme review episode and review it.
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The truth is that Germany exports electricity to France, even though France has almost only nuclear plants
@@inotoni6148yes, Germany pays other countries to take their peak solar, then they pay again to buy power due to the duck curve.
@@jsbrads1 Haven't you noticed that France has shut down many reactors for maintenance and therefore has to buy electricity from Germany?
@@inotoni6148 I am not monitoring active situations in real time. I am aware of Germany selling peak solar and peak wind at negative prices, and then buying power at positive prices when solar and wind aren’t producing. I’m unaware of anyone depending on Germany to provide power in any reliable way. I am aware of the entire grid being unstable and the possibility of Brownouts and Blackouts during this winter which may lead to countless deaths (I really hope that doesn’t happen) but the completely irresponsible behavior by politicians and direction of policy is leading toward this.
need moar better memes!
also, it kinda feels bad that you have these misinformed green activists being sooo against nuclear power... and often they don't even have any viable alternative plans, some of them straight up promote fossil fuel propaganda instead! i.e. biogas or wood chips and all that bs
but solar and wind per se, they are definitely still part of the greenification solution! just add some batteries :)
Well, Madam Curie was the woman to win a Nobel prize, fist person to win 2 Nobel Prizes, and the Nobel Laureate parent of a Noble Prize winner. 2 of her children went on to win the Nobel Prize of their own.
She is truly and impressive woman.
Indeed!👏
I love this. I'm not a nuclear physicist, just a regular paramedic and I love that you're "mythbusting" nuclear misconceptions. I have the small knowledge of how a nuclear plants work and how safe and clean they are (we still need more research as to how deal with nuclear waste or re-use it in some other way). Lovely channel and I really enjoy your happy attitude towards your vast knowledge.
Thank you so much ☢️👩🏽🔬
There have been ways to recycle spent fuel, but no one mentions it
@tomashiczi8454 The newest reactors produce very little waste. Plus, new technologies like Nuclear Diamond Batteries might be a partial solution too.
So, if we are going to mention Chernobyl, we should also acknowledge the fact that the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is working, without incident, in the middle of a literal War Zone.
The Zaporizhzhia plant has been shut down since September, it is not running but relying on the outside grid to keep the rods cool it as they have lost it's emergency generators
also, people don't know or dont want to admire, that Chernobyl happened not by nuclear plant itself, it is a human error. If we make nuclear plant completely automated with software, the chances for another Chernobyl are abysmal. Much more people are dying to get all of the hardware for renewable energy than from a functioning nuclear plant.
@@maksymisaiev1828 I that case, nuclear power plants might be hacked or something. So you will need a decent hacker guard for such power plant to work safely
@@timosha_1366 yeah, it can be hacked if any core component is exposed in the other world. Such systems have actual digital defense on multiple levels. First of all, they are all in restricted local network without any access to internet, second, they are also human guarded to prevent inappropriate break in. Also, there are protections against foreign usb or other devices etc. Hollywood made a lot of misconceptions about how such hacks appear, but in general, unless it is very thought terrorist attack, chances are 0 to just randomly hack inside nuclear plant.
Yeah but how much effort has it taken from the IAEA to avoid a contential disaster? There are pictures of holes in roofs and the plant has run on emergency power multiple times. Working at that plant is probably a more stressful job that being on the front lines.
I am so happy to see a professional in this field doing good RUclips videos! Hopefully you will only get more popular over time so people can learn the truth about nuclear energy and associated scientific and engineering marvels! Thank you.
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
And this video gets our friendly stamp of approval, as always great video Elina.
Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed it ☢️👩🏽🔬
So glad we have Elina so common folks can learn the correct information about nuclear technologies. Nuclear power is clean and safe we need it to save our climate.
Sorry, but climate change is something we have little to no impact on, aside from the fact that Climate change happens already for Billions of years... In other words, we're wasting energy and money against forces we have no control about; mother nature is the boss after all.
But do you know what we have control about? The amount of pollution and unnecessary created waste by humanity (Toxic & pointless facial masks, Plastic, inefficient and harmful Solar panels & Wind turbines, mining industry for the purpose of Fake green sustainability etc.)
