Reactors! Waste pools! Control rooms! Oh my!

A VIP tour of the plant that delivered North America’s largest-ever emissions reduction, when Ontario replaced coal with #nuclearpower. Our guide is Control Room Operator Dan Campbell, who went from operating N.America’s largest coal plant, Nanticoke (RIP), to operating its largest nuclear plant, Bruce Power.

The world of #climateaction is always asking for #sustainable replacements to fossil fuels that work at scale. Well, Ontario is one of just a few electrical grids in the world that successfully replaced fossil fuels and it did it with homemade Candu reactors, and a little emotional support from Drake and Justin Bieber.

#factsnotfear #climate #climateaction #sciencematters #technology #standupforscience #whynuclear
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:28 Tour of Bruce Power
00:53 The Spent Fuel Bay and Energy Density
02:52 Radiation Levels Above The Spent Fuel
04:17 Why The Fuel Glows Blue
05:08 How the Nuclear Plant Works
07:23 Tour Continues to the Control Room
08:53 Dan and the Great Ontario Coal Phaseout
11:01 What's a Smog Day?
12:34 Drake and Justin Bieber Help Get Ontario off Coal
18:07 Why Nuclear is Key to Decoupling
19:43 Credits

RESOURCES, REFERENCES, ETC...

Energy Density: Uranium vs Everybody
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com...

Radiation Dosage Chart
https://www.fastcompany.com/1663509/i...

Cherenkov Effect:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...
   • How does Cerenkov radiation work?  

Ontario Coal Phaseout
https://www.ontario.ca/page/end-coal

Top 5 Things You Don’t Know About Candu Reactors
   • Top 5 CANDU Reactor Facts you DON'T know  

How much is a million? (Energy Density of uranium vs oil)
   • How to visualize one part per million...  

How Electricity Generation Works
   • How Electricity Generation Really Works  

Toronto Star Article - Smog days now gone
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019...

CBC - Archives on 1988 Smog
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/toronto-h...

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