If people were better educated on radiation, we'd have more nuclear power plants and would be able to transition off of fossil fuels sooner. I am grateful for channels like yours and Kyle Hill's that bring reason into the conversation and highlight the absurd popular beliefs about everything nuclear.
@@naughtiusmaximus830 We also have much better designs for nuclear plants these days and out of the many plants that were active, we've only had two major disasters, one of which caused by a worst case natural disaster, triggering a meltdown. Environmental damage at Fukushima was prevented because of quick response and good building design, despite its lack of upkeep over the decade prior. The worst tragedy of Fukushima is the fact that it was completely preventable. They needed a regulatory commission to keep the plant properly maintained. They needed to listen to the warnings about the vulnerabilities. Thousands would not have lost their lives scrambling to flee the potential danger, because the plant would have weathered the tsunami and no evacuation would have been called had it been maintained appropriately. The Chernobyl areas are contaminated, but contrary to popular belief, not uninhabitable. Hundreds returned to live in the exclusion zone shortly after the accident ( months to years). Not many are left these days, but they've all made it to old age. Most are 70+. Wildlife and plant life also flourish.
Good garage talk. I used to be on a hazmat team and our biggest concern in responding to incidents was that the new news media would show up followed by an elected official.
I got a Geiger counter reading from my kitty litter. I suspect my cat may be clandestinely assembling a fission device for nefarious purposes. Now I can get the BBC to break the story!
Manufactured hype is what makes mass media viable. Playing on the general fear that anything that emits ionizing radiation equates to terrifying and sinister. Glad your perspective set it straight!
@@RadioactiveDrew I have thoroughly enjoyed your content, both fascinating and educational. Easily one of my most favorite discoveries on YT in the past year. I also have to complement your impressive videography skills involving breathtaking drone footage and artistic use of time lapse. Thank you and keep up the adventures, have fun!
Thanks for your insight, Drew. I think it would be informative if you could give some statistics here. Such as radiation levels of Uranium 235 ore vs purified Polonium 210 or other more common sources.
@@RadioactiveDrew This video also reminded me of the media's response when a dry cask of processed "waste" was returned to Australia's only research reactor at ANSTO (which is only a few kilometres from me). A news report I saw from one of the commercial networks had footage of the cask being unloaded from a ship at night. So, whilst playing footage of the dry cask being unloaded under the sodium vapour floodlights of the port, the newsreader says, "this glowing cask full of radioactive waste ... " - my head was actually sore from the facepalm. The comedic ridiculousness of it aside, it was a bloody low blow to the fledgling movement for nuclear energy in Australia. But curiously, generating electricity from nuclear power is still illegal in Australia; sure was a strange thing seeing the fossil fuel lobby and the "green" movement work together on that one. Nuclear power has such a bad image in Australia, and a lot of downright ignorance underpins it. There are some absurd double standards, such as an obliviousness to the INSANE amount of yellowcake exported from Australia while people lose their minds over a truckload of medical isotopes passing through their neighbourhood. However bad it is, we're working on it. There are some great organisations like Nuclear for Climate doing good stuff. The federal opposition (sadly, it was the nutty right-wing party formulating the only intelligent and constructive policy in its history) has put the nuclear question on its policy agenda, and calling for "dispassionate and cool-headed" debate, etc. So, it's something ... Given Australia's abundance of uranium and thorium (and substantial rare-earth mining industry), and the millions upon millions of uninhabited square kilometres, it is just INSANE that we haven't taken the nuclear route but fallen in absolute love with coal - and we apparently just can't give it up ... :(
Do you have "Give tour of 4X4 back country setup and also show equipment used for collecting samples" video on your list? Great video as always, glad to see these topics in a different light.
The story had more holes than a swiss cheese. I mean why did they even arrest that guy? Nothing was found when they searched his house. This was one of those news stories where I just shake my head and close the tab. It's sad that we have ignorant reporters which don't ask the right questions, and it's even more sad that we have ignorant authorities, especially for the person suffering the consequences.
@@pazsion The BBC writes "He was released on bail until April.", make up your own mind what that is supposed to mean. The articles are so nonsensical I quickly gave up trying to find out more.
@@stefantrethan telling is that there are zero followup articles on it. For all we know, they found hand tools, including a chisel used in one of Iran's uranium mines. Yes, Iran has uranium mines and uranium processing plants. Built after the west cut off all supplies to Iran after their revolution. Deeming European suppliers unreliable, they built their own. Iran also has two reactors, one low enriched (under 20% U-235) power reactor and one high enriched (over 20%, but less than the 85+% weapons grade U-235) research and medical isotope production reactor. I started my military career in nuclear weapons. Suffice it to say, if Iran wanted nuclear weapons, they'd have a few thousand of them by now. If they wanted to sneak a dirty bomb's parts into the UK, they'd simply use a diplomatic parcel. They'd probably soil themselves if someone entered the country with pitchblende dusted gloves.
I wish people wouldn't look at antiques such as radium pocket watches, vaseline glass and fiestaware as super dangerous items, yes they are radioactive but the actual beauty that these items have are somewhat overlooked when one finds out that these items are radioactive, it's just a shame. Anyways this is a very good video as usual and thank you for this dose of truth!, All the Best.
Thanks for the video and the subject it covers. A light coat of anti-seize compound on the hub of your truck will prevent the wheel from rusting to the hub.
When they ship Mo-99/TC-99m to hospitals, it's shipped in containers in aircraft. If one of those were to spill it would be a significant radiological incident. Then there are airplanes that used depleted uranium for balancing, like in 747s built before 1981, which had about 950 pounds on board.
Don't worry about these isotopes. None of the isotopes with half-life less than 24 hours requires a license to work with. Mo-99 is a 65 hours half-life isotope, so it is near the same. Two months will be enough to reduce its activity to the background level. By the way, these containers have rather small amount of Mo-99 each. DU is also used as a radiation shield and has its own UN2909 number.
Someone I know had a couple of hundred kilos of depleted uranium balance weights from a decommissioned 747. He kept them in his garage. I inquired about the possibility of getting a pocket piece of the DU but he pointed out the technical issues involved in cutting uranium so I had to do without. I don't know if he's still got the weights.
They use depleted uranium in the construction of large jets like the 787, 757, and the like to help balance the weight distrution of the airframe. They use it because it is very compact but very heavy.
I was more worried about that Jack rocking off the vehicle than I was about the uranium. I was reaching through my screen trying to see a jack stand or a wheel chock somewhere 😅
Spot on Drew! Education tells the truth and the truth shall set you free. Spray some “Fluid film” on the wheel where it meets the hub it will keep the aluminum from corroding and the hub from rusting. Works great in the salt belt.
Hey drew would it be possible to make a video discussing just how dangerous some radioactive items and elements are. kind of discuss what levels ie. uSv/r, mr/h, cpm etc. are actually dangerous and what to actually watch out for. i know there is more that goes into that such as how active the radiation source is and the energy levels etc.
it's sad about the miss information that is given out. so many people just don't know or understand radiation . your video's show how easy uranium is to find. I am in Boston NY and I am quite Shure I can find some radioactive minerals around hear. Look at wat the press did to 3 mile island nuclear plant. that no too far from me. one state away. so many scared people. what was released was radioactive inherit gasses that had short half life. I rotate my tires on my car as well. I check air pressure and tier wear and my breaks every oil change. over 200K miles great tire life . I use torque bar socket when putting them on. I got torque wrench as well .😀
Thanks for this video Drew, if people realised we have several areas in the UK where Uranium was mined and its continual presence all under us here 🙄 A few rocks found at Heathrow is laughable !!
You need to tighten your lugnuts more. If you can remove your lugnuts with that little ryobi or whatever it is, then you're lugnuts weren't tight enough. Also why are you using a handyman jack on your little running boards? Please get a hydraulic jack and some jackstands. It's worth 5 minutes of your time to use them and worth 150$ to make sure you don't die or destroy your vehicle. Addendum 5 , glad u torked em down, I WAS worried about it
Permutation, change front/rear wheels (Tacoma have rear drum brakes?) Very coherent your explanation about ignorancy, sensationalism press.. A little trick, put a litium grease in the plates, where screw the bolts, you will remove better the next time. Thanks for your videos, a very good producer rear.
