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Nuclear Power Is Our Best Hope To Ditch Fossil Fuels | Isabelle Boemeke @TED #tedtalks #ted
Isabelle Boemeke is the world’s first nuclear energy influencer. Watch her full TED Talk:
Isabelle Boemeke is the world’s first nuclear energy influencer. Watch her full TED Talk:
@gabagool...not_italian...
March 27, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Girl boss
@chetleonard169
March 27, 2024 at 12:55 pm
Then we need to use less energy and NOT need to screw ourselves
@Rmc263
March 27, 2024 at 12:58 pm
How do we screw ourselves? Also who needs to use less energy?
@jamescameron464
March 27, 2024 at 12:59 pm
It does not offer the best chance for our future. Literally just solar and air would be all we need. But that takes reforming our systematic designs. Our societal systems are so outdated that they can’t even repair themselves.
@Rmc263
March 27, 2024 at 1:07 pm
In space terms you would need 10000 acres of solar panels to produce the same amount of power as one nuclear plant.
@jamescameron464
March 27, 2024 at 1:11 pm
@@Rmc263 okay? They could literally be incorporated into our environment without being a problem. You need insane amounts of space to keep the reactor in a safe location. Reactors are fine if they are being respected, but with our systems in play. It would most definitely be abused.
@Rmc263
March 27, 2024 at 1:26 pm
@@jamescameron464 a nuclear power plant takes up about 50 acres. Thats a lot less than 10000. Plus it produces less waste in the end because all 10000 acres of solar panels and the batteries associated with them(because without them you have no power at night) will eventually need to be disposed of. The waste generated over the life of a nuclear plant can be kept well within that 50 acres. Considering that the sum of all radioactive waste ever generated in the us would fit within 1 football field stacked 100 ft high.
@jamescameron464
March 27, 2024 at 1:32 pm
@@Rmc263 lmfao, you do realize the power is stored? Please don’t tell me you think when nighttime rolls around we won’t have any power? The batteries are charged by the solar energy. It charges itself, all you have to do is clean them. And for the nuclear reactor, you wouldn’t want it anywhere near a city. I respect the idea for a nuclear reactor power source, but I do not believe our systems will respect that power.
@jamescameron464
March 27, 2024 at 1:33 pm
@@Rmc263 solar will literally end up stored if we actually respected our resources in general. We would need way less power if we didn’t burn our resources for no practical reason. We are actively eating our planet, and the only way to fix that is to help it grow.
@Surrealist_369
March 27, 2024 at 1:16 pm
The eyeliner and cutout is a bit much.
@hape3862
March 27, 2024 at 1:37 pm
In 2023, Germany generated more than 50% of its electricity from renewable energies for the first time. We are currently building 4-5 wind turbines a day, _every day_ and 30 football fields of solar panels a day, _every day!_ That’s an addition of 10 GW for wind and another 10 GW for solar _every year_ – or in other words: the equivalent of *two* nuclear power plants. Every year! – How many nuclear power plants did your country build last year, you mouthpieces of the nuclear lobby????
@kate8160
March 27, 2024 at 1:38 pm
Agreed 🫶
@TimPM
March 27, 2024 at 1:41 pm
The problem with nuclear power is that the material cost (both financially and economically) is sooo ridiculously high where no power plant has really been built in the planned time and within budget. So it emits more CO2 to build than to keep developing solar and wind! If we could reduce the cost of the building it could be an interesting future source!
@Rmc263
March 27, 2024 at 1:50 pm
The only reason that new nuclear plants haven’t been built on time is because we stopped building them for 30+ years and so are basically starting over. 20 years ago wind and solar were the exact same way and if you compare end use power generation efficiency and total waste produced nuclear is significantly lower.
@geromewuthrich2130
March 27, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Do you think renewables are free ? China produces around 80% of the worlds solar panels, their lands are turned barren because of all the rare ore necessity and chemical dumping. All the factories that runs on coal power, and the heavy cargo ships sucking oil like the us governement to send the product over the world.
“Renewables are the future”, yeah right, keep living in your fairytale, we will go extinct sooner that way, good.
@martijn8537
March 27, 2024 at 1:49 pm
This is a bad case of framing sadly. Although nuclear energy is a valid option when it comes to carbon emissions. It’s not a valid option when it comes to energy independence, sustainability and environmental friendliness.
Not every country has access to uranium. So the wars wouldn’t be fought over fossil fuels but over uranium deposits.
Uranium is not unlimited. There is a limited amount on this planet and the deposits can be drained untill they no longer exist, like fossil fuels.
Last but not least, nuclear energy is not environmentally friendly. It produces a lot of radioactive waste that has a half-time of thousands of years. It has to be stored somewhere safe where it can’t harm the environment. In the past, this nuclear waste was even dumped in the oceans without a protective barrier around. Only the casing protected the environment against the radiation….
