SMR -- Small Modular Nuclear Reactors - Gas-Cooled

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When the world needed him the most, *he returned.*

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Just wait until next week's video. You will see how true that statement is....

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@@OhItsAustinB it already exists; it's called "valium"...

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finally professor found the password of the channel.

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So true. Good thing I found the post-it note that I wrote the password on......

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[@liquorgunsandrhetoric]

Me, a career bartender who never went to college: damn I can't wait to learn about gas cooled modular nuclear reactors

[@jimmehjiimmeehh9748]

Bartending isn't a career. Also if you are a bartender why is your username "Stonewall Defensive Training"? It sounds like the name of a self defence training company. What self defence skills would a bartender be able to teach?

[@Oldscale]

@@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 I dont know if you realize this but people can have multiple skills. Just because he's a bartender doesn't mean he can't have training in self defense.

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

The first comment! Thank you. I am glad you are interested!

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@@Oldscale "Hey Martha, I am worried that I won't be able to protect young Clark is a murderer comes to get him. I was considering getting some self defence training. Do you think the scary ex green beret would be the better trainer or the bartender?" "Bartender of course Jon."

[@rgarnerf11]

@@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 jimmeh, it doesn't matter where you earn money,,, the time we spend between birth and death, making money,,, no matter the amount of money compensated,,, can be termed, one's career. Everyone gets the same amount of time,,,, No one gets more time than anyone else, whether you spend your time as an Energy Engineer, or a bartender. You only have this much time left to live, ... Let's call it delta, ∆... The TIME that you spend living before death, is ENTIRELY the only one thing that everyone has, ... not money, not possessions, not cars, not houses, not anything. You can waste your time, you can enjoy your time, you can enjoy your working environment, or you can really despise it. While YOU are alive, Jimmeh, saying that someone's career is not highly profitable, and therefore, does not qualify as a career, is not nice, and very wrong. There are positive and negative things about every profession (j.o.b.). If you work at Texas's largest refinery, as an engineer, your average lifespan might be shorter than the average bartender. You know why, don't you? Or how about the Gulf Oil Spill clean-up workers, exposed to BP's DISPERANTS? There are plus(es) and minus(es) depending on what you choose as a career. Money doesn't matter when your time is up. There is no winning career. We are all here, temporarily.

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The Return of the King!!!

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

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Prof’s BACK! 👏🏻

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Huzzah! And there was much rejoicing!

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

It was a hard two semesters with COVID. Now I have some more time for my "hobby" !

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[@rgarnerf11]

Whoops ...

[@brianhaygood183]

@@rgarnerf11 Or, you know, a free vaccine.

[@RicoElectrico]

The idea of placing them at closed down coal plants is genius! Recycling infrastructure :)

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@DavidMcKeeSmith]

Cutting edge technology reusing obsolete tech? Nah, only the land can be recycled.

[@johnschmidt1391]

Seriously one of the most underrated science and engineering channels on KZbin. Welcome back Professor!

[@joeleonard1314]

"Fuel goes in the top"... "high temperature gas"...."waste comes out the bottom"... Sounds like my Uncle Gary.

[@chan_for]

When the world needed him most he returned

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Just wait till next week's video.....

[@megatherium100]

Best intro in the history of KZbin and glad to see you back prof!!!!!!

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Thank you!

[@megatherium100]

@@illinoisenergyprof6878 Your videos have inspire me to save some cash to buy me a personal SMR to power my home... just because.

[@NenYim]

Welcome back, I think we all started worrying about you

[@SuperObnoxiousGamer]

Thanks for the informative video, i just wish my government would wake up to how viable and safe Nuclear energy is instead of the endless debates on coal and renewables.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@caketbh]

hey David, you have no idea how much these videos are enjoyed by many, thanks for bringing high quality lectures like these onto KZbin where they can be watched for free by all

[@Colin0221]

A new video! Discovered the channel about a month ago, great content!

