What Happens To Nuclear Waste?
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Nuclear waste is an extremely dangerous substance and must be disposed of by professionals, dressed head to toe in safety gear. But how do they actually get rid of nuclear waste after a major accident like Chernobyl? Watch today's amazing new video to find out how radioactive nuclear chemicals are actually disposed of, without contaminating everything and everyone around!
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You need to put it in a separate recycling bin, with a little radioactive atom symbol.
yeah this is big brain time
SCIENCE
One way to it
Three Mile Island was a very minor event. Not even a disaster. Most folks affected only got about as much radiation from the incident as several dental x-ray exams.
Yet the fear after TMI contributed to the cancellation of over 100 reactors, leading to hundreds of thousands of air pollution deaths from coal that should’ve been avoided.
@@eriklakeland3857 And the best part coal Gives off radioactive elements and throws it into the air.
Hugh difference between a one time xray and having a radioactive isotopes inside your body. You are either ignorant or a tool of big nuke.
@@donovan6320 funny how the massive amounts carbon ¹⁴ being dumped from the Fukushima diachi into the ocean. Yet a little carbon¹⁴ from coal is soon horrible.
@@fnulnu5109 Fukushima was bad as well. That being said, that was a completely preventable incident, The blueprints they were given had they had actually followed would have prevented water from getting into the facility.
The equivalent would be like if I sorely mismanaged a coal plant and neglected the fireproofing systems and set the forest and a local town burning down. The majority of said town and a lot of forest acreage are destroyed in the incident. Then people start making claims about coal because of that. Keep in mind, nuclear power is the safest form of electricity overall.
2020: *_vigorously takes notes_*
Napoleon shut up
Napoleon shut mouth
🤣🤣
Lol
@Napoleon Bonaparte, go commit not talk
"What happens to nuclear waste?"
Me: The lunch ladies at school give it to children
@05 19-20 Maria Sirleshtova its a joke.
05 19-20 Maria Sirleshtova if only the titanic missed the point as much as you did
:((
Real men are lunch men
05 19-20 Maria Sirleshtova lol it’s joke
Black screen must be a missing piece, I must find the hidden scenes
"measured in half-life"
yes a lot of radiation in half-life, you're right
lol
@William Magee half life is a game made by Valve, I dont know anything about half life but there must be alot of radiation
Feed me...my COOOIIIINNNN...........Dr.FremaaAAAAAAAAANNNnnnnn?
Funny joke
Yea
Every time he said half-life I thought of Gordon Freeman.
We all did
AlphaCharlie9er he invented half life.
SaMe BrO :DdD
Half life is bad
It was the second thing I thought of
3:46 - 3:57 was this meant to happen infographics? I think one of your editors messed up and accidentally forgot to add a portion of animation there.
Yh lol
I also noticed
Yup
So my computer monitor is OK after all
@@thehotwheelsreviews 🤣😂excellent
@Infographics show. Your interpretation of radioactivity is a little off. Radioactivity is directly but inversely proportional to half life. The longer the half life the less radioactivity. Secondly what is the type of radiation being emitted? The type of radioactivity determines how to safely handle the isotopes.
"A little off"
It's completely bonkers, on the level of someone who's heard the information from other uninformed people, and is regurgitating it after spending 5 minutes looking at wikipedia.
You can literally gain more knowledge spending the 12 minutes that this video takes on google instead.
zolikoff And who are u talking that? Maybe he just did go to google and search it to tell the people. He didn't say anywhere that he didn't search it from google, so who are u going to tell him that?
If UA-camrs knew what they were talking about in their "fact" videos they'd have a job doing something other than making videos all day long.
@@richardsaar2874 is English not your first language? He's agreeing with the person he's replying to but saying it's more than just a little off. It's bonkers rather than just a little off. He's insulting infographics show, not the person he's replying to.
The high level waste is not at all green goo that's kept in regular barrels like in the Simpsons. They are solid highly radioactive rods stored in robust containers called dry casks which are practically indistructable. In a test they have been rammed into a wall while on the back of both a flatbed truck and a train before being submerged into a pool of jet fuel set ablaze and the cask still remained intact.
