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00:0-1 this afternoon . Money will , I'm here with Sam
00:02 and Sam go to Sam's and we go by .
00:05 We can call ourselves the yellowcake point . And I
00:07 hope to make it clear to you why we call
00:08 ourselves healthy . Was a little later in the presentation
00:10 of the present history . For now , we're gonna
00:13 talk to them about nuclear interview 1 to 1 .
00:15 And uh , all of us have sort of experience
00:18 in the nuclear energy world and I want to try
00:22 to make you buy . We're passionate about nuclear energy
00:24 , part part of our future himself . Why ?
00:27 Why ? Why should you guys be interested award ?
00:31 Why ? Why should you care about nuclear ? I
00:34 think the real reason you should care about is because
00:36 you're using it right now . We're using it to
00:37 power our lights . We use it every day .
00:40 We don't think about it because every day we're using
00:44 electronic devices are using iphones or something like that .
00:47 The power of plug into the wall . So if
00:51 you're like me , you're like , a lot of
00:52 people might have a phone or something that you use
00:56 your morning mr after morning and you're back looks sort
00:59 of like this . And then by now your batteries
01:03 start to look a little more like this , it's
01:04 a little later today . By the time you leave
01:07 here today you may have a bad it looks like
01:10 , especially if you're texting on top . So by
01:14 the time your battery , listen , when you're probably
01:15 looking around for a power , plug your phone into
01:19 . But you know if you're like me , you
01:21 don't really think about you just plug your phone and
01:23 I don't really think about where electricity comes . And
01:25 I feel like a lot of people , including myself
01:27 included for a long time didn't even give any thought
01:29 to where electricity comes from . It's just sort of
01:32 an invisible thing to take for granted . So this
01:35 car to start off our presentation we're talking about where
01:37 does our left ? So the vast majority of electricity
01:41 in the U . S . And around the world
01:43 comes from a place that looks like this , this
01:45 is a power plant in this case the coal burning
01:49 power plant . And there's a couple of key features
01:51 I want to point out , you can see the
01:53 first thing you'll see at any one of these apartments
01:55 have hundreds of these United States . Uh is this
01:59 a bustling achievements ? Is not the coolest local building
02:01 but it has a bunch of gigantic furnace isn't used
02:05 to burn coal or natural gas or something . Another
02:10 key feature of the gigantic chimneys , we call them
02:12 bloom stacks . These chimneys that are used to direct
02:15 the smoke . That's a minute when we are fuel
02:19 in our change in our government . And our question
02:23 , there are a lot of people don't realize when
02:25 you see one of these gigantic stacks , Like I
02:29 understand how someone's gigantic Saxon tend to think that that's
02:32 a nuclear power . That's not the case . That
02:33 has nothing to do with nuclear energy at all .
02:36 Uh , these are called cooling towers . And if
02:38 you ever get a chance to go up inside one
02:40 and look at look at what's happening , if you
02:42 look , if you walking along and look up a
02:45 gigantic circular waterfall , essentially what these are used for
02:49 it to cool the water that's being boiled . So
02:54 nuclear documents certainly do use these . I'll talk about
02:56 that a little bit . But when you see this
02:58 , this , this isn't a nuclear reactor itself is
03:00 pulling power . So those are a couple of key
03:02 features of the power plant , uh , close tax
03:06 cooling towers and combustion . And another thing that you
03:09 can't see in this picture is the fuel trains .
03:12 So all these power plants are burning or using some
03:14 sort of fuel in this case is a coal burning
03:16 power plant . You have about three of these 100
03:20 car trains and fuel that service a typical new cuts
03:23 of coal burning power plant . Meanwhile , three of
03:26 these drinks , about 300 part Train boats for 5
03:29 , 5 or the fuel coming in . Everybody that
03:33 feel this particularly because that's a lot of fuel .
03:37 So that's a typical problem . That's one of the
03:40 most , most of our electors to come from .
