Why These Soviet-Era Reactors Are Being Taken Apart

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@TheB1M 14 дней назад

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@tulak2004 13 дней назад

Ehm, Slovakia was never part of the USSR. It was part of the Eastern Bloc, which is by far not the same. Back then, it was Czechoslovakia, which split into Czechia and Slovakia in 1994.

@himaro101 13 дней назад

While technically correct, I'd say it's splitting hairs. For all intents and purposes, the eastern block was governed by the USSR. Eastern Europe wasn't so much freed from Nazi Germany as put under new management at the end of WW2... I know it's probably taken in the same way as calling a Scottish or Welsh person English though.

@waffle3709 13 дней назад

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@MrSkipLim 13 дней назад

@@himaro101 They could not move freely between the Eastern Bloc and the USSR There was a different language

@bastisonnenkind 13 дней назад

@@himaro101 If that is splitting hairs then let me declare that th USA and Canada are the same country, or that the State of New York bekongs to Texas. See what I did there?

@semibbc 13 дней назад

@@himaro101 Thats not splitting hairs.. thats going bald

@LordManhattan 13 дней назад

Thank you for the instructions. I shall dismante my nuclear reactor tonight!

@Leo23XR 13 дней назад

Haha

@beaudavis3808 13 дней назад

You better not be an American, then.

@ohzone6464 13 дней назад

Don't be afraid < just what they want

@blaydCA 9 дней назад

I'm not touching mine until it's wheels fall off, or it explodes.😂

@The_3_Triangle 4 дня назад

just expand the operation

@ingo_8628 13 дней назад

Bohunice 1 & 2 are WWER-440/230, the same type as Greifswald-1 to 4, so not that new, when the Bohunice units shut down, the Greifswald units were already 11 and 13 Years into their dismantlingprocess. Also Slovakia was never part of the sovietunion, Czechoslovakia was only member of the Warsaw Pact.

@briangarrow448 13 дней назад

I’m probably one of the few people who watched this video that actually has worked on nuclear power plants. I’ve been fortunate enough to work on the containment vessel at a nuclear power station, the refueling machinery and the sacrificial shield walls of a nuclear reactor. I really believe that nuclear power has a role to play in our energy production matrix. And that opinion isn’t based on my previous work in the field. I’ve worked in multiple coal power stations, biomass and municipal waste stations, natural gas cogeneration plants and hydroelectric energy systems.

@BelaJuTe 13 дней назад

From your experience, what are the best forms of electricity generation?

@1968Christiaan 13 дней назад

There is a great video from a well known professor of energy resources, who proves with numbers, facts and graphs exactly the opposite. He shows that PV in Germany is even reducing the usage of nuclear in france. Nuclear is just too expensive and is too much of an economic risk. His video is called "droht das Atom-Aus in Frankreich"

@briangarrow448 13 дней назад

@@BelaJuTe I’m a huge fan of hydroelectric power. I also think that tidal power has great potential promise for our future. The fact is that every type of power generation has its positive points as well as downsides. I believe we are going to need a BROAD mix of different types of power sources to serve our future needs. I am enthusiastic about small nuclear power generation systems, tidal, solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal energy generation. Variety is the key for the future.

@toggleton6365 13 дней назад

@@1968Christiaan And with the prices for Battery storage dropping fast right now cause of scaling up of the production will make it more and more a no brainer to have all houses with a PV and battery. So the storage close to the consumption and less usage of the grid.

@aggonzalezdc 13 дней назад

@@toggleton6365what are you going to do with all those batteries at their end of life? Decommissioning is something required of nearly every power system, and batteries are some of the worst.

@copperdraws 13 дней назад

I wish you would stop taking masterworks sponsorships.

@marklandwehr7604 3 дня назад

Tell me how does it feel to want 😂

@andyroo3022 22 часа назад

Someone has to make the wealthy that buy the art even wealthier. Recycle the waste products into paintings that glow under UV light.

@DeadlySIlence92 13 дней назад

30 years old? i'd say well over 50 years for most of the reactors. And since when was slovakia part of the ussr? :o

@GamingGrenade1 13 дней назад

Now _this_ is a subject I wasn't expecting to learn about in this week's B1M video

@L17_8 13 дней назад

God sent His son Jesus to die for our sins on the cross. This was the ultimate expression of God's love for us. Then God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day. Please repent and turn to Jesus and receive Salvation now before it is too late. The end times written about in the Bible are already happening in the world. Jesus loves you with all His heart ❤️ but time is running out.

@sammy2tyres 3 дня назад

How do you do italics in comments, pls?

@GamingGrenade1 3 дня назад

@@sammy2tyres Put an underscore before and after the text you want to make _italic_ . You can also make the text *bold* or -strikethrough- by using asterisks or hyphens respectively

@CsendesMark 13 дней назад

2:01 formerly part of the ussr????? How do you fact check your stuff?

@Gecmajster123456 13 дней назад

he is right, wasnt part of the Western countries, or the Europen Union.. do you get it?!

@Gecmajster123456 13 дней назад

its an officail document, Csendes, keeps silent, thats your surname..

@Gecmajster123456 13 дней назад

the Szomszedok was a really depressing HU-USSR series.. btw, don't even dare deny it

@heinzaballoo3278 13 дней назад

Yeah it's sloppy as hell

@kristoffer3000 13 дней назад

@@Gecmajster123456 Bro, you're drooling.

