What happened to the Soviet Nuclear Arctic Land Train?
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Is it just me or do they look like someone glued a couple of monopoly houses together
If its soviet and never built , its always going to be weird
@@Blue-5 if it’s anything from the 1950-80s and never built it’s always gonna be weird
Def. not Boardwalk or Parkplace material.
Mine are on Mediterranean and Baltic.
In America, monopoly bad.
In Soviet Russia, monopoly good.
did you just seriously ask me if I wanted a video about a reactor barge?
brother, of course we do
@@nebechanezz3r спасибо товарищ!
Мы готовы поделиться) Мы можем переработать ваше ядерное топливо уже сейчас. А ваше топливо пойдет на входное топливо для наших реакторов
Huh, this looks like something that could fit within the Fallout franchise from the perspective of the Soviet Union or China.
Yeah the 50s and 60s were a crazy time for inventions but you definitely got to give them points for super cool
Thomas the literal TANK engine.
The soviets always come up with the craziest shits I've ever seen
Soviet's played on sandbox mode fr
Propaganda... The biggest goal was to give the people reasons for all the suffering. So the USSR was always looking for the bold project. Science was less important and the proof is in todays Russia. They lack science skill. They are not inventing things anymore. The CPUs they have stolen the ability to copy are decades old.. This is why its important to spread the power out as thin as possible. Too much power in 2 hands leads to disaster 100% of the time.
I've seen crazier
@@KeithZimkeep reading shit
@@KeithZim you are brainwashed
2:55 The Island of Sodorski, where you'll find Tomilin the nuclear steam engine and comrades.
Thought this was cool till I realized they’re all conventional diesel tanks hauling around a portable nuclear reactor that gets SET UP once on site. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff. Was thinking all of this was somehow done on a mobile scale and maybe power was distributed via cables while they traversed the arctic.
They would have made it nuclear / electric if that was pratical, but using an existing tank suspension, engine & transaxle was cheaper, safer and quicker to build...
As soon as the world invented nuclear reactors they wanted to put them in everything. My favorite is the nuclear powered cruise missile called "Project Pluto". It was so ridiculously dangerous the US Air Force put a stop to it's development because they didn't want anyone else building one!
Humans are so careful and efficient with their planet's resources 🤩
Putting a nuclear reactor on a cruise missile that has no other purpose other than destroying itself 😍
@@Blue-5Yes, humans are pretty incredible. We refine raw material and build planes and spaceships.
@@mtb416 No I was saying that we can be so incredibly wasteful
Like imagine a missile
Such a complicated piece of machinery , yet it has no other purpose than destroying itself
Especially large missiles
@@Blue-5 Yes, I agree. We take raw materials and create complex things like guided missiles. Humans are pretty amazing.
@@mtb416 No I was saying something that is NOT amazing about humanity
Building complex machines , that take valuable resources , that have no other purpose other than destroying themselves and causing destruction
Probably a good peaceful useful way to use nuclear energy in places where power is needed, especially after a big storm or other emergencies
Interesting concept
US Nuclear Submarines have been used that way, as well as the Soviet / Russian Nuclear Barge. But these are not subjected to vibration, heat stress, metal fatigue due to low temperatures, etc.
@@davidhollenshead4892
Good point
Never been more glad to see a square space advert
What an amazing machine! Properly explained and very well modeled! And best of all, without bringing up politics and trashtalking russia or the ussr. These were some truly genius people with amazing craftsmanship and it makes me very sad to see that so much of what was created has been lost.
Dude literally calls USSR an empire, i think here is little bit shittalking
@@opentam Well i always take a grain of salt with these sorts of videos because i personally also think the ussr isn't all that good. But this is not the same as some ukrainian youtuber which constantly bombards the creators of a soviet vehicle simply because they are russian.
@@opentam He also likely views Britain as "an empire" due their conduct, as he is an Australian...
The undercarriage was from a conventional tank. The engine was diesel. It was a mobile nuclear modular power plant.
Pittsburgh... it's 3am and I must be lonely!
