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1. 

   @hamishreimers3599

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   i literally am this (suuuuuuui)

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   @chapter4travels

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   This assumes you are looking for a solution, the international Left is not, and the exact opposite is true. They could not be happier, it's these kinds of crises that allow them to accelerate their agenda of "command and control" economy and everything else for that matter. Nuclear and most especially advanced nuclear (generation IV) are rejected because it's a threat to their crisis driven agenda.

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   @jimjefcoate4757

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   It would be good to see a video reviewing new generation nuclear energy.

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   @XxHaythamKenwayxX

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   With the current crisis ongoing and cost of living only crisis increasing still – and with 'greener energy' being far too expensive or unreliable at such a time – nuclear energy could very well be the answer now more than ever. I'm surprised the Tories haven't taken advantage of it, instead just having a go (rightly) at the last Labour government's failure to work to bring it in.

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   @michaelhughes6634

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   I’m studying physics and maths at degree level for 3 years. Nuclear power is overrated in terms of how dangerous it is. Honestly you go to anyone who studies radiation or physics and say nuclear power is dangerous and we should just go solar or wind. Me and others who study this will just laugh at you. The problem is we don’t have the technology to build batteries that can store power for long periods of time at the national level , it doesn’t exist yet. Lithium ion is over hyped and is really dangerous of exploding.

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   @sk8899

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   If UK wants to remain significant in the 21st Century then it needs to invest in these areas:-
   (1) Nuclear-Energy => PWRs & FBRs
   (2) Fracking => Shale Oil & Gas
   (3) Space-Technology => Launch Vehicles
   (4) Ballistic Missiles => ICBMs & SLBMs
   (5) Strategic Uranium Reserves

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   @nameless5413

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   Well yeah we knew nuclear power is amazing for over 50 years… the best (by far) source of energy we curently and likely for decades to come have.
   Oil, Coal, gases are very dirty and yield far less,
   renewables are considerably less effective both in terms of generation and when it can generate the power,
   fusion is energy source of the future (approx 20 years) for last 40 years so you know probably wanna stick with nuke plants there whilst various renewables and maybe eventually fusion (unless the whole thing is completely bollocks and will never become proper power source) develops to decent power source.

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   @pegarrecio5644

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   What nobody has considered is the fact that a nuclear plant generates a quantity of heat similar to the energy produced. That heat goes to the surroundings as a pollutant.
   The homework hasn't been properly done.

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   @karmakarl6673

   January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

   It takes a good ten years to build a Nuclear Plant. Thats a LOT of carbon emissions during construction!

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    @ateisme3752

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    I hope this energy crisis has woken up people, and that I don't blindly believe in green politics. Nuclear is the obvious solution, but so-called green NGO and politics have dragged it down. Might be possible with more Geothermal in places.

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    @alexanderkollmann4984

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Watching from Czechia 🙂

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12. 

    @themagnificentche1119

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    No shit Sherlock..

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    @brdl6192

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Here in Belgium the green party is obsessed by tearing down all nuclear power. And so, before 2025 all Belgian nuclear powerplants will be shut down and replaced with gas powerplants. Speaking about an average of 30% and up to 60% of our electricity production…
    The madness!! Replacing 6GW of carbon free nuclear with gas.

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14. 

    @pointly

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Nuclear IS the future

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    @Sanderford

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Nuclear energy is safer, cleaner, and more efficient than anything else currently available, and this is not new like some "greens" have been acting like it is lately. People have been saying it for decades.

    For decades, the United States has been lowering our emissions through shifting from coal to natural gas, but by shifting to nuclear we likely would lower them even more. A country this size will always have some, but we could be much better than we are now.

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    @David_Granger

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    I think hydro is the better way to go. Hydro isn't such a danger but still constant.

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    @deefdragon

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    I love nuclear power. I want More nuclear power because its MUCH better for everyone than burning dinosaurs. I REFUSE to support additional nuclear power until a method for long term storage is finalized and implemented.

    We already have the climate crisis because we only looked at the short term, and not the long term. I REALLY don't want that to happen again when its Nuclear material on the line.

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    @berendhol4060

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Nuclear has always been loved by people that are actually in energy sector, but its not about whats best its about convincing the masses, brexit happend even tho everyone could see it was a bad idea while nuclear never happened and the main reason is its name, if they would rename it to something like atom generator it would get more support which is just insane but that is how it is

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    @jumperkables9372

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    this neglects to explore that baseload power can be supplied by renewables with proper power storage. a renewable grid with solar and wind energy does not necessarily need an entire other sector, i.e. nuclear, to act as baseload power. Scaling renewables and power-storage can take care of this provided the investment is there. There is a paper that estimates the cost for a fully renewable UK grid at 101 billion, which is not an impossibly high cost recent stimulus packages have shown

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    @samyockneyonclimatechange879

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    I think when they talk about the 'modular mini reactor' they're referring to a thorium molten salt reactor. This is the future- thorium is safe, scalable and abundant.