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

We hope to do a lot more this summer. Classes are over for the semester and that frees up a bit of time on the creative teaching side of things.

[@christopherbost1573]

Im still waiting for the day where I get to bury my RTG in the ground and have unlimited hot water and power. I always enjoy your videos Professor. Great work!

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Thank you!

[@Chris-ie9os]

What's your budget? $1M? $5M? For a few thousand I may not have 'unlimited' .... but it's more than I can use :D

[@andymonger3022]

Christopher, I'm with you 100% on that one! Even though TEG has low efficiency, I think it could be easily scaled up for residential applications.

[@rongants6082]

Cool! Ima use an unshielded reactor to melt the snow in ma driveway!

[@nickgemelas4692]

I love these videos because even though I'm not a nuclear engineering major I can still learn and tell everyone I know why nuclear is going to be the future for energy

[@nbnvideo]

George Jetson! Star Ship Enterprise! Nuclear powered! Enough Fred Flintstone already! Let's get on with it!

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@Kanner111]

Not gonna lie, this is one of my favourite channels now. =)

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This is genuinely my favorite channel! I love to learn new things, thank you!👍

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

you are truly welcome...

[@boerenkool]

Good too see you back - and with a very relevant presentation.

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Thank you!

[@gregw6748]

We missed you! From Australia

[@KL-bi2un]

THANK you SO Much for finding pens that don't squeek. Amazing lectures. Certainly best in class.

[@unholy7324]

He's back! Hell yes! I found this channel a few months ago, I binged everything and got way more sad than was reasonable when I saw he hasn't made anything recently. What a pleasant surprise. Edit: I was worried something happened to you. Glad to see you're back.

[@brockhallenbeck6246]

I could listen to this guy talk all day. Great lecture!

[@randyhavener1851]

It is a true pleasure to hear from you again!! This is quite exciting!!! Thank you so much.

[@aaron6787]

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[@andymonger3022]

Professor, I'll be referring your presentations frequently to all that will stand still long enough for me to promote my advocacy of nuclear power! Thanks for getting through last year in good shape!

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@scottduede8134]

I am very grateful for the wonderful videos you have published here, Professor. Imma show these to my kids!

[@robertf1720]

ChemEng here, I love your videos, genuinely excited when they come out. Drop by the theater/film department and see if they can get you some better recording equipment.

[@ianhill20101]

Least a microphone and a green screen so we can have a cooling tower background.

[@MegaMech]

Wow! That's a very convincing argument to use mini reactors for industrial heating use. I'll take ten!

[@jeffgaufin2606]

Glad to have you back. Thanks for publishing these.

[@mohamedjbali1493]

Thankful for your videos professor. 20minutes fly buy when you learn something very important in a very fun way! thank you!

[@TimKennedy1]

Gone for 8 months post a video and gets eight comments and 8 minutes that's pretty impressive

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

People must still all be stuck at home on a Friday night. I am!

[@offcenterconcepthaus]

If you build it, they will come.

[@mr.schmee]

Love these videos. Welcome back! Looking forward to the next one!

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Soon. At least that is the plan

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Every time someone posts something silly (usually politically motivated) about energy, I always post a link to this channel. Just easy to understand facts presented in a clear and entertaining way. IMHO it’s the best channel on KZbin.

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He's back. And with more dramatic lighting and quieter pens.

[@logs4708]

I have now watched every video on your account these last two weeks. I’m more interested in nuclear energy now even more than before.

[@cmerkyurky]

Yes! I’ve been binging your videos, I love them! I’ve been waiting for a new one - Chemical engineering undergrad from Nebraska

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@Cyberdyne08]

I’m overjoyed at your return Prof, I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve watched your TMI and ‘Xenon can be a problem’ videos, just love them

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The return of the legend

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Great to have you back, you do a genuine and needed service to the public discourse and to generalised public education.