Warning. Wikipedia spoilers here
Toxic substances are often depicted as green goo/liquid because in Victorian period there was very popular green dye called venice green, I think? It contained high doses of cyjanide. People would use it for wallpapers, dresses etc. For accident involving radioactive materials, like demon core, I've heard of light blue cloud from ionized air particles. Objects made from uranim glass glow in bright, almost neon green though
It's amazing how much they got wrong. I work in nuclear Refuel. Tmi for instance was human error.
@@nosferatadentata965 -the green stereotype might also come from the popularity of uranium glass in the 1900s, which glowed a greenish-yellow. Pretty much the only interaction people had with radioactive material, tho it’s obviously nowhere near the level of radioactivity in the materials used for nuclear plants, albeit still not safe.
@@nosferatadentata965 Right. That blue light is called Cherenkov radiation.
nuclear power holds nuclear waste
me: lets drink I wanna become strong
The super power your gonna get is cancer
@@TotallyKai606 probably even death
I can see the result on your face kingofmemes😂
To correct a major detail of the video: shorter half-life = more unstable, more dangerous. The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the amount of time is required for half of it to have decayed into a more stable element, so the quicker it is able to do that means the faster it is pumping out radiation.
Not strictly correct
Half Life: Decay
Radiation is Not a problem, thoughts like this ARE.
"The world is less likely to end now..."
Don't speak just yet, it's still 2020.
Right!? It's just been one disaster after another in 2020! 😫
@@joshglover2370 I just pieced something interesting together.
I just learned that in Feb of 2020, right before everything happened, there was a very eerie short wave transmission on the Russian buzzer short wave station. It was a bunch of screams...like a torture...that were broadcast.
Probably not even related however my theory is interesting to me.
@@jpjp9111 Are you thinking Russia has something to do with everything that has been going on?
@@joshglover2370 There are those mysterious (ex?)military radio stations in Russia (and probably all over the eastern bloc, for that matter) with encrypted messages. Very fascinating. Look it up if you're interested.
2022: threat of nuclear bombings from Russia.
I think it should be mentioned that stuff with a longer half life is also less radioactive. uranium 238 does have a half life of 4.4 billion years, but is mostly harmless because of it. "non-radioactive" stuff, is really just radioactive stuff with an infinite half-life, if you think about it.
Also there is a large difference between alpha, beta and gamma radiation. Alpha radiation for example can already be shielded by something like a piece of cardboard or aluminium foil, while you'll need thick lead plating for gamma radiation.
2020: *WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN*
2021: aw man 2020 is taking our ideas I guess we’ll go with zombie apocalypse
😂😂😂
@Owen Yin all yers after 2023: *mike wazowski with sullivan face*
I- 183 oop 17 seconds ago
2020:write that down,write that down
Yeah the next thing left this year is a nuclear explosion or war
If you're America probably dump it somewhere while no one is looking...
We shoot it from the air.
Why America? Other countries would/still do the same. The USSR and Russia did it way worse.
What are yall talking about? Every american knows we purify our drinking water with nuclear remnants.
half life fans really getting excited about hearing the words half life even in a different context. wild
I keep thinking of the computer game half life and now I'm considering on getting a pair of that guy with the crowbar cool glasses.
2020: you’ll find out soon
Yes
@Napoleon Bonaparte ...
Napoleon Bonaparte 😂😂
“ and if somebody wasn’t handing the planet safety correctly, like a bald bumbler from Springfield”
*Massachusans sweat profusely*
Takes a shower comes back to see a video so I don’t have to sleep 🤣
Have a goodnight or day who evers reading this :p
Night for me, thanks though. :)
You too!
Thanks
1 am on the dot here, thanks
I'm pooping just so ya kno 😉😘
It gets sent to Cleveland
I looked at your channel and keep it up
✔️ ssooooo
Try a girl😂
@@ponzdetailing5128 when a looking cool shaped syringe pipe some can seeing is a injection or cell battery for hover vechiel
2:43 I thought she was Ms. Thickums.
