World's Only GLASS Nuclear Reactor!

[@kylehill]

*UPDATE* from Jens: "The crawling negotiations with Munich Technical University have suddenly picked up speed. They finally ‘found a suitable room’ and are eager to sign a deal. Next mail you get from me is likely the info that the contract is signed and the model is saved." DID WE JUST BECOME NUCLEAR HISTORY HEROES? DID WE DO THIS?

[@NiyaKouya]

Great news! Really hope that the contract gets finalized and the model will find its way into a TUM building or museum. Would be a real shame if it just got trashed.

[@radhindmaan8117]

Great work. Saving this is a good value added venture. One of it's kind. What's wrong with the narrative in Germany? Safe nuclear tech is available. Nuclear powered subs and aircraft carrier demonstrates this. Bad actors in the climate warriors are spreading lies. We cannot switch to alternative sources by sacrificing nuclear.

[@FissionMetroid101]

Fingers crossed!!

[@Zonkotron]

To be honest, space is a HUGE problem for universities. I am German and work for one. Because so much funding is grant based, short term, ephemereal (spend it or lose (most of) it) and bound to the specific objectives of the grant, it is easier to buy some special instrumentation for half a million, than to upgrade your building, invest in teaching and preservation or even just buy proper office equipment. We got a building recently. Built like a palace, too small by design (designed for current requirements, not growth and accumulated equipment of the next 50 years). Same money could have built twice the size. But that grant was for neutral replacement of inefficient buildings (the old ones WERE really bad, yes), so no size increase permitted.

[@willamyte]

LETS GO!

[@thethoughtemporium]

The opening: "Here is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen, polticians are gonna destroy it" I've never been so excited, then devastated.

[@Ghent_Halcyon]

Ohh actually it wasn’t the politicians this time. No actually it was the people. Like genuinely it was the people.

[@stonecoldslate]

@@Ghent_Halcyoncould you explain this please? As an American it’s a bit hard to find articles from overseas translated for niche topics or even from the point of view of locals.

[@Ghent_Halcyon]

@@stonecoldslate So there from what I remember, there was like a huge surge of Germans that called for the deactivation of all nuclear reactors like somewhere between 2015-2019, I don’t remember if there was any reason why besides just calling them bad and dangerous. Which I find funny because they actively sabotaged their entire country which is super bad and dangerous. Anyway, then there was some more protesting during 2022-2024. I thought surely the German gov couldn’t be that stupid and listen to bunch of morons, but I guess I was wrong. Take this with a pinch of salt btw since I could find articles on it either, just some videos.

[@ctg4818]

Whats the point of shutting down nuclear plants but not ICBMs? Same fate.

[@JoshuaPlays99]

@@Ghent_Halcyon Wasnt it Merkel largely responsible for the push to get rid of Nuclear power, and the people went along with it? Or am I horribly mistaken? Im not from Germany.

[@niklnik1008]

As a German, I want to petition to save this beautiful simulator for use in a museum.

[@CrimsonJupiter]

As another German, i would sign that petition.

[@kaishedan37]

@@CrimsonJupiter as another another german, I would also sign that

[@lucanegri3505]

I'd say updating un-nuclear plans back to operating nuclear plans should be a priority.

[@_shadow1348]

I will, as people before me, second that as another german!

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

As an American, I would visit that museum in a heartbeat if I were to visit Germany again.

[@kylehill]

Nuclear stuff coming up on the channel: more from Germany, micro-reactors in Idaho, thorium in Denmark, secret WWII nuclear plans, and more!

[@DasIstGoose]

Let's go! We are going to eat good in the coming weeks 🙏🏻

[@Noswolf]

aayyy denmark ... my home country

[@gordonfreeman5179]

There is a nuclear engineer on KZbin called T. Folse Nuclear that would be happy to talk nuclear with ya. He's a fun guy

[@spacecowboy1929]

woooo! excited about the thorium one! thanks for the great content

[@Vilmar22]

Kyle, you are the absolute GOAT! Thanks for the amazing videos. I learn so much every time. 😊

[@Ice_Karma]

Thirteen years later, I'm still shaking my head at Germany's decision to abandon nuclear power.

[@GewelReal]

Clearly coal is much cleaner!

[@kennymustdie8518]

The Jews do not want Germany to be energy independent.

[@dragons_of_magicgirl368]

​@@GewelReal instead of keeping all that yucky waste in barrels we keep it nice and safe in our lungs

[@13thCP]

All of Europe is going to go dark because "green energy". Quite sad.

[@game-tea]

​@@13thCPidk man France seems to be doing pretty good, as a Dutchman I'm really quite jealous of em lol

[@abxorb]

"I would like to withhold any personal opinions." Dude's tone of voice, enthousiasm for the science and his job, and the sadness on his face spoke volumes already. But he still stayed professional because that's his job.

[@mattgavioli6762]

also because there is no way you can say it's an idiotic decision (using an euphemism here) and at the same time remaining polite enough not to smear the people who decided it with the shit they deserve

[@typhvam5107]

While I don't disagree, its because one voice is louder than the other that stupid decisions are made. Sometimes being professional is stating the truth, no matter how harsh and unpolite it is. Politeness serves no one other than your opponents, when something is stupid, it should be stated as such.

[@InDieTasten]

@@typhvam5107 I'm pretty sure he withheld his personal opinion not because of professionalism, but rather he doesn't want to draw either side of the argument against him personally.

[@burningbarnavit]

Not every country has a First Amendment folks.

[@Telris86]

Yeah, you can be pretty sure about his opinion without him stating his opinion. German angst is very real here when it comes to nuclear power and there are some quite aggressive anti nuclear camps. So withholding opinion on that matter in the public is understandable. Instead of focusing on how to improve old designs and learn from mistakes from the past a decision was made out of fear by politicians. The stance against nuclear power is not that bad on its own in my opinion. But decisions were made without even having a plan how to properly go about a phase out or even fully considering all the consequences a decision like that brings and what needs to be done in terms of infrastructure and so on. What happened instead in sort of a panic is, that coal plants were used more heavily and, to cover power requirements, electrical power - that's generated via nuclear reactors by the way - is bought from neighboring countries.

[@Dampfmaschiene]

It deserves to be in a museum, not in the scrapyard!

[@shaft5theng]

So do you Dr. Jones! Lol

[@delayed_control]

It deserves to be _in use_ not in a museum. Germans lost their minds.

[@zachmiller9175]

​@@delayed_control Exactly. Build a museum around the bagger 288 and put this model back into use teaching new nuclear engineers.

