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Nuclear Power Is Our Best Hope to Ditch Fossil Fuels | Isabelle Boemeke | TED

Nuclear power is one of the safest, cleanest forms of energy — yet to most people, it might not feel that way. Why is that? Isabelle Boemeke, the world’s first nuclear energy influencer and creator of the social media persona Isodope, deftly debunks the major objections to nuclear power and explains her unconventional way of…

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Nuclear power is one of the safest, cleanest forms of energy — yet to most people, it might not feel that way. Why is that? Isabelle Boemeke, the world’s first nuclear energy influencer and creator of the social media persona Isodope, deftly debunks the major objections to nuclear power and explains her unconventional way of educating people about this clean energy source.

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  1. hesmotit

    September 19, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    why is an Instagram model giving a TED talk on nuclear power?😅🤣😂

  2. unbreakableldorado7

    September 19, 2022 at 10:14 pm

    She’s brilliant! This deserves far more attention

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    September 19, 2022 at 10:32 pm

    Nuclear energy influencer !!!! Wow. I thought influencers were just paid persuaders and sell rubbish to idiots.

  4. Aso Nei

    September 19, 2022 at 10:45 pm

    calling something “clean” that produces waste that needs to be stored for 20000 years or more (a time span most humans can’t even imagine), that is inherently not possible to get an insurance for because the cost would exceed any reasonable limits and that by the way is also based on “burning” a non-renewable fuel, is misleading at best. I have to say that some fair points are raised in the video, but often without the necessary context. One example: Statement 1: currently nuclear energy is partially (or even sometimes largely) being replaced by fossil fuels (true) Statement 2: fossil fuels have bad consequencs (true) Conclusion: nuclear is the best option –> questionable. One would also have to discuss further options such as renewables, reducing electricity consumption or any combination of measures.
    And just a detail, but still: what kind of generic statement is it that nuclear could bring clean energy to all the poor people in the world that don’t have access to electricity?? Do you really think there should be nuclear power plants in zones of civil war in africa? with power transmission through thousands of kilometers in the desert? in such a situation, decentralized energy sources like solar panels and small scale battery storage are just so much more promising…

    • Henner

      September 19, 2022 at 11:11 pm

      Thank you for making this clear.

  5. Heavy

    September 19, 2022 at 11:09 pm

    Why is TED giving you a stage?
    It is obvious that you get paid by big energy companies. (That´s how influencer make money – advertising!)

    The big amount of nuclear waste is the problem with this energy source.
    Your proof that it is securely packed für hundreds of thousands of years is a picture in front of some containers, really?
    Bullshit.
    If the final storage would be that easy, why is everywhere a dispute about it?
    And of course are scientists trying to solve that problem. But maybe they never will.

  6. Ahmed Jaleel

    September 19, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    Finally. Someone with a brain.

  7. another_alex

    September 19, 2022 at 11:18 pm

    No.

  8. rausan fikri

    September 19, 2022 at 11:23 pm

    All thing demands balance, it has either a bad or good side. Nuclear energy serves alot of resource energy. The bad side of nuclear energy is how to handle its waste and how to properly maintaining the plant. I can’t say how many advantages will have, it obvious untold xD.

    Yea, again…. We hope in the next decade, we will have enough compatible resources, including human and so on to handle such trouble. Thus, 1 milligrams of uranium can light 1 month of our area. XD.🙏👍👍

  9. Brian McG

    September 19, 2022 at 11:28 pm

    Forget solar. Screw natural gas! The real hero of tomorrows zero emissions is hydrothermal. If we spent a 10th of the money we do on drilling for gas or mining for uranium 151 we could develop the tech to drill 10 kilometers below our feet where the temperature is 400 degrees Celsius. We dig holes in the earth anywhere and produce steam to power everything! Problem solved. Environmentalists will have nothing to complain about because it’s just a 25 cm wide hole in the earth:)

  10. Stefan Lyu

    September 19, 2022 at 11:29 pm

    Dear ,I love your presentation so much

  11. Josh Proctor

    September 19, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    They finally figured it out. You can’t run an electric grid to the extent that the green energy people want you to (with all electric vehicles) without including nuclear power. No other power source or system is as powerful or as clean for the air as nuclear. Always has been.

  12. HenryManson

    September 19, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    No doubt it would be, IF we finally get the used fuel storage under control!

