Nuclear Physicist Reacts to Cleo Abram The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste

Interesting video as always. I don't really have anything to say or add but I have to say this: I LOVE that NUCuLAr T-shirt! I'd love to get one of those. Where did you get it? Or do you have a merch store that I'm not aware of?

The Russians (RusAtom) also reprocesses the fuel, but in a far less energy intensive method than France. They may currently be pariahs but Science is Science and facts are facts.

Another shill.

Definitely the cutest nuclear physicist ever.

Thanks for the breakdown. Great and understandable. Also you are very pretty and love those fingernails!

Don't be a hater lady

Great video. To be honest, the only time I'm surprised these days is if the answer ISN'T "because money".

Thank you for that video and the information it provides. I missed some information about the challenges and down sides of the fast breeder reactors (FBR). The ones that have been built, are pretty unsafe so far.

Why did you cut the part of the video in which it says the ban from recycling nuclear waste was removed...

Please make a video about Gen IV reactors!

So let me get this straight. You can create nuclear power, that creates a by product that allows someone to use a small percentage of that material to create a bomb, so we're going to store a massive amount of this material around instead of recycling it to be used multiple times, each time limiting the amount of available bomb material. Sounds to me like a government trying to sneakily stockpile a weapon of mass destruction, instead of caring about the power future of a country

This is one of the “debunk” channels to keep a way the real information for the people.

It had nothing to do with the high cost.
It has to do with you must keep on buying from your source.

Its all bout who decides you may or can do something. Its about who may or may not het rich. And if it’s not about money, couse they have all the money. Its about keeping control and the power.

The trick is to keep people dumb. And with the way media is controlled it works like a charm;)

Elina….you are really hot.

I'm 2 months late but I'd love to see a video about the different gen 4 reactors.

Love the video. I am looking forward to see you debunk every unscientific myth on the internet.

Nice video. Just my two cents, but if you do a react video like this, I find it's better to take a two-phased approach:
1. Watch more of the video without interrupting, and perhaps only pause at points where it's actually wrong to correct or give your opinion, but give it some leniency. This way we can 'watch along'.
2. After the video is done / reaches the credits, loop back to the points where you had feedback, and re-play that short bit, and provide feedback there.

The reason I'm saying this, is because otherwise it provides this constant feeling of being cut off / "well actually", and kind of makes it mandatory to watch Cleo's video first in order to even contextually understand this video. Of course this is just my opinion and people might disagree, but, yeah, at least it's a perspective to consider.

I feel, that using nuclear energy to generate electricity is the future but I feel it's a sleeping dragon waiting to wake up. This energy is the future but it can also bring unimaginable loss of human lives in the event of an accident.
I feel we should focus more on cleaner energy like installing Wind turbines on the seas or installing solar panels in uninhabited places.

Regarding nuclear waste - catapult it to deep space or towards the sun. Please do not leave them on earth. 🙏

This video is basically useless. Cleo did a good job and we do not need your validation. You should respectfully shut down this channel

Cleo mentioned the "green goo" myth and then debunked that myth. Bit unfair. For the rest nice to have additional context. I enjoy both your channels!

Did she just said that storing nuclear fuel safely for 300 000 years is cheap? What kind of money this girl has..

Whatever makes anyone think that any nation state will remain inviolate long enough to keep nuclear waste stored securely!? Few countries have survived more than 400 years, and there will always be invaders with evil intent.

Yeah, it's that "few hundred thousand years" part that is an issue. I didn't really hear what the supposed "lie" was about nuclear waste. Just a lot of words about recycling it to get as much energy out of it, before it gets "disposed." There was an admission that something eventually gets "disposed."
The title of the video implies that there are no issues with nuclear waste. Nice try.
Somebody is trying really hard to justify nuclear reactors as a "solution" to the climate crisis, because, well, profits, you know. People owning their own solar cells and wind generators eliminate corporate energy "profits."

um... yeah it's expensive and it was addressed... it was a political thing going back to Carter in the 70's.. Had he NOT done this, we could be much further ahead in recycling the "waste". Forget Cost Efficiency.. Solar Still isn't cost efficient... given its cost to the environment and its very low efficiency as well as most panels only carry a 20 year warranty... but I digress. We could use people like you to PUSH our government to change it's policy. You say that recycling has no financial gain... well let's look at NFTs, Digital Currency... basically vaporware... in the early 2000's it was prisons... ANYTHING can be BOUGHT IN by investors if you show them a return... the problem is the government regulations... these need to be torn apart.

It's expensive due governmental regulations.

She talks about green glowing goo because that is what pop culture has spread around and it is a way to draw her audience in and then inform them of what is actually going on.

Why do you cut out the part that she says that the lie is what it looks like? just curious.

No nuclear reactor runs on waste… it runs on Uranium… it’s just that it’s possible to reclaim clean uranium from spent rods (about 95% can be recovered) leaving much less and less radioactive waste.

