They use the heat generated by nuclear fission to super heat water and form high pressure steam that is then used to turn a steam turbine and generate electricity.
@@jonathantan2469, would you drink a glass of that condensation ? Wait, would you say it was ok to water your garden with the condensation for your mother to eat ?
200 years after the industrial revolution and we have merely just expanded on the steam engine. Increase power output, decrease wasted energy, it all becomes steam one way or another.
This is our most viable means of producing clean energy. Many proponents of green energy will argue that it takes too long to build a nuclear power plant, that "the 8 to 19 years" puts us past the "point of no return". I don't think this is a valid reason to completely dismiss this option. The other facet is safety; these facilities generally are very safe but when something goes wrong, it can ruin life-sustaining resources. I propose diverting a bunch of that climate change mitigation money and putting it towards over-engineering all future nuclear plants. Build a containment vessel around the entire facility before a meltdown. Heck, I would also propose storing the waste on-premises. Not like we do now as a stop-gap measure, but actually design the facility to safely store waste indefinitely. That last idea may be m worst idea, but I stand by the aforementioned.
@@iCyWEdontCi2i Fukushima is a good reason to not slack on safety and containment. If it were up to me, all new reactors would be built inside of a pre-built sarcophagus capable of containing a meltdown. That said, there were a lot of dumb little mistakes that lead to the big Fukushima disaster. Maybe small-scale use is the way to go. For example, a SMR used for running a solar panel factor. Small Modular Reactors are well-suited for running the machinery required for melting glass, and can do it without any carbon output.
@@iCyWEdontCi2i Fukushima is when a company is not responsible and skipped basic safety regulations for quick buck. Remember that both Fukushima and Chernobyl happened because of cutting corners.
Steam How does a train work Steam How does a car work Steam How does a boiler work Steam How does nuclear plant work Steam I have forgotten what century i am in now.. ..
Of course, you presume I'm too stupid to understand. So I'll restate: Tell me how a nuclear reactor works, or I'll have one of these soldiers throw you out of the helicopter. 😂 I was looking for a Chernobyl reference!!!
"Well, if you know about reactor so much...what does RCIC and IC and what happens if all the Control Rods are imbalanced while the APRM is at 47%? Hmm?"
@@iCyWEdontCi2i the amount of death caused by the waste is zero meanwhile the deaths caused by polution due to fossil fuel burning is over 8 million every year
@@gleyphnir087, And that's how you can get away with that statement because a nucIear reactor, on its own, cannot power itself... It takes atleast 1 external power source ( coal-fired, natural gas, etc ) to help keep a nuclear reactor cooled and running. Their waste alone is enough, but when you have nucIear waste that has to be stored away for decades, AND Still Adding Up... You have a problem.
@@iCyWEdontCi2i I lien how y’all only say Chernobyl Fukushima or three mile island but you only mention three against the hundreds of oil spills or how the destruction of land caused by green energy nuclear energy is abundant efficient clean and contrary to popular belief nuclear energy isn’t green goop in yellow barrels they’re rods (which 30 percent get recycled) that are buried thousands of miles underground and one warehouse has enough storage to master thousands of years with thorium we can basically turn the reactor off if shit hits the fan
Don't forget that it's also cleaner and safer than MOST other ways of power generation we have, so while some are inefficient. Some are dangerous. And some are outright dirty *cough cough* wind turbines *cough cough* the lizard people seem like they want to end this safe. Efficient. And clean way of making power.
I've worked at a nuclear plant before. What he forgot to mention is the stacks of paperwork that has to be filled out before you can do any work, which is then saved forever. If you fuck up, don't lie about it because you could be prosecuted.
That’s not just “a nuclear plant”. That was a U.S. plant, run by the “nuclear safety industry”, which gets big paydays. Didn’t use to be that way and Nuclear was cheap. Rest of the world, nuclear is not buried in paperwork.
Your diagram is misleading. Those large conical cement structures are called cooling towers. Much like a radiator they simply cool the hot water. The reactor is not located inside them
That's because out ruling elites pushing all this "green" energy crap invested in solar panels instead of nuclear, so now they're pushing to shut down and ban nuclear as its the biggest threat/competitor to their investments, and we can't let them lose their investments now can we.....
