It's so cool seeing my home state talked about in a video that isn't about Las Vegas! My dad is actually a geologist specializing in precious metals based here in Nevada. At the time when Yucca mountain was being considered to be the nation's nuclear toilet, my dad took a look at it. He concluded that it was in fact the best place to be the nation's nuclear toilet (not his exact words). While it is understandable to not want glowy-glowy-boom-juice in our backyard, the nation still needs a nuclear toilet. Just wanted to give another perspective on the subject. Love your videos!
It is really the best place. No resistance or business for miles around. No water. So that won’t be contaminated. And due to its a mountain it can be expanded to go deeper further diminishing the effect and the state would of goten a lot money from it. As compensation.
@@spacetechempire510 did you watch? Nye county would've received the tax money. They sued the state because creating a ficticous county just to embezzle money from the feds to the state is unconstitutional. The property tax that the federal government agreed to pay, prior to the creation of Bull Frog county mind you, was going to be paid to Nye county.
Hi Jerry, I’m from Nevada myself and have to say I’d be a bit hesitant to have nuclear waste. We were conducting a poll and the opinions have stayed pretty strong (70% against generally) I wish they’d do more research on it though
What would be better than just sticking the waste underground is to create a system of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to be used again, but that creates problems with uncontrolled nuclear proliferation since the facilities used to reprocess the spent fuel can also be used for enrichment to make weapons grade materials, so its a huge geopolitical nightmare right now.
It's also noteworthy that in addition to having no people, no buildings, and no roads, Bullfrog County also had no bullfrogs. With the possible exception of an as of yet undisclosed terrarium population.
I got confused. So federation owns big part of Nevada. Nevada then taxed its land, owned by federal? So can Nevada buy back that land from federal, like company buys its stock back from market?
@@effexon You can watch CGP Grey's video explains well: ua-cam.com/video/naDCCW5TSpU/v-deo.html Also, this video explains the fact that once the Federal Government decided to keep its federal land, it'd keep it forever.: ua-cam.com/video/LruaD7XhQ50/v-deo.html
@@FiredAndIced IDK about forever, but its more that the Federal government realized that it didn't have unlimited land so it stopped handing the land out.
@@effexon Close. Federal government owns land since before statehood. Statehood means state's rights. Far later national government says, "Hey, lets put a toxic toilet here!". The state says, "Let's talk about funding." because of states rights.
FYI: The average American reactor is almost 40 years old. Newer fast breeder reactors are more effective and can use fuel made from the spent stuff that was to be stored in Nevada.
Being someone from out west. I can tell you virtually everyone who is willing to take 5 seconds to understand why so much land is government owned, calms down about it. But there are so many arrogant, self-righteous people who won't listen to anything that disagrees with their perceptions. Almost all of the land is either beautiful park land set aside for all people to enjoy. Or it's desolate wasteland that no one wants. Most of the land in Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, idaho, Utah...etc is desert. And it takes a lot of different pressures for desert land to be developed. California for example has developed a lot of inhospitable regions due to population and agriculture needs. Those pressures simply don't exist in most of the other western states.
@@railroadforest30 and it's dumb, the fact that 2 million people live in the desert where there is a fairly large lack of water is a little bit dumb imo
Hold up a minute! Is that screw at 2:17 being screwed in counterclockwise?? Edit: I guess he mirrored the video just to screw with us. There's a mirrored clip at 4:28
Seriously, missed opportunity on your part by not waiting 2 days to put this out on Nevada Day. The best part of growing up there was getting Halloween off from school every year. Great video!
While attempting to adjust the quality settings, I accidentally set the speed to 0.25x and I highly, highly recommend doing the same if you wish to hear what Sam would sound like when extremely, extremely drunk.
“Though, still technically, the nation’s only nuclear waste depository…” Uh… The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is not only a national nuclear waste depository, it’s _actually_ housing nuclear waste right now. Of course, it’s only accepting nuclear waste from the Department of Energy, and thus pretty much isolated to materials related to nuclear weapons, and is not taking any waste from private nuclear power plants… but that’s still nuclear waste depository-ing.
Bullfrog County, Nevada is the second shortest-lived county in US history. The shortest (Beckham County, Kentucky, which lasted less than three months) was also dissolved due to a county tax issue.
@@tomasvrana1703 You don't have to touch the nuclear waste. Some of it is in the air - gaseous materials can be radioactive, as are dust particles. (solid) Nuclear waste can leak into the aquifer, and you drink some of it - and bathe in some of it - and water some of the plants you will eat.
@@tomasvrana1703 That only works for as long as those seals hold. There is some leaking out in numerous places - including Hanson in Washington. In case of an earthquake, the seals or containers could fail much faster.