[@Soenglish44]

Trust the grunen to foil that safeguard plan = =''

[@ohemge12]

@@delayed_control what too much reliance on coal mining and politicians for sale does to a mfin country

[@Fiery25123]

This is so cool. Honestly, people need to understand it's just heat. It's basically a complicated tea kettle. Yeah, it's hot, but handled safely, it's really nothing to be scared of.

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

Especially if you have the proper oven mitts or potholders for it

[@silixon]

This dude looked like he was on the verge of tears talking about this being shut down. It was kind of heart breaking to see so much work go into this magnificent work of science and human engineering and now... sad. Someone charitable enough probably doesn't exist out there. Buy this guy the model reactor! Not only is it his passion, he made a freaking StarCraft 2 reference!

[@skyclawalpha]

must construct additional pylons

[@nessa6859]

Even worse, I bet Germany will go back to nuclear one day, I'm scared for this mans heart when that day comes. He might already be thinking about it, the way he mentioned talks of regret on the news, poor guy.

[@michaelmurray2833]

make it a museum instead of a training center

[@FlyingDwarfman]

@@nessa6859 This was my thought. The energy potential of nuclear (even fission) is too great for the socio-politics to get in the way forever.

[@CNe7532294]

@@nessa6859 Can't rely on France forever.

[@mcborge1]

Every PC builder thinking "Woah, ultimate custom loop cooling kit!".

[@nervosuss]

Haha Linus is gonna buy it lol

[@RipRLeeErmey]

​@@nervosuss All I can imagine is _that_ picture of Linus with a Geiger counter clicking noise

[@AidanMacgregor-Personal]

​@@nervosusscan see it 😂😂

[@3DGEM3]

​@@nervosussim going to tweet this to him.

[@disposabull]

@@nervosuss Linus would drop it...

[@akalawada]

“Spicy rock makes steam” incredibly accurate assessment

[@andyd8370]

Summed up in four words 👏

[@gdragonlord749]

In the Navy we said "hot rock make boat go" like we were in the Flintstonea

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

@@gdragonlord749"hot rock makes steam" it what geotermic plants do

[@learnmyname123]

@@gdragonlord749 "Hot rock makes steam, steam makes roundy round, roundy round makes electricity."

[@kooll2401]

i love spicy rocks

[@MarkLorenzi]

As a Senior Reactor Operator , having a training tool like this is immensely valuable. Hopefully this simulator will be saved to teach future generations of Operators and Engineers.

[@simonjones2453]

I think your job title is sufficiently cool that you're allowed to preface all sentences with "As a Senior Reactor Operator,". Examples include, "I think it's your turn to take the garbage out", "This steak isn't medium rare", "That dog is cute".

[@Talatharas]

the emotion in his voice, the tears of 'my job is ending, and my beloved tools wiill be garbage'.. is painful.

[@LordZontar]

They're not just wiping out his job but his entire profession. Everything he trained for has been declared verbotten in Germany.

[@Half_Finis]

As a fellow European, fuck German politicians. ​@@LordZontar

[@Rov-Nihil]

Fukushima, a disaster brought because of a huge tsunami attack, has shaken Germany, a country mostly landlocked, never ever to have any tsunamis ever show up, into stopping nuclear reactor production, which powers a buttload of German homes. Germans, once known to be the insanely good engineers of the damn planet, are now going down in a fire of fanaticism. Just like how Islam became fanatic over scientific and burned down their entire science libraries and is nowadays a mere shadow of itself. Keep it up humanity, for you will always have a damn rock in your shoe, preventing you from achieving greatness.

[@randomnobody8770]

@@LordZontar And it probably knows how clean nuclear and safe nuclear is. Its probably been driving him crazy for years, and the 2011 Fukushima hit, and people lost all reason. Somehow nuclear reactors in Germany were declared unsafe when because of a wild event in Japan - which was ultimately well handled. More people have probably died prematurely in Germany from 12 years of excess coal flue ash than died in Japan as a result of Fukushima, its evacuation, and radiation release.

[@Caliboy90045]

Nothing like watching your life’s work getting obliterated by idiots who cannot fathom what is going on inside these plants! Coal should be outlawed, upgrade the grid and small scale reactors are our future. Nothing like watching low iq brainwashed people being fooled by the political activists and politicians being paid to kill this off in favor of burning fossil fuels 😢😢😢😮😮😮😂😂

[@GreakFTW]

If that model doesn't go to a museum there is a huge flaw in our society.. Please keep us up to date on that front.

[@cgi2002]

Sad truth is it's pure size (remember its not just the model, its the backroom stuff) and cost to run make it hard for a museum to justify having it as a working model. Just having it as a static display model however could probably be justified by quite a few engineering museums and that should be a go to just for preserving it. Admittedly they'd need to find someone skilled enough to disassemble and reassemble it, hopefully there is a full set of blueprints and a known source for spare parts (I suspect they are all custom made).

[@drewgoin8849]

Without the resource of a physical model available to the public, it will be that much easier to propagate irrational fears of nuclear power.

[@BabyMakR]

We already know there are huge flaws in our society. I'm sorry to say, this is the least important of them.

[@LogicalNiko]

I couldn't think of a University or Science Museum on the planet who wouldn't kill to get this. They just need a donor to give them the funds to build/equip a home.

[@zapl80]

​@@drewgoin8849even this very video explained the model with computer animations. They are the reason why models were abandoned worldwide and they are much more accessible for the general public too

[@AndromedatheBasshead]

I'm quite saddened by the probable fate of the glass reactor. I wish I had the finances to put it into a local library or college or something. But alas, when I should've been hustling and grinding hard in the 90s to get this kind of money, I was in kindergarten learning about shapes. What a fool I was :(

[@joseguzman1073]

Same. I'm watching this wishing any sort of change could be made.

[@scno0B1]

not really a finances problem. well except paying for the logistic part of deconstructing it, moving and reconstructing it(which will cost a lot)

[@ODST_Republic]

It's Germany, they want to get rid of nuclear power, and this may not produce nuclear power, but it's similar in structure, therefore they think "get rid of it build more coal power plants"

[@johnbrobston1334]

Same here. If I hit a billion dollar lotto I know where I'd be spending some of it.

[@A-lik]

Lazy millennials! Learning shapes, colors, the alphabet, and concepts like "sharing" and "kindness" while your parents were making an honest living at Emron!

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

As a former nuclear power plant operator from the Navy I can tell anyone that this technology is a thousand times more benign than they've been led to believe. Any other outstanding factors such as concern for waste can be easily mitigated as well, and are. The future is unlimited with clean nuclear energy.