03:41 I'll get into nuclear and sit here in a moment
03:45 . But before I do that , I want to
03:46 talk about what is the basic recipe for electricity and
03:48 just like the department of what's actually going on at
03:52 the end of the day . I like to think
03:53 of making electricity is sort of putting together a recipe
03:56 and the earliest resume . There's only a couple key
03:58 ingredients that we really need electricity . That's as much
04:02 fundamental . First day . Here it is , you
04:04 can see here is useless are the source from the
04:07 beginning of time . Thinking of our time as a
04:09 species , we've been burning things to produce energy and
04:13 they were still burning a lot of stuff . For
04:15 example , you need some sort of the sources ,
04:18 the next ingredient for producing like this . You need
04:20 to channel that heat into water or into something that
04:24 you can uh we can store that energy in case
04:28 most higher plants channel the water introduced steam that steam
04:32 you allowed to build up . In this case ,
04:34 you're seeing steam coming from a geyser in Yellowstone national
04:37 park . It's just just showcase the power of steam
04:40 to produce a lot of steam of these power plants
04:42 . That steve is used to drive these gigantic terminus
04:47 because you can take a steam rolled up and it
04:50 allows these turbines to rotate and produce electricity . So
04:53 that's the fourth main ingredient for the vast majority electricity
04:57 tradition . The United States . He sourced only water
05:00 , lots of steam and gigantic steam purpose . So
05:04 if that's the recipe for electricity , how do you
05:06 , and that's that's the recipe that's being cooked at
05:08 this power plant , How did they get the electricity
05:10 to you ? To me , how do they get
05:12 into the M . I . T . Museums that
05:13 you can watch this power way that we get to
05:16 the uh our homes , our communities is through the
05:19 electric power , massive system of high tension power papers
05:23 crisscross the United States transport electricity power plants , a
05:27 various source to our own service . So that electricity
05:32 as a whole , that's the recipe for cooking electricity
05:35 . What about nuclear ? How does nuclear power plants
05:37 ? So at the end of day , when I
05:40 first got my PhD at MIT , um , during
05:43 orientation , one of the professors at M . I
05:46 . T . Broke down . I feel like you
05:47 did a really good job of breaking down what nuclear
05:49 energy is exposed . Fundamental told us that at the
05:52 end of the day , all nuclear energy is all
05:55 nuclear energy is , it's just some hot rocks .
05:57 We've just learned how as humans , we've learned how
06:00 to make very special hot rocks and use that as
06:03 our energy source instead of burning coal or natural gas
06:06 or wood or something along those lines . So what
06:09 do we make this hot rocks out ? So you
06:11 may have seen this in school , You may have
06:13 seen this on science videos of some sort of periodic
06:15 table . Government . This is used to categorize all
06:18 of the fundamental building blocks that we see in nature
06:22 . And on the box we've seen the heaviest atoms
06:25 that are known to man . And in particular when
06:28 we build our special hot rocks , the reaction we're
06:31 looking at a couple of heavy elements is how the
06:34 elements are posted . Lots of neutrons and protons .
06:37 So many of those neutrons and protons that they become
06:40 unstable . And a couple of key elements that were
06:43 curious about that we're particularly interested in when we make
06:46 our fuel for nuclear reactors . First one made for
06:50 about it's called uranium . Another one that you may
06:53 have heard of Antonio , a third one which has
06:58 been used and may be used in the future .
07:00 Not this one in the U . S . And
07:01 china India . And the indian US Authority is also
07:04 very promising . So these are three of the key
07:06 ingredients that we're interested in is nuclear engineers and building
07:10 on making our hot rocks to produce liners . So
07:15 , uh so those are the elements , What do
07:19 those elements look like when you dig them out of
07:21 the ground ? Well around the world . There are
07:23 a number of different minds when we mind your brain
07:26 and we put it on the ground , it looks
07:28 something like this . It's called . Yellow cake is
07:30 probably put ourselves in yellow cake points . That's uranium
07:34 when he pulled out of the ground before you start
07:35 fabricating in the nuclear fuel uranium oxide . Looking at
07:39 this yellowish color , it's called yellow cake . And
07:43 as you , as you guys can enjoy after the
07:46 program , we have some yellow actually yellow cake you
07:49 can eat . And if your if your question is
07:52 how much this yellow cake , you need to power
07:54 your all of your electronic devices , everything you use
07:58 for your entire lifetime . It's about three small pieces
08:01 of cake is all the uranium , we need all
08:04 of this . It's about that . You got a
08:08 piece of cake . Eat your entire energy footprint for
08:10 the entire lifetime . Like on your way out to
08:13 take over here . This is what this is what
08:16 we used the building blocks for . Pop rocks ,
08:20 rain yelping Okay now . So what is some of
08:25 the basic physics ? What are we actually doing ?
