3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! 2/3

3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! 2/3

3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible! 2/3

Nuclear energy might be a failed experiment. In over sixty years the technology has not only failed to keep its promise of cheap, clean and safe energy, it also caused major catastrophes and enabled more nuclear weapons while the nuclear waste problem is still not solved.

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3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Terrible!


Content

0.17 -> three reasons why we should stop using nuclear energy
3.26 -> one. nuclear weapons proliferation
6.509 -> nuclear technology made a violent entrance onto the world stage
10.74 -> just one year after the world's first-ever nuclear test explosion in
14.179 -> 1944
15.24 -> two large cities were destroyed by just two single bombs
18.539 -> after that, reactor technology slowly evolved as a means of generating
22.8 -> electricity but it's always been intimately connected with nuclear
26.199 -> weapons technology
27.279 -> it's nearly impossible to develop nuclear weapons without access to reactor
31.599 -> technology
32.41 -> in fact the nuclear non-proliferation treaty serves the purpose of spreading
36.67 -> nuclear reactor technology
38.2 -> without spreading nuclear weapons, with limited success
41.37 -> in forty years five countries have developed their own weapons with the
45.19 -> help of reactor technology
46.8 -> the fact of the matter is that it can be very hard to distinguish
50.399 -> a covert nuclear weapons program from the peaceful use of nuclear energy
54.579 -> in the nineteen seventies the big nuclear powers were happily selling
58.68 -> peaceful technology to smaller countries which then developed weapons of their
62.859 -> own
63.629 -> the road to deadly nuclear weapons is always paved with peaceful reactors
68.96 -> 2. nuclear waste and pollution spent nuclear fuel is not only radioactive
75.25 -> but also contains extremely poisonous chemical elements like plutonium
79.939 -> it loses its harmfulness only slowly over several tens of thousands of years
84.59 -> and there is also a process called re processing
87.9 -> which means the extraction of plutonium from spent nuclear fuel
91.46 -> it can be used for two purposes: to build nuclear weapons
94.89 -> or to use it as new fuel, but hardly any of it is used as fuel
99.03 -> because we don't have the right kind of reactors for that, a milligram
102.579 -> will kill you a few kilograms make an atomic bomb and even an inconspicuous
106.95 -> country like Germany
108.18 -> literally has tons of the stuff just lying around because re processing
112.13 -> sounded like a good idea decades ago
114.35 -> and
115.1 -> Where will all the waste go? after dumping it into the ocean was forbidden
118.68 -> we've tried to bury it, but we can't find a place where it will definitely stay
122.58 -> secure for tens of thousands of years
124.74 -> over 30 countries operate nearly 400 reactors
128.3 -> managing several hundred thousands of tons of nuclear waste
131.64 -> and only one is currently serious about opening
134.96 -> a permanent civilian waste storage: tiny Finland
138.21 -> 3. accidents and disasters
141.37 -> over sixty years of nuclear power usage there have been seven major accidents in
146.33 -> reactors
147.03 -> or facilities dealing with nuclear waste three of those were mostly contained
151.66 -> but four of them released significant amounts of radioactivity into the
155.35 -> environment
156.2 -> in 1957, 1987 and 2011
159.76 -> large areas of land in Russia Ukraine and Japan
163.02 -> Were rendered unfit for human habitation for decades to come
166.76 -> the number of deaths is highly disputed But probably lies in the thousands
171.57 -> these disasters happened with nuclear reactors of very different types
175.58 -> in very different countries and several decades apart
178.84 -> looking at the numbers we may as well ask ourselves: are 10 percent of the
183.09 -> world's energy supply
184.37 -> worth a devastating disaster every 30 years?
187.72 -> would thirty percent be worth another Fukushima or chernobyl somewhere on
191.519 -> earth
191.92 -> every 10 years? what area would have to be contaminated
195.69 -> so we say no more? where is the line?
199.19 -> so should we use nuclear energy?
202.42 -> the risks may outweigh the benefits and maybe we should stop looking into this
207.01 -> direction
207.67 -> and drop this technology for good if you want to hear the other side of the
211.54 -> argument

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEYbgyL5n1g