[@Observer_Effect]

Yep, coal kills more people every month than nuclear power has killed in its entire existance.

[@nhpv08]

I'm a chemist at BVPS in Southwestern PA. I couldn't agree more with this statement. I'm glad that in the US (not at all bashing germany) the future is bright for Nuclear. Breaks my heart that other nations don't see it the same way.

[@danieltukua4527]

@@nhpv08they’re probably still scared due to Chernobyl which if they were educated (the politicians) would know that so many corners had to be cut for what happened to happen

[@jaketheturkey7689]

@@danieltukua4527I think it’s just easier for the politicians to just say nuclear bad to get some votes because of the way TV and other media has portrayed nuclear power

[@saturnFIV3]

And three mile island, Fukushima. The benefits probably do outweigh the drawbacks. It's just that, when the worst case scenario does happen, it makes a piece of the earth uninhabitable. Our US navy hasn't been in a naval engagement since world War 2 (ships vs ships). So we still have yet to see, God forbid, what happens to the reactor on a carrier when things truly go south. What does that do to the ocean? Obviously you know a lot more about it than the laymen, but can you blame people considering the history? It's a miracle with all the nuclear plants in Ukraine and the war going on, another disaster hasn't happened. Maybe I'm wrong but a Russian bomb hitting a reactor, there's no way that would be good 😂 but please correct me if I'm ignorant and wrong

[@glennisguntoro2408]

Any museum of technology, science, and industry worth its salt should be scrambling to get and display this simulator. Anyone interested in saving our planet from man-made environmental effects needs to informed and demystified regarding nuclear power, and I think public access to the simulator could serve that purpose greatly.

[@andrewreynolds912]

Absolutely ❤

[@TheMalkavianPrince]

I wanted to like this comment, but it's at 69, and I am not mature enough to change that..

[@cancelhandles]

Ok ​@@TheMalkavianPrince

[@Rov-Nihil]

NOOOO NUKULAR BAADD NUKULAR DONT SAVE TREES AND TURTLES NUKULAR BAAAAD REEEEE

[@sunnyd5944]

Honestly what I was thinking, I attend Northern Kentucky University and I will be trying my best to get this over here. This is probably impossible for but I will still trying this simulator must live on

[@danwhite3224]

This seriously NEEDS to be put into a museum. It's beyond being a useful training simulator; this is a piece of history.

[@yalak_sv]

Where is the Smithsonian when you finally want them to take something for free 😂😂😂

[@spvillano]

@@yalak_sv not all that free, gotta dismantled it carefully, pack it, ship it, reassemble it, we don't have slave labor robots yet, so labor is entirely not free.

[@mandrac2]

it's a piece of art even. All of those parts were custom made probably hand machined.

[@DashzRight]

This is not a nuclear reactor lmao, biggest clickbait in history, this is just an electric kettle ….

[@DabbleDo]

That engineer exclaiming “I’m a gamer!” warmed my heart

[@TheSweetSpirit]

They didn’t clarify if they meant starcraft brood war or StarCraft 2 esports =~= Hehe both are fine.

[@emikochan13]

@@TheSweetSpirit considering age it's likely brood war

[@dulouser1751]

hard r

[@PeterZaitcev]

​@@emikochan13considering selecting difficulty, probably SC2. I wonder if the mentioned Nightmare difficulty is a reference to a real Nightmare Difficulty mod released not so long ago.

[@Verårtu]

The moment he speaks of games he seems lively xd so nice seeing others expressing their own hobbies 😊

[@amarktho]

I live in Essen and never knew about this. To add insult to injury, I'm about to move like within a kilometer of that campus. I hope you enjoyed your stay here!

[@firetruck988]

Scrapping that is simply criminal.

[@funkdahmental]

Ignorant and ill informed politicians making likewise hugely ignorant and ill informed decisions for an entire country should be criminal

[@Lemmiwinks_The_Gerbil_King]

fits perfect to our current government they are the biggest criminals i have ever seen

[@GMxTekhe]

Oh my god I nearly cried when you said that this absolutely incredible piece of science art could end up binned. I hope to all that is holy, unholy and everything in between that it gets saved. I’d gladly contribute to that. This isn’t just science. This is history, and it must be preserved.

[@Sniperboy5551]

I mean, I’d help Kyle build a replica of it. There’s no nuclear material, so it would be easy to replicate.

[@MayaPosch]

Things like this are why it'd be best for humanity if we burned all anti-nuclear activists as biomass, before returning to nuclear power everywhere, with many more of these simulators around the world.

[@aurorajunior6328]

@@Sniperboy5551 today on hacksmith industries…

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@Sniperboy5551 Conceptually easy, but labor and money intensive.

[@holthuizenoemoet591]

Me to, also almost cried when I felt the oppression when the interview was scared to voice his own opinion. Engineers are bullied into agreeing with the extreme left (or right)

[@Orxenhorf]

That glass model is too cool to trash. It should end up in a museum of technology somewhere on display for the public.

[@chexwarior]

Indiana Jones: "It belongs in a museum!"

[@the3yM]

None of the future generations of Europeans should know about the possibility of generating energy using the atom! When you're lucky - generate on wind and water, also a lot of coal, and expensive democratic USA's LNG (vs cheap totalitarian Russian gas direct from GULAG)

[@psieonic]

Actually, it's probably quite hot. 😅

[@Daxer2009]

thanks to the Green Brainrot here in the german parliament

[@nebwachamp]

Use solar panels. Stop being racist.

[@ShadowDragon8685]

You wanna get the train nerds all aboard? (Pun intended.) Point out that the U-Tubes in the PWR are doing pretty much the exact same job as the fire tubes in a steam locomotive's boiler.

[@ondrabroz888]

In Czech republic (country bordering Germany), nuclear engineering students train not on a simulator, but a real, but very small reactor right in Prague. It has the nuclear material, control rods, everything. It’s just so small that if you fuck up, nothing bad happens. Source: I study on CTU FNSPE (the university that houses the VR01 reactor)

[@honkhonk8009]

Lucky ass. Here in Canada, we have 4 research reactors, but their all in Ontario and quebec, and ones for the military. Nothing for the west coast lmfao There used to be two SLOWPOKE-2's Alberta/Saskatchewan, but I think they got decommissioned. Hopefully it might change. Theres talks about spamming SMR's across the country, so maybe there might be more training reactors in the future nearby the west coast.

[@sexyolga479]

kyle hill visit when?