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Happy your back. Enjoy your videos and logic. You answer alot of questions I have and answer the one ones I know nothing about.

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YES, YOU'RE BACK!!!!!!

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

AND FORTH !!!!

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This man should be Secretary of Energy. Yet we got a another lawyer/politician

[@uncannyvalley2350]

The solution is a *Velvet Revolution* to install a *Scaled Direct Democracy* without representatives or politicians. Citizen Initiated Referendums with thresholds and a Social Contract using Blockchain technology means communities can vote their own policies without politicians. With a vote for, against, and the option to redraft, or veto, with the relative proportional thresholds. *Thorium Energy renders their global oil monopoly obsolete.* *#VelvetRevolution* *#ScaledDirectDemocracy* *#ThoriumEnergy* Thorium energy can process both nuclear and toxic waste, as well as make salt water desalination and carbon sequestration economically viable. It can also power synthetic fuel manufacture, and electric power for all forms of transport. Thorium reactors cannot be weaponized, are walk away safe, produce grams of waste to the tonne of conventional plants, and are low level radioactive for 300 years vs highly radioactive for 25,000. A person's lifetime of energy from thorium would cost less than $100. It also produces the world's best known cancer treatment when 1/2 adult in the western world will contract it. "The thorium molten salt power plant can produce clean energy cheaper than coal, which could be a reliable energy system toward a low carbon economy" PAL said. www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-nuclearpower-idUSKCN1UD0D0 We also must nationalise our natural resources, and legislate industrial Cooperatives. 52% of all greenhouse gases come from methane produced by Beef farming, which is currently 90% subsidized, and causing greater deforestation that Soy and Palm plantations combined. Fishing is also subsidised and destroying the Oceans at an unsustainable rate, throwing away half of what they catch and 'deforesting' ancient coral and sponge forests on the sea floor far faster then we're doing on land. Ending Beef and Fishing Communism and embracing Hemp and Kelp farming as Moonshot technologies for use in packaging, construction, manufacturing, medicines, insulation, and clothing could alleviate the worst of climate change, sequester carbon, revitalize crop land and restore depleted habitats. It would also be conducive to have an independent public authority drawing from volunteers to act as third party advocates for the public interest, with the authority to charge and prosecute bad actors and cops in our own courts. This would ensure both Government and Law Enforcement are held to the highest standards of etiquette, ethical conduct, and equality of outcome regardless of Creed Color, or Economic bracket. Finally a National Digital Forum that allows for open sourced debate is essential for fascilatating Direct Democracy, and addressing the issues America does not want to face, from systemic racism, to ethnic cleansing as foriegn policy. If these things can't be discussed with frank honesty, civil moderation, without religious protections, and without the generic knee jerk reactionary bs, there is literally no hope for the West, as we will die by our own prejudices and cowardice. And of course Reparations, as well as Indigenous Sovereignty, if we claim to stand for anything right and true, reparations have to be a part of that picture, and no one is better suited to protect our natural environment, than the people who were already here when we arrived. qz.com/1032154/america-is-not-a-true-democracy-but-it-could-be-with-the-help-of-technology/

[@rongants6082]

@@uncannyvalley2350 Thank you for a very succinct summation of the Global Communist agenda. P. S. You've apparently never spent much time on or around an Indian Reservation.

[@ThorLite]

Great stuff.I wish i had teachers like you.Thank you.

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Glad to see the professor back!

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so great to have you back :-) greatings from germany

[@WARLEOD]

Always happy to see a new vid from the Prof!

[@alliasbright2083]

Hey, i think the Vaccine video got removed, that's a shame, it was really informative

[@mpetersen6]

Sir, you and Nick Zenter at University of Washington Ellensburg have the best lecture videos out there

[@adamnudelman7752]

that idea of using decommissioned coal plants and reworking them to run off the modular nuclear reactors is brilliant!

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Three seconds in and I know I'm gonna enjoy this.