That being said: I fully agree about the nuclear technologies part. Way too many people are educated with outdated information about this matter.
It's not always that easy.
Some countries have to deal with things like hurricanes, earthquakes or tsunamis. Others have droughts that limit the availability of cooling water.
Also can we trust every country with nuclear energy? They won't build nuclear bombs with uranium rods, but the potential to harm people is big and it stays big for a pretty long time.
Therefore we have to handle the active material and the waste with great care and secure it against environmental and human activities for thousands of years.
I love how you're adding more memes to your videos(aside form the ones you're reviewing). Weather it's a reflection of your humor or just trying to make this subject fun i appreciate
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
This video gets my friendly stamp of approval, fantastic video as always Elina. I'm glad my country (The UK) has faith in nuclear and is investing in sites like Sizewell C in Norfolk and Hinkley Point C in Somerset. So we're not going to be as worse off as the Germans.
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
Pull em in with the memes and hit them with the science
From what I read, the construction companies in Fukushima ignored the type of once-in-a-hundred year tsunamis and earthquakes that could hit Japan and did not build adequate structures to contain and deal with them in order to cut costs. There were, also, questions raised about the level of training that the workers received that was apparently not as thorough as it should have been, done, as well, to cut costs. These are human and management failures, not nuclear energy failures.
My 2 cents as a German to the topic ( I like nuclear physics but also understand the problems with nuclear power plants):
1. Fukushima had in my understanding much more modern reactors than Chernobyl had. Nonetheless, the lesson here is that human minds seldom can imagine all worst case scenarios. The plants there had an anti Tsunami wall, but the Tsunami that happened was going higher than ever anticipated and flooded the plant area, which lead to the meltdowns and hydrogen explosions. Much more contained than Chernobyl, but nonetheless totally out of control.
so there is no 100% fail proof reactor design.
2. It happened at a time when in Germany a debate was going on because there were a lot of (luckily harmless) reactor incidents in our reactors that showed that none of the German power providers sticked to the "rules". they all tried to save money by violating service intervals, saving on personnel etc. in their NPPs. And A crucial factor of reactor safety is to service them regularly to keep them in safe working condition. also, after 9/11 studies were made to see if our plants could withstand a crash with an airliner and as far as I remember, results were not promising.
Then after seeing Fukushima incidents happening, a rushed decision was made that "reactor safety" is a real problem and that they have to go.
So no new reactors were built since then, however, there was and is a lot of discussion that remaining reactors are needed on the Grid longer and their duty time needs to be prolonged.
And yes, German Government in my opinion is making a mess with the forced shift to electric vehicles without a proper charging infastructure, and still buying nuclear power from other countries to compensate, and by over-regulating some areas like car manufacturers while leaving other parts of the industry untouched which produce even more CO2. Biggest CO2 producers in Germany are of course energy providers with their coal power plants. Isn't it ironic?
You mentioned something else that is important:
While the west had (in particular) Green peace and other anti-nuclear movements (heavily supported by USSR) the Soviet Union did build a lot of nuclear reactors. And while China talks a lot about their insane water power dam (displacing tens of thousands of people and causing water shortage and earthquakes), and a few solar and wind farms (large by "renewable" standards but a drop in the ocean when it comes to energy production) they are also importing huge amounts of coal from Australia to run their coal power plants, and as you said, they are building nuclear reactors as well.
I mean, there's also Fukushima which had the opportunity to show the resiliency in catastrophic conditions but showed instead showed a cascade of competence failures and coverups. :\
Thanks for brightening up this otherwise cold and dull Sunday. I'm a very strong proponent of nuclear energy. We ignore it at our peril. Keep up the good work!
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
I really enjoyed this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!☢️👩🏽🔬
When a video has a BOI edited in, it gets my stamp of approval. Kratos is proud.