08:27 What's actually going on in these hot rocks ? So
08:30 the fundamental idea that we want , the fundamental thing
08:32 that we care about , what's called nuclear visions of
08:34 the nuclear reaction that we're particularly interested in here .
08:37 And what happens is you get this gigantic uranium or
08:40 phoning foreign new . Please . It's got protons and
08:43 neutrons that are building , develop uh tries through this
08:48 and it's unstable . It's not quite unstable of to
08:50 give us energy . We have to give it a
08:51 little bit of a nudge nudge that we give it
08:54 nuclear reactors is what's called approach a neutron . But
08:56 we have to have an extra neutron comes in hits
08:59 this nucleus And it gets absorbed as far as an
09:02 unstable uh 36 couples called compound . It's unstable and
09:08 it splits apart , performed two brand new atoms or
09:11 nuclear tripped on barrier , a form of variety ,
09:15 different other byproducts . In any case , this nucleus
09:18 splits apart into two new nuclei and it emits a
09:22 couple extra neutrons in addition to releasing a lot of
09:25 energy a lot . And what's really cool is that
09:29 you can use those extra neutrons that are admitted to
09:32 create a chain reaction . So , in a nuclear
09:34 reactor , that's what we're doing essentially . We're trying
09:36 to create this chain reaction to make it self sustaining
09:39 . So they can continue on its own and producing
09:43 a lot of energy for us . So with that
09:46 I am going to , mm hmm . Mr Coburn
09:49 . And allow SAM to give you a little bit
09:51 of a his experience in the nuclear world . Thanks
09:54 book . Uh so I want to switch gears here
09:56 a little bit . You can get a little secret
09:58 . You want to talk about something actually related to
10:01 nuclear power . We'll talk about Elvis . Uh I
10:04 want to talk about the state of Alaska and I
10:07 want to talk about bobby Fischer . So , one
10:09 of these things have to be a nuclear power .
10:11 Uh 1958 hours . During the last 15 , the
10:15 state about the fisher became the Nuggets grandmaster at the
10:19 age of 14 . But most importantly , in 1958
10:22 the USs Dallas uh completed the first submerged circumnavigation of
10:26 the North Pole . This is only possible because it
10:29 didn't think about it traveled problem Pearl Harbor y all
10:33 the way up to the North Pole , but around
10:35 the North Pole and then came back to Greenland without
10:38 one . What's up once the entire time . And
10:40 it did so only because it didn't require diesel power
10:44 or any other source of propulsion . It did so
10:46 on nuclear power . And the reason I tell you
10:49 this is not only because that's really cool and it
10:51 did so in nuclear power . That was in 1958
10:54 . Uh just go uh election , say most of
10:58 us were alive at that point . Uh So this
11:01 technology has been proven to be reliable and safe for
11:05 a little . Uh Mhm . This year is the
11:08 crew of the USS Nevada in 2003 . Uh this
11:11 is a US Navy nuclear powered submarine and I'm showing
11:15 you this picture for two reasons . Uh first this
11:18 is a crew of about 150 people . Uh the
11:21 vast majority of these people , I've never got a
11:24 college education human being straight from high school yet .
11:27 The Navy has taught them not just safely upgrade reactor
11:30 for extended periods of time and they do so safely
11:33 . Uh Also , second resentful because that's me right
11:37 there . Uh so I have 10,000 hours of experience
11:40 operating a credible nuclear reactor . Uh I'm an economics
11:43 major . Um no significant technical background , But within
11:48 about a year and a half maybe taught me the
11:50 basics of nuclear engineering , talking about compulsion and it
11:54 made me safe and capable of operating a reactor .
