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Nuclear power is evolving with the rise of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), a potentially ground-breaking advancement in clean energy that’s reshaping global power generation. With over 80 SMR designs worldwide, few have gone operational: in Russia, and China’s HTR-PM and LingLong One reactors, making China a leader in this space. So, what makes SMRs so unique, and how could they redefine our energy future?
In this video, we look into how SMRs work, examining China’s approach with high-temperature gas-cooled reactors and pressurized water reactors, and how they’re setting a global example. We’ll also explore the impact on uranium demand, the role of Big Tech and government investments, and the potential for SMRs to drive us toward net zero emissions. Are SMRs the answer to clean, reliable energy, or do the costs and waste concerns make them a risky bet?
Credits:
Producer: Ryan Inis Hughes
Research: Sian Buckley and Ryan Inis Hughes
Video Editing and Sound Design: @aniokukade
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Topics Covered:
– How SMRs work and why they’re different
– China’s HTR-PM and LingLong One reactors
– The growing demand for uranium and clean energy
– Big Tech’s investment in nuclear power to fuel the AI boom
– The potential of SMRs to lower energy costs and emissions
– Challenges of nuclear waste and economic viability
Join me in this Ziroth Deep Dive to uncover the future of nuclear energy and the role of SMRs in global decarbonisation.
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What do you think is the future for SMRs? Thanks again to Uranium Royalty Corp (UROY) for sponsoring a portion of this video. Check out their website at https://www.uraniumroyalty.com/ !
5 years ago I thought this technology would be much more widespread by now. Very cool 💪😎
chinese communist party lies and propaganda and Chinese crap as usual
So many videos on SMRs, so few charts on how a steam turbine's efficiency depends on its size.
Idk man.
You might personaly belive every sentence you say in this video. But still. If your whole video is basically promoting the thing your sponsor is selling. I think the whole thing should be marked as advertisement. I would not feel confortable, using this video as a source for any information, if the people who payed for it, had a vested interrest in the contend.
Still nuclear waste? Inakzeptable as nobody will take the Garbage in its garden. Well, in non democratic countries like China no problem. But we don't discuss poltics
pebble reactors aren't revolutionary. They've been tried several times. Germany had an experimental pebble reactor but the pebbles generated a lot of radioactive dust due to friction with each other and the whole thing was a mess. I wonder how China overcame this problem
This one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300#:~:text=The%20THTR%2D300%20was%20a,shut%20down%20September%201%2C%201989.
although i aint sure where I heard the pebble dust story
this is a commercial not content. stop integrating the sponsors into the content its sheisty as hell
well at least this starts to make up for about -1% of the pollution they create good start you eco terrorist
These pellets are little black boxes where no one knows the integrity and current status of each one… I'm still not convinced… especially when China does something. They never talk about things that didn't go as planned. And why build something that is more expensive than what we can currently build…. Germany has over 60% renewables with no blackouts and that's with a poor electrical transport network. Huge batteries from electric cars in terra watt hours to stabilise solar and wind energy would be even cheaper than anything else.
Did you know that France subsidises nuclear power to make it competitive in the EU market? And that France MUST shut down many power plants every summer because there is not enough water in the rivers for cooling.
How far we could already be if we had simply invested all the research money from nuclear research in the expansion of PV and wind…. just sad….
You have failed to mention Moltex's SSR-W Stable Salt Reactor Wasteburner, which seems to be the only economic viable reactor design.
Cost of decommissioning has been significant for legacy reactors, is it for SMRs?
SMRs are designed to be a huge scam for investors, and to loot the public via Price Anderson Act of 1957.
But your last graph about falling cost of solar actually says it all… Even if SMR cost fell at a similar rate it will always be a magnitude greater than the cost of solar (and wind) which will continue to fall as well. We already have the solution and it's just going to get better and cheaper – no need for nuclear any more!
Fracking for uranium sounds really stupid.
Nuclear waste has never been a real problem, whining hippie flakes are the real problem.
You believe what naturally breeds starving is really more capable than what taught their race machines in the first place? What's the only race we didn't find in stone age? Whites.. Genetic behavior. They copy everything from us. Points at elites both sides of culture war meeting Pope and teaming with China And we have the most inferior genetics bred among us because no one put them down after blocking church in America FULLY. Religious genes.. Terrible with history for the same reason majority of all were illiterate in the dark ages after ending Rome which had doctors.
