Nuclear Energy

The Economics of Nuclear Energy - YouTube
Is Nuclear Energy Green? - YouTube
typical nuclear reactor uses uranium-235, which is only 0.7% of the uranium on Earth
Fast Breeder Rector transmutes uranium-238 to plutonium-239
Molten Salt Reactor
Thorium Reactor (Molten Salt Reactor with Thorium as fuel)
Small Modular Reactor

Nuclear Future - YouTube Two Bit da Vinci

Nuclear Fission

ww-ii#Manhattan Project

Information Library - World Nuclear Association

WTF Happened to Nuclear Energy? - YouTube
Inside a Nuclear Reactor - YouTube

The Future of Nuclear Energy Depends On This... - YouTube

Gen 1: 1950s, prototypes
Gen 2: 1960s,Pressurized water reactors (PWR), Boiling water reactors (BWR)
Gen 3: 2000s, more efficient, passive safety

The Uncertain Future of Nuclear Power - YouTube Gen 4

切尔诺贝利的警示：核辐射有哪些危害？核电站会发生核爆炸吗？ - YouTube
切尔诺贝利为啥爆炸？原子弹与核电站的工作原理 - YouTube
高功率管道式反應堆/輕水石墨堆 RBMK
After years of doubts, hopes grow that nuclear fusion is finally for real and could help address climate change - The Boston Globe

Breakthrough Energy Source Makes Other Power Plants Obsolete! - YouTube Traveling Wave Reactor, breed and burn, uses depleted uranium as fuel

太阳为啥不会瞬间就炸掉？核聚变比人体放热还缓慢吗？李永乐老师讲人造太阳（1） - YouTube

Nuclear Waste

The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste - YouTube
Nuclear waste is not the problem you've been made to believe it is - YouTube
全美爭議最大建設項目，猶卡山核廢掩埋計畫怎麼了？ - YouTube

Small Modular Reactor (SMR)

Small modular reactor - Wikiwand it is less efficient than traditional nuclear plant
Small nuclear power reactors - World Nuclear Association
Advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) | Department of Energy
Benefits of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) | Department of Energy

Why Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Are the KEY - YouTube

light water reactor
fast neutron reactor
very high temperature reactor (graphite moderated)
non-light water coolant reactor

最安全的核電廠？郭董提的小型核電廠 SMR，在中國已有併網發電實例！用發電量換安全性，真的遇到停電也不怕？ - YouTube
台灣反核的同時，世界大國卻拚命發展新技術，「小型核電廠」真有那麼神？-風傳媒

High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR)

Uses Helium as coolant, 24% better specific heat capacity than water
Higher operation temperature can support new use cases (e.g.: steel refinery)
Tri-structural Isotropic (TRISO) fuel (uranium oxide in ceramic shell)
Can be cooled passively at air temperature without meltdown

Japan's Plan to DESTROY the Price of OIL and GAS! - YouTube using HTTR (HTGR + IS) to produce red hydrogen

Nuclear Fusion

ITER - Wikiwand

Nuclear fusion - Wikiwand
A Strange 1950s Technology Could Finally Bring Fusion Energy to the Grid
Fusion - YouTube Improbable Matter

deuterium-deuterium (D-D) reaction -> H3 + neutron
deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction -> H4 + neutron, preferred

We need Q factor (energy in/energy out) of 10-25 to make generating electricity feasible.
Yet the Q factor report in research papers is Q_plasma (reaction gain), the output is heat and conversion to electricity has efficiency of less han 50%.
Q_total includes the energy required to create and maintain the plasma and the output would be electricity, so Q_total << Q_plasma (maybe by a factor of 100).

Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World? - Stuff You Should Know (podcast)

Sabine Hossenfelder
How close is nuclear fusion power? - YouTube hot fusion
Nuclear Fusion: Who'll Be First To Make It Work? - YouTube
Cold Fusion is Back (there's just one problem) - YouTube