Great video, thank you for making it! I'm at the beginning of my journey to understand Nuclear energy and people are already requesting Thorium info. Well done!
I think it's the fact it can't be weaponised that made it so under-invested in. With Uranium, the power generation was considered a happy side-effect of nuclear proliferation, so uranium R&D got tons of government funding, but since you can't weaponise the thorium, governments will be less inclined to fund it.
Nice editing work! Also noticed your audio is clearer, that's the way :D
Great video, thanks for cleaning up the audio! Itโs much better now ๐
YES!! I've been waiting for this! Would love to see more on the topic
You're smashing it with these videos mate! So good :D
amazing animations as usual, they're so clean and easy to understand. plus great interview at the end!
This format explanation/simulation + interview is awesome men
great video! this channel is always amazing ๐
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It's annoying that Uranium reactors won, really because few people decided that those are the ones to be used in naval applications, mainly by the USA... Also because it was easier to make plutonium for military use. Things could have taken a totally different trajectory if few people chose to favour other design. Now the issue is that the tech we have for extraction and refinement of uranium is very efficient and cheap when do in huge bulk quantities. And it isn't like Uranium is rare element... It's more abundant than tin... Even the fissile isotopes are about as common as silver or mercury, a order of magnitude more common than gold. It's kinda like... We already have a infrastructure for gasoline inplace. No fuel alternatives can compete with oil based liquid fuels, because it's so cheap and established to just use oil based gasoline! Even though we have many good alternatives and methods of production! We have to enforce by law that those must be mixed in, to reduce harmful emissions. Meanwhile we just waste the potential of things like organic waste for being reprocessed for fuel. The only reason Finnish company Gasum has made big moves us that due to global happenings if past 10 years natural gas been problematic and expensive.
Damn these are great videos! I can't wait for this channel to blow up!
Your interview was interesting but having worked at a research Linear accelerator there is still a lot undiagnosed granularity issues in the unresolved region as well as the still often high uncertainty in resolved regions, especially outside of direct fission sources like uranium. I do totally understand that this is for a lay audience but the hand-waviness from Dr. Fynbo bugs me a little. Also, fun story, but before my time they used to partially fund the linear accelerator by buying, irradiating and selling topaz during downtime. The neutron irradiation plus a heat treatment applied afterwards creates these striking blue color to the topaz; we only did it when the price point went the right direction to make it profitable but it's a fun anecdote
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Great demonstration easily understandable!
Amazing quality for your channels size
Good video, great job! Keep up the good work. Very few are doing what you do.
Thank you higgsino
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