Nuclear Physicist Reacts - Kurzgesagt Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?

Nuclear Physicist Reacts to Kurzgesagt Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?

In this video, I react to Kurzgesagt Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? video from the perspective of a nuclear physicist. I go through the Kurzgesagt Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? video and look through what is accurate information on Kurzgesagt Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? video, and nuclear Physics and react to it.

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[appa]

You're a nuclear physicist who reacts to online videos. In a way, you might call yourself a "nuclear reactor"

[dragonbot]

It's awesome to see Kurtzgezagt getting fact checked, and even agreed with!

[DAndyLord]

Our world needs more experts explaining things in clear ways that a layperson can easily understand. Thanks for your hard work.

[harveyduncan]

Kurzgesagt puts in the work to produce their videos. They have a whole video explaining their process and how a video is made. They spend a lot of time and energy making sure they get it right. (sometimes they even correct themselves when they get something wrong!) One of the best channels on youtube.

[postrofo]

Kurzgezagt is one of the most accurate, thoroughly researched and serious channels currently on YouTube, so I'm glad to see that you agree with this video after hearing your regular "true", "that's accurate", "exactly", "precisely", etc. and just adding extra info that the original video didn't have time to address in detail. Thanks!

[YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist]

Hey guys, in the video I made a mistake referring to 70% of energy in France being generated by nuclear. The correct statement is that 70% of electricity in France is produced by nuclear. Thanks for pointing it out and enjoy watching ☢️👩🏽‍🔬

[CarlosRodriguez-lnfo]

I LOVE Kurzgesagt and all their videos! So I’m really pleased to see an expert fact-checking them!! Thanks for this! :)

[tamingthejungleanallotment]

I watch their videos regularly, and they are very good. These videos proves you can educate without indoctrination someone to a cause. I've always found them to be very balanced, and show information from both sides and allow the viewer to form their own opinions.

[henafoo]

As a person from Finland, the slow building of nuclear plant is definitely an issue. Finland was one of he few western european countries that has built a new nuclear plant (it is built by Areva and Siemens). The permission for it was granted in 2002 and building started in 2005. It was supposed to be finished in 2009 but has been delayed multiple times for multiple reasons. At the end of 2021 it was finally started for first time for testing and in September the first full power tests were done. It is slated to be in full production in December this year. So a very long project indeed.

[Nolifecoffeeaddict]

I love seeing videos like this as a huge nuclear energy advocate and a student studying nuclear physics there are so many misconceptions about nuclear power and its safety and the possibilities of the future advantages of nuclear power

[YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist]

Let me know how you liked this reaction video and thanks for suggesting it guys! It was really fun reacting to it! ☢️👩🏽‍🔬 stay tuned for next weeks controversial episode!

[Compulsive_LARPer]

Yes! Finally!
People need to move past the false dichotomy created by political and economic interests and I'm glad to see the increasing amount of expert coverage of such an important and nuanced topic.

[alansmithee]

2:40
This point about france is really important I feel.
They produce most of their power from nuclear, and they've never had a significant incident.
France proves that nuclear power can be done right, but a couple of poor governments make some bad decisions and/or leave their reactors in the hands of undertrained staff and everyone goes up in arms against the technology instead of the people.

A factory can poison the waters around it for miles (depending on the factory of course). Does that mean we should stop building factories? No, it means we should carry out careful waste management procedures within and around factories.

It's a problem of management, not of the technology itself. And France has the management 'problem' solved. Other countries should follow their example.

[workinghoustonian]

Seeing a Nuclear Physicist fact check a Kurzgesagt video is something I DID NOT know I needed in my life until now <3.
I've been a fan of theirs for years.
Thank you Elina!

[ferjoce]

I love Kursgesagt and always recommend it to my friends, it’s always very didactic, clear and makes a lot of effort to be as accurate as possible for 10 min videos

[seank]

As a mechanical engineer, I appreciate your passion and frustration for this topic. I believe that you are correct, it will take a long fight to do the right thing and I’m glad that you are on the correct side. Keep going, I will keep fighting too.

[peterbob]

I'm a big fan of Kurzgesact, I'm now a new fan of yours. It's always awesome having a source you trust being checked by an expert. Thank you very much for your video.

[SimonWarren]

This was fascinating! I frequently enjoy Kurzgesagt so it was reassuring to hear an expert largely verify what they said. There was another video released just recently by them to do with nuclear waste disposal, that would also be interesting to hear your thoughts about!

[sonnyjimm]

Just found your channel and really love your content, thankyou for doing what you do. I wirk in the environmental industry here in Australia and i regularly have discussions with colleagues regarding our challenges with energy in the not so distant future.
It always fascinates me that the major of my peers either don't know or don't understand that 'long term energy storage' is one of our biggest problems. Particularly in a country as vast as Australia. I mean 80% of Australia is still without telecommunications coverage. The idea that we will somehow be able to capture, store and supply clean energy throughout this country is a fantasy. Necessity is the mother of invention. Hopefully it won't be desperation. 👍

[rickperez]

It's unfortunate that fusion always seems to be "20 years away." I'd like to think that, with the recent successes in testing fusion, we're actually closer to truly being 20 years away than ever before. Perhaps you could cover some of these recent tests and give your opinion on how close we actually are to the final breakthrough necessary to make fusion a reality.