I'm so happy that we live in a world where Cherenkov radiation is conveniently visible under normal underwater reactor operation so we can witness that beautiful blue glow
@@Rambovietinamita it’s said in the video that you actually can look directly at it because of the shielding provided by the water, but of course I expect that you can’t stay three hours watching at the reaction and not at 1MW
For real. I just got around to watching Chernobyl and wishing I could see what that blue glow would look like in real life, and lo and behold this shows up in my recommended haha
As a PSU student, it was an absolute privilege to be able to tour this facility a few weeks ago and see the reactor operating with my own eyes. Seeing the blue glow of Cherinkov radiation is genuinely one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen.
@dick_kickem 420 for the sake of the argument, the explosion was steam based, not nuclear. you basically drop a super hot rock into a cooking pot and close the lid real fast, it goes boom. technically the water/steam was radioactive, but it's not a nuclear explosion. so the explosion was not nuclear, then it was on fire for a bit, which was the main problem as far as radioactive contamination goes. tl;dr it was radioactive material on fire, not a nuclear explosion, the explosion was steam. basically the argument is: you got boiled in water, not fried in oil. same-ish result, one's slightly less worse than the other.
I worked for Commonwealth Edison in Illinois for 17 years as a mobile maintenance mechanic at the Will County Station 18 plant in Romeoville, IL. I traveled to Dresden Nuclear plant many times over during those 17 years for refueling and other maintenance outages. I got to see the fuel pool which had a beautiful cobalt blue glow. I also changed out and rebuilt fuel rod drives. I had a mental understanding of what was going on while the reactor was running but this is the first time I've seen that process. Thanks for sharing this.
That’s quite amazing, what did it take( like the process) to be able to work there? I’ve always wanted to become a nuclear engineer myself so I’m just curious 👍
This really goes to show that Nuclear Reactor technology really doesn’t deserve the bad reputation it gets, especially with the modern designs we have for them. Most of the reactors that have had issues in the past were literally designed 60-70 years ago. Think about how much technology has advanced in that time... we can do better.
Its not that nuclear technology is dangerous, as you said, technology is advance enough that something happening like in Chernobyl is highly unlikely.. The concerne is danger from natural causes, like what happened in Fukushima. We dont know what future holds, some catastrophe on bigger scale will happen sooner or later, and then we might have serious problems with those reactors and nuclear waste. Which also is another concerne, nuclear waste, besides Finland, nobody else permanently store their nuclear waste for now.. Waste is being hold in the power planet itself, or on some locations, but not permanently sealed and buried, and in that state is always potentialy dangerous..
Nuclear reactor technology definitely deserves its bad reputation. When operators are constantly vigilant and abiding by all safety procedures, everything's gravy. But it only takes one time for something to fail or somebody to make a mistake and shit goes south extremely fast. Both Fukushima and Chernobyl proved that. Fukushima even had safety backups with backups after them. Mother nature fucked all that up.
@@Rob-hv5zq Actually stuff cant go down south really fast in modern reactors. Chernobyl was a catastrophe by design which was only able to happen duo to the use the nowadays very outdated solid fission moderator Graphite and the use of only 2% enriched Uranium (instead of commonly used 3-5% which is more expensive) so the catastrophy wouldnt have been a suprise if looked at from nowadays perspective. Fukushima is a nuclear reactor build on the edge of one of the most earthquake torn islands. I cannot imagine a case of a modern nuclear reactor going boom if its not right at the edge of a continental plate. You can run planes into them and the fission reaction is self controlled duo to the design of the reactor, if every worker in a nuclear facility suddenly died the reactors would happily keep on running until fission stops, cooling and moderation is self sustained and unless not explicitly told to do so otherwise by human intervention (or the water pool having a leak...) the fission will decrease not increase.
There was a young lady named Bright Who traveled far faster than light. She went out one day In a RELATIVE way And returned the previous night. -Reginald Buller He wrote this about the Tachyon, a hypothetical subatomic particle, that travels faster than light. Predicted by the mathematics of Einstein’s relativity.
There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a reactor running in person. I was lucky enough to work in and around the reactor at Oak Ridge NL and the experience will live with me forever. So many stories and observations of the site itself as well as the reactor. Very cool part of history and visually stunning to see the glow.
Programmer Cat But if done correctly, there’s no reason for there to be an explosion (which wouldn’t actually be a nuclear explosion, the fuel in a nuclear reactor is too poor in fissile uranium-235 for that to happen).