Hey Drew, I am shifting my way through all of your videos. I like your style as I said before. You made me nervous with that jack on the runningboards, I cannot believe they hold the truck up. I wish I had you as a neighbor because I would let you borrow my torque wrench for your front wheels… So you don’t warp those rotors
Those were rock sliders under the truck...they are very strong and are bolted to the frame. I also use a torque wrench when I finish up the tire rotation, I didn't show it in the video.
I use a little anti seize grease around the wheel hub to stop the alloy wheel gluing itself to the steel hub, left for longer you can have a bear of a job to get them off. great to learn a bit about radioactive substances.
hey drew i just wanted to thank you for getting my into collection radioactive stuff. before i found your channel i had nothing but a Geiger counter. now i have a radium doped US army field compass from world war 2. a radium doped clock and a fiesta ware saucer and sugar server. thanks!
@@RadioactiveDrew absolutely! before i found out about how fascinating all this was i didnt really have any hobbies to be honest but now it feels like a whole new world of opportunities
It always seemed a bit illogical to me to have a fear of anything that is radioactive. Our own bodies are radioactive, not just from exposure to the fallout of all the radiological incidents (most of them intentionally, like atomic testing) of the past 80 years or so, but also from consuming food and drink, which not only contain carbon, some of which is radioactive due to cosmic radiation, but also potassium, which has a long-lived primordial radioisotope. At a lot of highschools in the Netherlands they invite people from universities to give students a little bit of education in nuclear physics. They would allow you to perform experiments, such as setting up a cloud chamber and watching the atomic decay of radioactive substances as well as performing experiments with nuclear fission (on a very, very small scale, mind you), and observing the traces of that in that same cloud chamber. Obviously radiological objects are potentially dangerous if handled improperly. I used to have a ship's compass in my bedroom, with a piece of what I assume contained radium or some other radioactive substance in a column of some transparent fluid. It sat on top of a cupboard. Never once did it scare me in the least. It was probably more dangerous to my stepfather when he assembled it than it was to me sitting on top of that cupboard. Especially since he used to build all kinds of such equipment. Fear is a bad source of advice when dealing with such materials.
I have a tritium illuminated US Army issue compass sitting on the table 3 feet from me. As for being radioactive, got to see just how much when in radiology for a thyroid scan. First, they need to take a background reading for the patient and I'm a fair bit hotter than my children's generation, both due to being older and weighing more, as well as due to being born during the atmospheric testing era. Hell, I was born the week following Tsar Bomba's detonation. I've also been around depleted uranium rounds being used.
I would be surprised if you could get any reading off of a tritium compass. Usually those are pretty well shielded and they don’t use material that’s going to cause secondary radiation events. Also being around depleted uranium rounds shouldn’t have any effect on your health. If you are down range and breathing in some of that dust that would be a different story.
@@RadioactiveDrew yeah, that whole 5.7 kev isn't very spunky, I'd stand a better chance detecting helium-3 from those vials. The only way I'd be concerned about depleted uranium is if it caught afire or, as you said, after impact and well, it would've burned. I do keep one thing that is dangerous about - a can of chili. And of course, a chunk of "highly radioactive" granite. Both, of equal hazard to one's toes if one is careless.
1) Lightly put some bearing grease on the brake surface that is touching the wheels so it is easier to take the wheels off next time (not on the rotors). 2) Put some light oil on the wheel lugs so they don't rust. This makes it easier to remove the lug nuts. 3) Use a torque wrench so you don't over tighten the nuts and warp the rotors. 4) Switch over to air instead from nitrogen in the tires so you can pump in air if your are in the field.
@@RadioactiveDrew My girlfriend had nitrogen in her tires and would ride with tires that had low nitrogen but refused to allow me to add air to them because the tire shop told her she could not mix air and nitrogen. She eventually had them switch to air because she was tired of me bitching about it. This was years ago but it still is a running joke. I won't buy a set of tires or car if they have nitrogen in them. I carry an air pump and add air when needed. I still have not found a portable nitrogen pump. LOL
Also 😊 depleted uranium was used as a counterbalance weight in moving wingparts in many planes like 747, nowdays been replaced by tungsten and lead but still there are some older flying aircraft with it..
I never could get any definite clarification on what "at" Heathrow meant, either. Kinda what I heard was that he was just near the airport, but that it was incidental and had nothing really to do with the facility itself.
There are a mix of on & off airport cargo/transit sheds dotted around the airport. In some cases, they can be a couple of miles away (but still be considered "at" Heathrow).
I've been trying to link a symple flying article about that... but for some reason the comments are being eaten. There was a crash going into London Standstead and only 19 of the 20 counterweights were recovered. Also, there was an El Al cargo that went in to an apartment complex in Amsterdam and in that one the violence of the crash plus the post crash fire burned up the DU counterweights.
I would be a little surprised that DU counterweights could burn up in a jet crash. But they are pyrophoric…so I guess if you got them going they would burn.
@@RadioactiveDrew The El Al crash involved a newly departed cargo 747. They lost an engine and the departing engine took out the leading edge devices. That stall one wing and the airplane spiraled in. It was a VERY high energy crash with a fully fueled airplane. The crater was quite compact so all that fuel went into a small hole and burned a long time.
Absolutely ridiculous indeed with how misinformed and ignorant people are regarding anything to do with radialogical subject matter. Love your channel and always look forward to you posting new stuff!👍 You should definitely hand torque your wheels afterwards with the wheels on the ground after you use the impact. You aren't using torque sticks so there is no way to know how tight they are. As a 25+ year tech, I always use torque sticks and hand torque them afterwards. You'd be surprised how much stuff I've seen happen without doing it properly. Another thing to pay attention to is the clear coat flaking on the back of the rim where it mounts to the face of the hub and rotors. The corrosion and flaking material can cause the rim to never fully tighten and to work itself loose. Seen it happen plenty of times. Use a wire wheel on a grinder or a wire brush to clean them, and some anti seize on the hub bore/ wheel studs makes everything so much better the next time around. I'm sure someone will also chime in about not using jackstands too but as long as you aren't under the vehicle you should be okay if you're careful. Just a few tips from a guy who's been a career tech. Really appreciate your videos man! Keep up the excellent work 👍😉
Thanks for the advice and the concern. I said in the video at the end that I was going torque all the nuts down. I always do this because last thing I want to a wheel coming loose. My dad has been a mechanic for over 40 years and my younger brother is one also. I do a lot of the work on my truck as along as the job isn’t too involved. I change brake pads, oil, tire rotation and the alternator when it starts to go out. Done it twice over the 330,000 mile life of my truck. I’ve also had to fix a broken front drive shaft and that was fun. Btw, I have jack stands but only use them when I need to have the truck totally immobilized.
@@RadioactiveDrew Good stuff man! Definitely good to see folks turn their own wrenches. No reason not to with the expense and dishonesty in shops these days. Gives us honest mechanics a bad name unfortunately with different places trying to rip off their customers. Those yotas are great trucks. Super reliable. Thanks again bro
I used to live in Aberdeen Scotland for years... the granite is radioactive. so they are removing the blocks and replacing them with concrete with a " shell" that looks like granite ... :(:( is it too much info ... or not enough ??
I would like to know what form that uranium was in. If it was yellow cake would be way different than if it was HEU. And, how much was there? Around here, in the early 1980's some americium 241 was accidentally disposed in a landfill. There was a media panic at the time, but the quantity was quite small.
Couple of little points from your informative video: 1. there were two Russian attacks in the UK in recent times; one with radiation poisoning and the other nerve agent so there might be some confusion on which was which. 2. The guys you used as GB media soundbites (and the daily mail website screenshot) are the most hypersensationalist tabloid shock jocks you could have used unfortunately. The "talk TV" interviewer recently tried to argue on air that trees aren't a renewable resource and that concrete is. He is truly thick as they come.
Yeah that news source wasn't the best but it had those interviews from people of "authority"...that's why I wanted to use it. Other news sites were saying the same thing and getting it wrong. Funny that guy was trying to say trees aren't a renewable resource. To be fair concrete could be used as a renewable resource...not sure how likely that is though.
Your garage looks like mine hahaha. The news does a real good job of over dramatization of the news and tends to always jump to the worst case or making assumptions as to who's to blame.wonder why so many of the mainstream media is tanking right now.i know from my own reading that I'd have to be next to a nuclear wasteland before I get any kind of side effects. brief exposure of the natural ore isn't gonna kill in most 99% of cases.keep up on your educating the public.
honestly I think the biggest threat of a uranium dirty bomb would be the heavy metal poisoning from uranium contamination, not the radioactivity. You could easily make something just as dangerous with a couple kilos of powdered lead, and it'd be a lot cheaper.
