The CANDU Story 

You have too many naysayrers there currently, they will continue derailing any effort to go nuclear. The successes of tbe nuclear need to be pointed out over and over.

Can you undo a Murdock induced frontal lobotomy, rhymes with Candu.

As a Canadian, saying it's proliferation resistant is absolutely hilarious 😂

This guy's a salesman. I live in Toronto. My electric bill has gone from $15 a month to over $120 a month in the last 25 years. We've probably spent over $1 trillion on these nuclear programs and yet the plant that I work at has to shutdown from 3pm to 9pm on hot days because the electrical grid can't cope. Management cancelled the projects they had to update our biggest equipment and it's likely that it will shut down and move to a poor country. There are massive fines on carbon output. We're committing su!c!de and this guy is cheering it on.

It was regulated out of the US. When there is a loss of cooling accident it slowly heats up and if you don't do something for 7 days it has a problem. Which is kinda funny because one of the selling features of the GE Hitachi SMR is that it in an accident it can be safe for 7 days, after which you have a problem.

@@dodaexploda Interesting - Seems like the US would be a very good market for this reactor. Maybe Canada should ruffle a few feathers in US Regulatory circles. A mature technology that solves a real world problem in a less expensive manner than its peers ought to have widespread appeal to those who worship market solutions.

@@daniellarson3068 the US would be an excellent market for this reactor especially considering that they can run on spent fuel from a pressurized water reactor like the US uses. Not only that, it runs BETTER than it would from natural uranium. The US could be using the same fuel twice.

@@dodaexploda According to the internet, it can use Thorium as well. For many years, there has been talk of building Fermi 3 South of Detroit. This would be right in the backyard of CANDU country. Thanks for responding.

@@daniellarson3068 no problemo. Yup it can apparenlty run on Thorium as well.

But nuclear provides baseload power that is necessary for industrial and infrastructure processes. It also directly strengthens electrification of homes and businesses

@@GulmoharBloom do some simple maths. Millions of rooftops x a few m² with PV and all grid connected. 20% of all rooftops can easily outperform the central generation. In Australia, 25gW x 24hr = 600gWh 20 million 7kwh PV x 5hr = 700gWh But Australia needs 400gWh avg only. For example. So batteries filling up over 5 hours and discharged over 19 hours, no grid cash flow. It's the grid that needs 90% of normal cash flow. Nuclear is tiny but can not switch up and down. But if a little rooftop PV and BVs oversized battery parked 23hrs every, then nuclear economics is f..... Nuclear know this and wants Australian government disaster insurance, government construction, and then sell to private money with government cashflow Garrentees. Taxpayers' money. We have 100s of these government started projects, including poles and wires, tunnels, toll roads,hospitals, coal fired electricity power stations, and foreign investors in tax havens. SMRs are perfect for wealthy parking cash in government guaranteed investments. Open your eyes and follow these matters. Nuclear promoters will constantly talk about the technology, and when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow and base load and millions and millions of battery vehicles are rapid charging. For the first time in history your vehicle will be fueled up daily and the daily drive will make little difference to the full battery. The battery vehicles battery is oversized. BVs built for the long drive but parked 23hrs every day. Simple matter, 10,000 miles per year, 8,760 hours per year, 27 miles per day. Parked 23hrs every day. This is normal and V2G is a worry to grid owners. Talk to people interested in better thinking about this, government money can easily be wasted as we all know. Nuclear if running keep using it. But be smarter than the bs stuff. I am a Construction Engineer with decades of experience including the power industry. I am pissed of with the crap, and half talking.

What % of households globally are rich enough to: 1. Have a home in the first place and not an apartment or dirt floor hut. 2. Rich enough to afford a solar/battery system big enough to supply their own needs but also with the excess capacity to supply the grid? 3. Rich enough to afford oversized battery electric cars? 4. And these rich people don't mind not using their expensive BEV if the grid needs it. I think that breaks down to 11 people total globally.

@@chapter4travels 😊

@chapter4travels they are not the problemo.

Well - Neither GE nor Westinghouse built CANDU reactors as was plainly stated in the video. Nor has the presenter of these videos decried new technologies in his other videos. Whereas, you may be correct in that existing reactor manufacturers will wish to recoup their investments in BWRs and PWRs, this video did not impress this viewer as marketing for these products.