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This is an old video, wind and solar are making tremendous progress. Regarding your so called "Intermittency Myth". Solar and wind are being linked with battery storage. In addition roof-top solar with batteries is also playing a larger roll. Intermittency is a local occurrence. Energy load sharing over a wide area is a developing resource. Wind and solar are out competing nuclear. Nuclear will take a diminished role for special situations and as deep base storage of last resort.
When you look at the level of height of building, sheer cost of design and R and D, All the Castings and Heaters and extra steam tanks and vents and suppression pools...this tech is not viable and never will be. It's dirtier and more expensive than coal. San Onofre put out so much heat that it warmed the ocean. Fishing boats used to fish at the edges, where the bass and mackerel were forced by the hot water from the plant. The ocean bottom was scoured clean from the heat, none of the animals survived. It was a disaster. Mass slaughter on the ocean floor off Los Angles. You could build 100 NG plants for the cost of this half-baked NP scheme.
hmm suppose we pick methanol as the feed fuel and have water onboard as well? could we not capture 100% of the CO2 then via electrolysis recycle that to methanol again topping up the fuel tank?
Andrew Blackwell - Visit Sunny Chernobyl 1st. It all depends on how quickly you got your dose. In this, radiation is analogue to certain poisons, such as alcohol. A single shot of bourbon every weekend for a year is hardly dangerous. But fifty shots on a single night will kill you. ******************************************************************************* 2nd. It matters which part of your body gets irradiated. Limb? Count yourself lucky. Guts? No so much. ***************************************************************************** 3rd. Radiation comes in three flavours: alpha, beta and gamma One source of radiation is unstable atoms - those atoms that are so useful in building a nuclear core. In contrast to lighter trustier elements like iron or helium, uncomfortable obese elements like uranium and plutonium are always looking for excuses to shed bits of themselves. That is to say, they are radioactive. These unstable elements will occasionally fart (his word) out things called alpha or beta particles or gamma rays - the latter being nasty stuff. This process - called decay - leaves the atom a bit smaller and sometimes with a different name, as it is alchemically transformed from one radioactive element to another. Once in a while an atom will suffer a complete breakdown and split in half. That is fission. After the split particles of gamma rays spew off in all directions, and two atoms of a lighter element are left behind. So, its no wonder that radiation is so mysterious and frightening, and it features in the backstories of so many comic book monsters. Its invisible, deadly, comic, extremely confusing, and rides shotgun with the nuclear apocalypse.
Galen Winsor was an American chemist and nuclear plant safety manager who played a pivotal role in the early years of the American nuclear industry, particularly during the 1940s when regulations regarding radioactive materials were. Radioactive swimming | IOPSpark Galen Winsor was a safety officer at the Hanford Nuclear Site, the location of the first full-size plutonium-producing reactor. When Hanford’s reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, the site housed 177 storage tanks, containing 200,000 m 3 of high-level radioactive waste. Radioactive swimming | IOPSpark Galen Winsor was a safety officer at the Hanford Nuclear Site, the location of the first full-size plutonium-producing reactor. When Hanford’s reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, the site housed 177 storage tanks, containing 200,000 m 3 of high-level radioactive waste.
Idaho is a Conservative crap hole - Basically the Florida of the Midwest - The Guy Mentioned Nothing of Spent Rod Storage and the Fact the Nuclear Waste Takes 1000's of Years to go away
The potential accidents are not the biggest problem with nuclear power. But the millions of tons of high level nuclear waste that could kill all of humanity thousands of times over if released to the environment. This waste needs to be kept contained for millions of years which is impossible judging human nature. So it is a ticking genocidal time bomb that gets larger every day.
Don’t you have to times the amount of millisieverts you receive per year by how old you are to really determine what dose you’re going to get over your lifetime ? That being said, I find it strange that we’ve just excepted a amount of radiation and not linked that to a shorter lifespan and certain types of cancer
It's fascinating that these people came up with scientific based designs that were experimental, using methods that were scientifically probable in theory and applied that to a real life application. The balls on these guys are insane, yet you'll hear these soycialists kids these days saying these people "privileged" and "racists" because they're white, but fail to realize white people pioneered the future for them.
