That's so very kind of you, and what a heartfelt thing to say! Thank you so much, and you're quite welcome.

That's ok - it was probably too tangential anyway but glad you got something from it! You're welcome.

well thank you! and you're quite welcome

you're welcome! glad you liked it

thank you! no sweat, just been out a few days :) A nuclear transport presentation could be cool, should be a bit shorter than the reactor one.

You're welcome! Glad to hear it

Thank you! Yes, it's almost out of necessity than anything else, I tend to get bored of things after a while haha but it has been a fight to try and get out of a box that KZfaq doesn't want me to leave (for lack of a better phrasing).

Wow, that's amazing! I don't know what to say, that's just so awesome. Best of luck to you, and feel free to reach out to me if you need advice on college!

@@TheAtomicAgeCM thank you, you and Tyler folse as well as Kyle Hill have all pretty much convinced me that nuclear is the future and I feel it's something that needs to start now before it's too little too late. So again thank you, for putting real knowledge and research onto such a known platform if it weren't for people like you, people like me would never find what drives them, so again thank you for helping me find my goal

thank you! you're welcome, I love sharing knowledge about this stuff. The glass does emit alphas (I have some as well for my upcoming wedding), and it's safe to hold in your hand, too. Skin (namely the outer dead layers) blocks alphas.

@TheAtomicAgeCM oh cheers! congrats on your wedding. It was such a relief to learn that it's harmless because it was a treasure from his childhood, and he's kept it close all these years. Imagine our surprise when we learned it was radioactive 😆. Have you ever done a video about everyday items that people don't know are radioactive? It would be interesting to hear your perspective. For instance, radium watches, uranium glazed tiles, smoke alarms, and I recently learned about tritium exit signs

well, thank you, and you're welcome! I've spent a good amount of time learning about it, so glad to hear (hehe) it's paying off. The mercury one I had to look up, from psanalytical.com: "Its chemical symbol (Hg) comes from hydrargyrum from the Greek word hydrargyros meaning 'water' and 'silver'."

You're welcome, Hiltibrant! And, thanks so much!

Awesome, you're welcome! Fusion requires very high temperatures (millions of degrees) and pressures to do it, whereas fission reactors happen at much more normal pressures and temperatures (hundreds or thousands of degrees). So, fusion basically only happens (reliably) in stars and thermonuclear weapons at the moment. A few months back, the laser ignition facility in the US extracted some energy from fusion (albeit tiny) and there are many Tokamak type fusion plasma reactors that are in development around the world, with the biggest being ITER in France. But we're still a long way away from having production fusion reactors.

Nice! I think that is something I'd like to do as well one day.

the wikipedia article seems pretty even handed and links to official NRC reports, though i'm not sure how readable they may be to a layperson. It seems the third most serious American nuclear power accident happened there back in '78 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating_Station

Funny you ask, I briefly touch on that in the next video, but just because of a cool picture related to RTGs. But RTGs rely solely on the presence of radioactive Plutonium-238, which makes a lot of heat in part because of its short half life of 87 years. So, it's just heat from radioactive decay.

Remind me of the context I spoke about open and closed loop? Just to make sure I'm not confusing myself lol. But until then, no I wouldn't consider a radiator open and closed loop, the thermostat is just different ways to control the temperature. So open loop and closed loop have to deal with control systems. I'm not sure I remember their formal definitions, but I'll give you another car example. If you're cruising down the highway at a steady speed, your engine is getting feedback from the O2 sensor about combustion and adjusting the fuel/air mix for optimal combustion (closed loop). If you floor it, things are changing too quickly to get that O2 sensor feedback, so your car instead switches to conservative fuel/air look-up tables (open loop) that do not combust optimally but are on the slightly richer side so your engine won't knock. In your example, I think the radiator/thermostat system is always closed loop, but I'm honestly not sure haha it's been so long since I've studied that stuff. I just remember the car thing from the two automotive engineering courses I took in college (and I'm also a car enthusiast).

@@TheAtomicAgeCM I think you first talked about it during the K19 episode?? I’ll have to go back and watch again.. thanks for the car analogy! Very interesting…

you're welcome. oh ok, maybe i was talking about feedback loops, so like negative and positive feedback loops. negative is self correcting (well designed nuclear reactors), and positive adds to itself, like a nuclear bomb

oof, yeah it's a doozy lol

what do you mean? they're already in the grid?

Are you speaking of SMRs or large plants ?

Sorry, what do you mean? Does every atom split into the same two fission products?

@@TheAtomicAgeCM coming from the same fuel within the same reactor. I hope that makes sense. Or is there a variety of fission products coming from the same fuel source?

@@MrWils25 Let's see if I get your question. There is a distribution of which fission products are made, so one U-235 atom split in a reactor could make fission products A and B, for example, and the next U-235 atom split in that same reactor could make fission products C and D, and C and D could be twice as likely to be created as A and B (I'd have to look up some reactions for specific isotopes). And, the distribution of fission products for Uranium-235 is different than Plutonium-239.

haha let me know how it goes

no, no thermodynamics knowledge is assumed. did i gloss over something in the presentation with needing an absolute scale?