Hopefully if more people learn that nuclear reactors a just high power water boilers rather than glowing green slime factories, maybe Nuclear Energy would develop faster instead of getting protested all the time.
It’s crazy to me that these things are basically just glorified steam engines. Extremely expensive and if not properly handled extremely dangerous steam engines. That being said, the CANDU reactors use heavy water and are extremely safe. They literally cannot meltdown. It’s one of the best inventions this century. Definitely safer than a coal plant
Yes expensive to build but the Electricity produced is cheaper because a golf Ball of Uranium can produce enough electricity to Power a city for a week.
It’s a piss poor designed boiling water reactor. Unstable at low powers and would get hotter where there was no water (due to rapid boiling)… normal reactors cool down where there is no water (negative coefficient if I recall correctly), and the control rods had tips that reflected neutrons vs absorbed them like the rest of the control rod (and every other normal reactor). Absorbing neutrons is how you decrease power/shut down the reactor.
As a Chernobyl / RBMK nerd I’ll tell you about them, RBMK reactors have low enrichment uranium in pipes known as channels, some channels have boron rods that can be inserted and withdrawn from the reactor, these rods will increase the reaction when pulled out and decrease it when inserted. The boron rods had a section underneath made from graphite, so when the control rods are withdrawn they are replaced by graphite which makes the reaction go faster. Prior to 1988 there was a design flaw in the reactor which lead to a brief spike in reactivity right when the rods were put back in, this is what lead to the explosion of Chernobyl Reactor 4 on the 26th of April 1986. This reactor type is extremely unstable especially at low power, however at full power the reactor is far more stable, though still unstable compared to a BWR or PWR reactor.
you mean chemicals not sure how it's for the water that goes through the reactor but usually from boiler, muddrum blow down, steam drum blow down with the chemicals that go through the blow down process. Chemicals, ADM I think said, better living through chemistry
It is safe, no water no fission! The waist can a few times be reused till there is one or two cubic meter waist is left a year! Which is also no problem! I cannot explain why there is such resistance against this fantastic power, probably taxmoney income? Or unbribable? Almost impossible for corruption?
The concept itself is simple, but operating a PWR is a hard job. It takes a lot of training and a good base of knowledge if you want to prevent a disaster. The powerplant itself is simple, but the reactor is a complicated and sensitive beast
@@ceTarnity And he said the video was ABOUT how a nuclear reactor works, not the bloody turbines or whatever. So, as the video poster failed to tell us HOW the nuclear fission process works, my young brain will do that for them. Nuclear Fission is where the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei. This usually releases two to three neutrons (2.43 on average) which are flying at a very high speed and need to be slowed down. This is referred to moderation. The neutrons are too fast to hit another atom and have a slim chance of even doing so. So, a moderator is used. Something like Graphite or Water/Heavy Water is used to slow these neutrons down to roughly around 100 km/s or lower; it can be a few times higher than the speed of sound. However, this won't do. The reaction needs to be controlled or the fuel will melt. A material like Boron, cadmium or gadolinium can absorb neutrons and is used in the control rod. This controls whether the reaction increases, doesn't increase or just decreases. This is referred to as Supercriticality, Criticality and Subcriticality, respectively. Some of the neutrons get absorbed by the rods and the fuel. At low power, a neutron poison called Iodine-135 is created. This has a half life of 6.7 hours and isn't very good at absorbing neutrons. HOWEVER, once this Iodine decays, Xenon-135 is made which absorbs neutrons VERY well and has a half life of 9.7 hours. This can easily stall a nuclear reactor which happened to the RBMK-1000 used in Chernobyl's Unit 4. Heat is created by this fission process, but very little of it. On large scales (not atomic scale, but rather regular fuel rods.) a lot of heat is made. A coolant like water which also is a moderator boils from the heat and takes that heat away with it - cooling the fuel rods. This ensures that it doesn't melt. The hotter the steam, the more energy that steam has and the faster it goes. This goes through the steam separator and through a series of pipes to the turbines. The steam spins the turbine which spins and generates electricity by a rotor. The steam then goes through cooling tower(s) and the water that comes down is put into a nearby water source (rivers or oceans). Since water and graphite can be used as a moderator, there is something called a Positive Void Coefficient. Once water boils, a void is created - steam. This causes the reaction to go up. This happened with the Chernobyl RBMK-1000 Reactor when it was heavily poisoned and the turbine was turned off to simulate a blackout condition. In the regular reactors you see today, like BWRs and PWRs, there is a Negative Void Coefficient. Once the water boils, the void is made and the resulting steam causes a decrease in reactivity.
