good morning ladies and gentlemen welcome to my new video today's video i'm going to be talking about china's thorium nuclear reactor and it's a world's first nuclear reactor it's a huge technological advancement and they're going to activate it in september which is really good news i'm also going to be talking about china's nuclear weapons where we are at the moment and what my thoughts are regarding the chinese nuclear weapons so today's topic is mainly going to be about nuclear chinese nuclear stuff and before i start i just want to request you guys to quickly check your subscriptions make sure you are still subscribed and also youtube tends to delete a lot of my subscriptions and a lot of my comments so make sure you when you do put a comment on just check your comment is still there just refresh it or make sure your comment is still there as again guys let's hit that 10k once i can get 10k subscribers i can start doing live chats so i will do regular live chats and i can interact 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nuclear weapons is completely clean energy so both russia and usa stopped researching it because um they wanted something that you can create weapons with unfortunately so the world didn't really take it much further than that so let's look at this uh article shall we so chinese scientists have unveiled plans for the first of its kind experimental nuclear reactor that does not need water for cooling so the good news is a lot of nuclear reactors they're near waters like for example the fukushima disaster was a nuclear power plant near the sea so obviously you you know what's happened with the fukushima plant and um the good thing is it's much more safer because it does not require to be anywhere near water so china is planning to create these in the desert areas so you can see um here the location of the first commercial reactor slated for construction by 2030 will be in the desert city of huawei and the chinese government has plans to build more across the spacely populated deserts and plains of western china which is good news really because um china's got a lot of deserts so if if china can build a lot of these nuclear thorium reactors in the desert you basically means it's a good use for for the desert rather than just wasting it with sand really you can see also um the prototype molten salt reactor which runs on liquid thorium rather than uranium is expected to be safer than traditional reactors because the thorium cools and solidifies quickly when exposed to the air meaning any potential leak would spill much less radiation into the surrounding environment compared to leaks with the traditional reactors so you can see it's very much much safer than your traditional reactors and also you can see here going out with nuclear power has already become a state strategy and the nuclear exports will help optimize the export trade and free up domestic high-end manufacturing capacity so what what this means is basically um china uses a lot of fossil fuels fuels and obviously he's still using a lot of coal at the moment so the quicker he uses these nuclear power plants and safer they are the more quickly they can get off fossil fuels and also if china has become the first country to produce thorium reactors they can export these thorium reactors to other countries as part of the bri as well so it would be good news for for the bri countries so you can see here up to 30 countries involved in china's belt and road initiative global investment program that will see china invest in the infrastructure of 70 countries chinese government officials view nuclear energy exports a big key part of the belt and road program so it's a technology they can send to a lot of these belgian road program countries and it's a very good clean nuclear energy it doesn't produce any nuclear weapons so they can export it to countries like iran and things like that without worrying about them using it for bombs and things like that so it's a really it's really good um good way of doing this actually uh i also want to go through this article with you all of the pros and cons of using a thorium reactor and so you can see here number one main reason it eliminates the threat of nuclear weapons you can't create nuclear weapons with this technology which is really good which means they can send this technology out to a lot of bri countries and a lot of poor countries without worrying about them getting nuclear weapons it's a very good export way of making money really and also to help their bri partners it comes from plentiful supply so thorium is believed to be three times more available than uranium which is very good news because uranium is running short at the moment and uranium is only produced in only a few countries so china does have a dependency on on uranium and and obviously with countries like us and and europe hugging most of the uranium around the world so there is a bit of problem there so one of the main reasons to go to thorium is to have that diversity with with the nuclear program so you you don't need to you don't need to um focus just on uranium you can just use thorium as well so it's a good way of diversifying their uranium and not focus on one raw material they can focus on very various different types it's a technology that can be mass produced so the good news is a time has also invented um a modular reactor which means um you can you can mass produce a modular module so the startup cost for these modules is very very low and and depending on how big you want your nuclear station to be so you could over time you can add more more reactors mobile reactors and it's very easy to construct without having to put too much cost in it and china is is at the moment leading the modular reactors um program so that's a very good way of also saving money for them eliminates the threat of nuclear waste so the one of the benefits is