As I am just an average person who enjoys science in all its forms, this was a great educational video. Never in my life did I expect to see a nuclear reactor in both start up and shutdown mode.
If i am not wrong i think in perfect vacuum, there is by definition no matter. So no electrons to be ejected at high speed from their atoms by the gamma particles from the reactor's core. So i think the question of the Cherenkov effect is pointless in vacuum.
@Bill Bopperton oh boy, you've got to lay off the news and quit the generation stigma - I bet back in your day they were doing the same BS; just accept you're antiquated and make peace with it instead of demonizing the evolution of language and the next generations' way forward
@@richardlepoulo9694 The blue light is Cherenkov radiation, emitted by particles that are traveling faster than however fast light travels through that material. You cannot exceed _c_, which is the speed of light in a vacuum (just under 300,000,000 meters per second), but you _can_ exceed the speed of light in something like water or air, because light slows down when it's traveling through something. Hence, particles in nuclear reactions can exceed the speed of light (but not c), and when they do that, you see the ethereal blue glow of Cherenkov radiation.
I started working refuel outages, and between outage construction, at a few nuclear powerhouses as a JW electrician in 1989. I have since retired, but I was able to work practically everywhere at the plants. However, I never got the chance to see the blue glow in person, but others did. Thanks for showing me, and explaining, what goes on.
There are still many fascinating technologies to be discovered in the future now this is a fission reaction I wonder if we could commercialize fusion reaction
My dad use to weld the aluminum cooling pipes on a small test reactor in the DC area back in the 80s . One day the plant operator showed him the reactor core he said he was never more scared in his life. He says the glow was almost purple but eyes were getting pretty bad from all the years of welding
@@therandomytchannel4318 У Топтунова даже такой цены деления в 1МВт не было на щите управления. У него был аппарат в 3000МВт тепловой мощности. А это какой то примус.
This may seem odd, but I love the underwater sounds as the camera is lowered. UA-cam suggested this vid to me and I'm happy it did. I always love learning something new.
Whats even more amazing is st elmos fire on wings of plames or masts of ships. That blue electric discharge glow is something 2 behold no matter its source
Not really, Cherenkov is produced by FTL through a solid/liquid. It's deadly in the aspect as gamma radiation is, which a device screen does not produce.
@@aeureus true, but if you observe Cherenkov radiation in the air or water around you, your weekend plans are pretty much over. I'm aware of only a handful of times people witnessed that phenomena that way, three during the Manhattan Project and in a criticality incident in a Japanese fuel processing plant. I did chuckle about checking the camera for activation, as they'd be a wee bit above 1 MW to get that kind of neutron flux at that distance in water. But, the tests are standard and mandatory. One thing I do remember about the NRC, they're utterly inflexible in safety procedures.
@@spvillano The NRC is basically a terrorist organization. They are such scumbags I don't know why nobody has done anything to stop them in the decades they have been spreading misinformation and destroying the nuclear industry.
@@sayhallo3769all the Chernobyl liquidators have either already died or they are already choosing a coffin for themselves because they are already over 78 years old
@@Ghaileruodealhe won’t suffer because most of the neutrons don’t reach him, the water distorts the distance from the core to the operator, there was about 34-44 meters of water or even more
"I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. 'In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.'" obligatory xkcd quote
My son as a student at Penn State and I got to tour the reactor and look down directly into pool seeing the blue glow from the reactor. Pretty amazing stuff.
This is one of the best videos I have ever seen. The intense blue light after increasing to 1MW invoked some strong emotions for me. The forces of the Universe are truly awe-inspiring. Thank you for sharing this
The thought that this is only the beginning of what we might be capable of in terms of harnessing the universe for energy. I wonder what other forces lay just beyond our reach
You wrote what I was thinking. We are privileged to be able to view this - an example of processes which our ancestors could not view, nor understand, nor even know existed.
Swaggaccino funny part is other than the radiation it would probably be perfectly fine if not a bit warm due to the energy dissipating only really dangerous if you go right up and touch the reactor
@@supapoopatroopa6882 Exactly. If you went within a couple feet of the reactor it would end very badly, but at the top of the pool (19 feet away) or just under the surface? Probably less radiation than outside the pool. what-if.xkcd.com/29/
@@supapoopatroopa6882 My friend worked at a nuke plant. If someone drops something in the suppression pool a diver has to go get it, and I don't think they do a full shutdown. Even if they do the reactor is still full of material.
