How does nuclear energy work??

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[HenryBelcaster]

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[lonestar_wanderer]

Nuclear energy is just another way of boiling water to make a fan spin

[moatazamr]

"It's all steam?"
"Always has been."

[BuhUhNuhUh]

“That’s it?! That’s just boiling water??”

[milkycalcium]

Nuclear power plants aren't scary if you actually understand how the plants function.

[lightningplayerr]

"How is electric made"

"Steam"

[raheemraja]

Bro just taught me how nuclear reactors work in 30 seconds while my teacher would've taken 2 business weeks

[IsmailHussein-OG]

Summary: Nuclear reactors = big fancy kettles

[IronSubGamer-fppr]

RIP to the people who thought that the towers are releasing smoke into the atmosphere

[karolekpm]

Hey, a nuclear nerd over here, the cooling towers aren't used to release steam, they recirculate water in pipes for the condenser, as it needs low temperatures to condense steam.

[Thxtnt]

A very important thing that wasn’t mentioned are the control rods, these are rods made of a neutron absorbing material that can be inserted and withdrawn from the reactor, they’re both the on and off mechanism.

Take a rod out, you get more reaction and therefore heat
Put a rod in, you get less reaction and less heat.

Put every rod in you shut it down
Take every rod out you lose complete control of the reactor

[BatMan_Commenter]

Now explain how a nuclear bomb works (for education purposes)

[samuelpotters]

That’s it? That was nuclear energy? THAT WAS JUST BOILING WATER!

[analuisapamiofeliciano]

So nuclear energy is just steam power, but futuristic.

[devam]

"There's a lot of energy in very little mass"
Is such a monkey-brain simple but accurate line to explain E=mc^2

[Quaker_parrot]

so nuclear energy is the one of the greenest power sources...





i have been lied to

[youtubersdigest]

They’re far from scary. But you really did a good job explaining them. You missed a few important things (like the backup generators to keep things on in an emergency to prevent a meltdown. And the fact that the used fuel (which can be recycled we just don’t because funding was cut for the company that was researching it because of the three mile island meltdown) is kept in casks that are safe enough to lick or kiss

[dragonfireproductions]

nuclear reactors never runaway to a prompt critical reaction

[Inkypinky]

I think there’s a problem with this video, the neutrons have to be slowed to be able to start a reaction, the water slows it down because it has a similar mass, and also it has a side effect, if the water is boiled off a meltdown cannot occur due to the fact that the neutrons are too fast to sustain the nuclear reaction so the reactor stops, that’s why nuclear disasters rarely happen these days except for Chornobyl which used lead instead of water

P.s they actually also remove the control rods that have alpha emitters that start the reaction to stop the reaction

[Czarro]

As a self-proclaimed armchair nuclear physicist, I can say with confidence that a nuclear reactor is just a fancy steam engine.