PickVidsBest Nuclear power & fusion Videos
The 51 Nuclear power & fusion videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 12 intermediate, 32 for a general viewer, and 3 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Google TechTalks, Illinois EnergyProf, Improbable Matter.
MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwig
Zach Hartwig of MIT introduces the key concepts of magnetic fusion energy and the state of fusion research.
Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte
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How close is nuclear fusion power?
Sabine Hossenfelder explains how close nuclear fusion really is to break-even, and why headlines about ITER and lab milestones are misleading.
Energy Investments Dialogue | Bill Gates | Global Energy Forum
Bill Gates at Stanford's Global Energy Forum argues that cheaper solar, wind and storage are not nearly enough to stop climate change.
Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018
Nickolas Means recounts the 1979 Three Mile Island accident minute by minute, from the control rod insertion to the operator's decision to switch off emergency cooling.
Worst Nuclear Accidents in History
Kurzgesagt compares how many people nuclear accidents have killed against other energy sources.
Economics of Nuclear Reactor
A professor from Illinois compares the cost of building, fueling and operating a nuclear plant against a natural gas plant, using visual charts.
Why I changed my mind about nuclear power | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxBerlin
In this TEDxBerlin talk, environmental activist Michael Shellenberger explains why he changed from opposing nuclear power to advocating it, after looking at the evidence on Chernobyl, Fukushima and air pollution.
Thorium: An energy solution - THORIUM REMIX 2011
A 2011 remix of over six hours of talks by Kirk Sorensen and other thorium advocates, explaining thorium as a nuclear fuel and the liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR).
A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion
Real Engineering's Brian McManus explains Helion's approach to nuclear fusion: colliding two plasma rings, compressing them magnetically, and capturing energy directly from the changing magnetic flux rather than boiling water.
The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen (and why is now the right time?)
Kirk Sorensen's Google Tech Talk on thorium molten-salt reactors (LFTR).
Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor
Kirk Sorensen's Google Tech Talk on liquid-fluoride thorium reactors, a design that could burn nuclear waste and use thorium as fuel.
Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia
Michael Shellenberger argues in a TEDx talk that solar and wind need huge amounts of land and mining, and says nuclear power is a better path to protecting both the climate and nature.
Wendelstein 7-X – from concept to reality
A CAD-based animation from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics showing how the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator is configured and what its fusion research aims to achieve.
Chernobyl 3828
A Ukrainian documentary about the liquidators who cleaned radioactive debris off the Chernobyl reactor roof in two-minute shifts.
Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)
Robert Bussard's 2006 Google Tech Talk on inertial electrostatic confinement fusion, a compact approach he argued could be cheap and clean, using boron-hydrogen fuel without neutron radiation.
Is Nuclear Waste Really Waste?
In a 2010 Google Tech Talk, Kirk Sorensen gives an economic analysis of what spent nuclear fuel actually contains.
Jancovici : Will technology save us from Climate Change ? MIT Media Lab - 23/02/2021
Jean-Marc Jancovici gives an MIT Media Lab talk on whether technology can save us from climate change.
26. Chernobyl — How It Happened
MIT 22.01 lecture by Michael Short explaining the Chernobyl accident technically, including RBMK reactor positive feedback, xenon poisoning and the cascade of human errors during the test.
Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040
A former fusion scientist argues why fusion power by 2040 is unrealistic, covering the physics challenges, neutron issues and optimistic company claims, with a brief note of good news.
Modular Micro-Reactors – The Future of Nuclear Energy?
Professor Ruzic explains modular micro-reactors: self-contained nuclear units with passive safety whose fuel lasts about 20 years.
Into Eternity - Official trailer
Official trailer for the documentary Into Eternity, about Finland's Onkalo repository, built to store high-level nuclear waste safely for 100,000 years.
The Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble
RethinkX summarizes its report arguing that mainstream LCOE estimates are inflating a bubble in coal, gas, nuclear and hydro assets.
Is Nuclear Energy Green?
Sabine Hossenfelder weighs the arguments for and against nuclear power, covering waste, fuel supply and newer reactor designs.