Install home-made wind/solar system: no one cares;
Install home-made nuclear reactor: IAEA invades your house;
I'm looking forward to the opening of Olkiluoto 3 here in Finland. It has been delayed a lot, sadly. I have been to Olkiluoto on a field trip with my advanced physics class and it was a really interesting and exciting experience. My boyfriend (now husband) went there too with the class and he had the Olkiluoto schematic poster of the reactor up on his wall when he was still living with his parents. This must have been back in like 2011 or early 2012 I think.
She preferred to ba addressed as Maria Skłodowska-Curie. We should respect her will
Great memes! I like the clown in the dark without power. my fav was the workers watching gas/oil/coal doing all the work. thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Glad you enjoyed! That was one of my favs too ☢️👩🏽🔬
Elina, love this video and I hope you can make it a regular part of your videos.
That's the plan!☢️👩🏽🔬
Don't worry, Germany's "getting most of it's energy from renewable sources". These ones being France and Russia XD
Once you've finished your Chernobyl series Vanity fair has a vid on their RUclips channel where they had a doctor who was actually there review some scenes of that show.
Titled "Chernobyl doctor fact checks HBO series" might be worth looking at to bring the saga to a close
"It's gonna be a tough game". That's a diplomatic way to put it :p.
Hehe indeed ☢️👩🏽🔬
The 3rd picture: I think, here the man with a fan try to work against the wind turbine. Check out the smoke from the cooling tower!
Surprised you haven't done a "you laugh you lose" challenge yet!
The sneeze at the beginning lmao
In my option it would be very interesting to see you reacting to Sabine Hossenfelders video 'Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With It?' (or one of her other Videos regarding nuclear energy)! 🙂Of cause you can right away complain about her background image in the first minute of the video (the classic: cooling towers as a symbol of a nuclear power plant), but I would describe her as a person whose views and positions I don't always like, but whose videos I watch anyway because it's not about confirming my already established views over and over again, but about questioning them too.
Thank you for explaining the nuances of those memes, I would have been lost on a few without. :D
As a german I can't say that we ran out of power after shutting down nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants are also far from running 100% of the time. Due to maintenance and breakdowns, they only generate energy around 50% of the time. It takes two days to a week to start up. This is too slow to compensate for wind or solar lulls.
Nuclear Physicist: Joking about Germany switching from reliable nuclear plants to unreliable renewables
Germany in 2022: Exporting 1 TWh of renewable energy to France because their reliable nuclear plants are offline for months
Nuclear Physicist: ☢
Oh snap that picture is what homer drops in his suit in the opening scenes of the Simpsons lol
Germany failed in energy policy, agreed. But things aren't that easy. All German nuclear power plants are old (mostly 70s). Building new reactors is very expensive and nuclear energy was substituted to keep it economic. In addition there are cost for storing and handling the nuclear waste. In the 70s it was cheap and easy to just dump it into the ocean. Renewable energies are much cheaper. Of course they have the problem, that they are still not enough and not consistent in their output. Nuclear is not the feature, but a solid and available energy source which can help in the transition. Better than coal anyway. "Kurzgesagt" did a great video on this topic on their channel.
Btw. the high energy price in Germany is not because the renewables are so expensive, it's how energy is traded and it's a mess (state is also involved by doing to little).
I see a lot of mentions of solar and wind when talking about renewable energy options… but what about hydro power? Are we the only ones using it up here in Canada?
That we checked our safety protocols after Fukushima was a good call, take the aviation approach: "Something happened, how would that affect us? And while we're at it, let's perform a general risk assessment of our safety equipment and improve it accordingly." But shutting down half of the reactors permanently right away was stupid. As you said, Germany has totally different design requirements than let's say Japan. And even if we leave that out of the equation, the reactors in Fukushima withstood the earthquake and the tsunami itself, it was the safety net that failed. If the emergency generators wouldn't have drowned in the waves, they would have been sufficient to keep the reactors under control. Memo to every nuclear reactor designer: Don't place your emergency equipment at a lower level than your mains.
2:31 - very clever, and I like this too! People are very "Simpsonised" in their way of thinking about nuclear power. The first thing I had to learn when talking to people about my job at a nuclear plant, was how to explain that I don´t glow in the dark.. So I showed quite a few of those girls... But they didn´t learn? Most of them wanted me to show again?