@TobiKellner 13 дней назад

Did you just say that Slovakia was formerly part of the USSR?

@gryff8400 13 дней назад

Yes he did. Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia which was part of the Warsaw pact. USSR was something else and also part of the Warsaw pact. Did you expect accuracy on RU-vid?

@user-dt5nj3uk2s 13 дней назад

Same thing lol no country in the poop pact had any free will whatsoever.

@MichalBrat 13 дней назад

@@user-dt5nj3uk2s Sure, that is why they had to literally invade several of them (1956, 1968...) because they were the same thing, right?

@Gecmajster123456 13 дней назад

do you UNDERSTAND that Slovakia was ruled by the Soviets???

@MichalBrat 13 дней назад

@@Gecmajster123456 it WAS NOT, no matter how much you SHOUT. Czechoslovakia was under heavy influence of the USSR, but was never ruled by the Soviets, whoever that is in your understanding of the history.

@merely-an-user 8 дней назад

"Slowakia was a part of Soviet Union" I'm dead 💀

@donc-m4900 13 дней назад

Confusing. It happened in 2011-2022 . So it's done. But is it expected to cost 1.3B US? And then you lead into Masterworks.

@edyee1647 13 дней назад

"Confusing. It happened in 2011-2022. So it's done" Bro, he already said it at 2:40.

@donc-m4900 13 дней назад

@@edyee1647 right Bro, so why is it expected to cost 1.3B? It's over.

@LeVoDECoM 13 дней назад

Love the reports, but the ads oh boy pls dont

@Leo23XR 13 дней назад

What ads ?

@PhilliesNostalgia 13 дней назад

@@Leo23XRMasterworks

@user-ds8rj2vc4v 13 дней назад

@@Leo23XR The one that occupied like 25% of the video.

@Leo23XR 13 дней назад

@@user-ds8rj2vc4v I don't have any ads. It's on you bro.

@GeekyMedia 12 дней назад

you get this video for free. How else can a channel like this function and put out weekly high-quality videos?

@rampel1 13 дней назад

Bulgaria also shut down it"s VVER-400/WWER. They don't meet some requirements for safety and bioshield. VVER-1000 work fine. However ours were not disassembled. Interesting video

@lukasvrabec5783 13 дней назад

VVER 10%0 are newer design, with containment, which is missing in 440 design, or rather be using barborage instead, but that is not up to the EU standart, as there are no such type of reactor, construction philosophy in EU-15.

@KarlKarpfen 12 дней назад

@@lukasvrabec5783 You can license reactors with the same containment type as the VVER-440/230 in the EU, like the AP1000, for example. The key point of the VVER-440/230 is, that the containment was not designed to withstand most of the expectable damages. It was only designed to withstand a slow gradual leakage of the reactor vessel, but no major failures, like a pipe rupturing or a corroded through RPV-head bursting or such. In those cases, the VVER-440/230's reactor building would just burst together with the primary loop.

@gecho194 13 дней назад

Before SMRs can be fully adopted they have to uh you know ... exist.

@1968Christiaan 13 дней назад

Yeh the only company that actually got half way to making one went bankrupt with the explanation " it was just too expensive". Very honest, if a little late.

@anuvisraa5786 4 дня назад

they exist are used in submarines, ice breakers, and aircraft carriers

@gecho194 4 дня назад

@@anuvisraa5786 bespoke military reactors are not SMRs.

@anuvisraa5786 4 дня назад

@@gecho194 they are small (lest that 100 mw) they are modular (several ships have more than one) and they are reactors so

@keeganplayz1875 4 дня назад

You'd think a smaller modular reactor design would be more cost effective....but..they are actually more expensive to research and develop + test....😅

@samueltrusik3251 13 дней назад

Slovakia is mentioned. Thousands of Slovaks must watch!

@SomeKidFromBritain 11 дней назад

Are you a slovak?

@samueltrusik3251 11 дней назад

@@SomeKidFromBritain Indeed.

@SomeKidFromBritain 11 дней назад

@@samueltrusik3251 Cool

@buckyV 13 дней назад

Cheers to Fred and the team, y’all truly are the #1 channel for construction

@L17_8 13 дней назад

@dado57k 13 дней назад

Have been waiting for an episode about Slovakia for so long and the absolutely wrong pronunciation of our towns did not disappoint lol. Gotta love that you just gave up on Jaslovské bohunice and just called it just Bohunice, which is a totally different village instead instead :D

@jaskij 11 дней назад

It's old news, but if you had to pick an old Soviet reactor decomissioning to cover, why not Ignalina? It has the additional fun fact of being only a small update to the Chernobyl design.

@krashd 9 дней назад

Ignalina predates Chernobyl so how could it be an update?

@jaskij 9 дней назад

@@krashd Ignalina predates the Chernobyl disaster, not the plant.

@calcog5716 2 дня назад

Ignalina got decomissioned

@GazMoby 13 дней назад

Very enjoyable as always 👍

@CalimehChelonia 13 дней назад

I once stood directly under a reactor pressure vessel, in the only nuclear power plant that was never put into operation and is now a kind of museum. It is located in Austria.

