Touched a Nuclear Jet Engine Core with a New Radiation Detector
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- I test out the new Radiacode 103G against the reactor vessel of some nuclear jet engines using a pole to get over the fence. The new 103G uses a different scintillation crystal that is now being used by DOD and NASA for radiation sensors.
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"there wasn't a sign there saying I couldn't do it", that's exactly how we get signs prohibiting the most ridiculous sounding activities, like diving in a hottub😂😂😂
"nobody told me not to..ergo..it must be ok"
my favorite philosophy 😂
Where there are bison here in Utah, antelope island, there is a sign, “do not pet the fuzzy cows”. Nuff said.
The sign will come later when the tumor appears 😁
I was about to say that
@@farrkenbeautyThe tumor on the detector?
I appreciate your ride or die attitude as far as pulling out a pole with a bunch of scintillation counters attached to it.
Got to make the videos fun to watch. I try and make stuff I want to see.
@@RadioactiveDrew we appreciate all that you do, but don't go getting yourself into trouble on our account.
@madmax2069 like with the mine exploring…it’s all calculated risk. The risk of getting in trouble at the EBR-1 location was pretty low…at least that’s how I saw it.
@@RadioactiveDrew Science types are usually pretty permissive, and have a good sense of humor about things.
@@madmax2069LOL, it wasn't for our account, I WOULD have done it for myself also...
Should have just worn a bright orange vest. Nobody asks questions when you have one of those on. 😆
Very true.
Vest, hardhat, badge lanyard, document holder clipboard, handheld radio: The universal access set. 😅
@Yaivenov sounds like a master key there.
I found that firefighters never get questioned. It can be an Amazon Halloween costume..doesn't matter..nobody questions the firefighter.
@Live.Vibe.Lasers I think dressing as emergency services would be getting into the illegal territory.
I died laughing when the alarm went off just announcing what you were doing while you were trying to be low key LMAO
I think he added that alarm noise afterwards. You can see he had no reaction when the alarm went off.
@@JamieSteam or just used to it and expected it
@@JamieSteamOr unless the alarm was from the Radicode and he knew it does that
@@JamieSteam its connected to an app
"Jim! Can you see that dude with a pole presumably trying to drill a hole into our reactor!?"
"I'm on it Bob. The dogs are on their merry way. Let's see how quick he can run."
Exactly what I was thinking in my mind.
@@RadioactiveDrewhaha
Your video is inaccurate, misleading and a bit inflammatory to people who actually know what they are talking about.
@myname-pq4cl your opinion, which you are entitled to.
@@myname-pq4cl cool story bro
This place is lit! I was waiting for the cutaway of a nuke when he touched it.
Hahaha…that would have been an awesome jump cut.
Regarding the drone thing, just ask them for permission. As they say in the military "there is a waiver for everything.
That’s true.
Just a small correction here, mercury _is_ more dense than lead, lead has a density of 11.34 g/cm³, while mercury has a density of 13.55 g/cm³.
I picked up a container of mercury in HS Chemistry class (Prof was a nut!), and its deceptively heavy! It was not a large container either.
Dang…totally thought it was the other way around. Thanks for the correction, also now it makes even more sense why they used it to kick down the radiation.
@@repro7780 Yeah it always surprises me when I pick up my flask of mercury, it's only 1.5 inches in diameter and only has about 3 inches of mercury in it yet the whole thing weighs a little over four pounds (the steel flask weighs about 1/2 pound by itself). Mercury _really_ shows off its density when shaken or swirled too, it's such an odd sensation since the weight is so easily shifted around, mercury is only slightly more viscous than water so it flows extremely freely. It's probably one of my favorite elements...
@@RadioactiveDrew You're welcome, and don't sweat it, a lot of people think lead is one of the heaviest elements (it's definitely not lol, it's literally half the density of Iridium and Osmium, which are the two densest metals on Earth). The rest of the video was great, it was cool to see the nuclear jet assembly up close like that. Have a good one man!
Plus, they undoubtedly tried using it because of its fluid nature hoping it would infiltrate all the cavities and reduce the overall radiation levels. I’m sure it was just one of thousands of experiments. How effective it was is only known to those with the right clearance and need to know.