[@hydramag_dragon1244]

Dobrý den my fellow czech

[@ondrabroz888]

@@honkhonk8009 if you wanna be even more jealous, were are currently building a second one 🤭😂

[@ondrabroz888]

@@hydramag_dragon1244 oh dobrý den pane

[@Gloocar]

That engineer you interviewed is so wholesome I love how he lit up when talked about his two passions gaming and science

[@ryanmcintyre3616]

We stan Jens the Gamer!

[@viaxxl]

He’s adorable

[@user-wo5dm8ci1g]

I always welcome the surprise Starcraft fan.

[@EstrogenCubing]

His eyes almost watered when they touched the trashing topic :(

[@jeslinmx22]

Why am I not surprised that a nuclear engineer plays StarCraft.

[@cyclone3999]

Having been a automotive tech for most of my career, im genuinely surprised at how similar a nuclear reactor is to the cooling system on the cars we drive everyday. It puts a whole new perspective on how simple these systems are and how safe, with proper maintenance and operation, these reactors are.

[@monad_tcp]

Its no more dangerous than a cooking pot, its just bigger thus it makes a bigger mess if you manage to explode it despite the safety measures.

[@kapperbeastYT]

In the end, it's all about moving heat around, and there are only so many good solutions to that

[@TheRandompaint]

Nuclear reactors are essentially giant steam engines.

[@TheWeirdaholic]

@@monad_tcp At least, regarding the parts outside the nuclear rods. The rods themselves are literally "just" self-heating heat elements, in that case. If you ignore the dangers with radioactive material (IF something goes wrong, obviously), there is indeed nothing dangerous here except a "bigger mess" due to scaling. However, if you include the radioactive material, the "bigger mess" can become an uncontrollable mess, rising with each safety measure that fails. This of course doesn't mean, that nuclear power shouldn't exist. But it does mean, that we should be prepared and willing to deal with potential risks as a prereqisite to going that route (something germany in it's complacent hypocrisy just doesn't want to, despite wanting the cheap energy).

[@leonmusk1040]

This is one reason I advocate towards co2 magnesium burning steam micro turbines think throttleable rocket axle. Magnesium is probably the cheapest to produce metal fuel giving it a huge power density per dollar of refinement invested even compared to fuel oils. Heat and condenser cycling and exchanges are very well understood and common place in auto already. Steam is under-rated and with modern phase exchange systems the weight is half what it was at peak steam and people flew on steam fyi in the thirties. Plus it's fuel and oxidiser tunable with one valve and a servo feed sets the fuel burn rate and power is delivered via a second valve for water making it extremely easy to tune and it burns co2 and only has about five moving parts excluding the diff.

[@Hemanpire]

One of the most interesting and amusing videos, and I love Kyle's work. Makes me think a videogame about managing a nuclear reactor would be a banger.

[@ImaRHINOgrunt]

You could tell from the beginning the guy was so devastated he loved his job and that career with a passion. You could feel his sadness.

[@peterdermeter7044]

I bet you could feel the sadness of the people pushing germanys renewable energy sector into a world leading position in the 2000s after they got axed by Merkel in 2010. Who then promptly decided to axe this guys career as well in 2012 after Fukushima happened, obviously under the assumption that relying on a russian dictator when it comes to energy security, was a pro move that would make her CDU cronies a lot of money and surely wouldn´t backfire.

[@Kitsudote]

The fact that we abandon nuclear power, right when it has become the cleanest and safest energy form, really speaks to our failure as a species and a submission to fear and irrationality.

[@larsschulze2799]

@kitsudote it's misinformation and the willingness to just believe everything the media tells u without doing ur own research

[@herrtichy]

I'm reading this over and over in all the places. In Germany, we do not have anywhere to store nuclear waste and the only place we store it in is currently flooding while barrels of waste are corroding uncontrollably and nobody has any inventory whatsoever. We went through 50 years of using nuclear power without even solving that problem properly. That is not a safe form of energy, that's just yolo with some fission on top.

[@life-destiny1196]

@@herrtichy I hesitate to call "skill issue" on that, as I don't know the specifics of Germany's geography (I'm American, I barely know our own

[@MalcolmCooks]

​@@herrtichyall of France's nuclear waste is stored in a single warehouse. while the danger of nuclear waste cannot be overstated, the absolutely TINY amount that is actually produced makes all the difference. The problem of nuclear waste is vastly overstated. IT HAS BEEN SOLVED. We have developed ways to make the waste safe to store, and again (I really cannot stress this enough), such a miniscule amount of waste being produced means that storage space is a non-issue.

[@Doctors_TARDIS]

@@herrtichy Man, you need to watch more videos on this channel. We have solved that problem properly. Many times over. There's videos about it HERE.

[@dirtyp.132]

That simulator, and the control room also, was insanely cool. It would be perfect in a museum of history and industry or a science center. it would be a tragic mistake to scrap it!

[@KryptCeeper969]

I feel really bad for Jens. It is clear he was very passionate about his work and is sad that it is just gone. I hope he can find somebody for that model because that thing is beautiful.

[@raphaelgarcia9576]

Hey Kyle, why is your basement locked? Kyle: Don’t worry about it, just a scrap heap down there.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

"It's just boiling water with extra steps" perfect description! I hope a college or museum gets this, it needs to be studied, not thrown out

[@samu_2822]

I love how about almost every way that we modernly produce energy is just "boiling water" 😂

[@ShawnWilson-cl5tj]

That piece of equipment is a marvel of technology and engineering. That entire build should be preserved as a museum. Losing this device would be tragic.

[@chrisreilly1290]

What an absolutely lovely model, it would look good in the facility

[@andrerenault]

“I would like to withhold any personal opinion on that” is a massive understatement of “I’m surrounded by terrible decisions”

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

And "My job is on the line, I work with politicians, if I do not say only what they demanded of me, I am fired"

[@JAndreas-nd7zb]

@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 , I'm fired anyway, they close the training center. but yeah, keeping career options open here.

[@zyeborm]

@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 Not even that. You think he would still have a job at the end of the year? Dude is just straight up class.

[@thegamingbadger1190]

any museum that bought this model, would ensure they had my admission. Id probably take several trips to see it because of how awesome that is. If it winds up scrapped, i would consider it a tragedy.

