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If we pump desalinated water upstream to places like Lake Powell, we can store as much off peak energy as we need to. Why is that too complicated for people to understand?

I saw somewhere that the RBMK reactor control rods had fairly long graphite tips and took ~ 30 seconds to scram! The graphite tips were making their way thru the pile after a scram was initiated. Sorry, took to long. At least everybody is aware of Xenon now....

Actually, the water moderator controls the power output once the control rods are set in the desired position. More power required means more moderator flow. That means more cooled water is returned to the reactor. If demand decreases, less cool cooled water is returned. The difference in more and less cooled water results in a self moderating effect. More cooled water is a little more dense than less cooled water. So, more cooled water slows down more neutrons and fission increases. Steam demand drops and less water flows back from the heat exchanger. Reactor temp rises and the water moderator density decreases and less neutrons are slowed down = Less fission. The control rods are more for start up, balancing the fuel consumption across the core, and of course, the big one: SCRAM!! Fuel balancing is an issue. The assemblies on the periphery see less action and such. Like the bottom of the core gets worn out and the rods have to be pulled out a bit more to use a new level of the core.. Funny story; Back in Navy Nuke School in 1969, the instructor was saying the neutrons had to be slowed down. I raised my hand and asked why they had to be slowed down. He said; "I don't know. Nobody knows". Well, that really stuck in my craw for 40 years. I finally came up my conclusion in 2008. The answer is TIME. Because a free neutron decays in ~14 minutes to an electron and a proton, it's obvious that neutrons have positive and negative components. The neutrons need a small amount of time to become somewhat polarized. Only then can they more or less, cozy up to that U235 and be absorbed rather than splitting it apart. The fast neutrons just bounce off. Occam's Razor. (Sorry, got carried away. Great videos. I watch all of them. Thanx.)

I really like this video technique on a glass screen with the flipped image. The economics of Nuclear Reactor is reduced to its monetarist aspect, but that's as good a place to start as any.

Took a few classes on animal nutrition and physiology . . We can cut a LOT of methane from cattle production simply by not being scared of ionophore antibiotics. When cutting antibiotics from our animal food sources became popular feedlots stopped including ionophore antibiotics (usually Monensin) and methane INCREASED. The reason is ionophore antibiotics kill off undesirable bacteria in the cows rumen leaving room for "good" bacteria that are more efficient. . . . But, but, but what about resistance. Well, humans DON'T use ionophore antibiotics so it doesn't really matter AND resistance is FAR less likely with ionophore antibiotics than with other types because of the method of action. They work by messing up the ion gradient of bacteria cells (which have different phospholipids and ions than eukariotes (animals and us)). Kind of like pouring salt on slugs. . they just aren't going to develop resistance. They "could" because biology is crazy like that, but there is such a small chance. . . But, but, but what about contamination of the meat. . That is a good concern. Most of these antibiotics have a required ZERO day withdrawal period (for human consumption) approved by both the FDA and European Medicines Agency. For some of these they have up to a three day withrawal period (for human consumption). This is because it is pretty much gone in just a few days. Personally, I'd like to see a 21 day required withdrawal (just in case). We should NOT be scared of these antibiotics being used in agriculture. We still use them in poultry. They literally couldn't keep them alive in those factory hell holes without it. We always have "easy" answers to things, but because people don't understand and are scared we can't use them. . . .

An interesting video. Not great, not terrible.

Big reason france had downtime for nuclear reactor maintainance is the hair cracks appearing on coolant tube surfaces due to heat cycling expansion contraction

Great...now make all the 1% of the world weathiest live on the waste from these nuclear power plants...on THAT day you'll convince me "it's safe."

Uh oh! You're going to have to divest yourselves of the coal plant, while the paid Hamas agitators occupy your campus.

THE PROBLEM TODAY IS THAT THE USA HAS FAILED IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING HENCE ONE CANNOT TRUST NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY FROM THE USA.

Fascinating. This should be presented to the Australian Greens and Labor parties..