Alert! Alert! Some Dude poking our reactor with a 20 foot pole! ☢️😋😋
A new Radioactive Drew video always makes the day so much better.
Got my 103G 2 weeks ago. Love it! I have 14 radiation detectors now and counting!
I worked at Gaylord Hospital from 1974 to 1985. We had a building whose basement was full of all kinds of stuff that was left over from this project when it was cancelled. Stainless steel pipe fittings, cast iron pipe fittings, all kinds of stuff. It was all donated. I grabbed one of those yellow CD Geiger Counters. The probe detached from the handle with a shielded cable. It was nice having a rotating window cover on the probe that allowed you to determine Alpha and Beta from Gamma so you would know what you're dealing with. Sadly it was stolen 5 years ago. I always feel a bit vulnerable without my Geiger Counter....
I was in Germany and took measurements in a restricted area where some people claim that two nuclear bomb tests were carried out before the Trinity test.
The government says there is no increased radiation there, but my Geiger counter and my Radia Code say otherwise. I measured values of up to [edit] 8.76 µSv/h in the area in question.
Would you be willing to share geocoordinates, please? Sounds like an interesting trip into history with my Radiacode
Considering pitchblende is abundant in germany, you probably found an old tailing.
With out a spectrum it’s very doubtful it was anything but radon coming out of geological faults
@@geekswithfeet9137 but the Radiacodes show a spectrum and self ID the peaks with the use of the app. He shows it in the video.
Okay, so go rewrite the history. You won’t be the first to “claim” (not prove) the Germans somehow had the bomb first😂😂😂😂😂😂
My rub is the 103G is substantially more money then the 103 for practically the same usable results. But the 103G also has a nerfed lower reading that the 103 and 102 can read that the G can’t.
The EBR-1 did not supply power to Arco, Idaho. It was the Borax III. The EBR-1 was the first reactor to generate electricity, that power was used to supply power to the EBR-1 facility only.
I recently did a radiation map of the Bull Creek Air Museum, there’s so many radium dials there. I found one that’s equivalent to four chest X-rays per hour, though I have a X-ray tube which, when powered, outputs the equivalent of a mammogram per hour (400 microsieverts).
My radiacode 102 sees the K-40 in my background. I live in the high desert of California. It's a really fun talking point when people ask what's on my belt.
My 103G shipped today!
Nice. Hope you enjoy it. I use mine everyday.
It was on this day that Drew influenced policy... "do not come into contact directly or indirectly with anything beyond fencing".
let's hope not ,it would be interesting to go there and check it out myself
Great video Drew, I always enjoy your videos since you investigate interesting nuclear sites and always have a range of equipment to compare the sensitivity and range of radiation energy levels of the detectors.
I try and make them entertaining for everyone. Glad you enjoy the videos.
Garnet based crystals have been used for a while. They have been refined and purified and with the micro layer technologies available today the sensitivity has vastly increased.
I had a neighbor who was a crystalographer and a nuclear physicist at the Brookhaven National laboratory and was doing molecular modeling on such crystals in the 70's.
That would have been a very cool neighbor to have.
@@RadioactiveDrew He was, he was amazed that at age 11 I could understand the basic principles of nuclear theory and charged particles. I even got a personal tour of the reactor and cooling pools. At that time they only had the shorter accelerator there.
Dude you set off the nuclear submarine dive alarm
Thanks so much for this video, as mentioned in an earlier video I was waiting for a review like this, and shortly after the video was published and ran to the radiacode and got one.
I hope they realized that lots of people bough one after seeing your videos, and that they continue to support your channel.
Can't thank you enough. A 103g should go all the way to Costa Rica, because of this video and your channel in general.
Radiacode knows how much business comes their way from this channel. They are one of the best channel sponsors I have ever worked with. There might be some trips to some interesting locations that Radiacode might help me with in the future.
Very cool. I visited Project Pluto site 15 years ago. Got to walk around the buildings and stuff. Most of the site is barren now, but some of the train tracks are still there.
Super cool that we are getting these new sensors!
