Chernobyl's Most Radioactive Room - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Sam and Colby
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Rough Calculation:
Uranium Boiling Point: 4000 C
Heat Capacity (midpoint): 500 J per Kg/K
Heat of Fusion: 300 kJ/kg
Energy per unit mass to be dispersed = 4000*500 + 300,000 = 2.3 MJ/kg
1700 fuel channels
150 kg per fuel channel
Energy Yield = 2.3*1700*150 = ~600 GJ = ~143 tons of TNT (less than the first 2 Chernobyl explosions) - Наука та технологія
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Congrats on your newborn! ❤ my baby brother was recently born, they are a blessing, enjoy their young days they grow up so fast ❤❤❤
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I got the same first name as you.
“Complete and utter rubbish” I love T. Folses honesty.
"I love this banana flavor, because bananas are radioactive." LOL
This is also another absolute banger of a video. Insider information and fact checks on relevant subject matter from an expert is great. I’m not a scientist or an engineer, but this is my favorite kind of reaction content. Great work.
I think the "massive steam explosion" mentioned is not only perpetuated by the HBO series but is also mentioned in the BBC documentary *Surviving Disaster: Chernobyl* from 2006. The HBO series likely took inspiration from that as well.
You should watch that one and make a comparison with the HBO series. The BBC one is less "drama for the camera" imo.
'The BBC one is less "drama for the camera" imo'
Yes you just described the difference between a show and a documentary lol, I can't believe so many people think shows are meant to be 100% realistic
@@darkceptor44 Excellent that we agree on drama shows not being documentaries. :)
Oh boy, 0:01 every time i see Soylent, i think of soylent green.......
They sell a mint flavor :D
Fun fact. After this happened Norway, like most countries in Europe, quickly put in place radiation limits for local meat production. Initially the maximum dosage for all meat groups was set to the same level. However the Sami population complained that their domesticated reindeer, which were far more exposed to the fallout as they graced outside year round, was so radioactive none could be sold for years to come and the industry as a whole would crumple. So a a month or two after the limits was imposed, we didn't have any before, everyone that had seasonal grazing animals had to deal with a fairly small dosage limit and was pissed at the Sami for getting by with reindeer that was 5 times as radioactive and still legal. It's a funny little case of bureaucracy turning on a heel and throwing caution to the wind if the alternative is ruining a comparatively small, yet culturally important, industry.
You should look up the videos from the guy who went down & photographed the elephant's foot in the late 90's. He's still alive last I heard - Alexander Kupny I think is his name
_Chernobyl footage inside reactor 4, the basment and the Elephants foot (1080p raised quality)_ is one version filmed w/ Sergei Koshelev in 2007
And again you're spoiling us rotten with another lengthy high-quality video. Your detailed explanation helps so much to demystify many things when it comes to the Chernobyl accident. Especially the whole 3 to 5 megaton explosion thing. That myth in particular just refuses to die for some reason. Onward to a 100k subs!
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About the effects, in Sweden we where told not to eat any wildlife during quite a few years after Chernobyl due to the becquerel measurements in said animals (raindeer, fish, moose, etc etc)
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure to Chernobyl...............
Yeeeup, these folks would've never found themselves in a STEM field career, thats for sure. Its the casually comparing kilobytes of memory to gigabytes without any sense of orders of magnitude that did it for me. All that said, its downright impressive what they managed to do with the automation and monitoring tech of the era.
im happy you are a father now ❤❤
That last "steam explosion" dialogue really exploded you😂
Me too btw🤝
You should watch the Fukushima PSA that was made for Japanese children (there's an English translation). Kind of amusing to see it break down the incident so a kid would understand it.
It would be interesting if you checked out that chernobyl guy.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the other UA-cam channel might have said no.
i love this type of content keep it up!
Awesome video, Tyler. Once again, thanks for fighting the misinformation. The fear mongering needs to stop.
