JAPAN'S PLAN to Ruin the PRICE of OIL and GAS - VisualPolitik EN

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The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant led to the shutdown of Japan's powerful network of nuclear power plants. Now, however, Japan has decided to once again turn to nuclear energy, and this time not only to produce electricity. In this video we tell you about Japan's plans and how it hopes to reinvent the nuclear industry.

[VisualPolitikEN]

Erratum: At minute 08:59, when we say that "the core cannot go into fusion, " we wanted to say that a core meltdown cannot happen.

[theredscourge]

Let us also not forget that every reactor which has ever experienced a meltdown was based on a 50+ year old design, and that every single one built in the newer generations do not have those old failure modes as a possible outcome.

[charlycharly]

In the case of France, governments have been saying for 15 years that they wanted to stop the nuclear industry. What did happen? Companies (not only EDF, but also suppliers for parts, maintenance…) didn’t invest, they let people retire without renewing their staff, few students wanted to start a career in an industry which should be shut down in the following decades. Under Hollande they had even started to shut down reactors.
Und now we’re wondering why there’s no replacement solutions while a bunch of reactors slowly approach their life expectancy…

[flx]

I live in Germany and nuclear power is the perfect example for my country's biggest weakness: irrational fear. The best part about this is that German politicians seem to prefer complaining about the energy price instead of just reactivating nuclear power plants while the taxpayer even has to pay for their maintenance eventhough we don't get a single kw/h out of them 😂😂😢😢 (pls send help)

[iljasovasabina]

Both my parents worked at Chornobyl power plant and helped to liquidate the disaster. My husband’s father - an army officer, cut down and buried red forest surrounding Chornobyl. My husband’s grandfather was among the first firefighters on duty after the Chornobyl explosion.
Yes, I do want the development of nuclear energy, as this is the only way a country like mine can get energy independence and not become a colony.

[mclovin]

When innovation comes out of japan, it really comes out very well done

[Boric]

The prices of art & classic cars are the first things to crash in a recession - see 80s and 08+ . Masterworks can in no way be framed as a recession proof investment.

[OuKiri]

In 2011 after the earthquake, I did a presentation at university, about the pros and cons of nuclear power, and I pretty much warned about how quitting nuclear power would be a bad idea.

[socloseyetsofar]

The buildings in Tokyo are built to withstand earthquakes up to a certain level and have been holding up well over the many years of earthquakes. I'm very confident that Japan will apply the lessons learned from Fukushima to building future nuclear power plants. Ganbatte Nippon!

[fosterwhales]

With inflation at its highest level in four decades, recession is now "the most likely outcome for the economy". People wonder how to grow their portfolios to beat inflation and maintain a successful long-term strategy. I looked for investors who were making around $250, 000 in this troubled market. This is one more reason why you should save and invest to secure your income and ensure your success

[arcturax]

I think SMRs are critical to the future. Every country is going to have to be responsible for its own energy security. We have a lot of land in the US, so plenty of places to put it. SMRs could be used to run heavy industry, as well as getting the big fossil fuel companies to start moving off of drilled products and just producing hydrogen and other hydrocarbons as needed. It could also be used to make plastic recycling efficient. Another good idea is to create regional hydrogen production in coal producing areas to shift the jobs to that away from coal mining.

[snackplissken]

One of the best things about continuing to advance nuclear reactor technology is that newer generations of reactors require less enriched materials. Not only does this mean less radioactive waste but it means that what would be a spent fuel rod for an older reactor could be a fresh one in a newer one allowing some nuclear waste to be recycled and if we can get reactors to the point that enrichment is entirely unnecessary, we can provide nuclear reactors to countries without providing them the means to create enriched materials for nuclear weapons. One of the rare silver linings of Putin's horrible war is that the industrialized world is finally seeing reason on nuclear power. The sooner we can replace dirty coal and dangerous nuclear reactors from the 60's with much cleaner modern nuclear the better.

[davidwilkie]

"Disinvestment" is a nice word.

Japan is an example of plain Common Sense reactions to necessity. Good to see.

[Alfonso]

No Hawaiian shirt and not awfully exaggerated gestures? Fascinating. Feels much more serious and professional. Loved the video.

[PocketBeemRocket]

Here in the states, we just approved the first models of micro reactors. Hopefully that means we will join Japan and bootstrap our flailing hydrogen fuel cell and ICE conversion programs.

[pabloherman]

I would worry less about CO2 emissions, aka what plants breath, and more about running out of gas. Which we are. That’s a much bigger problem considering it’s accounts for basically all of our energy, and building things like power plants and solar panels requires a ton of gas.

[jantschierschky]

Fukushima was no accident, but incompetence and arrogance. Tokyo energy was warned many times regarding the placement of the backup generators and not having redundancy.

[elsebastiano]

I’d really wish that the advertisement on this channel was as clearly marked as it is done in Germany. It makes it much easier to appreciate the really interesting and good journalistic work without constantly having to ask myself if this is just a Segue to a Sponsor :( It somewhat makes the experience of watching the channel to inform myself a lot worse.
Edit: misspelled "segue"

[TIMSANDYSURF]

It’s a big yes to SMR from me 👍🏻 .We need to escape from the grip of OPEC countries.

[tsbrownie]

If you want hydrogen, use solar / wind / ... to produce hydrogen (and oxygen) during sunny times, store it, use the hydrogen directly OR burn the H2 O2 and run turbines / make electricity in off times.