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Illinois EnergyProf
Приєднався 30 жов 2018
Professor David Ruzic
Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
cpmi.illinois.edu
Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
cpmi.illinois.edu
Fusion Energy Breakthroughs
This video explains the recent fusion energy breakthrough from the US National Ignition Facility and then describes how magnetic fusion energy is actually closer to making fusion energy a reality.
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Shooting Lightning Across a Room?
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This video is for fun, and is a collaboration with a former student who also has a UA-cam channel. He looks up the history and reality of various science-related things from movies, video games etc. See: ua-cam.com/users/TheShuckmeister . His take on this subject can be found at: ua-cam.com/video/S92ti5LUFxA/v-deo.html Enjoy!
Ukraine's Nuclear Reactors
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The Ukrainian nuclear reactors are described. This video explains what to worry about, and what not to worry about when a nuclear reactor is in a war zone.
The Future of Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Batteries power all of our modern electronics and increasingly our automobiles. What is in them? How do they work? What is keeping them from being better and how could they be made to hold more charge and last longer? This video explains all of that including some new exciting research in lithium-sulfur batteries at Illinois in conjunction with the company LYTEN. (Note: Car batteries have sulfu...
Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy (Live Lecture)
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This is a lecture I give to high school seniors and college freshman emphasizing need for nuclear power, and countering the common objections to it. My individual videos on this channel have much more detail on each topic; this is meant as an overview. I gave this in front of a "live" Zoom audience, and since we were using the light board anyway we decided to release it as a video. I hope you e...
Decarbonizing Air Travel ?
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This video examines overall energy use, how electrification comes into play, and focuses on the energy used for air travel. It shows why liquid fuels are the most useful for long-haul fast air travel, and then describes how they could be made from biofuels. It ends with a cautionary note about the challenges ahead and the possible need for other solutions.
Small Nuclear Reactors - Natrium
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This video tells about the new exciting sodium-cooled, high-assay-low-enrichment-uranium (HALEU) fueled small nuclear reactor that was one of the winners of the DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program competition and will be built over the next few years. It utilizes molten-salt storage of the heat generated by the nuclear reactor, so it can "follow-the-load". This type of system could be th...
What is in the COVID-19 Vaccine?
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This video explains what is in all three US-approved COVID-19 vaccines and how they work. It also discusses the risks of COVID and the risks of the vaccines. Finally it briefly covers what is not in the vaccines. 0:00 What's in the Vaccines 9:41 What are the Risks? 16:18 What is not in the Vaccine
SMR -- Small Modular Nuclear Reactors - Gas-Cooled
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This video tells about the new exciting gas-cooled small modular reactor that won the DOE competition and will be built over the next few years. This could be the future of nuclear power and be placed at every site where a coal power plant has been shut down.
Modular Micro-Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy?
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In this video Prof. Ruzic explains what modular micro-reactors are, and why they may be the future of nuclear power. In particular, their ability to be a non-carbon source of process or district heat makes them an ideal replacement for fossil fuel plants. In terms of electricity cost, they compete very well with diesel generation, and once mass produced could reach utility-scale prices. The mic...
How to convert a microwave oven into a plasma-generating N-95 respirator decontamination unit
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On October 13, 2021, our article on this subject was published in a peer-review journal: "A Plasma-Generating N-95 Respirator Decontamination Unit Created from a Microwave Oven" Plasma Medicine 11 (3): 1-18 (2021) This is a "how-to" video explaining how to convert a microwave oven, coat hanger, coffee cup and some household chemicals into a plasma-generating N-95 respirator decontamination unit...
Running on Moonshine: Making Ethanol Fuel
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In this re-upload, filmed outdoors on a sunny Illinois day, we look at the basics for how fuel (and alcohol) are made using corn. Do not try this at home!
What You Need to Know: Thorium Nuclear Power
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We fixed the audio and re uploaded. Sorry for those who are getting the notification on this a second time! The long awaited Thorium video is here! I hope you all enjoy as I take a critical look at the benefits and drawbacks of this fascinating form of nuclear power. Does it hold the key to near limitless nuclear fuel? Or is it merely a technical curiosity? Watch and find out!
How to Walk on Water Like an Engineer
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In this fun video from the archives, I reveal the secret behind the magic trick in my profile picture! How many can guess it before I give it away? Let me know in the comments!
Thorium Video Coming Soon!
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some hiccups for our video recording, but thankfully we will be getting back to uploading soon. Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these unprecedented times. Look forward to a new video on Thorium coming out soon!
Follow the Flush - How a Waste Treatment Plant Works
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Follow the Flush - How a Waste Treatment Plant Works
Energy Stats: Then and Now, Here and There
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Energy Stats: Then and Now, Here and There
How Sound Works and Why Bells Sound Good
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How Sound Works and Why Bells Sound Good
Dealing with the Used Fuel (Reprocessing)
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Dealing with the Used Fuel (Reprocessing)
Reactors of the Future (Generation IV)
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Reactors of the Future (Generation IV)
The TSA might question why I have a radioactive cookie wrapped in foil in a plastic baggie inside of me... 🧐 I'll just tell them I had to do it for science. I think they'll understand.
Wait 'til you find out he isn't left-handed, but The Dread Pirate Roberts!
IMO Tepco was criminally negligent. Every other plant on the coast that was hit didn't have their backup generators at sea-level. its JAPAN. People warned them about this. This entire thing could have been avoided.
You should do a kystham , and hanford video
I love how these egg heads try to explain away that nuclear energy is completely safe and a viable option.
charcoal briquette, a moolignan
Two questions: Q1.) Should the western world finance research into less squeaky markers? Q2.) Is he writing backwards?
