Proud to have the crown jewel of nuclear plants here in the valley! Thank you for making this tour possible, I've always wondered what the plant was like
Extremely proud to live in a state that has such a top-notch nuclear plant and a top-notch crew operating it! Giving us clean energy for generations. Thanks for this news report!
Thanks for the education, great job. I grew up in the Niagara Falls area and we took field trips to Niagara Mowhawk Power Plant every year. Education is key!!
Along the railroad tracks that head southwest along Kyrene is a 3-phase, triple conductor per phase power line that is carrying 500kV from Palo Verde. It is the one with delta (V-shaped insulators. This is the same power line that goes along the South Mountain Freeway to the SRP Kyrene Generating Station. It then heads east along the canal east, possibly providing electric power to El Paso.
I took a tour of a large lead acid battery manufacturing plant and 100% of the employees have detectable amounts of lead in their blood. What is gnarly is that if you are super good with your industrial hygiene and you keep your blood lead levels very low, you get a cash bonus every three months. Scary!
Damn, I really wish it were possible to get in-person tours of this facility. I love that we have not only the largest net power generating nuclear facility in the US, but it's also the ONLY one in the world that isn't fed cooling water by a natural body or source of water (100 % treated waste water).
Troy missed a two key questions: Well … how often do N-16 (Nitrogen 16) alarms sound, and what then happens in totality when they do? The bigger question Troy missed was WHAT key lessons and changes happened as a result of the world's last big nuclear catastrophe, March 11, 2011 - the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station disaster - where backup power failed to kick in and thus any and all cooling failed? What changed at Palo Verde after Fukushima? That aside, very interesting tour. ***TONS*** happening in the field of new nuclear tech, design & safeguards. Thank you.
Backup did kick on at Fukushima-Daiichi and then a short time later the Tsunami hit and knocked the generators offline. The plant had a battery backup system that operated for several hours but what was critical is that essentially the electrical rooms for the backup power systems got flooded. So that mean even when additional backup generators had been brought onsite there was no where to connect those generators to because those systems had been flooded. Palo Verde being at a inland location doesn't have to worry about Tsunami's.
Was raised in Eastern Washington State and lived only 10 miles from the Hanford Nuclear site. Originally produced plutonium for bombs dropped on Japan. Very secretive. My friends dads were top government scientists and they never could talk about what their dads did. The US Government secretly released radioactive iodine into the atmosphere as a "test" to see what the ramifications would be and never told residents. The release blew downwind. Settled on the ground, crops and Columbia River. Cows ate the crop feed, we drank the milk and forever have documented Thyroid functioning issues. We are called "downwinders". I am now 70 and had many friends die of cancer. We paid the price and have learned much since then. The government compensated some, but not all.
We in Arizona have more than enough sun and land to power all of our energy needs, forever, via solar + battery storage. Palo Verde is a great site, however, it's getting old and will shut down in the next ~20 years.
it was political. it should be reopened . it's federal land . or we build a national reprocessing center and reprocess the spent fuel to make new fuel. about 95% of the energy is still in the spent fuel
Nevada being a “Swing State” is the entire 100% problem. Presidential moron candidates will pander for Las Vegas & NV votes by promising to halt Yucca Mountain as America’s best long term waste solution.
It's still officially part of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. It was defunded, but technically not cancelled and they are likely officially required to recognize it still. The project could, and SHOULD, be evaluated with the recent lean back into new nuclear power. That in combination with repurposing the fuel to power smaller reactors would be a great engineering challenge to see overcome. My 2 cents are that the political "reasons" for defunding it was to push alternative clean energy policy. I speculate it was done to point at the now forced outdoor storage and say "this isn't safe, we need solar there instead" or something to that effect.
An aging plant with aging reactors past their design life, where hostile and cost prohibitive prevent the replacement or update of the existing reactors or the construction of new ones. I say build more solar, more wind. More gas, more coal, more hydro, more nuclear. More of everything. Keep Arizona as an exporter and keep Arizona energy cheap.
