Why don’t we have more nuclear power plants?

Or we just take the money and invest in green energy hank :/ we don't need the nuclear waste, we can live without it.

Location is the issue

Someone send this to South Africa

I always like the "it would take 5 years to build and pay for it" excuse. Because then 5 years pass and we STILL have power issues.

I'm sure the oilgarchy will have something to say about it, a whispery way. "Hooking a nuke plant up to an old coal plant's steam generator will mean naughty kids will get radioactive coal in their stockings. It's the left wing's nuclear war on xmas."

Nuclear have too much bad press...

Well. Also, the various state and federal government agencies make it almost impossible to build. It's been proven if you like the environment, you would build nuclear power. They don't because environment isn't the point. So no, green orgs won't push for it and this company would need Trump in office to get the federal approval.

The main problem is oil and coal companies using their vast wealth to suppress the better alternatives.

Thorium salt reactors maybe?

The greens will never go for it for the same reason the dems will never go for it. It solves the climate change problem and doesn’t also implement socialism. The issue is never the issue. The issue is always socialism.

I like the comparison with coal, but like, what's the difference in energy production? Doesn't nuclear offer far more bang for the buck than coal?

I honestly dont trust my government (Turkiye) to operate it correctly and get rid of the waste correctly. Given our track record, i think the power plant would produce more cancer patients than clean energy

Jury rigging a nuclear reactor onto an old coal power plant could never go wrong right? RIGHT?

Bit late to the party, but I fully agree that if they can it is very cool!

It isnt about cost its about stigma. Kyle Hill, of all people, was kicked out of a nuclear power subreddit for not being against nuclear power.... Kyle Hill.... Nuclear stuff.... Thats literally his field of study, but the mob demanded he be against something they dont like.

Very good video Hank but I can’t get over the way you say turbine, I’ve always learned it with a long i because of the silent e at the end, not pronounced like bin at the end

focusing on the actual machinery for a second, I wonder what the cost of upgrading an older coal power plant vs a newer power plant to nuclear power and what the difference in required retrofitting would be.

Isn't technically a nuclear power plant Is steam power?

"turban"

Meanwhile Germany is banning nuclear energy and restarting the fucking coal plants.... We're so fucked...

Even if that company was able to do that, nuclear power plants are still bad. You have to contain the materials well and maintain the site, both things the US government (and many others, too) are often bad at. Many smaller countries also have the problem of where to put the waste. Often the nuclear waste isn't properly disposed of and communities understandably don't want the waste stored near them. The issue of how to make sure civilisations in the far far future still understand that they mustn't open the disposal sites is also still not resolved.
Producing nuclear power is currently just irresponsible, and I would argue that it probably never will be responsible.

Hank, could you please talk about the nuclear waste issue? - in Australia it’s been dumped into nature and First Nations land.

And then there's Germany 😂

mirror-flipping your video cant hide the GIANT CLOCK on your wall, proudly displaying "FOUR : TWENTY" for stoners like me to notice :-P

I once worked on a metal sling to hold pipes in a nuclear power. The pin that held the sling to the handles had to be nuclear certified. It took over 1 year to get that pin certified. I can totally see why there’s not more nuclear power plants.

where I lived from age 0 to 10, in China, when I was about 8, they built a nuclear power plant right next to it. lots of posters up about how safe it is, etc, I occasionally saw them getting vandalised, but whatcanyado? it was built in a couple of years and was up and running.

What about toxic waste?

Nuclear power isnt that perfect solution a lot of people describe it as

Modern, and I mean modern, nuclear power plants are safe. All these accidents have happened with old power plants. Nuclear is probably the best energy source we can use. And people rail about nuclear waste. You can hold nuclear waste in your hand because a half-life is so darn long. Let's go nuclear, baby!

I would be curious to see the actual economic breakdown of this. Most of the coal plants being shut down aren’t new plants, they’re old ones that have met or exceeded their design lifetime.
I’m skeptical if the needed replacements and upgrades on the boiler systems would be cheaper than a new install.

Kyle Hill should do a video with you, we need more Nuclear Power hype!!!!

They can't use it to produce more power hank, just the same amount of power cleaner. Unless they upgrade the boilers and shit in the process

Most of the world is also just terrified of power plants and dont want Chernobyl to happen in their town. 😅

Too many people don't understand that nuclear power is much better than the media portrays it and things like solar/wind are much worse than the media portray them

The fossil fuel tycoons will fight tooth and nail to prevent nuclear energy.

Im questioning that you could "easily" bring a coal power plant to the same safety standarts a nuclear power plant would need

My humble ignorance has an honest question. In case of natural disaster, war, human error, sabotage, how fast does nuclear being safe can turn into a nightmare?
I understand "green" energy kills with more frequency, but kills very little when compared to nuclear amount of deaths, plus all the effects on the environment after an accident.
So, economically, way better. Maybe even greener. But how safer, if something happens? How many "green accidents casualties" takes to match a nuclear?

Thank you 🙏

If the world has the expertise to have and maintain nuclear weapons, I think we can manage nuclear plants, we just need to invest more into safety and mitigating the effects on the environment in the event of a meltdown.

If you keep thinking logically, we're going to have to kick you out of reality

Wow. Exactly a good idea

It'd still be cheaper to use that space for solar with flow batteries below the panels and it would cost 1% of the operating cost. Even at current technology that will only get better. Solar panels have already surpassed what they thought their limit would be. on top of that everyone should get solar on their home which makes the grid stronger with zero effort and will make rolling blackouts a thing of the past.

Dude. Give it a rest. We just imported over 20 million people who are not even literate in THEIR own language. We are finding 2 WARS and we are subsidizing energy, food, and housing for millions already.

The money is NOT the issue. You could LITERALLY run a Bond drive like in WWII and make enough to build a reactor in every city. That is how important cheap and local energy is to our new future of literally supporting the entire third world in our countries.

This is why I won’t take the climate hysterics serious. The solution is right there. They have some other agenda.

Nice

Brilliant idea Hank!

The real answer is because of decades of anti-nuclear propaganda, but close enough.

How do they do it on a nuclear submarine? that can stay under water for 20 years or more? Just have to come up for human food, been doing it for decades

Nuke plants are vulnerable targets in war. They can explode worse than Chernobyl.

Because nuclear waste is a real problem and nuclear plants are not save.

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