025 – Nuclear Energy
In this video Paul Andersen explains how nuclear energy is released during fission of radioactive uranium. Light water reactors, nuclear waste, and nuclear accidents are also discussed along with the future of nuclear energy.
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Globe, D. (2011). English: The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Reactor 1 to 4 from right to left. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fukushima_I_by_Digital_Globe.jpg
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Very well done!
send the nuclear waste to space!
Nice video, but what about fusion reactors!?
Try a full life cycle analysis of commercial nuclear power, no one else will.
hell yeah it was ! Thanks man
Know how many people died from the Three Mile Island "disaster?"
None.
Fukushima?
The same.
"Each of the radioactive materials have a different half life but it's gonna be on the order of thousands of years."
Apparently Steam has decided that Half-Life 3 is gonna be on order for thousands of years, too!
I hope there will be less dangerous materials to extract energy from. Harvesting U-35 has been successful and search for alternatives is a first priority. Not to optimize the current process but find an alternative. Hopefully energy research din't stop at nuclear fission.
1 gram of U -235 has as much energy as an entire train car full of coal.
You're one of the brightest people on youtube. It's weird you have so many subs but so little avg. views. You deserve way more.
How long do you usually take to prep each episode? It looks like you put a lot of thought and time into each one.
If the Roman Empire had used nuclear energy, how to handle their waste would still be an important political issue today.
dude I just had an exam of this and you post it now? haha
Science is amazing! so much better than religion.
Always impressive!