With lead or uranium it isn't much of a threat if its in a dirty bomb. Constant exposure to those two elements is where harm can happen. By exposure I mean inhalation or ingestion.
Can you please speak about Uranium found in ground water, are our water sources in the US at risk too? Just UA-cam Ground water is contaminated with uranium in 12 Indian States.
I’ve heard of depleted uranium before and have even handled some. But the health effects are on par with all exposure to uranium. So as long as you aren’t breathing it in or ingesting it you should be fine. But if your exposure is constant then you will be at higher risk of kidney failure.
Raw Uranium could pose a radiological hazard if if were finely divided into a powder and then blown into the air. A dirty bomb doesn't require enriched fuels, just materials that are dangerous to ingest and inhale.
It wouldn’t present any significant threat. The level of exposure just isn’t great enough. Also the toxicity of uranium takes a while to develop any effects in humans.
I heard that SODIUM explodes when exposed to water! Then I learned that there was SODIUM chloride in my kitchen, so I called Homeland Security, someone is surely trying to blow up my house.
I wish they would express the difference between "Uranium" and "Plutonium" and maybe a little lesson on the term "Weapons grade" I'm definitely no expert, but seriously, it's not that difficult to understand the difference.
Maybe they should have mandatory background checks for anyone finding uranium on the ground, and only one uranium a month limits for finding any. Love the chan, keep it up.
@@IdiotWithaMultimeter They might actually be worse. Because it's not just radiation, and not just that, remember when they released millions of gallons of acid mine drainage into a river and killed all the fish a few years ago? That was just a story that made it to the media, they do this kinda thing constantly.
There are many common items made from Uranium that are around. Humans have evolved around Uranium. However, this recent issue in Australia is a bit more serious as it's made of Cesium-137. That's the same substance that caused the horrible radiological accident in Brazil that killed many many people due to a major f-up with a radio therapy device which also involved Cesium (but a much greater amount). The Cesium that was lost looks quite innoquous and harmless but could kill someone or ruin their health if they put it in their pocket and didn't know what it was. We'll see if it turns up. Uranium has a hazard to it just like gasoline or lead has a hazard but Cesium is much more serious when it comes to exposure.
With any radioactive material it really depends on how much is in the source. The Cs-137 source from soil density gauges or the very similar unit used for mining has a fairly strong source and can do some damage if you were to hold it. Sources in the medical field can be extremely dangerous if removed from their housing.
@@RadioactiveDrew Idaho? The only area in Idaho I'm aware of is the INTEC lab at Atomic City Idaho...which has it's own "Atomic Age Americana" retro history. Also called INL if u look it up. The first "breeder" reactor is there at Atomic City also! Make a great video. I did visit this with a group of people back in the 1990s. Not sure all the details but it was amazing!
I could be getting the two labs mixed up, but I was there. They started the tour at the breeder reactor museum in Atomic City and then they took us into the INEL storage and processing lab...gave us a whole history. Many parts to it.
A lot of sensationalism is able to take root because there's a shocking lack of scientific literacy in this world. It allows people to be unable to see when something doesn't make sense logically, because they don't know the basics that would allow them to come to an educated conclusion that would prevent hysteria. Radiation and nuclear sources to me are both scary and fascinating.
Hey, instead of "muscling around" those wheels & tires to get them up to height, while trying to align the wheel studs, consider trying sitting in front of them (facing the vehicle) & using your feet, or shins to wedge them up to height. Less of a workout that way. Not that a workout is bad, but doing it all day you learn tricks to make it easier. Good job for spinning the lugnuts down by hand before hitting them with the impact, that practice will serve you well with not ruining them, and also knowing when theres a problem, as lugnuts can actually wear out & need replacement over the life of the vehicle.
Our main stream media is terrible on every single subject. Once you realize it’s entertainment based on truth done for ratings and to make the big money donors happy. Every station every company. It’s sad really because people end up so ill informed on things like this.
Have you read Behind the Fog, its a examination of the United States Cold War-era radiological weapons programs. Or heard about information coming out about the US government did covert radiological testing on the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis?
Not normally. If I get my truck up on a lift I’ll switch them around. But usually it’s only front to back. They don’t wear weird and usually I get around 60,000 miles out of a set.
I totally agree with you, but you are forgetting the most important thing to these leaders of security agencies... How do they get their funding? Now that you understand that, the rest makes perfect sense, and these people should be removed from power.
The first I heard of this was listening to "Rent a General" blabbing on, and Border Force (what ever they call themselves) doubling down when they already privately know the true scale of the threat, but aren't going to say. This is the first time I've heard what the "threat" might actually be, (I say 'might' as this is an unconfirmed story to me.) You'll have to be careful Drew, the YT thought police will be after you for daring to challenge the official narrative, like they exterminate doctors who say the wrong things about covid! Who's really doing the terror round here?
Unfortunately, boring headlines get no viewers, and therefore no ad revenue, so they have a vested interest in generating viewership by coming up with outrageous headlines, usually based in fear and misunderstanding, which really does a disservice to the public. Nobody would read a story entitled "Substance found which bears no threat."
Well then they could decide it’s not worth their time to report on it. Or say that traces of uranium were found and investigated more as how that happened.
You don’t get invited on to the news if you cannot offer jeopardy to the simpleton viewers. Jeopardy sells. Good luck with your attempts to spread knowledge. Ignorance is the new cool! A little copper grease on the mating face of the wheel hub will prevent the wheels seizing on. Good on the lug nut threads too. Fun video format incidentally.
Because natural uranium is mostly U-238 and only .7% U-235. Uranium 235 is the fissile uranium, meaning it will split apart when hit by a neutron and release 2-3 others. So it can sustain a chain reaction.
@@alexstrouse6333 you have to look at the different isotopes of uranium. All elements have different isotopes. Uranium 238 can’t undergo fission but uranium 235 can. So in a bomb uranium is enriched up to 90% or greater of U-235.
@@RadioactiveDrew Okay, thank you for the info, i would like to see a video on how to store radioactive material, because i just have my Am 241 in a glass vial on my shelf.
@@alexstrouse6333 your okay keeping it in that glass vial on a shelf. It’s mainly an alpha emitter and the gamma energy it doesn’t emit isn’t very powerful.
One of those glazed antiques if broken during shipping at Heathrow, I guess the Brits will shut down their country claiming a "nuclear winter" is coming. Brits are so funny.
You're right but you're also kinda wrong - on paper it's not super dangerous, absolutely, totally agree; the problem is that released into the environment the official response to it would be fairly severe, and long-lasting. It's difficult to say if that's the right response, for various reasons, but the reality is that the media and by extension those ignorant public would demand a reaction like that, and that is what makes it a threat. I don't think anybody is seriously suggesting that somebody is going to make a nuclear weapon or that people would die but dispersed with a small amount of explosives would kick off a very large and very expensive clean up operation and probably long-term evacuation of a reasonably large area, in a major city that starts to become a major problem. I don't doubt for a second that a reaction would be similar in the US, if not more massive. You can see what happens by looking at the clean-up after the Litvinenko assassination with Polonium and extrapolate.
Radium however is worse. It is almost 3 million times more radioactive than U-238 (1600 years vs 4,5*10^(9) years half lives). In addition to that, radium being an alkaline earth metal is very reactive which results to formation of much more water-soluble compounds than uranium. As any alkaline earth metal it has affinity for bone tissue where it gets stuck.
Fear was what media control, they want green but they fear some the cleaniest energy available where hydro-electricity didnt exist. Learning was the key. I wonder how people will react if media tell about higher background radiation in an airplane! I am not embarrassed to say that it was radioactive drew that definitively inspired me to do further research and even buy a bettergeiger to learn and testing radiation around. I dont have fear anymore and know how to be cautious in front of different radioactive sources! In a short future it gonna be normal a truck roll in a street carrying nuclear fuel or even yellowcake and been caugh in an accident, I already pretend more scare for that 😄 Thank’s again!