@nicky9499 8 дней назад

Tom Scott has done a video about it, from a couple years back

@jfmezei 13 дней назад

In modern era, one disadvantage of nuclear reactors is their inability to rapidly adjust to demand/supply (for instance ramp down when solar/wind produce enough to supply the load and quickly ramp back up when wind dies down and the sun sets).

@spacecube8561 13 дней назад

so, unreliability of solar and wind is the problem, then?

@joshgardner4879 13 дней назад

it's called 'base load' and you need it

@luc_libv_verhaegen 13 дней назад

@@joshgardner4879 Easy, buy grid level battery storage. You can buy 88GWh worth of expensive tesla megapacks for the price of building one EDF EPR. And that's before that reactor has had uranium fuel loaded, with all the costs that entails. This is about a years worth of battery storage production today, but this production capacity increases by 2/3rds every year since 2017.

@juimymary9951 13 дней назад

@@luc_libv_verhaegen the problem with that is that we don’t have batteries that are cheap enough and energy efficient enough to be used on an industrial scale… pumped hydro is working pretty well, but unless cheap solid state batteries become a thing they won’t be happening any time soon.

@jfmezei 13 дней назад

@@joshgardner4879 Hydro Québec is able to dynamically adjust its hydro electroc production based on how much solar/wind bring into the grid. By turning off turbines, it keeps water in the reservoir for later when it is used. The perverse: HQ normally exports to the USA. But when the USA has surpkus, because their "base load" can,t dynamically adjust (coal, nuclear, though natural gas can be adjusted quickly depending on design), the don't know what to do with surplus, so Hydro Québec buys the surplus for dirt cheap while tring off its own turbines and keep water in reservurs, Later, when tghe USa needs power, HQ will release that water to provide more power and sell it to USA. Where base load cannot be dynamically adjusted, it is useless to have renewables because you don't save anything as your base load continues to produce.

@bretwebber7484 13 дней назад

Wazzup from Hanford site 😊!

@Suburp212 13 дней назад

Cool review.

@KarlKarpfen 12 дней назад

For a pressurized water reactor 30 years is as old as 5 years is for a car: not even half the life it has The design lifetime of 40 years for reactors from the 60s and 70s was based on extremely conservative estimates on neutron radiation embrittlement of steel. They chose an estimate that was sufficiently conservative to still meet or exceed the design life. The actual safe operational lifetime of pressurized and boiling water reactors is, so far, unknown, but definitely above 80 years.

@regulus6936 13 дней назад

Actually, Italy (current government and people) looks pretty serious to embark on the nuclear "adventure", unlike Germany where it has come to an end.

@kingofthend 13 дней назад

They will reconsider once they see the price tag for a new nuclear reactor lol

@toggleton6365 13 дней назад

My guess would be that you have different needs for other fuels. Cause of different temperatures and amount of power that you want to get out of it. For the same design with same characteristics maybe.

@---...---...---...---... 13 дней назад

@@kingofthend The government is the primary cause of expenses in nuclear so if they decide not to be idiots it can be done pretty cheaply, like South Korea does it, but I doubt that is possible in Italy where they make a virtue out of being inefficient in everything they do...

@spacecube8561 13 дней назад

@@kingofthend they only need to see how much money germany wasted on not-being-nuclear-powered to see that nuclear is the future

@luc_libv_verhaegen 13 дней назад

@@spacecube8561 We no longer live in the 1970s, we have cheap solar, cheap wind and cheap batteries, and all are getting cheaper by the day. So get some actual facts and figures. Do you know what the cost per MWh of Germany's nuclear fleet was. Do you know the usual day ahead pricing per MWh in germany, and how often said pricing matches a price where nuclear power would have been profitable (hint: SMARD)? Do you know who pays for liability insurance for nuclear reactors (hint: Deutsche Kernreaktor-Versicherungsgemeinschaft), never mind dismantling or long term storage (belgium has some info: google for: "Ontmanteling kerncentrales kost minstens"). Do you know the construction cost of a modern nuclear reactor (hint: hinkley point C, and read up on "capacity factor"), compared to the cost of the most expensive renewable; offshore wind (hint: dogger bank) versus the cost of battery storage (hint: tesla mega pack). While you are at it, you can look up "strike price" and compare Hinkley versus Dogger. Please take the time to get some facts and figures and do some simple maths, and then you will quickly see that building new nuclear is economic suicide, and that inserting new uranium fuel rods in Germany's few remaining nuclear power plants by April 2023 would have been bad economics.

@petriepretorius4085 13 дней назад

this is interesting... lesson to learn, when you design something that you are going to build, do it with the end in mind, to make decommissioning easier and cheaper...that complicates the design phase, but makes it better...but will it make the quality of the build better or worse? design better...thank you Fred, for yet another good one...

@AriHD 13 дней назад

I'm always waiting for the smooth transition to the sponsor😂

@jfobear1953 13 дней назад

It is unlikely that “small” reactors will be adopted. They are still too expensive and take too long to be installed and permitted. Also to be taken into account are the hazards of mining and refining the fuel.

@stickynorth 13 дней назад

LOL.... FUD MONSTER ALERT!

@stickynorth 13 дней назад

Wrong. They are affordable enough to be deployed now. Why aren't you asking to kill Coal when it kills WAY MORE PEOPLE??????? REALLY... Talk about misplaced priorities...

