Something they don’t focus on is when you leave uranium in the ground it most likely leaches/bleeds into the environment during its decay
@Nicklan1961 Says:
And just exactly how much is it going to cost to store the wsste the next 1000 years?
Are you guaranteeing that you will be the first 1 to ever build a reactor on time run budget
And if there is a meltdown which there have been many
Are you gonna be personally liable for all the people that will have a very slow death from the radiation poisoning?
@orbitingeyes2540 Says:
Why are we still using Uranium with its long-lived waste products? We should move on to Thorium at this point. Much safer.
@Robert-vm8cn Says:
Can you get interviewed by a feminist again, and what about that communist crap . The radioactive waters are already lapping are shore !
@mnewln1800 Says:
Hardening of our electrical infrastructure is imperative. Modular nuclear technoloy should play a big part. It's treasonous that this hasn't happened decades ago.
@andreassjoberg3145 Says:
No need to mine uranium. Treat the used fuel rods and get new rods back. Problem is there is plutonium in the used rods, and people are scared they fall in the wrong hands. I say make thorium reactors, and use the plutonium as starter-fuel to burn the thorium, and we get rid of the plutonium as a bonus.
@alanbatten5548 Says:
Uranium hexafluoride must be a fairly heavy gas. What would be the effect of a major spill of such a gas? If you move anything sooner of later there will be an accident!
@fredflickinger643 Says:
I like the breadth of your interest and right in line with my engineering side!
@windmolenfarm8030 Says:
It's simple Jordan, Hillary Clinton sold our mining production to Russia a number of years ago since we apparently didn't need it for those nasty Nuclear Power Plants (or even nastier bombs).
@jimmy9fingers1 Says:
Nuclear Power is clearly a super efficient technology, however doesn't High Level Nuclear waste remain Toxic for thousands of years?. If there is a way in which radioactive waste can be eliminated entirely or rendered totally safe then obviously it's the solution, otherwise no man made storage facility for hazardous waste could possibly last the duration, not even close. Whenever there is Hazardous Waste to dispose of and huge sums of money at play, there is going to be corruption and corners cut.
@RayFinkle Says:
Stop using Uranium. Use Thorium.
@billybobwombat2231 Says:
Yeh, a shrink is always good to get advice on how we power up our grids 😂🙄
@TheLove1Makes Says:
I hope this good energy for the world.
@Tesla_Ampersand_Friends Says:
They were flying around reactors in an airplane like a half century ago its not like they magically shrunk it all down just now
@terranhealer Says:
I really wish the guest didn’t mention the word bomb when talking about uranium. This topic was about uranium for nuclear power and there is no way for that material to explode like a nuclear detonation
@kcbroncohater Says:
This was part of Biden's New Green Deal that he was running before the last election. Small nukes to power small cities and big nukes for a large city. Biden never talks about it because voters would freak out if they did.
@StopRoguePilotsNow Says:
Jordan, REALLY?! Why outsource? Doesn't it poison our land and people? Of course we don't want anyone poisoned, but what if it was your family, neighbors, water and farm being poisoned? What happens when this starts turning up in your steaks?
@romangasior4046 Says:
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@sfrahm1 Says:
Hmm. cia the-world-factbook/central-asia/
Central Asia uranium sources Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
My bet is on Thorium / Fluoride Molten Salt Reactors Thorium is a nearly free waste product found in piles & piles of mine tailings across the globe just laying there. I think the science is mostly waiting on regulators to get up to speed IMHO.
@stuartedge5906 Says:
Great work bringing attention to this. Thanks Jordan.
On the lighter side, some bloke called Homer Simpson has just applied for the job and Marge has been making yellow cake for years.
@janpalsson8935 Says:
1:16 i heard that thorium should be almost the same just without the benefit of making weapons of the leftovers…
@tonyjones4861 Says:
OK go and read a sci fi story by Asimov. It's called "Silly Asses".
Forget the spin off of the nuclear arms race.
We should be looking at Molten Salt reactors. This is a failure right from the start.
@YTGhostCensorshipCanSuckMe Says:
Such a clickbait title
@justinpearman9 Says:
Dr Peterson needs to ¹start following GordonMcDowell 's YouTube channel. ²Get in touch with fellow Canadian Gordon McDowell (I've emailed him before. He'll respond.. and I'm a nobody. Dr Peterson is Dr Peterson)
And ³get Gordon to catch him up on what Kirk Sorensen & Jim Kennedy are working on ala thorium-fueled molten salt reactors and rare earth mining & processing counter China's grip on global supplies.
Given Dr Peterson's defenses against far-left climate model manipulations, a crash course in switchgrass & kelp farming combined with an understanding of both the environmental (predominantly via soil health but also air quality) & energy economic value of biochar and its carbon-negative properties could also become an incredibly & increasingly valuable knowledge set to have ..
.. especially where agricultural benefits has such an impact on crop health & nutritional capacities in foods .. which clearly play an integral part in both physical & mental health.
Several positive feedback loops there with near-infinite scalability which run counter the artificial scarcity based narrative increasingly pressuring so many of his followers.