They probably got you on camera but the new kid watching the videos was playing on his phone and doesn't really care and security was out on the parking lot checking out the new bosses cyber truck . Nice video Thanks for risking your butt for this video 😮😅😊😊😊😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤔😳
Glad you enjoyed it.
Never ever. Not even once. You sir are very brave. Thank you for allowing us to live vicariously.
It sounds scary…but in reality it’s not even close to being dangerous. People that get a shot of Tc-99m for nuclear medicine imagining are crazy radioactive.
concrete is an good absorber of Cs-137 maybe do a vid where you test buildings for fallout across the us maybe not the whole thing but old Concrete buildings near the test sites think it would be interesting.
Such a bummer that it never flew. I always thought that both the nuclear jet engine and the NERVA should have been used in the actual application at least once.
I think for the application it was intended for it wouldn’t work. As I understood it they wanted it on nuclear bombers so they wouldn’t have to refuel…as least one of the concepts I heard. It’s still an interesting idea but I think direct energy conversion of the radiation energy would be a much better idea…if that could ever work.
@@RadioactiveDrew Like a RTG?
@JohnShalamskas kind of like an RTG but instead of using heat to create electricity you use the alpha, beta and gamma radiation to direct charge a battery or some kind of capacitor.
@@RadioactiveDrewThe original application was for a cruise missile with terrain matching navigation. With 1950’s vacuum tube technology that would be the size of a 737. The B-58 Hustler was supposed to be the aerodynamic and computer technology demonstrator for Mach 3 ground level penetrator.
With late 1960’s technology it shrank to the ALCM.
I always enjoy the info you share. Thanks and try to not sweat the little things. Most don't care. You take it easy.
By chance, I got to tour the B-Reactor while I was in Washington for professional reasons. EBR-I is on my bucket list, should the opportunity arise...
Great to hear it wasnt for unprofessional reasons. 😅
I really do enjoy your presentation and commentary
Thanks.
I did my Navy nuclear training just north of there. Back then it was called INEL.
S1W in 88
Nice. My brother was an instructor there.
A1W 85/86
@@danbil3214 oh man those water capacitors!
Nice man. My vision was too bad to join. I really wanted to be stationed on the Nimitz ever since I can remember.
Some time ago, I saw a video of these "jet" engines, I find them to be super interesting and would like to know more about when they were used, and how they work. Interesting video, THANKS!!!!
Nice Radiacode finally stepped up eh? Love your stuff Drew! Its awesome! Thank you for the content.
Thank you Drew, interesting findings with the three detectors..
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
You might ask your connections at radicode to maybe start an upgrade program for the 102 or 103 to the 103G for maybe a price of 3 or 4 hundred dollars. I can not buy a 1 cm2 Scintillation GAGG crystal for 4 hundred dollars. They must have cut a deal with a manufacturer. I should add that the GAGG crystals used for this application are dopped and not cheap ones you can find on Ebay used for making jewelry. There are actually several doping processes used to make crystals for higher light outputs or faster recovery times. I think that by using GAGG crystals that they are probably reaching the limits of their processing or processor speed.
Given the small size of the crystal, most likely it is the limiting factor. The annihilation peak above 500kEV also suggests this.
Great video Drew! I enjoy all the lil things mate, drone stacking it at the start* being real with the 'that took wayyy to make takes' haha. Great effort and it shows :D
Thanks...I think people like seeing some of what goes into making these videos. These videos are me and a camera / drone. I don't have a script (sometimes notes), very rarely do I have someone out with me and I sometimes make mistakes. Like saying mercury is less dense than lead. That was a total mistake on my part that I didn't correct even in editing. Stuff like that happens. I'm usually working on a couple different things at once, plus family, plus trips with family and regular life stuff like taking the recycling out...we don't have it picked up. But just to be clear, I hate making mistakes like the mercury thing. As long as I'm learning from those mistakes then I think I'm good.
@@RadioactiveDrew I appriciate all the things. Think my fav video so far is your showing all of us the back end workings of being a cinema operator, when you were setting up for Oppenheimer. All good stuff and could feel your passion for film projection.