Valid options are solar and hydropowrplants. Sadly these also have their negatives like the precious materials that are needed and the low energy output in comparison to other means of energy production.
@Rmc263
March 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
I believe you are misinformed on a few points. 1 uranium is limited, but it is not the only fissionable material on earth and isn’t nearly as limited as you might think, and the wars thing will always be a problem so long as any resource is limited. 2 nuclear energy is very environmentally friendly when you compare it to other sources of energy. Yes it does have highly radioactive waste, but that waste can be reprocessed and used for more energy, and the total amount of waste that has been produce in 80 years in the US is the size of a football field stacked 100 feet high. Also what impact would burrying the radioactive wast after putting it into a steel, lead and concrete cask have on the environment? Also you mentioned hydroelectric and solar as alternatives. Hydroelectric has less waste sure but you have to flood thousands of acres in order to have it so thats a lot more than the 50 acre nuclear plant and solar is no where near as reliable, requires batteries to be able to use it at night and would take about 10000 acres of panels to do the same power output as 1 nuclear plant and let us not forget that solar panels will eventually need to be disposed of as well and they contain many heavy metals and other things that are more easily leeched into the environment. I recommend you check out the book “power to save the world: the truth about nuclear energy” by Gwyneth Cravens to learn a bit more about this.
@geoms6263
March 27, 2024 at 1:59 pm
nuclear power is for our distruction
@dondoodat
March 27, 2024 at 2:05 pm
Talking about the carbon footprint of nuclear making it a clean energy is so dishonest.
You might as well say a hand grenade is safe from giving you diseases.
If it is impossible to survive without nuclear power then we cannot tell any country in the world that they can’t have nuclear power.
I don’t think the world would be made a safer, cleaner, healthier place for that.
@rikabernar
March 27, 2024 at 2:05 pm
Yes! Thank you! 👏👏👏
@ehrnchenontour6305
March 27, 2024 at 2:20 pm
nuclear power is only for Atom war good.
A very incompetent talk without research knowledge.
@LA-MJ
March 27, 2024 at 3:00 pm
It may not be fossils but it’s still an unrenewable resource out of Earth’s crust, with limited number of foreign suppliers
@user-xe9ph4io7y
March 27, 2024 at 3:17 pm
I believe this is the future
@bgchung
March 27, 2024 at 3:49 pm
국아 재명아 😂😂😂
@sanjuansteve
March 27, 2024 at 4:08 pm
Nuclear energy is the MOST EXPENSIVE, the MOST DANGEROUS, the BIGGEST RISK from terrorism and the MOST CENTRALIZED and billionaire-owned form.
Solar panels on every rooftop empowers everyone as their own power generation owners. There’s no comparison!
End the radiation spewing into our oceans from Fukushima before supporting more nuclear power.
@zoo-xibbitjayne2081
March 27, 2024 at 4:10 pm
Right, fision teactors onthe”ring of fire”; those things weigh too much for the expanding lithosphere and will never be sustainable or regrnerative.
@hansdampf7397
March 27, 2024 at 4:46 pm
Ever heard of nuclear waste? Have fun seaching for storage rooms that must last 100.000 years. Wtf?
@photoreference9429
March 27, 2024 at 4:49 pm
And who are you?
@viktor8316
March 27, 2024 at 4:50 pm
just build more wind, solar and an interconected grid. Its cheaper and has less unsolved questions.
@crow578
March 27, 2024 at 5:06 pm
Nuclear power is stupid – dangerous, dirty, and incredibly expensive – no nuclear power plant has EVER turned a profit.
TED Talks have really gone downhill.
@Rainaman-
March 27, 2024 at 6:45 pm
Hey guys! I found a German!
@TM4N
March 27, 2024 at 7:12 pm
Good quality comments here.
I just add one word: Fukushima
@PaulDunlop
March 27, 2024 at 7:35 pm
Good on her. Up against popular opinion and some disasters tho…
@ALEXANDRABLANCO-bu6xn
March 27, 2024 at 8:05 pm
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@LopoBeater
March 27, 2024 at 8:36 pm
Why do those 700 million people need it? They made it this far along the timeline
@keep_walking_on_grass
March 27, 2024 at 10:18 pm
Nuclear power is clean and safe. The danger is coming from the people in charge, their selfishness, greed and ignorance. Chernobyl was caused by selfish greedy people who wanted to further their careers.
@Outstanding_Gal
March 28, 2024 at 3:04 am
So… nuclear power is indeed unclean and unsafe, got it
@amos152001
March 28, 2024 at 4:27 am
@@Outstanding_Galit is safe now….. Just don’t let monkey 🐒🐵 playing around with reactors
@amos152001
March 28, 2024 at 4:29 am
All the defects back then have been fixed…… New safe measures and improvements… And no idiots running a dictatorship…. Plus….. Now thanks to the internet and technology we are all safely linked and controlled 🛂🎛️
@jeremyestey13
March 28, 2024 at 11:15 pm
Not true at all they were testing the reactors fail safe and people’s negligence caused it to happen
@keep_walking_on_grass
March 29, 2024 at 10:08 am
@@Outstanding_Gal no, the people in charge ignored the safety protocol and ALL restrictions instead to stop the test right away. The test should have been abbadonned on that day because the reactor was poisoned with Xenon on that day. That was the first domino that felt. They wanted to force a successful test on that day. 26th April 1986. Nuclear power is clean and safe.