Or,you might be possessed, you know
3 am L on the clock 😅
@@pashapasovski5860 Syktyvkar. Moscow time 3.38 am. Don't be sad. Everything will be fine.
@armadavit4472 shit dude, hate to disappoint you, I'm in New York City!
(Something you could figure out using FB in 2 seconds)
@@pashapasovski5860 Why should I be disappointed? Not everyone in the world uses FB))
It was time for Thomas to leave, he had seen everything.
At this point whatever the soviets invent could be taken as reliable references.
Well, of _course_ we want a video on the nuclear barge!
I, for one, would like a video on the reactor barge. Remember hearing about it back in the day.
Also, since small reactors might be making a comeback, do you think that the technology for the trains would make sense now?
Great video 👍🏻👍🏻
the weight in the shielding is too heavy, and with modern reactors designed with so many redundant and passive safety mechanisms, reactors are much safer but also much heavier. I don't think the idea is any more plausible now than it was then.
Nuclear powered trains exist today in France, the catch is that the reactor is stationary...
@@davidhollenshead4892 exactly, just put wires up and make the trains run off of grid power
Why? To make a Snowpiercer?
#2:35 - shows a Panzer III as "the famous KV tank"
I feel pain
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Tank issues:
1. Says “KV tanks” and shows a BT-7 and a German Panzer IV
2. Should be “IS-8, better known as T-10”, not the other way around.
ofcourse i want to see a video about the reactor barge ^^
Это Вы про "Академик Ломоносов"? Что в нём особенного?
These giants make every task look effortless.
It's a shame the oil companies have demonized nuclear. Something like this, with reactors made to modern standards (incredibly safe), could be really useful
With all the nuclear accidents it demonized itself i would say 😅
@@Andresen.All?. Nuclear power is the safest energy ever. More people die in wind turbines and solar panels production and operation than in nuclear plants.
Fukushima was japanese corruption allowing back up generators on an active refrigeration reactor to be below sea level right I'm the coast. And zero people died of radiation, all people died due flooding and the evacuation. Yes more people die during the evacuation to save people from the reactors that never killed anyone.
Chernobyl was a dangerous design pushed to the limits by incompetent bureaucrats. The other 3 reactors are still operational .
More people died during the emergency response that actual casualties from the incident (which was barely 48 people directly despite the nonsense propaganda that was burned in the common folk mind by sensationalistic press).
Coal energy kill thousands of people yearly. Coal burning releases radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere causing thyroid and lung cancer to nearby communities.
Oil killed millions of people in explosions, toxic waste, accidents, caused millions of cases of cancer around the world.
France has 80% of it's energy being produced by nuclear power... Germany closed it's nuclear plants, opened new coal burning plants and imports nuclear produced electricity from France and Poland...
It,s really the cost nuclear power plants are more expensive and take more time to build then coal decommissing is very expensive
@@Andresen. Compared to how many oil spills and fires there have been, nuclear really doesn't have many accidents at all. Human error is unfortunately the biggest cause in any accident.
@@AhmadRaza-z7x That is propaganda. The amortized cost during the entire life cycle of a nuclear plant is lower than all other energy production methods.
Nuclear cost a lot to build (until cheap streamline mass produced 4gen small module reactors enter the game) but the massive electrical production on it's lifespan has a very low cost which turns nuclear plants cheaper on the same period of times when you add the cost of all other methods.
And nuclear plants can be refurbished and extended 30/50 years past their utility design.
Wind turbines are very expensive too, they required thousands of times the engineering works of a nuclear power plant to achieve the size to produce the same energy than the later. The wind turbines require thousands of tons of reinforced concrete under massive ground dig for their foundation. Thats a lot of concrete and steel production pollution.
The blades are made of plastic fiber, with resins which are produced by very toxic methods.
They have a short lifespan and must be constantly repaired until being decommissioned. Currently the older wind generators are being passed out and left abandoned. No to mention some of them kill endangered birds that use the same winds they are placed to take advantage off. Just now they are putting cameras to brake the blades if bird flocks are nearby.