All the people who want nuclear and would vote for it should alos be happy for the reactor to be built in their region and or the toxic waste dump to be in their neighbourhood. Any takers?

Why risk uranium, coal, oil use when we have a giant nuclear reactor in the sky that we could use without the risk of contaminated land that cannot be inhabited for tens of thousands of years after a nuclear accident. Why? We would already have renewable energy at a highly functional level if the big oil and coal lobbies hadn't interfered with progress on this for decades.

1:27 3.6?? Not great, not terrible

There is nothing good about Uranium enrichment.

Sounds good in theory yet fukushima we were just lucky af. If the containment would have failed, which it almost did for reactor 2 the whole east coas would have been contaminated. Containment was almost blown away. "It can't happen" Is dispelled by natural disasters you can't even think of right now. Are you payed by atom lobby or what? Also what is this laughable propaganda videos with the dummy crashes? The forces on such tanks are magnitudes higher when withstanding earth quakes. Are you even a phycisist? It proves shit lol. Conclusion: Hey it's not dangerous, even though we have been proven wrong twice in history already. We always think we accounted for every possible scenario, yet it failed twice. It will happen again and I'll cite these videos for reference of humans stupidity to make the same false assumptions over and over again. USA USA USA

Illinois professor is not including grid costs as both options need the grid. Generation supply price is not grid supply price. Grid supply price is return on grid investment. Grids are 10 times more expensive than Generator plant. Dirt cheap central generator electricity is expensive grid electricity. California found distant renewables needed more grid and more cost. Modern technology must include battery vehicles, the rapidly reducing cost of new battery technologies changes every thing. Like horse meat was cheap when the Ford model T production line started up. Landline telephone ☎️ is a mystery today. Lighting was candle, oil, kerosene, gas, ... Heating was coal, coal gas, oil, electric, heatpumps, LNG, then cooling in heatwave climate 😎

Nuclear power plants are nuclear targets. National Electricity Grid makes dirt cheap electricity expensive electricity. Nuclear industries can be nuclear weapons facilities like Gaza secret tunnels. Australia defence budget is exploding with USA nuclear submarines and USA weapon systems. Rooftop solar PV is dirt cheap and recyclable, after extending supply with extra panels for 80 years. FREE extra decades. Rooftop solar shades hot roofs for FREE. Battery Vehicles have FREE battery capacity for night demand. 😊 Renewables are massively redundant and robust. No nuclear industries are needed or targets.

20years to maximum nuclear electricity supply 20years to no customers. Customers will have a choice of grid electricity or offgrid electricity. The UTILIZATION factor for the customers who has a battery vehicle parked 23hrs every day and all night and a battery which is FREE to over supply and power their home or building, and rooftop PV all day will be the economic preferred choice. The grid is a $TRILLIONS investment in infrastructure and needs cashflow to the owners. The grid takes from the customers on the grid to cover the grid fixed minimum return on its $TRILLIONS investment. If 10% of customers leave the grid then grid electricity increases in cost to the grid customers. 😮😮 10% more expensive grid electricity. This is an economic disaster. Dirt cheap glass panels shading part of the roof. FREELY available battery with every vehicle. FREELY available is dirt cheap. 20years to maximum nuclear electricity supply 20years to no customers.

except? this did not happen at 3 mile island - Pennsylvania they let the core become exposed reaction did not stop - fuel melted this was a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor but similarly? the three reactors in Japan that were older GE boiling water reactors. no - you are leaving out so much - (the residual 3 to 5 day old fast breakdown reactants that needed continuous cooling not to mention? neutron beam = witnessed by many and? the resultant fission compounds that could only occur if an actual 'nuclear fission event' took place -a bomb. Chernobyl fissioned out -as it 'exploded its fuel' which is what helped save our planet. like a dirty bomb. This was part of the 'power spike' so - your video while good- for the layman - is very incorrect.

You said RMBK at the start, 3ft of concrete is not expensive compared to a clean up.