@toggleton6365 13 дней назад

@@stickynorth Then ask NuScale what happened to their project in Ohio that already got quite a big Subsidy by the Inflation reduction act. And the likely hood of SMR projects going big overprice is not low. The fun part is that they are already overpriced when calculating with full load. But with so cheap Solar power pushing into the market the load will need to adjust and the price per kWh will rise even more. And we should have reached peak coal already where the worldwide consumption will go down. Battery storage prices already dropping quite a lot sooner than expected. The next years will mean big changes in the energy system.

@erik7853 13 дней назад

Small mistake that i spotted at 1:58, The other 6 reactors are also soviet, and 4 of them stay running with 2 of them under construction again.

@macjonte 13 дней назад

Sweden set aside money for the very produced kWh for the dismantle instead of subsidy nuclear.

@lawrencefrost9063 12 дней назад

This was SUPERB. I took many screenshots for myself for example 5:00 and 6:45

@ProgrammerInProgress 13 дней назад

Enjoyable video, also really happy to see the editing has gone back to visually pleasing smooth and bouncy transitions, and that horrible glitchy aesthetic has fallen out of fashion. I actually watched this one instead of just listening to it.

@BullwinkleFFMn 13 дней назад

It seems strange to smash the blocks of the containment walls into "rubble". It would seem easier to contain a radioactive block than a pile of powder. I guess powder is cheaper to deal with.

@PB-Trinity 13 дней назад

I don't know about atomic H bombs. But I know about F bombs. The Fred bomb. The infinite power source we all need...

@GeekyMedia 12 дней назад

this is the comment we're looking for.

@GeekyMedia 12 дней назад

Awesome video. I wonder if we'll be doing the same in a few decades to our current power sources...? - Maybe one to answer on the podcast

@gery4870 13 дней назад

What is the song name at 4:57 and 5:16 which is being played in the back ground ? ? Thanks :)

@JeanJuliusVernal 5 дней назад

Interesting watch. Absolutely true, modern practices like digital twins, data analytics, and stakeholder engagement play pivotal roles in the effective design and management of modern nuclear power plants. They are essential for ensuring safe, sustainable, and economically efficient operations throughout the asset lifecycle-from initial design and construction to operational management, aging care, and eventual decommissioning.

@vejet 9 дней назад

Small modular reactors are simply not cost effective on a per MW basis and unlikely to ever see widespread adaptation. The future is still large scale nuclear and renewables with battery storage.

@joermnyc 13 дней назад

Some of the background music reminded me of Kraftwerk’s album Radioactivity.

@erikziak1249 13 дней назад

1:55 Correction. Slovakia was never a part of the USSR, not even when in Czechoslovakia, which was also never part of the USSR. Check what you are saying!

@krashd 9 дней назад

Just as you should check for similar comments before adding to the bloat.

@erikziak1249 9 дней назад

@@krashd Since when do I need to check other comments?

@fields1 8 дней назад

Just curious why certain things like the cooling towers couldn’t be reused with a new power plant unless they were also in poor condition. Seems like certain things were destroyed just to destroy it.

@toggleton6365 2 дня назад

My guess would be that different NPP designs need different cooling towers to operate optimal. And it seems unlikely that they rebuild a VVER design. And newer designs with a higher power output will likely be to much for a VVER 400 cooling tower.

@martinm8380 22 часа назад

They were in poor condition. Chunks of concrete missing visible corroded rebar cracks etc. You could not see it in video but you could in real life.

@divyanshameta9516 13 дней назад

Can you make video on, most difficult project of Indian railway in last 100 years, USBRL (udampur shrinagar baramula railway line) which includes 90% tracks on bridges and tunnel, and 2 record holder railway bridges in it, one is world tallest railway arc bridge.

@BRACHANET 13 дней назад

Im from Slovakia, and now new goverment is making a project for new Nuclear power plant on place where Bohunice were, and it should be similar small modular reactors like that one at the end of the video.

@kpakaify 13 дней назад

Thanks for comment. Do you know who will build it?

@etelabaloghova6711 13 дней назад

@@kpakaify The new block of the nuclear power plant should have an output of approximately 1,200 megawatts. Due to the lack of resources in the state budget, the government will have to proceed with the construction of the reactor in the form of a PPP project. According to him, a private investor in such cases demands a guaranteed purchase price of electricity for decades.

@1968Christiaan 13 дней назад

@@kpakaify According to Wikipedia : Decision made in May 2009 -manufacturer not yet decided.... "Four manufacturers have been mooted as possible suppliers: Mitsubishi, Atomenergoprojekt, Westinghouse and Areva"

@luc_libv_verhaegen 13 дней назад

@@1968Christiaan Westinghouse went bankrupt in 2017, which is why they cancelled the VC summers project. They recently got sold again for just 7.9B EUR, which is about a third of what it would cost to build one of their reactors... Areva and the nuclear part of Mitsubishi is now Framatom. Which would have been bankrupt for building an EPR in Olkiluoto if they had not been majority owned by EDF, aka the French state. So really good point.

@davidbrain283 13 дней назад

It powered the entire of Slovakia for 5 years just one nuclear reactor?? Holy cow!!