I imagine the 1MW of heat plus all the neutron and gamma rays go along way to keeping the water clean. I imagine they also have to keep the water very clean as it's used for research purposes.
The water have to be clean. If there's any salts or unknown ions in the water they will over time make deposits on the side of the reactor walls, which will decrease the heat transmission coefficient, making the water less good at cooling. Most powerplants use deuterium (heavy water/D2O) as cooling and neutron moderator, which has to be very pure.
So, for my EE degree, I had to take a class called "Physics of the Atom. " One day, the professor announced that we were getting a tour of the university's nuclear reactor. We were inside and got a good tour of all the machinery. We were over time by the time we got to the control room, and I had to leave for my next class. I asked if I could come back later and complete the tour. They said, "Sure!" I returned about an hour later, and I got quite a show. They were training a new operator, and part of that was slowly bringing the reactor up. After it was operating, they turned off the lights and let me peek into the pool. Such a ghostly blue light! It has been over 40 years, and I still remember it.
As someone who has only a minimal understanding of this process, seeing this is both terrifying and fascinating. Thank you for the annotation. I saw another video showing startup of some reactors, and there was no annotation at all, so it was difficult for a non-nuclear person to know it was going on since. Having worked with engineers, I would never expect you to be able to spell everything correctly.😊
yep looked on the internet for ages, for this exact video, almost came to the conclusion that maybe it was too hostile to film a reactor, but now i see it all the info i gathered in the last hour now makes alot more sense.
@@fessy4 Well honestly you're right. It is too hostile. The reason that commercial reactors are covered in huge concrete housings is because they are too dangerous. They would fry any camera in a matter of minutes if not seconds. This is a test reactor so it's much smaller than a commercial-sized reactor. I've always wanted to see a commercial reactor too but I don't think there's anything we could build that could survive filming it, even if it could how would you get it to the core without killing yourself?
@@manrightchea yeah for sure, and i understand its only a simulation reactor, and how crazy is it to see even just the small amount of radiation this camera was exposed to was tearing holes in the film. one thing i was trying to understand was how are the control rods moved and what does it look like when they halt reaction, when people explained they were rods that were shoved into the core, i just couldnt imagine the process but as i say after watching this it made alot more sense, still an amazing video that gives an insight into how a real reactor works. I was thinking these days wouldnt they build a reactor with some sort of protected casing for a camera to sit in, while they were building the reactor, that could then wirelessly transmit the footage to a server off site or at least out of the room, but idk im sorta just talking smack i dont know how all those technologys work and if its possible, just thought someone would have done it. Also, i found a video right after this that showcased 5 different reactors being filmed, this video was included in the compilation as well and was still one of the better ones.
I’m not sure if it would work. Water is the moderator to slow the neutrons down to allow them to successfully hit another fissile atom. Now if there was graphite there as well, that would be a different story.
Fascinating. The bubble creation by the water molecule being broken apart is very fun. It's a little baby reactor, so cute! The gamma emissions are alarming though... I would err on side side of caution and not tempt fate by being AWAY from the side of the pool during operation...my genome does not need any unplanned collisions with a gamma particle.
I obviously came here for the Chernobyl memes, but this is endlessly fascinating to watch. The effects of the reactor's process is really a marvel. Thanks for uploading!
This was one of the most perfect educational videos i have ever seen. I was curious how this process works, but now i know. Thank you! I love this video!
Imagine being the workers inside Chernobyl the night the reactor blew its top. One of the workers described "a beautiful blue laser stretching to the heavens".
@@MrWolfSnack Id imagine it would be very much brighter since the reactors output was orders of magnitude more than here. But the cost of admission is a bit pricey.
@@kanekeylewer5704 I know I'm not the person you asked, but oh well. After quite a bit of research on the Chernobyl disaster, I found several witness reports stating something similar, if not that directly. The radiation coming from the exploded core was high enough to kill most of the workers who obliviously went close enough to it, even behind walls, or down in the reactor pumps. It was definitely enough to initiate a large Cherenkov effect.
They offer tours of this facility. You can walk right up to the edge of the reactor pool. They also show you all the other neat facilities within the complex, like the hot cells for handling contaminated stuff. I toured it years ago, HIGHLY recommended.
would they allow a foreign citizen to tour this place? (or other reactors in america?). we only have one shitty reactor in my country and i have driven by san onofre and other reactors while in the states and always wanted to stop.