@ausnorman8050 I love film projection. It was one of my first jobs when I was a teenager. Next time I’m doing projection I’ll make sure to share it.
Thank you Drew for your work! 🎉 I love seeing your video to learn more about nuclear science & nuclear remnants alike. 🤗
No problem...glad you enjoy the videos.
dude you have such a niche corner to cover here on youtube, its such a cool idea for a channel I hope you take this to the moon. it brings me joy to see your sub count approaching 100k!
excellent and spontaneous as usual
The sounds of 3 radiacode giving Cicada's a run for their money.
Its a noisy little cluster there in that radiation field.
Interesting video. Thanks for sharing
I remember when you could walk right up to those jet engines years ago. We didn't screw with them because we were intelligent and stayed away from radioactive things. The actual cores for those two engines, I believe, are buried on the Idaho Lab site somewhere. I dont remember the locomotive being there then. The trash from the EBR accident is buried right there on the EBR site.
I saw the first video you posted on the Cesium contamination in Montana. I'd suggest you replicate that experiment near Rachel, Nevada in association with the Sedan event. I believe the fallout from Sedan fell over Rachel, to the north. There are mountains all around Rachel with crevasses that probably hold Cesium and, possibly, other isotopes for you to see. They'll be in greater abundances since they're very close to the test site. Might be a fun trip. Look up Sedan and see the fallout pattern.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll have to check it out. Haven’t been through Rachel Nevada in a while.
Cs-137 does seem a likely culprit. Here in Florida it’s radon and thorium (the phosphate deposits seem to have something radioactive, maybe thorium), and there are monazite sands where it’s mostly thorium as far as I know.
Epic drone video coming out of the trees filming that canyon with the road I'm a drone racer or was I've been in the drones for 15 plus years that was a good shot
Thanks. I’ve been meaning to get some shots down by the river. But the fly fishermen have been an obstacle.
@@RadioactiveDrew just be careful I'm sure you already know if you're on a national park and it's against federal law and they can use a video against you although I do like watching the videos cuz I'm disabled I can't get out and see it for myself have a good one enjoy your show.
I never thought I'd see another person who's been to Arco. Every time I drive through I really want to stop at
Mr. Pickles, but I never have the time. LoL gotta try the famous
'Atomic Burger'.
I was there really early in the morning so I missed eating there. Others have told me about Mr Pickles…
@@RadioactiveDrew Yeah, that tends to be when I drive through as well. In my job, I see a lot of cool places but rarely am able to stop. Like Bob's Burgers in Kansas.
Next time you go to one of these places ring up beforehand and try a personal tour
Never heard of nuclear jet engines. Apparently there were two different types - direct air cycle and indirect air cycle. I'm guessing those machines are HTRE-2 and HTRE-3. Very interesting!
It’s a very cool place to visit. You can also go inside of EBR-1.
Awesome Drew! See you down here in Las Vegas soon!
Should be fun. Not looking forward to the heat.
Great video!! Way cool, g. BTW, what were the alarms that were going off every time you put the Radiacode over the fence? Were those proximity alarms or something else? Great channel ...
>when even Drew’s Radiacode alarms are going off
DROP AND RUN
I don’t have my alarms set too high. When I’m dealing with really spicy sources I turn the alarms off.
no way bro got the goofy ahh siren warning 😂
That isn't like an intrusion alert going off every time you are doing that? If you were lucky maybe some cops were on the way from an alarm so getting out of there in 10 min was a good idea.
What I think we’re hearing is first the dose rate alarm on the device itself followed by the much louder alarm on the mobile phone that is paired to the device.
How to make mercury even cooler: Make it radioactive mercury! 😁
Have you ever considered having a guided tour of places like Idaho Falls? If you present it as a teaching experience you might be able to get different/better access.
I have thought about it. Might do it in the future.
12:18 Potash is K2Co3.
Salpeter is KNO3 aka potassium nitrate.
KNO3 is used in gunpowder and as a fertilizer.
Generally speaking, the way that radiologically controlled area boundaries work is anything crossing the vertical plane of the barrier is considered to have entered the area.
