PBS
What Happened to Nuclear Power?
Splitting the atom once promised to be the carbon-free energy source of the future. But today, nuclear power plants are aging and retiring worldwide. What happened?
Professor Dave Explains
Special Relativity Part 4: Mass-Energy Equivalence or E = mc^2
Everyone and their mom knows about E = mc^2, it's the most famous equation in science, and there are plenty of posters you can buy for your dorm room with Einstein's face and this equation floating mysteriously around his head. But what...
Curated Video
Comparing and Evaluating Energy Resources
The video provides an overview of the different ways in which energy resources can be compared and evaluated, including their renewability, reliability, and environmental impact. The presenter discusses various types of energy resources,...
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Conventional Source of Energy: Thermal Energy
It describes thermal energy, thermal power plant and demerits of thermal energy.
Curated Video
Harnessing the Energy of Atoms with Nuclear Power
Understand the basics of nuclear power, including how it is generated through the process of fission in uranium atoms. This video highlights the use of neutrons and control rods to create a chain reaction, which ultimately produces...
Curated Video
Understanding Global Climate Change and its Effects
This video explains the concept of global climate change and its potential effects on the Earth. It discusses the scientific consensus that the Earth's temperature is rising due to the emission of greenhouse gases, the resulting melting...
Visual Learning Systems
Heat and Energy: Forms of Energy
Upon viewing the Heat and Energy video series, students will be able to do the following: State the difference between kinetic and potential energy. Name and describe six different forms of energy: thermal, chemical, mechanical,...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Energy: Different Forms of Energy
Upon viewing the Exploring Energy video series, students will be able to do the following: Define energy as the ability to do work. Cite everyday examples of how energy is used to do work. Understand that kinetic energy is sometimes...
Bloomberg
Hong Kong Curbs Japanese Seafood Imports on Fukushima Discharge
Shares of some Japanese seafood companies including Maruha Nichiro Corp. are trading lower in Tokyo. Hong Kong is imposing import curbs on seafood to seaweed from parts of the nation in response to a plan to start releasing treated...
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Chernobyl Disaster Aftermath
/ evacuation of local residents and decontamination of the territory.
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25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear
25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster / deserted and ruined buildings / abandoned school room, children's picture books on floor / abandoned apartment buildings, on April 01, 2011 in Chernobyl, Ukraine (Footage...
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TU Tokyo Electric Power Company Headquarters / Tokyo, Japan
Exterior of the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the owner and operator of the troubled Fukushima Nuclear Power plant in Uchisaiwa cho
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MS Tokyo Electric Power Company Headquarters / Tokyo, Japan
Exterior of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the owner and operator of the troubled Fukushima Nuclear Power plant in Uchisaiwa cho
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PAN Tokyo Electric Power Company Headquarters / Tokyo, Japan
Exterior of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the owner and operator of the troubled Fukushima Nuclear Power plant in Uchisaiwa cho
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Smoke Stack HD
Smoke belches from the production of electricity at the local nuclear power plant. HD 1080
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WS View of nuclear power plant / Cattenom, Lorraine, France
WS View of nuclear power plant / Cattenom, Lorraine, France
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People put on Tyvek protective gear before checking on radiation levels
Group of people in the mandatory exclusion zone put on protective garments before entering deserted buildings after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.
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Nuclear Carrier USS Enterprise Enters Vietnam War
USS Enterprise carrier ship becomes first nuclear powered ship to enter combat / deck filled with planes and personnel / phantom jet launches into the air from carrier deck / jets in the air above Vietnamese countryside / explosions on...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, reports on hydrogen bomb tests
"Paramount News Issue No. 66" / Titles superimposed on a hydrogen bomb mushroom cloud, "H-Bomb Special", "Paramount News Presents Operation Ivy, Pictures the World Waited to See", "Dawn of the Hydrogen Age" / VS photographs of different...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Radiation dust inhalation pharmacology experiment at UCLA's Atomic Energy Project
Title card: "Atomic Energy Project, UCLA -- Pharmacology: Inhalation Studies with Radioactive Dust" / MS man in lab with respirator mask and gloves on, arms and head exposed, shakes dust from jar into funnel on apparatus then slides...