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How do nuclear power plants work? - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini

2017-05-08

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Our ability to mine great amounts of energy from uranium nuclei has led some to bill nuclear power as a plentiful, utopian source of electricity. But rather than dominate the global electricity market, nuclear power has declined from a high of 18% in 1996 to 11% today. What happened to the great promise of this technology? M.V. Ramana and Sajan Saini detail the challenges of nuclear power.

Lesson by M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini, animation by Wooden Plane Productions.


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