Protection Against Radiation In Uranium Mines
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2017
- U.S. Bureau of Mines gives us some handy tips on how to protect ourselves from radiation when mining for uranium.
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Put on your asbestos jacket and light up on Marbro you all good back then lol
XD and if things go wrong just go see doc he will gladly give you some rad X / radaway
You weren't any more good back then than you are now you dimwit.
@@sarcastaball woosh right over your head , it was a clever satirical joke in reference to the ridiculous standards of safety back then
Who's the dimwit now ?
Marlboro.
Daughters of Radon will be my new thrash metal band name.
Id buy an album
Funny how they already noticed the connection between smoking and lung cancer, but only limited their recommendation to uranium miners.
Yeah that was really interesting. The scientists are like yeah that's a thing...no one pursues it, the end.
With a great majority of the US population being Uranium Miners in recent decades, cigarette smoking is at an all time low.
When I bought a house I looked at the radon charts for the first time. There is a separate chart for smokers. For whatever reason smoking amplifies the risk of exposure to radiation by orders of magnitudes. Beyond the risk of just smoking + radiation exposure.
The danger of smoking was very well known back then, it was just hidden from the public so they could get filthy rich
@@GoldenH because the tobacco plant absorbs metals and their compounds quite well into its leaves and stems. They end up inhaling these metals. It's just nature.
The dust itself from mining. You've got all kinds of additional particles being deposited onto the paper and inhaled through the contents. That's my conjecture.
Any miner should consider smoking hazardous in a mine. But to cause an accident would mean possible publicity and disclosures the government wouldn't have wanted politically or strategically. The mining operation itself was vital to national strategy at the time. It was a race to enlarge the related Civil and military requirements of the time. One mine collapse or disruption would put America behind.
So I think there were multiple angles. It is an interesting footnote of the video that says a lot in a few choice words.
Smoking cigarettes while mining for uranium sounds so American! I feel that freedom!
Smoking was a big thing when that film was made. Just about all the guys that taught me how to mine were smokers. They are no longer with us. I spent twenty-three years mining Uranium. But never smoked. I went on and spent twenty-two years mining gold before retiring. I'm one of the lucky ones.
@@Skunkovitch If you consider wasting your life to make someone else a billionaire (g)raping the earth to make weapons which will kill billions then ya, lucky
Soviet uranium miners did the same, it's just that their cigarettes were half empty.
@@TheeBohemian But they were twice as fat.
The corporate advertising from the tobacco company, even when they knew it was dangerous. Utter freedom. Or the twisted illusion of it.
You know, their recommendation that Uranium miners avoid smoking was very interesting. With the (now public) data available, what they didn't realize they had just stated was that the effects of smoking washed out the signal from *working in a Uranium mine in the '60s*.
That's incredible.
But we didn't know it was bad for us back then.
@@sauercrowder We didn't. They did.
It’s interesting that if you smoke, you can’t be apart of any class action lawsuit because the cigs caused the king damage, not the yellow cake 😒
@@poodlefluids Exactly, I was being facetious
@@samdp42 not true. My grandma smoked and was still eligible for lawsuit money regarding working in uranium mines after he acquired lung cancer
I will use this next time when I'm going into an Uranium mine
Use it next time you go into a house with a basement.
Doing a 13 hour day in a full on respirator is a unique experience. Multiple days a week. It’s like scuba-diving, all about breathing control 😤😶🌫️
Unless you are like me. I sweat so much from head and face that the my respirator will fill to the filter openings and saturate them. Makes it impossible to breathe. Bout passed out the first time it happened.
no one asked
My sinuses would be bleeding by day 2. Oof.
Been working with a regular respirator too, gets hot and more sweaty if working with plenty of effort, untill i got my hand on a 3M Versaflo TR-600 PAPR helmet kit (Kinda like a advanced or scifi respirator maybe) and holy crap its so much better for extended duty, but its main disadvantage in my experience, is the hot air being constantly thrown at your face if working in very hot environment, then the discomfort of driving due to the design then its cost, the set i had costed around 4000$ CAD. (So reflect the spares parts.)
But now i work as a niobium underground miner, no need any of that no more, mostly.
@@shua9347 No one asked you either
15:45 that feeling you get when that darn foil dryer vent tube won't clamp to the house....