  13. Jo Ann May-Anthony

    September 19, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    nuclear power was our best hope 15-20 years ago.

  14. KT

    September 19, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    I can only focus on her nails she looks like Yuriko from xmen and the fact that she is wearing some half shirt under her suit jacket.
    Don’t get me wrong she is attractive but there’s a time and place, thats why you don’t wear pajamas to an interview.

  15. Christopher Hoffman

    September 19, 2022 at 11:44 pm

    You lost me at 1:17 … The fires in Australia have been burning like that for millions of years, long before fossil fuels came into use. This is an actor pushing a fake agenda. That is all.

  16. @FenrirTheUnwanted

    September 19, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    It’s not bad & it will drastically help the world. But ya’ll know the consequences. Countries who are hungry for economic power, will do everything to get their hands on em.
    Sure they’ll use it for conservation. But they will mainly use it to increase military power.
    Even if it’s not their governments, there are still an alarming number of eco-terrorists & Mafia folks out in the open, desperate for bigger guns.
    If we can’t even protect animals in Africa from getting poached? What more if it’s military power we’re protecting?

  17. beef yogurt

    September 20, 2022 at 12:04 am

    nuclear energy, bitcoin, and psychedelics are game changers of the 21st century

  18. SVT is my HOME 🏡

    September 20, 2022 at 12:04 am

    brief but informative thank you for giving me a different perception for Nuclear Power

  19. Kenneth Hartzog

    September 20, 2022 at 12:04 am

    Let me be honest, there is no form of energy more ready to fight climate change than nuclear energy, it’s here, it works, it’s stupid powerful, and the odds of it melting down are little to none. Now people may say “What about Chernobyl? It was a disaster and it just comes to show how dangerous it is!” Well let’s take a look a Chernobyl now, it has become a utopia for animals as humans are incapable of safely living there, however the reactor in the city is constantly under human surveillance in a sort of air-tight metal dome that serves as a sarcophagus to keep the reactor from spewing outwards and further damaging the landscape. It’s being slowly taken apart by Ukrainian scientists who work day to day, making there living, and you know how they’re doing? They’re doing pretty fine, their odds of getting cancer are higher than others but they aren’t suffering in their jobs, they chose that occupation to help keep their country safe, ESPECIALLY during the invasion. The public often views nuclear waste as a few barrels of glowing green goop barely held together when in reality they are stored in cases that can withstand being thrown in front of a bullet train, they have taken every precaution imaginable to protect the public, they then carry the cases to their final resting place in well maintained cellars deep underground to be stored, watched, and kept away from the people. Nuclear energy is by no means ready to take on climate change alone but it is an essential piece of the puzzle in the fight to keep our environment stable, and live able. That’s why we need it, that’s why it’s safe, and that’s why the best option is to go nuclear.

  20. Samuel Zev

    September 20, 2022 at 12:09 am

    Im okay with nuclear power so as long as it’s Thorium based and not Uranium. Even with the advantages of nuclear energy we should try our best to improve the alternatives like wind, solar, hydro and hydrogen as they are safer in the long run

  21. Jarrett Bobbett

    September 20, 2022 at 12:13 am

    It took a LONG time but we are finally being honest.
    This is for all you greens that have sabotaged all of our major energy infrastructure projects for the last 10 years.
    & they ask why the world is in a energy crisis. 😂

  22. Greg HDN

    September 20, 2022 at 12:48 am

    Al Gore and David Suzuki should listen to that lady.

  23. ryan

    September 20, 2022 at 12:55 am

    People never want to talk about this

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    September 20, 2022 at 1:25 am

    “Nuclear energy is cool” from a nuclear energy influencer haha.
    People’s fixed ideas about nuclear power can be corrected or something.
    The cost of nuclear can be reduced as happened to solar energy. It’s one of the safest energy forms, of course, and importantly nuclear energy can prevent wars that fossil fuels are bringing.
    I think this lecture is really cool and I would like to have my own digital version of myself like hers. That’s really cool!

  25. Remy Lebeau

    September 20, 2022 at 1:27 am

    Sharing a meme is lazy activism, but if it can get enough people on board and get more power plants built, it’s hard to argue against it.

  26. TJ Nartey

    September 20, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    I thought this would be cringe, but she’s really clever! Her method of advocacy is going to be appreciated in the future, for sure!