Solar energy has 20 years of life cycle, it's production is very expensive en terms of energy and to produce the panels they use large amounts of cyanide, arsenic and mercury, some of the worst and most lethal pollutants in use. Much of which end up in river streams and the trophic chain.<
The giant surfaces solar and wind power need to produce the same amount of energy as a very limited and relatively small size nuclear plant is absurd.
And recycling them is extremely expensive or impossible. Thus why the older ones are left abandoned.
Plus spent nuclear fuel is so small in tonnage. Is very limited, lots of nuclear industry byproducts and waste is used in other industries and the new thorium and older breather reactors can reuse the spent nuclear fuel and turn it into more fuel for next generation reactors making nuclear fuel waste virtually zero.
Nuclear waste in reality is a problem for the non nuclear items used in the industry, irradiated clothing, accessories, tools, containers, materials, robots. Earth itself is radioactive, we just need to bury them in very old stable geological formations or nearby subduction plates, so they get swallowed to the mantle.
These machines are absolute beasts! Incredible power and precision at work
Recommandation :
Read "The Dramatic History of Soviet Nuclear Submarines" ; published around '92.
There is a lot here, written by the 2 first commanders of K-3 (first nuclear soviet sub at sea), then perspective from a higher up on accidents report to the parti. Really interesting & terryfing stuff, definitly recommend for a subject.
10:26 I don't see how this would "still be a highly dangerous method to generate power" honestly. Carrying a truck full of oil is many times more risky than carrying a modular heavily shielded micro reactor.
Radiation?
I mean, the risk is still there
Its not likely to explode , but ig the lasting radiation was too big of a risk to take
@@Blue-5 a nuclear reactor cannot explode
@@adinarapratama5607 you get more radiation from an open air walk in the park that if you were to work in a nuclear power plant for a year
The Soviet Union definitely had some bold and groundbreaking projects. It’s a shame the TES3 wasn’t used more widely, but it remains a unique concept that shows their forward thinking vision for nuclear technology
The factory is very inefficient. And the design bureau is full of crazy people.
I thought it was "another antarctic research vehicles" i was Amazed its "portable nuclear reactor" 😮
Well, there are nuclear powered ice breakers and subs, so land trains sound feasible.
Nuclear-powered houses on tracks…
So damn cool. The ambition and technical expertise is impressive.
yes please make a video about the reactor barge. I don't know if, but I'm sure they made plans for, nuclear satellites.
Не планировали, а создавали. И запускали в космос.
Reactors have operated in space, watch Scott Manley: USA Put A Nuclear Reactor In Space And Abandoned It
Look small modular reactors.
Even though I don't understand anything that is said in the video, I love the animations on the channel, they are always so smooth
Were all here for another land train, cant get enough of them 😂
I'd love a video on the reactor barge, and that wacky 60's looking Soviet Nuclear Locomotive!
The soviets have no limits for the inventivas.
Имеют. Советы умерли 33 года назад.
Two questions: Was the cooling loop closed or open? And where was the cooling water coming from?
I was thinking the same thing. Usually when dealing with nuclear powered transportation there is a heat exchanger to ensure the exhaust isn't radioactive. The inefficiency of the exchanger was one of the reasons that made nuclear powered bombers not feasible in the US.
Good point, guess that's one reason it stayed on the drawing board.
There you go, a Soviet mobile home.
It's interesting that right now small modular nuclear reactors are having a resurgence. Not mobile, tho.
Never heard of this project before. Very interesting!
Imagine if they used this in the next metro game
I'd love a video on the barge please :D thank you for your content
I immediately thought this was a variant of the Kharkovchanka when I saw it.
i love trains like this man !
The Cold War was crazy not only in military, but also in civilans lives USA and USSR try to make vehicles using nuclear power as fuel. Like US Nuclear MBT TV-8, Jet nuclear powered NX-2, the Soviet Nuclear Train, Nuclear power drill/drop transporter and Icebreaker ships and so on.