China is imitating and using framing to fake intelligence. As agents who are assigned to them say "they are memorizing not evolving" lol.
Your sponsorships make me distrust your content, therefore I have unsubscribed.
so when will we have nuclear powered vehicles?!
Surely fracking uranium is the worst idea ever with the greatest possible impact on the environment. This makes fossil fuel fracking the most environmentally friendly process.
Stop breaking into the video with your hopeful screen shots. Keep your misaligned ego in your pocket. Hollywood talent agents are not going to call you for a tv series. Just report the news and keep the video unbroken. south Florida
Nuclear Power has low CO2-Emissions? Only if you forget about where the nuclear fuel comes from, how it is processed and finally stored for long time. CO2-Footprint of Nuclear power is higher than solar or wind if everything is considered.
But most the important thing about SMRs is the price: They can only be build with public money, else the electricity would be too expensive. We will se no more than 15 SMRs in the World. And none of them will run for the full planned lifespan. Let them burn their money…
Water cooling has to be at a huge pressure to generate cooling and this leads to dangers on losing pressure in the system. Helium is more useful as Reactor does not need to be sited near water which tend to be close to populations!
I SO love how Sabine Hossenfelder released a video about SMR's problems just yesterday!
Id love to know why thorium is not taking off. LFTR's are safer since they are at high temperature iso high pressure. They produce a tiny fraction of the waste, and the feed stock is a tiny fraction of the price.
Given the success and expected cost trends for Wind and Solar PV generation, what we need now (apart from batteries) is a generation solution where the cost scales with the MWh generated. No nuclear solution will fit this description – not even Fusion.
https://youtu.be/XECq9uFsy6o?si=6oYLZPai25tWVT5H
Yeah they MIGHT become economically viable in the future, but at the moment every single one is going double or triple over budget and costing around half a billion dollars each. I'd steak my claims on traditional gigaWatt realtors personally.
FLIBE for the win. Seed it with some Uranium, then feed it much cheaper and more available Thorium and watch the Thorium magically turn first into Protactinium, then Uranium. See Kirk Sorensen. He's not doing ads for some investment company; he's invested many years into making this happen.
Helium is amazing. It's basically radiation-proof and can be heated to a very high temperature. It's also impossible to contain, your reactor has a leak in it, and He is a finite non-renewable resource. So yeah it's great but it's leaking and you can't stop it, it will degrade your containment vessel if you try — NASA has helium leaks too, you might've heard. SpaceX stopped using it
It's not an interesting development. It's a ridiculous development. Enhanced geothermal will make them all go bankrupt. So stop promoting this ridiculously dangerous and expensive technology. It's time has passed.
There is no such thing as the 24 hour flu. It's always food poisoning. I wish governments would approve irradiation of food. Last time it was approved people complained bitterly, (while eating microwaved dinners. No doubt.)
I'm with @kinguq4510791 on this one, now we're peddling "Stocks" to buy? as sponsors? I have to say this is a first for me, I've never seen this before. I really don't know how I feel about this, it just feels…icky you know what I mean. It feels like an infomercial now. Now the neutrality and impartiality of the subject matter is definitely gone for sure. Is this even legal? I don't know I'm asking.
Should you be registered as a "Foreign Agent" now that you work for China? You know like Tim pool is for Russia.
Sabine Hossenfelder just released a video on why SMRs are not the future of energy.
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The only "problem" w/nuclear is political will.
so far we haven't seen any evidence of standardization, there is going to be also another problem big powers have always "gate kept" small reactor tech for military usage (aircraft carriers/submarines) it make me skeptical that we just going to see massive standardization and sharing of information
Awesome video. All your videos are such top notch quality. At this point nuclear energy should be the main energy source we use for our power grid. This power source is our best option to improve the environment & to lower our emissions. The only thing that is holding us back is legislation and all the ways fear mongering has effected everyone.
The more I've learned about our power grid, the more I've learned that modern nuclear energy options is the way to go. Molten salt reactors, LFTRs, Thorium Reactors, Small form reactors. Utilizing our advanced technology, Improved engineering & material science. Utilizing our greater understanding of safety & well made designs. We have so much more advanced computer technology & robotics that can be used. It feels like even tho tons of advancement has occurred with engineering designs, safety measures, etc. It still doesn't matter to most people. It's like most people are ingrained with a natural negative response when talking about nuclear energy. It's a bummer because i truly believe that our best option for our future is to start utilizing Modern advanced nuclear energy options in our electrical grid. It's just proving to be challenging to get politicians to get on board.