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Just got back from the bitter reality I will have to repeat thermodynamics. This is a nice bit of therapy.

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

One minus T-Cold over T-Hot, all you need to know.....

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Greting from Poland!!!

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So glad I found this channel.

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Thank you!

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Great video, thank you for the continued effort.

[@offcenterconcepthaus]

Welcome back! (note to production -- good job recovering the audio ;-)

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

We bought a much better audio system and a label mic. The lighting was wanting, but we are working on that next! Thanks for noticing!

[@offcenterconcepthaus]

@@illinoisenergyprof6878 Ugh -- I work in video production, lighting something that reflective still baffles me. (Maybe a couple of quasar tubes above and below.)

[@ianhill20101]

Green screen with a white board 👌 software can delete the white of the board and if by magic coloured writing appears in the air plus a reactor backdrop etc long as theres no white in the image where the board sitd of software will go poop.

[@rainermraz8791]

Thank god you are back ! A Voice of reason !

[@ELMS]

So great to see you again!

[@axeman3d]

Truly the world is getting back to normal. Thank you sir, and greetings from Scotland. Can't wait for more.

[@EricTViking]

Great to see you back David, I'm looking forward to watching this later 👍👍👍

[@Thelegionare]

welcome back professor, thanks for the lessons, cheers from brazil

[@Britishandproud]

Same suit. The Prof hasn’t left the studio in the last 7 years!

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

I like that suit.....

[@Britishandproud]

@@illinoisenergyprof6878 Agreed, it is indeed a great suit 😀

[@marilynruzic5588]

His wife likes the suit too. 😁

[@antoniomaglione4101]

Glad to see you back. I am an enthusiast about those new reactors, which I call "green" reactors, because they can't meltdown, don't need reprocessing plants for spent fuel, and are easy to decommission. One of my wishes is, these reactors to be turned on and off quickly. Should this be possible, it would be easy to have a number of them installed at each wind and solar generation facility, and switch them on at night - or when there is no wind. Such configuration would negate the need for battery storage. Batteries are expensive and short-lived. Thank you Professor for all your dedication. Regards from the UK...

[@nbnvideo]

Another possibility is to run the nuclear plant and and wind power at full power. If this produces "excess" power then use that power to capture carbon from the air and produce synthetic jet fuel. So we can de-carbonize the aviation industry.

[@TheOwenMajor]

Even if you could turn the tubine off and on at will(You can't) much of the equipment, such as the turbines, needs to warm up.

[@SumbaSlice]

I learned so much from you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Greetings from Germany

[@joegee2815]

I actually reached this conclusion years ago after reading a paper on small nuclear reactors. It talked about sealed units without weapons grade materials that would last decades and recycled. It's about time, no, it's way past it's time.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@artysanmobile]

I’m ‘all in’ for small scale nuclear. It is the natural, modern evolution of a method with fundamental problems inherent to the scale we’re accustomed to. Gains made from 70 years experience and material improvements are a precious resource. I hope we can collectively grow to understand this.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@connorrivers798]

Thanks for the time and effort put into these videos, hope you and your family are staying safe!

[@MoreSkulls]

Thanks Prof. I was talking to my nephew about SMR and he thought they would be ideal for disaster situations when the local grids lose power.

[@camelsintinycars]

Nice! Comfy Friday learning. Many thanks professor!

[@jimbob1427]

These videos are a fantastic learning tool !!