11:57 I did that for 10,000 hours in the most danger
11:59 that ever happened to that entire time spilling hot coffee
12:02 . And so uh , you can truly be done
12:05 safely and effectively . Right , Okay . So uh
12:11 other people have concerns about the radiation side . And
12:14 I'm here to personally attest to you that it is
12:16 safe radiation perspective . When I left the nuclear navy
12:19 in 2008 , This is what lifetime does . 127
12:22 mill around . So that doesn't mean optimus United .
12:25 So I want to put that in perspective for you
12:29 . So here's one of my colleagues in the name
12:32 . He's a pilot . Uh you can make some
12:35 guesses about what his dose would be over 10,000 hours
12:39 . I'll just go and tell you About $7,000 from
12:42 naturally occurring sources of radiation because pilots operating in a
12:45 bunch of higher altitude , they're exposed to much more
12:48 confident radiation . Uh we are normally here the day
12:52 I tell you this not to tell you that this
12:54 pilot season unsafe dose of radiation he receives a completely
12:57 safe dose of radiation . We never think twice about
13:00 it . But if you quickly place uh , context
13:03 , I got a lot less radiation uh , in
13:05 this pilot that we don't consider his Japanese has this
13:09 from that . Okay . And the reason we don't
13:13 consider his Japanese has this for radiation point because there
13:16 are naturally occurring sources of radiation . So I had
13:20 a banana this morning . I probably had about uh
13:23 , on average of banana every day in my entire
13:25 life . During that , during my lifespan , I
13:28 received as much radiation from the potassium inside of banana
13:32 . Uh , as I did while I was operating
13:34 reactors horse submarine . Uh , we'll see radiation from
13:38 , uh , don't worry from uh , from their
13:42 solar cosmic radiation that uh , sitting on the beach
13:45 . You talked about when you fly in an airplane
13:47 to get additional radiation from the sun and cosmic sources
13:51 , uh , there's even radiation in our smoke detectors
13:53 and raisins in there and it's used to detect smoke
13:57 and these are things that save our lives daily basis
14:00 . So radiation is all around us . It's time
14:02 to be afraid of at natural doses . It's something
14:05 that's naturally occurring . It's just as naturally for best
14:08 craft . Yeah . Okay . So going back to
14:12 the native context , the actual first commercial reactor ,
14:16 The United States was in the 1950s . And it's
14:19 actually based on that first Navy reactor design . It
14:22 makes less sense . It's reliable design can be used
14:25 effectively in a large scale . And so this is
14:28 very similar to what To what we used today to
14:31 what was on that first nuclear-powered submarine . The USS
14:34 mounts back in 1958 . So , uh , that's
14:37 really good things over to Sam's share . All right
14:42 , thank you Sam . And now could I go
14:45 into showing a few gives every effort that we have
14:48 today in the producing energy and also uh space travel
14:54 . So , this is a picture of what a
14:56 nuclear power plant looks like . Everything here will be
14:59 insane for a natural gas fired power point for solar
15:03 power plant . The only difference is in this power
15:06 that we have the uranium fuel and nuclear reactor because
15:10 used to produce the everything else , the generator ,
15:13 the the cooling tower has a point . This is
15:20 a picture of an actual nuclear amount of plant in
15:23 the central coast of California . I'm about 15 miles
15:27 from where I went . Uh My neighbors work at
15:31 and you can see the two circular domes . Those
15:34 are two reactors are introducing a gigawatt of electricity each
15:40 and then they just heat up water from the pacific
15:43 ocean instead of having completely counters , this provides enough
15:47 energy . Was something like a million people we're here
15:53 . Yeah . And then this is another picture of
15:56 regard plant this one has the cooling towers that you
15:59 saw forward , keep your other reactors and they're going
16:04 out just did not examine . I think this is
16:07 hard to do . Okay . And then what do
16:11 we do with the waste that comes out of the
16:14 reactor in the US we actually keeping him on side
16:17 at all advance . And we just have a lot
16:20 of these nuclear fuel assemblies or bundles like this example
16:24 we have over here stand the reactor for about five
16:27 years . We've taken out for these big swimming basically
16:31 where they can cool down for a number of years
16:35 . Usually think they do that after 30 years now
16:40 . Chris is uh currently we have all these pools
16:44 after reactor sort of people . After a while .