Would you be challenged to do a video about the Asse II mine situation?
And particularly about who is picking up the tab?
more plz I am getting so much less worried about nuclear laughing at these
👩🏽🔬☢️ will do! Thanks
I do have to wonder what they were thinking when they decided to place a reactor where they did in Fukushima with the knowledge they had about the fault lines.
chernobyl was a bunch of soviets fucking with a badly designed reactor and finding out
Hahaha amaziiing please keep this series going its so much fun❤️❤️❤️
Fukushima wasn't a nuclear accident or a natural disaster. It was a government corruption problem. The fact that Germany felt it was a concern to them as well speaks volumes.
4:09 accidents happen and risks are involved with almost everything in this world
I like this video, but i dont like how it downplays renewable energy sources for a few reasons:
- first of all, solar and wind CAN fix energy problems alone with sufficiant energy storage facilities
- second, nuclear is more expensive per kWh produced atm then solar and wind (about 5 times as expensive). of course this price difference wil drop massively when energy storage becomes a factor, and is partly due to the inpopularity of nuclear, but it exists at the moment all the same, and as long as we are not switching ~100% to renewables on windy/sunny days it is probably best to replace fossils with the cheapest alternatives.
_ third, hydro power blows nuclear out of the water, it is cheaper and almost as reliable. Its also doent depent on a suply chain that can be disrupted by global instability, as we became all to aware of in europe recently, wich nuclear definately does depend on.
my fourth point was going to be that i thought that nuclear wast as scalable and powerfull as it is portayed, but i kind of changed my mind during the back of the envelope research i was doing for this comment because of the insanity that is burning coal for power in 2022, just a comparison in mine workers alone, the us employs ~24000 coal miners to produce ~100% of their coal, while canada employs ~2000 uranium miners to produce ~33% worth of the us's uranium consumption. Their energy production is verry similar. so it takes ~4 times as much coal miners to produce the same amount of energy of coal to uranium. it is insane to me that we are stil burning coal....
Overal i am of course fully in favor of reasearching and expanding nclear power, but i do think it is inferiour to wind solar and especially hydro, and i think some of these memes are a bit disingenues.
Another thing about Germany is that it is mostly geologically stable. So, for most of the country there are no earthquakes that could be felt by humans. Germany would be one of the safest countries in which to build nuclear reactors.
How many bananas to power I nuclear plant? The banana will be the next great energy source! 🤣🤣
I´m giving my friendly nuclear physicist a thumb up. Hold on. I just want to show my appreciation... Let´s just leave it at that.
0:58 - I can confirm, working at a nuclear facility, this pattern would form on every camera close to radiation, even behind lead glass. This is why I don´t think this is very radioactive at all. These specs can´t really tell anything about the radiation levels, but I guess they are a cool effect in paintshop. The specs would not be concentrated around the object like in this picture, but more evenly distributed. There are some areas totally free of interference, it would not happen around a source as I know it.
1:22 - This is the best part about nuclear! It has next to no footprint, but it delivers massive amounts of power. It is, in fact the perfect partner for renewables. It will always be able to provide power, regardless of wind or sunshine, and it does not emit climate gases. As much as I like the depiction of renewables being all talk and no money, I come from a land built on hydroelectrics, so... I can´t really get 100% on board with that ;) Wind power is bullshit, though. And the people owning it would tell you so too, if they had any balls. But they won´t as long as governments keep throwing money at them for keeping the scam going.
The Hindenburg disaster resulted in cancelling all airships. Stop flying with planes because of the Hindenburg disaster is like, let's close all gas powered electricity plants because of the Chernobyl disaster 😂
You're damn right they're not going to win that game, however, we'll all pay for it in the mean time.
i agree so much
Well France produces most of its electricity from nuclear power and had to activate old oil powerplants to import electricity from Spain and Germany, because intermittently they were 32 of 56 Nuclear power plants been shut down, since they had not enough water for cooling or due to maintenance of the reactors.