[@clarkkent9080]

He needs to take a class in economics before he pushes SMRs. This is from the Des Moines Register an concerning the only Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project in the U.S. today. In 2013, the Wall Street firm Lazard estimated that the cost of generating electricity at a new nuclear plant in the United States will be between $86 and $122 per megawatt-hour. Last November, Lazard estimated that the corresponding cost will be between $131 and $204 per megawatt-hour based upon the 4 recent new nuclear projects in the U.S. . During the same eight years, renewables have plummeted in cost, and the 2021 estimates of electricity from newly constructed utility-scale solar and wind plants range between $26 and $50 per megawatt-hour. Nuclear power is simply not economically competitive. SMRs will be even less competitive. Building and operating SMRs will cost more than large reactors for each unit (megawatt) of generation capacity. A reactor that generates five times as much power will not require five times as much concrete or five times as many workers. This makes electricity from small reactors more expensive; many of the original small reactors built in the United States were financially uncompetitive and shut down early. The estimated cost of constructing a plant with 600 megawatts of electricity from NuScale SMRs, arguably the design closest to deployment in the United States, was originally advertised as costing $1 billion but upon requesting actual bids from engineering firms, increased to $6.1 billion in 2020. Given inflation and other cost constraints that cost today can only be expected to be significantly higher. The cost was so high that ten members of Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems canceled their contracts. NuScale then changed its proposed plant configuration to 6 fewer reactors but increased each reactor output from 50 Mw to 77 Mw costing at total of $5.3 billion. The NRC just last week approved the construction of the 50 Mw design but now will have to start the review process all over given the switch to a 77 Mw design. For each kilowatt of electrical generation capacity, that estimate is around 80% more than the per-kilowatt cost of the Vogtle project in Georgia - before its cost exploded from $14 billion to over $30 billion. Based on the historical experience with nuclear reactor construction, SMRs are very likely to cost much more than initially expected. And they now have delayed the project start until 2025 in an attempt to find more backers. All this before the inevitable setbacks that will occur once construction starts.

[@jimbob1427]

@@clarkkent9080 lazzadd use LCOE figures which don't include all the costs for renewables like transmission lines, network upgrades and backup supply Its useless

[@clarkkent9080]

@@jimbob1427 I do not comment to push any agenda be it fossil fuel nuclear or renewables. I simply try to relay FACTS and REALITY that these YT videos ignore. Here is the latest status of new nuclear in the U.S.. What is the LCOE figures for canceled plants or plants 110% over budget??? Please don’t assume that YT videos are factual. If you live in the U.S. here is the reality for the last 4 state of the art Westinghouse AP1000 ADVANCED passive safety features new nuclear power projects and spent fuel reprocessing and in the U.S. over the last 20 years. You decide if this YT video was presenting the truth. The Southeastern U.S. is super pro-nuclear MAGA, has zero anti-nukes, and 100% media and political support. The MOX facility (South Carolina) was a U.S. government nuclear reprocessing facility that was supposed to mix pure weapon grade Pu239 with U238 to make reactor fuel assemblies. It was canceled (2017) in the U.S. After spending $10 billion for a plant that was originally estimated to cost $1 billion and an independent report that estimated it would cost $100 billion to complete the plant and process all the Pu239, Trump canceled the project in 2017. VC Summer (South Carolina) new nuclear units 2&3 were canceled in 2017 after spending $17 billion on the project (original estimate of $14 billion and 2016 completion date) with no clear end in sight for costs or schedule. Vogtle (Georgia) new nuclear units 3 &4 currently 110% over budget and schedule (currently over $30 billion) and still not operating. Mid way into the build, the utility stated that had they known about the many costly delays they would never have chosen nuclear. They are now delayed another year because according to the project management, thousands of build documents are missing. If completed, Vogtle will be, for its output, the world’s most expensive nuclear power plant. Please google any of this to confirm. If you can’t build new nuclear in the MAGA super pro-nuclear southeast U.S. then where can you build it?

[@ididyermom3273]

This is seriously awesome and exciting tech!!

[@441bocaj]

So glad you are back. Started watching a lot of your videos the past 2 weeks. Really good information that is presented clearly!

[@ilaril]

This made me think of how this would make the world a bigger place, as in you could basically live anywhere where there's "need" to. The cost of energy (and heat!) wouldn't really be a factor. As a finn this would be HUGE, as I live most of the year (the cold part) on the other side of arctic circle, and the electricity bill shows it. This opens up possibilities everywhere! Thank you for a great video, as always! You make me want to learn!

