Several Big Lies About Nuclear Waste - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Cleo Abram

[yonatanrechnitz]

"Hot rocks makes steam, spin a roundy roundy thing to generate a zappy zappy"
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😂😂

[skyrailmaxima]

There is no nuclear waste, only nuclear wasted potential

[checkmate]

Wow! Your channel has grown a lot! Really happy for you! Keep it up!

[caliperstorm]

It’s only waste if you waste it. Otherwise it’s a resource. Reminds me of stories I’ve heard about the slag from blast furnaces in Pittsburgh. Sometimes the companies would just dump it into rivers or bury it, which had environmental consequences and used up space. So instead, we found ways to incorporate slag into bricks, concrete, railway ballast, etc. Instead of being a burden, it became a building material. Nuclear waste (even fission products) can likewise be re-used for all sorts of applications, if we’re smart about it.

[xpatriatedtexan]

The saddest thing about the US' absolute failure on nuclear energy policy is that the individual man who did the most damage, was actually an ex-navy nuclear officer. Jimmy Carter's intro to nuclear power was under then Captain Hyman Rickover. Carter even credits the father of navy nuclear power as having the greatest influence on his life after his parents. Yet, he allowed false fears, paranoia, and ignorance to put a "bridge out" sign on the road of progress.

The 70s were a time the US should have doubled down on education. Instead, our society was left to learn about nuclear power from The Toxic Avenger and other ridiculous zombie movies.

[nobody.of.importance]

Uranium fever is one of my favorite songs ever. Damn you, Fallout 4!

[jagger]

I love the idea of a Dyson Sphere being "solar powers final form" 😅😅

[michaelbobic]

I thought you said you wouldn't exaggerate!! Power until the sun consumes the earth caught me completely off guard! Your comment about "lost knowledge" is a critical point to make.

[beansnrice]

One of the reasons the Earth's core is molten is because of the heat of uranium. So if you think about it, geothermal is technically nuclear power as well.

Inversely, solar power is our only current, distributeable fusion-based power. =)

[richardtrump]

Nice positive video and as usual, you added a lot of interesting details. I'm starting to leave comments when I see glowing green barrels on thumbnails, so the message spreads.

[richardburden]

The CANDU can extract some power from spent LWR fuel after purging the volatile fission products that create gas pressure inside the fuel cladding. This comes out when the spent fuel rods are cut up, contents pulverized, re-formed into pellets and re-clad. No further processing is required for a first time re-use, and that's about all we can do with a CANDU before the fissile content is too low. The CANDU is not a breeder nor is it a fast reactor, so it cannot use minor actinides like U-236, neptunium, Pu-238, Pu-240, and isotopes of americium, curium, etc. which are not slow neutron fissile. Nor, most importantly, can it use much of the bulk (93-94%) of LWR spent fuel, which is U-238, which is about 99% of CANDU spent fuel, and 139/140 of natural uranium, nor can it use thorium any more than it uses U-238. It does convert some U-238 into fissile plutonium, more than would an LWR. CANDUs get about half their power from fission of Pu vs. 1/3 for LWRs. Fast reactors convert more fertile material into fissile than the amount of fissile they consume, so they can, theoretically, consume all actinides from 90 up if the fission products are purged often enough to prevent them from stopping the reaction or making the reactor unstable. This would result in 135x more heat from the same fuel than a CANDU and at least 150x more than a LWR even using the reprocessing that is done in France. Fast reactors are also notoriously insensitive to pile poisons like xenon-135 and other, non-volatile and longer-lived pile poisons, so fission products don't have to be purged very often, and load following is easier because, due to insensitivity to Xe-135 and its iodine parent, it can power up almost as quickly as it powers down.

[autohmae]

12:01 ahh, that's what Voyager uses ?! That makes sense.

[tfrascaroli]

How about slapping a CANDU reactor besides any other reactor in the locations with the most waste? They already have ALL the infrastructure, and the engineers, and know how to build and maintain stuff, and have the waste RIGHT THERE, and have the steam cycle figured out.... it would be cheap, right? And probably not many bureaucratic hurdles, since you're not even transporting the stuff, just using it right there... off from one reactor and right into the next one!

[TypicalBlox]

You should react to a video by Corridor crew called "how many solar panels are needed to power the entire world" despite the title it talks about other energy sources ( including nuclear ) too.

[ronmaximilian]

What do you think of the possibility of using radiovoltaic power generation, ie.e getting power directly from the radiation without the intermediate step of using a steam engine. Technically solar cells are radio voltaic, but getting energy from higher energy radiation has its own problems because these tend to destroy circuits and sensitive materials. I just think it would be a cool way to increase the efficiency of nuclear power plants either by themselves or in conjunction with steam.

[of]

love your vids, was wondering i often hear you talk about the plant you "used" to work at, does that mean you dont work there anymore and are a full time youtuber now? just a random curiosity i had :D thanks for the content either way bud <3

[GummieI]

3:18 Which actually makes it a great title she got, as it might even draw in some of the people that does still have these misconceptions, and maybe just a few of them might be made to change their mind from it

[StateGenesys]

If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of education requirements are required to be in your field and what’s the salary?

[LoveLearnShareGrow]

But couldn't a small amount of plutonium easily make a dirty bomb? That's not out of reach for any terrorist group.

[tsoiyuz]

awesome video and the phrase "imprison the rays of the sun" felt like some hard core lyrics. felt it inmy soul we gotta get out there and arrest the sun