Doesn't seem to be the most stable energy resource to me.
That is France in a nut shell. They know how to make policy so to be nobody's slave (unlike some very bright Germans). But then fail at quality.
For all that it´s worth, and I see all the humour about these memes as well, I really want to end on a positive note, and I really do feel that nuclear has a much better chance today than it ever had in my 20 year career in this field. Even after Fukushima, and that brings me real hope. Because that disaster actually killed almost 20000 people. I will not defend Tepco at this point, so some of the aftermath might lie on them, but all their staff seems to have done all they could in a more than stressful situation. Please remember that these people also worried about their loved ones during the tsunami, even though Netflix want you to believe that it was always the other way around. It was a national crisis, not limited to one power plant. Aftershocks were also a concern, even though those of us that are privileged does not understand what that means.
No Tsunamis in Germany?
Maybe they were worried about icebergs?
“Icebergs?!”
“Iceberg, Goldberg… same thing.”
Sink holes. There's always the risk of a sink hole.
@@LeCharles07 I guess… but then there wouldn’t be any radioactive material on the surface 🤔
I am studying to become a concrete worker here in sweden and I have a big hope that one day I'll be able to help build a nuclear reactor
Oh this is a great goal to have! I’ll help along ☢️👩🏽🔬
The meme is correct about Germany, but it is now slightly out of date. Germans have decided to stop decommissioning reactors (at least for now) and leave a few nuclear plants still running until April 2023. We will see if they come to their senses and keep them on after that. (seach: Germans delay nuclear phase-out) Funny enough, it was the lack of access to FOSSIL FUEL (the Nordstream pipeline from Russia) that caused them to keep the plants open.
The temporary extension just glosses over the problem for one winter and next year they f***ed. Never been more ashamed of my country (for current actions, not past ones) than when they decided to exit nuclear power production. Bunch of clowns.
7:16 ah yes THE RADIATION would kill you
The problem with anti nuclear power is people trying to sell disease by showing you death. We need it more than ever. I have spent many years in my country without power and even though we have nuclear weapons, we didn't have nuclear power plants and it was always disturbing to not be able to sleep or work on computers or play computer games with constant distruptions. Population cannot and should not be controlled at least not consciously. Focusing on increasing supply is always the best solution to the problem because behavior cannot be changed overnight
those fast spectrum reactors
wha kind of waste do they have
is it just the same but less or does it eventually become something else
Same elements but starting from lower in the periodic table (elements with smaller atomic number then thorium) since they’re produced by thorium decay. Hence they’re radioactive for a shorter amount of time. Only about 300y
thats pretty short for that kind of stuff
that sounds like a great solution then
if someone use Chernobyl as reason against nuclear power, you know that person have very limited knowledge about that accident and nuclear in general.
Yes, more memes!
Very funny video, i really like this type of debunking
That solar salesman meme, solar is not so pathetic in South Africa. I cannot afford my own little nuclear reactor to power my home, but I can maybe afford my own solar panel and not so green batteries.
At about 03:21 in this video: I often think of a similar scenario, only using the _HMS TITANIC_ compared to modern cruise ships.
Thumb up from me... the angry German Nuclear Physicist...
about the fan blowing the wind turbines,, but they do right?? the nuclear plant produces electricity which goes into the city, and then becomes waste heat which warms the air and results in wind right? ?
Commenting for the alorithm.
Also while I am here I will 1 up my own previous comment on another video. Please make a video on LFTR's :D Go deep into the details etc if you can :)
Thanks! The video is in the making ☢️👩🏽🔬
nuclear sneeze!
Again another great educational and fun video!
Don't think you could make fun out of these two suggestions but definitely educational 😉
1. The Goiânia accident
2. The Demon Core
But surely these represent a higher radiation public health risk than any modern nuclear power plant?
The chances of individual humans being irresponsible with radioactive material is surely a higher risk than modern highly regulated power industry?