When I was a younger man, I did a paper on Connecticut Yankee nuclear power station. Oddly enough, years later I witnessed the storage of radioactive material from decommissioning. That being said, I don’t recall a single ’event’ during the operation years. Be well! I really like your channel.
Some also say your head covering is different from your scrubs so the guards know where to sh**t
The fun part is that almost all the liquidators didn't know shit about radiation and the soviets would say yeah do this and you will be provided with the pension (compensation) forever (basically saying covered for life without any job) and you wouldn't have to do anything else even if you are 19 ar 25 years old. Well we all know how that worked out for them.
Yeah I won’t lie and say that hearing about Chernobyl and Fukushima did sort of scare me into thinking that Nuclear plants were dangerous despite living in a decade where they’re built safer and cleaner and with more advanced technology. I even had a classmate that was even scared of X-rays after learning that those X-ray machines give off small doses of radiation. My teacher had to explain that they don’t give off enough to give you radiation poisoning. Also I live in a city that gets power from Niagara Falls through hydroelectricity. We don’t have nuclear plants.
Chernobyl scared people so much that an opportunity for a carbon free grid was sacrificed because of it. Regan and his secsessor had in mind to approve the construction of 1,000 new reactors, but after Chernobyl they scrapped the bills themselves. It would have been dead on arrival anyway.
Hey, Tyler! I love your content! I would love to see you react to But Why's "You cannot orbit near blackholes" or any of his other videos. His content, in my opinion, is great and has a lot of really good breakdowns over the material, as well as being thought-provoking. He also has some nuclear-related content that you may enjoy. Thanks!
As someone whos a bit of a nerd. Im no expert in anything nut I know my physics and nuclear decently in a grasping level. Hadnt really thought about who the built up of xenon that then decays and re-releases neutrons could actually raise power. So thanks gor the knowledge T. Folse. Love the vids
I'd have been more worried about ground water contamination if it got to that point.
Now we'll probably have videos comparing parenting to nuclear plant operations LOL.
16:29 The chip in your bank card runs at a speed five times faster then my first computer an intel 80/86 @7MHz. Also instead of a 6" four lbs power supply it can be powered through induction into a coil that wraps around the outer edge of your credit card. This coil also serves as the antenna so you tap your card an induction field (that was how teslas wireless energy worked) powers up the micro controller, it sends out a radio signal, the CC reader then communicates like blue tooth to exchange encrypted codes to validate your card, your bank, then communicates to the bank to see your account balance, and if you have money in your account then the payment goes through. All this happens in the 1/10 second you tap your card on the CC terminal. Imagine trying to connect your 1980's pc to power, boot up with a boot disk, then put in another floppy to run a radio transmitter through the serial or parallel port with huge 3" connectors, and that radio device would need its own power supply so two power plugs and power supplies. And after you ran all the software and entered in the commands through DOS over your full size keyboard several minutes later you could connect to your bank; assuming you had a dial up modem hooked up to a land line and that would also require more floppy disks and commands for you to enter. Several minutes like 10, later you have your tap to pay. Oh and dont forget the floppy with your bank info on it.
I just played wolfenstein on my first computer.
yeh muscles
Hey Tyler, you should react to Scorpion S2 E23. I’m curious to see how (in)accurate it may be. And if everyone in it would be dead in reality!
Depends very much on what the computer is supposed to do. There are old systems that can be significantly faster from a user experience point of view. But these days we cant even get a bloody key-switch on a door to work fast enough for the user expericence to be as good as the old ones..
iirc the reactor was in a very unstable situation of too low reactor power, a core full of xenon poison, and control rods nearly fully out. so when it got the extra kick from the graphite it was enough to increase neutron flux, burn up the xenon, raise reactor power, burn up more xenon etc all within an extremely tiny fraction of time, and boom.