It will really allow places to be much more energy independent. Less reliant on fossil fuels. They'll have efficient, stable electrical grids and the rest of the grid could experiment with alternative power sources, power desalination plants, etc.
We need to heal from the trauma of our past. See & learn that those things only happened solely from Us not understanding what we were doing when it came to nuclear energy at the time. We didn't have advanced enough technology, material science, engineering, safety measures, understanding of how to go about everything, etc. This source of energy will greatly help the world improve towards the future and lowering emissions. More than anything else could, while also providing a very stable electrical grid system. Currently we have alternative energy options but the majority of our grid is powered off of fossil fuels and emission producing sources of energy. We will be so much better going forward commiting to modern advanced nuclear energy options.
Did they outlaw electricity or oil, coal when things went wrong in the early days of those fields? No! They kept going and understood things usually are bumpy and difficult in the beginning and kept going even tho those sources negatively impacted our environment. A huge issue is government BLOCKING any sort of progression from happening. We'd be lucky to see the slightest projects approved or finished with-in the next 100 years.. It's very annoying to see how much we have gotten in our own way when it comes to improving or advancing certain things. Instead we let fear, money, man made "required legal processes" Stop us from doing anything other than wind, solar, oil, natural gas, damming our rivers, mining for minerals… It's very frustrating because we should be able to use all these options in collaboration. If we actually wanted to improve anything. That's what we need to do and stop letting so much potential get blocked from ever occurring in the first place.. It's really irritating. I wish certain people didn't make this so "complicated and difficult" Why would any reasonable person want to block progression?
In my opinion it's been irritating that our society has taken this "it's up to each individual person to make a difference" approach. When that just plays off of people's emotions. This issue is so much bigger than individual people. We need countries/states to get on board. It's the only way we can make even the Slightest difference. We've already waited too long. Everyday is a day wasted & we haven't even made a dent in improving our situation.
The fact that Desalination is so energy intensive but fresh water is so important.. What If we dedicated nuclear energy to be the main energy option to run these energy hungry desalination plants?? Idk why we aren't already doing this anywhere we could…?
Seriously think about it.. Nuclear power produces no green house gas emissions. It's extremely energy efficient. The list goes on. So why are we not utilizing this… We are being extremely too slow, too reserved, too cautious, too inactive to even make the smallest dent into our climate issue and our energy issues. It's holding back progression across the board in many different area's.. It's honestly getting really frustrating. I thought we would be more motivated than this. More active than this….?
Implying that economics and politics are decoupled in any capitalist country.
Economics and politics are one thing. There isn't a separation.
You lost me with the bs about the communiese being world leaders. All they do is copy… e v e r y t h i n g!
the energy contained in current waste is 90% of the original energy values.
The waste can be processed and reused in special reactors
The left over waste then lasts hundreds of years only.
This is more expensive that hiding it at the moment, but it should be an investment built into the costs of building the reactors in general.
All of this should be re-examined post implementation of a carbon tax and fines for carbon and plastics pollution to all corporates involved, past and present. Like a Carbon Joint Lawsuit The Public VS Carbon Polluters of the world.
UROY Looser
Down 14% last 5 years.
Sorry, did you say that the nuclear power industry is growing? On pretty much every metric it is shrinking. The number of reactors in production and the number planned is shrinking. The things that are growing is the amount of hype, the time to completion and the final costs are growing and that's about it.
thorium is the way to go
This is actually a SMR hit piece, with many false statements like claiming that Thorium fuel is the same price as conventional uranium powered LWR's. Thorium is easily and cheaply refined and basically free as there are stockpiles around the world as a result of rare-earth mines that have no market for the left over thorium. Uranium has to undergo a very expensive enrichment process and then encapsulated into pellets. Only about 5% of uranium is used, the rest goes to waste. LFTR uses almost 100% of the thorium with no waste problem.
boiiiii.. you sold out.. no way that uranium copany thing is reputable..
nuclear was the most expensive way to make power until SMR came along and potentially tripled that cost.