Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Wind Turbines Are Killing High-Conservation Birds" video.

  1. Rhythi Fur Games Nuclear power is by far the safest energy source we have. By a considerable margin. Even Chernobyl which was a special case (TMI and Fukushima were nothing special) has created a wildlife haven. The animals do not have a higher cancer rate but they do live without human interference.
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  2. Ryan Ziolkowski The new Gen 4 plants like the Moltex going up in Canada cannot melt down. It’s a molten salt reactor that burns waste nuclear fuel. It has a strong negative temperature power curve. If it overheats just a little the energy production falls so it naturally follows the load demand. It’s therefore cheap. Less costly than a gas fired plant of same size. We need one of these in every town. Energy costs would fall and everyone would be running electric cars.
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  3. KungFlu BatSoup Even better design the core to naturally follow the power demand. The Moltex stable salt cannot overheat because higher temperatures slow the rate of reaction. It is basically a steel box encased in concrete shielding. With a molten salt pond inside heated by fuel salt contained in fuel rods. Heat is extracted by a third salt loop. The primary vessel has no pumps, no valves, no dump tanks and no pressure.
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  4. Vampirebear13 Current nuclear waste has a half life of 30,000 years entirely because the PWR reactor can’t use more than 3% of the fuel’s energy before it has to be removed and stored. Moltex are building a waste burner plant in Canada that takes the half life to 30 years. The nasty long life elements are fully fissioned into short life elements and in the process making lots of heat. They will get 30 x more power per kg of fuel than any PWR on the planet.
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  5. wert1234576 Tier 4 Nuclear is already being built. It’s such a simple design and so intrinsically safe that it’s regulation costs are seriously low. Low enough to make its build costs cheaper than gas fired plant of same size. Moltex Waste burner, New. Brunswick Canada. Its expected on line by 2028. Incredibly fast by nuke standards.
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  6. Jacob Adams Moltex Energy will be using the old irradiated fuel to feed its reactors. Each used fuel rods will deliver >30 times the power already extracted from the fuel and all the long lived nasty elements will be burnt up. Traditional nukes use only about 3% of the energy in the fuel rods. 97% sits there as “waste”. Moltex waste has just 1% of the energy remaining.
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  7. Ian Scott and Moltex Energy are building a full scale nuclear plant in Canada that will be online by 2028. It will cost less to build than a gas fired plant of the same size. It’s low cost because it’s intrinsically safe. It cannot melt down. In the worst possible case it would just sit at a fully safe but higher than normal temperature until the fuel gets used up. It can’t melt down. The waste profile is low. Compared to a traditional nuke it’s 30+ times more efficient. The waste has a 30 year half life compared to 30,000 years. Even better the new plant will be fuelled by nuclear waste. It’s literally a waste burner. We need these things now. Not some time some day when the regulators get their slide rules fired up.
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