17:44 “public opinion on nuclear fission remains split” Badum tss That’s a good one 👍

CNBC really upping their UKposts game.

Fusion being a huge game changer is an understatement. It would be a technological breakthrough as great as fire, or gunpower, or the transistor. It would open up the potential for a golden age for humanity.

Nuclear engineering is amazing. I had the privledge of knowing Tom Andrews, Senior Instant Response Coordinator for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Dallas area. Amazing guy. Was my neighbor growing up, and ended up being a second dad to me. Nuclear is the way to go. Wanted to shout out to Tom who passed away. Love you dude! I know you're in heaven smiling down at all of us wondering wth were thinking!

Being for the environment and against nuclear is the most hypocritical way one could think. Also, the data processing abilities and AI algorithms have sped the race to positive production fusion.

The moral of the story is : It's a lot easy to break things (fission), than to make make things (fusion)

Opposing fission because of exceedingly rare disasters is akin to opposing aviation due to airliner crashes. Yes when things go bad they go really bad....but it's still much safer to fly than it is to drive. The same goes for nuclear fission. It's safer not only directly for us, but for the planet.

3 years later and the breakthrough happened 12/12/22

This is a lot better reporting on something like nuclear energy than I was expecting from CNBC, well done.

In Sim City 3000 I believe the nuclear fusion power plant was unlocked once your city reached the year 2050 :)

Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave, with a box of scraps!

Fusion power has only been 10 years away for the last 50 years.

6:06 a neutron should have came out of that reaction.

Nuclear is absolutely the best way to be "green." Glad to see some attention being shined on the subject...this is a debate we seriously need to have. Safe, clean and plentiful, why would we NOT be producing more Nuclear plants, that is the question.

"Nuclear fission was discovered in late 1938" (Germany). Nuclear fission was first theorized by Tadayoshi (Japan, 1934)

17:44 _"public opinion on nuclear fission remains split"_ then we must *unite* our efforts for nuclear fusion

Nuclear energy is like the only renewable energy source that many people dislike, despite its pros.

9:10 you know youre on a budget when you turn a wrench like that lol

I totally agree. This is definitely a mentality issue. We have to encourage governments to contribute actively in fusion energy projects no matter how long it takes. If finally a breakthrough is achieved, it's going to be the biggest solution to our energy crises. We have to make the public aware of the benefits of fusion energy to our planet and our future generation by educating them. This is the only way a mentality change can occur. At the moment the vast majority are ignorant to the benefits and knowledge of fusion energy.

"It will not happen in our lifespan, it will happen I our grandchildren's lifespan", that guy is like the prof in intersellar.

"A number of high profile accidents.." You mean 3....in the last 70 years. And really only 2.

No environmentalist should be against nuclear.

Besides hydropower, nuclear energy is the only renewable energy that is available 24/7 and 365 days a year. Confusing fusion with fission might be the greatest limitation to the success of nuclear power.

I just want to thank all the people working so hard for the world on impossibly difficult issues.

14:07 who needs fusion, this guy is welding IN REVERSE

Nuclear is the best way. We have to break through this mental barrier that society hold on nuclear...it's absolutely safe, even safer then other energy production. Cost will go down by itself as the technology advances. We saw this with our phones and laptops. We just have to start funding it now to maybe have a future.

We need to support nuclear fusion power research! Its not about us, its about the future. Our children and their children will benefit from our actions. Think of our medical or technology advances during our own generation that have been astronomical and how its immensely changed our lives, just imagine what our future holds with cleaner, safer and abundant energy. Also think bigger, not just our own immediate benefit which we see in our homes. Say good bye to coal, petrol and other fossil fuels. Say hello to entire countries run on electric cars, ships, airplanes, factories, building machinery, desalinations plants, etc. made with smaller carbon footprints but near zero emissions. Nobody wants to pay for the installation of sewer systems, fiber optics for internet or highways for the community but there is no arguing the benefits when they are completed and when we're using them.