When the narrator said, "Doh!", I felt that
What is infographics talking about? There is already an underground nuclear disposal site at Hanford in Washington state, USA. It is a system of underground caves 5000 feet underground. The site at the entrance of the caves was a warehouse and laboratory where the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was designed and built.
“These radiation elements have a Half Life of a long time”
Every Half Life Fan: *klaxon beat intensifies*
*History of American Civil War Explained - Part 3 * They are making a truly great video. Won't believe it? you can find the video and let me know.
Wait so if I come into contact with something radioactive... I am technically low level radioactive waste?
Infographics : "Current Space Shuttles..."
*Space Nerd cringes*
Aww yeah I felt so bad after the Colombia disaster. Also you now I watched all of every demo 2 mission's livestreams start to finish
Those stereotypical giant cones don't have any part in generating power.
Their function is to cool the water coming out the other side of the process.
The earth won't cry with dumping of nuclear waste. That's what keeps its core hot.
7:46 Why are there penguins? They’re talking about the arctic.
The penguin empire has invaded the arctic
ApexInstinct That explains it
@@apexinstinct ...or should we say a *_cold_* war has started?
I'm not sure if you guys improved your animation department but your shows are looking better every day!
We’re actually working on an enzyme that eats away radioactive waste
How is that going?
There is a lot of visual fear mongering in this video. Both in the depiction of what nuclear waste actually looks like, and the way it is very easily stored and managed.
Every time I have a question, I look it up on UA-cam, and you guys have the answer. Thanks!!
Finland kinda solved this problem already, vaults inside the bedrock that hold the waste safely for 100,000 years. Look it up, pretty interesting stuff
High-end bank robbers: **stumble upon such vault**
Also high-end bank robbers: Are we a joke to you?
That’s impossible you can’t break bedrock
Pretty interesting stuff will happen when it will be found out that there are cracks in the rock and groundwater leaks emerged
@@alth000 well. Thats not gonna happen. Look it up. Tom Scott made a video about it
@@Labargoth Actually we can. Nuclear power doesn't make that much waste.
As someone who genuinely feared about Godzillla growing up, thank you for presenting this horrifying reality.
Life must be difficult for you
But I loved him growing up.
Please can you speak whis me on messenger please
this is far from reality sorry
This horrifying "imagination of alarmist people", you mean. Reality is something else.
Deep sea subduction zones. Encase high level waste in spherical casks made of osmium (the densest element) with a shell about a foot think, and drop them into the ocean above deep sea subduction zones (where one continental plate is being pushed under another). The spherical shape is to ensure the maximum strength and to improve the possibility of the casks rolling down hill toward the junction between plates. The goal would be to get the Earth itself to eat the waste.
Funnily enough nuclear fission reactors are a geological phenomenon. There is one at the center of the planet, but also throughout history many natural reactors near the surface. Look up G. Micheal Hearndon (PhD).
Oil field boreholes off the California coast move into the subduction zone of the pacific/north American plate. The best solution is to use a series of reactor designs that use up waste from other designs that extract the maximum power from the fissile material and leave the minimum waste which is small enough in mass to drop into a borehole and over the eons, it will be carried back in towards the earth's core.
The way he hit the Homer was hilarious lol
6:47 I didn't know Abby and Lorain worked at the nuclear plant.
When you realize there is a nuclear power plant near Springfield....
I live about 10 miles from a nuclear plant, it's pretty chill. They're turning waste into glass.
Did you know that living near a coal plant exposes you to more radiation than living near a nuclear plant does?
You liv in Springfield I'm coming
lol an infographics animated Homer Simpson? genius!
That dough sound haha
Well, also solar pannells are really harmful for the environment after they reach their end.
How so?
@@TheDoctorginger the chems and materials to make them are very hazardous and often rely on child labor to give the materials needed to make them.
but not as much as nuclear waste, and thats also why wind and water energy are better solutions
Haven’t watched but I assume that they just put it away and cover it up.