[@swokatsamsiyu3590]

I would be hot on your heels to that museum. What a crime they're about to commit. They truly have lost any sense they might have left after closing down their perfectly fine NPPs. *Face palm

[@Kaotik199O]

The owners of this miniature reactor want money! They do not want to give it away for free or donate it because they want money why is it hard for you guys to understand that. If they had a heart they would give it to a museum but they clearly are greedy and love money more which is why they prefer to throw it away if they can't get money from any money.. than giving anything to the museum 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@cgi2002]

​@@Kaotik199O he litterally said they'd take a symbolic €1 for it. Issue is that any buyer would need to disassemble it (very hard), transport it, rebuilt it (also very hard) and it needs an entire basement setup to run (remember the reactor is only a small part of it, the support structures behind the scenes are larger than it), it also uses a fk ton of electricity to run (basically it will cost as much if not more than heating a decently sized swimming pool). I can think of a few dozen museums that would love to have it, they just can't justify the cost of installing and running it.

[@sdfkjgh]

@@Kaotik199O: 13:59 "Selling prise would be probably a symbolic Euro." A single Euro doesn't sound like greed to me, nor does it sound like a very onerous cost.

[@aggonzalezdc]

​@@Kaotik199Othey don't have the money to move it. They will give you the model if you can move it and use it, but the cost of moving it is huge, and do you think any lawmaker wants to pay more money after all they lost building this thing?

[@ratorvenom]

Having physical examples of science is interesting to me, because it takes the complex equations and centuries of learning turned into something that I can view and understand even just a little bit. I would love to be able to see this in person.

[@stevemaricar4350]

I can only hope the simulator finds a suitable home, it seems like such an invaluable learning tool for engineers and lawmakers alike. It’s tragic to watch such a significant part of nuclear history go to waste.

[@Burningquest]

I guess the Chinese will by it

[@tonyvelasquez6776]

because of greta dunceberg and her posse, germany will not only lose billions in advanced nuclear research capabilities but they are also now reliant on russian fossil fuels because their nuclear plants were ordered to shut down. Which also nearly led to mass hysteria over the winter when russia threatened to cut supplies

[@kylehill]

*Thanks for watching!* Not sure if there will be more videos from our Germany trip, but this was the big one. Hope this is as awesome to you as it was to me. secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/kyle_hill_and_jens_andreas_save_the_glass_nuclear_power_plant_simulator_model/

[@the88thdarcstar]

Have you heard about the Canadian trying to make small nuclear reactors that will be placed in the beds of trucks like a f350 to power remote areas? Sounds early sci-fi.

[@Stewe88mm]

and if you used real nuclear material to heat the water, the glass would turn black of the radiation right?

[@apollomoon1]

Very interesting Kyle. The fools regulating the world’s energy are just that, fools. Ideology over common sense is always lose, lose for the public. Thanks for at least trying to show the absurdity of this situation .

[@ANTheWhizkid]

That’s our neighbor city. I go mountain biking there a lot. Hope you loved it and had a pleasant stay.

[@TheValmal]

You know what you have to do Kyle, buy the glass reactor your our only hope.

[@OMNI_INFINITY]

*That is pretty cool. It's seemingly a nuclear pressure cooker with a liquid transformer. Isolating parts of circuits is common in electronics also.*

[@thelonecabbage7834]

"In the KZbins" sounds like something my grandma would say about a video she saw on her phone.

[@ryurc3033]

I totally agree

[@takix2007]

"No, I saw it in the KZbins, not on the Internets. You silly, I do know that the Internets are for pictures, the KZbins are for the video."

[@e4m7g6]

🤣🤣🤣

[@diqweed69]

Scientists: Hey, we made this thing with scientific, educational, and practical value! It wasn't cheap, but we think it's worth it. Politicians: Neat! We just passed a bill legally requiring you to scrap it for a fraction of its value. Taxpayer: 👁👄👁

[@johnrhoades6214]

Man, I own a recycling company. You have no idea how much stuff the government just throws away brand new stuff, not even open. I hauled away 35 engines. All diesel, nothing wrong with them. Still in their Creek brand new duramax diesels. I had to take them to the scrapyard and prove a receipt.

[@vehicles_n_stuff]

Wanna buy it? €1 if you can move it.

[@talkingcowthatwasthereallalong]

Scientists: The "Nuclear" in the name is because it simulates a nuclear reactor, this is actually just a fancy electric kettle Politicians: nuclear is the devil's sauce TEAR IT DOWN

[@GojiMet86]

It's actually more like: *Taxpayer* : We want green energy to usher in green utopia without any cost whatsoever! *Scientist* : We have nuclear energy and electric cars; there are trade-offs, but the benefits far outweigh the nega--- *Taxpayer* : OMG it's evil, radioactive WASTE! OMG lithium will poison the planet! Quick, let's vote for the anti-nuclear Greens!!!

[@TectonicTechnomancer]

@@talkingcowthatwasthereallalong honestly, we should just rename all Reactors to Water Turbines, stupid politicians wouldn't even notice.

[@charliemcbride1922]

Kyle should start a crowdfunding campaign to save this work of art

[@DJlegionuk]

100% agree, but I wonder just how much would be needed to disassemble and move.

[@sunnyd5944]

Yea I thought about this too but it would most likely be in the millions

[@laurensvisser7623]

@@sunnyd5944 Just carefully disassembling it and storing it would probably take about €10.000 or so, it's not a huge amount of stuff. Quite comparable to a large house full of stuff that has to be moved. I assume all the documentation is still available, so you don't have to document everything while disassembling. I think it will easily fit in one standard shipping container.

[@sunnyd5944]

@laurensvisser7623 it seems like alot more than that hence the basement part of the reactor plus the full controller room

[@DJlegionuk]

@@sunnyd5944 omg I never thought about all the wiring looms and computers.

[@ratchet600]

That thing is gorgeous and so useful! I'm glad progress is being made on saving it!

[@Skid6660]

The raw demo footage really deserves to get on its own video as something other than B-roll. Not as youtube friendly admittedly but that's some genuine historic footage.

[@iljasbergmann6681]

I am German and im very sad to see my country reject this beautiful source of energy

[@burakozdemir1756]

Dude your country needs to stop over correcting so badly. We get it not all of you are Nazis but Jesus fucking Christ dude! You’re people went from Being unstoppable beasts to pussies real fast

[@davidwildmann7486]

Same

[@ANDR0iD]

Someone benefitted from importing natural gas instead.

[@danibeas9032]

youll need more coal power plants to phase out coal power plants. thats politics.

[@EstamosDe]

it wasnt your country, it was your politicians, NEVER forget that

[@retovath]

I work for a company that does backend software and some of the hardware for nuclear sims. That glass physical sim is a thing of beauty. Thank you for this vid kyle.

