Nuclear Energy Heresy with Daniel Chen [video]
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Nuclear Heresy part 3: Canadian Enrichment
Summary:
A thousand words are spoken where a hundred would to, including continuing repetitions of "um," "you know," and "right?", to make a point about reactor terminology so technically trivial that you'll wonder if the speaker knows anything at all about this subject.
The term "heresy" is used seemingly with no comprehension whatsoever.
The speaker tries to break the ice of his presentation by forcing a joke that he admits-- parenthetically, repeatedly-- is meaningless, so as to verbally goosestep towards his opening point about terminology, which is a trivial, personal bone of contention, not some fascinating insight.
The host, who admits he had not prepared for his guest, and oblivious to lack of presentation skills of his guest, interjects a bizarre bro-vibe "keeping going because this is so interesting" without do much as a tic of awareness that his guest (who btw is a phd candidate TA) may have no clear ideas about the domain he's instructing.
Jump ahead 30 minutes:
- "So, you know" "right?"
- "Hmm"
In the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan, a dyed-in-the-wool academic, was remarking that his university was producing phd students who couldn't read nor write. It seems that today that they can't even maintain a conversation.
The main theme of the presentation is that most decisions in nuclear industry are made because of nuclear non-proliferation not because of nuclear safety.