When they finally achieve sustained fusion reaction at ITER, i really want the lead scientist to say: ''The power of the sun... in the palm of my hand.'' Can we make a petition for that?

Nuclear Fission: Exists Nuclear Fusion: I'm about to end this man's entire career.

We humans have used so much time to figure thousand ways to boil water.

What about the development Thorium while we continue working on fusion. If we ever get there it will be an amazing time to be alive.

12/12/22, the day we achieved net positive energy output from nuclear fusion

I have never seen a "traditional" Tv channel that embraced *so well* the UKposts format.

That I.T.E.R. Scientist be flexing on us with his AirPods

MALAY SUBTITLES Part 3 of 5 09:19 masa yang singkat, dan pengurungan magnet, yang menggunakan sederhana 09:22 tekanan untuk jangka masa yang lama. 09:25 Apabila dipanaskan hingga suhu yang melampau, bahan bakar peleburan menjadi plasma, a 09:28 keadaan jirim yang serupa dengan gas, kecuali bahawa ia mengandungi zarah yang dicas 09:32 yang membolehkannya mengalirkan elektrik dan bertindak balas terhadap medan magnet. 09:36 Pemampat kami akan menjadi sfera besar sekitar 4 meter, 15 kaki 09:41 melintasi bahagian dalam. Dan ke dalam bidang besar itu, kita akan meletakkan cecair 09:47 logam. Dan logam cair itu, kita akan berputar dalam bulatan sehingga 09:50 membuka lubang. Dan ke dalam lubang itu kita akan memasukkan bahan bakar kita, iaitu 09:53 gas hidrogen. 09:54 Ia dipanaskan hingga beberapa juta darjah. 09:56 Dan di sekitar bahagian luar sfera ini terdapat sebilangan besar omboh 10:00 didorong oleh gas termampat. 10:01 Oleh itu, mereka menekan logam cair dan mereka merobohkan lubang dengan bahan bakar ini 10:04 terperangkap di dalam. Dan keruntuhan itu berlaku dengan sangat cepat dan menekan 10:08 bahan bakar sehingga keadaan pelakuran. 10:10 Puncak mampatan, bahan bakar menyala dan memberikan reaksi peleburan. 10:14 Tenaga itu masuk ke dalam logam cecair ini. 10:16 Jadi logam cair memanas, anda mengeluarkan logam cair panas ini, anda lari 10:20 melalui penukar haba dan anda mendidih air dan membuat wap. 10:22 Dan kemudian wap mendorong turbin untuk membuat elektrik dan menyalakannya 10:26 grid. Dan kami terus berdenyut dan melakukannya berulang kali. 10:31 Buat masa ini, komponen utama General Fusion, seperti penyuntik plasma, 10:35 susunan omboh dan ruang bahan bakar, semuanya wujud secara berasingan. 10:38 Delage ingin mengintegrasikannya ke dalam satu reaktor demonstrasi besar, a 10:42 proses yang dianggarkannya akan memakan masa sekitar lima tahun. 10:45 Ruang kira-kira seukuran ini sesuai dengan loji janakuasa yang cukup untuk 10:49 seratus ribu rumah. Dan ketika reaktor masuk dalam talian, kata Laberge 10:53 ia akan menjadikan kos kuasa General Fusion bersaing dengan arang batu 10:56 dan pembaharuan seperti angin dan solar. 10:59 Pada kadar 5 sen per kilowatt jam, sebenarnya cukup kompetitif. 11:01 Seperti lebih murah daripada banyak perkara lain. 11:04 Tetapi ia tidak lebih murah daripada gas asli. 11:07 Laberge berharap ia akhirnya akan menjadi lebih murah, kemungkinan jika 11:11 A.S. memutuskan untuk melaksanakan cukai karbon. 11:14 Pasaran tenaga di planet ini adalah satu trilion setahun. 