Wow! This is probably the best explanation of radiation I’ve ever seen! Also, the cookie example… 🤌
Thanks for the video
>downplays risks of taking experimental medications. >downplays natural immunity. >implies risks of covid are evenly spread across the American demographic. >is fully okay with calling these "vaccines". Well, at least he won't get banned from social media.
imagine if this guy was the president...
Someone get me some uranium
India may just become nuclear power house if it actually gets thru the three stage nuclear energy programme as penned by Homi Bhabha , a well known physicist.
I feel mean for saying this but the way he talks presentation wise is off to me. I think he also needs to drink something his mouth sounds dry and I can hear spit cackling in his mouth which is one of if not the most annoying thing to me.
Excellent presentation but I have one question that wasn't covered. The waste he talked about was all from the 8% energy that was produced. Only a small room in over 60 years. But what if that 8% became something more like 80%, and over a period of 100 years. How much waste would that create? Might it be a concern at this point? I'm pro nuclear btw, just genuinely curious. Thank you.
So enrich uranium to 3% in your nuclear industry. Obviously no one would enrich to weapon grade%. 80% of the world's population live in dictatorships, like Mr Putin, and Mr Xi, and Mr North Korea and Mr Chetneya, and ...... Mr Pol Pot, .... Military budgets can be excluded naturally. More national grid capacity can be excluded as grid electricity replaces fossil fueled energy. Happy days, more EVs, more electricity, happy days 😀 😄 😊 😁
The future technological evolves. Rooftop solar PV in Australia is $4billion per 1,000mW. $40billion per 1,000mW is the new grid costs, asset value. AUD1 is 0.66USD Batteries are needed. EVs big batteries are perfect as they are mostly parked 23hrs every day. EVs big battery is 'free' with the vehicle. 😊😊😊 Home 10kWh home batteries are $14,000 AUD. each. 😮😮😮 V2G EVs selfplug-in will be the best feature in new vehicles. UTILIZATION FACTOR perfect. 🥰 💞 👌 😍 New grid capacity construction is saved $40billion per 1,000mW.
OMG THE SQUEAKY MARKER IS GONE - THE SQUEAKY IS GONE! PRAISE!
Great content. The symbol looks a bit too cute n fuzzy, much prefer a traffo with rays and a stick figure with big smile eating something.
Recorded end of 2015 you state in vid - how about an update
"Fuel goes in the top"... "high temperature gas"...."waste comes out the bottom"... Sounds like my Uncle Gary.
I am sure my wife could bake a perpetual crypt for nuclear waste that would never degrade and would shield us all from everything.
I'm not holding my breath that Colorado Governor will do this for any of the coal plants he's closing
13:00 “It goes through the roof!” Pun intended?? 😬😂
Were so worried about the radiation that can not hurt us, that we will die from the co2 we blindly produce!
So am I the only one super impressed that the lecturer is writing backwards so easily? 🤨🤔
Great content, cheers from Australia
Is the future here yet?
No, the question is what is radioactivity.
This educator could make paint drying interesting
I was at Chest- an international meeting yearly on Pulmonary Medicine Diseases. There was a Ukrainian physician who presented his data on nuclear related disasters he had seen. It was extensive and terrible. Frank
Wow man u are amazing ❤
Of course when it is Soviet, it is worst accident, but when in america digging nuclear fuel rods into peoples backyards causing 1 million extra cases of cancer and heavy metal pollution in newborn babies, its merely "smol incident"
Its crazy to me that the USA believes they have the authority and responsibility to police others on their nuclear weapons, meanwhile they're the only ones who have proven themselves to be sinister enough to deploy nuclear weopons.
The weight difference (1.0043) is not 4 thousandths of one percent, its 4 thenths of one percent, or 4 thousandths per one unit.
This man is writing backwards and has better penmanship than me 🤯
this guy explains shit the best for an educated audience I love these videos theyre like docus but for people who don't have tiktok brain rot
how is this guy writing so fast in reverse/mirrored loool
best video on youtube, good for aleady intelligent educated audience, unlike rest of the other videos explaining like im 5 years old lol
Good thing Germany turned off their nuclear reactors just in case a tsunami struck Central Europe.
Why did Fufushima need more water?
What is the red in the RMBK? Is it the graphite moderator? Is the water also acting as a moderator? The LWR is a pressurized vessel were the water level remains constant.
3:46 nice math bro
Can SMRs follow load? Can they be taken off line for less than a week?
I've been watching videos about Chernobyl on a channel created by a nuclear engineer. His contention is that a containment building would not have withstood the force of the explosion at Chernobyl.
"If you lose the water, the reaction stops". You made my day. With a lot of good will, lets call this statement "theoretically right" but completely wrong in practise, as as you said, water is used for cooling and if there is something that can blow up a reactor, it's the lack of cooling. Since, if it would be otherwise, the guys at Fukushima would have been very happy when they found out that all the cooling water has gone. However, the opposite is true: That's where the party started....
The containments of most nuclear plants (still!) today will not withstand the impact of a commercial airliner (90 tons, 100m/s). Officially we only know from Belgium and Switzerland that their nuclear plants have passed related tests. From the US we know that (a) related tests are kept secret and (b) most of the plants have not been built to withstand even smaller planes.
I remember a talk from a very well known specialist with more than 35 years of experience in operating nuclear plants and when ask about fusion reactors Prof. Homer J. Simpson calls it "boooooring".
Breaktrough in Fusion Energy? Really. Again? Didn't i heared that like 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago? It's becoming a running gag. And guess what: We won't need it anymore as we got better alternatives. And cheaper.
Well, the "funny" thing about containments is, they also are not fully solid. Just think about Fukushima, where radio-active material found its way out of the reactor trough the overpressure gas pipes and through the water pipes of the cooling system. So, yes, there is a difference between both reactor types, but none of them is safe. And that 's the important point.