Yup! People commonly overexaggerate everything nuclear. Even though the reactor itself is a pretty complicated concept, the powerplant itself is incredibly simple. All you're doing is making a bunch of pressurized steam that turns some blades and makes power
Why on earth do you have the soundtrack to "BUY TEXAS TRUCKS" playing in the background??? Is it REALLY necessary to play that dumb music in the background. It sounds so GAY.
"Just boiling water", what do you think coal and natural gas plants do? All of these plants boil steam to spin a generator at 1800 rpm to get 3 phase electricity at 60 hz. The difference is nuclear power is much more environmentally friendly that the two other sources.
You know, I was very fascinated as a kid to learn that we were able to produce electricity using nuclear power and I thought it was some crazy experiment to do with radiation and was honestly disappointed to find it just boils water
We use thorium which is more abundant fuel efficient and safer by the time we run out of thorium were probably going to be using Dyson spheres for energy
What Germany did was one of the greatest stupidity when they listened those terrorist group and shut down all nuclear power plants. Now Germany has no electricity enough and reopen coal power stations. Wonderful Germany
So right there close to the end it's so in these red lines were energy's going out in my version of math you could sustain pressure and energy now in saying that I got a housing design that flows with what I consider still components like a steel windmill that could help evolve or understanding of minerals in the atmosphere and learn to control the rotation of it to have a more lucrative society by understanding how to spread light and smaller organic particles
The steam turbines used by most (coal, gas or nuclear) electric power plants run at about 40-45% efficiency. That means to generate 1 GWe of electricity it actually creates 2.2 GWatts of heat. 1 GWe becomes electricity and the other 1.2 GWatts is "waste heat" that's released into the atmosphere (via those iconic cooling towers). That 1.2 GWatts of "waste heat" could be used to desalinate water… 1.2GW * 24 hr/day / 3.8 kwh * 1000 gallons ≈≈ 7.6 millions gallons of water per day.
🇺🇸🇨🇦❇⚓🔩🇷🇺🥂🇷🇺🔩⚓❇🇨🇦🇺🇸.....Wouldn't mind an RBMK reactor here in the states or up in Canada....¡A work of architecture, design & engineering all check!....
It may seem dumb on the surface, but it's actually an incredibly clean and efficient way of producing electricity. However, you're right, we are just doing a bunch of fancy things in order to boil water and create steam. This is the same concept as coal plants and every other type of power plant
You should try to replace water by propane gas to cooling down the reactor. Think about it! 🫶🏽🛢🛢🛢🛢 and 🇯🇴 I can't wait to have a nuclear battery to heat my broth for Chinese fondue🔥🔋🍵🥩 We could offer a nuclear reactor for free to our Palestinian friends! 🇰🇼🫶🏽
I was watching a video about US Navy nuclear Aircraft Carrier, when the creator of the video showed the engine it uses i read "steam" and i was dumbfounded i then said "wait, what?!" In confusion...
It's a glorified tea kettle
Nuclear Tea Kettle
Yea or glorified steam engine
Godzilla's tea kettle
😂hahaha. No
most power sources are glorified tea kettles
As Albert Einstein said "It's a hell of a way to boil water"
>new energy source
>look inside
>boiling water
>drops the drippy chain inside by accident
>closes
>opens to get it
>lava
Always brotha.
*Looks inside*
Brilliant blue light that can shorten your life to a week in seconds
To someone who has absolutely no idea of what they are/a child they could be called cloud factories, and the thought of that always makes me smile
Are you sure you didn't call coal-fired power plants cloud factorys?