it produces less nuclear waste than uranium and a lot of the nuclear waste can be recycled with the thorium reactors as well so which is really good news and also um with thorium waste is estimated um time is only 300 years while uranium you're looking at hundreds and thousands of years so that's a big problem where to restore uranium but with thorium you can it's only 300 years so which is very good news in terms of storage they produce high levels of energy and as you know it you know it is just as good as uranium uh it produces efficient efficiency levels as high as 98 percent and with current nuclear technologies it can if it can achieve a new efficiency rate of five percent with its fuel that means thorium energy as a produce has potential to produce more energy than any current fossil fossil fuel based option which is really good so earlier they get out of using fossil fuels the better for for china it eliminates the safety concerns of traditional nuclear power as i said it doesn't need to be near the sea doesn't need water to cool it down so it's very very safe if there's any leaks and stuff or what happens is um it turns into solid rather than leaking leaking out into the atmosphere and things like that as you can see um at the same time thorium reactors operate at standard atmospheric pressures eliminate the need to have it pressurized water that reduces the risk of steam based incidents the fuel for molten ro molten salt reactors already liquid form as well the threat of meltdown emergency is eliminated so it's very very safe safer than the current nuclear uses it offers the potential to reduce war and eliminate poverty so as you know you know having these cheap nuclear um stuff given to third-party worlds and poor worlds basically it saves the planet because you're giving them the chance to make energy without using fossil fuels and things like that as you can see here it produces clean energy for every person community in our planet increases resource access poverty can be reduced security threats can be reduced because you can't create nuclear weapons as there will be great chance for peace thorium could even be created through the incident in serena inserination of uh weapon grade plutonium plutonium that is currently installed on warheads so so it's very very um good as you can see there's loads of loads of benefits for it storage costs for spent fuel would be reduced as you know the storage is not as much required as uranium um waste from a thorium reactor would be 1 000 times less comparable than uranium based technologies are currently in use so you can see the huge benefits in storage costs it's a very high efficient technology compared to fossil power generation as you know fossil power is very bad for the environment thorium is a very clean way to give energy without harming the planet which is you know obviously very very good for it thorium is safer to mine thorium is much safer to mine because it's not as radioactive as uranium so it's safer and it's more cheaper to mine and it's more abundant around the world as well also here is a list of cons of a thorium reactor which i don't really think they are really cons released well let's go over it there is no current infrastructure support thorium use well there is because um i mean this article is not about it was created before china was creating the thorium reactor so you know that china is right now creating this um infrastructure to support thorium reactors so they created the full supply chain um way before anyone else in this world so that's you know that's good news for china so it's not really a con really the startup process would be very lengthy and costly well not really because china has already started with it so if china starts this thorium reactor process and they um they get the technology right they can export here and make more money so it doesn't really matter how much it it cost them to make i think in the long run it will save them a lot of energy and save them a lot of money and also it will reduce fossil fuels around the world which is you know priceless not every thorium design is self-sustaining well i'm not sure about that because china is obviously um working on the thorium reactor so i'm sure they will find a self-sustaining way and try and reproduce you reuse some of the waste that's been created and also find a clean clean way of using thorium so i don't think that's completely true the fissile mis materials created by thorium reactor provide different dangers well china is the first country in the world to produce thorium reactors now so i'm sure they will be testing it thoroughly and and so they're going to be testing it for another eight years nine years so it's coming online this year so we're going to test it for another nine years and i'm sure they'll find all the issues and try and fix them and fix all the issues it costs more number five i don't think it costs more if china is making it if if country like america made it would probably have costed more but if china can make it and make it cost effective it would be good for china it would be good for the world research into thorium energy is politically restricted which i don't think so it says um thorium research has occurred in germany denmark us another location and only india china actively pursue this technology that's right but india is the first india is pursuing it but china is the first country to actively make it online so so yeah so that's not really a con really so as you can see there's not many cons regarding thorium rex's all i see is benefits the cons are easily um i mean the benefits easily outmatch the cons really so all i can see is benefits from using thorium so this article talks about the uses of thorium and which i found very very interesting and some of the uses for thorium it can be used on things like airplanes ships like you know aircraft carriers and