2 key points missed 1. Waste storage from nuclear 2. Decommissioning the nuclear plant

3.6 roentgen: not great, not terrible

Could you kindly do a new video comparing renewables please? Australia are now debating going Nuclear

3 years later I am still not clear on what types of cells in the body does the mRNA enter to produce the spike protein? I think you said the entire cell that produces the protein, not just the protein itself, gets destroyed by the immune system.

One has to be very skeptical watching this video, for what it avoids discussing as well as for basic errors. It comes across as a pitch for a grant funding sponsor, more than educational. The presented admits he made a most basic error of fact, as to HCl vs H2SO4. He does not mention that most LiIon batteries are thin film, either rolled as in 14500 or 18650 cells, or folded on rectangular thin flat packs. Only in Li (usually not LiIon) button cells of very low current capacity is a radial center membrane structure common. The comparison only with Tesla 21700 cells is telling, that this isn't about battery tech in general, but a pitch for a focused project. 21700 cells are rarely sold stand alone for flashlights or electronics. 1500 cycles is a quality spec, and 260 WHr equates to roughtly 6,000 mAHr, though that's hard to compare to common 18650's since eBay and ScAmazon have prolific spec fraud. (6 AH is more typical of 26650's, less common). The other two issues notably absent from this video are self discharge, and chemical ESR equivalent, or Equivalent Series Resistance. Those are huge factors in batteries that may alternately sit for extended periods, or power high peak load devices, be they power tools or cars. Resistive conductors like graphene, versus metallic electrodes as part of a battery process or to connect other chemical elements, are big deal issues. In a less detailed video as to chemistry, it might be easy to dismiss ignoring those as an attempt to simplify, but this goes into more detail over molecular chemistry, while ignoring those elephants behind the curtain. ESR of course equates to heat or ability to limit it, potential venting, and potential explosions or fires, and needs for charge-discharge smart management, or restricted current rates. Tesla quality and honesty of spec's is so high most of us likely have seen their car fires, as well as heard about a certain airplane model that was grounded until it was redesigned. Or heard about how useful ScAmazon's extreme legal budget is, to intimidate state AG's from fraud prosecutions, or run around people whose homes were burned down by reckless indifference to safe battery and related circuit designs. Ooops. Maybe literacy in more complex aspects of these issues matter? And some way to shut down predators who lie and cause serious hazards, and damages to consumer victims? This video does cover some useful info and ideas. However, it'd fail most peer reviews, as it's devious and evasive in how it reveals a conflict of interest that could be cited up front directly. It also focuses on select niche conditions and comparisons, while avoiding related core issues. That could be stated clearly up front, rather than leave users wondering if it's intended as deception by omission, or just careless presentation?

TMI because it is right in the flight path 3 miles out from the airport.

6:26 This frequency actually is not in the range of music, and is actually above the range of human hearing. The way some tesla coils play music is by switching the 20kHz signal on and off at a much slower frequency (e.g., like 440 Hz).

I am new to the nuclear industry. I am incredibly appreciative of this professor. His ability to teach complex subjects in a fun and insightful way is amazing! Thank you!

But ,Homer Simpson said, he’s been adding jelly donuts 🍩. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I was on the toilet , its all a lie

Long term storage of spent fuel is the key to this whole endeavor.