They use the heat generated by nuclear fission to super heat water and form high pressure steam that is then used to turn a steam turbine and generate electricity.
The problem is many in the common public still think the condensation clouds from the cooling towers are "radioactive exhaust".
@@jonathantan2469, would you drink a glass of that condensation ? Wait, would you say it was ok to water your garden with the condensation for your mother to eat ?
@@jonathantan2469 the reason why they think so is because they think that the cooling tower are the reactors themselves 🤦♂️
the music is making me think ford f-150
“The all new dodge reactor. One hell of a way to boil water..”
Yeah or home depot
Do I wanna know?
@@alice20001 By the Arctic Monkeys!
making me think of arctic monkeys
so we still use steam
Yes
Lots of steam
4m joules per second of energy in steam. soo yea
200 years after the industrial revolution and we have merely just expanded on the steam engine.
Increase power output, decrease wasted energy, it all becomes steam one way or another.
Steam is king that's why drink tea and be happy 😁
If we ever have antimatter/blackhole reactors we will use them to boil water to get electricity
"Currently there are 93 working reactors" THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS, YOU GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP!!
pump up the jam entered the chat 💬
This is our most viable means of producing clean energy. Many proponents of green energy will argue that it takes too long to build a nuclear power plant, that "the 8 to 19 years" puts us past the "point of no return". I don't think this is a valid reason to completely dismiss this option.
The other facet is safety; these facilities generally are very safe but when something goes wrong, it can ruin life-sustaining resources. I propose diverting a bunch of that climate change mitigation money and putting it towards over-engineering all future nuclear plants. Build a containment vessel around the entire facility before a meltdown.
Heck, I would also propose storing the waste on-premises. Not like we do now as a stop-gap measure, but actually design the facility to safely store waste indefinitely. That last idea may be m worst idea, but I stand by the aforementioned.
@@DJRonnieG, What's FUKUSHIMA ?
@@iCyWEdontCi2i Fukushima is a good reason to not slack on safety and containment. If it were up to me, all new reactors would be built inside of a pre-built sarcophagus capable of containing a meltdown.
That said, there were a lot of dumb little mistakes that lead to the big Fukushima disaster. Maybe small-scale use is the way to go. For example, a SMR used for running a solar panel factor. Small Modular Reactors are well-suited for running the machinery required for melting glass, and can do it without any carbon output.
@@iCyWEdontCi2i Fukushima is when a company is not responsible and skipped basic safety regulations for quick buck. Remember that both Fukushima and Chernobyl happened because of cutting corners.
Steam
How does a train work
Steam
How does a car work
Steam
How does a boiler work
Steam
How does nuclear plant work
Steam
I have forgotten what century i am in now..
..
Everything is secretly Steampunk
I mean car engines and gas turbines are exception
@@veiserexab1428 Ford used the idea of James Watt's steam engine to power the cars.
what about electric cars?
OH WAIT, THEIR ELECTRICTY COMES FROM STEAM
@@gamer_wingsyt4669 no... just no..
“Good, I know how a nuclear reactor works. Now I don’t need you.”
Of course, you presume I'm too stupid to understand. So I'll restate: Tell me how a nuclear reactor works, or I'll have one of these soldiers throw you out of the helicopter. 😂 I was looking for a Chernobyl reference!!!
@@DavidRodriguez-xr3nvI think you people watched Chernobyl series too many times 😂
Not great, not terrible
"Well, if you know about reactor so much...what does RCIC and IC and what happens if all the Control Rods are imbalanced while the APRM is at 47%? Hmm?"
@@67noob1wdym by “what does rcic and ic”
It's a fancy way of boiling water
*Efficient way
@@Highbudget, what about the waste generated that last 1,000 of years...
@@iCyWEdontCi2i the amount of death caused by the waste is zero meanwhile the deaths caused by polution due to fossil fuel burning is over 8 million every year
@@gleyphnir087, And that's how you can get away with that statement because a nucIear reactor, on its own, cannot power itself... It takes atleast 1 external power source ( coal-fired, natural gas, etc ) to help keep a nuclear reactor cooled and running. Their waste alone is enough, but when you have nucIear waste that has to be stored away for decades, AND Still Adding Up... You have a problem.