Nevada in 1864: "We don't want to become a state because we don't want to be responsible for policing all the uninhabited land." US: "No worries, we'll make the uninhabited parts become federal land and we'll take care of it." Nevada: "Cool." *150 years later* Nevada: "WHY IS THIS ALL FEDERAL LAND?!?!?!?! MY FREEDOMS!!!"
I live in Nevada (not in Nye County, though) and would be glad to see Yucca Mountain open. We need a place to put the waste. There's nobody even near Yucca Mountain, it's in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by other federal lands (like the Nevada Test Site) where you can't go, and it would be definitely safer than all of the 'temporary' storage sites. Furthermore, most of the waste would be transported by train, in containers so safe that you can drop them off a cliff and set them on fire for hours and they still won't leak. I live right next to the railroad, and it wouldn't bother me at all to have nuclear waste trains coming through or even being parked on the siding across from my house. It's much safer than many of the hazardous things transported by rail like propane gas, oil, etc.
I live right where they would transport the waste, which is Vegas because the “trains” were never considered due to the cost (a $Billion per mile, roughly). Yucca also sits over an aquifer that feeds the southern part of the state. Nevada already stores 100% of its own nuclear waste safely (we don’t have and have never had nuclear plants), has more renewable power than any other state, and has only one center of commerce that would collapse the state if an accident on the highways leaked radioactive waste near the Strip. Every other state can store their own waste, they built the pants and knew the risks. Nevada was doing just fine without it and can stay without it, especially since it wouldn’t have improved the lives of Nevadans.
I think a lot of people don't realize how desolate some areas in the West are. There are places you could put this stuff where nobody would have to see it for thousands of years. And we can store thousands of years worth of spent waste
2:23 Got really distracted by that reverse threaded screw, until I realized you guys probably just mirrored the video. Why you gotta confuse me like that...
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The "boom juice" analogy is incorrect. Yucca Mountain was to receive spent uranium fuel from nuclear power plants. Not weapons grade uranium....which isn't in the form of a suitable decommissioned weapon.
I mean there is a lot wrong with this video. He makes repeated references to how the waste could be hazardous to the people in the state when in reality stuffing it into extremely sturdy casks and storing it inside a geologically stable cavern cut deep into a mountain wouldn't expose them to any danger at all. It wouldn't even really take up that much space.
@@johningles1098 Neveda is missing out on a lot of federal dollars to babysit all the countries spent uranium. With relatively low risk and with the knowledge and technology available today. Its a shame in way...
HAI's scripts have reached their final evolution, truly incredible video essays. One of the few YT channels that still makes me laugh out loud. GJ my dude
One small, tiny and maybe a little important information was missing from the video: the temporary storage are LONG over the "best before" date. The are often made with wood, material that does not hold well against radiation. They were planned to decommissioned and replaced by proper storage decades ago. But same as with expertise of epidemiologists, expertise of nuclear engineers is not as interesting for politicians as stonks and AR-15.
@@Kylora2112 I know they did that for a while, probably something about the tiny amount of torque generated by spinning a wheel wanting to unscrew the right front lugnuts, I guess? But I have always wondered 1) why didn't they bother with the rear wheel? and 2) if it was so important at one time, what made it no longer important?
Interesting tid bit according to a local about the bullfrog name. In Nevada somewhat near this area, there used to be the Bullfrog mining district. They called it that because the first gold they found was in a rock that look like a bullfrog.
@@endangerednayla I think it is a parody. The description in the channel says "This channel is a puppet of Avery the Cuban American" Edit: Also, if it were indeed Kim Jong-Un, it would likely have been verified.
@Half as Interesting, What about the WIPP site outside Carlsbad NM? It is a fully operational low level nuclear waste dump that has bin operational for over 20 years! Why is it that so many people talk about Yucca mountain but they never seem to get to WIPP and the fact that it is actually doing the job?
"That solution seems pretty sound, but it would be kind of annoying in some minor aspect. Let's just keep doing something strictly worse instead." So it always goes...
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I was OK with it - we already pay low taxes and if they had kept it - we would be paying no taxes. The property tax was just a small amount we would have received - All nuke waste is owned by the people who would have stored it there and responsible "cradle to grave" and would have been "Paying Rent" to store it there. Nevada would have been the wealthiest state in the union. It's still there - I hope someday they reopen it. Nuclear power is the best option for power over coal, gas and oil. Just my $0.02 worth.
I'm a nuclear engineer, and honestly, the nuclear waste (or "used fuel" as we call it) still has most of the fuel in it, and a long-term storage solution is remarkably profitable. I'm surprised more places aren't lining up to grab that business opportunity. But then I remember that so little of the general public understands even the most fundamental things about radiation and are so irrationally terrified of it that it leads to dumb decisions. I think your discussion here further obfuscated the pertinent facts and, while entertaining, was not particularly informative.