submarines because they're very modular reactors and you can minimize them you can maximize them based on your needs but one of the greatest um things you can do with thorium is in space um as you can see and some these are some of the best benefits you can do when you when you create these um when you use it for space purposes and as you know china has got a great space program and it'll be great for china to use something like thorium in the moon base that they are doing with russia so you can see all of the benefits that are coming up with it it says um it's very safe almost unbelievably so it's scalable and so you can set up whatever size you need whatever spacecraft you need it for thorium is super plentiful not only is full of it in earth but it's also around in the moon as well it's plentiful in the moon as you can see its energy output is extreme extremely dense which is very good um it can be used as energy source for ship systems um it should be able to be adopted to fuel spacecraft and there is so much thorium is enough for a person's entire lifetime needs the thorium on the moon can essentially future power all future extra lunar flights no need to take fuel to the moon thorium can actually be used to power lasers and mining equipment on the moon mars and asteroids and so you can use these lasers for many purposes even military if you wanted to and also to you know obviously one of the things i'm mining in the moon there are big dangers from asteroids falling on you so these lasers will be needed to balance any asteroids are coming towards the moon base so you need to be able to protect yourself i am hr thorium in tandem with lasers can be used to uh like i said push asteroids and steer them away from earth um yeah you can steer them away from earth i used to steer them away from the moon as well thorium can power luna or processing or foreign furnaces um pretty much um give as much power to the moon base as possible and help with mining and so not only it can be helpful in space you can also you can also have nuclear power um planes as well um to reduce um fossil fuels and oil and things like that so it's very good the endless possibilities endless possibilities so i'm really happy china is the first country who is focusing on doing the thorium reactors and i'm sure they'll be very very successful at it so let's get on to the next topic shall we so as you know there's um there's a there's been a lot of news articles about china building lots of silos here and there and global times have been saying that these are wind farms but whether their wind farms are not silos or not i know for a fact that china is increasing their nuclear deterrent against america so this is the history let's go over the history first of all since the 1960s china has maintained a no first used nuclear policy and it did not want to go into an arms race with with um russia and did not want to go into an arms race with the usa as well so quick history lesson china detonated the first atomic bomb in october 16 1964 and you can see from the kind of missiles they've had um from 1966 uh pla basically had a df5 as its nuclear delivery system a massive two-stage liquid fuel rocket which depending on variant uh which one talking about um the warheads df5b or 10 warheads year 5c targets 12 000 kilometers from the point of launch df5 based hard and concrete silos were designed to be able to survive a nuclear attack in a sufficient numbers to enable china to deliver a country killing nuclear counter strike so there's a few drawbacks with the df5 basically it is a liquid field missile which means you need to fuel it up which would take hours and hours uh but nowadays with the modern technological rockets they're mainly solid fueled solid fuels mean the rocket's pretty much ready to go it can be launched within seconds rather than waiting hours and hours to fill it with liquid so the so the more modern um rockets that china has got um these are the df-31 which are deployed in 20 2006 and the more newer df-41 carries 10 independently targeted nuclear warheads so the missile technology has improved a lot um with china but this is the thing right china has only got 300 or so warheads while russia and america have got about 6 000 each so the reason for this is basically america and russia had been having a cold war so they've been building up a huge um deterrence of nuclear weapons um they got all sorts of nuclear weapons they've got um lots of solid fuel but they've also got a lot of old style liquid fueled as well i love old technology and mainly it is old technology way back from you know the cold war era we're talking about in your 60s 70s 80s and america doesn't really hasn't really updated most of them so a lot of the 6 000 or so missiles that america has they're very old technology easy to shoot down or destroy or or kill the newer technology like hypersonic stuff that china and russia has got there's not many warheads with those on here so imagine a warhead on a hypersonic missile and that means you cannot you know save yourself from that i mean that is that would destroy any city any country so that's the danger really so it really doesn't matter whether russia's got six thousand or america's got six thousand is it it's basically down to the type of missiles that you have and you also your defense capability as well so this is the thing right america's got 6 000 missiles pointed at russia because russia and america had been in the cold war and russia's got 6 000 or so missiles pointed not only to america but also to nato and nato countries as well so so that's the reason and china and russia there's no um issues there so there's not a problem there but over the years i mean america started hating on china for the for the past four years so there's what they need to do is um they need to be pointing a lot of those missiles to to china and that's no easy task to