A Visit to Barakah: the UAE’s First Nuclear Power Plant

Dr. Chris Keefer tours the massive new plant in the United Arab Emirates, the most recent country to arrive at the global nuclear energy party. The facility, Barakah, alone will decarbonize 25% of the country's national electrical grid.
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[@maheshchingangbam2784]

Once i was also a part of the construction team, (hyundai & samsung CNT) its an honour to see the complete plant

[@stickynorth]

Good on the UAE for opening its first reactor complex. Hopefully the first of many... Especially coupled with wind and solar power there's no reason the entire Arabian/Gulf region can't be fossil-fuel free and soon! At least not technically...

[@dipladonic]

Think about it...If you have enough nuclear for minimum load and to back up renewables, you don't need renewables.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Do you know how many military will have to intervene to keep you alive with nuclear industries in every country? This is a major concern. Australia is buying AUKUS nuclear submarines and USA military defence weapons. $TRILLIONS. Defence budgets exploding. This labyrinth has many unknown spaces. It could have a secret space in the foundations like the British built for their war rooms in WW2. 10,000 reactors will be needed to stop CO2 emissions worldwide. Nuclear industries. My concern is not the one reactor, but the many reactors and their nuclear industries. Grids are incredibly expensive, and the bigger the new plant, the bigger the new grid. The world can not build that much grid, national GDP are not big enough. National debts will explode. The only way Australia can pay for its own nuclear electricity energy is by exporting millions of tonnes of uranium yellowcake. And coal for smelting iron ore and...

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Think about the electric vehicles you can charge.

[@huss1205]

What fossil-fuel free yiu are talking about you Woke environmentlist?

[@akitainu6858]

Who cares the most important thing they have to open up is human rights, News media, and womens rights. Bring Democracy.

[@asabriggs6426]

Thanks for the tour. That turbine hall was spotless, and the amount of power from the equipment is hard to believe.

[@daniellarson3068]

Looked a lot like a uS PWR.

[@SaeedAlshehhi341]

"An exhilarating exploration of the UAE's first nuclear power plant! This video beautifully showcases Barakah as a symbol of technological advancement and leadership in the energy sector. Through stunning visuals and detailed explanations, the video takes us on an engaging tour inside this massive project, highlighting the immense efforts put into ensuring safety and security in this vital sector. Indeed, Barakah Station stands as a remarkable achievement reflecting the UAE's commitment to diversifying energy sources and achieving environmental sustainability. A must-watch video to understand the efforts made in shaping a brighter and cleaner future."

[@wayneheigl5549]

see how exhilarating it is when the reactors melt down and you have to run from them. no one can ensure the safety of these death factories . the companies that build them and run them are liars and are out for one thing, to make as much money as they can at any cost.if you or any one else believe this garbage video you are all fools . in joy your cancer they give you

[@davidwilkie9551]

Perfectly applied principles of the obvious sense-in-common requirements to continue living on planet Earth. Thank you.

[@dipladonic]

Historically and globally we currently have a dearth of atmospheric CO2 as over time it's almost entirely been biologically and geologically sequestered. With too much more CO2 sequestration, biologically our living planet will die.

[@microburn]

@@dipladonic I think we're pretty far from worrying about that :)

[@beyondfossil]

@@dipladonic No. The problem is not absolute CO₂ levels but the huge *rate of change* that the biosphere and our infrastructure cannot handle. Large levels of atmospheric CO₂ changes (up or down) occur over 100,000s of years if not *millions* of years. But the atmosphere is currently at over 421ppm CO₂ which is a level not seen in *4 million* years but has occurred only the past 200 years - just since the start of the Industrial Revolution! It is not just CO₂ but also methane (CH₄). Methane is released in huge amounts from our natural use and during its processing (fugitive emissions problem). Methane has 80x the GHG effect of CO₂. In the shorter term, methane will have a greater effect then CO₂. We need to get off of fossil fuels ASAP.

[@dipladonic]

The "biosphere" consists of trillions of tonnes of solid carbon based CO2 derived flora and fauna. Paradoxically, in the main, vast amounts of flora and fauna affect atmospheric CO2...not the other way around. Axiomatically, 0.02% of atmospheric CO2 could not "hugely" affect that humongous biosphere to any significant extent. To think otherwise is palpable nonsense and is costing us all a lot of greenwashing bullshit money.@@beyondfossil

[@Zgembo121]

Redundancy of espresso with the drip coffee. Love the analogys myman. Great video

[@RA-fh9vi]

I'm proud to be part this project 2012 to 2014

[@briancam_2000]

UAE Should be so PROUD! hope they build the other 4. Question 8 * 1.4 GW == 11.2 GW would be largest Nuclear Plant on Earth?