Aye, Wendover Productions/Half as Interesting is pretty well known for having a very strong bias against nuclear energy, for some inexpliecable reason. Check out Wendover Productions' video on nuclear waste storage. It is one of the videos with the worst ratio of likes to dislikes on his channel, for good reason. The comments of that video is filled with people correcting his many many mistakes and incorrect biases.
SAM :People say, Sam[...]I already have friends like that. People say, Sam... KUMAIL:It's amazing. It's the same material. SAM:What do people say? AUDIENCE: Sam! SAM : People say what? AUDIENCE : Sam! SAM : I'm Sam Highsmith. Thank you very much!
Kalawao county, Hawaii is an interesting story. It was created in response to the Hansen’s disease (aka leprosy) colony on Molokai. The only residents are the former Hansen disease colonists and the only government official is a sheriff.
At 2:15 you can see a magical screw that goes into wood when turned counterclockwise. But don't worry. By 4:29 the screw goes the correct direction again.
just one note, because I know a lot of people that don't know this; nuclear waste is usually not glowy boom-boom juice like the green barrels in the Simpsons, it's most commonly contaminated protective equipment, other contaminated stuff and of course either contaminated or radioactive materials, which are usually solid
What I learned by watching HAI :- Things that are stupid are actually having a very intresting and legit reason behind it For example:- Trading onions in the *stink* Market is illegal
Because of corona corona real name is covid19 first happening in china and 2019 december so because of that we have to wear mask and 6 feet apart if u dont you are quarantine for 2 or 3 weeks right now america had 8 million case so it is dangerous a trump didnt care a one untill auguest?(maybe) so it is very important to wear mask and 6 feet apart.thx
Keep in mind, we really don't have all that much nuclear waste. It makes up in total a 30-foot-deep football field, to house all the country produced since we've started making nuclear power plants. In fact, about half of all states store at least a little bit.
That's a lot of work. We just give up and call them 'Unorganized Districts'. Which - fun fact - might just be where'd you'd find a big lake where they tried to put our glowy-glowy-boom-juice..
I live in (near, but if anyone knows the area, they know what specifically I mean by that) Hanford, Washington (briefly mentioned as one of the other places considered to put the waste) and I'm fairly surprised we were ever in the running. I mean, we're actually one of the largest metropolitan areas in the state...
But seriously, if we (the United States of America) want to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions (even though we are not the biggest contributor), we _need_ more nuclear power plants. That waste _needs_ a long-term repository. Yucca Mountain _seems_ to me like a good place.
I always wonder where do you get all these diverse stock video footage of people's expressions and gestures. Do you have access to all the high quality video camera feeds of the world? Or do you have an endless supply of disposable models doing silly things in front of the camera all day?
Exactly; it will be irrelevant this time next year (or even six months from now), and it just serves to annoy people who've heard the same damn advice 80 million times already
few people know that the actual nuclear waste that is uranium is stored at nuclear power plant sites until the radioactive decay allows for legal regulated travel to its final resting place. yucca mountain would eventually store this but a vast majority of waste is low radioactive waste, like uniforms, cleaning supplies and anything for regular cleanup and maintenance of those facilities... people were just super ignorant in what nuclear waste entails and were kept in the dark as to the true meaning of what nuclear waste means.
1861: Ormsby County, NV created, Carson City becomes county seat. 1969: Carson City eats Ormsby County. 1987: Bullfrog County created, Carson City becomes county seat. Ormsby County Spirit: TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF CARSON CITY 1989: Bullfrog County dead. Ormsby County: Yess he is dead.
sam mentioning cop rock took all the breath out of me. i tried to watch it and it is easily the worst show i have ever seen. it’s like glee for the blue lives matter crowd
You know, that nuclear waste is a pile of insoluble ceramics of a grey-brown color or, after reprocessing, glass? No glow, no goo, many tons, but few barrels (actually: high mass, low volume)
Yukka is a type of plant that grows in the dessert... Many species also bear edible parts, including fruits, seeds, flowers, flowering stems, and more rarely roots.
Honestly, I dont know why they don't put it on a spaceship and throw it to Venus, it won't affect us because it it too hot, so worse case scenario it would dissipate into its surface.
It's so cool seeing my home state talked about in a video that isn't about Las Vegas!
My dad is actually a geologist specializing in precious metals based here in Nevada. At the time when Yucca mountain was being considered to be the nation's nuclear toilet, my dad took a look at it. He concluded that it was in fact the best place to be the nation's nuclear toilet (not his exact words). While it is understandable to not want glowy-glowy-boom-juice in our backyard, the nation still needs a nuclear toilet.