I know, that’s what I remember being at the nuclear fuel pool over at San Onofre. But usually those type of rules have a special stripped pattern to denote that area. I saw no such pattern.
Looks like Dre has gone on a fission trip.😅
9:53 imagine he knocked it off the pole at that moment 😅
That gaffers tape is pretty good...but yeah that could have happened. Then you would have seen a video of me parking really close to that fence and using the same pole standing on top of my truck to try and get back the 103G.
Great content as always! / Mark.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
What a fun video! Cool seeing the nuclear jet engines again.
“Only 14uSv!”
Ah yes, I too like to absorb two weeks worth of my background dose in 60 minutes
I’m okay with that. When I start to get into the years worth of dose in an hour I’m a little more cautious.
@@RadioactiveDrew And that’s why I watch your videos, to see you play with sources I’d rather not be around. 😅
@mruler360 understandable.
Let's goo always love when I get a notification that you uploaded.Also if you didn't know this Mercury is actually denser than lead. keep it up❤️
It would have ben great to have a Radicode the last time in visited Chernobyl back in 2018. It was a two nights three days in the exclusion zone.
I like the new detector. 65000 counts per minute? In My room average is 18-22 counts per minute. I would say 65 000 counts would make me start timing my stay in minutes and I wouldn't wanna sleep close to that source 💥
Yeah, I would limit my time up against that source. At the distance from the fence it’s not that bad. Very safe to visit. Wish I could have reached the really spicy sections of those engines.
That's a good place for kite airial photography with a Geiger counter attached.
Those engines I think employed a closed primary loop to reduce radiation which is why they are so big. Presumably the Russian 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear powered cruse missile is an open circuit to keep weight to the minimum. Can you pop over there next and do a video about the Burevestnik?
Or the Tory II nuclear ramjet engines of project Pluto. Blowing the fallout out the rear was probably sort of a desired side effect of the concept, as it would irradiate the land along the flight path to the various bomb release points. In addition to liquify organs of unfortunate victims below while zooming by at 500ft going Mach 3. Possibly the most sinister concept for a WMD delivery system ever conceived. None of those test engines exist anymore, though.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching.
Bluetooth RF communication may not work if the devices are in a high radiation fields... Just a thought. Maybe it would be nice to have an option to connect the detector device to the phone with a cable (type-c preferably)
You can already do that. You can connect the Radiacode to the phone with a USB-C cable. I know it works on Android phones...not sure if it works with iOS devices.
The Radiacode 103G? I got the 103... what did I miss out on in the G? and "extension pole"... my thought exactly!
When I first got my Radiacode 101, I was in Colorado. I went to rocky flats area and I found a trace amount of Cesium 137 also. I then brought that spectrum to a nuclear physicist and he told me it was most likely an escape peak and not actually Cesium 137 because, there was never any fission at Rocky Flats. I then bought a much higher end Gamma spectrometer (USB) and dug up some soil from that area and put it in my lead pig and tested it. It really showed that there wasn't any cesium in the sample. I'm not saying that there wasn't Cesium at your site, I am saying that more investigation may be necessary.
I agree, there does need to be more investigation into that site. I want to visit areas like St. George Utah and look for fallout there. Since it was so much closer to the Nevada Test Site and got dusted a bunch of times by some pretty heavy fallout clouds. I should be able to find some nice solid peaks there...if I look in the right locations.
@@RadioactiveDrew that would be a great video. Find natural water pooling places. I bet you would find some good sources.
Safe to assume that it's not impossible to make a nuclear powered jet drone.
GAGG is a nice laser host crystal when doped with dysprosium ans samerium. For a radiation detector it's likely doped with europium abd cerium. ❤
I honestly expected it to be more radioactive. When I got my Tc99m scan I was putting out 715uSv/hr for over a day.
Tc-99m is extremely active with a 6 hour half-life. When I run into people that have had that injected its very interesting to see how high the Radiacode will go.
With the higher CPM of the 103G, I suspect that it is picking up both alpha and gamma particles, which of course makes sense if the new sensor is more sensitive.
great video mate
Thanks.
