Vanessa Holfeltz on Boiling Water In 5 Steps, Ep 8

In this week's Ignite Show, Vanessa Holfeltz walks us through the steps of building a nuclear reactor just to boil water. It's a great look at the science and engineering behind the tech. It was filmed at Ignite Gnomedex. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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[iGNiTe]

Agreed! I really like this talk.

[lennythelabrat]

I like this talk too, except for the fact that she did in 5 minutes what I spend an entire semester explaining to my students. I wonder if she'd be willing to come to the conference on education and outreach on nuclear power?

[sysmg]

I hope people don't rate this poorly, cause they consider nuclear power not PC. Even if you don't like the risk, you should try to understand it. Chances are, it's going to be an incredibly important source of energy real soon. Eventually fossil fuels will run out, and renewable will be able to produce some, but not all of the required energy.

The earliest need will be when electric cars become popular. Which could be in just a few years.

[AshmosesIII]

Actually it's a pretty interesting take on how nuclear reactors work and where the power comes from.