@MassiveBuild 13 дней назад

Dismantling a nuclear reactor is a complex process: Shutdown: The reactor is powered down, and all nuclear fuel is removed. Cooling: The reactor and its components are allowed to cool down to reduce radioactivity levels. Decontamination: Radioactive surfaces are cleaned or removed to protect workers and the environment. Disassembly: The reactor is taken apart piece by piece. Highly radioactive parts are handled with special care. Waste Management: Radioactive materials are safely packaged and transported to storage or disposal facilities. Site Cleanup: The area is cleaned and restored for other uses once it’s free from radiological hazards. what do you think?!

@erasmus_locke 13 дней назад

I was here before the thumbnail and title were changed

@obongonigga 13 дней назад

Ummm Slovakia was never a part of the USSR and I don't get how Chernobyl nuclear disaster is related to these, unlike RBMK reactors used in Chernobyl, VVER design used here is inherently safer so I have reasons to believe it was shut down due to stupid politics, not actual security concern

@xxwookey 13 дней назад

VVER is not as bad as RBMK (nothing is!) but there were serious issues in the early VVER designs, meaning they didn't meet European requirements any more. So it's not just silly politics.

@tintin_999 10 дней назад

It would be cool if the B1M team could do a video on the Transformational Challenge Reactor and its Yttrium Hydride moderator. This could be a real enabling technology for SMRs that do not use water as a moderator and coolant. For example Helium, heavy Nitrogen, Lead, or molten salt cooled reactors. Until now water cooled reactors had an advantage over these types as they had the best moderator, the hydrogen in the water. But Yttrium Hydride contains as much hydrogen and is stable as a solid to well over 1000 degrees Celsius.

@denisemckinlay4783 12 дней назад

how radio active was this waste? and how far away from it before it equals background radioactivity? I only ever hear that it is radioactive, so is my dads wrist watch.

@rolandharmer6402 13 дней назад

How expensive is nuclear power once you take in account the cost of decommissioning?

@conradharcourt8263 12 дней назад

I'm obviously missing something: why is it not possible to re-use parts of these structures to house modern reactors? The buildings seem sound and the sites obviously are already linked to the grid. That said it seems strange to me to see what in the video look like blocks of flats a few dozen metres from the reactor building!

@kallekangasmaki311 5 дней назад

The blocks of flats are probably support buildings, NPPs need a lot of offices and other non-industrial working spaces, too. Some powerplants have in integrated directly to the powerplant itself, but not all/most. The reasons not to reuse the buildings are numerous, but probably the biggest once are safety and economics. While the building is in good condition most likely, it can easily be 40-50 years old which isn't new for any building. Most modern reactors are meant to be used up to 60-80 years and the building is hard to modernize once it's build. Also, every reactor is unique to some extent, and fitting a newer reactor to an old building would cost a ton, limit the design, and just building it inside the old building could be almost impossible due to how large (up to 500 ton components) and how complex it would be. Using an old building for a new reactor would probably force a slightly lower standard of safety in the new reactor, compared to using a new bulding. Also a more minor problem is the activation of materials by neutron radiation, outside the pressure vessel it's usually only minor, but depending on the reactor type, this could still be a large portion of the containment building. This isn't a problem as is, but does cause higher doses for workers. My knowledge isn't so much in the engineering, but in radiation protection.

@conradharcourt8263 2 дня назад

@@kallekangasmaki311 Thank you for your reply. I had obviously considered the points you raise. Are you convinced that the risk to personnel caused by demolition of the buildings is significantly greater than would be incurred by reusing them, and surely the risk of contaminated material reaching the external environment is greater? Naturally, old buildings would require some modification, undoubtedly the roof would need to be removed to allow, as you suggest, equipment to be installed. But surely the extremely heavy duty concrete structure would last for more than a few decades? I fear that the reason that it seems that no attempt is ever made to reuse reactor buildings is that the building snd installation contractors will certainly profit more from stating that the problems mentioned above are insurmountable!!🤓

@matthewlewis5631 12 дней назад

5:14 some gardener in 100 years is going to exclaim “where the fuck did all this concrete come from!? Fucking lazy builders!” 😂

@christopherleubner6633 5 дней назад

The best solution is to go all in with fuel reprocessing and use the more energetic isotopes for useful industrial processes, for example the 137Cs can be used to purify biologically contaminated water, and the 90Sr can be used for space probe RTG modules. It emits stronger radiation than purpose made 238Pu but it is a lot hotter per gram and decays into harmless yttrium.

@Mar_Ten 13 дней назад

I wonder how the contamination got everywhere. Most reactors are closed loop and I thought the fuel would stay in the rods.

@aurorajones8481 13 дней назад

We have lost so much ditching this technology. And those who know know it was done for industry, money and power. Not for the human good.

@1968Christiaan 13 дней назад

No it was done for the economics and public interest.

@11jdstein 13 дней назад

I’m interested in your take on why most power plants continue to use the same old technology to generate power: steam to turn a turbine. What other technologies are available?

@toggleton6365 13 дней назад

cause it is a proven design. We know how to make a stable power grid out of steam. heat source does not matter. In the future will it be interesting as Solar power and wind turbines usually follow the heartbeat of the grid with a high renewables grid you need to do grid forming a different way.

@gmhs2 12 дней назад

It's the most efficient method, and the simplest to set up. Make no mistake though, modern day steam turbines are immensely complex machines that hold and generate massive amounts of power, a single turbine unit can generate nearly a gigawatt alone in larger plants.