@dustinherk8124 Says:
Don't even need to sell uranium reactors to the public. they have a taboo behind them. can now sell thorium reactors to the public as a generally "safer" fissile material for both small scale and large scale power production, and Saskatchewan has even MORE ore than Uranium. but if you do want to go the route of Uranium 4th gen reactors using LFTR or FAST reactors it can run on what is already deemed "Spent" uranium fuel waste, and significantly lower the "shelf life" of its harmful decay period from thousands of years, to a couple centuries; with much less of it as the final product needing storage.
@MeanOldLady Says:
I loved the old Galen Winsor lectures on nuclear topics.
What a bold guy he was!
@jonathanwaddington965 Says:
How about releasing the real free energy such as water Electrolizing.
@MrWackozacko Says:
I think Aliens wont let us build nuclear. We can end hunger and carbon dioxide outputs with nuclear but the government wont do it
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Says:
Great video, Jordan...👍
@klimatbluffen Says:
Sweden also has large reserves of uranium, with the old kind of nuclear reactors, Sweden could electrify all of Europe for hundreds of years.
@BiPolarBear128 Says:
thought this Jordan Peterson Guy was a psychologist ? why is he flapping his gums about nuclear physics ?
@lawrencekeeley8966 Says:
Hey you should have bought it from Hilliary . I understand she had a bunch of it, Uranium One I believe it was called, I wonder what happened to that.
@mamabearcake9542 Says:
And they have robot dogs with flame throwers......the world is scary
@iamthetinkerman Says:
Ive been talking about SMRs for years. They are the solution to the energy crisis.
@patrickbass3542 Says:
...and WHO gave away right to the US URANIUM deposits to "foreign" unfriendly entities! Wasn't it HILLARY? But on a lighter note: can that reactor/generator system produce enough amperage to move an 18-wheeler, loaded with cargo at highway speeds?
@davidfleishman2275 Says:
Years back there was talk about down sizing a nuclear reactor to the size of a home AC condenser for home use. Great idea. It was stated that you cannot just do a downsize safely. Safety issues came up. Main issue would be loss of cooling water. Or the unit getting crashed.
@monokheros5373 Says:
my question would be ... why URANIUM as the main fuel and not THORIUM.... its CHEAP and ABUNDANT .... yes you still need uranium for the spark plug yes it still produces weapons grade material ...
why burn GOLD when TIN does the same job?
@ketherwhale6126 Says:
Something tells me this world has become too male or masculine. We wouldn’t even need to tackle any of these issues if the world was balanced.
Technology is not the barrier. There are really only two. 1. Politics "nuclear bad". EU in a surprise lists it as green energy. Also, the deaths per GWhr is the best for nuclear. 2. Get your hands on a Nano reactor and you can make a dirty bomb. This is also the problem in processing waste from our current nuke plants. It is the reason Fukajima had so much waste in storage. One thing to note, you only have ~100 years of fissionable material in the earth. Add breeder reactors, ~10%, and that number jumps to 1000yrs.
@meditationsoundscapes5203 Says:
contaminated water is not a problem in "central" Asia
@anthonysinclair154 Says:
And zero point energy misses out again because there just aint enough riches to be scalped
@Sammyli99 Says:
This MAY have value if Mr.Peterson wasn't employed by a nation that cant be named, that does not have nukes, with technology that was "pretend" stolen. In summary no value. But yeh, Nuke tech, Uraniam or Thorium is the way ahead. Just not enough stop-over points for the "cash" to get distributed.
@m8s4lif Says:
Wyoming has a very large amount of Uranium Ore in the ground. I worked in a Uranium mill in Wyoming back in the 80s. I was just a young kid back then. Ok, I was in my twenties when the mill shut down. Both good and bad memories. I could not imagine all of the red tape that you would have to go through to open up a uranium project now.
@Kelnx Says:
I can't believe he mentioned Centrus as a possible uranium enrichment source. They (the only US enrichment company) shutdown all enrichment activities nearly 8 years ago now and are little more than a uranium broker that supplies down-blended previously HEU (a total waste). The US has no domestic enrichment capability anymore. Not sure about Canada.
I worked in nuclear for decades from military to civilian/government and basically what I've seen is the death of nuclear in the US. Between highly political environmentalists and typical NIMBYs, our nuclear infrastructure is pretty much shot. All kinds of great ideas and designs but nobody will build anything and the government isn't interested in at least removing some hoops.
@human-xi1uo Says:
No carbon but hell on earth.
@fredericrolland7399 Says:
If Biden is again illegality reelected, again in 2024, what makes the US better than China? Nerds are insane....
@DennisPont Says:
Wow...all sounds so simple, (not)
are you guys for real, why not look for something really complex and expensive to satisfy our increasing neediness for more energy...
How long has nuclear been around???
And here we are still attempting to make it work so that it's now competitive with with Solar and Wind which gets cheaper by the day...oh and that's without thinking about the nuclear waste...
@christopherjimenez4392 Says:
I don't think this is the best way to advance... It is the best way to advance with the idea of non free energy... It is the best idea for the people who controls energy and tech, cause it is their business... What happens with the development of free Energy... Now a days we know there are several inventions that can power your home or car with a shoe box size device... We know those inventions are hidden by force... So wake up my brothers ... What we need is the development of free non contaminant energy... This will finish poverty, hunger... So this must be our goal... Think free....
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