@@iCyWEdontCi2iif you can suggest them an alternative pathway
That was it, that was nuclear energy? that was just boiling water!
yup
what about the waste that is generated ? The american repositories are full.
@@iCyWEdontCi2iwe bury the serious stuff underground and the rest we store outside
@@iCyWEdontCi2i I lien how y’all only say Chernobyl Fukushima or three mile island but you only mention three against the hundreds of oil spills or how the destruction of land caused by green energy nuclear energy is abundant efficient clean and contrary to popular belief nuclear energy isn’t green goop in yellow barrels they’re rods (which 30 percent get recycled) that are buried thousands of miles underground and one warehouse has enough storage to master thousands of years with thorium we can basically turn the reactor off if shit hits the fan
Almost every single main stream energy source is just boiling water
The fucking song choice 😭
do i waaaanna know
Best 5th grade explanation to all those nuclear idiots that got all their education from the simpsons
What I got from this is that a nuclear reactor is just a more advanced steam engine 😂
It is and always as been😂
well we are making fusion reactors...
...
...which will do more steam but in a futuristic way
@@catonawatermelon8 Yeah, that's even more crazy. Creating a mini sun for making steam xD
Don't forget that it's also cleaner and safer than MOST other ways of power generation we have, so while some are inefficient. Some are dangerous. And some are outright dirty *cough cough* wind turbines *cough cough* the lizard people seem like they want to end this safe. Efficient. And clean way of making power.
That’s the idea
I've worked at a nuclear plant before. What he forgot to mention is the stacks of paperwork that has to be filled out before you can do any work, which is then saved forever. If you fuck up, don't lie about it because you could be prosecuted.
That’s not just “a nuclear plant”. That was a U.S. plant, run by the “nuclear safety industry”, which gets big paydays. Didn’t use to be that way and Nuclear was cheap. Rest of the world, nuclear is not buried in paperwork.
Yeah
They HEAVILY LEARNED from incidents
Thats why its like planes
Whenever something happens its documented and made sure it doesn't happen again
Yes thank you, because that helps explain how it works…
Wtf it's just a kettle 💀
Yeah, people commonly over exaggerate everything nuclear. It's literally just a fancy way of boiling water
Your diagram is misleading. Those large conical cement structures are called cooling towers. Much like a radiator they simply cool the hot water. The reactor is not located inside them
That the nuclear power
It's just boiling water
We need more nuclear energy across the US!!
Yeah, to bad lobbyists pay for the expansion of solar and wind, really makes me disappointed
@@LeslieHarvey607America is fucked. if lobyist (let's call them bribers) remains unpunished. USA is heading right into a plutonium wall
as the one who know something about nuclear physics I hate kids saying"I thought its more complicated than steam generators"
T.M.I. was working but no they shut it down.
That's because out ruling elites pushing all this "green" energy crap invested in solar panels instead of nuclear, so now they're pushing to shut down and ban nuclear as its the biggest threat/competitor to their investments, and we can't let them lose their investments now can we.....
Hopefully if more people learn that nuclear reactors a just high power water boilers rather than glowing green slime factories, maybe Nuclear Energy would develop faster instead of getting protested all the time.
I have a kettle, why not nice cup of tea
Basically we use ancient minerals that release energy and boil water there
Ancient in our corner of the universe. Stars make all elements out of hydrogen, including carbon and gold. They do it all the time.
This gotta be the hottest way to dicuss how a nuclear reactor works
Made by man, who are not perfect. Waste, what to do with it. About that rock orbitting us, the moon ✨😊
"Have you even been slapped by a wet noodle?"
so it's just like a steam engine got an upgrade 💀
Boil the hell out of the water using hell itself
Can you imagine, in a thousand years the civilization then trying to understand what this facility was and what it did. It's like us and the pyramids.
i think they will still have records of those.
Be like water, my friend
Bruce Lee
We need enough of these plants to power the whole country!
