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Weird! I just saw this mentioned in Joe Scott's recent video on Nuclear Waste[1] I hope it's successful as I feel nuclear fission power has been unfairly malig
by alexgmcm 5y ago
Weird! I just saw this mentioned in Joe Scott's recent video on Nuclear Waste[1]
I hope it's successful as I feel nuclear fission power has been unfairly maligned.
I strongly recommend the book Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey[2] to learn more about how fission power plants work and what went wrong at Chernobyl etc. - it's one of my favourite books of all-time.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96et8ZGsxJY&t=545s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96et8ZGsxJY&t=545s
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20579068-atomic-accidents https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20579068-atomic-accident...
- lizknope 5y agoI subscribe to Tom Scott's youtube channel and I wondered how did I miss the video you are talking about. This is Tom Scott's channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay The video you linked to is interesting but it is created by someone named Joe Scott, not Tom Scott.
- alexgmcm 5y agoSorry, I meant Joe Scott - I somehow confused myself in the process of writing the comment.
- ampdepolymerase 5y agoA lot of big countries have significant interests in preventing smaller states from acquiring nuclear arms. It is difficult to say how much of the FUD around civilian nuclear power was planted on purpose by governments.
- Buttons840 5y agoGreat book. One of the chapters is named "The US government almost never lost nuclear weapons" if I remember correctly. A glimpse into the author's sense of humor.
- alexgmcm 5y agoYeah, his other book "Atomic Adventures" was recommended to me by my friends and also mentioned in the book "The Future of Fusion Energy" by Parisi and Ball. I'll have to check it out!