And now we go back to that with the smr
Thank you so much indeed I wanted a video about a reactor barge
I like the term 'earth shield' basically 'hey ivan, bury that 💩'. Im sure all that dirt will be just fine after they drive away
This seems like it's straight out of Command and Conquer Red Alert lol
I want to see what Soviet cable management looks like. What cable management do you use on your portable reactions?
Interesting!!!
Hmm,so this is the second use of small reactor, the first - the light houses.
An IS7 video should be made
Cold war prep is equal to zombie apocalypse prep.
... that's the question I ask myself every night...
Yes, do a video on the reactor barge.
As an old nerd engineer, thank you. Great job 🍻
Do you think that you could make a video about the mirage f1 it’s design is one of my favorites
The design of those vehicles is cute :)
Soviet, nuclear, and arctic being adjectives in the same sentence makes for a really bad idea.
That should be your proof nuclear is far from being a "game changer"...
If you won’t go to Chernobyl, then Chernobyl must come to you.
Yes video on reactor barge please!
Hopefully we never find out where they left it to rot...
Aren't all trains land trains? I've never seen an air train.
I think it’s called a land train , because it doesn’t run on rails
Okay, call it a "Trackless Land Train" or a "Caterpillar Tracked Land Train"...
Well. Its a great project for a apocalíptic situation. With a better design and materials. And heavy bigger crawler threads and some mounted Guns you should roll out to The ends of Earth with your family non stop...
SMR on wheels
Who wants the job of extricating a poorly shielded nuclear reactor that's gotten bogged down in a meter deep quagmire of Siberian mud?
Yes please do the nuclear barge
Interesting video
And why are we not doing this now?
Praise the Omnisiah
looks like an MVRDV design
Yes but can it take a $20 drone with a grenade strapped to it?
This is wild
The Mobile Chernobyl.
Yeah they took portability to seriously!!
nice video
A question to Russia
Where are the nuclear powered Ladas ?
In this video, you have seen the dimensions of a mobile nuclear power plant. To make a Lada of this size... Of course, we are bad at the automotive industry, but still not that bad.
@Cougar4ik wtf do you mean by bad ? The russian automotive industry is doing great just cause your priority is in utility vehicles and not fancy expensive crap only the wealthy can buy doesnt mean your industry is in a bad position.
Look at most western ones, they have killed off most of their beloved models, they make boring and expensive cars which in most cases are also super ugly.
VW recently had to lay off 15.000 workers
Why are they not connected?
I know right?!
Wait you have no nuclear power in Australia? That's embarrassing
Snow piercer?
Land train but doesn’t train’s already go on land
Wow!
That stuff is awesome!
Too bad they decided to scrap it!
Maybe they will bring it back some day!😕
The Snowy Damn Train 😂
i need to tech us how to make a good videos like this
@CalumRaasay when are you going to find it?
"KV tanks" * shows panzer IV *
Yes reactor barge, please.
Nuclear drone/missile is already being built today 😮😅
Can you pleas do a video about the Soviet Ye-8 fighter jet
Do we want a video on the reactor barge???? Does a wild bear shit in the woods??!!!?
They made nuclear generators. So why not.
Straight out of Atomic Heart
Bro. Is it just me or is it every video the point right after everyone skips the sponsorship part there's an ad. A clever one you are
i dont get to choose where the adverts are, either from the sponsor or youtube. as the economy has become a bit harder, the companies have demanded it be in the first 90 seconds. so, dispite me going the viewers don't want a XYZ advert shoveled in their face, alas they insist the brand be seen first
@FoundAndExplained oh gotcha. I just always thought it was interesting it was there. Either way you have an awesome channel man. I've learned so much from you and I've seen only 4 of your video's. Creators like you are seriously underrated
are trains not usually on land
Calling it a "Land train" means it does not need rail tracks
Can you make a video of nuclear powered trains?
Интересный проект, но очень сомнительный в практическом исполнении.
Плавучая станция гораздо эффективнее.
R/thanksihateit
It unironically looks like the modern day Russian tanks “cope cages” that they use in modern day. But it’s still sick all the same.