Drew great video I personally liked the format. Kind of refreshing to watch something new. I think it would have been more entertaining for us if you had gone out for a good drive in that white stuff just prior to the video. LOL. If you haven't notice all news is sensationalized now days. From the weather (hardly ever hear of a normal storm anymore they are always horrible or super or some other adjective to make it sound scarier ). To guns and gun control (don't get me started on that one). In my 40 years of naval nuclear power it has always been this way with anything the press and so called experts say. This attitude in my opinion is what killed nuclear energy in this country the press using the general publics uneducated fear of radiation and nuclear stuff to sell news papers and magazines. Keep up the reality in your videos. Sorry about the length. But this subject causes me to go into a rant. Jim
@@RadioactiveDrew During a long underwater mission years ago I was told by a friend that he had read a book about after the end of the Vietnam war the large group of established protesters had no job so they were the ones that shifted to protesting nuclear power. According to this guy (who was known to be reliable) the book even outlined names of people and what they did in each protests. By the end of the underway the conversation was long forgotten and I only remembered it years later. Have you or anyone ever heard of such a book?
I kept checking the news, waiting for the relevant details. You know: actual isotopes, quantities, whether elemental or compounds, and so on. Crickets ... Some people need our clicks, or watch time, to put food on the table, what can you do.
as far as i knew, Uranium metal, though radioactive, is harmless if its kept outside of your body. as it gives off BETA not Gamma radiation (you can i think, handle it with bare hands and not get affected by it - it only becomes dangerous once its been inside the reactor. FACT: They charged early Magnox reactors prior to commissioning by climbing inside the reactor and loading it by hand before climbing out and sealing the core access - there's footage of this on a documentary about MAGNOX reactors Berkley on Magnox Ltd own youtube channel "magnoxsites")
Uranium metal is safe to handle but I would still use caution. It gives off alpha, beta and gamma radiation. The majority of the radiation is in the form of alpha and beta.
If every person who knew nothing about what they were talking about stopped talking we would be in a much better place. And unfortunately it’s easier to instill fear than to educate so you end up with stories like this one or countless other stories like how a kid brought in a fiesta-ware plate or something similar and got the police called on him.
@6:17 Coat the mating surface with a very light coating of anti-seize (Grease will wash away) to prevent that from happening out in the field. I do that to my car (another thing that works is switch out your alloy rims for steel.) It should be a very light coating (just use your finger) and be careful not to get any on the threads (because that's not recommended).
All right. My two cents after watching your video and reading the news on it. They could have been over blowing it but also under stating it as well. The reason is, it could have been 100% harmless and non intentional. Or could have been something larger. But what it could have been was a test to see if it gets detected. By them saying. "Hey, we found something" is them indirectly also saying "were watching you!". In any case. You, being American, should understand the importance of safety and action, as opposed to reaction. If your intelligence services left and right hands actually talked to each other, 911 could have been avoided. Hundreds of thousands of people paid for their life's because a few ding bats was able to get past the cracks. Which they probably probed and tested over the years. So, reaction to this is better than no reaction.
@@RadioactiveDrew I've not seen any article stating that it was just "trace amounts of natural Uranium"...can you put the link up? If it was enriched then there's a problem. Odd too, that if it was only "trace" that it was detected at all, since there must be many radioactive "antiques" rather higher than "trace" coming & going through the airports which are not. Perhaps they're only random checks...so it's a matter of luck or bad luck?
speaking of ignorance, it drives me nuts when people claim a nuclear reactor can blow up just like an atom bomb. really? do you even understand how an atom bomb blows up? apparently not...
As someone who has worked at Heathrow Cargo for 30 years, and imported RADAC a number of times, I have a number of questions about this story. Doesn't seem quite right to me. 🤔
Anytime people here the "r" word they freak the hell out. Radiation is everywhere and generally not harmful. That said I do need to get a couple small lead pigs for a couple mineral samples in my collection.
Whipping up the fear of an uneducated public may serve a purpose for the government, Justification for the placement of further controls and monitoring and restrictions.
You sir need to work out a little more lol... Completely out of breath rotating the tires. I never broke a sweat rotating my 37's with steel wheels. Although if you're getting over being sick then that would also explain it but not that much haha btw you should have tested the dirt that came out of your wheels to see if they were radioactive.
Rotating tires is a bit of a work out…but yes I’m exercising more and feeling better from being sick. I’ve checked the dirt before and didn’t see anything.
If people were better educated on radiation, we'd have more nuclear power plants and would be able to transition off of fossil fuels sooner. I am grateful for channels like yours and Kyle Hill's that bring reason into the conversation and highlight the absurd popular beliefs about everything nuclear.
Thanks.
"If people were better educated..." [record scratch sound]
@@michaelhamm6207 Yeah, I'm not too optimistic that things will change either, at least not in my lifetime ... But one can hope.
I don't know. We have an area the size of Idaho contaminated from meltdowns.
@@naughtiusmaximus830 We also have much better designs for nuclear plants these days and out of the many plants that were active, we've only had two major disasters, one of which caused by a worst case natural disaster, triggering a meltdown.
Environmental damage at Fukushima was prevented because of quick response and good building design, despite its lack of upkeep over the decade prior.
The worst tragedy of Fukushima is the fact that it was completely preventable. They needed a regulatory commission to keep the plant properly maintained. They needed to listen to the warnings about the vulnerabilities. Thousands would not have lost their lives scrambling to flee the potential danger, because the plant would have weathered the tsunami and no evacuation would have been called had it been maintained appropriately.
The Chernobyl areas are contaminated, but contrary to popular belief, not uninhabitable. Hundreds returned to live in the exclusion zone shortly after the accident ( months to years). Not many are left these days, but they've all made it to old age. Most are 70+. Wildlife and plant life also flourish.
Kinda sad to know, that this panicing probably won't be stopped by such a video :/ But I hope at least some people get more informed by your content.
I’m hoping the same thing.
Good garage talk. I used to be on a hazmat team and our biggest concern in responding to incidents was that the new news media would show up followed by an elected official.
Hahahaha…I could see that being a very valid concern.
I got a Geiger counter reading from my kitty litter. I suspect my cat may be clandestinely assembling a fission device for nefarious purposes. Now I can get the BBC to break the story!
They might jump on that.
Maybe your cat just had some... curie-osity!
Thanks for the video Drew, looking forward to more videos in 2023!
Glad you liked it. More on the way.
Manufactured hype is what makes mass media viable. Playing on the general fear that anything that emits ionizing radiation equates to terrifying and sinister. Glad your perspective set it straight!
Thanks. I try to tell it as straightforward as I can.
@@RadioactiveDrew I have thoroughly enjoyed your content, both fascinating and educational. Easily one of my most favorite discoveries on YT in the past year. I also have to complement your impressive videography skills involving breathtaking drone footage and artistic use of time lapse. Thank you and keep up the adventures, have fun!
Thanks for that. I keep trying to make the videos better.
As a security agency, you don't get a bigger budget by allaying fears. Airport security is theater, so it's just another ACT in the play.
Thanks for your insight, Drew. I think it would be informative if you could give some statistics here. Such as radiation levels of Uranium 235 ore vs purified Polonium 210 or other more common sources.
I plan on making a video like this.
This is one of my favourite topics to rant about. Great video, Drew! And we have the same drill! How 'bout that ...
The impact I use has been good to me over the years.
@@RadioactiveDrew This video also reminded me of the media's response when a dry cask of processed "waste" was returned to Australia's only research reactor at ANSTO (which is only a few kilometres from me). A news report I saw from one of the commercial networks had footage of the cask being unloaded from a ship at night. So, whilst playing footage of the dry cask being unloaded under the sodium vapour floodlights of the port, the newsreader says, "this glowing cask full of radioactive waste ... " - my head was actually sore from the facepalm. The comedic ridiculousness of it aside, it was a bloody low blow to the fledgling movement for nuclear energy in Australia. But curiously, generating electricity from nuclear power is still illegal in Australia; sure was a strange thing seeing the fossil fuel lobby and the "green" movement work together on that one.
Nuclear power has such a bad image in Australia, and a lot of downright ignorance underpins it. There are some absurd double standards, such as an obliviousness to the INSANE amount of yellowcake exported from Australia while people lose their minds over a truckload of medical isotopes passing through their neighbourhood. However bad it is, we're working on it. There are some great organisations like Nuclear for Climate doing good stuff. The federal opposition (sadly, it was the nutty right-wing party formulating the only intelligent and constructive policy in its history) has put the nuclear question on its policy agenda, and calling for "dispassionate and cool-headed" debate, etc. So, it's something ...