Just wanted to give another perspective on the subject.
Love your videos!
You mean glowy-glowy-boom-boom juice. You forgot a boom
It is really the best place.
No resistance or business for miles around.
No water. So that won’t be contaminated.
And due to its a mountain it can be expanded to go deeper further diminishing the effect and the state would of goten a lot money from it. As compensation.
@@spacetechempire510 did you watch? Nye county would've received the tax money. They sued the state because creating a ficticous county just to embezzle money from the feds to the state is unconstitutional. The property tax that the federal government agreed to pay, prior to the creation of Bull Frog county mind you, was going to be paid to Nye county.
Hi Jerry,
I’m from Nevada myself and have to say I’d be a bit hesitant to have nuclear waste. We were conducting a poll and the opinions have stayed pretty strong (70% against generally) I wish they’d do more research on it though
What would be better than just sticking the waste underground is to create a system of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to be used again, but that creates problems with uncontrolled nuclear proliferation since the facilities used to reprocess the spent fuel can also be used for enrichment to make weapons grade materials, so its a huge geopolitical nightmare right now.
It's also noteworthy that in addition to having no people, no buildings, and no roads, Bullfrog County also had no bullfrogs. With the possible exception of an as of yet undisclosed terrarium population.
Federal Government: "It's free real estate."
Nevada: "It's property taxes for the state."
Nye County: "It's property taxes for the county."
I got confused. So federation owns big part of Nevada. Nevada then taxed its land, owned by federal? So can Nevada buy back that land from federal, like company buys its stock back from market?
@@effexon You can watch CGP Grey's video explains well: ua-cam.com/video/naDCCW5TSpU/v-deo.html
Also, this video explains the fact that once the Federal Government decided to keep its federal land, it'd keep it forever.: ua-cam.com/video/LruaD7XhQ50/v-deo.html
@@FiredAndIced IDK about forever, but its more that the Federal government realized that it didn't have unlimited land so it stopped handing the land out.
@@effexon Close. Federal government owns land since before statehood. Statehood means state's rights. Far later national government says, "Hey, lets put a toxic toilet here!". The state says, "Let's talk about funding." because of states rights.
@@everintransit4240 Sounds familiar, how countries government work in europe too. details vary of course.
FYI: The average American reactor is almost 40 years old. Newer fast breeder reactors are more effective and can use fuel made from the spent stuff that was to be stored in Nevada.
America hates upgrades.
When people are too afraid of a nuclear meltdown to put money towards upgrading nuclear facilities to make them less likely to have a meltdown
There's laws against recycling fuel in the US for some stupid reason.
@@erinaxel8562 cause of Jimmy Carter
Funny how if we use all of our current waste by upgrading and building Gen 4 and Breeder Reactors, we could reduce nuclear waste to less than a tank.
Isn't that just Nevada?
The only difference, people
The only other difference is that it doesn’t have a casino every two feet
@@amtraktrains5627 And the presense of a mysterious military site
I mean you got Vegas, I live here so I think it exists at least
Ight i see how it is. Nevada is Las Vegas, Reno, sparks, Carson, and random tiny cities like winnemucca. Then yeah it’s pretty much nothing. 0_0
"Not even a random Subway entirely staffed by a single high-schooler"
Yea I liked that qoute too
nice
lmao
Basic US law. No Subway worked by a lone high schooler, no County.
(Obviously a joke)
You are flipping everywhere. Alex the rambler, ibxtoycat, now hai. You are the new Justin Y lmao
"Not even a random Subway staffed by a single high schooler."
As a former Subway employee, I say that statement is so true it hurts.
>federal land
>CGP HAS BEEN SUMMONED
Bruh
The problem is: This casting time of that spell is about half a decade. So...
@@QemeH still waiting
There already is a video about federal land. The reservations on the other hand: what a great story... for another time!
CGP the SCP here to talk about the PRC
Being someone from out west. I can tell you virtually everyone who is willing to take 5 seconds to understand why so much land is government owned, calms down about it. But there are so many arrogant, self-righteous people who won't listen to anything that disagrees with their perceptions.
Almost all of the land is either beautiful park land set aside for all people to enjoy. Or it's desolate wasteland that no one wants. Most of the land in Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, idaho, Utah...etc is desert. And it takes a lot of different pressures for desert land to be developed. California for example has developed a lot of inhospitable regions due to population and agriculture needs. Those pressures simply don't exist in most of the other western states.
