Beau of the 5th Column Knows Nothing About Nuclear Energy 

NOTE!!! I'm unsure, but it's possible he is referencing the 21st of March resolution signed in Brussels, in which case Saudi Arabia and China ARE signatories! which can be read here: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Leaders-back-nuclear-at-summit

Hi, great video. I love your channel, and love nuclear power. I also watch Beau of the Fifth column's channel a whole lot. He has good content generally, but it is super short form and so it is not super nuanced. I don't think his video on nuclear was overly critical, but it was fairly silly. I left a comment in support of nuclear power on the video you are reacting to in this video. I hope he and his viewers use their critical thinking skills to figure out what we have, NUCLEAR POWER IS THE FUTURE!

Please link the original video in the video details. Bear in mind that I'm quite fond of nuclear power and on your side - I think that Beau's concerns re: fast solutions and not cutting corners *is* important and valid, but I have my own concerns vis-a-vis widespread corner cutting across industries in the US, so I have bias. Chernobyl didn't have *no* containment, it had no *secondary* containment. Yes, that is illegal. TMI was a non-issue, I'd consider Hanford a better example of what can go wrong in the US. "Cars kill more people than nuclear power every day" is whataboutism and is easy for a viewer to discount then tune out from there - Comparing radioactive release from coal and pointing out *why* solar and wind power are "dirty" may be more relevant. Painting activists with a broad brush is a curious choice, given that you are yourself an activist. I think nuclear power development and deployment are *excellent* things to move forward on. I think restructuring society is also going to happen, just as a consequence of climate change and reality - consider that there are climate change refugees in the US today, and as climate change progresses (which it will), that will only get more impactful. Broadly, though, good video - I hope you take the critiques from a stranger as an opportunity to improve your messaging, or discard the critique as unnecessary.

Great work! 🎉

Careful...you're an activist, too. ;)

Chernobyl (RBMK) is still fine. It may be the worst reactor design, but the accident was still less harmful and killed fewer people than a similar sized coal powerplant does with normal operation. The world would become a better place if all coal plants were suddenly exchanged for RBMKs. I do not really see the point of insisting it's somehow "so terrible", it's just more fuel for the mass hysteria, most people won't understand, all they hear is "oh my god a reactor can do that, can almost end a continent!". But it can't. Yes, the accident was terrible, could have been avoided, and many of the deaths prevented even after the accident did happen, but it's still not an accident that the public should be in fear over, especially compared to something like coal.

I'm getting the impression you are (perhaps understandably) overdefensive here and have read a LOT into what you think is "implied" by "the tone of his voice". I also get the impression you're not much familiar with the Beau channel. I'm a long time Beau listener and staunch nuclear energy advocate. You could learn from him. What he does in this video is speak carefully within the bounds of facts in a way that people of many many persuasions can listen. It's an incredibly effective way of gradually separating people from their irrational convictions and getting them to begin thinking for themselves, at which point we can jump in presenting the facts with a (ideally) non-ridiculing tone. I get the frustration at ideological activists, I really do. Just know that venting like this is for you and others like you. It has its place, as does Beau's channel's approach. Consider what your tribal side is doing to your perception of others' motives and roles in a transition to a (hopefully) nuclear dominated future. We absolutely need people like the Beau channel.

I have a better idea, let's not build nuclear power plants like we did in the past. A gen. IV power plant will be nearly identical to a coal or natural gas plant because all of the power conversion equipment is the exact same. The power conversion side = 85% of the cost of a natural gas power plant. So build the heat making part, the reactors on an assembly line in a factory and churn out power plants at a rapid pace.