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They’re Building FLOATING Nuclear Power Plants

Take a look inside Bluecore Energy, a company newly out of stealth, building a prototype nuclear power plant on a barge. Timecode Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:29 Inside Bluecore Energy 1:07 Bluecore’s Plan 1:40 The Reactor 2:05 Water Desalination 2:41 Command Center 3:12 Bluecore Energy’s Big Goal Video Credits: Host: Jesse Orrall Scripted by: Jesse Orrall…

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Take a look inside Bluecore Energy, a company newly out of stealth, building a prototype nuclear power plant on a barge.

Timecode Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:29 Inside Bluecore Energy
1:07 Bluecore’s Plan
1:40 The Reactor
2:05 Water Desalination
2:41 Command Center
3:12 Bluecore Energy’s Big Goal

Video Credits:
Host: Jesse Orrall
Scripted by: Jesse Orrall
Producer: Jesse Orrall
Camera: Dustin Shepard
Video Editor: Jesse Orrall
Thumbnail Designer: Viva Tung

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17 Comments

  1. @MarsorryIckuatuna

    September 20, 2026 at 8:12 am

    Pretty cool!

  2. @BibleMadeSimple

    September 20, 2026 at 8:15 am

    You lost me at “Global warning is increasing the risk for natural disasters”. You drank the kool aid.

    • @wellthi

      September 20, 2026 at 9:24 am

      well it’s easy to understand why :
      more greenhouse gases like c02 and methane > more warming (heatwave) > more evaporation (drought) > more precipitation (flooding)

    • @christopherfischetti8373

      September 20, 2026 at 11:08 am

      @wellthi Using fossil fuels cause much of what you’re referencing and nuclear power causes none of those side effects. But the masses are too scared to change to nuclear when it has many clear benefits above wind and solar solutions, which do not generate the needed energy. And because it scares people politicians have made it a divisive topic. Not to mention the costs of nuclear powers is way less then what these other green energy solutions are

  3. @CatatonicImperfect

    September 20, 2026 at 8:18 am

    And if anything goes wrong (which never happens), the ocean can just wash away your nuclear material. Very handy.

    • @christophermontoya5526

      September 20, 2026 at 10:49 am

      Don’t know much about it. I’m just a layman, but my chemistry professor told me things have been put in place to make the likelihood of another melt down like Chernobyl highly unlikely.

    • @wellthi

      September 20, 2026 at 4:02 pm

      @christophermontoya5526 and yet we had fukushima and other less known fails

    • @christophermontoya5526

      September 20, 2026 at 4:19 pm

      ​@wellthiall part of the learning process

    • @wellthi

      September 20, 2026 at 4:39 pm

      @christophermontoya5526 Easy to say when you haven’t directly suffered the consequences.

    • @christophermontoya5526

      September 20, 2026 at 4:48 pm

      ​@wellthi I am suffering the consequences of global warming, changing weather and now tornadoes becoming more common in the area where I live because our leaders have failed to use nuclear technology and are still trying to use fossil fuels.

  4. @JigglyPKMN

    September 20, 2026 at 8:31 am

    I immediately thought of Reason in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash…

  5. @ROCKSWOT

    September 20, 2026 at 10:15 am

    can it not just be called a movable nucklear power plant? or, can it not work on land? or is it a testing phase where it probably will go boooom at some point? Can you float that iin your mind?

  6. @Meredith-j3g

    September 20, 2026 at 10:55 am

    And if anything goes wrong (which never happens), the ocean can just wash away your nuclear material. Very handy. ….

  7. @sarath324

    September 20, 2026 at 11:21 am

    One tsunami and you have a charging nuclear reactor riding on a 200 M high tide coming at your city😂

  8. @chuckles470s9

    September 20, 2026 at 12:13 pm

    Godzilla is not going to like these.

  9. @urbanstrencan

    September 20, 2026 at 1:26 pm

    Future is here,

  10. @STF_YVR

    September 20, 2026 at 5:13 pm

    And where do they put their nuclear waste ?

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