Around cities in Utah and Nevada and Arizona desert is being developed
@@railroadforest30 and it's dumb, the fact that 2 million people live in the desert where there is a fairly large lack of water is a little bit dumb imo
@@jordanabendroth6458 indeed
@@jordanabendroth6458 you might notice how all the cities in nevada are built on rivers
"Middle-of-nowhere Nevada"
NOOOOO COOURAAGE
oh wait that's why he's purple
Hmm yes i agre make laugh me big (sorry for my excellent engrish)
Nah, he's from Kansas.
Just as scary tho
@@InvictvsNox Muriel(from the episode where they go into a banana society 2000 years in the future): We’re not in Kansas anymore
@@InvictvsNox it's because the location is commonly referred to as middle-of-nowhere
@@h-Films I know lol.
The town Courage is from is called Nowhere, Kansas
Hold up a minute! Is that screw at 2:17 being screwed in counterclockwise??
Edit: I guess he mirrored the video just to screw with us. There's a mirrored clip at 4:28
I thought the same thing, I was like, are screws backwards on the other side of the world or something?
Came here to say this too. Someone's screwing with us...
That’s a funny joke m8
Yes I noticed it too
Lol, had the same reaction.
Seriously, missed opportunity on your part by not waiting 2 days to put this out on Nevada Day. The best part of growing up there was getting Halloween off from school every year. Great video!
Wish that was still the case. Loved it as a kid. They changed it cause so guess they hate happiness.
1:54 the "Deaf" in Deaf Smith County is pronounced like "Deef." Sorry to be that guy but I gotta get in the yearly mistakes video somehow 😏
Well done. Well done...
Yes
Cunningham’s law
English - The language that spells things however it pleases without rules.
Wasn’t he at the Alamo during the 1836 battle?
You: Hey, Sam, Can I call you Sam?
Sam: No.
You: ok, Sam
Sam: The mountain is filled with mountain.
Me: I also noticed that the floor is made of floor.
I also noticed that the left arm is not the right arm
People die when they are killed.
Floor,or ground? There seems to be some confusion these days.
@Basar Anil I see what you did there. You are
Bad I will not forget that.
@Basar Anil hehe an ad came and I was able to save myself. U can't fool me
Gotta get me some *"glowy-glowy-boom-juice"*
Yep 👍🏿
The forbidden snack
Legion is that it is mountain due.
some of that...... bone hurting juice.....
blowy-blowy-bloom-juice
While attempting to adjust the quality settings, I accidentally set the speed to 0.25x and I highly, highly recommend doing the same if you wish to hear what Sam would sound like when extremely, extremely drunk.
Every other video:
.5x is better
Quite accurate actually
That’s half as interesting
sooo good
Nevada: Sooo, this is all my land?
US Government: Yesn't
Yo
(Yes + no = yo or yeno)
“Though, still technically, the nation’s only nuclear waste depository…” Uh… The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is not only a national nuclear waste depository, it’s _actually_ housing nuclear waste right now. Of course, it’s only accepting nuclear waste from the Department of Energy, and thus pretty much isolated to materials related to nuclear weapons, and is not taking any waste from private nuclear power plants… but that’s still nuclear waste depository-ing.
There's also the Runit Dome, though Marshall Islands are no longer a part of the US.
@@seneca983 Ooo nice catch! I didn’t know about that one.
When you know what the entire rest of the video is going to talk about the second he says Yucca Mountain...
Bullfrog County, Nevada is the second shortest-lived county in US history. The shortest (Beckham County, Kentucky, which lasted less than three months) was also dissolved due to a county tax issue.
What counties did it dissolve into
“It turned out, despite what comic books say, the only super power it ACTUALLY gives you is bone cancer.”
Oh, it's got other lovely effects too, including thyroid cancer, leukemia, brain cancer...
@@rudra62 But only if you ever touched it. And you would never.. It really isnt deangerous to live next to nuclear waste..
@@tomasvrana1703 You don't have to touch the nuclear waste. Some of it is in the air - gaseous materials can be radioactive, as are dust particles.
(solid) Nuclear waste can leak into the aquifer, and you drink some of it - and bathe in some of it - and water some of the plants you will eat.
@@rudra62 But you know it would be sealed and nothing would come in and out...
@@tomasvrana1703 That only works for as long as those seals hold. There is some leaking out in numerous places - including Hanson in Washington.
In case of an earthquake, the seals or containers could fail much faster.
Why isn't there a Bill Nye the Science Guy joke when he said "Nye County"
Nevada in 1864: "We don't want to become a state because we don't want to be responsible for policing all the uninhabited land."
US: "No worries, we'll make the uninhabited parts become federal land and we'll take care of it."
Nevada: "Cool."
*150 years later*
Nevada: "WHY IS THIS ALL FEDERAL LAND?!?!?!?! MY FREEDOMS!!!"