@francospov4882
March 28, 2024 at 12:46 am
Whats she wearing
@Its_haruki_makino
March 28, 2024 at 1:16 am
Nuclear power is our destruction
Love from japan 🇯🇵
@sachamm
March 29, 2024 at 2:29 am
More people will die this week from carbon pollution than died from ALL nuclear power accidents.
Love from the world.
@Its_haruki_makino
March 28, 2024 at 1:17 am
Name your country where you watching from 👀 😏
@goku10096
March 28, 2024 at 1:53 am
Radioactive Waste Water Treatment is still an Issue. CO2 is the least of the worries. You are One Earthquake away from a Nuclear Disaster.
@user-ht8fn5kb5g
March 28, 2024 at 2:23 am
Mila kunis in fake ted
@amos152001
March 28, 2024 at 4:26 am
I m not educated about this but i alwzhad the feeling nuclear is good but stipid hippies are ruining for everyone else….😅
@rikedarap
March 28, 2024 at 4:52 am
Cool
@BaconbuttywithCheese
March 28, 2024 at 5:43 am
Put all funding into nuclear and security of said nuclear.
@cscmolts77
March 28, 2024 at 8:44 am
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@cscmolts77
March 28, 2024 at 8:46 am
Ignorance at its finest example
@hyperpony4865
March 28, 2024 at 9:33 am
Why
@Ahenin
March 28, 2024 at 1:23 pm
where do you put depleted cells, where to store and how long? 100% convinced to capable done it in safe way for 1000-400.000y at least while we dont know what comes withon 20y? Tell the people of Fukushima and Chernobyl that is safe. You think the problem always greed? Well, that part will never change. Skip nuke…
@alannahhurley386
March 28, 2024 at 2:10 pm
A nuclear physicists watches eurphoria
@vesawuoristo4162
March 28, 2024 at 2:36 pm
There are better ways to do nuclear power also
@myparceltape1169
March 28, 2024 at 7:58 pm
Come off it darling. We stopped worrying about nuclear bombs before 1960.
The accidents happened at power plants in the ’50s. Most of that was bad design and we can see that now.
Decommissioning is the problem.
@moniquerosa3033
March 28, 2024 at 10:49 pm
YES! And safer!!!
@matthewroberts3724
March 29, 2024 at 4:48 am
Too expensive
@BlueSideUp
March 29, 2024 at 5:22 am
While it’s true that per MWh produced, Nuclear has killed significantly less people that any other power production method, including solar and wind. But, we need to go to less waste production reactors, like MSRs and push hard for fusion, not just in military applications but energy production. If nuclear fuel comes from the same countries we currently depend on for fossils, we didn’t make any move towards energy independence.
Ideologie needs to be removed from the equation and replaced by sound weighing of risks and rewards. And it’s to complex a discussion for social media.
@yabadabadu8171
March 29, 2024 at 11:05 am
Can’t wait until we start living the Fallout universe
@shaunpatryck
March 29, 2024 at 1:29 pm
You cant teach or change the mind of the global warming goons…. these people fight to destroy themselves.
@rudyberkvens-be
March 29, 2024 at 8:42 pm
Boemeke means little bomb in colloquial flemish, the variant of dutch spoken in flanders, the dutch speaking part of belgium.
@Prodbyvalentine444
March 29, 2024 at 11:01 pm
Nuclear? What about the free energy the gov is hiding
@alystero8838
March 30, 2024 at 2:06 am
Wars will then be for uranium instead of fossil fuels
@scottperry4092
March 30, 2024 at 7:10 am
It sucks the click clack nullifies a degree.
@user_31b79s2
March 30, 2024 at 8:25 am
Атомная энергетика явл пока безальтернативной повевесткой, она становится все более безопасной а те страны кот не будут обл энергией утонут в пыли прошлого.
@lIlilIiiIIlliIliil1
March 30, 2024 at 5:57 pm
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@lorenzolanzoni6741
March 31, 2024 at 5:02 am
I think nuclear fission is a necessity for a clean energy transition, and a great source of energy to achieve the continuity when solar and eolic can’t provide enough energy.
CO2 is not the only waste for nuclear energy, that is manageable but not so “clean”. If we achieve clean constant energy-positive nuclear fusion, that will be game changing.
@gavinparvin9346
April 1, 2024 at 8:14 am
Nuclear power puts less money in peoples pockets, therefore won’t be mainstream in energy production. Capitalism and greed run countries