  27. Kei Arai

    September 20, 2022 at 12:34 pm

    Mrs.Isabelle has good idea and good houmor.
    We need her imagination.
    All technology are not perfect….,have factor between merit and demerit.
    We must control it efficiently.

  28. Louis Dickinson

    September 20, 2022 at 12:44 pm

    Great talk Isabelle 👏👏👏👏👏👏

  29. 張羽兒

    September 20, 2022 at 12:45 pm

    What if ur country is an small island that has LOTS of earthquakes, typhoon, tsunami and active volcanoes? I mean, I personally prefer nuclear energy, but i cannot even say a word when debating if they say “r u sure we can afford ANY ONE accident?” — which might simply destroy 1/3 of my country. Airplanes are safer but it won’t cause continuous damage like a nuclear plant accident, this talk does not convince me with such analogy. I actually thought that I can learn some exciting scientific improvements/evidences that we can reduce the risk of having nuclear plants…However, it is still good that we can have an influencer that appeal to government/academics/ppl to discard procedures so that nuclear energy can have a better chance to be developed/improved.

  30. Ivan Sydorenko

    September 20, 2022 at 1:03 pm

    Nuclear is not cool.
    Nuclear is not safe. My family suffered from Chornobyl.
    Nuclear is not cheap. The solar plant payback period is about the time you need to build a nuclear power plant.

  31. Juan DM

    September 20, 2022 at 1:22 pm

    I think if you want to say you speak truth you need to talk about the drawbacks too. The main problem with nuclear power is not the risk of an explosion. The main problems are pretty much the same as with renewables like solar and wind, which are mining and waste disposal. And this to problems affect third world countries directly. Uranium mining in Argentina for example is extremely hazardous, it produces radioactive waste and pollutes soil and underground water. Mining also destroys rivers and ecosystems. These problems also arise with solar and wind power. We need to think about this and comunicate it responsibly. Of course, we need to stop emmiting CO2. But at what cost. Transition to greener economies needs to be done responsibly and safely, or otherwise we are risking terrible consequences. Theres another TED video about this released recently. Go check it out.

  32. Eri

    September 20, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    As a Japanese, who experienced the huge earthquake on March 11, 2011, and who learned the history of two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I cannot follow her opinion.

    People should not possess the things which are not under control. Also, the nuclear energy plants are great targets for the imaginary enemies, which means it is easy for the politicians to make up their minds for a war.
    I would prefer to keep improving on the green energy more practicable, rather than unclear energy.

    • EpicSpaniard

      September 20, 2022 at 2:15 pm

      Do you drive a car, knowing that far more people have lost their lives to cars? Do you fly in Aeroplanes? Nuclear technology has advanced – it’s much safer than it was back during times of Fukushima. Also, nuclear energy =/= nuclear bombs. That’s like comparing a taser to a solar panel.

  33. Adam Vongrej

    September 20, 2022 at 2:31 pm

    I totaly agree. This was my opinion whole time and I was thinking that I m the only one, thanks.

  34. Lyle Thompson

    September 20, 2022 at 3:14 pm

    TED has turned into instagram. What happened to having scientists and experts in their field. This is such a job. TED is has gone so far downhill, I will not be watching.

  35. Tom S

    September 20, 2022 at 4:39 pm

    What are her qualifications, why should I take her word for any of this? I do believe that nuclear power is the future, just don’t understand why I would care what she says. This was cringe…

  36. Jacek Petrus

    September 20, 2022 at 5:18 pm

    Isabelle is trying to convince people that nuclear is better than fossil fuels. Are we really at that stage today? We all know that we have to stop burning fossil fuels.The issue is whether to invest in nuclear plants, which recently take at least 10 years to build (many examples in Europe) and cost many times more than planned. Yes, China builds them faster, but are we sure we are comfortable with Chinese safety standards? SMRs and scaling? Still a song of the future and does Isabelle know what she is talking about, if she gives Poland as an example? Poland has been talking about nuclear energy for the last 20 years with no effect and the current government, which wants to buy SMRs from the States is the same government, that has set back renewables development in Poland by many years, claiming that coal is best. Solar and wind farms can take 1–2 years to build and provide power at a fraction of the cost of nuclear. There are a multitude of technologies for energy storage ready for commercialization and scaling from various types of batteries, gas compression, hydro through gravity. Yes, Germany should not have closed their nulear power plants going back to fossils, but building new nuclear power plants today is a mistake. We will not reduce emissions in time to save us.