As a human species,we’re still behind on discovering how to harness universal radiations that accompany Hawking radiation (those would be the tip of an undiscovered iceberg), to have basically free energy everywhere, but we still haven’t been able to discover a lot of things , among them, specifically the type that Elina radiates for me to say, wow this is a beautiful woman,
“[Germany] they made things too rashly… Without a real plan for the future…” or a take on Europe’s modern history 😅
as a German I would add that, even though an Incident like at Fukushima wouldn't happen here, the terror and consequences of Chernobyl are still deeply ingrained in the population here.
which explains our current stance on it. although I agree that we should do more research on current options and progrees and re-think this stance.
also, through the last 20 years our government has made us more and more reliant on gas and oil from other nations, especially Russia, which has made them complacent about self-sustainability and increasing the ammount or technology of renewable or nuclear energy.
funny memes though
I think for many Germans Fukushima is not about a tsunami causing a nuclear accident. It is about a tsunami causing an easily preventable accident. The somewhat worrying questions raised is: Why did nobody anticipate a tsunami flooding the backup power generators, that were build too low at almost sea level - in a country that is known for being hit by tsunamis?
These reactors were build to so called western, superior standards.
It is not easy to argue for nuclear power plant safety, when the power plant needs a controlled shut down procedure that takes half a year.
This does not mean, nuclear power plants in Germany are unsafe. But the trust in the safety design or the human factor in power plant operation eroded to a point, where it was difficult to win an election by upholding the life time extension for aging nuclear power plants.
This combined with the near endless debate of where to store the nuclear waste is the actual reason why nuclear power has a bad standing in Germany. Also, how can you trust the technology, when the politicians who are pro nuclear energy at the same time refuse to have the terminal storage facility for the nuclear waste build in their constituency? When political decision makers lack the consistency in their support for nuclear energy, how can you trust such people to make the right decisions.
Hello, new subscriber here.
I live in Bermuda, a very small island that is essentially shackled to fossil fuel. There's been a major push to switching to renewables (which ARE feasible due to our small size) that has been largely brushed aside by the government. In addition, due to the central power plant, solar is less viable around the center of the island.
Would nuclear be a viable alternative?
Hey i am curious what educational degree one should pursue to be an nuclear physicist/ engineer like you.
I am an Electronics and Communications engineer working in semiconductor industry .
Could you explain scopes , eligibility and collages for nuclear physics...?
@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist >>> This is NOT really meme related, but I was watching your _Chernobyl reviews_ today, and I thought of this: A _'Rule 34'_ version of nuclear fission power involving _"Inserting a _*_CONTROL ROD_*_ into a _*_REACTOR VESSEL."_*
{Yes, I *CONSTANTLY* have to keep my *MIND* on a *SHORT LEASH,* or it tends to *WANDER.* 🤭}
Germany to this day has no final storage for nuclear waste. The entire time Germany used atomic energy they only used "temporary storage" - to this day. In fact one of the temporary storages was highly unsafe from the beginning and just chosen because it was directly at the FRG-GDR-border - which is now in the middle of Germany.
Using nuclear power without a plan what to do with nuclear waste is idiotic. Germany never was in the proper mindset to use nuclear power, never took proper care of the procedures, and nowadays any party wanting to reintroduce nuclear power would lose the election.
At 7:36, I guess I could see hydrogen as a sensible source of alternative energy, since most of it is produced by methane reforming, so it takes CH4 and (most) CO2 (both greenhouse gases) out of the environment. I'm not sure what the efficiency figures are for the process for one unit of hydrogen, how much energy steam methane and partial oxidation take vs. how much energy is to be gained from H2, considering the best fuel cells reach about 60% efficiency, I'm thinking it's not that great start to finish. And when on top of all this, you have companies like Audi, who go the exact opposite direction, producing H2 from water, by electrolysis, which is terribly inefficient, and combining it with CO2 to make CH4 to run their TGI engines (basically direct injection gasoline engines outfitted to run on methane), hydrogen in this meme would actually be throwing some of the dirt back in the pit.
If you calculate the half life of those Co-60 tubes vs manufacture date they’re not ARS tier active anymore. Also tangentially relevant but the ☢️ symbol is the wrong way around on the cylinder 🥲.