11:16 Oleh itu, jika kita mengambil sebahagian besar dari itu, kita akan mendapat sebahagian besar daripada 11:20 trilion dolar setahun. Tetapi sebilangan pakar industri percaya bahawa swasta 11:24 syarikat seperti General Fusion terlalu optimis dengan syarikat mereka 11:27 garis masa. Dalam 10 tahun terakhir, terdapat banyak industri kecil 11:32 datang untuk mengatakan bahawa kita dapat mencapai perpaduan dalam lima tahun, sepuluh tahun. 11:36 Saya tidak mempercayainya. 11:38 Saya rasa mereka memandang rendah dan tidak memandang penuh cabaran a 11:43 reaktor pelakuran. Peleburan nuklear sukar. 11:47 Tidak ada kumpulan atau syarikat penyelidikan yang dapat mencapai apa yang disebut 11:50 titik pulang modal, di mana tenaga yang dibebaskan dari tindak balas pelakuran berada 11:54 lebih besar daripada tenaga yang diperlukan untuk memanaskan plasma yang digunakan dalam tindak balas. 11:58 Ini sebenarnya bukan teknologi tenaga. 12:04 Ini adalah penyelidikan asas. 12:07 Penyelidikan asas mempunyai nilai. 12:09 Tetapi untuk menjualnya sebagai teknologi yang akan menyelesaikan keperluan tenaga kita di 12:14 20 hingga 30 tahun akan datang adalah menipu. 12:16 Kami tidak begitu dekat. 12:18 Tetapi penyelidikan asas adalah roti dan mentega Lawrence Livermore National 12:21 Makmal. Ini telah meneliti fusion sejak penubuhannya pada tahun 1950-an. 12:27 Pada tahun 2009, makmal membuka Kemudahan Pencucuhan Nasional dengan tujuan untuk 12:30 mencapai titik pulang modal dan akhirnya memicu tindak balas pelakuran. 12:34 Dan dengan menyala kita bermaksud bahawa ia dapat memelihara diri. 12:37 Ia dapat menyebar ke seluruh bahan bakar yang terdapat dalam letupan. 12:42 Lawrence Livermore mengejar perpaduan inersia. 12:46 Iaitu, mengurung plasma pada tekanan yang sangat tinggi untuk jangka masa yang pendek 12:49 jumlah masa, menggunakan laser tenaga tinggi untuk melakukannya. 12:53 Kami berdiri dalam apa yang kami sebut sebagai Target Bay kami, melihat sasaran kami 12:58 ruang. Ruang sasaran adalah bola besar sekitar 30 kaki di seberang, dan di 13:04 di tengah-tengah bola itu, kami meletakkan sasaran yang sangat kecil mengenai ukuran 13:09 hujung jari saya, dan kami memancarkan sasaran itu dengan seratus sembilan puluh 13:15 dua laser paling bertenaga di dunia. 13:18 Penyelidik di Kemudahan Pencucuhan Nasional dan makmal nasional lain mempunyai 13:21 akses ke kekuatan pengkomputeran yang sangat besar, yang membolehkan mereka berjalan kompleks 13:24 simulasi yang membantu mereka memahami keadaan sebenar yang diperlukan 13:27 mencapai pencucuhan. Oleh itu berdasarkan simulasi terbaik kami, mereka mengatakan bahawa a 13:31 kemudahan skala ini cukup besar untuk mewujudkan reaksi pelarian ini, jika 13:37 semuanya berfungsi dengan ideal. 13:39 Tetapi jelas, menjadikan semuanya berfungsi dengan sempurna di dunia nyata adalah 13:42 jauh lebih sukar daripada yang kelihatan di skrin.

Only info a t 6:17 4 times energy as fission is the splitting of an atom into two or more smaller ones, and fusion is the fusing of two or more smaller atoms into a larger one. On other side, perfect easy way explained video. Thank you. The third way is looking for a gravity and electro/magnetic generators.

Who is watching in 2050, I want to say Fusion is technology of future, and we will sure achive it.

That pessimistic guy is an oil mogul. He has huge investment oil.