@wildone505 Every form of power generation produces some damage to the environment. So compared to burning fossil fuels or building dams. To create base power; nuclear is one (the best) option. Solar and wind are great for peak power demands.
We need more plants like that in America. By the way this plant is in my backyard so close I can hear the sirens when they test them and I know we are totally safe here.🇺🇸👍
with everyone complaining about cow farts n such i still dont know why we havent made more of these plants. best option so far for producing the amount of pwr that everyone needs. plus it would take an ENORMOUS amount of batteries to store solar panel and wind energy
Too funny! We are absolutely not even close to being on the brink of World War III! Are you reading stupid magazines at the grocery store while standing in line?
I was impressed by the high amount of substance in the video without saying anything important or hidden - it really was a great look that isn't possible any more because of just this. They shut down the tours about 6 years ago if I remember right.
@@shawnbegay7220 Wakey wakey the cold war ended decades ago and Russia is hardly a super power any more, though the American military industrial complex and its shareholders would like you to believe it is.
Very fascinating. Back in April 1980, I was in 8th grade attending M.C. Cash School in south Phoenix. Our science classes did a field trip to Palo Verde. The plant was still under construction at the time. The one scary ting about Palo Verde is that it was targeted by the Soviet Union with missiles. I can imagine that Russia has this plant in its sights yet.
Wakey wakey the cold war ended decades ago and Russia is hardly a super power any more, though the American military industrial complex and its shareholders would like you to believe it is.
so jr this is your new office, over yonder theres shark tank, i dont if the sharks are chasing u or if your after the sharks,whatever the case is this were u can start taking care of these animals... i can do that youll be sitting in this chair looking at the screen most of the day.... lol....ok, is that my computer or is it your comp... thats mine its a split screen window.... so im stihl in the oil business then? yes but willow still gets a bigger slice of the oie then that, damn taco can see that that pie aint gonna fill my tank..... stfu, this is awesome.....thats kinda inteligent writing, it all makes cents... if u need some time off tap on the exterior wall 3 times,willow u tap twice..... what should i feed a shark... oh good question.... a lesbian dyno-sir ;Lick-a-lot-puss.. huh did u say pick a lock.. pick a lot and stay in it im not telling u again, 1 more time, your going to farm to feed the pigs....might see your sis feeding a horse...
We need more plants here, and what’s up with not getting rid of the waste? No planning for new power plants?? That will take at least 10 years to build
We cant have more of these nuclear power plants because we had to spend all our money on foreign countries and social security for single mothers, and also hippies fear nuclear power and want us all using windmills only.
Nuclear waste can be reprocessed its done in Europe it doesn't need to be buried as it still contains enough material to power nuclear reactors follow the money, the so called elites are storing it like a hedge fund hard 2 believe well its true.
Proud to have the crown jewel of nuclear plants here in the valley! Thank you for making this tour possible, I've always wondered what the plant was like
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@@emilkarpo So Safe ? YOU GOT TO TELL US OVER & OVER So Safe NOT
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My father was one of the construction workers that took part building that Polo Verde generating station back in the 70s.
Extremely proud to live in a state that has such a top-notch nuclear plant and a top-notch crew operating it! Giving us clean energy for generations. Thanks for this news report!
Thanks for the education, great job. I grew up in the Niagara Falls area and we took field trips to Niagara Mowhawk Power Plant every year. Education is key!!
Along the railroad tracks that head southwest along Kyrene is a 3-phase, triple conductor per phase power line that is carrying 500kV from Palo Verde. It is the one with delta (V-shaped insulators. This is the same power line that goes along the South Mountain Freeway to the SRP Kyrene Generating Station. It then heads east along the canal east, possibly providing electric power to El Paso.
Amazing footage, thank you 12 News!
We need 20-25 more of these in the US by 2040 please.
Proud to have this facility here.
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whoever got the privilege of capturing that drone shot, that’s gonna be a great story there’s no way you easily clear all those hurdles
I took a tour of a large lead acid battery manufacturing plant and 100% of the employees have detectable amounts of lead in their blood. What is gnarly is that if you are super good with your industrial hygiene and you keep your blood lead levels very low, you get a cash bonus every three months. Scary!