Also having captured CMOS sensor disturbance on my phone (20R/hr beta emitter) it looks nothing like the fake videos and images. There seem to be a ton of fake images of those floating around at the moment.
They’re more sporadic flashes and some of them appear as dashes across the screen. They also appear across the entirety of your video or photo 😊.
As a German I am so embarrassed by the uneducated decisions my country has made about atom energy.
As a German I totally agree: Germany is a Meme.
Sorry to say, but albeit the Tsunami ultimately was the cause for the Fukushima incident, it was STILL the lax and frankly idiotic mindset of the company behind the plant that led up to the problem. It was a known safety issue that - should a tsunami of a certain strength occur - the gates "protecting" the backup generators of fukushima were horribly ill suited to keep water out, since they were literally normal doors. No blastdoors, bulkheads or seal. Add to that the fact that other powerplants under the ownership of the same company had better tsunami safety while in lower risk areas (meaning not only frequency of tsunamis but also magnitude), and you will see that it was not "just" the tsunami that constitutes the problem. As with almost 100% of nuclear incidents, it was human idiocy at its finest that led up to the problem. Building a reactor in a high risk tsunami area? Ok, one would reasonably assume they'd build a better defense against it. Which they didn't. Which, sadly, is still a huge contributor to the problem why people don't trust nuclear power. It's less about the technology and a lot more about the greedy and often badly controlled companies that make stupid decision to polish their bottom line that are almost always the reason why incidents occur. Add to that Japan's patently absurd social structure and politicians' unwillingness to deal with the issue in time, you have a huge abuse of public trust which was exactly what led to Fukushima. A company unwilling to see their bottom line affected and a weak political structure allowing that company to do as they please, so they wouldn't risk the public's distrust when it comes to their nuclear power industry. THAT is why many people have a problem with nuclear power. Not the technology, but the proof that weak policy makers and greedy companies doesn't mix, which is not only understandable, but a fair point to have. Not an advocacy against nuclear, btw., but unless we get a real good dialogue about what is and isn't safe about nuclear power, the hesitation of most people is very understandable, as everytime something happens, it happened because stuff was sweeped under the rug for years, just so nobody would distrust a political party or an important company.
Just wanted to clear that up, saying Fukushima happened because of a tsunami, although true in nature, is like saying your house burned down without revealing that you knowingly planned to build a wooden lodge 50 cm above a pool of lava. Sure, your house burned down, but it was your patently absurd reasoning that led to a calculatable risk becoming 100% certain within a reasonable timeframe. Same at fukushima. They knew that if a Tsunami of that magnitude happens, it WILL lead to a flooding of the generators, so they accepted the risk that not IF, but WHEN a tsunami of that strength will hit, it will most likely flood the backups. They just took the gamble and hoped they would have more time to fix the problem.
Sorry again, I did not want to accuse you of anything, but that sounded a tad dishonest there, and I think we can only stop people from being unreasonable about their fears of nuclear energy if we are honest and admit that the mistakes that happen DO happen because of certain reasons and not just "freaks of nature" that were totally unforeseeable, because the one thing we should all learn from the Fukushima incident is, that the people in charge make functionally idiotic calls and these lead to absolutely foreseeable outcomes and that we need better regulations and policies when it comes to handling nuclear anything (e.g. the alarming frequency of orphan sources in the USA).
So, sorry for getting hang up on your phrasing, but when you tell me that the Fukushima incident didn't happen because of bad maintenance or design or whatnot, then you are either dishonest, or just wrong, because a company building a nuclear powerplant in a well known tsunami risk area and then not preparing for the eventuality of a tsunami of a well document occurance in strength in that very area, how was that NOT bad maintenance or design? It was gross negligence just short of premeditation, plain and simple. Tepco had EIGHTEEN YEARS to react to new scientific evidence predicting this tsunami and they did jack. That is - by definition - mistake by design. They (Policy makers, NISA, Tepco) were given multiple warnings by both environmental scientists and the IAEA and still did nothing. And Fukushima was built in the... 60s, 70s? So definitely not up to par with that new environmental intel, nor with IAEA recommendations that issued tsunami hardening measures beyond what would have been required for the incident to be avoided...