US: *puts a highly valuable facility in the federal land*
Nevada: "You planning on pay for that there land? 👀"
Not what happened, we have the minutes from the legislative session, Nevada was strong armed
People in Nevada generally like public land
1:10 I genuinely LOL'd at "glowy glowy boom juice"
I live in Nevada (not in Nye County, though) and would be glad to see Yucca Mountain open. We need a place to put the waste. There's nobody even near Yucca Mountain, it's in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by other federal lands (like the Nevada Test Site) where you can't go, and it would be definitely safer than all of the 'temporary' storage sites. Furthermore, most of the waste would be transported by train, in containers so safe that you can drop them off a cliff and set them on fire for hours and they still won't leak. I live right next to the railroad, and it wouldn't bother me at all to have nuclear waste trains coming through or even being parked on the siding across from my house. It's much safer than many of the hazardous things transported by rail like propane gas, oil, etc.
I live right where they would transport the waste, which is Vegas because the “trains” were never considered due to the cost (a $Billion per mile, roughly). Yucca also sits over an aquifer that feeds the southern part of the state. Nevada already stores 100% of its own nuclear waste safely (we don’t have and have never had nuclear plants), has more renewable power than any other state, and has only one center of commerce that would collapse the state if an accident on the highways leaked radioactive waste near the Strip.
Every other state can store their own waste, they built the pants and knew the risks. Nevada was doing just fine without it and can stay without it, especially since it wouldn’t have improved the lives of Nevadans.
I think a lot of people don't realize how desolate some areas in the West are. There are places you could put this stuff where nobody would have to see it for thousands of years. And we can store thousands of years worth of spent waste
Nevada right now: *Hold on I gotta count Bullfrog County's ballots yet!*
We can't find them! They're ALL MISSING! The other party stole them! Election fraud!
At the same time, "Bullfrog County had a 100% election turn out."
2:23 Got really distracted by that reverse threaded screw, until I realized you guys probably just mirrored the video. Why you gotta confuse me like that...
Me too. The non-mirrored video appears at 4:30.
They were screwing with you 😂
"Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads"
Because area 51, why else?
I recently revealed the genders of my two girlfriends. It got a lot of hate and now has 30 times more dislikes than likes. I am really sad that people can be so mean. Sorry for using your comment to talk about my problems, dear fru
No human people
@@AxxLAfriku feels bad :( at least you have 25K subs :P
@ AxxL
At this point I thought humanity couldn’t get worse at this point but then I think of you and prove myself wrong
@Basar Anil bruh you got me
The "boom juice" analogy is incorrect.
Yucca Mountain was to receive spent uranium fuel from nuclear power plants. Not weapons grade uranium....which isn't in the form of a suitable decommissioned weapon.
I mean there is a lot wrong with this video. He makes repeated references to how the waste could be hazardous to the people in the state when in reality stuffing it into extremely sturdy casks and storing it inside a geologically stable cavern cut deep into a mountain wouldn't expose them to any danger at all. It wouldn't even really take up that much space.
@@johningles1098 Neveda is missing out on a lot of federal dollars to babysit all the countries spent uranium. With relatively low risk and with the knowledge and technology available today. Its a shame in way...
Thank you for pronouncing Nevada correctly
He’s pronouncing Yucca Horribly wrong tho...
Guess the universe has to balance itself out somehow.
"Amateurs."
Australia: "AMATEURS!"
HAI's scripts have reached their final evolution, truly incredible video essays. One of the few YT channels that still makes me laugh out loud. GJ my dude
One small, tiny and maybe a little important information was missing from the video: the temporary storage are LONG over the "best before" date. The are often made with wood, material that does not hold well against radiation. They were planned to decommissioned and replaced by proper storage decades ago. But same as with expertise of epidemiologists, expertise of nuclear engineers is not as interesting for politicians as stonks and AR-15.
2:17 LEFTY-TIGHTY, RIGHTY-LOOSY?!
Left handed threads exist. My first car was a 1965 Dodge Coronet with left handed lugs on the passenger side.
@@Kylora2112 thank you, captain obvious.
The non-mirrored video of the screw appears at 4:30.
@@Kylora2112 I know they did that for a while, probably something about the tiny amount of torque generated by spinning a wheel wanting to unscrew the right front lugnuts, I guess? But I have always wondered 1) why didn't they bother with the rear wheel? and 2) if it was so important at one time, what made it no longer important?
Correction: This is as opposite to "Country Roads" as you can get while also being as "Country Roads" as you can get
Interesting tid bit according to a local about the bullfrog name. In Nevada somewhat near this area, there used to be the Bullfrog mining district. They called it that because the first gold they found was in a rock that look like a bullfrog.