@nwmacguy 8 дней назад

VVER-440s are good for 60 years with a reactor pressure vessel annealing at the 30 year mark. Finland and others have done this with their VVER-440s.

@toggleton6365 2 дня назад

This is about a specific version of the VVER 400 that got removed. Newer version of VVER 400 and 1000 are fine. Guess this specific version has cut corners and has not the needed safety systems build in. And likely is not build to have the safety features added later.

@wfhutcjo59975gidajl 13 дней назад

How do you recycle concrete?

@kentslocum 12 дней назад

Ah, yes...because fine art will be more valuable in an emergency than an operating power plant. 😂

@brabecjakub 13 дней назад

Slovensko! Rozebírají reaktory i vládu :D

@artofcr1mson 13 дней назад

je to tak

@JanNovak-pg8oe 12 дней назад

A-1 se rozebírá od roku 1977. Kolik bylo mezitím vlád? 😀

@brabecjakub 12 дней назад

@@JanNovak-pg8oe slovensko bylo divoký dycky!

@NyznTvfk 8 дней назад

this reminded me of Günter Walraff 's Ganz Unten.

@rustix3 13 дней назад

1:46 "being decommissioned for a different reason". But it was because of joining EU, which had as you already mentioned at 1:37 "new regulations"

@licencetoswill 12 дней назад

it's not physics that negates nuclear power, it's economics. And that is unfortuantely evident when billions of dollars and a decade or two are required not just for construction but decommissioning. It is up to 400% more expensive than renewables plus storage, and has a lower up-time, thanks to frequent re-fuelling. we have a long way to go to make it cheap and safe, not to say we shouldn't be researching it.

@angry1788 2 дня назад

Where HAS a small modular reactor been adopted?

@zapfanzapfan 10 дней назад

B1M, now also number one channel for deconstruction 🙂

@Ailasher 5 дней назад

Nice job! I'd like to know more about nuclear power in the UK and France, that parts of the U.S. I.e. the 51st and 52nd states of this great nation!

@7om3k 13 дней назад

Slovakia wasn't in the USSR!

@lgarestrada 13 дней назад

It was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1968.

@AntaurySan 8 дней назад

@@lgarestrada Doesn't make any difference. It was still part of independent country of Czechoslovakia. Highly influenced by Soviets, but not part of USSR.

@MitzvosGolem1 2 дня назад

CZ was ...

@jet_novice9901 День назад

It was part of the eastern block with a Soviet puppet state style government

@chodaboydc 13 дней назад

what did they replace them with?

@luc_libv_verhaegen 13 дней назад

Renewables, you can construct 12-15x solar or onshore wind for the equivalent nuclear peak power. So even if you factor in capacity factors, you get out way ahead. And renewables have liability insurance factored into their electricity pricing.

@chodaboydc 13 дней назад

@@luc_libv_verhaegen good luck with that 👀

@luc_libv_verhaegen 13 дней назад

@@chodaboydc Start looking at some facts and numbers, and do some trivial maths, it is a no-brainer.

@chodaboydc 13 дней назад

@@luc_libv_verhaegenyeah, it's all a big conspiracy my man, you just build a caouple of wind farms and that's it 😂 in reality, they probably built another nuclear plant because they actually can do the math

@lukefrahn8538 12 дней назад

virtue signalling clowns

@bow-tiedengineer4453 13 дней назад

It sucks that they are fully tearing down the site. Obviously the reactor vessel itself needs replacing if it doesn't meet modern safety standards, but I don't understand why they didn't retrofit the plant to use a modern, safe reactor, and reuse a lot of the other infrastructure like the cooling towers, steam generators, and turbines, to generate power with a more modern reactor. It seems like that would be way cheaper, and would have less impact on their electrical grid and local economy. Also, if we're going to meet climate goals, we need more nuclear, not less. Including Chernobyl and all other nuclear disasters, nuclear has caused less deaths per kilowatt hour than any fossil fuel method of power generation, and even if you go really overboard and include the deaths caused by the nuclear bombings in WW2, nuclear still has less deaths per kilowatt hour than coal does. Coal power has even emmitted more radioactive debris into the atmosphere than nuclear, as the trace heavy metals in coal are released without any effort to mitigate it, while nuclear is highly regulated and emits virtually zero uncontained radioactive material. To put into perspective how incredibly safe modern nuclear power is, if you don't count Chernobyl, nuclear has the least deaths per kilowatt hour of any power generation method, including solar and wind, due to workplace accidents where people fall when installing panels on roofs or maintaining wind turbine.

@KReMieN0K 13 дней назад

There are still 2 working reactors there, so they were 5, now 3 are gone, 2 are working and they want to start to build a new reactor in close future

@xEddy3013x 13 дней назад

The segue into the sponsor read was in really bad taste. Did not appreciate it

@zainmudassir2964 13 дней назад

Hello . Hope you make video on China nuclear reactors under in Pakistan and it's safety concerns. Thank and love your channel

@jeffsnider3588 3 дня назад

So spend enormous energy and funding to cut up radioactive materials then transport it to another area where it is stored. Why not remove the fuel and mothball the facility in place as a hazardous material storage site?