[@aliendroneservices6621]

Yes. Current largest is 8 GWe.

[@evil17]

@@aliendroneservices6621wow, where is that?

[@AzraMuzaffar-yy1vl]

Wowww👍👍👍

[@becconvideo]

As if there is anything that's available in a nuclear power plant in excess is heat you can easily use it to desalinate sea water to use it for irrigation or residential purposes.

[@FSstudios1]

Alot of it goes back into residual heat turbines

[@PotentialExergy2]

Awesome video!

[@FSstudios1]

6:48 Crew Resource Management (CRM), great resource

[@bahatma]

Thank you Doc for the video.

[@cheeseandjamsandwich]

Jesse. How much more footage did you get inside? It would be most excellent if we could have an extended cut, with lots more of the reactor, turbine, plant pron. Some nice dwell shots so we can take it all in. What ever you've got cleared, we'd love to see it!!! We just don't get the opportunity to see inside these magnificent industrial energy cathedrals/temples/mosques. Slow TV for the win!

[@JasonKhouri]

You are not going to get inside the reactor building during plant operation (radiologically controlled area) and even if he could he wouldn't be able to extract much footage as these areas are highly sensitive.

[@microburn]

The safety culture is so ingrained that there's no way you could do that -- but before a plant is operational, that would be cool to see.

[@tq3106]

I have worked here

[@cheeseandjamsandwich]

Looking at our sea surface temperatures right now, let's hope they decide to build the next 4, not just the two previously reported. And I'm sure they have a few more sites that could take some 4-packs, or 8-packs... We only need a few 10s of thousands of reactors to finish the job. Countries like the UAE, with its fossil wealth committing big time to nuclear should kick off some action by the others, watching.

[@microburn]

one step at a time! We can hope for more people to learn!

[@GulmoharBloom]

I thought the estimates were for five thousand gigawatt scale reactors for 100% nuclear?

[@cheeseandjamsandwich]

@@GulmoharBloom Where is this estimate from? I'd like to read it. I've been assuming that we're going to be building all SML reactors... I.e. Small, Medium & Large reactors... :-) Plus probably a few micros too... This thinking coming from what coal and gas and diesel power plants are gonna need replacing, and their different sizes. So it'd be 10s of thousands of many different sizes... Obvs big countryies deffo want to just pump out GW scale units everywhere... But then there's the small countries, small grids, islands, industry, etc. etc. etc. etc... I gather that there's 6 thousand coal units online at the moment... so then add all the gas and oil ones... and this number probbo doesn't include all the industrial attached ones... 10s of thousands is a good number to aim for.

[@markfox3083]

Cool design. looks like a mosque

[@stephenjrbertrand6360]

Can we see the switchyard

[@TEVEKI]

Certainly not the first reactor in the Middle East - Iran had operated a Russisn-origin large PWR for over a decade.....

[@KMSS128]

Technical design error. The reactants are close together and must be combined with artificial intelligence for precautionary operation

[@vickeykooper2674]

Meanwhile india reached stage 2 of its nuclear reactor programme with a fast breeder reactor❤😊

[@mikejohnson9118]

KEPCO//WEC built. (Korean//US)

[@howardlee2486]

No usa at all...only they took commissions

[@mikejohnson9118]

@@howardlee2486 The built the safety systems and controls for it.

[@Rawdiswar]

Is the UAE grid 50Hz or 60 Hz?

[@microburn]

Quick google search -- Electricity is supplied in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at 230 volts AC, 50 Hertz (Hz).

[@mhrtaba.tewodros3891]

This reactor quality is very facinating NSSS systems on

[@stanleytolle416]

Dam things are going to around over a hundred years.

[@vanveakrin276]

Korean built this Nuclear power station

[@leccio]

impacted not infected :)

[@stanleytolle416]

One of the problem with nuclear power is it's brutalism constrution stile. Need to have some creative architects make the place more atractive.

[@JasonKhouri]

In the US, the architect is limited in their creativity due to security and fire protection requirements. Every feature must be non-combustible and the buildings must be configured a certain way to prevent people from climbing or breaching into sensitive areas. This severely limits the type of materials and the aesthetic arrangement of the plant. Nuclear powerplants are all about functions and regulatory requirements, not aesthetics.