So true
Get the tape!
reminds me of going into the crawlspace to do exactly that, the miners at least had the luxury of standing up while doing it
the music really makes it work
Leaves sealed door open
*guitar riff playing*
_Shake hands with danger..._
These old videos are the best, straight facts and no "wow" factor like today's ones
(16:30) plastic tubing has the added benefit of revealing air flow problems in the appearance of softness, in the plastic duct works.
Good thinking!
What a wonderful documentary! I was wondering about ventilation used in early uranium mines but was unable to find many good papers on the subject.
They had two people at the entrance. Dressed in loincloth and waving Giant fans
@@jfamo3552 haha
Meanwhile asbestos consumption was at a record high. Ironic that they mentioned silica dust.
The snow scene on the Wizard of Oz was pure asbestos.
@@alberteinstein3078 that's crazy 🤣
@@alberteinstein3078 That has NEVER been confirmed.
@@Failure_Is_An_Option Everyone remembers the iconic snow covered poppy field scene with snow falling over Dorothy and her friends. White chrysotile asbestos was used to recreate real snow. Also, Ray Bolger, who played the Scarecrow, stuffed his costume with asbestos to protect himself from scenes which involved fire.
@@alberteinstein3078 Cite a source... because I have yet so see evidence. Neither has the rest of the investigative community. Lots of rumors and probability, but zero evidence.
A door can be the difference between a safe atmosphere and one dangerous to health. Gotcha. My uranium is fine if we have a fan.
How i love these old films !
THX for uploading !
Excellent, now I know how to sabotage and contaminate a uranium mine. Learn something new every day.
20:36 Now that's some "duct tape"
Somehow I feel this documentary itself has influenced our image of that decade. Some of the people and some of the scenes like the atom decay and the designer at the table remind me of futurama and other programmes like it.
I like the ventilation but no mention of ventilators or masks.
@@RobertDooley-sl7cp There are some mentions close to the end.
Yeah, sorry but they all looked like this
It had an iconic style that was extremely enthusiastic about the atomic future.
22:20 lmao, that thing losing oil like crazy. You can even see a couple small flickering of light reflecting off the oil dumping out of it.
holy crap I thought that was some dirt they left there but after you said that I was wowed
This feels like something from a fallout arg
Mickey Mantle's father and brother both died in their 30s from working in uranium mines in Oklahoma.
Love the Electron sound effects!
Subscribed
Weird how the sound of the explosion arrived at the same time as the light from the explosion.
they dubbed an explosion sound over the nuke video so it didn't confuse the people watching the video
@@butterbagelgaming3654 Oh, I know, but it left me confused anyway. 😆
Light was slower back then.
I always thought it was the other way around. I thoght sound was much faster back in the day?
I guess this would make sense considering that colors were invented around that time. 😂
@@KoolAidGuy541 Well, the west coast didn't get electric lights until about 1917 so in some rural parts they were still hauling it in by mule.
But good point, sound seemed faster then because the frame rate was slower as well.
Wonderful music!
Dam, I am procrastinating hard right now.
The 3M tape it’s red they make that stuff at Savannah Riverside even has expiration date on X on duct tape great stuff
In most nuclear power plants I've worked, we use a red duct tape by Noshua, that stuff is like insanely strong.
I’m pretty sure the mine I worked at was a bandaid supply company!
In Church Rock , New Mexico for United Nuclear Corp. . In 1979 , I was on my way to catch the day shift cage at entrance called Dosco when I looked down and to my horrific surprise the main tailing pond was no longer damned up, yep the hard rain that fell the night before caused it’s breach. Oh my ! big doo-doo just hit the main ventilation fan hard core....... I saw it with my own eyes😳!
Grew up near Uravan
@@jrallen5417 can you explain that again for the layman please? I don't understand the jargon and would like to understand your experience.
@@jrallen5417 yes me too
@@jrallen5417 it's 2 years later and me too
Anyone else surprised to learn that there was a "US Industrial Film Festival"??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Would that be like forklift Sundance?