do because which means you know for america the russia is still a threat so if russia is pointing 6 000 missiles in to america and american bases then america can't really point those to somewhere else they need to build new missile silos and build new missiles which is going to be a big cost to them so imagine this right if china starts building brand new missile silos with the late with the latest technology and hypersonic missiles and puts you know the latest warheads in these hypersonic missiles america wouldn't even stand a chance so if china starts building and they will because with all the talk that america has been giving for the past few years they're talking about attacking china if there's a war in taiwan they're talking about blocking china with their belt and road they're talking about blocking china in their malacca strait as well and they america's talking a lot about you know nuke in china so that they they've been talking a lot they've been given a lot of um fake um stories about xinjiang and to talk you know fake stuff about coronavirus lab leagues um they're doing the trade war so they're very being very very aggressive and with all the war talk that america has been given china is obviously looking at that because before four years china had a good relationship with them with america and a good relationship with russia so china did not require to build more bombs or nuclear bombs because they had about 300 so there's no requirement for china to build more bombs because they had a good relationship with russia a good relationship with america a good relationship with the rest of the world that there was no threat you know four years ago so they kept that deterrence that 300 missiles but since then america's been on the china's back and pretty aggressive to be honest and china has got no choice and america you know to be blamed for this china's got no choice but to increase their nuclear deterrent because if if if america has been talking about bombing china and nuking china then china needs to be able to have some sort of deterrent and have some some sort of self-defense capability and also some offensive capability as well to stop america from bombing china so here's the thing right so china i'm sure is building more nuclear weapons and putting them in these hypersonic weapons and hypersonic missiles um intercontinental missiles ballistic missiles and their range is going to be you know even better and plus with the with the latest technology that china has with the latest satellites i'm sure they'll be a lot more accurate as well so here's the thing guys um the article name is u.s sauna nuclear arms race is already underway and we know who the winner will be so we know the winner will be because china with his manufacturing capacity can create thousands and thousands of missiles with these manufacturers and factories cheap labor if america wants to do the same it's going to be much more expensive so think about it guys america has to point six thousand missiles to russia then america's gonna have to point another six thousand to china so that's twelve thousand missiles and america can't increase its missiles because it's already signed a pact with russia so if america starts increasing its missile number then russia is going to do the same so it's never ending and america is gonna have to pay double what every other country is paying so america's gonna have to pay um if russia starts building uh if america starts building another six thousand that's twelve thousand missiles russia's gonna have twelve thousand and china with its manufacturing capacity and factory cheap labor they can easily create another six thousand twelve thousand easily um they can easily outspend usa and usa will always lose no matter how they look at this they will always lose always so you can see how america is starting an arms race he will never ever win because with china's capacity hypersonic missiles latest technology satellites and the fact that china is able to create lots of missiles in such a short space of time with cheap labor america would not be able to match china no way and if it can match china then it's got to worry about russia as well so what's he going to do about russia because americans russia has already signed a pact and if america gets out of the pact no country is going to trust america you know maybe what's the point signing a pact when you get out of it six or ten years later so russia's going to build more missiles if america um leaves a pact and other countries will follow suit as well they think oh america's left the pack so we might have our own nuclear deterrent it's just going to create a huge arms race it's an it's a race that america is not going to win and america put itself in this situation and it's his own fault to be honest with all his rhetoric that he's been doing past few years he's put himself in this situation you know i mean and it's america's own fault they've got no one else to blame by themselves uh four years ago things were very good with china they had good relationships it was only with trade that was an issue but since then it's gone to a whole new level with concentration camps and lab leagues and genocide claims and all sorts of issues and they're holding megan it's their wishes and they're putting huawei and other companies into blacklisted it just goes on and on america is trying its best to decouple with china but in the long run run long run it's just gonna fail so let me know what you guys think and um let me know what you think about china's thorium reactor and also what you think about the future of nuclear weapons between china america and russia so i'll see you guys on the next video and um don't forget to like and share and subscribe and if you really like the video don't forget to enjoy my patreon or you can buy me a coffee until the next video i'll see you soon bye
2021-08-06