I luckily got to see this in person about a year ago and it is one of the most mesmerizing things one can ever see. It’s easy to see why irradiated materials had such a cult following before we knew of its harmful effects, I literally just stood behind the railing in awe of the pulse
One of the best video I have ever seen...and also shot by go pro... have seen the previous version also...the new edited version with the explanation is great...thanks a lot ...keep up the good work .. hope more people will watch it and awareness will increase.
If this was the first time the reactor was running, What would have happened if a diver was holding the camera in the same position and the reactor was only producing 0.5 MW for 30 seconds? Thre is a German company that made an app "Radioactivity counter" Rolf-Dieter Klein that counts the number of white flashes and translates those (No of flashes / sensor size / time ) in a counter. Why not use the same principle in trying to assess the Gama radiation in your test? Or you could take a Samsung S7, install the software (make the requested modifications and calibration) and sink it in the pool :)
I remember seeing this at a sterilization plant for medical latex gloves. The techs took me inside during the shutdown and explained how those cobalt blue rods work. It was really amazing to see it's beating heart.
@@FIGHTTHECABLE UV is still ionizing EM radiation, just at a different wavelength. UV would work in the same way as cobalt, but UV is easily blocked. The contaminants need prolonged, unobstructed exposure to the radiation source, and that’s difficult to achieve with solid objects. Gamma radiation, on the other hand, can easily penetrate the packaging around the product being sterilized, ensuring an adequate dose is provided every time.
@@LybertyZ Medical device worker here. Sterile gloves are used in any environmentally controlled area where necessary. For example, the room where we package and inspect joint replacement parts are in a complete sterile environment. Everyone wears sterile gowns, hats, boots, and gloves. Parts that will be implanted in someone need to be completely clean and sterile before it goes to the hospital (specifically the operating room). Same goes for pharma companies. Drugs need to be completely free of germs or other environmental contaminants before it is packaged for the same reason. Fun fact: the joint replacement parts themselves get gamma radiation to sterilize the part further in case something managed to get inside the packaging. Sterile environments are not 100% sterile, but they can get really close. The gamma radiation goes through the plastic packaging and kills any "bugs" that may be inside.
It was an AMAZING video.. but I have a few questions... 1. What would happen if someone falls in this pool or something gets dropped in the pool while the reactor is on? 2. What material is used to make the pool? Is it concrete only? . . Hope to get answers!!
Surface of the pool shouldn’t be much more dangerous than the surface, it’s just water. However, diving towards the core would rapidly increase your exposure to gamma and then neutron radiation, making severe illness more and more likely. Being within three meters of it would probably kill you fairly quickly. As for the material they usually have a lead layer somewhere to isolate the building, unless the pool is so large rogue radiation is not a danger.
Fun fact: if a macroscopic object were moving at "can generate light booms" speeds it would be fussing particles on, and ablating, its forward facing side. It would basically be a moving nuclear explosion untill the object is either consumed or obliterated. Yes, I am a blast at parties.
Actually, that is possible. Named “sonoluminescense”, its natural occurrence is from the punch of a mantis shrimp. There’s also footage of some successful experiments getting bubbles to implode and create (very dim) flashes of light.
@@slightlyamusedblackkidfrom9153 Well the only real alternative is solar. It requires technically no fuel and it's much more lightweight, at least compared to a nuclear reactor. And it doesn't cause an environmental catastrophe should it crash.
It's absolutely gorgeous and in my opinion a very plausible candidate for the future. We should do more with this technology. Shame nuclear energy got such a bad rep from the Chernobyl accident.
Even accounting for spent fuel rods (rather small too) it's the safest/cleanest energy around. You're legit just boiling water to create steam, that runs a turbine.
Agreed. If only the world could just see that the Chernobyl incident really was just an example on how not to run a nuclear reactor and quite frankly how not to engineer one lol
The problem isnt that Chernobyl happened. It's that people remember bad things for a very VERY long time. But good things? Those are gone in an instant. It takes decades to build trust. But mere seconds to destroy it
@@morganwilliamson6393 that's not the problem. It's the toxic waste they produce. We can't just stuff that shit forever underground. Have you seen how the barrels deteriorate? Its a mess to store the aftermath of any nuclear power plant.
@@thomasvlaskampiii6850 Yet we still polute with carbon dioxide which kills millions of people prematurely... So sad that we would need to educate so many people about it to change public opinion. Something petrol companies would never do
I’m no scientist, or anything close to it, other than some environmental remediation background, but I find stuff like this very fascinating. This video had me captured for 10 minutes.