[@JonatanGronoset]

I just saw this and am relieved to hear the model has a future! It's a piece of engineering artwork, even if its functional components would be lost the sheer visual aspect of the glass display is worthy of preservation as an art piece. And I love the monument near the entrance, it's made up of control rod plates. ❤

[@CameraFilmProductions]

You just have to love how the cleanest, safest, most efficient form of energy production we have is staring us in the face, but politics has scared us into believing its more dangerous than it really is.

[@grandsome1]

That's because us stupid apes used it first to blow stuff up rather than for peace.

[@TheSweetSpirit]

Based on what I’ve seen I don’t think nuclear energy is actually ‘that’ efficient in the grand picture due to the costs associated with creating a reactor, but yeah just completely ignoring a viable and notable source of energy that is overall rather safe is sad.

[@jgt2598]

I think Germany backing out of nuclear right as we need to embrace every form decarbonization possible is exceedingly dumb. And nuclear power is just really cool because of the shear density of output that you get (for me, an aerospace propulsion engineer, this makes it far more useful in space than on Earth). That said, only one of those statements is maybe true: because of its power density and the lack of need for storage for grid balancing it uses the least material per unit of power generated and, therefore, could be considered the "cleanest". It's not the cheapest when you factor in safe disposal and the costs of operating a plant safely. It's not the safest when you look at the excess rates of cancer associated with every single containment failure. And if you *include* failure costs in the estimate like one would for any other source of energy: it's the most expensive by an order of magnitude because a failure results in a decades-long abandonment of an entire region. So it's far from perfect, long term fission power should absolutely be restricted to off-world uses in places that already lack a biosphere, but right now is absolutely not the time for that, not when CO2 generating sources are still the most likely alternatives to take up the slack.

[@DaveMiller2]

You have to love the industry propaganda that misinforms people into thinking that nuclear is safer and cleaner and more efficient than other sources. It isn't.

[@3ountyhunter]

​@@TheSweetSpiritWhere do you get your stats on that from? While they're much more difficult to build their carbon impact is small compared to a coal plant over time.

[@jimeththemelancollie351]

10:38 Kyle: "Fission, water, steam that turns... Fucking magnets, how do they work?"

[@getoffamylan6844]

Black magic and witchcraft. Nothing else explains magnetism!

[@morescodesup2087]

@@getoffamylan6844electrical engineering pretending not to write ancient runes in their notebook.

[@jaywarzynski4111]

kyle what you are doing as a youtuber, is league's above what 99% of people do on this platform. you truly are a pinnacle of outreach and the agenda that you spread, is wholesome and educational, through and through. thank you kyle, for all that you do. seriously... thank you!

[@drakesmith471]

They said it great, that being you, Jay. Kyle, I’ve been watching you since I was at least in the 8th grade if not 7th. I’ve loved your stuff since then, and now here I am 7 and ≈ 8 years later. I may not watch right when everything comes out, but I always come back around to you and you are wonderful. You are a lovely person with a passion to share and inform and you do the world a service through your passion, dedication, and kindness. Thank you for letting my imagination and the imagination of others to run wild all these years. Happy to continue watching each new thing you release. Thank you for the dedication, the information, and the passion you put there. Much admiration, Drake 😊⚗️🧪☢️

[@peterdp654]

It deserves being in a training center to be used!! better than a museum, and much better than in a scrapyard

[@Sally4th_]

Please, PLEASE will some science museum somewhere put in a realistic bit to get this dismantled, shipped and displayed where future generations can marvel at and learn from it.

[@spartaninvirginia]

Germany banning nuclear power is still baffling to me. Shout out to them for building back a ton of coal plants, ya know, to save the environment.

[@esteban20969564]

or paying for russian gas even though they are "strongly against their invasion to Ukraine"....

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

At least they massively reduced their reliance on russian oil and gas. So there's that.

[@annocraft]

Not a single new coal-fired power plant was built, that is just misleading. Solar and wind power were expanded, which last year accounted for 60% of the total electricity mix in Germany.

[@johanneslinnemann6660]

​@@esteban20969564We haven't bought Russian gas for a while now...

[@ThatGuyNikolas]

@@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 Only because the Pipe blew up mind you.

[@pjousma]

That Nightmare Starcraft reference was brilliant.

[@ultimaIXultima]

Haha, right?

[@Hayakaru]

Yeah Doom, StarCraft and nuke stuff all in one video?! Amazing.

[@nhpv08]

As an active nuclear chemist at a nuclear plant, I would've LOVED to have this when I was in training. Also great explanation of the PWR on a basic level. My plant is also a PWR. Boo to BWRs (boiling water reactors) unnecessary dose. As an aside. The low pressure and high pressure turbines spin a generator at the end of the turbine called a MUG or main unit generator, THAT is what creates the electricity. That electricity is then sent out to a switchyard on site to then be distributed by the electricity provider.

[@dorkception2012]

Idea! How about you make a YT video about the fine, tiny details of operating a reactor like that? I would love to delve deeper into those small steps, that nobody actually share!

[@Omegaroth666]

16:04 that glass model is definitely something that shouldn't be lost

[@chrismidyette1098]

I am a solar installer I do believe in renewable energy. But I'm also a realist nuclear is the power of the future. Unfortunately fear does stem from ignorance thank you for helping to educate. Hopefully a Politician with a brain will see this.

[@EinfachFredhaftGaming]

Getting rid of nuclear has absolutely nothing to do with fear. It's very expensive per kwh, it's proven to increase cancer rates of people living nearby, we still have no way to store the used material in a save and cost efficient way, the burning material comes from questionalble countries and is very expensive aswell as polluting to mine. It just makes no sense as a primary power source

[@anton4488]

This should definitely be the top comment!

[@Skaatje]

A politician with a brain is kind of an oxymoron these days unfortunately.

[@chrismidyette1098]

@@Skaatje politicians have brains they just don't have souls

[@Leon12V]

they will come face to face with the reality eventualy and this circus will stop. Year by year we need more and more energy and this green renewably shit they are promoting is far far far from enough to cover our needs.

[@Alejmen009]

It belong in a museum! (Bad Indy impression). It’s so sad to see such craftsmanship go to waste.

[@funkdahmental]

Srsly. They need to contact major museums to take it.

[@SillySpaceMonkey]

It belongs in active use to train Germany's nuclear engineers, truly... They are killing nuclear in favor of upscaling the mining and burning of coal, and that seems somehow even more tragic than the symptomatic loss of this beautiful apparatus

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

@@SillySpaceMonkey AGRREED. I mean, OK German politicians want to make some extra, from lobby for more Russian coal and gas, fine, theyr problem. But they could have this sistem used to train new personell from other countries, it is already in a teaching institution FFS!! They have the single best education aparatus available in the world, many people would be happy to send theyr technicians and engineers to train there.