  37. Oli b

    September 20, 2022 at 6:22 pm

    wtf are those nails

  38. Stanislav Coros

    September 20, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    Fusion is better

  39. Abrahim

    September 20, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    Wow I read all this in the book Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker

  40. Ramsay Meldrum

    September 20, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    It’s not safe if there’s a war happening nearby (think Ukraine right now) and the plant becomes a potential weapon. And there’s always a potential war nearby. Regardless, we’d have to trust that they were built to maximum safety standards, and we can’t trust that in the UK. Contract would be given to the pub landlord of the MP’s regular bar. We’ve already got the dirtiest coasts, so a bit of nuclear flushing wouldn’t worsen the local aquatic life much…

  41. Shivendra singh

    September 20, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    Bill gates has created a venture capital firm called breakthrough energy which is spending a lot to build new design of nuclear reactor using liquid sodium. I read somewhere they are going to build a new reactor in Kentucky that can provide electricity for next 100 years which is huge.China controls about 90% of solar energy components market. It will be good for governments to have diversified sources of energy.

  42. Przemyslaw Jankowski

    September 20, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    Have you ever heard about reprocessing organic waste? Much cheaper than nuclear power plants production and also helpful in our waste utilisation. Regards

  43. Marta Schipporeit

    September 20, 2022 at 7:59 pm

    This is not true! It is extremely harmful produces toxic and carcinogenic waste and lasts for thousands of years and as Putin as proven, it used as a weapon during wars. Anyone that believes this garbage still believes in the Easter Bunny!

  44. Sage Saner

    September 20, 2022 at 8:08 pm

    People were and are afraid of 3-mile Island and Chernobyl accidents happening but technology as advanced much since then. Nuclear is the future.

  45. Steve Arnold

    September 20, 2022 at 8:34 pm

    Hey alright! Messaging that actually makes a point of trying to reach people outside the choir!

    It would be nice if others piled on to amp up the urgency… Given the increasing scope and frequency of weather events and effects (prolonged droughts, boreal fires the size of Rhode Island, massive flooding 50 years ahead of ‘conservative’ estimates, and regional crop failures), climate models and mainstream messaging may have been slightly influenced by commercial sponsors.

    It’s safe to say we ran out of time for experimenting; emergency response based on known technology is no longer optional. Since CO2 remains in the atmosphere for 500-2,000 years, it won’t be enough to stop emitting CO2. In order to ‘Undo’ atmospheric damage – to recover thermal stability – the C’s will have to be actively detached from the O’s at least as fast as man-made excess CO2 was released. Cleanup requires roughly the same amount of energy produced by burning all the oil, coal, gas, and boreal forests we devour every year.

    So, like, we need to double or triple the amount of energy we consume today to regain sufficient crop stability to prevent 8,000,000,000 souls from going berserk over food in a few more years. It may be too late…

  46. Bojan M

    September 20, 2022 at 8:56 pm

    You know that someone is being pretentious when they speak about wildfires in areas with “makia” vegetation or taiga. Those fires are going yearly since millions of years. That’s how nature function. Without fires those bioms would disappear.

  47. Moses Solemon

    September 20, 2022 at 9:26 pm

    Nuclear energy is dangerous in every sense of the word. Those who promote it are no more than angels of doom!

  48. Jacob Scanlon

    September 20, 2022 at 9:29 pm

    Nuclear energy in my opinion is amazing, but there’s some problems with it like uranium deposits, initial cost and slow adaptability in the industry, also using them as leverage in wars and targets (e.g. Ukraine and Russia) right now, also it’d be hard to sway the public in many areas. Geothermal in my opinion once developed could be our best option for energy, but it kind of sucks at it’s current stage of development and it also has many issues.

  49. Nico G

    September 20, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    She should at least include some time on when nuclear energy goes wrong. I don’t think that point is negligible given the aftermath of a nuclear accident. Sure, it’s not as far reaching as climate change, but more immediate in its effects to the micro environment in which it’s present.