كيف يعمل في الغواصة
just heat up nuklear
Ed make this place look small 🌚
"So, is this the famous nuclear energy everyones talking about? Is just boiling water!"
"Yes!"
It’s crazy to me that these things are basically just glorified steam engines. Extremely expensive and if not properly handled extremely dangerous steam engines. That being said, the CANDU reactors use heavy water and are extremely safe. They literally cannot meltdown. It’s one of the best inventions this century. Definitely safer than a coal plant
Yes expensive to build but the Electricity produced is cheaper because a golf Ball of Uranium can produce enough electricity to Power a city for a week.
Next how does an RBMK reactor work
Stupidly
It’s a piss poor designed boiling water reactor. Unstable at low powers and would get hotter where there was no water (due to rapid boiling)… normal reactors cool down where there is no water (negative coefficient if I recall correctly), and the control rods had tips that reflected neutrons vs absorbed them like the rest of the control rod (and every other normal reactor). Absorbing neutrons is how you decrease power/shut down the reactor.
As a Chernobyl / RBMK nerd I’ll tell you about them, RBMK reactors have low enrichment uranium in pipes known as channels, some channels have boron rods that can be inserted and withdrawn from the reactor, these rods will increase the reaction when pulled out and decrease it when inserted. The boron rods had a section underneath made from graphite, so when the control rods are withdrawn they are replaced by graphite which makes the reaction go faster. Prior to 1988 there was a design flaw in the reactor which lead to a brief spike in reactivity right when the rods were put back in, this is what lead to the explosion of Chernobyl Reactor 4 on the 26th of April 1986. This reactor type is extremely unstable especially at low power, however at full power the reactor is far more stable, though still unstable compared to a BWR or PWR reactor.
@@Thxtnt good 👍 man great explanation I wasn't sure
That's a soviet BWR
now i know how a nuclear reactor works now i dont need you
Nice pictures of French nuclear power plants
What does it do with all the poop in the water?
you mean chemicals not sure how it's for the water that goes through the reactor but usually from boiler, muddrum blow down, steam drum blow down with the chemicals that go through the blow down process. Chemicals, ADM I think said, better living through chemistry
Outside water gets cleaned before entering the power plant
It is safe, no water no fission! The waist can a few times be reused till there is one or two cubic meter waist is left a year! Which is also no problem! I cannot explain why there is such resistance against this fantastic power, probably taxmoney income? Or unbribable? Almost impossible for corruption?
Song is do I wanna know and this is the version without lyrics
So it's a steam pot or like a train. They're just trying to make it seem more complex than it is
The concept itself is simple, but operating a PWR is a hard job. It takes a lot of training and a good base of knowledge if you want to prevent a disaster. The powerplant itself is simple, but the reactor is a complicated and sensitive beast
So its all steampunk?
I'm going to write this working in my Bsc final exams thankyou for a quic video to explain working it's really very helpful 😊
Thats all, just boil water
When you work at these places you start to learn alot about nuclear plants. Most people don't understand.
This doesn't explain the nuclear part of the nuclear reactor system. Lol. Thumbs down.
He said it’s heated by nuclear fission from the core, go look up what nuclear fission is then 🤦♂️
@@ceTarnity And he said the video was ABOUT how a nuclear reactor works, not the bloody turbines or whatever.
So, as the video poster failed to tell us HOW the nuclear fission process works, my young brain will do that for them.
Nuclear Fission is where the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei. This usually releases two to three neutrons (2.43 on average) which are flying at a very high speed and need to be slowed down. This is referred to moderation. The neutrons are too fast to hit another atom and have a slim chance of even doing so. So, a moderator is used. Something like Graphite or Water/Heavy Water is used to slow these neutrons down to roughly around 100 km/s or lower; it can be a few times higher than the speed of sound. However, this won't do. The reaction needs to be controlled or the fuel will melt. A material like Boron, cadmium or gadolinium can absorb neutrons and is used in the control rod. This controls whether the reaction increases, doesn't increase or just decreases. This is referred to as Supercriticality, Criticality and Subcriticality, respectively. Some of the neutrons get absorbed by the rods and the fuel. At low power, a neutron poison called Iodine-135 is created. This has a half life of 6.7 hours and isn't very good at absorbing neutrons. HOWEVER, once this Iodine decays, Xenon-135 is made which absorbs neutrons VERY well and has a half life of 9.7 hours. This can easily stall a nuclear reactor which happened to the RBMK-1000 used in Chernobyl's Unit 4.