This why i love that Mov ie " The Templar" think of that day man can harnes the sun s energy

Lots of competition can be really good in that the first thing to be successful doesn't always turn out to be the most efficient or scalable thing.

I think getting usable work directly from the fusion reactor is just as important as the reactor itself. As they mentioned, they're going to use the fusion reaction (just like fission now) to heat water to steam to spin turbines. We're harnessing the power of a star, to turn it [basically] into a windmill. We need a more efficient way for the reactor to directly generate electricity.

Good name: Magnetic Plasma Fusion. Bad name: Nuclear Fusion. -- Erase the word "nuclear" from this industry's efforts.

Great video and information, well done!

Thank you for making this!

whenever this video talks about private funding bill gates pops up.

The Russian and Japan Reactor mishaps were old tech from the 60s and 70s. I,m sure a reactor with 2020 innovations would be much safer.

South Carolina needs one of these this way we can make a rum cake

if you put metallic particulaie into a fluid that is driven by the steam of the fusion core .. you can skip the turbine as it runs through magnetic coilsz .. also you are only turbining once .. you can have sequential turbine chambersz .. as long as pressure is ocntrolled to flow

20:24 Nuclear Power isn't a zero sum game. Fission is the solution for the short term, near future, up to 2050 (perhaps even 2100) but Fusion is the long term solution for 2100+ and beyond and won't just meet our energy needs here on Earth but will also allow humanity to begin colonizing the solar system. Fission harnesses the power of splitting the atom while Fusion harnessing the power of fusing it, which is what powers the sun, which is the reason for all life on Earth. We should be investing in BOTH!

This is one of the most thorough, content dense, clearly explained, and seemingly well researched pieces that I have seen in a long time, so much so that I had to pause and rewind the video about 100 times in an effort to take it all in. Well done to everyone who contributed, we absolutely need more of this.

When things work in ways you don't know, they work in ways you don't like... I wish the average common modern person knew more about how nuclear energy works

I appreciate all the videos you guys thanks

"i am limited by the technology of my time"

Just go Thorium, 20 Tons of Thorium produce almost the equivalent of 200 tons of Uranium or 10 000 000 tons of coal

I love this content!

Yea I was wondering how much sheer pressure/energy is required just to make the molecules fuse together, will the end result be a positive net gain in energy?

More Science technology programs Keep it up cnbc!!!!

"Its just not possible in the next 20-30 years" -Science journalist "We are building one that will be 500MW output for 50MW input" -PHD Scientist running large scale multinational project - What is it with journalists commenting on things that they literally are not qualified to comment on? You guys are reporters not field experts, its like asking an actor who played the president on TV how the president should respond to an international crisis.

The public in general isn't even strongly against Nuclear energy are they (I'm talking about conventional Nuclear energy using current, proven technology)? Isn't the fact that Nuclear is really expensive (and takes a really long time to start getting a return on your investment) the biggest reason why Nuclear isn't more popular? Once you do get to the point where your Nuclear plant has paid for itself, you're getting an enormous amount of power relative to the operating costs (including the costs of storing nuclear waste). And that's with current Nuclear technology. It could end up getting a lot better, and we should invest in trying to figure out how.

I actually lived in front of a nuclear laboratory for the majority of my life (They built reactors for the US navy). I'm still alive

Fusion is the solution to the human race and living standard. It is insane that globaly we invest more in R&D for cellphones and the next best camera rather than prioritize less than 20 B to build the future of energy security.

“If the human race is still around in the year 2500”, this guy gives the vibe that we won’t lol

That "science writer" is so pessimistic. Here some inspiring news: we achieved a vaccine in less than a year, something that took several years or even decades before. Humanity is improving. Have faith.

The fusion reaction at 6:07 is not complete: a neutron is missing. It is D + T --> He + n. This is quite a significant mistake, as the neutron is used to heat up the walls of the vessel surrounding the plasma, and thus eventually driving a turbine (generating electricity). The energy of the Helium nucleus is used to further heat the plasma, trying to sustain the fusion reaction.