[@SillySpaceMonkey]

@carloshenriquezimmer7543 I'm sure there is more to the politics than I understand as an only mildly interested foreigner, but at its core, the idea of spending tons of money to dismantle perfectly functional clean energy infrastructure to retrofit it all for fossil fuels and then more even more money to expand that sector *seems* like madness. And to me - again, possible I'm not the most well-informed, here - it seems especially out of place for it to be Germany. To my understanding, they've long stood as premier engineers and scientists, regarded with great respect by their international peers. Obviously, engineers and scientists aren't who makes these calls, but it seems like generations of scientific pursuit would ingrain an above world-average trust in the technology that would see a movement to end nuclear squashed in its infancy. Again... I'm sure I'm missing tons of very relevant context, but the headline/footnotes version of it all sounds absolutely bonkers

[@LS-uv9gg]

5 stars for using the word "Instantiating", which is the first word I've had to look up in over 50 years, lol. Great video Sir, thank you.

[@sophia-helenemeesdetricht1957]

As a training and education professional whose undergrad was engineering-adjacent, I have to marvel at this elegant, beautiful, effective teaching tool. To lose such a piece of equipment to the scrapyard would be a terrible blow to both nuclear engineering and training and education history. This belongs in a museum!

[@scylla8666]

My brother attended Idaho State University and for some time he was in the Nuclear Engineering program. If they had a model even half as cool as this one in Germany, I feel that would really help not only ISU, but education surrounding Nuclear Power and Engineering as a whole.

[@amoliski]

Idaho State University, EBR-1, Atomic City- that model belongs somewhere in Idaho.

[@scylla8666]

@@amoliski When it comes nuclear education, more physical models encourages better education. The more the merrier.

[@minorityofthought1306]

"It belongs in a museum!" ~ Indiana Jones

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

"It's being studied by TOP MEN."

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

@@theultimatereductionist7592 "It WAS being studied, now it is listed for scrapping by the cheapest bidder"

[@Vashocre]

Ok this video is amazing. From the visuals to your speaking, this is a 10/10 video. You are awesome, keep it up!

[@lmlmanonfire13]

Airplanes are complex, but people get in them everyday. HOW DO THEY DO IT? Good training. Did Tenerife end air travel? No, it changed training.

[@Pseudowolf]

I’m a Texas A&M alum and I know they have a nuclear reactor on campus. Their engineering college should absolutely try to get their hands on this thing!

[@moti.g]

This comment was stolen and reposted by a bot, and as always the cloned comment got all the engagement, and youtube does nothing. This sucks. Hopefully people see this and report the bot while upvoting the original.

[@Pseudowolf]

@@moti.g Wild. Didn't know bot copying comments was a thing.

[@noahingram2120]

It would be great to see this amazing piece of educational technology in a museum or on a campus somewhere in the world to help people get a better understanding of nuclear energy production!

[@tondekoddar7837]

It would be nice to view this educational thing, in a museum or anywhere, you are correct. Cool.

[@cpttrps5376]

“Yeah here is our state of the art training model, this does this…” *sees you staring at the panel “You wanna simulate a meltdown dont you?” “Yes please”

[@ZombiePotatoSalad]

It's so awesome that they just immediately know that monkey brain want neuron activation... and they indulge it.

[@Nefariousrouge]

Your videos on this subject do a great job demystifying nuclear power. I was on the skeptical in the past about the technology not having a lot of info on it. You do a great job of explaining it.

[@KiithnarasAshaa]

6:27 Many PWR reactors use three water loops - the pressurized closed-cycle reactor loop, the unpressurized closed-cycle steam loop, and the open-cycle condenser loop. This is mostly for reducing maintenance efforts and costs, as keeping a high-purity steam loop means less time taking turbines and condensers and evaporators offline for descaling and maintenance. Most marine nuclear systems use this three-loop system

[@stellsy3496]

the sad part about this is that the idea of scrapping it is even on the table let alone the most probable outcome. i don't care what ppl say, the fact that its made of glass so you can see the inner workings makes it a literal work of art even if it has a practical purpose for existing in the first place.

[@kommandantgalileo]

I don't think Nuclear Power being simple is underwhelming, I believe that it is amazing that Nuclear Power is so simple and reliable!

[@davidjackson7588]

I wish I had the room for this model. It is so awesome to see and understand nuclear power. Such an amazing powerhouse in small form.

[@kyle5210]

12:30 I love how he clearly couldn't stop thinking about Starcraft hahaha

[@jameslude3146]

TLDR: have the Corning Meuseam of Glass buy the model and have them display it. Hey, I know this is a long shot, but in Corning, NY, there is a place called the Corning Meuseam of Glass. It is a meuseam dedicated to the display and creation of glass art, with live demonstrations done every hour or so. If enough noise is made, I think it would go beautifully with there historic collection!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bajasummit6209]

Did the least I could do and mentioned it on their most recent Instagram post

[@jameslude3146]

@@bajasummit6209 ok, good on you. I hoped I wasn't the only one with this idea once I learned what this was.😃

[@bajasummit6209]

@@jameslude3146 tbh I saw your comment and said you know what, I’ve had good luck with this kinda stuff so it’s worth a shot

[@seynoonrae2474]

We have several Museum's for technology in Germany. I assume one of them will get it if they can fit it size wise. Unless our politicians want to prevent people from actually knowing what they ruined.

[@jameslude3146]

@@seynoonrae2474 that's 👍, I still wouldn't mind if it did show up at the Corning Meuseam of Glass as a temporary exhibition.

[@dle511]

12:06 didn't expect a fellow StarCraft fan, what a time to be alive 👌

[@ColeyDuncan]

I never expected that. From the 4 years I lived in Germany, I thought nuclear was there to stay. Plants seemed to be everywhere, at least compared to the US.

[@shadowldrago]

I think this simulator is fascinating. It's one thing to see the numbers on a screen, it's another to see what that corresponds to in a real reactor.

[@paullogemann7512]

12:12 my boy is a nuclear engineer and starcraft nerd. You have to love him :D

[@chrisr4733]

Out of all the mini videos you have in the information that you have shared to the thousands if not millions of people, this may be the most educational I’ve seen. The concept of the glass is incredible. and to see the inner workings is something many only dream, if not fear entirely.

[@vicv7075]

As someone who works on cars a PWR basically just seemed like a very dangerous upscaled cooling system in a car. Pretty dang cool.

