She was a fantastic guest on this! She’s so well spoken, both from a knowledge/facts standpoint, as well as her ability to speak and speaking voice. There aren’t many folks I just enjoy their speaking voice, but hers is one.
I followed the first two seasons of Wild Thing and had no idea Laura grew up in Idaho Falls! As a fellow eastern Idahoan, she just went up several notches in my book. This was a great interview.
17:12 "long life isotopes that persist...millions of years" - any isotope with a very long half-life is unlikely to be that dangerous. It's the short lived isotopes which are the (radioactive) problem.
As with most radiation-hazard topics, this take is not nuanced enough to be accurate. Long-lived radioisotopes can indeed be dangerous, especially if their chemistry makes them highly bioavailable in highly cancer vulnerable tissues like bone marrow.
Anyone who thinks in depth about nuclear power over a period of 50 years or so will have changed their minds about it multiple times. It is an intensely complex set of issues. My end point has been : if we can avoid doing it, we should, both for cost and problem avoidance perspectives. Being a physicist by nature, the radiation is not something that figures highly in my appraisal of the risk/benefit analysis as it only really becomes an issue following a catastrophic bot very unlikely accident. I do think the byproducts management has yet to be adequately addressed so it cannot yet be a sustainable solution for humanity.
so your plan to electrify the world without is??? what? it's clear that solar and wind cannot manage this and we have to stop carbon emissions if our species is going to survive. so what do we do?
Germany realised that shuting down nuclear power plants is dumb, so they increased the time the old ones can run. Instead of building new beter power plants
Sorry probably a bunch novice questions but here goes... if we can reprocess and keep using the fuel, why are we not focusing on that rather than trying to store this waste for 30,000 yrs or whatever it is that we need to do with it as it is right now. Also, wouldn't repurposing the fuel also reduce total long term waste we need to manage? Lastly, if we are thinking from a self sufficiency perspective, wouldn't reprocessing it mean we are less dependent on Russia and other sources for future fuels...
@@mellie4174 the largest users of nuclear fuels are also the nuclear armed countries in the world. Are you saying theft is a big issue among the right now? If not, then we have to chose between the lesser of evils... Yeah, for others who aren't nuclear armed, we will need some plan for transport and reprocessing but we already do some of it for some countries as part of nuclear fuel supply deals where we (existing nuke powers) provide the fuel rods and then take the spent rods back. It won't be easy but I would wager it is easier than trying to mine and process more and more new fuel and then store more and more spent ones
I love you yes I do, cause I know that you Love me too. The longest job I ever had was a Taxi Driver 15 yrs. But I wanted to be a journalist when I was younger and Astro Physicist later. Pipe Dreams.
Also you are talking about ElonBait. That algorithm trend changed my behavior. I began to right click and select "open on a new window" just so I could come back to the original clickbait and select "do not recommend channel" if it was yet another ElonBait. Today I did that to 6 or 7 channels. The ElonBaiting is ridiculous.
The basic problem is that the definition of the meaning of the word “fact” includes the phrase “generally agreed to be true” so with todays propagation of opinions, it totally screws the validity of “generally agreed” part of the premise. Nothing can short circuit the value of education.
Here is an off topic, fringe, pseudo-science, theory I had yesterday. What are your thoughts on the following? I can take the criticism so don't hold anything back. Thanks! What if the pyramid structures doted around the planet at specific latitudes and longitudes were ancient Ham Radios? If the piezoelectric effect were generated by the mass of the pyramids, while the buildings surrounding were equipped with stone analog logic gates you could say the entire Giza Plateau was a circuit board the size of a city. While harnessing that much geomagnetic energy it might be possible to tune the occilating frequency output from the obelisk towers. Thus turning it into an ancient two way antenna/ Ham Radio. If the output carrier wave were specifically tuned to the inverse harmonic resonance of the ionosphere you could, in theory, bounce data packets across the world to every other pyramidal structure set as a two way receiving antenna, simultaneously. Theoretically a 12,500 b.c.e. to 30,000 b.c.e world wide telegraph network of the most rudimentary design might have been possible. Think of the quartz crystals used as transducers, and signal attenuators housed within the logic gates which comprised the circuitry. One caveat. All this obviously assumes that boolean logic, and binary data transformations were harnessed to disambiguate between background radio noise and carrier waves. Now the hurdle of proving it which will undountedly be impossible. Because the passage of tens of thousands of years has erased everything not made of megalithic stone. But I digress. I'm clearly not an electrical, or computer, engineer. But if you can entertain the possibility by making several quantum leaps of faith I'd love to hear any alternative theories you might have. Thoughtfully yours; Delta Tesseract
and saying that cancer is what it is because the terrain of the person is bad and allows it is shaming the person that has it. It's saying well if they would have done this, that and the other thing they wouldn't have this cancer. This is very dangerous territory!