When I hear nuclear reactor I remember my 2012's (Minecraft IC2)

Yang for thorium reactors! Secure the stepping stone

I live 35 miles from 9 Mile Point uclear station in upstate NY. Haven't had any problems yet.

I'm glad to hear there's ongoing improvements (evolution) of nuclear fission regarding efficiency, less waste, etc... but I hope that nuclear fusion becomes viable soon (within a decade) and more importantly (to me) that every trace of nuclear waste can be safely eliminated.

Thomas Edison: "I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Meanwhile Tony Stark built one of these in a cave with a box of scaps

has anyone noticed that the reactor at the ingition facility looks like the warp core from the kelvin timeline?

Might work. From the drawing it looks like a "mechanical" version of the Shiva design borrowing on metallurgy, heat dissipation, and precise timing.

Great reporting, editing, writing and production. Great to see CNBC delivering stuff like this.

Honestly one of the best piece of journalism I’ve seen in years.

This fusion will basically end light bills and electricity bills. Good job scientists👏🙌👍 all of you on this project has really help mankind🌎

Smooth transition from industrialization based on fossil fuels to industrialization based on nuclear power is what human civilizations should DO RIGHT NOW!

The guy who doesn't know how to operate a comb is quite the pessimist.

I think nuclear energy is the future of humanity

If something this pandemic has taught us, then it is that the public opinion is not a very reliable source to make a well-educated judgment and take the best course of action even if the most efficient solution is presented on a silver platter

A high temperature after exposure to radiation. Can be treated with colloidal silver. Smashing atoms causes the high temperature, colloidal silver stops it. Maybe it can be used in the nuclear waste problem.

Well it worked wonders for Goku and Vegeta when they went up against Buu, so yeah Fusion is ok....

9:50 “preheated up to a few million degrees” I’m sorry, what??? I want to know more about that! Sounds really interesting to learn how it’s preheated to those temperatures amongst other things!

I hope this project becomes a success. No more electricity or light bills. This is definitely a great💯 way to help man kind.

Not once did they mention SMRs. “Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a type of nuclear fission reactor which are smaller than conventional reactors. This allows them to be manufactured at a plant and brought to a site to be assembled. Modular reactors allow for less on-site construction, increased containment efficiency, and enhanced safety due to passive nuclear safety features.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor

This was excellent. Thank you CNBC. Of the scientists featured, I would have like to have heard their opinion on thorium reactors. But I appreciate how all of them agreed that it's not simply one solution that should be looked at, and innovation should be promoted in all the areas discussed.

9:10 guys nuclear reactor making tool is two spanners jimmy rigged together to tighten a bolt! state of the art... what can possibly go wrong?!

I wonder if quantum computing will provide the simulations and answers needed to solve the issue.

General Fusion announce this year 2021 that they will build a 70% full scale demonstration reactor in the UK between 2022-2025 , they also might offer pre IPO shares soon after as well, just heads up news for y’all.

There was no coverage here on Thorium which is cheaper and considerably less hazardous.

Fun fact: nuclear energy is actually roughly 200x cleaner than solar

14:06 this dude invented backwards welding

Solving the energy crisis will be one of humanity's greatest achievement. The next achievement will be sharing that technology across the globe to solve the climate crisis.

"public opinion on nuclear fission remains split" 17:43 i see what you did there

Scientific interview, scientist gives dimensions in yards...