Heat is created by this fission process, but very little of it. On large scales (not atomic scale, but rather regular fuel rods.) a lot of heat is made. A coolant like water which also is a moderator boils from the heat and takes that heat away with it - cooling the fuel rods. This ensures that it doesn't melt. The hotter the steam, the more energy that steam has and the faster it goes. This goes through the steam separator and through a series of pipes to the turbines. The steam spins the turbine which spins and generates electricity by a rotor. The steam then goes through cooling tower(s) and the water that comes down is put into a nearby water source (rivers or oceans).
Since water and graphite can be used as a moderator, there is something called a Positive Void Coefficient. Once water boils, a void is created - steam. This causes the reaction to go up. This happened with the Chernobyl RBMK-1000 Reactor when it was heavily poisoned and the turbine was turned off to simulate a blackout condition.
In the regular reactors you see today, like BWRs and PWRs, there is a Negative Void Coefficient. Once the water boils, the void is made and the resulting steam causes a decrease in reactivity.
That's it?
That was all it?
That was just boiling water
Yup! People commonly overexaggerate everything nuclear. Even though the reactor itself is a pretty complicated concept, the powerplant itself is incredibly simple. All you're doing is making a bunch of pressurized steam that turns some blades and makes power
How does a Nucleaire reactor explode. See Tsjernobyl and Fukushima. 😂😂😂
Why on earth do you have the soundtrack to "BUY TEXAS TRUCKS" playing in the background??? Is it REALLY necessary to play that dumb music in the background. It sounds so GAY.
"Just boiling water", what do you think coal and natural gas plants do? All of these plants boil steam to spin a generator at 1800 rpm to get 3 phase electricity at 60 hz. The difference is nuclear power is much more environmentally friendly that the two other sources.
Well😂 Now I know just a boil water machine. Not a cutting edge alien equipment
You know, I was very fascinated as a kid to learn that we were able to produce electricity using nuclear power and I thought it was some crazy experiment to do with radiation and was honestly disappointed to find it just boils water
We humanity always find its way to boiling water with even better method. Steam's all the way 😂
Short explication:
Big urainum cubes that behind has 3 looking flash light that boils water
Why is it always about America why didn’t they say the amount of nuclear reactors in the entire world, that would have been more interesting to know
Huge, complicated and risky stuffs for make a cylinder spinning in a generator. Based on the old method: Steam needed.
Are you telling me nuclear power is actually good for the environment?
Yes but no, don't forget the nuclear waist it produces
Much better than smoke from burning coal
@SpelunkidPeople say that and ignore the toxic chemicals they breathe everyday because of fossil fuels
There is a glass mock-up in Germany that shows all the components. It’s really cool all the piping is glass
What will happen if there is no coal and uranium to operate these power plants?
dark ages North Korea anyone!?!
Blackout. Maybe some people will start building the solar panels on their house roofs
We use thorium which is more abundant fuel efficient and safer by the time we run out of thorium were probably going to be using Dyson spheres for energy
Woah such a good explanation
Right? 🙏🏻
Cancer at 3 years old instead of 60 years old, That's how NucIear works.
@@iCyWEdontCi2iwell if you're guaranteed to have cancer at 60 in your area, i would question living there at all
@@yourbigfan1777, How close are you to a Reactor ? Let alone the waste facility that stores its waste...
@@iCyWEdontCi2iid rather live nex to a reactor than a coal power plant
What Germany did was one of the greatest stupidity when they listened those terrorist group and shut down all nuclear power plants. Now Germany has no electricity enough and reopen coal power stations. Wonderful Germany
So it's just dynamo boiling water boiled by plutonium and graphite
robotic voice, i couldn't understand anything!