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    @keviningham6998

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Nuclear power is not renewable! Isn't it pretty simple to do a bit of research to confirm that before making a video like this. Deliberate misinformation?

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    @itsjoemybro

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    What about nuclear waste?

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23. 

    @Ondar007

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    There's no clima crysis 🙂 Only stupid people worship this green religion and politicians love spreading fear in voters.

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    @jamienash5263

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Nuclear actually has issues too. So power cuts happen because there is either too much power or not enough power. Renewables are intermittent and so require either a lot of interconnection (as we can simply transmit energy to where it's needed, between countries) or they require a storage medium. Therefore there are times when there is not enough electricity in the grid and times when there is too much (when they have to turn off renewables).

    Nuclear power has a similar problem. For nuclear to be run efficiently and cost effective, you must run it at full capacity at all times. Electricity demand peaks in the morning slows during the day peaks at about 6 and tails off in the night. Therefore, to operate nuclear you have to have a storage medium or a large transmission network. It's essentially the same problem for different reasons. The main difference between nuclear and renewables interns of this problem is that you can predict nuclear more easily.

    For me, tidal seems an obvious choice for baseload power even though it is more expensive and that is really due to safety and disposal of waste.

    On the regulation front: South Korea and China are under regulated. One of the bigger problems with nuclear energy is the types of reactors typically used. They're almost all high pressure water/steam reactors. This is the main source of danger and risk. More research is required on molten salt reactors, as without the steam the chances of explosions are very low. Also, further research is required on subcritical reactors as again, in terms of safety, if you have a subcritical reactor then you cant have a nuclear meltdown.

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    @janerikrasmussen

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Nuclear Power is NOT a solution you just pee in your pants. The price for NP is NOT known but we know that it is HIGH and it only increase the amount of heat in the atmosphere.

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    @KurdtMk2

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    6:50 "France has some of the cheapest electricity in Europe" …
    Casually omits on the graph Poland, which has much cheaper electricity
    that mostly relies on coal.

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    @abstract_duck

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    okay … risks … but you have to take in account the long term pollution once a reactor goes bust … therefore we could establish zones where radiation would be okay… or at least where we would accept it … how about somwhere where radiation already is abundant and thus area is isolated … lets build a MEGA reactor in Chernobil

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28. 

    @GyacoYu

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Taiwan: Nah… I don't listen. We have clean coals.

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    @williamcarne524

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    If we want to reduce co2 as rapidly as possible, then nuclear energy is the only current way. building in seismic stable areas and away from the possibilities of tidal waves/storm surge is prob a good idea though. wind and solar, are just not reliable sources of energy, but would compliment nuclear.

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    @Minuz1

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    At current rate of consumtion, our easily recoverable access to nuclear will last us atleast 200 years.
    Nuclear provides 10% of current total energy in the world.

    If we'd decide to switch all power generation to nuclear today, in 10 years(which is approximatly the time we'd need to build said reactors and train the staff required to operate them) we'd have 20 years left of that power.

    And IRAN WOULD 100% SUPPORT this!

    GREAT IDEA!
    Let's switch from a very hard to renew resource (coal/fossil) to nuclear fuel…another resource that's even harder to make.

    In contrast, if we'd go 100% solar, we'd have to give up space the size of New Mexico(which is not a lot of space in the big scheme of thing) to supply the whole world with enough energy and then build some hydrogen plants/pumped hydro storage to be our batteries until we have more advanced normal batteries.

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    @macdodd

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    In Scotland we have a huge Hydropower system to back up our wind & solar power, we also now have Tidal energy with many sites for wind & seapower along the coastlines.

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    @stianberg5645

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    I support nuclear power, but I don't mind it not being cheap.

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    @Flipflopfucker

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    An energy crisis is caused by renewables, Some people: this proves we should only rely on renewables

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    @RoadRashSpirit

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Good video explaining all the view points but I'm not convinced.
    Would I prefer Nuclear to coal or gas? Yes
    Would I rather spend all that money on renewables and storage? Yes

    Fact is renewables have been increasing in capicity at a good rate over the last few decades but theres still work to be done so judging it now is like knit picking on a project half way through. In the time it takes to build one nuclear plant we could have comissioned enough wind turbines to cover base load twice over, even in low wind senarios and I would'nt be suprised if it costs the same judging Hincly C. We havnt decomissioned all of our coal plants and even with the current crises the lights have stayed on. Nuclear seems attractive but when you delve into the details its just and expensive distraction.

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    @janaussiger4111

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Well yeah. Except the part where it's actually insanely expensive (to the point where it has to be subsidized by the state)

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    @skylineXpert

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    and the green party in germany closed nuclear power plants

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    @davewxc

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Meanwhile the Greens in Belgium: more fossil fuel plants! Anything but deviate from their dogma's from the 80's. Even climate change doesn't really matter to them when they need to make choices.

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    @diesel92kj1

    January 7, 2024 at 7:47 am

    Definitely not, a study showed that the majority are leaking at dangerous levels.

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