Tags for this video have been changed from 'Nuclear, fuel, Areva, France, H5' to 'Nuclear, fuel, Areva, France, H5, funkytown' - edited by MarineGunrock

Frogtacular!!!!

I suddenly feel the urge to play Simcity again

no, play SYNDICATE heheh

Nuclear energy = mostly good. I think we'll see more of it as natural gas and oil become more scarce.

Heh, this music cracks me up for this video.

viral.

wow, that animation was top notch and very cool. that song brought back memories.

Of course they left out that part about all the harmful nuclear waste that has a half life of ???? (varying dependent upon the type of radioisotopes)

read this and be disturbed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste

http://murray.senate.gov/hanfordcleanup/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

Give me back my F*cking uranium! They're steeling my hard earned Canadian uranium!

Nuclear energy debate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Debate_on_nuclear_power

There are plenty of other energy sources to replace fossile and nuclear energy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy

An interesting statistic in the fossil vs. nuclear debate is that coal power plants release 3 times more radioactivity into environment than nuclear power plants, per MW. http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

In the words of Michael Mcdonough, if your design can't guarantee the 100% safety and preservation of life for all eternity, then your design has the kind of cavalier disregard for both the planet and its life-forms that we can do without. This charge is in no way limited to nuclear energy, but since that's what we're talking about here, it applies 100%. http://www.videosift.com/video/New-Revolutionaries-of-Design

This kind of myopic thinking is fundamental to human nature which might take some genetic engineering to change. Think about all the people that go on diet, then break it. Or people who relapse into drugs. They know their long-term goals are in conflict with their short-term goals, and their nature pulls them away from the long-term goals. It made sense for people who evolved in hunter-gatherer societies and had 60% chance of being murderered. People are hard-wired to discount future rewards because, well, they may not be alive to reap them.

You can see this on Wall Street, where a company promising great returns in 5 years would always outraise one promising one in 50. And you can see it in government -- who would vote for a politician who promises to make things miserable now so that everyone is better off in 50 years?

Green's did win almost 10% of the seats in Germany's Bundestag, but that is a victory in a country where harms of pollution were felt already, through acid rain and Chernobyl fallout.

The bottom line is that it's not realistic to expect wide adoption of any technology that requires sacrifices made now for the future. The best we can hope for is a technology that benefits us now, and doesn't hurt future generations too badly

"The best we can hope for is a technology that benefits us now, and doesn't hurt future generations too badly."

That's exactly the cavalier attitude held by our predecessors that has this generation in such a mess. How about working on designs that have no negative repercussions for our children or their children? Here's a challenge to every scientists fit to hold her/his position: To design an energy system that protects life for eternity!

Imagine that! Humans using their intellect for the benefit of the planet and for all people/animals for all time! Wouldn't that be something to be proud of? Wouldn't that prove that we are capable of ultimate altruism? Wouldn't that show that we can evolve from our early mammalian mind , which seeks only to protect its own family, by including all creatures into its collective group?

I hold great faith in our ability to transcend previous and current mind-sets and create a world that can nurture and protect, forever. We just need more scientist willing to go out on a limb and create what others say/think can't be done.

@yaroslavvb No more business as usual, it's possible..and already happening, only on a too small scale..

let's see what 'll happen on Bali, where currently about 10.000 people meet:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php

Nuclear energy is still the best energy source to date. It's a shame the 80s nearly wiped them all out here in the states.

bf: I have to disagree, microgeneration, such as small/mid scale distributed wind and solar, already beats nuclear.

We in the post industrial world are so obsessed with the concept of "economies of scale" that we fail to realize that it does not apply to electrical generation. If you waste 50-70% of the energy you generate to move power hundreds of km down wires, the 20% you saved with "economy of scale" get you nowhere.

It makes far more sense to allow everyone to generate their own power, sell excess back to the grid at market value(instead of subsidizing the large facilities at the expense of small/local), and pay the energy monopoly to maintain the infrastructure through a flat tax(edit: per/km) on power transfer.

The line loss will be much lower. The chance of catastrophic failure falls through the floor. The chance of collusion, such as the California blackouts which were created in order to change public policy effectively disappears. And with the added benefit that one large monopoly gets downsized to what is in effect a government office managing infrastructure on a fixed budget.

Hey, I think i've seen that particular nuclear plant in Sim City 2000. I think it was, $120,000 Simoleons. Better than the Coal Power Plants. Too bad those UFOs came out of nowhere to blow it up

Well, I'm sold!

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 12:16am PST - promote requested by choggie.

Strange coincidence - I was watching a talk from Areva's President when you promoted!
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/526/

This clip reminds me of Remind Me;)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Royksopp-Remind-Me