'Twould be more meaningful to talk about the Mars City housing problem than the political rubbish that is being allowed out. As long as Nuclear Weapons are anywhere on earth, all else is moot.
Anyone who mispronounces "nuclear" is just being lazy, in my opinion. It's really not that difficult. If they can say clap or clean or clear, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to say nuclear. If they can say nucleus with no issue, then they have no excuse for not saying nuclear correctly. Granted, some people have actual speech impediments that make it difficult for them to pronounce certain words or letter groups correctly, but most people do not have that excuse and they are just being lazy and not even trying.
such a great interview.... Have you reached out to Kyle Hill to see if he is interested in hangin' out having a chat. Pronouncing it Nuke you ler... makes me CRINGE! I yell at my husband every time he says it! ugh!
She was a fantastic guest on this! She’s so well spoken, both from a knowledge/facts standpoint, as well as her ability to speak and speaking voice. There aren’t many folks I just enjoy their speaking voice, but hers is one.
Go check out her show! She does have a great voice.
This was awesome. And yes Joe, would definitely support you taking the time to do a deep in depth investigation into something 😊😊
I followed the first two seasons of Wild Thing and had no idea Laura grew up in Idaho Falls! As a fellow eastern Idahoan, she just went up several notches in my book. This was a great interview.
Idaho representing! I live about 3 hours away from INL that she was talking about, have a few friends who have worked there in various jobs
The Hamptons out on the end of Long Island would be a perfect place for spent fuel storage.
Even as a non-native English speaker I do not get how say nuclear is hard.. just say "new" + "clear".. right..?
"right..?" - no.
thank you. American hear and I don't understand how this is hard....
As a new subscriber to this channel, thank you for the great interview and interviewee. Cheers!
Thank you Joe, I will check out Laura Krantz podcast, this was great.
I just always think of "new" + "clear" when saying "nuclear." :)
Interesting interview. Held my attention and then the hour was up. Did not even realize it had been 30 minutes even. : )
17:12 "long life isotopes that persist...millions of years" - any isotope with a very long half-life is unlikely to be that dangerous. It's the short lived isotopes which are the (radioactive) problem.
As with most radiation-hazard topics, this take is not nuanced enough to be accurate. Long-lived radioisotopes can indeed be dangerous, especially if their chemistry makes them highly bioavailable in highly cancer vulnerable tissues like bone marrow.
@@BlahVideosBlahBlah Yes, I was grossly simplifying. My point was that the short lived isotopes are the ones which are generally highly dangerous.
Joe take as much time as you need. I will wait for you.
*Naturally occurring radioactive materials* (NORM) and technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials ( *TENORM* )
sorry im late to the party JS. big fan of podcasts 😃
Wish the episode was longer.
Anyone who thinks in depth about nuclear power over a period of 50 years or so will have changed their minds about it multiple times. It is an intensely complex set of issues. My end point has been : if we can avoid doing it, we should, both for cost and problem avoidance perspectives.
Being a physicist by nature, the radiation is not something that figures highly in my appraisal of the risk/benefit analysis as it only really becomes an issue following a catastrophic bot very unlikely accident. I do think the byproducts management has yet to be adequately addressed so it cannot yet be a sustainable solution for humanity.
so your plan to electrify the world without is??? what? it's clear that solar and wind cannot manage this and we have to stop carbon emissions if our species is going to survive. so what do we do?
Whilst Netflix may be in trouble, large companies often post a loss on purpose.
Pro Nuclear here.
Why are commercials TOO loud even on youtube?
Because you're not using Adblock to not see any of them.
I totally agree. Opera web browser can help!
Germany realised that shuting down nuclear power plants is dumb, so they increased the time the old ones can run. Instead of building new beter power plants
excellent
Dude, your in LOVE! And, she gets WAY more Sun than you.
I say "noo kyuh ler" because I'm not a wuss. lol
Sorry probably a bunch novice questions but here goes...
if we can reprocess and keep using the fuel, why are we not focusing on that rather than trying to store this waste for 30,000 yrs or whatever it is that we need to do with it as it is right now.
Also, wouldn't repurposing the fuel also reduce total long term waste we need to manage?
Lastly, if we are thinking from a self sufficiency perspective, wouldn't reprocessing it mean we are less dependent on Russia and other sources for future fuels...
because doing it risks people stealing plutonium to make bombs. So they prefer just to waste it rather than risk it.