I've been casually following your content and you've mentioned 3 Mile Island a few times in this vid, could you do a reaction to Kyle Hill's videos about Chernobyl and/or 3 Mile Island? 🙂 Kyle is an engineer, it'd be awesome to have a Nuclear Engineer's perspective as well 🙂🤙
Have you heard of thunderbirds? It’s a kids tv series that sometimes goes very anti nuclear power. It would be interesting to see what you think of it.
Your far more understanding than I. When a video such as that one goes so far off of scientific fact...... I turn it off.
There's too much peddling of misinformation in the world today. It leads to unfounded fears and general misunderstanding of topics, like nuclear power....
45:14 - YES.
I watched the documentary (no, not the part fictional HBO series) a 4 part documentary by a german TV production from ZDF. They showed sth very interesting, Nikolai Steinberg was the first CEO of Tschernobyl, and already retired when that accident happened.
He, according to that documentary (and his own words, they interviewed him for this), was getting curious by arriving people from Pripyat, taking probes from their clothing and finding a material thats part of heatsensors that are located inside the reactorcore, so he knew that the reactor itself blew up.
In that documentary there was the stunning declaration from Nikolai Steinberg that Legasov actually did what KGB told him to do, it was him that convinced the officials to change the designflaw by bringing reactor 1 in Cernobyl to the same unstable condition in front of them, but knowing how to shut it down when that happens.
Would be interesting if you would make a video about that brave, or insane? idk... guy.
Tyler the entire video be like: nUh uh
Also, congrats on the baby!
The second explosion debacle was some real whiplash after the rest of the video was more or less good.
I'm actually very interested in where this whole thing about the meltdown into the flooded basement causing Europe to be uninhabitable came from because it seems to be literally everywhere
The MSR unit seems like a typo / misreading of mSv/hr - 17.4mSv/hr makes a lot of sense when compared with your estimate of 1mSv in 5 mins. Perhaps to shed some light on the confusion, I see the dosimeter they're using looks very similar to the old DMC2000 series EPD, which I recall had a small LCD display with awkward 8-segment digits - they struggled to represent certain letters very well and could be easy to misread. Those also used a capital R to mean dose rate as opposed to a D to mean total accumulated dose - so originally being 17.4 mSv (R) and getting miswritten by non-nuclear folk as MSR seems quite plausible.
42:04 The Soviet Union placed detonation buttons on their nuclear reactors. BOOM! LOL
My dad told me the big worry was the core melting into under lake and generating a steam cloud that might cause a global winter.
It's not like they would know which reactor is offline.And which ones online?I don't think they would even know
Drama . Most people don't understand nuclear engineering so it makes sense. a lot of Showmanship 😁
I'd ague that Castle Bravo was more devastating than Tsar Bomba. Yes, much smaller blast & shockwave, but because Tsar Bomba was a pretty clean airburst. CB was a hellstorm because of all the particulate matter it was able to fling around
im pretty sure the only way to actually get a nuclear reactor to actually be able to explode like an nuclear bomb would be if the entire core was made with weapons grade uranium/plutonium
I live somewhat near the Idaho National Laboratory. Some say it’s a nuclear reactor test facility. Look that up. Cough cough EBR I and EBR II also the us navy’s attempt at building a nuclear powered plane. Or the steam explosion that killed 5 ppl during a change of fuel by hand on a tiny test reactor that was planned on being distributed among smaller more remote places
Fun fact: World means something different when translated from Russian. The English equivalent would be 'political sphere'.