[@pierre-lucdoucet1179]

Happy to see you back professor !

[@Bloated_Tony_Danza]

He’s back! YES!! Professor I value your content so much and I hope that you continue to keep producing quality content like this for a long, long time

[@MrXperx]

Welcome back Professor!

[@Stephen-wb3wf]

So glad you're back!

[@pkav8tor]

Great report David. Can not wait to see the first ones being created and ultimately put to use. Regards from Hanford/greg

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Thank you!

[@416dl]

Worth waiting for this one...and looking forward to the next...and beyond. Thanks Doc.

[@lahockeyboy]

Thanks for your clear, and conciece explanations on the subject of new reactor technology, Professor!

[@danderson6455]

Hooray a new video! I thought there wouldn't be any more. And it's about a gas cooled reactor! Thank you so much for posting this.

[@Maxtastic101]

So glad your back, I always learn so much from your content!

[@azaelespino6106]

Welcome back! Always a pleasure and always look forward to your vids

[@runtrunks2148]

Awesome videos. You explain this topic really well. Thanks.

[@ryanhebron4287]

What an excellent video. I'm looking forward to seeing SMRs get into production and deployed.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@aritusek5539]

So happy to see you back. Always love you videos.!

[@isoid]

Yay! He's alive! But really, I love this channel and am happy to see a new upload.

[@chipworrell6025]

You cannot go away for so long at a time. Sorry, this is your job to inform us.

[@lastxflfan420]

I love these videos. Thanks Professor.

[@TheConjurersTower]

Retrofitting coal plants with SMRs is an awesome idea.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@Howtragicforyou]

Just after I binge every thing you’ve made and boom. Great day.

[@zachjones6944]

Awesome concept. I hope the Navy adopts this plant design for submarines.

[@moksu79]

Nice new video. Welcome back! Greeting form Finland

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

I want to take a nuclear technology survey class from you so bad. You have such great lecture videos like this that explain the technology so clearly for a non-nuclear physics major.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world.

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

@@stephenbrickwood1602 I think you responded to the wrong comment. If you are referring to comments I have made about nuclear fission technology being far to easy to adapt to a nuclear weapons program, I would suggest you watch more of the videos on this channel and others and understand the process. Preventing proliferation keeps those dictators from having nukes and using them.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

This is a difficult way of communicating and I will expand a little. The world is the biggest problem, not good democracies, even bad democracies can come good. My concerns are several matters. First 90% of the world's population is in dictatorships. Nuclear industry in every country????? Putin is the world leading Dictator. The worst killers, the child killers, lead all Dictatorships. Oppose your Dictator and one of your children will ring you and tell you that the man with the gun told you to ring. Putin is killing the neighbour's children. 100,000 SMR, say BWRX300, around the world means the USA military budget goes from 4% to 40% of national budget. The USA is the biggest target in the world. Second Massive monopoly investment over huge time frame, 60 years to recover monopoly profits. Third EV car battery 100kwh will only improve. 300million vehicles in USA all needing a daily top up of 7kwh. 120million homes rooftop solar PV. The grid will be the money maker. Forth Nuclear will block all innovations. Nuclear is concentrated energy, but the grid itself can concentrate energy from every were.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Nuclear industries around the world are the real danger when alternative modern Renewables are continually being developed faster.

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

@@stephenbrickwood1602 Still need load line production. Natural gas, hydro, and nuclear are the only current tech that can do it and they have the supply chain in place already. Developing and implementing carbon capture (concrete in two of these techs is still made by fossil fuels mainly, making them have a massive carbon footprint and expense) would allow us to use the natural gas ones while we continue to improve efficiency and renewable tech.

[@khopcraft]

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[@clones3523]

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[@m_nabr]

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