Yes
That is the best solution with current generation nuclear waste.
The problem is that nobody can tell you exactly where to put it and if it is safe.
@@puo2123 Well current gen nuclear waste is actually not very radioactive, in fact we are every time figuring out how to get more power out of lower and lower radioactive materials. We can also use the waste multiple times, IIRC with most modern reactors only about 2% is actually unusable after reaction. That leaves quite a lot of reusable "Waste".
@@donovan6320 thats just a dream... wake up...
My friend: I wonder where nuclear waste goes me: Finland it all goes under Finland
To be accurate, the world's first nuclear power station to generate electricity for a power grid started operations in June 27, 1954 in Obninsk of the Soviet Union. So Fermi was not opening a power plant (like in 0:14), but supervised a first sustained chain reaction in 1942.
Always kinda wondered if it would be feasible to build nuclear plants inside mountains. Wouldn't that provide waste disposal as well as a decent barrier in case of any melt downs?
That would only work if the mountain nuclear plant remained completely sealed forever. If there were any entry or exit points, such as access for humans or getting the generated electricity out of the mountain, this would pose a weakness and escape route in the case of any meltdown. Therefore, the shielding of the mountain would be pointless. Only long-term storage (dumping) needs such a solution and an underground mountain (deep digging) is better than an overground one.
Let’s ruin a mountain.
@@indigo2398 I know, right? The backwards thinking is mindboggling.
@@sonar3108 lets ruin countless fields and oceanbeds with wind turbines
@@gracida6 how do you ruin a field with wind turbines
Great video I’ve always wondered what they do with those.
I like how homer simpson is at 0:44
Used this for a project, and got an A!
me casually making a massive nuclear powerplant in a game and then dumping the waste in the ocean, also me : O O P S
Subnautica?
nah
There was a kid in the USA who really did build a nuclear reactor in his aunt's garden... Even FBI intervened. They nicknamed him atomic scout or something around those lines. He would steal and dismantle smoke getectors which contains a Tiny piece of radioactive metal, I don't remember which...
Looove this narrator
woah the only comment by a member
It just gets left there.
I see the infographics show I click, nice and simple
6:56 dude has two heads
I think intentional because he was carrying what looks to be a first aid kit with the radioactive symbol on it
Its on purpose
Yay! Someone noticed!!!
Your IQ HAS TO BE 200
@@saturn_v3362 yeah prolly
Plot twist it is all the bad parents
From what I've seen it rents a room in my house
That’s crazy I live like 45 minutes from Derry township In PA I never knew that wow that’s crazy
Why does this video have so many editing mistakes...
2023: thinking what disaster should I use
0:20 ayyy I live near the power plant at the bottom of texas
Nah fam the nuclear waste is disposed in detroit. Lol
@1:28 This is extremely inaccurate - there was no cleanup of the surrounding area, because one wasn't necessary. The cleanup effort was contained to the plant and the reactor vessel itself.
@1:48 Inaccurate again - almost no one is recycling fuel at this point, largely due to political pressure brought about by anti-nuclear hysteria.
You guys should do a video on the benefits of thorium reactors
Love your vids keep up the Great
Chernoboyl was great series
But I don't want to see another season.
So keep nuclear waste safe and secure
you are misleading people when the mouse “eats” nuclear waste and turns into a monster
whoever wrote the space travel bit needs to update their information. the space shuttle hasn't been flown since 2011 and is retired. but wait, there's this other guy......
Do a video on greatest robbery thefts who never got caught
A Russian watching this video: my fellow comrades we must take notes to build better nuclear power plant TAKE NOTES!!
Find this video on youtube um what
Please can you speak with me on messenger please
Um hello FBI theres a man with a noodle name asking about nuclear energy
Comrades taking notes to build a better industry eh 🤔
Me: Wanting to visit Chernobyl..
U can
Please can you speak with me 😌 n messenger please
"Get out of here, STALKER"
You’re wrong about the cement in barrels method. It take 5 times more volume. Glass processing of HLW is the best option. Geological disposal is many times safer than storing them on the surface, you cannot keep radioactive waste exposed to the biosphere.
