PickVidsBest Nuclear power & fusion Videos
The 51 Nuclear power & fusion videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 12 intermediate, 32 for a general viewer, and 3 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Google TechTalks, Illinois EnergyProf, Improbable Matter.
Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident
An episode of the Well There's Your Problem podcast on the 1987 Goiania radiological accident in Brazil, based largely on the IAEA report.
We Solved Nuclear Waste Decades Ago
Kyle Hill explains what nuclear waste actually is and how it is stored, arguing that the problem was effectively solved decades ago.
The Most Radioactive Places on Earth
Veritasium visits Chernobyl, Fukushima and other places to find who on Earth is exposed to the most ionizing radiation.
The Economics of Nuclear Energy
Real Engineering looks at why nuclear power plants are expensive and how their economics compare with fossil and renewable alternatives.
These tunnels are designed for 100,000 years
Tom Scott visits Onkalo in Finland, the planned deep geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste intended to be sealed for 100,000 years.
International Colloquia #26: Fusion Reactor First Wall Cooling
An MIT colloquium by Dennis Whyte on power exhaust and first-wall cooling in fusion reactors, including recent innovations and the SPARC and ARC designs.
Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy (Live Lecture)
A lecture for high school seniors and college freshmen making the case for nuclear power and answering common objections.
Nuclear Propulsion in Space
A 1968 NASA film from the US National Archives explaining why the US needed a nuclear rocket and how the engine works.
Q&A - Helion Energy, NIF, Space and more
A roughly three-hour technical livestream Q&A on Helion Energy's fusion approach and the National Ignition Facility.
The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be
A 2008 Google Tech Talk making the case for the liquid fluoride thorium reactor as an abundant, safe source of electrical power.
Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power...
A 2006 Google Tech Talk by Robert Bussard on inertial electrostatic confinement (polywell) fusion as a cheap, clean alternative to conventional thermonuclear reactors.
What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool?
Randall Munroe of xkcd answers what would happen if you swam in a spent nuclear fuel pool, and how much radiation you would receive at the surface versus at depth.
Innovating to zero! | Bill Gates
Bill Gates' TED2010 talk on the energy future, arguing for zero global carbon emissions by 2050 and the need for energy miracles.
The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket - Possibly the Craziest Rocket Engine Ever Imagined.
Scott Manley explains the nuclear salt water rocket, Robert Zubrin's concept of a rocket fueled by a rapid nuclear reaction in uranium salt dissolved in water.
The Extreme World of Ultra Intense Lasers - with Kate Lancaster
Royal Institution lecture by Dr Kate Lancaster on the most powerful lasers in the world and the extreme conditions they create.
Something's Rotten with French Nuclear
Mark Nelson of Radiant Energy Group explains how France, a leader in decarbonization through nuclear power, mismanaged its fleet, and what policy and outages threaten its future.
The problems with Helion Energy - a response to Real Engineering
A short, humorous critique of Helion Energy's fusion approach, framed as a response to a Real Engineering video.
chernobyl 2013: radioactive ant bites & 115 mSv/h of pure gamma radiation
A YouTuber explores the Chernobyl zone in 2013, takes a gamma spectrum of a hot reactor fuel fragment, and jokes about a radioactive ant bite.
Fat Man and Little Boy (6/9) Movie CLIP - I'm Dead (1989) HD
A Movieclips excerpt from the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy in which John Cusack's character assembles a bomb core and a criticality accident occurs.
Cask Test - 1978
Archival 1978 Sandia footage testing shipping containers for spent nuclear fuel, including trucks ramming walls, a locomotive hitting a truck-borne cask and a rocket-propelled train crash, plus a fire test.
Total Destruction Redux: F4 Phantom vs. Concrete Wall - Additional Camera Angles
Additional camera angles of the 1988 Sandia National Laboratories rocket-sled test in which an F-4 Phantom was crashed at about 500 mph into a block of reinforced concrete.
The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste
Cleo Abram's explainer on whether nuclear waste is really the intractable problem it is portrayed as, looking at how spent fuel can be recycled and used.
Project Orion Nuclear Propulsion - 1950s Tests | Unclassified Video
Declassified footage of 1950s tests of Project Orion, the nuclear pulse propulsion concept, including the Hot Rod prototypes flown on conventional high explosives.
Nuclear Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment in which John Oliver explains the US nuclear waste storage problem, including the Yucca Mountain politics.