Given Australia's abundance of uranium and thorium (and substantial rare-earth mining industry), and the millions upon millions of uninhabited square kilometres, it is just INSANE that we haven't taken the nuclear route but fallen in absolute love with coal - and we apparently just can't give it up ... :(
1:39 Yeah, right! I've literally dug out uranium ore from my backyard, what do they think they're talking about! XD
Do you have "Give tour of 4X4 back country setup and also show equipment used for collecting samples" video on your list? Great video as always, glad to see these topics in a different light.
The story had more holes than a swiss cheese. I mean why did they even arrest that guy? Nothing was found when they searched his house. This was one of those news stories where I just shake my head and close the tab.
It's sad that we have ignorant reporters which don't ask the right questions, and it's even more sad that we have ignorant authorities, especially for the person suffering the consequences.
Exactly…lots of points there. Seems like a lot of bs going on.
Arrested for what???
I hope he’s free now 🧐
@@pazsion The BBC writes "He was released on bail until April.", make up your own mind what that is supposed to mean.
The articles are so nonsensical I quickly gave up trying to find out more.
@@stefantrethan telling is that there are zero followup articles on it.
For all we know, they found hand tools, including a chisel used in one of Iran's uranium mines.
Yes, Iran has uranium mines and uranium processing plants. Built after the west cut off all supplies to Iran after their revolution. Deeming European suppliers unreliable, they built their own.
Iran also has two reactors, one low enriched (under 20% U-235) power reactor and one high enriched (over 20%, but less than the 85+% weapons grade U-235) research and medical isotope production reactor.
I started my military career in nuclear weapons. Suffice it to say, if Iran wanted nuclear weapons, they'd have a few thousand of them by now. If they wanted to sneak a dirty bomb's parts into the UK, they'd simply use a diplomatic parcel.
They'd probably soil themselves if someone entered the country with pitchblende dusted gloves.
Great choice of tire by the way. I’ve had some for about 2,000 miles and love them
The BFG KO2 are amazing. I’ve been super happy with all the sets I’ve had over the years. Good all around tire.
I wish people wouldn't look at antiques such as radium pocket watches, vaseline glass and fiestaware as super dangerous items, yes they are radioactive but the actual beauty that these items have are somewhat overlooked when one finds out that these items are radioactive, it's just a shame. Anyways this is a very good video as usual and thank you for this dose of truth!, All the Best.
I just picked up a few Festaware items. Love'em
Still a thing I have on my wish list :)
Thanks for the video and the subject it covers.
A light coat of anti-seize compound on the hub of your truck will prevent the wheel from rusting to the hub.
Thanks ‼️good show‼️✌🏽
When they ship Mo-99/TC-99m to hospitals, it's shipped in containers in aircraft. If one of those were to spill it would be a significant radiological incident.
Then there are airplanes that used depleted uranium for balancing, like in 747s built before 1981, which had about 950 pounds on board.
I bet those transport casks are pretty beefy.
I believe DC-10/MD-11's had DU in them also. Used for flight control counterbalances.
Don't worry about these isotopes. None of the isotopes with half-life less than 24 hours requires a license to work with.
Mo-99 is a 65 hours half-life isotope, so it is near the same. Two months will be enough to reduce its activity to the background level.
By the way, these containers have rather small amount of Mo-99 each.
DU is also used as a radiation shield and has its own UN2909 number.
Someone I know had a couple of hundred kilos of depleted uranium balance weights from a decommissioned 747. He kept them in his garage. I inquired about the possibility of getting a pocket piece of the DU but he pointed out the technical issues involved in cutting uranium so I had to do without. I don't know if he's still got the weights.
They use depleted uranium in the construction of large jets like the 787, 757, and the like to help balance the weight distrution of the airframe. They use it because it is very compact but very heavy.
⚠️BREAKING NEWS⚠️
A hazmat team was sent to Seattle airport after multiple planes were found to contain uranium.
I was more worried about that Jack rocking off the vehicle than I was about the uranium. I was reaching through my screen trying to see a jack stand or a wheel chock somewhere 😅
Yes! I don't like hi-lift Jack's!
Spot on Drew! Education tells the truth and the truth shall set you free. Spray some “Fluid film” on the wheel where it meets the hub it will keep the aluminum from corroding and the hub from rusting. Works great in the salt belt.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Yup fluid film is good stuff. Some people use cavity wax or used oil works too if you're a cheap ass
Love your videos. Love the info. Keep fighting that ignorance
Thanks.
Hey drew would it be possible to make a video discussing just how dangerous some radioactive items and elements are. kind of discuss what levels ie. uSv/r, mr/h, cpm etc. are actually dangerous and what to actually watch out for. i know there is more that goes into that such as how active the radiation source is and the energy levels etc.
I’m planning on doing something like this.
@@RadioactiveDrew sweet ill be on the lookout for it down the road
it's sad about the miss information that is given out. so many people just don't know or understand radiation . your video's show how easy uranium is to find. I am in Boston NY and I am quite Shure I can find some radioactive minerals around hear. Look at wat the press did to 3 mile island nuclear plant. that no too far from me. one state away. so many scared people. what was released was radioactive inherit gasses that had short half life. I rotate my tires on my car as well. I check air pressure and tier wear and my breaks every oil change. over 200K miles great tire life . I use torque bar socket when putting them on. I got torque wrench as well .😀
Thanks for this video Drew, if people realised we have several areas in the UK where Uranium was mined and its continual presence all under us here 🙄
A few rocks found at Heathrow is laughable !!
The news is great at making a mountain out of a molehill.
@@RadioactiveDrew Fake news ! 🤣
@@mikecrockford6500 the very definition.
You need to tighten your lugnuts more. If you can remove your lugnuts with that little ryobi or whatever it is, then you're lugnuts weren't tight enough.
Also why are you using a handyman jack on your little running boards? Please get a hydraulic jack and some jackstands. It's worth 5 minutes of your time to use them and worth 150$ to make sure you don't die or destroy your vehicle.
Addendum 5 , glad u torked em down, I WAS worried about it
Great video, keep up the good work
Thanks.
What year is your Toyota ? I was
Surprised to see what looks to be drum breaks
It’s a 2011 Tacoma and yeah it has rear drum brakes.
Permutation, change front/rear wheels (Tacoma have rear drum brakes?)
Very coherent your explanation about ignorancy, sensationalism press..
A little trick, put a litium grease in the plates, where screw the bolts, you will remove better the next time.
Thanks for your videos, a very good producer rear.
Hey Drew, I am shifting my way through all of your videos.
I like your style as I said before.
You made me nervous with that jack on the runningboards, I cannot believe they hold the truck up.
I wish I had you as a neighbor because I would let you borrow my torque wrench for your front wheels… So you don’t warp those rotors
Those were rock sliders under the truck...they are very strong and are bolted to the frame. I also use a torque wrench when I finish up the tire rotation, I didn't show it in the video.
Ahhhhh nice
Good stuff!!!!
I’m so glad Costco rotates my tires for free! It’s a simple job but still a pain
I got mine at Costco as well...and I could get them rotated for free. I just like doing it myself.
Amen, Brother!
when i first heard about it i just made the joke about they accidentally breaking some feistaware while packing the package
From the sound of it there would have been more uranium in a plate like that than what they found.
I use a little anti seize grease around the wheel hub to stop the alloy wheel gluing itself to the steel hub, left for longer you can have a bear of a job to get them off. great to learn a bit about radioactive substances.
I rotate my tires so often I’ve never had them stick bad enough that a little hit doesn’t knock them loose. But thanks for the tip.
hey drew i just wanted to thank you for getting my into collection radioactive stuff. before i found your channel i had nothing but a Geiger counter. now i have a radium doped US army field compass from world war 2. a radium doped clock and a fiesta ware saucer and sugar server. thanks!
I’m glad you found a new hobby. I’ve learned so much getting into this.
@@RadioactiveDrew absolutely! before i found out about how fascinating all this was i didnt really have any hobbies to be honest but now it feels like a whole new world of opportunities
I’m so glad. It’s important to have hobbies and interests outside of our regular life.
Be patient with the radium dopes compass to exclude direct contact or even inhalation of radium.
@@Serpiph yes im very carful with them and i keep them in ziplock bags
It always seemed a bit illogical to me to have a fear of anything that is radioactive. Our own bodies are radioactive, not just from exposure to the fallout of all the radiological incidents (most of them intentionally, like atomic testing) of the past 80 years or so, but also from consuming food and drink, which not only contain carbon, some of which is radioactive due to cosmic radiation, but also potassium, which has a long-lived primordial radioisotope.