I think it would be a great idea to just fill it with planes and Toyota Corollas
Or Atomic Bombs
Hey
Hi there supreme leader
@@endangerednayla I think it is a parody. The description in the channel says "This channel is a puppet of Avery the Cuban American"
Edit: Also, if it were indeed Kim Jong-Un, it would likely have been verified.
hey
sam
the new background music is pretty lit, but not as lit as the glowy-glowy-boom-juice.
This is the county with the fastest mail-in ballot counting in all of Nevada.
@Half as Interesting, What about the WIPP site outside Carlsbad NM? It is a fully operational low level nuclear waste dump that has bin operational for over 20 years! Why is it that so many people talk about Yucca mountain but they never seem to get to WIPP and the fact that it is actually doing the job?
because solar panels grow on trees. they know very little about what they believe.
Ahh yes. Even when it comes to radioactive waste, it seems a temporary solution is the permanent solution.
"That solution seems pretty sound, but it would be kind of annoying in some minor aspect. Let's just keep doing something strictly worse instead."
So it always goes...
I wanna find that magic screwdriver which seems to tighten when moving both clockwise and counter-clockwise.
How convenient. Just finished Real Life Lore's video.
Their nerds from Wendover productions
Just finished John Oliver's video on nuclear waste and when he said Yucca mountain, I knew where this is going
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I was OK with it - we already pay low taxes and if they had kept it - we would be paying no taxes. The property tax was just a small amount we would have received - All nuke waste is owned by the people who would have stored it there and responsible "cradle to grave" and would have been "Paying Rent" to store it there. Nevada would have been the wealthiest state in the union.
It's still there - I hope someday they reopen it. Nuclear power is the best option for power over coal, gas and oil. Just my $0.02 worth.
Hey I live in the deadly dump Hanford! Finally some recognition
This man really said Nevada properly for a whole video.
Props.
I'm a nuclear engineer, and honestly, the nuclear waste (or "used fuel" as we call it) still has most of the fuel in it, and a long-term storage solution is remarkably profitable. I'm surprised more places aren't lining up to grab that business opportunity. But then I remember that so little of the general public understands even the most fundamental things about radiation and are so irrationally terrified of it that it leads to dumb decisions.
I think your discussion here further obfuscated the pertinent facts and, while entertaining, was not particularly informative.
Aye, Wendover Productions/Half as Interesting is pretty well known for having a very strong bias against nuclear energy, for some inexpliecable reason. Check out Wendover Productions' video on nuclear waste storage. It is one of the videos with the worst ratio of likes to dislikes on his channel, for good reason. The comments of that video is filled with people correcting his many many mistakes and incorrect biases.
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Kalawao county, Hawaii is an interesting story. It was created in response to the Hansen’s disease (aka leprosy) colony on Molokai. The only residents are the former Hansen disease colonists and the only government official is a sheriff.
At 2:15 you can see a magical screw that goes into wood when turned counterclockwise. But don't worry. By 4:29 the screw goes the correct direction again.
I'm pretty sure he commissioned a machinist to manufacture him a mirrored screw just so he could make that clip. :)
just one note, because I know a lot of people that don't know this;
nuclear waste is usually not glowy boom-boom juice like the green barrels in the Simpsons,
it's most commonly contaminated protective equipment, other contaminated stuff and of course either contaminated or radioactive materials, which are usually solid
Being a Nevadan, I'm proud of your pronunciation hehe
No buildings No roads. Only madness.
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We're a loyal army I guess
“Much like my writing sessions....” has me crying😭😭😭
"a county with no people, buildings, or roads." Ah, So Nevada made a mini Wyoming
What I learned by watching HAI :-
Things that are stupid are actually having a very intresting and legit reason behind it
For example:- Trading onions in the *stink* Market is illegal
The real question is why the US created a state with no people, buildings, or roads in the shape of a rectangle.
US glowy-glowy-boom-juice waste disposers: is it legal?
Sheev Nevada: I'll make it legal.
Meanwhile the Russians are building gen 4 fast neutron reactors that can burn nuclear waste.
"Ooohhh, a nice remote camping spo....glowy glowy boom juice? Haha!!...oh, wait"
I was wondering just about this channel and it pop out
Same
BTW, nuclear waste is NOT stored in ordinary drums or barrels. There are several videos on UA-cam, as to how nuclear waste is stored.
5:36 "and wear a god**mn mask"
People watching this video in 2045 will be so confused as to what masks and 6 feet apart has do do with it! 😅
@@Lornoor I sure hope you're right!
