Nuclear Energy Explained: Risk or Opportunity
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Please Read Below For More Information Anything with the word nuclear next to it usually comes with a fair bit of misunderstanding. Hopefully this video demystifies the process of how nuclear fuels are turned into electricity and how we can use them in combination with renewables in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the effects on the climate that come with high levels of them. Of course, there are many things that have been left out this video as nuclear energy, just as with any other source, has many different factors that need to be taken into account when making decisions. In order to fully understand the situation and make decisions, I highly recommend that you do some research of your own on the topic, rather than simply base your opinion on a four-minute YouTube video. It should also be noted that this video has been made from the perspective of the United States in general. Every area on Earth has different natural resources and environments that determine what works best there. On a lighter note, feel free to keep up with WhatTheWhy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/WhatTheWhy1 . Thanks for watching! Sources*: 20 percent of energy from nuclear power in the U.S.: http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/World-Statistics/World-Nuclear-Generation-and-Capacity Percent of electricity from each source http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/flow/primary_energy.pdf. Lifetime Carbon Emissions http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report/IPCC_SRREN_Annex_II.pdf Carbon Emissions http://www.c2es.org/technology/factsheet/hydropower Nuclear Uprating: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/power-uprates.html Costs http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Economic-Aspects/Economics-of-Nuclear-Power/ Deaths caused by other fuel sources http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053.600-fossil-fuels-are-far-deadlier-than-nuclear-power.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news#.U4k6SXnctR1 European deaths due to coal use http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/12/european-coal-pollution-premature-deaths Indian deaths due to coal use http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/indias-coal-power-plants-kill-tens-of-thousands-every-year-study-says/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 http://www.economist.com/node/18441163 http://climate.nasa.gov/news/903 Deaths from coal in the US. http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/power_plants/ Levelized costs http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/ http://thebulletin.org/managing-nuclear-spent-fuel-policy-lessons-10-country-study http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Radiation-and-Health/Nuclear-Radiation-and-Health-Effects/ http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Safety-of-Nuclear-Power-Reactors/ Union of Concerned Scientists Death Estimate http://allthingsnuclear.org/how-many-cancers-did-chernobyl-really-cause-updated/ International Agency for Research on Cancer http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2006/pr168.html Deaths Prevented With Nuclear Fuels http://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/ Interesting Run-through of Chernobyl https://leatherbarrowa.exposure.co/chernobyl *Not every source listed was used in the end video.
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We could also use thorium instead, an element that can make nuclear energy, but is more plentiful, has cleaner waste, and makes more energy per ton. Or geothermal energy because it's always there and pretty strong.
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pro nuclear ad
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i say yer mum
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nice animation
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where in Portugal we don´t have nuclear power plants, 70% of the energy we use is from renewable/green energy (50% from wind turbines, the rest from hidric and other renewable energy) the rest is by fossil fuels like coal,gas etc.
And is possible to go 100% green, if we just build more dams, wind turbines etc. -
energy from nuclear touted as renewable/green in terms of offsetting carbon emissions, except the elephant in the room is we can't manage the technology for shit - its like giving the keys of a Ferrari to a drunk teenager who hasnt passed his driving test and hoping he doesn.t crash.
1957 Windscale/Sellafield - Reactor meltdown and major fire, major UK/European scale disaster narrowly averted
1979 Three Mile Island - Partial reactor meltdown, contamination of US Eastern seaboard narrowly averted
1986 Chernobyl - reactor meltdown and partial core explosion, not so lucky this time. We have been writing biological/environmental cheques on this one for the last 30 years and will continue to do so for hundreds of years to come
well actually we we're very lucky - the only thing that prevented total catastrophe at Chernobyl Reactor 4 was the frantic digging of a tunnel under the reactor and emergency laying of thick concrete between it and the groundwater below the outer building
2011 Fukushima - still not fully contained and the volumes of highly radioactive cooling water increase daily, while reports of still births and defects in the local prefectures are on the rise.
There are 444 aging nuclear power plants currently operating across the globe and another 63 under construction. Its not if, but when, we have a major disaster of continental proportions.
That's before we even consider terrorism attacks on nuclear installations. If you are willing to hijack a plane and fly it into a skyscraper, you can equally crash it into a power plant.
Uranium 235 would have been better left in the ground un-mined all those years ago. The nuclear reactor programs of the 1940's were only started to supply plutonium for weapons use anyway. -
can u explain df be nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
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great explanation
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Perfect!!!
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There's no excuse for remaining with our current nuclear infrastructure when there is and has been an exponentially more preferential an advantageous option that we have been aware of for decades upon decades, around 50+ years. What is this amazing replacement to traditional uranium or plutonium based fission reactions you might ask..?
Well, the answer is THORIUM. Look it up, this shit is incredible and we still haven't begun using it for god knows why smfh probably because it would empower too much of the world and do too much good which would hinder the "elites" ability to control us smfh -
Whoa....I don't understand the world today. It keeps advancing going to destruction.
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fuckushima.
Foo-koo-shee-mah -
what is a 'very long time'? one hundred thousand a couple million years? Yeah I think nuclear waste will be with us in the future lol
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how is this kind of design called?
its not low poly as far as i know, maybe pixelart? -
Let's just face it. Solar is the future.
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This animation is great! I just made a video regarding the truth about Nuclear Energy if any of you are interested in finding out more about this issue.
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hi does any one know how to make those kind of animations
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hey bubby keep making videos ...tell me how i can become a physist
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