@maximvf 4 дня назад

No domestic tech to refuel and maintain the system. Imported tech is expensive beyond imagination. Decommission seems feasible at this point.

@NotALot-xm6gz 13 дней назад

Is the answer “Because they were built by the Soviets and you have be really careful taking them apart”?

@Powertampa 13 дней назад

Every commercial reactor design that was produced in numbers had a decommissioning plan when it was built, despite what it might seem like. This is universal across the world and maybe even more true for some earlier designs that were not of the quality that would instill the confidence they would not have to take the whole thing apart again. They messed a lot of things up back then, but they did make plans for what to do at the end of the working life of the reactor. Just under different standards and concerns compared to nowadays. Doesn't mean you couldn't still do it that way, heck some actually still do despite the protest of the IAEA.

@SiggyPony 13 дней назад

We have non in my country. Saddness :( It's frustrating how demonised nuclear power is and how much of the anti nuclear stuff is misinformation and fear mongering

@JohnnyWednesday 13 дней назад

If it can be done to nuclear power? imagine what else is similarly demonized

@Dr_Larken 3 дня назад

0:42 anyone that thinks nuclear power is a thing of the past… it should be our future! But some countries prefer to be dependent on another country instead of building nuclear power plants! I mean, look at Germany! Given the fact that oil isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. But billions are going into green technology not nuclear power just shows it has nothing to do with anything other than money!

@cappuccino-1721 3 дня назад

I thought the VVER reactors were safer than the RBMK reactors?

@toggleton6365 2 дня назад

in this it is the VVER 400 and only a specific version of it that got removed. Newer version of VVER 400 and 1000 are still running in the EUj

@WolfhuntFayed День назад

The EU was stupid - both WWER reactors in Bohunice were of much different design compared to Chernobyl design., which was reactor places in a deep pool of water. WWER reactrs are pressurized and concealed.

@ravenfeeder1892 13 дней назад

Couldn't the turbines be reused? Or do this design only work with this style of nuclear power station?

@beaudavis3808 13 дней назад

You are asking an interesting question. Steam turbines need steam, just is it. Everything else is in the air.

@Thefox0922 13 дней назад

If it’s still functional It could work with other nuclear plants or any other power stations that heat water to create steam

@harrymaciolek9629 13 дней назад

Do you want to reuse turbines that are 40 or fifty years old? And if you did, where would you get the replacement parts. Cheaper to buy new.

@toivopirttimaki9156 13 дней назад

replace the old one with the new one what is broken replace the reactor part with a new reactor

@1968Christiaan 13 дней назад

If you are looking at the prices for "building a new one" the numbers just are not on your side. The market has killed-off nuclear... not "fearfull greens".

@user-ds8rj2vc4v 13 дней назад

Why? A single nuclear reactor would cost about £30 billion.Which would provide solar panels for approximately 5,000,000 homes. There are about 30,000,000 homes in the UK. So instead of 1 nuclear plant, you could give solar panels to about 1/6th of the entire country - offsetting the need for nearly as much additional energy sources in the first place.

@toggleton6365 13 дней назад

nuclear has a steady output solar has sun hours. Would better calculate with PV and battery in a big enough size. But the example is still great. Maybe you can still give PV plus battery to 1/15 of UK.

@JohnnyWednesday 13 дней назад

@@user-ds8rj2vc4v - But then less money would go to the energy companies? I don't see how we're going to afford to bribe politicians as much as the energy companies can.

@user-ds8rj2vc4v 13 дней назад

@@toggleton6365 The solar has far lower potential risk, far easier to integrate into existing infrastructure and would give the power back to the people. Reducing bills from the start. It would also make us richer. That 5,000,000 homes would effectively shave about £750-1000 per year from their bills. Imagine if each household every year had an extra £750 - 1000. How would that help in things like stimulating the economy? More spending means more jobs.

@falconresistance 12 дней назад

This is just mylta powers. Good drop out of way to loot up befor heading to Pochinki or Gakta fields for final circle.

@NyznTvfk 8 дней назад

well instead of cutting and relocating all that stuff they might just fill it with cement....

@rustix3 13 дней назад

0:55 "much cleaner than fossil fuels ... there's a drive to build more powerplants" Unfortunately no drive in World's 3rd economy: Germany 😢As far as I remember when they agreed to stop all nuclear powerplants, they started digging and consuming more coal, because green party wanted to stop nuclear power

@toggleton6365 13 дней назад

are we talking about 2002 nuclear stop or fukushima based stop in 2009? 2009 was CDU and FDP. greens have been not in the government at that time. And the plan of the greens was to accelerate renewables a lot more than the CDU ruled government did in their 16years. The coal consumption in Germany was mostly steady since 2000 till 2018. With some heavy winters more and some years less. And is right now as low as it was in 1956. At the same time as the last nuclear reactors have been shut down and gas prices have been used as weapon by putin. Would it be better to get rid of coal first sure but this was a development that fueled a lot of discussions nearly every year. So it is what it is. Fokus now on getting the co2 emissions down of the country instead of repeating the discussion again. Enough work to do.