2:38 theres a power plant in sydney, australia
Need to get a few in New Zealand too. Then Jacinda cant tax everyone into serfdom for using natural gas!
We just need better technology to deal with the waste. Like dealing with the space junk floating out surrounding earth as we speak.
As a french engineering student : been there, done that.
NUCLEAR POWER FOR DAYS!!!
@svenm sandity I beg to differ. In french engineering schools, we often study nuclear power plants because they have a diverse structure that involves many different types of engineers. Besides, physics is one of the most important parts of engineering.
I love this channel it teaches me alot
Do the Researh!!!
Imagine we’re in year 2020.... HALF LIFE OF 20,000 sheeesh. Plutonium gonna write stories bout us.
You should have covered thorium reactors, they are safer and can consume nuclear waste
Trump eats it. That's how he gets his healthy orange glow.
Orange man glows😳
Now it makes sense...
Excellent.......
6:46 lol two heads
Earth is cancelled.
Got some tickets to mars, who wanna come?
Note:- Karens and Boomers are not allowed. Only GenZ accepted.
Count me in! Get your spacesuits everyone.
I’m down
Just wanna die tbh
im down
Me bro
I hope ya'll who read this comment will accomplish your dreams in life.
@ Ollie: Thanks, i hope you accomplishe all your dreams.
@theInfoGraphicsShow which nuclear power plant exactly is it that you Marked in Jutland (Denmark) at around 00:29. There's no nuclear power plants in Denmark..
you did not mention the Molten Salt Reactor which is basically safer and more efficient by orders of magnitude and it was developed in the 60s
No matter how fast i click im never first
Me too
Heyyyyyyyy I’m not first but at least I was here. :)
Really the short half-life are the dangerous stuff. Like the stuff less than 6 hours is really dangerous stuff but after like 4 days the stuff is basically all gone. The stuff with long half-life in contrast is far less radioactive and dangerous. What this means is stuff first taken out of the reactor is very radioactive and dangerous. This radioactively drops off very fast at first. This is why waste fuel rods need to be stored in water at first. After a relatively short period of time the radioactively drops off massively and the waste can be stored concrete caskes. Yes they need have some passive air cooling but really it's not much to be concerned about. What's left after fifty years or so is mostly long life radioactive materials that are not very dangerous.
Hey I’m from the future did you guys get thru world war 3 after the 5th round of corona and the giant nuclear waste spill? This video reminded me of it
Who here whants the infografic show to show there face. Like is you whant them too👍
B-
But....
They have
no
Omfg the animations are different now and it’s freaking me out
They started a second channel with a new art style. I didnt like it. As you said, they kinda weirded me out. So dont be surprised to see a few "newer" animations.
I toured 3 mile island when o was at Penn State Harrisburg in middletown about 10 years ago, that place is cool. It was sad when they shut it down a few years ago and all stories seem to be exaggerated.
And the increased cancer and stuff probably has to do with better detection in all those countries.
Btw Ireland 0:21 has no nuclear power plants
Not all of the worlds top economies have nuclear power as well Ireland is 4th in GDP per capita and has no nuclear power.
2020 be like
Ayy let me add this to my disaster collection
Chernobyl like
Infographics show please don't give 2020 more ideas
I was in an online class watching a Infographics show episode about the T-34 Russian tank and then my teacher talked about a nuclear accident that happened in my area and I googled it to be met by another infographics episode.... nice
Bruh they called 3 cooling towers a nuclear reactor, those towers are emitting steam and are just used to cool water down
They use to bring it here to Yucca Mountain in Northern Nevada. Right and near the the world changing Super Volcano near Yellowstone. That's a whole lot bad sitting there. Or should I say Stupidity. 🎼 History shows us again and again. How nature points out the folly of man. 🎼 In this topic Infographic does it again Spot on!
"Half-Life" is the amount of time it takes for a certain radiated element to split into half.