Yes Nuclear Isotopes In IN The Air Water FOOD & People = Cancer Lotto They LIE WE DIE @ 41 CPM
Build more nuclear pants
Damn, I really wish it were possible to get in-person tours of this facility. I love that we have not only the largest net power generating nuclear facility in the US, but it's also the ONLY one in the world that isn't fed cooling water by a natural body or source of water (100 % treated waste water).
Troy always top notch reporting.
This was cool 😎👍🏾
Really cool to see this! So interesting
Troy missed a two key questions: Well … how often do N-16 (Nitrogen 16) alarms sound, and what then happens in totality when they do? The bigger question Troy missed was WHAT key lessons and changes happened as a result of the world's last big nuclear catastrophe, March 11, 2011 - the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station disaster - where backup power failed to kick in and thus any and all cooling failed? What changed at Palo Verde after Fukushima? That aside, very interesting tour. ***TONS*** happening in the field of new nuclear tech, design & safeguards. Thank you.
Backup did kick on at Fukushima-Daiichi and then a short time later the Tsunami hit and knocked the generators offline. The plant had a battery backup system that operated for several hours but what was critical is that essentially the electrical rooms for the backup power systems got flooded. So that mean even when additional backup generators had been brought onsite there was no where to connect those generators to because those systems had been flooded. Palo Verde being at a inland location doesn't have to worry about Tsunami's.
Biggest question would be what are the safeguards around a meltdown
@@Th3Duck0nQuak Emergency Cooling pumps and backup power. You also have a containment structure around the reactors incase all of this fails.
Love nuclear, love that we have this engineering gem in our backyard
Fascinating !
Was raised in Eastern Washington State and lived only 10 miles from the Hanford Nuclear site. Originally produced plutonium for bombs dropped on Japan. Very secretive. My friends dads were top government scientists and they never could talk about what their dads did. The US Government secretly released radioactive iodine into the atmosphere as a "test" to see what the ramifications would be and never told residents. The release blew downwind. Settled on the ground, crops and Columbia River. Cows ate the crop feed, we drank the milk and forever have documented Thyroid functioning issues. We are called "downwinders". I am now 70 and had many friends die of cancer. We paid the price and have learned much since then. The government compensated some, but not all.
Build more!
Metering in the control room looks very old. By now I would think everything would be a digital readout easy to read at a glance not a swing meter.
Homer Simpson would be jealous of this plant, it has too many safety features
We in Arizona have more than enough sun and land to power all of our energy needs, forever, via solar + battery storage. Palo Verde is a great site, however, it's getting old and will shut down in the next ~20 years.
Nice; can’t wait for molten salt thorium reactors.
yucca mountain repository never opened, and has been defunded....wonder why he said that
it was political. it should be reopened . it's federal land . or we build a national reprocessing center and reprocess the spent fuel to make new fuel. about 95% of the energy is still in the spent fuel
Nevada being a “Swing State” is the entire 100% problem. Presidential moron candidates will pander for Las Vegas & NV votes by promising to halt Yucca Mountain as America’s best long term waste solution.
@@ronblack7870 NIMBY killed it, not in my backyard
It's still officially part of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. It was defunded, but technically not cancelled and they are likely officially required to recognize it still. The project could, and SHOULD, be evaluated with the recent lean back into new nuclear power. That in combination with repurposing the fuel to power smaller reactors would be a great engineering challenge to see overcome.
My 2 cents are that the political "reasons" for defunding it was to push alternative clean energy policy. I speculate it was done to point at the now forced outdoor storage and say "this isn't safe, we need solar there instead" or something to that effect.
@@Tomd4850 just like low income housing, the *nimby's won out...
*not in my backyard
you can see a bunch of portable generators there too so one of their generators must have been out of service.
Anyone think itd be neet if kyle hill came visited this place?
If you don’t like nuclear, I guess we’re never going to see you near a hospital again 😂
An aging plant with aging reactors past their design life, where hostile and cost prohibitive prevent the replacement or update of the existing reactors or the construction of new ones.