Thanks Mike Wallace. He also narrated "Radium is your friend " and "Smoking radium?"
this makes me want to work in a uranium mine from the 60s
makes me just wanna see what its like to live in the 60s
@@KaifamGamingless free for minority’s
@@MrVoyeurific yeah thats true that sucks buy atleast you have a world with minimal technology and everyone isnt on the internet all the time
What you watch at 3am on a Tuesday lol
Even back then they knew people who smoked had higher incedences of lung cancer.
Tobacco plants selectively absorb Plutonium. Given the amount of atmospheric nuclear testing going on at the time, it is fairly safe to assume that much of the tobacco used in cigarette production was mildly radioactive. Prevailing wind patterns in the US meant that quite a lot of fallout actually settled in tobacco growing areas. Much the same processes applied in Russia, which is also a major tobacco producer. Inhaling Alpha emitting particles is a pretty sure way of getting cancer. So while tobacco is harmful, radioactive tobacco is lethal. The banning of atmospheric nuclear testing has paradoxically made smoking a somewhat safer activity.
They knew since the Fifties, at least.
Miners in Colorado during the WW2 Manhattan Project were usually native Americans who had invented tobacco.
@@karhukivi I'm sure they grew very old then.
invent the plant?
these are amazing
No one asked
@BlisteredThumb there's a difference between making a statement on someone's content and telling a story on someone's content. But hey, you got me, man.
3:35 why is that miner so caked up??? 😳😳🥵🥵
Gosh darnit, there's nothing like the fresh smell of uranium in the morning!
The daughters of Radon... Wonderful name.
We started off by mining for precious stones, then we mined coal, next for gold, afterwards for fossil fuel, later for uranium, recently for Lithium, and nowadays for crypto.
not anymore for crypto.
How to downplay the severity of working in a uranium mine
Very old footage. You can be reassured that today the miners' unions are fully aware of all risks and have independent medical advice as well as the H&S agencies who also monitor safety and health. The mines with the really high uranium grades and radiation hazard potential, like Cigar lake, are mined by robots.
I think that’s the PR point 😂
@@philippal8666 You think union leaders are ignorant of H&S issues?
Haha EXACTLY what I thought! Haha
Old good quality safety movie, nowadays we lack such producions.
"should be remedied" lol
Those old reports are interesting
This was interesting, I learned alot
Miners from "Hills have Eyes"
this must've been before we knew carcinogens caused cancer - he refers to the observation that non smoking miners had less cases of cancer. later in the video we also get to see the duct tape actually being used for what it was made for
Does anyone know what year this is from?
6:08 A LoFi Beats to Study / Measure Radon Daughter Product Airborne Concentrations To
LoFi beats to develop cancer
What is that Rn decay series 💀💀💀💀
I'd still rather work like this in a Uranium mine than in a coal mine
ME TOO!!!
Yes
The world spends its life trying to keep itself in Balance!
The very first comment in the film...
" Except the Japanese."
This video is OSHA approved 🤣
OSHA wasn't around when this film was made. Today MSHA oversees mining.
They had a tarp so all good
You couldn’t pay me enough to work there!
health and safety
training and equipment
duct tape and how to apply
“Smoking cobalt cigarettes”
My MSHA sense is tingling.
My dad and stl schools made me watch this and understand the value of life and threats and humanity means camrodery
Ironicaly I'm sure many miners in the word (outside of the west) would kill for that type of ventilation.
Not sure if I would rather be irradiated in that mine or consatly be covered in coal particles and die from coal lung.
Margret thatcher may have made people go though a real rough time but Im in my 20s and have been to uncountable funerals of old timers that died from coal mining, black lung, other stuff or cancer.
When I would visit my grandparents who lived not that far from a mining area they would threaten me by "be good or your going down pit to work" down pit or the pit was slang for a coal mine.
That meant nothing to me at the time and I was lucky as only my step grandfather was a forman for one mine, he never mined but did have to inspect some areas in the mine.
He died in agony in his 70s of black lung.
I had the chance to see a decommissioned coal mine and it looked worse than hell.
It had all the modcons and safety stuff installed and they said we would need to use the shower room after and a respirator.
I thought they are just teasing us.
I had to do a waiver form.
It looked like hell on earth, I spent more time on the shower than in the mine and it took a full week to get all the coal out.
I think big coal mines in eastern Kentucky are still going or recently shut.
One of the many reasons coal must be phased out.