This is how Mr Viktor Nemkov, the deputy principal of a school in southern Belarus, experienced those crucial days in 1986. Well-worth a read: May 1. There are some rumours that something had happened at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, but there was no official information. May 2. At news time on television, we were all in front of the TV set. And what do we see? Footage of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant shot from a helicopter, I don't know in which year. They explained that nothing had happened, that the plant was functioning perfectly, and that the alarm in the foreign press was just enemy propaganda. At night, I turned on the radio and found the Voice of America station (this was prohibited in the USSR and classified as "anti-Soviet activity"). I learned that there had been an explosion at the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and that it was completely destroyed. May 3. The national holiday "Victory Day" on May 9 was approaching. Our school had to prepare the sports part of the celebration. Approximately 1,200 children aged 10 to 16 participated. It was very hot. Many children felt unwell; some fainted. The nurse took care of them, and we continued rehearsing. You have to be born in the Soviet Union to understand what we were doing. When I recall those days, my cheeks burn with shame every time. May 4. After 5 or 6 children fainted during rehearsal, I couldn't take it anymore and called the regional party committee (the principal had refused to call). I was bluntly told that the issue was not my concern, that I had to follow orders without question, and that I should not forget about party discipline. Then, I understood why the principal didn't want to make the phone call. May 5. Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, appeared on television. Gorbachev declared that a breakdown had occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, that necessary measures were being taken, that the plant was still operational, and that there was no danger. He again repeated accusations that journalists were seeking sensationalism, etc. However, he did not mention that the population within a 30 km radius of Chernobyl had already been evacuated, nor did he mention that firefighters who had arrived first at the site of the explosion were already beginning to die. Meanwhile, school staff and students continued training and rehearsing in the schoolyard despite these issues. May 6. We finally received a telephone message from the city council ordering us to seal the windows in the classrooms and hallways and to not allow students to go outside during breaks. However, we had already received radioactive iodine in its highest concentrations during the first 7 days after the explosion. Thus, locked in our classrooms, we continued the lessons for two more weeks although rumours circulated that the city's party leaders had already evacuated their children to the northern part of the country. May 24. All our students were boarded onto trains that had arrived to transport them to different parts of Russia. Simultaneously, more than 10,000 people (children with their parents) crowded the railway station. Initially, everything proceeded in an orderly manner but as the first groups moved to board the wagons, chaos erupted. Despite the police deploying all their forces to the station, they could not control the situation. People listened only to us, the teachers. I will never forget that day because I have never seen so many desperate people in my life, looking at me with pain. I had never seen so many women and children crying. That day took a toll on my health and robbed me several years of life. Mr Nemkov died in 2009, aged 58 due to radiation exposure related illness barely 2 year after writing his testimony.

Good video on DU. I would prefer we were using it and spent fuel in breeders to make more energy instead of bullets. ruclips.net/video/ksBYsBy3GD8/видео.html

15:55 ... Elon still saying he's already got a viable 18 wheeler truck -- which he does not -- just said so at his shareholder mega payday meeting. So, is the professor contradicting Elon? P.S. 18 wheelers can & do go millions of miles.

Not great but not terrible

Hey ,,,, don't lithium sulphur batteries require operating temperature of 300°C ?

1:32 the electrolyte in a lead acid battery is sulphuric acid not hydrochloric,,, that is unlrss something recently changed and he's let it slip ; is his team working on something?

bro your so full of bs

rubbish

And THAT folks is how you convey a complex message to a general audience. The topic is still highly technical but this excellent presentation gives us the best chance of understanding the subject.

hinkley point c with 3,260 mw of power will be costing about usd 50 bn. in your calculation that would be ca. usd 15 bn for 1,000 mw of power … the newest finnish nuclear powerplant cost usd 11 bn for 1,600 mw of power - usd 7 bn for 1,000 mw of power …

Amazing explanation, thank you!

I have a question: how did he calculate $285 million for the interest payment for the nuclear plant?

5:23 don't you assume how I consume my food 🤣😅

The biggest mystery is how the professor can write backwards on a glass wall.

I wanna listen to him but that accent is fingernails on a chalkboard

THE USA DOESNT HAVE CENTIFUG HIGH TECHNOLOGY.

THE CHINESE STOLE ALL OF USAs NUCLEAR TECH. INCLUDING ALL ITS BOMB SECRETS. FIND IT ON RUclips.

PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT USING WASTE U238 FROM PRESSURIZED LIGHT WATER REACTORS IN HEAVY WATER REACTORS AND PLEASE MENTION IF IT IS COST EFFECTIVE TO IT. INDIAs EX- TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTEST SAYS IT IS SO.