@spacecube8561 13 дней назад

@@toggleton6365 shutting down coal power plants instead of nuclear power plants would've gotten germany's co2 emmisions preety low. i mean, just sayin'

@rustix3 13 дней назад

@@toggleton6365 I was talking about the recent event, the full stop under the traffic light coalition

@neondemon5137 13 дней назад

wery wery carefully

@L17_8 13 дней назад

God sent His son Jesus to die for our sins on the cross. This was the ultimate expression of God's love for us. Then God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day. Please repent and turn to Jesus and receive Salvation now before it's too late. The end times written about in the Bible are already happening in the world. Jesus loves you so much ❤️ but time is almost up.

@Thefox0922 13 дней назад

@@L17_8what does that have to do with nuclear reactors

@asimoford4994 11 дней назад

Soviet made things may not be the best but they are always long lasting & reliable...

@paulbradford6475 13 дней назад

Great video! Now if only there'd be an end-of-life plan for wind turbines and solar panels. If EOL costs were added to construction estimates for wind and solar, how many would be built now?

@toggleton6365 13 дней назад

This week, the European Council confirmed that solar module manufacturers will bear responsibility for the waste disposal and recycling of modules in the EU. News from march 2024 and for wind turbines new designs are way better to recycle. Old designs need to be dissolved in special acid. But it is possible.

@paulbradford6475 13 дней назад

@@toggleton6365 Thanks for this update.

@luc_libv_verhaegen 13 дней назад

This calculation should also include full liability insurance. German nuclear power plants were only insured for 250M EUR each back when Fukushima happened. You should also google for "Onkala", and compare it to simple landfilling or incineration needed for turbine blades.

@AndreFTSG 13 дней назад

they could use the acquired "know how" to build a reactor in its place.... and maybe even more throughout Slovakia.... just sayin´....

@michaelnguyen9348 9 дней назад

The know how is no longer there, its in czechia, in pilsen, Škoda Nuclear heavyworks which built around 20 npps all around the world, sadly its been quietly gutted and gutted like most of Czechoslovak industrial base, ČKD Works, the largest tram manufacturer in the world with trams exported to around 130 cities all around the world from Peru to North korea has been with all 50,000 employess left to despair in the 90s,

@tobiwan001 13 дней назад

The share of nuclear power in global electricity production has halved over the last 30 years. It will continue to shrink as so many old reactors will have to go offline. Only France and China plan to even build a substantial amount of new reactors. The others are just dabbling a bit.

@luc_libv_verhaegen 13 дней назад

Define substantial. France has 61GWp nuclear capacity. 56GWp of that will have been active for over 50ys in the next decade. Back in the summer of 2022, the french nuclear industry was in dire straits and less than half of the capacity was available for electricity generation. Partly due to the usual refuelling cycles, partly due to defects found, partly due to high water temperatures and low water levels in the rivers that most french nuclear power plants use for cooling. So Macron threw the french nuclear industry a bone and announced the intention to build 6 new reactors, for a grand total of 9.6GWp of new generation. Given that it takes 5+ys of planning, and 10-15ys of building, for new capacity to come online, i do not see anything real happening here. Especially since the economics of nuclear is suicidal, which is a few orders of magnitude worse than abysmal :)

@cgsdesigns441 11 дней назад

That looks like it would explode in 2 seconds.

@TomUlcak 13 дней назад

I'll have to say goodbye. I've realized that your channel is ideological posing as science. Have a good life...

@jeffwei 11 дней назад

0:50 oof not Taiwan being shown as part of China

@DavidLimofLimReport 13 дней назад

Slovakia. Leading the way in football and now nuclear reactor removals.

@matthewgray5420 11 дней назад

This conveniently come out after a week of public debate in Australia over nuclear plants

@tjtarget2690 4 дня назад

Notification Squad!!! :D

@jcramond73 2 дня назад

Molten Salt reactors are the way to go.

@estimatingonediscoveringthree 13 дней назад

Where does all that contaminated material and gear go? Who pays for the clean up

@xxwookey 13 дней назад

Into an appropriate low-level or high-level nuclear waste store, as explained in the video. One useful feature of radioactive pollution is that it naturally decays so if you leave it for long enough it stops being harmful. Most other harmful waste does not have this 'self-improving' property. There is typically 100:1 ratio between low-level waste and high-level waste. Requirements for storing the latter are strict and most countries still only have temporary stores due to failing to chose sites for permanent ones. Finland is a notable exception.

@estimatingonediscoveringthree 13 дней назад

@@xxwookey for how long, who pays for maintenance ? How long is the longest running repository been in operation (historical data)

@xxwookey 13 дней назад

@@estimatingonediscoveringthree You don't 'maintain' a permanent waste storage facility. You fill it up (over several decades), backfill it and leave it. So there is no attached cost once it's full/closed.

@estimatingonediscoveringthree 13 дней назад

@@xxwookey lol! Yes you do! Name one that isn’t maintained!!

@xxwookey 13 дней назад

@@estimatingonediscoveringthree I'm only aware of one (Onkalo) and it's only just been opened so of course it's not full yet, so it's a long way from entering the 'completed and no longer maintained' state. Are we perhaps talking at cross purposes, and you are talking about temporary storage sites rather than permanent ones?

@jodiunger9425 День назад

Hopefully we see a sharp increase in nuclear power in the coming decades, hopefully a sharp decrease in dangerous reactor designs that produce nuclear fuel for weapons as well. Nuclear power can be safe, but if you want fuel for weapons, you need a dangerous reactor to do that.