I work in an underground coal mine and I couldn’t disagree with you more
@@benjaminray2425 Sir, just because you are comfortable choking on coal dust, does not mean the rest of us are.
@@NimbleJack3 I don’t think you understand. You only inhale dust if you choose to. Ventilation systems put in place do an excellent job keeping it out of my lungs. As for the showering part, I spend 20 minutes in the shower after a 16 hour shift and come home perfectly clean 🤷♂️ I’m sure the mine he visited was decommissioned for more reason than one.
Just imagine how bad it must to be on a coal mine with no safety regulations. I highly doubt that some countries really care about air filtering or the well-being of its miners.
Whose 'ranium?
Hilarious they talk about dust and smoking, yet not a single person wears a face mask.
We had face masks, but they were usually worn around your neck. They just got in the way if you were a smoker.
I found it funny that they mention silica. Apparently this information was lost for a long time as silicosis is the new asbestosis
They didn't know it was as serious back then.
People didnt know Just how bad dust would be for you. And facemasks were even more uncomfortable to work in than now.
hmm
*upbeat glockenspiel*
Doctor gestures towards X-rays showing potential tumors.
7:20 so it’s ok if you have 1000😊😊 that chart has 2000 and 3000 working levels but resent research say 4 is the max!
Also I love how they say that levels become significantly higher above 1000, but it's a linear graph. That section rubbed me the wrong way for some reason.
I did hvac
Check out the name of the mine at 6:42.
I can't make out what it said. It looks like "Cock Suckers"?
You won't catch me in that ☢️ hole without a mask
With that music, what could possibly go wrong?
Uranium mine: No smoking.
Miners: 1 fag won't hurt anyone.
It surprised me how they just ducktaped the ends of the tubes, like you couldn't just weld glue or weld them?
Welding thin metal isnt easy, Ductape is a pretty good compromise.
Duct tape (hence the name) does the job very well and it does not require machinery (like welders) or skilled workers to apply. Also, welding thin steel is incredibly hard. As for glue; that would require one piece of duct to be thinner than the other, yet fit into the other piece almost perfectly, which would be difficult as well.
@@Inesophet true but any GOOD tig welder can weld thin metals. its impressive stuff
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That's exactly what DUCT tape was made for... taping ducts.
Also these air ducts would have to be disassembled at some point when the mining in that section became complete. So permanently welding things together would not be good.
Anyone know where to buy the soundtrack. Helps me with insomnia and erectile dysfunction.
Jim Cameron- No that’s damn funny dude!!!
How much of this stuff does it take to create a decent amount of energy.. I see no reason why we can't just fully power everything with the energy these elements give away
Furthermore how does the most enriched form come into existence on earth naturally
We use a lot of energy as a species… that said uranium provides an immense amount of energy from just a small amount of it
We can. One day we'll run out of oil. There's enough energy in Uranium to keep us going to thousands of years.
So where is going this radiation gas after venting?
The same place it goes when it escapes from the ground naturally. It gets diluted into the atmosphere until it decays. Radon's half life is only 3.8 days.
It is vented in massive quantities into the outside air, to be wind blown in any direction and settle. Not the same as UN-DISTURBED Uranium deposits that have been underground for all time ! Once the ore has been broken and exposed to the air for Radon escape, exposure happens ! There is NO SAFE LEVEL of Radiation Exposure,... AT ALL !
@@stargazer7644 However, opening up mines and exposing more uranium ore to the air INCREASES the mass of radioactive elements exposed and venting out. The mine openings, ore transport, ore crushing, ore processing and the massive ore tailings that were all UNDERGROUNDS before being opened up and exposed !
funny how he says "billions of americans"
I built space craft with laser guns that flew in space
this is adorable.
2:20 They had the meme font back then? 😂
Fun fact, the U.S. dept. of Interior invented memes so that miners would have something to chuckle modestly at after their lungs give out
that guy on the thumbnail looks like tom hanks
If man/woman had restraint, there would be no issue here folks👍🏼
I see a bright future for robotic mining! Instead of firing those experts, they can work up top operating those robots. They'll be safe, still work outdoors (if they choose), and they're not losing their jobs to those machines they operate.
Machines will always take jobs away. That's sort of the appeal for big companies. You lay off expensive workers for cheap machines.