  50. DLOWZEZ

    September 20, 2022 at 10:33 pm

    wow amazing TED talk about nuclear plant. this is eye opening to all who hates build’s nuclear plant to those close minded ppl, we need to stop fusil fuel protect the earth 🌍. address the climate change.

  51. Bill Leavens

    September 21, 2022 at 1:39 am

    Fabulous! She makes the case for nuclear energy so much better than I have. Good work.

  52. Hoi Hey hoi

    September 21, 2022 at 1:50 am

    Nuclear is bad! Where you take the plutonium? In glass in the ground miljoens of years.

  53. yuvan krishnan

    September 21, 2022 at 2:28 am

    She is so cute ☺️

  54. Randy Benton

    September 21, 2022 at 2:55 am

    Let’s do it

  55. jim bob

    September 21, 2022 at 3:55 am

    ❤❤❤❤

  56. Power Of Earther

    September 21, 2022 at 5:05 am

    Wait………….Illumi..ti…..years…23……?

  57. The Freshest

    September 21, 2022 at 5:26 am

    most uranium comes from russia

  58. Thomas Parker

    September 21, 2022 at 6:12 am

    what a beatifull girl

  59. mischa Bakaleinikoff

    September 21, 2022 at 8:21 am

    Mischa bel well nuclear energy is good!

  60. YouSo

    September 21, 2022 at 12:04 pm

    Nuclear power has the same problems as fossil fuels. Limited material to work with & toxic waste. Plus a somewhat small chance of malfunction leading to a wasteland. I really don‘t understand why there are not more solar power plants and wind turbines

  61. Pand8a

    September 21, 2022 at 12:49 pm

    Isabelle is a national treasure

  62. Nick Newman

    September 21, 2022 at 12:54 pm

    I support the use of nuclear energy over fossil fuel reliance. We should not have cancelled so many plant expansions. However, (let’s have a rational debate) nuclear energy does produce a waste product, depleted fuel rods – which have a half life. Yes, we can store these, yes we can keep them secure, yet waste is still waste. Is this correct? Does anyone have more information on this?

  63. tara

    September 21, 2022 at 1:26 pm

    Team solar. When you use the words radioactive…nuclear…doesnt that worry you a bit?

  64. Nikolay Rayanov

    September 21, 2022 at 8:09 pm

    Still not convinced. What troubles me most is, we have people who can’t tie their shoes or drive a vehicle, but we expect people to operate nuclear plants, then these projects because of their huge investments, are almost always related to corruption, especially the ones related to Russia or China, also importing nuclear fuel is the same as importing coal… Sad to say, but a lot of people actually day in uranium mines as well. Last, but not least, the fact that you harness the power of the atom, to heat water, and run the steam through a turbine is … the same as using a nuclear reactor in a car. It’s dumb!

    Now, there are reactors like Thorium and others that are much better than current Uranium reactors. Even some of the uranium reactors are not too bad, like the Candu. Still… the fact that we use the power of the atom to heat water, and then run the steam through a turbine is not giving me chance to sleep. This is like the most stupid thing in the world.

    • Anxious Earth

      September 22, 2022 at 3:20 am

      If it works, it works. What kind of complaint is that?

      Using nuclear like a car?

      Coal, gas, geothermal, they all heat water to turn turbines.

      Tidal, wind, hydro, without heat but still they use turbines.

      But for some reason, using the same process for nuclear is bad?

    • Caesar Salad

      September 25, 2022 at 6:11 pm

      This comment gave me a stroke.

  65. Mark

    September 21, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    The electic chair analogy:

    Nuclear power is bad IF it gets used in certain ways

    No

    Reactor contents come out
    by themselves
    into the environment; pollute and damage in ways we partially understand

    Electric chairs do not self assemble, come out and have the power to attract and strap people in by themselves

    Nuclear Reactor contents become problematic, polluting and dangerous all by themselves, PASSIVELY

    electic chair danger and implementation is an ACTIVE process needing sustained input, support and industrial drive

  66. Mark

    September 21, 2022 at 9:42 pm

    Carbon is now toxic? CO2?

    I thought CO2 is the major nutrient source for plants therefore all life on earth?

    All the fossil fuels were once in the air, and plants loved it, they now struggle to get enough CO2 at only 450 ppm

    • TH P

      September 25, 2022 at 1:27 am

      Water will kill you if you drink too much, what’s your point?