At a lot of highschools in the Netherlands they invite people from universities to give students a little bit of education in nuclear physics. They would allow you to perform experiments, such as setting up a cloud chamber and watching the atomic decay of radioactive substances as well as performing experiments with nuclear fission (on a very, very small scale, mind you), and observing the traces of that in that same cloud chamber.
Obviously radiological objects are potentially dangerous if handled improperly. I used to have a ship's compass in my bedroom, with a piece of what I assume contained radium or some other radioactive substance in a column of some transparent fluid. It sat on top of a cupboard. Never once did it scare me in the least. It was probably more dangerous to my stepfather when he assembled it than it was to me sitting on top of that cupboard. Especially since he used to build all kinds of such equipment.
Fear is a bad source of advice when dealing with such materials.
Wonder how many cancers/tumours are caused by normal background radiation? Food for thought...
I have a tritium illuminated US Army issue compass sitting on the table 3 feet from me.
As for being radioactive, got to see just how much when in radiology for a thyroid scan. First, they need to take a background reading for the patient and I'm a fair bit hotter than my children's generation, both due to being older and weighing more, as well as due to being born during the atmospheric testing era. Hell, I was born the week following Tsar Bomba's detonation. I've also been around depleted uranium rounds being used.
I would be surprised if you could get any reading off of a tritium compass. Usually those are pretty well shielded and they don’t use material that’s going to cause secondary radiation events. Also being around depleted uranium rounds shouldn’t have any effect on your health. If you are down range and breathing in some of that dust that would be a different story.
@@RadioactiveDrew yeah, that whole 5.7 kev isn't very spunky, I'd stand a better chance detecting helium-3 from those vials.
The only way I'd be concerned about depleted uranium is if it caught afire or, as you said, after impact and well, it would've burned.
I do keep one thing that is dangerous about - a can of chili. And of course, a chunk of "highly radioactive" granite. Both, of equal hazard to one's toes if one is careless.
1) Lightly put some bearing grease on the brake surface that is touching the wheels so it is easier to take the wheels off next time (not on the rotors).
2) Put some light oil on the wheel lugs so they don't rust. This makes it easier to remove the lug nuts.
3) Use a torque wrench so you don't over tighten the nuts and warp the rotors.
4) Switch over to air instead from nitrogen in the tires so you can pump in air if your are in the field.
Thanks for the advice. Not sure how much nitrogen is left in those tires. I’ve aired the down and up about 6 times.
@@RadioactiveDrew My girlfriend had nitrogen in her tires and would ride with tires that had low nitrogen but refused to allow me to add air to them because the tire shop told her she could not mix air and nitrogen. She eventually had them switch to air because she was tired of me bitching about it. This was years ago but it still is a running joke.
I won't buy a set of tires or car if they have nitrogen in them. I carry an air pump and add air when needed. I still have not found a portable nitrogen pump. LOL
Also 😊 depleted uranium was used as a counterbalance weight in moving wingparts in many planes like 747, nowdays been replaced by tungsten and lead but still there are some older flying aircraft with it..
I never could get any definite clarification on what "at" Heathrow meant, either. Kinda what I heard was that he was just near the airport, but that it was incidental and had nothing really to do with the facility itself.
As I understood it…the traces of uranium ore was discovered in a package flying into the airport to be delivered to a man living in the UK.
There are a mix of on & off airport cargo/transit sheds dotted around the airport. In some cases, they can be a couple of miles away (but still be considered "at" Heathrow).
Good to know. I’m sure would try and shrink those distances for a good story.
I have a radioactive painting in my living room. Pretty hot too, 30k cpm. People in hazmat suits gonna show up tomorrow?
They might…
Let's not forget all the 747s that were flying around with depleted uranium counterweights
I've been trying to link a symple flying article about that... but for some reason the comments are being eaten. There was a crash going into London Standstead and only 19 of the 20 counterweights were recovered. Also, there was an El Al cargo that went in to an apartment complex in Amsterdam and in that one the violence of the crash plus the post crash fire burned up the DU counterweights.
I would be a little surprised that DU counterweights could burn up in a jet crash. But they are pyrophoric…so I guess if you got them going they would burn.
@@RadioactiveDrew The El Al crash involved a newly departed cargo 747. They lost an engine and the departing engine took out the leading edge devices. That stall one wing and the airplane spiraled in. It was a VERY high energy crash with a fully fueled airplane. The crater was quite compact so all that fuel went into a small hole and burned a long time.
Almost like a Formula1 tire change 😄, no but thanks for sharing all your informative clips about real radioactive topics very interesting👍👍👍👍
I think we’re just short of news in the UK…. But I am thinking of reporting my granny, I believe she’s got some uranium glass in her kitchen…
Hahahaha…careful, they might bite.
Absolutely ridiculous indeed with how misinformed and ignorant people are regarding anything to do with radialogical subject matter. Love your channel and always look forward to you posting new stuff!👍 You should definitely hand torque your wheels afterwards with the wheels on the ground after you use the impact. You aren't using torque sticks so there is no way to know how tight they are. As a 25+ year tech, I always use torque sticks and hand torque them afterwards. You'd be surprised how much stuff I've seen happen without doing it properly. Another thing to pay attention to is the clear coat flaking on the back of the rim where it mounts to the face of the hub and rotors. The corrosion and flaking material can cause the rim to never fully tighten and to work itself loose. Seen it happen plenty of times. Use a wire wheel on a grinder or a wire brush to clean them, and some anti seize on the hub bore/ wheel studs makes everything so much better the next time around. I'm sure someone will also chime in about not using jackstands too but as long as you aren't under the vehicle you should be okay if you're careful. Just a few tips from a guy who's been a career tech. Really appreciate your videos man! Keep up the excellent work 👍😉
Thanks for the advice and the concern. I said in the video at the end that I was going torque all the nuts down. I always do this because last thing I want to a wheel coming loose. My dad has been a mechanic for over 40 years and my younger brother is one also. I do a lot of the work on my truck as along as the job isn’t too involved. I change brake pads, oil, tire rotation and the alternator when it starts to go out. Done it twice over the 330,000 mile life of my truck. I’ve also had to fix a broken front drive shaft and that was fun. Btw, I have jack stands but only use them when I need to have the truck totally immobilized.
@@RadioactiveDrew
Good stuff man! Definitely good to see folks turn their own wrenches. No reason not to with the expense and dishonesty in shops these days. Gives us honest mechanics a bad name unfortunately with different places trying to rip off their customers. Those yotas are great trucks. Super reliable. Thanks again bro
I used to live in Aberdeen Scotland for years... the granite is radioactive. so they are removing the blocks and replacing them with concrete with a " shell" that looks like granite ... :(:( is it too much info ... or not enough ??
Seems like a waste of effort. Granite has very low radioactivity associated with it.
I would like to know what form that uranium was in. If it was yellow cake would be way different than if it was HEU. And, how much was there?
Around here, in the early 1980's some americium 241 was accidentally disposed in a landfill. There was a media panic at the time, but the quantity was quite small.
From the sound of it the uranium was in a unprocessed form.
Couple of little points from your informative video: 1. there were two Russian attacks in the UK in recent times; one with radiation poisoning and the other nerve agent so there might be some confusion on which was which. 2. The guys you used as GB media soundbites (and the daily mail website screenshot) are the most hypersensationalist tabloid shock jocks you could have used unfortunately. The "talk TV" interviewer recently tried to argue on air that trees aren't a renewable resource and that concrete is. He is truly thick as they come.
Yeah that news source wasn't the best but it had those interviews from people of "authority"...that's why I wanted to use it. Other news sites were saying the same thing and getting it wrong. Funny that guy was trying to say trees aren't a renewable resource. To be fair concrete could be used as a renewable resource...not sure how likely that is though.
I thought you'll take the B20 to check inside your wheels if they are radioactive after your trips to the uranium mines. 😅
I've checked the mud before on my truck after trips to uranium mines and I haven't found any radioactive mud yet.
I see that the media was happy again :) I probably shouldn't send those packages either :D
Someone needs to tell the security agencies of the dangers of Di-hydrogen Monoxide. DHMO
Hahahaha.
I can see next week's news: "Heathrow closed for a week in Fiestaware horror."🤣
Yeah I was going to bring up uranium glazed ceramics but I figured I would keep the video short.