The upside is that workers are then free to do other things; often times less taxing and dangerous. Lower paying, maybe in some cases, but the economy will eventually adjust to reflect the change; and those workers have more ability to become more specialized. Think of the miner who gets replaced by a robot, but then becomes a consultant for mines, or a remote operator of the robots where his prior experience gives him a huge advantage.
@@thomastheawesome4822 nothing wrong with that. For a more efficient and reliable service, I'd take robots over people any day.
Protection against Radiation = Wearing a helmet
How many percent of miners globally being at risks are being protected in the ways described in this video? I suspect it’s near zero percent or what?
I had a similar impression of this video. It seems strangely progressive and safety-conscious considering the time period. Then again, anyone who has worked for a corporate entity is familiar with "best practices" and knows to follow them only when the higher-ups are around.
I've read maybe 3% at most, miners are properly protected in the entire world.
Look at cobalt mining in certain parts or countries of Africa. They dig with their literal hands, or basic tools (like a shank of metal, or a hammer) with no reinforcement of the mining tunnels. Tunnel collapses happen often and many people die.
You would think in this day and age, mining would be done "properly". But that is not the case. Mining in a lot of places, is very primitive.
If you think I'm joking, go look up Cobalt mining in parts of Africa. This is amongst other types of mining as well.
@@kryptokrypto702 I’ve seen these videos and it’s a huge disgrace how the supply chain gets more dirty the further you get back into it. When people go into their Best Buy or other consumer store everything looks clean and neat and nobody thinks about all the misery involved in obtaining the raw materials.
@@garetheckley7018 Are you mocking me?
They have no health or safety. Children are going into mines, and the tunnels are collapsing because they are not properly reinforced.
How is that for "not being their first worries".
Starving or being raped is definitely a bad thing, but dying while mining is much worse when their employers don't care at all. Obviously they don't make much money at all either, mere dollars or less a day in a trillion dollar supply chain.
Of course starving is on their mind, which is why they go to mine in the first place. Also R is bad, but probably just as bad as any other place on earth, R is not endemic to "only mines".
The main thing is, Cobalt mining and most other mining in 3rd world countries is deadly.
@@garetheckley7018 You said R and going hungry is worse than death? I get the feeling you don't even know what you said.
What is your point then?
I know the disgusting working conditions of 3rd world mines.
No need to tell me how bad it is.
Remember...we are talking about mines.
Uranium fever
There's a reason they only use machines in mines like this.most of those men probably died not long after retirement.
😎
I'm trying to get points here
Guys, how about wearing dust masks?
Dust masks won't stop radon gas.
I mined gold and nuke mineral
Who the hell was this video made for? Uranium miner owners?! Hahaha they’re all over the place with the information!
Yea save the miners, vent the poison gas
That's my family
I built cancer classes for radation on cancer
Is “daughters” an actual term in this industry? I’ve been a nuclear explosion/energy nerd for decades and this is the first I’m hearing of this term which is embarrassing to admit.
Yes, "daughter products" are what nuclear isotopes decay into. Although, the "Radium A-F" nomenclature is either outdated or above my head. I've only been through Chem223 in school sp far. It seems like in the 70s and 80s there was a lot of standardization that happened in the sciences on account of IUPAC, but some of the older naming schemes have stuck around to some degree.
Radon Daughters was commonly used in the past. Now they use the term Radon Progeny.
I built cruise missle designed it it got stolen out of my house
did anyone in a Factorio search end up here?
Strange there was no mention of piping sulfuric acid into the mine. They clearly don’t know what they’re talking about
So basically wear a respirator PROPERLY, and work in such a mine for WAY less than a year or you'll irreversibly screw yourself!
The respirator blocks the daughter products already floating in the air from entering your lungs, but it doesn't block the radon gas from entering your lungs and creating new daughter products on the other side of the filter. That's why they said respirators are only for temporary short time use. They don't replace proper ventilation.
I dug gold millions
Luke skywalker knows
7:50 when this video innocently linked smoking to lung cancer decades before it's major acceptance...
13:04 under vent pipe, it's the face of radon, it's laughting about the workers, cause all measures are useless, they will all end up with cancer💀
Laugh it up fuzz ball. Radon gas is present almost everywhere. You're sucking it in right now.