Because of corona corona real name is covid19 first happening in china and 2019 december so because of that we have to wear mask and 6 feet apart if u dont you are quarantine for 2 or 3 weeks right now america had 8 million case so it is dangerous a trump didnt care a one untill auguest?(maybe) so it is very important to wear mask and 6 feet apart.thx
@@kohwoong holy crap is your entire comment wrong. And learn how to use punctuation.
It will last forever
Keep in mind, we really don't have all that much nuclear waste. It makes up in total a 30-foot-deep football field, to house all the country produced since we've started making nuclear power plants. In fact, about half of all states store at least a little bit.
It's recyclable right?
@@Gebri3l Using modern systems, plenty of it can be reprocessed and reused. Something like 90% of it.
Does it bother anyone else when he says “legislator” instead of “legislature”? It BOTHERS me
*Deeply*
Saaaame!
No.
What is crazy is that nuclear waste is being stored in temporary storage rather than long term
Hey Half As Interesting, love your work. I'm from Reno, Nevada. THANK YOU FOR SAYING NEVDADA THE WAY WE NAVADIANS SAY IT!!
Thank you for pronouncing Nevada correctly, it is appreciated. :)
"glowy glowy boom juice" damn Sam, didn't realize you were British
This is gold.
You can't call him Sam!!!
So much Snark. I love it. and your talking about my county (Nye).
That's a lot of work. We just give up and call them 'Unorganized Districts'.
Which - fun fact - might just be where'd you'd find a big lake where they tried to put our glowy-glowy-boom-juice..
I live in (near, but if anyone knows the area, they know what specifically I mean by that) Hanford, Washington (briefly mentioned as one of the other places considered to put the waste) and I'm fairly surprised we were ever in the running. I mean, we're actually one of the largest metropolitan areas in the state...
But seriously, if we (the United States of America) want to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions (even though we are not the biggest contributor), we _need_ more nuclear power plants. That waste _needs_ a long-term repository. Yucca Mountain _seems_ to me like a good place.
I always wonder where do you get all these diverse stock video footage of people's expressions and gestures. Do you have access to all the high quality video camera feeds of the world? Or do you have an endless supply of disposable models doing silly things in front of the camera all day?
That social distancing and mask advice is going to age really well once this pandemic thing blows over. Should have left that out.
Exactly; it will be irrelevant this time next year (or even six months from now), and it just serves to annoy people who've heard the same damn advice 80 million times already
"Like my writing session, it created trash"
Nah bro, I'm dead 💀
Nevada we need you to be blue!
Idk man... they still haven't counted Bullfrog County's ballots yet, it could still flip the state.
few people know that the actual nuclear waste that is uranium is stored at nuclear power plant sites until the radioactive decay allows for legal regulated travel to its final resting place. yucca mountain would eventually store this but a vast majority of waste is low radioactive waste, like uniforms, cleaning supplies and anything for regular cleanup and maintenance of those facilities... people were just super ignorant in what nuclear waste entails and were kept in the dark as to the true meaning of what nuclear waste means.
Wait HAI had dignity?
1861: Ormsby County, NV created, Carson City becomes county seat.
1969: Carson City eats Ormsby County.
1987: Bullfrog County created, Carson City becomes county seat.
Ormsby County Spirit: TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF CARSON CITY
1989: Bullfrog County dead.
Ormsby County: Yess he is dead.
Ikr
Ik
Everyone gangsta till you can't see the comments
That Cop Rock reference hit me hard
sam mentioning cop rock took all the breath out of me. i tried to watch it and it is easily the worst show i have ever seen. it’s like glee for the blue lives matter crowd
You know, that nuclear waste is a pile of insoluble ceramics of a grey-brown color or, after reprocessing, glass?
No glow, no goo, many tons, but few barrels (actually: high mass, low volume)
Last time I was this early, Bullfrog County still existed
5:37 These reminders are going top pop up for years and remind us of being grounded for 2 years
at least they have no covid cases
Why there no people and buildings in Nevada?Because in Nevada happened madness combat
epic
yes, the epic
Hella lit
Yukka is a type of plant that grows in the dessert... Many species also bear edible parts, including fruits, seeds, flowers, flowering stems, and more rarely roots.
No I wont wear a goddamn mask
Honestly, I dont know why they don't put it on a spaceship and throw it to Venus, it won't affect us because it it too hot, so worse case scenario it would dissipate into its surface.
HAI : "Drops vid"
Literally everyone : **goes to comments**
Only because I literally just finished watching it on Nebula 🤣
@@RagaarAshnod Lol came here after it dropped there too.
Can someone please calculate how many hours of sponsored segments there are on the Half as Interesting channel? Thanks :)
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I literally just finished watching it on Nebula 🤣
Hmm
"Blow stuff up, blow people up, and blow stuff with people in it,"
This is why I love this channel