@@RadioactiveDrew Maybe you should check your carburetor! ; )
The media and sometimes governments love to fan the flames of a good story to cause fear.
Very true.
I think the more important question here is... do people even rotate tires these days? 😂
That is a good question. I can only speak for myself…every 5000 miles.
They rotate every time I drive the car! 😂
Every 10,000 km for me. They last a lot longer if you do as they wear more evenly.
Permutation
Rotating really does help. I can usually make tires last past 60,000 miles.
Your garage looks like mine hahaha.
The news does a real good job of over dramatization of the news and tends to always jump to the worst case or making assumptions as to who's to blame.wonder why so many of the mainstream media is tanking right now.i know from my own reading that I'd have to be next to a nuclear wasteland before I get any kind of side effects. brief exposure of the natural ore isn't gonna kill in most 99% of cases.keep up on your educating the public.
My granite countertop would like to have a chat with this airport...
I bet it would.
honestly I think the biggest threat of a uranium dirty bomb would be the heavy metal poisoning from uranium contamination, not the radioactivity. You could easily make something just as dangerous with a couple kilos of powdered lead, and it'd be a lot cheaper.
With lead or uranium it isn't much of a threat if its in a dirty bomb. Constant exposure to those two elements is where harm can happen. By exposure I mean inhalation or ingestion.
@@RadioactiveDrew of course, the type of exposure I'm talking about is also ingestion/inhalation
it is the news channel's job to create hysteria so the people keep watching them. thanks for trying to correct.
Can you please speak about Uranium found in ground water, are our water sources in the US at risk too? Just UA-cam Ground water is contaminated with uranium in 12 Indian States.
I am planning to do a video talking about it because it’s a subject people unnecessarily panic about.
Ever heard about depleted uranium and its health effects?
I’ve heard of depleted uranium before and have even handled some. But the health effects are on par with all exposure to uranium. So as long as you aren’t breathing it in or ingesting it you should be fine. But if your exposure is constant then you will be at higher risk of kidney failure.
Many people collect rocks, Pitchblende is easy to buy. I think that was what they found at the Grand Canyon
I've bought yellow cake at a rock shop.
@@judybassett9390 That might be possible, It is just uranium ore with the garbage rock cleaned out of it. It has not been concentrated yet.
Reminds me of when people freak out over NORMs.
A lot of people freak out about anything radioactive. I can see how it would be scary if you know nothing about it.
Raw Uranium could pose a radiological hazard if if were finely divided into a powder and then blown into the air. A dirty bomb doesn't require enriched fuels, just materials that are dangerous to ingest and inhale.
It wouldn’t present any significant threat. The level of exposure just isn’t great enough. Also the toxicity of uranium takes a while to develop any effects in humans.
I heard that SODIUM explodes when exposed to water! Then I learned that there was SODIUM chloride in my kitchen, so I called Homeland Security, someone is surely trying to blow up my house.
Nice! 😉 😄
I wish they would express the difference between "Uranium" and "Plutonium" and maybe a little lesson on the term "Weapons grade" I'm definitely no expert, but seriously, it's not that difficult to understand the difference.
Maybe they should have mandatory background checks for anyone finding uranium on the ground, and only one uranium a month limits for finding any.
Love the chan, keep it up.
Hahahaha….yeah I’m sure that would work.
Like the atf of radiation
@@IdiotWithaMultimeter They might actually be worse. Because it's not just radiation, and not just that, remember when they released millions of gallons of acid mine drainage into a river and killed all the fish a few years ago? That was just a story that made it to the media, they do this kinda thing constantly.
There are many common items made from Uranium that are around. Humans have evolved around Uranium.
However, this recent issue in Australia is a bit more serious as it's made of Cesium-137. That's the same substance that caused the horrible radiological accident in Brazil that killed many many people due to a major f-up with a radio therapy device which also involved Cesium (but a much greater amount). The Cesium that was lost looks quite innoquous and harmless but could kill someone or ruin their health if they put it in their pocket and didn't know what it was. We'll see if it turns up. Uranium has a hazard to it just like gasoline or lead has a hazard but Cesium is much more serious when it comes to exposure.
With any radioactive material it really depends on how much is in the source. The Cs-137 source from soil density gauges or the very similar unit used for mining has a fairly strong source and can do some damage if you were to hold it. Sources in the medical field can be extremely dangerous if removed from their housing.
@@RadioactiveDrew Oh yes. That incident in Brazil tragically proves it.
@@RadioactiveDrew Idaho? The only area in Idaho I'm aware of is the INTEC lab at Atomic City Idaho...which has it's own "Atomic Age Americana" retro history. Also called INL if u look it up. The first "breeder" reactor is there at Atomic City also! Make a great video. I did visit this with a group of people back in the 1990s. Not sure all the details but it was amazing!
I could be getting the two labs mixed up, but I was there. They started the tour at the breeder reactor museum in Atomic City and then they took us into the INEL storage and processing lab...gave us a whole history. Many parts to it.
Two public service announcements in one video!
Scariest thing in this video was the use of a hi-lift jack
I’ve been using the hi-lift jack to rotate my tires for the last 8 years and have never had a problem.
You don't rotate in you spare?
A lot of sensationalism is able to take root because there's a shocking lack of scientific literacy in this world. It allows people to be unable to see when something doesn't make sense logically, because they don't know the basics that would allow them to come to an educated conclusion that would prevent hysteria. Radiation and nuclear sources to me are both scary and fascinating.
I bet Heathrow airport has some hotter sources of radiation in their smoke detectors.
I’m pretty sure that’s the case.
Hey, instead of "muscling around" those wheels & tires to get them up to height, while trying to align the wheel studs, consider trying sitting in front of them (facing the vehicle) & using your feet, or shins to wedge them up to height. Less of a workout that way. Not that a workout is bad, but doing it all day you learn tricks to make it easier. Good job for spinning the lugnuts down by hand before hitting them with the impact, that practice will serve you well with not ruining them, and also knowing when theres a problem, as lugnuts can actually wear out & need replacement over the life of the vehicle.
Our main stream media is terrible on every single subject. Once you realize it’s entertainment based on truth done for ratings and to make the big money donors happy. Every station every company. It’s sad really because people end up so ill informed on things like this.
Have you read Behind the Fog, its a examination of the United States Cold War-era radiological weapons programs. Or heard about information coming out about the US government did covert radiological testing on the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis?
I live in utah.. i can probably walk in my back yard and find a chunck of uranium 😂
There’s a high chance of that.
do you cross rotate your tires?
Not normally. If I get my truck up on a lift I’ll switch them around. But usually it’s only front to back. They don’t wear weird and usually I get around 60,000 miles out of a set.
@@RadioactiveDrew looks like you have green valve stem covers. are these costco tires? if so, theyll rotate them for you for free.
Yeah, from Costco. I know they will rotate them for free. But I like doing my own service on my truck when I can.
@@RadioactiveDrew just be aware that if you dont have them or another shop rotate the tires, you void the warranty
That’s the first I’m hearing about that. Usually those BFGs can take a beating. I’ve never had a problem with them.
I totally agree with you, but you are forgetting the most important thing to these leaders of security agencies... How do they get their funding?
Now that you understand that, the rest makes perfect sense, and these people should be removed from power.
The first I heard of this was listening to "Rent a General" blabbing on, and Border Force (what ever they call themselves) doubling down when they already privately know the true scale of the threat, but aren't going to say. This is the first time I've heard what the "threat" might actually be, (I say 'might' as this is an unconfirmed story to me.) You'll have to be careful Drew, the YT thought police will be after you for daring to challenge the official narrative, like they exterminate doctors who say the wrong things about covid! Who's really doing the terror round here?
Unfortunately, boring headlines get no viewers, and therefore no ad revenue, so they have a vested interest in generating viewership by coming up with outrageous headlines, usually based in fear and misunderstanding, which really does a disservice to the public. Nobody would read a story entitled "Substance found which bears no threat."
Well then they could decide it’s not worth their time to report on it. Or say that traces of uranium were found and investigated more as how that happened.
You don’t get invited on to the news if you cannot offer jeopardy to the simpleton viewers. Jeopardy sells. Good luck with your attempts to spread knowledge. Ignorance is the new cool!
A little copper grease on the mating face of the wheel hub will prevent the wheels seizing on. Good on the lug nut threads too. Fun video format incidentally.