I heard somewhere that the massive explosion theory was in part due to the fact that the scientists feared that particles of fuel elements had been diffused into the feed water sent in to cool down the core due to the initial damage. So the idea behind the bigger explosion was that if the still active part of the core made it's way into the water you would essentially get another run away reaction where the core re-activated the fuel elements in the water which then helped make a bigger detonation than you would have if it was just the water explosion from the heat alone. That said if these numbers were really presented to the soviet leadership I think it's just as likely that it was a tactic on part of the scientist to illicit a proper response to the radiation danger the site now represented. This was soviet Russia after all. A few million Russians lost didn't matter much. A big explosion that triggered a war with Europe and thus NATO might though.
yep on the coal, went to pick up and deliver to a coal plant various parts and equipment. even after I went through cleaning not only was the truck still to hot and had to be washed a second time. I had to go through a lower rinse, and I had to take off my shoes and have my feet checked. they checked my cab, over all I got more than twice my yearly dose from just spending time at a coal plant that was very dusty. I had to be monitored and checked all year every day and at the end of each week. though the hottest ive ever been exposed to was while loading steal, between hot recycle that was rejected, to hot plates they tried to ship before the detectors caught it causing a plant wide shut down to trace the source. I can say nuclear plants are far far safer.
1:15 yup that's why i say radiation is only 60% as dangerous as people think it is. it's very very dangerous but people missunderstand how it works so they over react and think it's much worse and uncontrollable than it really is. i think that is part of the problem with anti nuclear power people. they just don't know how it works and they think it's way more capable than it really is.
This video is lit
Say Chernobyl didn't happen...
We might have more plants today, but would they be as safe as ours are now? That fear isn't unfounded - nobody can live in Chernobyl anymore. The ground water for thousands of square miles could have been irreparably poisoned. There are real dangers to these things and, sadly, it takes a crisis for humans to be realistic about things. Look at Fukushima - the dumbest place to build a plant, precisely for the reasons it's now a pain in the ass and an ongoing potential hazard.
So if Chernobyl didn't happen, we'd have thousands of these places, and one of them would have had a serious malfunction. Hubris.
You might say that Chernobyl could've been the most devastating critical failure of a nuclear reactor in history, but I giggled a little bit when he referenced it to an actual nuclear detonation.
Edit: Detonation from absolutely ANY nuclear bomb.
Perhaps they knew exactly what they were saying. I mean it isn't right, and it's better as a whole if nuclear power doesn't look overly threatening, but I can easily see these people simply trying to scare these kids into not doing anything stupid. I just can't help but think they knew what they were saying was absurd.
Congrats on your child😊
40:48
Omg those guys would do anything for views...
Blatant lie
3.15 is a number of the room. Trust me I know russian.
So do nuclear power plants have their own electricity bill? If so, how much a month?
What’s is the dumbest thing you did on your job?
Have you done done a react to the movie “k19 the widow maker” ? I’d love to see your thoughts on it
Gotta bring in some bionerd23 videos...
Yes, this is correct and interesting stuff.
If the reactor control room is the most radioactive place then, you should be glowing from the amount of radiation you absorbed over 10 years, lol
I will say that i'm impressed with how much information they retained while fuck'n around x3
They seemed to pay attention and ask good questions when it mattered though :3
1:30 , I think they mean devastating as in damage caused to a populated area and economic damage. In that way I would say the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs might have an argument for the worst though.
I am immediately leery when they say they will be talking to a "scientist" and are not specific. What kind of scientist?
you should play subnautica, its about a ship named aurora, crashlanding on a planet known as 45-46B, its a deep sea open world action adventure game with a great somewhat bittersweet storyline, and some radiation type things, SPOILER ALERT DOWN BELOW
the aurora blows up, creating a huge radiation leak, and its your job to patch it, however that isnt the full game. its also somewhat scary (has really big and cool deep sea creatures) and overall really fun, you should try it out or atleast react to a playthrough.
All I see right now is a Call of Duty map😂
Yeah ... some pressure vessel exploded - not even near to 200 tons TNT - this would render everything within 200 meters flat and dig at least 20 meters deep crater on the spot. What you can compare it actually is something like FAB-3000 explosion or a bit much. 200 tons TNT? ... come on ...BS... so you are right - it is exaggerated by a lot...