16:49 We just take it out and put in these large
16:51 cement casts in the parking lot . And use this
16:55 for ground . The interim storage in the U .
16:57 S . Strategy is to develop a geological repositories of
17:02 this is more than sufficient needs to store . Uh
17:08 It's been a long shot in the long term waste
17:12 disposal . Some of you have heard nothing happens is
17:14 a picture of it located in Nevada and this is
17:19 where they see the the field is for long term
17:23 in this world . Crazy . Another option is deep
17:28 or over disposal where you basically drill a big hole
17:32 in the ground and a very geologically a stable area
17:36 . And we have a lot of experience with this
17:39 from petroleum , petroleum industry oil in the same concept
17:46 . The whole in another option stuff that You look
17:54 at mit and the industry is actually taking the waste
17:57 from the nuclear reactor . We only actually burn about
18:00 5% of the energy in the fuel . And 20
18:04 actually reacting to take it and burn essentially more energy
18:11 extra ways the car's there . So how much waste
18:16 is there has uh , Sam mentioned earlier first nuclear
18:20 governments came online the late 50s , early 60s ,
18:24 we used to produce 20% of our electricity . Have
18:28 a sense that if you take all that waste from
18:30 20% of our electricity cap , Five or six decades
18:34 and put it on uh , this football , if
18:37 they're good stadium , it will be a walkabout this
18:42 day . Not , not really all that much .
18:44 It's just 100 yards Home by well over 50 yards
18:49 wide and the height of this block , but only
18:53 need about seven yards . So it's really not much
18:56 wasted enough that we can contain it sure storage .
19:00 If you set to replace all those nuclear power plants
19:05 with coal or natural gas , how much waste increased
19:11 ? Hence a theme about hundreds of millions to a
19:14 billion of these states build all the way to go
19:18 to the other . Uh , it's quite a support
19:24 everyone . It's all over . Yeah . Yes .
19:29 Now we look at a few other reactor text with
19:32 following the reactors in space and this is the Voyager
19:35 one aircraft , first spacecraft , that first man made
19:39 object . That's a lot of the solar system .
19:42 And this had a nuclear reactor located that used to
19:45 produce about 400 watts of electricity for the past 35
19:50 years and will continue to use it for the next
19:52 decade . And it just happened about 100 kg material
19:57 that's used to . I have witnessed the satellite and
20:01 send signals back to another examples of mars curiosity rover
20:07 , prevent you represent Tamara's the curiosity is what about
20:12 the first one to have nuclear power ? It has
20:15 a nuclear reactor located to that's used to it's all
20:19 our for its scientific instruments and for communication and allows
20:23 it to operate all the time . You know ,
20:26 when you have Washington make sure . And then there's
20:34 been some other concepts that have proposed and tested uh
20:39 , give crunching here on earth . It's basically a
20:42 large nuclear reactor that we used to hydrogen and to
20:46 send okay satellites and space . Various cited reactor is
20:53 pretty small but this is the same amount of energy
20:57 . That's one of the largest power for a few
21:01 seconds . Yes , it was for a long term
21:04 Along My Family . Nuclear Power for Space Explorations of
21:09 Saving one Voice . We only have having a reactor
21:12 like this . Just power for decades and power and
21:18 the space around . And the reason I think this
21:22 is really interesting right now , we're considering going to
21:25 MARS , and if we want to go too far
21:29 , you can do it on the International space craft
21:34 eventually want to get back for months . If we
21:37 want to go there in a short amount of time
21:39 , we really need a nuclear reaction . Now that
21:42 there's really no other resources that can provide that much
21:45 energy or that long period of time . That's another
21:49 reason why my classes , people are getting into close
21:56 . There's potential to
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