    • Mark

      September 25, 2022 at 11:06 am

      @TH P there have been periods where CO2 has been up to 3000 ppm or probably more, plants grew like mad, oxygen%, went up to high levels as well. The planet thrived, the insects and invertebrates grew massive, nature thrived. Since life on earth started we are presently at very low levels an plants are struggling to get enough. If we could dig up all the coal and oil and burn it all we’d only be returning to the atmosphere what was already once there at one time or another. Nature would probably thrive again if we could get the levs up again.

      Climate change does not ‘damage the planet’ it only inconveniences us because we build fixed position infrastructure and fence land off and try to ‘own’ it and build borders with armed guards beccause we hate people from other countries so much.

      The planet biosphere is a dynamic active system, climatically and geologically active and on the move constantly for billions of years.

      We didn’t have electricity a few decades ago. Now we apparently ‘need’ it. We allow ourselves still today to build badly insulated low quality housing, 66% ish of the energy we now generate in colossal quantities (10’s to 100’s of times more than the 2500 calories were supposed to use per day) we waste 66% in generation n distribution, we then waste allmost all of the remaining 33% in our crap housing.

      The crap housing and the elec, gas, water are just there so that they push meter wheels around so that we SAPIENS can rip each other off, the fat cats and government farm us and just want things that push money in their direction, even if it involves total wastage of resources.

      They hate it that it is possible for people to live in good insulated housing, use power and water that comes fromnthe sky and compost their own sewage.

      The authorities want those pipes flowing!

      They don’t want us to own our homes and cars so they apply insatiable bills to them to keep us on the go like a cattle prod

      All the other species just migrate and follow their favourite food and favourite weather around.

      We are the only species that does what we do, it is a psychological problem caused by fostering hatred, greed, selfishness, envy.

      We sit here and go along with it and consume.

      The CO2 does not bother this planet, it is mainly a ruse to bullshit us with so we are bamboozled into throwing away and buying all new stuff.

      The next generation will get the next story, the next installment of programming.

      Individual humans need to learn about the planet.

      Have you seen and HEARD what they put on TV for children to sit in front of every day?

  67. Mark

    September 21, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    What’s going to happen at Zaporizhzhia?
    The situation is rather problematic?

  68. Marco Ferrari

    September 22, 2022 at 7:56 am

    The Our World In Data chart about “safest and cleanest sources of energy” has been recently updated with the new evidence of fewer victims from Chernobyl and now nuclear energy is even more safe (0.03 deaths/TWh instead of previous 0.07). As well hydro-power safety was recalculated including Banqiao disaster and now has 1.3 deaths/TWh. Check it out.

  69. CANAL SENTIR

    September 22, 2022 at 1:11 pm

    hi from Mexico! Excellent ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ TED talk about the realities, misconceptions, and possibilies of nuclear energy today! We just added this to 3 playlists! ; planet earth, global warming, and environment! thank you Isabelle for this! 🙂👋✌🤟

  70. franklin russell

    September 23, 2022 at 12:57 am

    Isodope wants you to make fact-free decisions! The United States built LWR Nuclear plants all over the country. Did they work? Is electricity too cheap to meter? They sold us that
    in the 1970s. Nuclear fission creates deadly radiation and waste. Isodope doesn’t want you to know that. Nuclear is so expensive it needs massive government subsidies.
    Nuclear power’s safety record is the fruit of massive government spending. Small reactors have big price tags and produce less power. They would be worse than the
    current LWR in use now.
    IsoDOPE sez Nuclear power is cool
    Nuclear power is hot, radioactive, and expensive
    We could have lots of solar and wind for the price of one nuke.

  71. franklin russell

    September 23, 2022 at 1:02 am

    Isodope will say anything for money. The uranium cartel and nuclear advocates have lots of money.

  72. No one star

    September 23, 2022 at 2:46 am

    I don’t even need to watch this video to know that the video title is 100% correct. 🙂 I’ve known this for many years, and I wish more people understood what “nuclear power” truly was all about (as opposed to what nuclear BOMBS and movies are all about).

  73. Han Han

    September 23, 2022 at 4:39 am

    Now this is an influencer

  74. bee

    September 23, 2022 at 5:28 am

    The way you are redefining how people feel about nuclear energy is so important. Always rooting for you 🤍

  75. Eduardo Chavira

    September 23, 2022 at 5:50 am

    That’s a great way to reach out to the public about the advantages of nuclear power. The average public don’t read scientific papers, this kind of videos are an amazing way to change people’s minds with regards to nuclear.