I say build more solar, more wind. More gas, more coal, more hydro, more nuclear. More of everything. Keep Arizona as an exporter and keep Arizona energy cheap.
Cool I believe that nuclear energy is the cleanest and most reliable way to generate energy
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Cleanest? What about the waste? Melt down? Earthquake ? Waste water? The waste is more toxic to human, wild life and the environment.
@wildone505 Every form of power generation produces some damage to the environment. So compared to burning fossil fuels or building dams. To create base power; nuclear is one (the best) option. Solar and wind are great for peak power demands.
We need more plants like that in America. By the way this plant is in my backyard so close I can hear the sirens when they test them and I know we are totally safe here.🇺🇸👍
Awesome.l
Anyone whos driven out this road and seen the feral children on the surrounding properties knows theres something leakin out somewhere haha
with everyone complaining about cow farts n such i still dont know why we havent made more of these plants. best option so far for producing the amount of pwr that everyone needs. plus it would take an ENORMOUS amount of batteries to store solar panel and wind energy
Oh Ok Lets Have The Cancer Lotto
Funny how we are on the brink of ww3 and now they are giving us a tour of a possible target for enemy forces 😂
Too funny! We are absolutely not even close to being on the brink of World War III! Are you reading stupid magazines at the grocery store while standing in line?
What a load of nonsense! 😂😂😂😂😂
I was impressed by the high amount of substance in the video without saying anything important or hidden - it really was a great look that isn't possible any more because of just this. They shut down the tours about 6 years ago if I remember right.
The former Soviet Union already had this plant targeted because of it's strategic value. I can imagine Russia has it targeted still.
@@shawnbegay7220 Wakey wakey the cold war ended decades ago and Russia is hardly a super power any more, though the American military industrial complex and its shareholders would like you to believe it is.
Very fascinating. Back in April 1980, I was in 8th grade attending M.C. Cash School in south Phoenix. Our science classes did a field trip to Palo Verde. The plant was still under construction at the time. The one scary ting about Palo Verde is that it was targeted by the Soviet Union with missiles. I can imagine that Russia has this plant in its sights yet.
Wakey wakey the cold war ended decades ago and Russia is hardly a super power any more, though the American military industrial complex and its shareholders would like you to believe it is.
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so jr this is your new office, over yonder theres shark tank, i dont if the sharks are chasing u or if your after the sharks,whatever the case is this were u can start taking care of these animals... i can do that youll be sitting in this chair looking at the screen most of the day.... lol....ok, is that my computer or is it your comp... thats mine its a split screen window.... so im stihl in the oil business then? yes but willow still gets a bigger slice of the oie then that, damn taco can see that that pie aint gonna fill my tank..... stfu, this is awesome.....thats kinda inteligent writing, it all makes cents... if u need some time off tap on the exterior wall 3 times,willow u tap twice..... what should i feed a shark... oh good question.... a lesbian dyno-sir ;Lick-a-lot-puss.. huh did u say pick a lock.. pick a lot and stay in it im not telling u again, 1 more time, your going to farm to feed the pigs....might see your sis feeding a horse...
super costly nuclear paid for by taxpayers
Renewable are cheapest
Renewables won't provide base load.
This spokesman said Uh or Um about a million damn times.
if u dont show up this time your buying me a wolverine commercial stovetop range for my new house...
We need more plants here, and what’s up with not getting rid of the waste? No planning for new power plants?? That will take at least 10 years to build
We cant have more of these nuclear power plants because we had to spend all our money on foreign countries and social security for single mothers, and also hippies fear nuclear power and want us all using windmills only.
Nuclear waste can be reprocessed its done in Europe it doesn't need to be buried as it still contains enough material to power nuclear reactors follow the money, the so called elites are storing it like a hedge fund hard 2 believe well its true.
Need Micro Grid .....NO MORE Centralized Greed Lies OF Nuclear Seen The Cancer Rate ?
Keen energy
What are we all, plants? Love, Genny.
He sounds like SRP sanity
People who constantly slap their hands while talking are so distracting