Thanks for the advice. I think the format works for certain subjects.
Why isn’t Uranium not affective in weapons?
Because natural uranium is mostly U-238 and only .7% U-235. Uranium 235 is the fissile uranium, meaning it will split apart when hit by a neutron and release 2-3 others. So it can sustain a chain reaction.
@@RadioactiveDrew So what about Uranium in Nuclear Bombs, i guess thats more enriched then?
@@alexstrouse6333 you have to look at the different isotopes of uranium. All elements have different isotopes. Uranium 238 can’t undergo fission but uranium 235 can. So in a bomb uranium is enriched up to 90% or greater of U-235.
@@RadioactiveDrew Okay, thank you for the info, i would like to see a video on how to store radioactive material, because i just have my Am 241 in a glass vial on my shelf.
@@alexstrouse6333 your okay keeping it in that glass vial on a shelf. It’s mainly an alpha emitter and the gamma energy it doesn’t emit isn’t very powerful.
One of those glazed antiques if broken during shipping at Heathrow, I guess the Brits will shut down their country claiming a "nuclear winter" is coming. Brits are so funny.
Guess detergent is dangerous as well if you drink it, still doesn't make the news! Or not the same way, you know what I mean.
You're right but you're also kinda wrong - on paper it's not super dangerous, absolutely, totally agree; the problem is that released into the environment the official response to it would be fairly severe, and long-lasting. It's difficult to say if that's the right response, for various reasons, but the reality is that the media and by extension those ignorant public would demand a reaction like that, and that is what makes it a threat. I don't think anybody is seriously suggesting that somebody is going to make a nuclear weapon or that people would die but dispersed with a small amount of explosives would kick off a very large and very expensive clean up operation and probably long-term evacuation of a reasonably large area, in a major city that starts to become a major problem. I don't doubt for a second that a reaction would be similar in the US, if not more massive. You can see what happens by looking at the clean-up after the Litvinenko assassination with Polonium and extrapolate.
Radium however is worse. It is almost 3 million times more radioactive than U-238 (1600 years vs 4,5*10^(9) years half lives). In addition to that, radium being an alkaline earth metal is very reactive which results to formation of much more water-soluble compounds than uranium. As any alkaline earth metal it has affinity for bone tissue where it gets stuck.
I’ve heard that it’s more around a million times more radioactive than uranium 238. Or at least I believe that’s what Marie Curie originally said.
Fear was what media control, they want green but they fear some the cleaniest energy available where hydro-electricity didnt exist. Learning was the key.
I wonder how people will react if media tell about higher background radiation in an airplane!
I am not embarrassed to say that it was radioactive drew that definitively inspired me to do further research and even buy a bettergeiger to learn and testing radiation around.
I dont have fear anymore and know how to be cautious in front of different radioactive sources!
In a short future it gonna be normal a truck roll in a street carrying nuclear fuel or even yellowcake and been caugh in an accident, I already pretend more scare for that 😄
Thank’s again!
I'm glad to hear that you have taken an interest in radiation and bought a detector. I always like hearing stories like this.
Drew great video I personally liked the format. Kind of refreshing to watch something new. I think it would have been more entertaining for us if you had gone out for a good drive in that white stuff just prior to the video. LOL. If you haven't notice all news is sensationalized now days. From the weather (hardly ever hear of a normal storm anymore they are always horrible or super or some other adjective to make it sound scarier ). To guns and gun control (don't get me started on that one). In my 40 years of naval nuclear power it has always been this way with anything the press and so called experts say. This attitude in my opinion is what killed nuclear energy in this country the press using the general publics uneducated fear of radiation and nuclear stuff to sell news papers and magazines. Keep up the reality in your videos. Sorry about the length. But this subject causes me to go into a rant. Jim
I totally agree...ignorance has killed a lot of stuff and nuclear power is trying to survive...I hope it does.
@@RadioactiveDrew During a long underwater mission years ago I was told by a friend that he had read a book about after the end of the Vietnam war the large group of established protesters had no job so they were the ones that shifted to protesting nuclear power. According to this guy (who was known to be reliable) the book even outlined names of people and what they did in each protests. By the end of the underway the conversation was long forgotten and I only remembered it years later. Have you or anyone ever heard of such a book?
That book isn’t ringing any bells. But it doesn’t seem to outside the realm of possibilities that’s for sure.
I kept checking the news, waiting for the relevant details. You know: actual isotopes, quantities, whether elemental or compounds, and so on. Crickets ... Some people need our clicks, or watch time, to put food on the table, what can you do.
as far as i knew, Uranium metal, though radioactive, is harmless if its kept outside of your body. as it gives off BETA not Gamma radiation (you can i think, handle it with bare hands and not get affected by it - it only becomes dangerous once its been inside the reactor. FACT: They charged early Magnox reactors prior to commissioning by climbing inside the reactor and loading it by hand before climbing out and sealing the core access - there's footage of this on a documentary about MAGNOX reactors Berkley on Magnox Ltd own youtube channel "magnoxsites")
Uranium metal is safe to handle but I would still use caution. It gives off alpha, beta and gamma radiation. The majority of the radiation is in the form of alpha and beta.
If every person who knew nothing about what they were talking about stopped talking we would be in a much better place. And unfortunately it’s easier to instill fear than to educate so you end up with stories like this one or countless other stories like how a kid brought in a fiesta-ware plate or something similar and got the police called on him.
I believe people want to learn something new more than they want to be afraid of something they don't understand.
@6:17 Coat the mating surface with a very light coating of anti-seize (Grease will wash away) to prevent that from happening out in the field. I do that to my car (another thing that works is switch out your alloy rims for steel.)
It should be a very light coating (just use your finger) and be careful not to get any on the threads (because that's not recommended).
Can even just use a bit of oil, used oil even.
@@mediocreman2 Anti-seize is your best bet.
Being a gun person, I can certainly understand the frustration with ignorance.
Ignorance that is based on fear of a thing can be very blinding.
@@RadioactiveDrew O find it shocking how people in positions regulating things and reporting on things don't even do basic research, it's sickening.
All right. My two cents after watching your video and reading the news on it.
They could have been over blowing it but also under stating it as well.
The reason is, it could have been 100% harmless and non intentional.
Or could have been something larger.
But what it could have been was a test to see if it gets detected.
By them saying.
"Hey, we found something" is them indirectly also saying "were watching you!".
In any case. You, being American, should understand the importance of safety and action, as opposed to reaction. If your intelligence services left and right hands actually talked to each other, 911 could have been avoided.
Hundreds of thousands of people paid for their life's because a few ding bats was able to get past the cracks.
Which they probably probed and tested over the years.
So, reaction to this is better than no reaction.
Probably an overreaction but depends on what type of Uranium contamination they found, which surely will be ascertained.
Trace amounts of natural uranium was found...about as harmless as it gets.
@@RadioactiveDrew I've not seen any article stating that it was just "trace amounts of natural Uranium"...can you put the link up? If it was enriched then there's a problem.
Odd too, that if it was only "trace" that it was detected at all, since there must be many radioactive "antiques" rather higher than "trace" coming & going through the airports which are not. Perhaps they're only random checks...so it's a matter of luck or bad luck?
speaking of ignorance, it drives me nuts when people claim a nuclear reactor can blow up just like an atom bomb. really? do you even understand how an atom bomb blows up? apparently not...
That whole thing makes me laugh. But people have to try and sell fear to others.
As someone who has worked at Heathrow Cargo for 30 years, and imported RADAC a number of times, I have a number of questions about this story. Doesn't seem quite right to me. 🤔
Anytime people here the "r" word they freak the hell out. Radiation is everywhere and generally not harmful. That said I do need to get a couple small lead pigs for a couple mineral samples in my collection.
Whipping up the fear of an uneducated public may serve a purpose for the government, Justification for the placement of further controls and monitoring and restrictions.
You sir need to work out a little more lol... Completely out of breath rotating the tires. I never broke a sweat rotating my 37's with steel wheels. Although if you're getting over being sick then that would also explain it but not that much haha btw you should have tested the dirt that came out of your wheels to see if they were radioactive.
Rotating tires is a bit of a work out…but yes I’m exercising more and feeling better from being sick. I’ve checked the dirt before and didn’t see anything.
yes you are.
Crikey...you'd have thought that Drew had lost one of his parcels entering the UK by this video...🤣
Oh I know better than that.
@@RadioactiveDrew 🤣