In the long-term when we finally harness fusion, it will be the power to generate electricity but we still have a long way to go. In the medium term, nuclear fission is the only answer but that does not mean we should drop fusion. It will just take a lot more time until we get there. And we need a new (old) solution now. There are all the usual warnings about its danger, but not only have we been lied to about the danger of nuclear energy production rather than nuclear bombs, but there are also other things we can do to make nuclear fission perfectly safe and emission-free. One such factor that would solve a lot of the problems listed when talking about nuclear power is the use of uranium. Instead, we should start designing and building nuclear power plants that use thorium. Not only is thorium plentiful and available everywhere, but it also has a half-life of only 300 years instead of uranium with 10,000 years. And the beauty of thorium-run reactors is that all the spent uranium fuel rods we are currently storing all over the place can also be used as they only use about 2% in their first run in conventional nuclear plants whereas using thorium will consume almost all the nuclear energy it produces at 97%. Then the uranium can be recycled as well and can be used almost ad infinitum until they are finally spent. Sadly, we first saw the destructive power of the spitting of the atom and due to political and energy company politics, people were never told how much less destructive nuclear energy production is. The forecasts of up to 150,000 deaths in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster and others like it were completely OTT. In actual fact, 125 people died from radiation sickness during the meltdown, and during the work done afterwards trying to prevent the meltdown. Around 2,500 people have had from the very treatable thyroid cancer which MAY have been caused by exposure to high radiation levels but there is no clear link as yet. Radiation can be controlled (especially if thorium is used instead of new uranium fuel rods). All new nuclear power plants have already been designed to run without requiring people to work in the plant and runaway meltdown disasters such as the old plants at Chernobyl and Fukushima will be impossible. The plant can be powered up, locked up, and will run perfectly without any danger. The meltdown emergency will simply not occur. Micro-plants are one option for local use, but in order to ensure that we have emission-free clean energy for the medium term we need to move on with the new designs (many of which were buried by the fossil fuel companies in bureaucratic lobbying groups in order to stay with fossil fuels). Politicians don't care about the medium and long-term, but until we can produce hydrogen cells without emitting CO2 during the splitting of oxygen from the hydrogen (the only real solution for cars, ships, and airplanes) and have found a way to actually get to fusion, nuclear power is the only way forward. Fusion is definitely the energy for electricity in the long term but it does nothing so far for cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes, as they need something more efficiently high-powered than immense batteries. However, we have not got very far with fusion, so we have to see ahead clearly and realise that only nuclear power plants will fill our electricity needs. The electricity produced there can run on our current infrastructure which needs renewal but is not as drastic as the use of gigantic batteries to store the electricity generated by solar and wind. And all other means of energy required (in transportation in particular) lie with hydrogen cells, the development of which is forging ahead and getting better all the time. Electric cars which have more than double the carbon footprint just during production and the complex lithium-ion batteries which use far too many rare earth metals that are limited, and no real recycling on the horizon so far, are nothing but a scam that made Elon Musk very rich but did nothing for the environment. Similar problems are faced by solar panels which have a lifespan of about 10 years and cannot be recycled (and have to be built using heat in excess of 1100 degrees celsius produced by high-quality coal to turn "sand" (quartz) into solar panels. Again, solar panels cannot be recycled. The same goes for wind turbines which can work for 20 years - and cannot be recycled! All renewables we are investing billions of dollars in are extremely inefficient and are aimed to make people feel they are doing something for the environment. I am not even going into the difficulties of batteries required and the unreliability of solar and wind. As for electric cars, most people don't even know that the electricity they use to run their cars is probably generated by coal or gas power plants. Until we drop the low-hanging fruit from our renewable energy requirements which among other things do terrible damage to the environment, nuclear power is the only viable option.

The funny thing is, I've had 3 ads from the time of writing this (9:11) in the video, for natural gas, all for the same company: Williams. Edit: 5 times

just one word, LFTR (Liquid Floride Thorium Reactor), for now, fusion is too energy expensive and the current materials are not suited for it, best bet we have is 100% THORIUM IN A LIQUID SALT REACTOR!

THORIUM REACTORS!!!

In order to run, many parts of the body must make a coordinated effort. Mankind must also make a coordinated effort in order to make the greatest progress in all fields. We are all one and the same thing before we come to earth for this life experience, the closer we get to working together and getting along, the closer we get to the true reality of what we are before and after this life. This is when we will be at our best and technologies we can only dream of will solve our greatest challenges on earth and take us to the farthest corners of our universe.

"Fission is like fusion's ugly sister" 🤣🤣🤣