Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Nuclear Energy
This video provides a brief overview of nuclear energy as a source of electricity. The video also mentions the advantages, such as a large fuel supply and minimal environmental pollution, as well as the disadvantages, including high...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economic Growth, Climate Change and Environmental Limits
Debate about the relationship between environmental limits and economic growth has been taking place for several decades. These arguments have re-emerged with greater intensity following advances in the understanding of the economics of...
Next Animation Studio
French nuclear tests contaminated 110,000 people — study
France conducted 193 nuclear tests not far from Tahiti, exposing the local population and French soldiers to high levels of radiation.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Heroes of American Manufacturing: Silverside Detectors
Silverside Detectors a client of the MEP Center in Massachusetts and part of the MEP National Network, are a team of physicists, engineers, and entrepreneurs committed to reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism. They develop nuclear...
FuseSchool
Power Stations & The National Grid
The flick of a switch, that’s how easy it is to get electricity, right? If you’re one of the lucky ones, then yes. But in 2017 there are still over 1 billion people who do not have access to electricity. In this video we will discuss how...
FuseSchool
Hazards From Radioactive Material
Hazards From Radioactive Material | Radioactivity | Physics | FuseSchool Nuclear power stations produce electricity, which of course is extremely useful. However, they also make radioactive waste. When items have no further use and have...
AllTime 10s
10 Ways North Korea Could Win WW3
Lets face it, if North Korea ever tried to go to war with the USA, things would not go well for them. But at Alltime10s, we're all about what ifs, so we've broken down 10 ways that the worst could happen.
Dom Burgess
What is Fusion?
Dom explores how fusion works and the current technology out there making it happen - including France's colossal experimental reactor, ITER, and the soon to be switched on Wendelstein 7X in Germany.
Next Animation Studio
North Korea conducts nuclear test
North Korea conducted its third-ever nuclear test on Tuesday. The size of the seismic activity indicated a nuclear explosion slightly larger than the North Korea's two previous tests at 6-7 kilotons.
Next Animation Studio
Japan to dump radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific
Cleaning up the radioactive mess that is the Fukushima nuclear plant, is expected to take many more decades.
Next Animation Studio
Chernobyl gets converted into solar power plant
Ukraine has just unveiled a solar power plant just 100 meters from Chernobyl's nuclear site in which a nuclear disaster occurred 30 years ago.
Next Animation Studio
Iodine I131: effects on health and prevention with Iodine tablets
This animation explains how radioactive Iodine is absorbed in the body and how taking Iodine tablets can prevent its carcinogenic effects. It also explains side effects of Iodine tablets.
Next Animation Studio
U.S. and U.K. agree to help Australia build nuclear-powered submarines
The U.K., U.S. and Australia have announced a security pact aimed at confronting China, whereby Australia will be provided with the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines.
Curated Video
How America Prepared for Nuclear War
This is the untold story of how the US prepped citizens for a potential atom-bomb Armageddon.
Intelligence Squared
Is Nuclear power the future?
This event took place at the Royal Geographical Society on 15th April 2011.It's got to be nuclear - IQ2 debate highlights
Visual Learning Systems
The Cell: the Nucleus
Students will learn about the discovery of cells, the development of the cell theory, and the differences between animal cells and plant cells, Animations illustrate the different parts of a cell. Other terminology includes: organelles,...
Curated Video
Natures and Properties of Nuclear Radiations: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Rays
The video is a lecture on the natures and properties of nuclear radiations. The speaker discusses the three types of ionizing radiation: alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays. They explain the ionizing and penetrating abilities...
Next Animation Studio
China makes major progress with missile silos that could hold nuclear weapons
The scale and speed of construction at possible missile silo fields in China suggests its government is putting significant resources into developing its nuclear capabilities
Next Animation Studio
Ten years after tsunami, Fukushima cleanup just starting
Experts say cleaning up the leaking nuclear reactors will take another 30 years and billions of dollars more.
Next Animation Studio
Why the U.S. and its NATO allies are reluctant to enact a no-fly zone around Ukraine (with VO)
Volodymyr Zelensky has called on NATO to enforce a no-fly zone over his country, but most military and political leaders have come out against the idea.
Kult America
Chernobyl - Idiotic Tourism
On the 26 April 1986, the world faced one of the worst man made disasters in history. Nuclear meltdown in Chernobl Ukraine. Three decades later, the location where things transpired become somewhat mythical, oddly attracting tourists by...
Next Animation Studio
Real life 'Death Star' observed destroying planets in its own solar system
A dying star is ripping apart planets in its own solar system, according to a team of astronomers who published a paper yesterday in the journal Nature. The star, called WD 1145+017, is a white dwarf in the constellation Virgo. The...
Curated Video
Half Lives: Quantifying Radioactive Decay Over Time
This video is a lecture on half-lives and how to quantify the number of radioactive decays that occur over a given time period. The video explains that radioactive decay is a random process with equal probabilities for each outcome. The...
Next Animation Studio
Brand new B-21 bomber will only fly with the immortal B-52
The B-21 Raider stealth bomber is earmarked to replace the aging B-1 supersonic swing-wing bomber and the B-2 stealth bomber.