1:52 well I was just gonna say that I’m pretty sure an explosion from a nuclear reactor or facility is less powerful than the bomb dropped on Japan in World War II the fat man or the little man😂
"Soylent Banana is Radioactive" is the new "Soylent Green is People", you heard it here first!
This is a pretty generous reaction in my opinion. I don't know what is typical of these guys, but based on this they seem like idiots that would say or do anything for some clicks to me.
I would want some of that Soylent if I were trapped in a room for twelve hours. After I emptied the bottle into my tummy, I would refill it with my bladder.
congratulations with the new born 🙂
Tyler, you should watch,"Animator vs. Animation V (official)" by alan becker.
I Have a question. Is still there RBMK Reactors on going till today?
yes
@@OpenGL4.6 thats craazy
@@spectre2498i think they all have updated security and removed tipped graphite rods
@@kamilamory9755 It's funny that people say graphite tip, as in fact it was literally half of the entire control rod that was made of graphite, it was a graphite displacer, the graphite part was the same size as the boron part lol.
But normal, I think the person who spread this "myth" about only the tip being made of graphite was the HBO Chernobyl series.
Yes, there is RBMK still in operation, but they were modified with an additional safety system, removed the graphite displacer, and increased the speed of the control rods.
No they actually try to say this I went there twice in 01 and 03 there was a model that showed the estimate blast range 😂 I was still young and dumb and at that point I even new better
You say it wasn't the worst nuclear explosion then go on to say it was the worst explosion at a power plant. I think we all know he meant nuclear as shorthand for that.
You're overzealous in your protection of nuclear energy. I remember reading a clever quote recently - the truth is a lion. It doesn't need your protection. Free it and it will protect itself.
Chernobyl was pretty f*ing bad and you're doing your cause a disservice by telling people otherwise. People at the time blew it out of proportion, but it still wasn't harmless.
"Math aren't these guys' strong suits." And grammar isn't yours, clearly. Haha
You're not supposed to start a sentence with "and." (:
Hello can you react to my nuclear power plant tour in Minecraft this is day 2
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Nuclear engineer sponsored by poison. It's poetic.
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The videos of sam and colly are so bad
I have always been taught A. L. A. R. A. As well as being taught that there is no such thing as a safe dose. I am slightly concerned that you often say that there is no danger, etc. And while I agree that most of the time there would be little risk, there is always a risk. It concerns me that you downplay this. i can't remember any videos where you explain ALARA or ALARP. And I am afraid that there are going to be people who think that it means that they can very briefly hold Co60 or Ir192... But we both know that if they do that they're going to, at best, to lose their arm, But quite probably a lot more.
I don't mean to be alarmist, but I've worked with radiation for a little longer than you. And wow I enjoy your channel. Sometimes I disagree with the safety advice that you provide. It would be very smart from my perspective if you were to do a video without commentary explaining the concepts that I have mentioned above. The inverse square law only does so much, and if you don't know it like most people, it doesn't mean much. But you do a great explanation of it
But I appreciate your videos. Quite a lot. Your commentary is very interesting and I learn from despite being a physicist for the last 11 or 12 or 15 years. I might be one of your only subscribers who can convert sieverts to Gray
He has explained ALARA in other videos. I know this because I learned the acronym and what it means from this channel. It’s also worth mentioning he references doses as not being within the amount that causes an increased risk of cancer, not saying they’re safe doses. With regards to his no danger comments, it’s taking it out of context. Within the context of following radiation safety protocols, I believe he means it’s not inherently dangerous to be in a radioactively controlled area if you follow the safety protocols. It’s not stated to be dangerous to eat a banana even though they’re slightly radioactive, proving something isn’t inherently dangerous if there’s radioactivity present. It’s within context that he said something wasn’t dangerous and not as a sweeping statement.
"no such thing as a safe dose" is a decent mindset but is factually incorrect. If it was correct then we would need to live inside sealed lead lined containers since you get dosed constantly by things like the sun or various common metals and stones.