Nuclear Power & Fusion Videos Hacker News Recommends

lecture#36

MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwig

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

“This has been by far the most informative source on Fusion I've seen and gives a clear picture on how to evaluate claims like this.”

16 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#132

Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte

MIT Club of Northern California

“I highly recommend watching Dr. Whyte's talks on YouTube, he discusses the challenges, design, and performance in an approachable way.”

11 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

explainer#273

How close is nuclear fusion power?

Sabine Hossenfelder

“Mandatory video by Sabine Hossenfelder”

15 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#792

Energy Investments Dialogue | Bill Gates | Global Energy Forum

Stanford ENERGY

“which I highly recommend watching”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

talk#853

Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018

LeadDev

“There's an excellent talk from Nick Means (GitHub) called "Who Destroyed Three Mile Island?".”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

explainer#895

Worst Nuclear Accidents in History

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“I really recommend watching this short video which gives a really excellent overview”

7 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

lecture#937

Economics of Nuclear Reactor

Illinois EnergyProf

“His videos are great. Worth your time.”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#938

Why I changed my mind about nuclear power | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxBerlin

TEDx Talks

“This is a self-professed anti-nuclear hippy giving a talk about how rationally looking at chernobyl and fukushima made him a nuclear power advocate.”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

explainer#1079

Thorium: An energy solution - THORIUM REMIX 2011

gordonmcdowell

“I highly recommend this video on liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTR)”

4 HN recommenders · 2011–2022

explainer#1112

A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion

Real Engineering

“I recommend you watch this excellent video by Real Engineering”

5 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#1118

The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen (and why is now the right time?)

Google TechTalks

“Kirk Sorensen has been a major advocate of molten-salt reactors and gave a great Google tech talk on the subject.”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

talk#1231

Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor

Google TechTalks

“If you don't know about the LFTR, check out this talk by Kirk Sorensen”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2011

talk#1282

Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia

TEDx Talks

“it's what changed my mind and therefore in my opinion the best delivery of the argument I'm aware of.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

explainer#1395

Wendelstein 7-X – from concept to reality

Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik

“This video explains the elements quite in an understandable way”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2017

documentary#1577

Chernobyl 3828

TeleconStudio

“Chernobyl 3828 is about the people”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2019

talk#1823

Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)

GoogleTalksArchive

“it's an intense, fast-paced, insightful, and (likely) final public look into his mind, his work, and his character.”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2019

talk#1826

Is Nuclear Waste Really Waste?

Google TechTalks

“This talk from 2010 is really amazing at understanding what 'nuclear waste' actually is and what it will be.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

talk#1827

Jancovici : Will technology save us from Climate Change ? MIT Media Lab - 23/02/2021

Jean-Marc Jancovici

“Interesting related presentation on what is energy and how it relates to the economy from a physical point of view”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

lecture#2012

26. Chernobyl — How It Happened

MIT OpenCourseWare

“This is a presentation to students by an MIT professor that goes over exactly what happened, the sequence of events, mistakes made, and so on.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

commentary#2020

Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040

Improbable Matter

“I find it's the best crash course on the nuances of reactor design that I've seen.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

lecture#2392

Modular Micro-Reactors – The Future of Nuclear Energy?

Illinois EnergyProf

“His videos are great. Worth your time.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

documentary#2648

Into Eternity - Official trailer

Dogwoof

“Highly recommended.”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2023

explainer#2669

The Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble

RethinkX

“Eye-opening video”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

commentary#2728

Is Nuclear Energy Green?

Sabine Hossenfelder

“It's quite well researched”

2 HN recommenders · 2022

podcast#2759

Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident

Well There's Your Problem Podcast

“Goes into detail day by day about the events”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

explainer#2781

We Solved Nuclear Waste Decades Ago

Kyle Hill

“Kyle Hill did a great video on this”

2 HN recommenders · 2022

explainer#3117

The Most Radioactive Places on Earth

Veritasium

“There was a great video by the Veritasium guy on it”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2021

explainer#3127

The Economics of Nuclear Energy

Real Engineering

“This excellent video delves into the economics of nuclear power plants and compares them with the alternatives.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

documentary#3220

These tunnels are designed for 100,000 years

Tom Scott

“Tom Scott has a great video[0] about the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository in Finland[1]”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

lecture#3228

International Colloquia #26: Fusion Reactor First Wall Cooling

MIT MechE Lectures & Colloquia

“This is the best recent video I've seen, about SPARC and ARC.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

lecture#3236

Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy (Live Lecture)

Illinois EnergyProf

“Not only is it solvable, it's basically been solved for years.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

documentary#3259

Nuclear Propulsion in Space

US National Archives

“This video is worth checking out if you haven’t seen it yet.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

lecture#3491

Q&A - Helion Energy, NIF, Space and more

Improbable Matter

“explains that 95% recovery efficiency is not the whole story”

2 HN recommenders · 2023

talk#3567

The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

Google TechTalks

“Brilliant fairly technical presentation on Thorium.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2014

talk#3584

Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power...

Google TechTalks

“it's an intense, fast-paced, insightful, and (likely) final public look into his mind, his work, and his character.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2022

explainer#3985

What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool?

xkcd's What If?

“XKCD has a good video about this.”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#4059

Innovating to zero! | Bill Gates

TED

“Here's Bill Gates explaining why nuclear is not optional”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

explainer#4402

The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket - Possibly the Craziest Rocket Engine Ever Imagined.

Scott Manley

“Scott Manley does a great video talking about nuclear rocket engines[2]”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

lecture#4489

The Extreme World of Ultra Intense Lasers - with Kate Lancaster

The Royal Institution

“Here's a great Royal Institution Lecture by Kate Lancaster talking about Ultra Intense Lasers from 2017”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

interview#4514

Something's Rotten with French Nuclear

Decouple Media

“I would really recommend listening to discussion with Mark Nelson”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2026