[@stanleytolle416]

@@JasonKhouri still not a good excuse. All those requirements can met by something that looks nice. What I am saying the building conveys a message. What is currently being conveyed is this is something dangerous and is being encased in a military type structure. This type of architectural stuff needs to improve.

[@h4ck3rd4wg]

Just got to the part where he mentions that the site was supposed to be a mosque. They could easily tile the dome Girih style or similarly. Maybe that would be sacrilegious

[@asabriggs6426]

Some people like brutalism; the concrete of the dome looks almost like marble (presumably to reflect the heat). Bike-shedding may keep people entertained but meanwhile there are other pressing matters to solve.

[@chrisruss9861]

Chris is on a high.

[@microburn]

He looks like he's having a good time haha

[@davidfetter]

The people of Iran, which is also in the Middle East, will be astonished to hear about this first...or would have been, if it had occurred some decades back, i.e. before their first nuclear power plant came on line.

[@Low_commotion]

Totally off-topic and definitely not to detract from her technical acumen, but damn Marwa is cute. Fantastic video, I really love the scale of nuclear plants. It just feels like looking upon distilled human achievement. Now to get comfortable enough with building them that we can start doing some sprucing up of the aesthetics like a cathedral or mosque.

[@hatimibrahim9220]

The name Barakah is more suitable for a charity like project

[@maasl3873]

Deabo.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Do you know how many military will have to intervene to keep you alive with nuclear industries in every country? This is a major concern. Australia is buying AUKUS nuclear submarines and USA military defence weapons. $TRILLIONS. Defence budgets exploding. This labyrinth has many unknown spaces. It could have a secret space in the foundations like the British built for their war rooms in WW2. 10,000 reactors will be needed to stop CO2 emissions worldwide. Nuclear industries. My concern is not the one reactor, but the many reactors and their nuclear industries. Grids are incredibly expensive, and the bigger the new plant, the bigger the new grid. The world can not build that much grid, national GDP are not big enough. National debts will explode. The only way Australia can pay for its own nuclear electricity energy is by exporting millions of tonnes of uranium yellowcake. And coal for smelting iron ore and...

[@Ironic1950]

Drivel.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

@Ironic1950 drivel, the USA and NATO will not go near Ukraine because of the threat of nuclear weapons. USA has problems with North Korea because of nuclear weapons, The coalition against Sudam in Iraq was over the mistaken belief of weapons of mass destruction. Australia will not supply uranium yellowcake to countries that do not allow inspections. 80% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear promoters want to stop worldwide CO2 emissions with nuclear industry proliferation. FMD !!! Nuclear promoters are stupid. The grid to the customers, millions, and millions of customers needs to carry 5 to 7 times more electricity than the developed world grids handle. Idiots can not see the huge amount of cheap energy in fossil fuels needs to be replaced by the most expensive energy, clean electricity. The CO2 emissions will explode and financing will fail.

[@teagueman100]

Can confirm, this is inaccurate.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

@@Ironic1950 your drivel.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

@teagueman100 is so. Very accurate. 9 billion people and no CO2 emissions. Clean nuclear electricity and $360 TRILLION in new grid construction and no CO2 emissions after grid building. This is simple maths, and why people keep waking up after they have been taken advantage of by the smart people.

[@jjuniper274]

In our zealous nature to promote nuclear, we forget that, in essence, it requires tight authoritarian control of all land surrounding it, and we assume no one person or military would want to attack such a facility. Who governs best, authoritarian or democractic societies? Is it best placed in a peaceful, democratic society? The idea that this may not and likely will not be the case as society shifts and resources become scarce should NOT be taken lightly. There is a lot of group think going on in ALL aspects of MANY issues. Is this immune? How do we guard against it? Does democracy and liberal thinking guard against that? What makes us check and balance oursleves?

[@luddite333]

climate change.......da channel.........nice happytalk brainwash vid

[@gdotone1]

Nuclear is a bad very bad idea.

[@johndawson6057]

Oil and pollution rahhhhh

[@gdotone1]

you can't get rid of nuclear waste. with billions you can turn deserts into forest. doing so creates a natural sponge for CO2. not only the waste, but if nuclear goes bad you kill the land for millions of years, not to mention the people downwind.

[@swatteam2002]

its not AT ALL if you put safey as a main priority

[@gdotone1]

Accidents happen. no matter how safe you plan. no matter how well you manage risk. not to mention bad people with bad thoughts. Nuclear once out of control ... what?

[@starkidforlife136]

@@gdotone1there are safety mechanisms nowadays, it’s no longer the 80s. Accidents happen in oil and gas too, and their environmental impact is even greater

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