  76. Maha Alkaabi

    September 23, 2022 at 11:08 am

    nuclear energy is cool

  77. Oscar Mike

    September 23, 2022 at 11:35 am

    👍

  78. Ex Ell

    September 23, 2022 at 11:55 am

    I’m SO Dope

  79. wangdydu

    September 23, 2022 at 12:28 pm

    Crowds don’t need education nor mind-changing wired-looking-girl-meme, they need pictures of good looking people dressing fashionably and smiling beside a clean-looking nuclear power plant surrounded by greenish wide grass land.
    Thanks for your work, but lets be realistic, you totally go the wrong way.

  80. 이상진의 88세 쌩쌩건강 유투브

    September 23, 2022 at 1:20 pm

    I just heard nuclear energy is already the energy of the past. Limitless energy, which i do not know well is already the energy of the present, and the future.

  81. Norman Doering

    September 23, 2022 at 2:42 pm

    Thanks for spreading this information. However, there is still another negative to nuclear power not known by most people — the processes used to enrich uranium to make fuel for nuclear power stations are also used to make nuclear weapons. Plutonium is a by-product of the nuclear fuel cycle and is still used by some countries to make nuclear weapons.

    One semi-solution is a molten salt thorium reactor instead of conventional reactors.

    • Caesar Salad

      September 25, 2022 at 6:03 pm

      You have to have a particular type of reactor, breeder reactors to produce fissile material, other reactors can be made so they are unsuitable for weapons and purely energy production. Thorium can produce fissile material too.

  82. Daniel Figo

    September 23, 2022 at 6:43 pm

    It is the only solution. If we stopped to listen to stupid kids about heolic and solar the problem would have been solved years ago.

  83. Wolf Web

    September 25, 2022 at 3:20 am

    This is more garbage from huge corporations! We need RENEWABLE energy, not nukes that leave radioactive waste in the ground for CENTURIES!!

    • Caesar Salad

      September 25, 2022 at 6:08 pm

      it can be reused, then buried miles under the crust in huge sealed caskets.

    • Wolf Web

      September 25, 2022 at 9:35 pm

      @Caesar Salad in other words leave it for future generations as the containers break down and contaminate their world.

    • Caesar Salad

      September 25, 2022 at 9:48 pm

      @Wolf Web Miles under the crust, meaning under any water table, wayyyy under. Remind me, how exactly is it going to worm its way miles upward under that pressure while in a 100 ton steel/concrete/lead container?

      Even if it did, it would take millions of years, and re-used waste as fuel reduces its like to just a few hundred years. Blink of an eye geologically.

    • Wolf Web

      September 25, 2022 at 10:57 pm

      @Caesar Salad You have no idea how well they will secure them or how far and who will cut costs. Just like the fossil fuel industry do now, they either won’t follow regulations or manipulate the government to allow slack regulations. Better to not have radioactive waste to leave to your childrens children to deal with. We don’t need it.

  84. Niv Ron

    September 25, 2022 at 9:06 am

    Great Talk! Agrees with every word! Keep up the good work!

  85. WingJai Gaming

    September 25, 2022 at 4:28 pm

    The statistics and facts already convince me that nuclear power is good. I admire her confidence to appeal to the younger audience using “memes”, but I don’t think posting that cringey stuff can change people minds… sorry : It’s still better than doing nothing tho

  86. GF6x3 GkmFW

    September 25, 2022 at 5:03 pm

    Except its too expensive and takes forever to set up.

    • Caesar Salad

      September 25, 2022 at 6:07 pm

      They can be built in less than 4 years with less bureaucracy, oil companies and lobbyist screeching, politicians, and whiny morons.

  87. Pratap Gupta

    September 25, 2022 at 11:44 pm

    Small size nuke power plant,best option, mixed with solar and wind👍

  88. CL Huang

    September 26, 2022 at 12:03 am

    I support nuclear energy, but this is a bad talk from my point of view. Her presentation of the arguments against nuclear energy fails miserably. There are many issues worth thinking about with nuclear energy that are not mentioned. And the pro-nuclear energy justification section is also very pale and without substance.

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