Are you excited about the recent news of a nuclear fusion breakthrough by the U.S. Dept. of Energy? I hope it's not like lightning in a bottle.
China does at the same time also build 500 new coal plants. How much reserves of the currently used Refined Uranium do we have? (that also isn’t controlled by the Russian’s ?)
Greenpeace has no clue..
I have a question. Did many nuclear scientists warn long before Fukushima that it is a bad idea to build nuclear reactors in japan because of the risk of an earthquake and Tsunami? Was it widely known amoung experts that the japanese nuclear program is not safe?
Because you said the problem with the Fukushima incident was not the reactor or the system but the Tsunami.
But if the scientists did not warn of the risks before the catastrophe happened then how can we be sure that there are no risks for the current nuclear reactors? If scientists did not see Fukushima comming than why are you confident that no catastrophe will happen at the other nuclear power plants?
And if the risks of the japanese nuclear program were widely known among experts then why did the warnings got ignored and the unsafe reactors were build anyway? And if in Japan safety warnings got ignored or those safety issues were not even known then how can we be sure that the same thing is not happening in other countries as well and operators are ignoring risks or deliberatly closing their eyes somewhere else as well. Japan is a rich country with a high level of education and doesnt have a big problem with corruption, so if it can happen there, how can we be sure the same stuff isnt happening all around the world? Maybe many nuclear reactors around the world are just waiting for a Tsunami/Earthquake/Storm/Flood/... to lead to the next catastrophe.
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If bananas were truly dangerous, I would have expired decades ago.
Bananas are YUMMOLA!
*EDIT:* I would also love having a Volkswagen Microbus.
Is it your profession or just bad lighting that makes your face shine so much?
If we ignore the opinion of the "anti-lobbi" and the "pro-lobbi" most of the experts are agree in one thing: getting rid of nuclear and fossil power and replace them with wind and solar CAN NOT WORK!
If you would eat about 10.000 Bananas in like 10 Minutes you would die of the Radioation.
And yes, I think that's even a fact.
I'm gonna need you to say banana a couple more times...
I think hydro electric power should be used where it can be, and nuclear everywhere else. (Now this is based on the assumption that hydro electric is safer and cleaner, if I am wrong, please correct me, ideally with evidence)
What's your opinion on the CANDU?
The Candu design does not want U-238, it can tolerate more of it due to using heavy water as moderator.
It still requires fissile fuel such as U-235 or Pu-239 or possibly U-233 to work.
CANDU reactors use mainly U238 as a fuel, since the moderator of the reactor is heavy water. Heavy water does not absorb neutrons as much as normal H2O does (due to its extra neutron present), allowing this design to have a sustainable fission chain reaction on unenriched natural U238 with small amounts of U235 and other elements. This was the main goal of the Canadian design where by designing it in such way the cost of enriching U is removed. Ofc now there’s a cost of using D2O instead of H2O, but all things considered it’s a good design in my opinion.
@@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist Err, it is still the U-235 that is used. This is why natural uranium is used up much more quickly than enriched uranium.
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It is very slightly disappointing that the first Nuclear powered submarine was not U-235.
I say very slightly disappointing, because if it was possible to make U-235 nuclear powered Germany would have had to have the technology to make it so in 1942, and this, I think, would have changed history in several rather unpleasant ways.
In an ironic twist U-235 was sunk in a friendly fire incident near the end of the war.
Whenever you talk about Chernobyl, please always mention that the Chernobyl accident was the result of a politically driven experiment: E.g. disabling all safety mechanism, and going against the advice of the experts at the plant.
I don't think China is a good example for the building of power plants. China is known for building things quickly but cutting corners. Those power plants will need renovations sooner than your average power plant elsewhere.
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Is Chernobyl more or less relevant for nuclear power than 9-11 is for charter travel by plane to Mallorca (from Europe, not the US)
And then you showed the meme with Hindenburg. I thought I had an original ideal yesterday? Now I am sad puppy.