Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy (Live Lecture)
Illinois EnergyProf2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
342K views · lecture · evergreen · Uploaded 2021-08-03
A lecture for high school seniors and college freshmen making the case for nuclear power and answering common objections. It is an overview of the channel's more detailed videos on each topic.
Pointed to as a lay-audience explanation of nuclear waste, safety and economics.
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On that note for anyone interested in the economics(and working in general) of nuclear energy check out the Illinois Energy youtube channel. Here's a quiz video of theirs: [VIDEO]
Not only is it solvable, it's basically been solved for years. [VIDEO] is aimed at the lay audience. The issue is that radiation is a silent killer, so it is extremely easy people with vested interests in (say) fossil fuels to exploit our inability to access risk. Coal hurts people every single day, but it doesn't have the same poetic weight as radiation so this is lost on the general public. Nuclear power is expensive, however. Dealing with the waste is also an issue but firstly, forcing us to deal with the waste seriously is potentially not such a bad thing (assuming we need nuclear in the long run, which unless storage comes a very long way we presumably will), and secondly this is the kind of question where a government with a lot of political capital needs to just find some deserted land to build a long term solution.
This video (llinois EnergyProf) covers the accident scenarios for nuclear power [VIDEO] Short answer, the design is such that reactor shuts down automatically with loss of cooling.