[@m9x3mos]

I would 100% visit a museum that had this thing.

[@3R45U5]

"They are called U-Tubes, because this video is on KZbin". Okay dad, you had me chuckle.

[@tjm11015]

6:45 That blink and you'll miss it wink 😉 when he says "critically" is awsome. I guess you could say it goes...CRITICAL 😏...🦗"chirp chirp"😪

[@weedfreer]

I didn’t even see the wink…I heard the reference though 😅

[@mikekdaly]

Not just critical, *super* critical

[@taimatsuko]

I think this would be an invaluable museum piece. I would absolutely like to see it in person

[@codymosher8453]

I think this would be great addition to The National Musuem of Nuclear Science & History outside of Albuquerque, NM. Excellent video!

[@PyroYeet]

nuclear reactor: -looks inside water:

[@MonkeyJedi99]

It is amazing how much power generation is about using some phase of water (liquid in hydro, steam in the others) to spin things to generate electricity.

[@9th-Circle]

*and a couple spicy rocks.

[@protoborg]

@@9th-Circle Well that's how we get the steam, but yeah.

[@larsrc]

@@MonkeyJedi99 We've understood a lot about water for a very long time. And it's an absolutely astounding chemical.

[@weedfreer]

Kyle: Not only is a glass model super critically important… Me: HAaaaaaaa!

[@stephenrosenfelder4452]

Glad I wasn’t the only one that caught that!

[@weedfreer]

@@stephenrosenfelder4452 i didn't even notice the sly hint of a wink tho! 😀

[@erichammond7140]

I hope this glass model and it's other components are saved and put into a museum

[@4RILDIGITAL]

To think that such an impressive piece of engineering and science communication might fall to scrap is truly disheartening. The knowledge and training opportunities that could be lost are immeasurable. I can only hope a suitable home is found for it.

[@TWKPixelHero]

As someone who works to build specialized simulators of power plants here in the USA, the training aspect is well appreciated by those in the field. The facilities pay millions of dollars for digital simulators to train their operators so that they know *exactly* how to respond to any number of failure conditions. Depending on the size of the facility, an outage may cost anywhere from $100,000-$500,000 an HOUR and operators that know how to handle equipment malfunctions can save many millions of dollars by avoiding forced outages over damaged hardware. Also interesting is that most baseline power is generated in nearly the same way, whether it is coal, natural gas, or nuclear. Its just different ways to generate steam, each with their own specialized requirements, of course, but many aspects are shared between them. Even aside from the nuclear aspect, this glass model can teach many things about other power generation methods.

[@charleswells9682]

You are low-balling a bit. For planned outages (refueling mainly) replacement power at the plan where I work used to run $30 or so per MWh but it has drifted upwards to around $50/MWh for the last refuel. Yes, price does depend on company resources available and forecast demand to determine what portion has to be contracted to the pool. Forced outages, though, are much more expensive because they are forced to buy on-spot or short lead contract which can be $70-$80/MWh. For the plant where I work this can easily be $1M/hr - and that is just replacement power cost. Your point, though, is well stated in that money spent to avoid forced outages is well spent. The rate payers also benefit from a low forced outage rate since the replacement power costs are eventually passed to them, and a plant that doesn't have to shutdown because of a fault is a safer plant for everyone. I don't work directly with the simulator (not an operator) but I do fidelity reviews and updates as part of our design change process. There is no training tool quite like one that gives the immediate feedback that a simulator does.

[@zyeborm]

Indeed one of the things people are looking at for nuclear is to retrofit coal plants with nuclear steam generation. Generally speaking the turbines themselves aren't actually worn and if they are they can be repaired economically and returned to service. However all the stuff that deals with moving, crushing, burning coal and boiling water is what gets worn out and can't really be repaired it has to be replaced whole. Drop a reactor next to the existing coal plant, plug the steam in and you've got 30 more years of power with greatly reduced effort and no CO2.

[@charleswells9682]

@@zyeborm Wish it were so easy. The steam temperatures and pressures involved in a "modern" fossil plant are way higher than those in the usual nuclear plant. Most commercial nuclear plants run about 1000 psia saturated whereas a lot of burner plants are above 1500 psia and superheated to boot. The turbines would not be very efficient at the nuclear steam supply conditions or would not produce the design power so the whole plant would need to be downrated.

[@Eloraurora]

Video: clanking noises from pressure system Subtitles: [Applause]

[@JakobNorthblood]

This glass model definitely belongs in a museum or another suitable public space.

[@codyclayton5886]

Love this video. This is exactly what the world needs to see. Your example of how the Simpsons gave these power plants a bad reputation is something I had never thought about. People only talk about the nuclear accidents, they never talk about the hundreds of safe and productive power plants running all the time around the world. We need this clean energy full stop.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

i don't know why the Optimistic part of me was expecting "it's getting scrapped for newer cheaper models" but yeah, this is not just an amazing piece of engineering but a literal work of art that i hope it gets preserved

[@jacksonstein8866]

Just sent a very cold-cally email to the curator of the Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque with some links to more information about this as well as to your video. No idea about the reality of bringing this behemoth to the states but dang it sure would be a cool place for it to end up! And at a €1 price? Cant be beat. Thanks for bringing attention to things like this

[@jacksonstein8866]

Actually got an email back from their curator saying that theyre going to look into it!

[@Theinatoriinator]

@@jacksonstein8866 Heck yeah, I'd love to see that in the museum. It would fit right in!

[@wasd____]

@@jacksonstein8866 HELL YEAH!

[@ultimaIXultima]

I'd buy a flight out there to see it, 100%!!

[@jacksonstein8866]

@@ultimaIXultima regardless of if they get it, if youre ever in Albuquerque the museum is absolutely worth a visit!!

[@jays8990]

I would have loved to see this as a university student & spoken with Jens. Our future needs more clean energy & his passion is inspiring. Thank you for the video!

[@eacalvert]

Excited to share this one with my dad later!

[@seanb3516]

Germany Moving in Unified Stupidity. But Muh Green NRG.... DA's

[@juststeve5542]

Just don't ask them how many towns they've turned into lignite coal strip mines because "Nuke energy bad".

[@fugu4163]

This is the third time that the germans are destroying their own country because of stupid ideas.

[@__TK___]

As a German I’m still devastated by the choice to decommission our nuclear power plants

[@xXYannuschXx]

Replacing the currently most expensive source of energy with the cheapest one is stupid? Why?

[@VikingTeddy]

Wasn't there some Russian lobby groups involved. And some politicians that took bribes from Kremlin?