Anyone who didnt watch twice bc the first time u were just bobbin ur head to the music is lying
it go make a wheel spin, like all other kinds. Bit more elaborate than most hamster run powerplants.
Reactor. Hrvatska Water and that Water boils and that air presude what reactor builded up is let thru a turbine what makes electicety done im 30 sec
HHO machine... that's all it is.. Stop with the Changing of the English words.
With the music I feel like I'm being rizzed up about reactors..
So right there close to the end it's so in these red lines were energy's going out in my version of math you could sustain pressure and energy now in saying that I got a housing design that flows with what I consider still components like a steel windmill that could help evolve or understanding of minerals in the atmosphere and learn to control the rotation of it to have a more lucrative society by understanding how to spread light and smaller organic particles
steam rules
High
I'm watching this find but
Kormusun bae senden ilerde çin marsta araci var
This music is strangely fitting for such a monster machine of human creation
I wish there was a button to turn off the music, but not the narrator. Is that so difficult ?
.😅 Can it be miniature or like is there any existing like what's the smallest ever made
How hot does that stuff get?
700C+ I think if not please prove me wrong.
Have you ever been beaten by a wet spaghetti noodle......
People have a really bad view on nuclear energy these days and have for a while
So then dumb people think it’s dangerous
I've always wondered if there is a way to harness the steam that is exhausted out the cooling towers.
It's possible but unlikely they could use it to power a data center next to it, it won't make them any money so they'd rather it go to waste
The steam turbines used by most (coal, gas or nuclear) electric power plants run at about 40-45% efficiency. That means to generate 1 GWe of electricity it actually creates 2.2 GWatts of heat. 1 GWe becomes electricity and the other 1.2 GWatts is "waste heat" that's released into the atmosphere (via those iconic cooling towers). That 1.2 GWatts of "waste heat" could be used to desalinate water… 1.2GW * 24 hr/day / 3.8 kwh * 1000 gallons ≈≈ 7.6 millions gallons of water per day.
that steam is kinda really moist air, it's quite cool actually. it would at most be 35 degrees C
@@geowar20 it could, but the condenser cooling water is never hotter than 35 ish C
cant boil nofin with that!
@@human_3217 Sure you can… it’s called vacuum distillation… look it up. It’s how the Middle East desalination plants work.
so you telling me homer simpson been lying to me all these years lol
🇺🇸🇨🇦❇⚓🔩🇷🇺🥂🇷🇺🔩⚓❇🇨🇦🇺🇸.....Wouldn't mind an RBMK reactor here in the states or up in Canada....¡A work of architecture, design & engineering all check!....
RBMK reactors is literally the worst nuclear reactor design that exists
We do all of that to just boil water
It may seem dumb on the surface, but it's actually an incredibly clean and efficient way of producing electricity. However, you're right, we are just doing a bunch of fancy things in order to boil water and create steam. This is the same concept as coal plants and every other type of power plant
Зелëные признали реакторы безопасными?)
Whenever i see this i think of what they do with reactor water?
You should try to replace water by propane gas to cooling down
the reactor. Think about it! 🫶🏽🛢🛢🛢🛢 and 🇯🇴 I can't wait to
have a nuclear battery to heat my broth for Chinese fondue🔥🔋🍵🥩
We could offer a nuclear reactor for free to our Palestinian friends! 🇰🇼🫶🏽
Bro got that Chernobyl vibes 💀
Don't tell nobody where it's at it's gonna get to the wrong person
A turbine that big can actually turn a plant I ask ?
Thorium Molten Salt Reactors???
Thanks for the DIY tutorial!
I was watching a video about US Navy nuclear Aircraft Carrier, when the creator of the video showed the engine it uses i read "steam" and i was dumbfounded i then said "wait, what?!" In confusion...
@Unknown_Tanker, What happened to The U.S.S. Ronald Reagan and its fleet on or around March 14, 2011
Ask the Russians how they work or not work. 😂😂😂
Need more like 9300 nuclear reactors operating in the US.
control rods start jumping
We need triple that number like right now.
When you read the title then the sound 💀
always reminds me of Homer
How do we get rid of old nuclear reactors