Excellent content. Thanks Drew.
I totally saw a UFO at 1:03
🛸👽
Lead does float on mercury. It also dissolves... Messing your mercury up.
Yeah, I had the densities switched around.
When I visited EBR-1, I thought the train sign read that it was an experiment in nuclear propulsion for trains. Did I read that wrong? It is radioactive too.
There might be some type of contamination on that train. But they didn't have it powered by nuclear power...would have been cool.
"I'm now trying to fly the drone."
Proceeds to IMMEDIATELY crash it. I really had to laugh out loud. Sorry not sorry! 😁😁😜😜
It happens sometimes. Good thing that FPV drone has prop guards.
here in NE europe, the 102 picks up K40 after half a day or so of integration.
Now that's interesting.
A friend of mine uses a remote control air plane with a old vhf analog remote to get around drone bans
That’s one way to do it. In that type of airspace I wouldn’t mess around though.
Danke!
Awesome…thanks so much.
They also tested the engine at the Nevada test site, on a sled on tracks, (which is still there). They also built a runway and hanger at the Idaho site before President Kennedy stoped the program. The hanger is still there.
That atomic jet was quite a way from being shrunk to a realistic size and weight.
Lots of granites and similar rocks can have potassium in their feldspar. So potassium-40 doesn’t seem too surprising.
It seems that almost all the argon in Earth’s atmosphere is argon-40, which means that it’s from decay of potassium-40 that didn’t decay to calcium instead.
Granites have Feldspar which are aluminosilicate minerals containing varying amounts of potassium, sodium and calcium.
looks round to make sure nobody is looking - apart from the 29,000 views !
It absolutely blows my mind how you pronounce "nuc-le-ar".
0:21 I'm sorry but doing a video specifically about nuclear anything, and then saying the word nucular less than 30 seconds in, has me thinking of homer Simpson. Doing it twice in the first two minutes I know it wasn't just a mistake...
It’s always a good day when I see one of your videos. I think that train is real cool. I need to get some pictures so that I can try to model it.
Do you think it’s worthwhile getting the 103G if I already have a 102? Have a great day!
Drew, your videos are awesome! I think I might buy a radicode at some point just to go rad hunting. Looking at some fallout maps, there might be some in popular hiking areas around me.
Its a fun device to have with you out and about. I take mine out with me every time I leave the house. I'll usually run the radiation map tracking function on walks or bike rides. I also run it when I'm on roadtrips. Its fascinating to see the radiation levels over a large area.
Feldspar can contain potassium and I suspect that it what is in those rocks. You should pick it up as well in cements and concretes with something that sensitive.
Filming a crime. Classic. Also 8:10 nice product placement.
As far as I know...no crime was committed. Thanks, glad you liked it.
@@RadioactiveDrew thought the no trespassing was on that area mainly a joke comment though.
hello buddy Potassium is a common component of feldspar commonly known as K-spar there is probably no K2O in those rocks as it is soluble and would be weathered out quite fast.
1 Mercury is more dense than lead at about 13.5g per cubic centimeter and lead is about 11.3 g per cubic centimeter. 2 potash and saltpeter are not the same thing saltpeter or potassium nitrate and potash is potassium carbonate
Yeah, the mercury thing was a mistake I made while filming this and didn't catch it while editing. The potash thing I could have been a little more clear on.
My grandma bought an alfalfa ranch in smith Nevada in that late 70’s and lived there for ten years, she got type one diabetes about half way in. My uncle lived there with her for a few years and about fifteen years ago got Graves’ disease. Nobody else in the family has thyroid issues or ever has. Coincidence? I think not. Contamination from the Nevada test sites? I think so.
Wow that's like a very spicy bit of fiesaware, or a ww2 bomber gauge.... outside the fence... 😮
I'm guessing not, but curious would those climbers be getting a higher dose of radiation because they are specifically disturbing the crack and crevices on those rocks?
Well they are getting a higher dose of radiation because the rocks in the area are a bit more radioactive than normal. This is from naturally occurring radioactive elements in the rocks. The dose of radiation from the rocks is much higher than any of the slight amount of fallout.