25 Responses

1. They need to build more nuclear plants and stop drilling offshore!
   Nuclear is the answer to cheap and sustainable energy.

   The only big problem is, if the U.S. is allowed to build more, are countries like Iran and North Korea allowed to build them too?

   This could lead to a huge global conflict like World War III.

2. @OhReallyNoWai I know but why do they have to be so big?

3. @RectumPilum The chimneys are just cooling towers

4. without the Moderator the reactor can be started but the reaction cannot be controlled moderator moderates the chain reaction and Uranium is a fossil fuel because it is available in nature. Thank you sir

5. I still don’t understand the point of the enormous chimney.

6. Good presentation, BUT Steve,Nuclear is not fossil!

7. mm very interesting, but i think nuclear power is very inefficient, to much machinery needed to make it work, cant they make like a solar panel but to work with the radiation of these ???

8. very well put, simple to undersatand and to the point. well done.

9. every second the Son produces enough energy to power all Earth for a million years

10. yep, works in same way as it uses heat and generates steam, turning a turbine hence creating electricity. The hard bit is getting the fuel, storing the fuel, controlling the reaction safely (ask the Russians), and disposing of the waste.

11. there r much better vids on the tube.

12. thanks a bunch

13. Awesome i just find stuff like this interesting, not very good for terrorists though.

14. thx for the upload

15. Im doing a project about this right now, you have confirmed that my information is correct :) thanks!

16. thanks i learnt something new today

17. Thank you very much!

18. Tonnes.. :D

19. And also that it is possible to power a Nuclear Reactor from things like Thorium,…which are far more prevalent in the Earth’s crust than Uranium.

    While not “renewable” (a term I find specious in itself since the materials to manufacture “renewable” energy sources themselves are often *NOT* renewable), we know for a fact the supply can be measured in centuries, if not millennia.

20. But that’s something of a specious argument because Terrorists can use *anything* as a lethal weapon if they put their mind to it.

    There’s no reason (especially considering we’ve managed it fine so far up to this point) to believe we can’t continue to exploit Nuclear Energy while safeguarding it at the same time.

21. so that is why my business/physics professor does not want to handle the task on the bi-products, when the senate offered him whatever price you want.

22. yeah except we have seen terrorists can use simple objects like planes and cause much more damage and cause with out of all the hassle of knowing how to actually build a nuke.

    As for the byproducts remember that Uranium is radioactive before it is used for nuclear power so it’s not like you are creating the radiation.

23. you explained how a pressurizeried water reactor works
    but the rbmk reactor uses the coolent directly to create steam

24. YES, I meant that.

25. wow i gues u must be a genius then