As I understand it often the issue is exactly which isotopes are produced. You talk about separating plutonium out from used fuel. Canada does this from its Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactors mostly, I suspect, for political reasons. As you know the CANDU reactor does not require any enrichment of the level of U235. I have also read that it can use Mox fuel including Thorium-rich fuel mixtures. As I understand it the use of the Plutonium from power plant waste for weapons is limited because they do not produce high levels of Pu239, the fissionable isotope, and it is harder to enrich the level of Pu239 than it is to enrich the level of U235. However India achieved this using a research reactor acquired from Canada, and I notice with some concern that Iran has built a clone of the CANDU design.

Thank you, very informative but I say no to nuclear power, it can be dangerous and it is complex, complexity means vulnerability to accidents. We must find simpler and better solutions to energy demands, like solar, wind and long distance transmission of electricity.

Would really like to learn the difference about generations one to four.
The UK had a breeder reactor in dounreay.

Insightful but would have been nicer if you didn’t sound so agitated whenever you referred to Cleo or her video. With every reaction break you sounded jealous trying to invalidate what she said, but again you evidently have to factually agree to the main claims in Cleo’s video. It’s just sad that your video could have had much more potential

scientists do not blink when they talk about extracting Pu from their burnt fuel ---- but they shriek when someone talks about recycling the waste into more fuel - in a close circuit -- they prefer to purchase large chunks of land and bury the darn depleted uranium. or perhaps load them into guns and shoot the third world to contaminate humanity.
What's killing our society is LACK OF VISION.

It's way cheaper to recycle nuclear waste than putting up wind mills and solar panels etc.

Expensive yes but that is a function of technology and the development of standardized techniques.

As one that worked in hazardous waste management I am wondering how much you are being paid by that industry? Waste management is a multimillion dollar industry every bit as powerful as the fossil fuel industry.
So once again I ask....how much are you being paid...on the side of course.

You mentioned that the using nuclear waste for power is costly. Is that because the technology is expensive or is the cost due to regulations and permits? If it’s due to the latter then its not actually the cost that is preventing us from reusing nuclear waste, It’s the government.

The most dangerous thing I ever got to witness was a chunk of highly active plutonium, I have also seen chunks of Cobalt, the sad part is they look just like chunks of steel or lead and that is the danger to the public a child or adult wouldn't know the difference until its too late. The US has way to many orphaned sources.

I do wish vitrification was not so expensive, and I am glad we are moving more towards reactor designs that are not intended for war, and thereby the reactors will become more safe by default in their newer designs.

We also have an awesome solution but its been fought over forever, the US has a huge Salt mine that is very deep we already store some there but the desire is to store more there than they are allowing us to store there right now. If the US ever gets the facility fully operational then we will be able to store every pound of waste at that location. The US is trying currently to off shore our waste.

I'm actually really excited to see how the INL (Idaho National Labs) newest test reactor turns out. they're building a Thorium Gas Reactor, its design is modular, I am excited to see how it goes and am praying for their success. seeing all the new interest in nuclear power generation, is very very exciting. thank you for your videos. It is nice to get the view point of an legit physicist. Nuclear science has always been my jam. I wish my severe dyslexia didn't inhibit my ability to work in the field. My biggest joy was getting to tour a nuclear power station and pre startup, so I was able to enter the containment areas. it was one of the coolest times of my life.

What about Thorium Reactors? Thorium is more abundant than Uranium, it's everywhere. They’re easier to build on small scales, generate a little less dangerous waste, and NO chance of China Syndrome because of the different fusion process

I do like review videos but they all male yhe same mistake. You should have watched the whole video then make comments. Had you watched to yhe end you would have found she covered everything you said.

You are both in the same school. You just said something that’s subjective. You did it for the same reason; to express an image that has not been seen by the public at large.

I dont think Cleo believes nuclear easte is glowing yellow, she is simply referring to the common "Urban Myth".

I love the Spanish accent - very cool.

It was funny, around 5 minutes you get a side-by-side of both women and since they look similar, if feels like an educated, composed, calm, Phd graduate (Elina) reviewing her first day at university as a goofy, wide-eye girl waving her hands and getting over-emotional at everything (Cleo). Obviously, the model is going to have more subscribers bc people are shallow, but I'd rather meet the educated woman. Elina keeps my attention, fully.

Cleo didn’t mean she thinks nuclear waste is really green goo leaking out of yellow barrels. Right?

Can you do a video about Japan's dumping of radioactive water?

Hey, I'm glad the almighty algorithm for recommended this video! As a high school chemistry teacher, I'm always looking for good enrichment material for students interested in nuclear topics. I'm excited to check out more of your content. Thank you!

Irradiated nuclear fuel has had about 4% of its fissile energy taken.
Moltex and Elysium both have molten (chloride) salt reactors which can burn the spent nuclear fuel. They almost no moving parts no internal pressure making them cheap and intrinsically safe. Canada is building a Moltex Reactor that is expected on line by 2030.
The fuel is chemically processed into salts. All the original stuff goes into the reactor so there is NO “reprocessing” as done by the French system.
The final waste from a Moltex has a half life of just 30 years vs 30,000 years for the existing waste.