Nuclear energy: who’s using it, what’s true, and what’s next?
Description
It’s part 3 of our mini-series on nuclear power, and we’re talking about what’s going on in the reactor world and what the future of nuclear looks like.
That might seem dull, but we’ll be discussing questions we need to know like: will we all have mini reactors to run our houses? Or nuclear batteries to power our phones?
In this episode, I share:
- How different countries are currently using nuclear power
- What nuclear waste actually is—and why it’s been over-villainised
- The issues around nuclear waste storage and how people are trying to solve them
- Modular reactors and how they could help smaller places with little sunlight
- The safer, better material that reactors could be using instead of uranium
- What micro-reactors are and how they could help with disaster relief
- Whether nuclear batteries could become an everyday thing
- What fusion is and why it's the ultimate in clean energy
- Why we can’t use fusion yet
Key Quotes
“1 litre of sea water contains enough fusion fuel to equal 270 litres of petrol.”
“Per person, a lifetimes use of electricity using nuclear would produce enough waste to fill a soda can.”
“Fusion is the ultimate in clean energy.”
“One nuclear plant supplies 25% of the UAE's electricity, which is bonkers.
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