@@mellie4174 the largest users of nuclear fuels are also the nuclear armed countries in the world. Are you saying theft is a big issue among the right now? If not, then we have to chose between the lesser of evils...
Yeah, for others who aren't nuclear armed, we will need some plan for transport and reprocessing but we already do some of it for some countries as part of nuclear fuel supply deals where we (existing nuke powers) provide the fuel rods and then take the spent rods back.
It won't be easy but I would wager it is easier than trying to mine and process more and more new fuel and then store more and more spent ones
Kyle Hill has an excellent video about the SL-1 disaster: th-cam.com/video/uJ8cYheR5xo/w-d-xo.html
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I love you yes I do, cause I know that you Love me too. The longest job I ever had was a Taxi Driver 15 yrs. But I wanted to be a journalist when I was younger and Astro Physicist later. Pipe Dreams.
A book about terrible diseases?? I can envision an interesting video material (but mostly an arduous script to work on xD)
"Are we a more species than we were sixty years ago" - a valid but depressing question. :/
ConverSplations With Moe the Toe. Laura has it all. Brains, Communication skills and (feminists clenching) good looks.
Also you are talking about ElonBait. That algorithm trend changed my behavior. I began to right click and select "open on a new window" just so I could come back to the original clickbait and select "do not recommend channel" if it was yet another ElonBait. Today I did that to 6 or 7 channels. The ElonBaiting is ridiculous.
That's awesome. More people should do this.
The basic problem is that the definition of the meaning of the word “fact” includes the phrase “generally agreed to be true” so with todays propagation of opinions, it totally screws the validity of “generally agreed” part of the premise. Nothing can short circuit the value of education.
love these, but I can't "watch" becasue the background moving stars is so distracting as it repetes, I know it's just me....
No, that's good feedback, thanks!
Melted salt reactor!
th-cam.com/video/aqPLU8ge-0w/w-d-xo.html
Day 1 of me asking for sean carrol
Here is an off topic, fringe, pseudo-science, theory I had yesterday. What are your thoughts on the following? I can take the criticism so don't hold anything back. Thanks!
What if the pyramid structures doted around the planet at specific latitudes and longitudes were ancient Ham Radios?
If the piezoelectric effect were generated by the mass of the pyramids, while the buildings surrounding were equipped with stone analog logic gates you could say the entire Giza Plateau was a circuit board the size of a city. While harnessing that much geomagnetic energy it might be possible to tune the occilating frequency output from the obelisk towers. Thus turning it into an ancient two way antenna/ Ham Radio. If the output carrier wave were specifically tuned to the inverse harmonic resonance of the ionosphere you could, in theory, bounce data packets across the world to every other pyramidal structure set as a two way receiving antenna, simultaneously. Theoretically a 12,500 b.c.e. to 30,000 b.c.e world wide telegraph network of the most rudimentary design might have been possible.
Think of the quartz crystals used as transducers, and signal attenuators housed within the logic gates which comprised the circuitry.
One caveat. All this obviously assumes that boolean logic, and binary data transformations were harnessed to disambiguate between background radio noise and carrier waves.
Now the hurdle of proving it which will undountedly be impossible. Because the passage of tens of thousands of years has erased everything not made of megalithic stone.
But I digress.
I'm clearly not an electrical, or computer, engineer. But if you can entertain the possibility by making several quantum leaps of faith I'd love to hear any alternative theories you might have.
Thoughtfully yours;
Delta Tesseract
and saying that cancer is what it is because the terrain of the person is bad and allows it is shaming the person that has it. It's saying well if they would have done this, that and the other thing they wouldn't have this cancer. This is very dangerous territory!
'Twould be more meaningful to talk about the Mars City housing problem than the political rubbish that is being allowed out.
As long as Nuclear Weapons are anywhere on earth, all else is moot.
Anyone who mispronounces "nuclear" is just being lazy, in my opinion. It's really not that difficult. If they can say clap or clean or clear, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to say nuclear. If they can say nucleus with no issue, then they have no excuse for not saying nuclear correctly. Granted, some people have actual speech impediments that make it difficult for them to pronounce certain words or letter groups correctly, but most people do not have that excuse and they are just being lazy and not even trying.
nucular gurnade ...
such a great interview.... Have you reached out to Kyle Hill to see if he is interested in hangin' out having a chat. Pronouncing it Nuke you ler... makes me CRINGE! I yell at my husband every time he says it! ugh!
I hate those Muskbait thumbnails and videos so much. Same with crypto stuff.