No really, water is amazing radiation insulator, no radiation reaches the surface of that pool. You could literally drink it. Ofc because it de-ionised, you would easily get nauseous, but its not serious.
@@jarskil8862 I would not recommend drinking the water from that pool. Neutron radiation tends to destabilize molecules around it, turning them radioactive. The reactor itself also releases Tritium, radioactive Helium, radioactive Xenon, etc., which can't be effectively caught by the cladding of the fuel rods and remains solute in the containment vessel water. Boiling water reactors are pretty safe, but not THAT safe.
I saw this video a couple years ago and remember thinking this fascinating. I’m back after watching HBO’s Chernobyl and the comments are as amazing as I expected.
1. How are the rods (fuel, moderator and control) isolated from water in the pool so that it does not become contaminated? 2. Other than than the control rods being inserted, what other means are there to safely shut down the reactor? 3. Is the reactor designed so that the maximum thermal energy generation cannot overcome the coolant reservoir and catastrophically breakdown the structures and melt down? If so.. 3b. .. Is that dependant on the physical spacing restrictions placed between the fuel rods? Or it takes into account the core structure breaking down and the fuel becoming more densely compacted? And if so, to what extent? 4. Are the rods keyed at any point by shape so that they cannot be inserted incorrectly? Very cool video, thanks :)
For someone like me whom never experienced a nuclear reactor operating, it is amazing to know this technology is fairly new compared to other energy sources. I live a short drive from the Shippingport reactors in western PA. I never fully understood how it works.
Well I’m glad you liked the video! Tons of great explanations online about how they work. Shipping port has some historical significance, as being the first commercial power reactor site.
@Super Cool ok, well water undergoes phase change from liquid to gas, which happens due to average kinetic energy of molecules surpassing hydrogen bond energy of liquid water, and hydrogen bonds, like any other covalent bond, are a purely quantum phenomena Also, the very motion of these bubbles is governed by Newton's laws, which arise as a consequence of motion of the smallest particles comprising the system, and time evolution of these particles is governed by Schrodinger's equation
@Super Cool yeah, but my point is that everything that happens on a molecular level is governed by QM principles, you just need to dig deep enough to reach a point where you need a quantum explanation
Very interesting that it’s safe to stand at the edge of the pool while the reactor is running. Scary, but interesting. I wonder what the dose would be if you were to fall in for a second.
@@jacobsomething6959 look up Galen Winsor his interview/speech is on UA-cam, he tells his story of when he was in charge of a nuclear facility he would swim in the the 100 degree glowing blue water tub like a hot spring, and would drink it too! To prove to everyone the hoax that it is toxic and that radiation is not poison. Only heat and UV light!
Well it is not poison per se.. It is just tiny subatomic particles flying through your dna and physically taking it apart... We would call bullets poison too then. Radiation causes physical cell nucleus damage which then manifests as cell deterioration, mutation of dna by copying broken parts and ultimately, cancer. We mostly define poisons as something that causes negative-consequence chemical reaction. But yes, it is a thing to be used with great care and responsibility. Very, very useful, but dangerous if not conducted properly. And that is why we have scientists and experts which study this and improve safety and protocols all the time, and we don't have reactors in our basements instead of solar panels on the roof.
I noticed a few shadow were wiggling during the work of the reactor. Are they caused by the same reason wiggling shadows appear when you shine light through fire? If not, please explain what are those. Hope I was clear enough.
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These new PC rigs and what it takes to cool them are just insane.
Yeah, my PC is RGB all sea coloured and looks just like this in the night, haha
And graphics haven't even improved that much from 2007.
Yeah like these new quantum and nuclear computers
Ever heard a pc fridge?
Yea it already existed ever since the 90's
XDDD
That blue color it gives off is horrifyingly beautiful though. 5 stars radiation. Truly an outstanding performance
Not great, not terrible*
Where
That is not 5 stars of radiation
That blue light is “Cherenkov radiation”
What that guy said. Iirc, cherenkov radiation is not very dangerous.
"Alexa"
"Mood lighting please, 3.6 roentgen"
Everyone in the Chernobyl reactor room
Surprised pikachu face
*exhales air through nose*
Okay, setting lighting profile to "not good, not terrible"
@@Bunarmy didn't laugh
Not good.. but not bad
One of the few things in our real world that looks as sci-fi as it sounds.
I love it
All of this thanks to Dyatlov
Wdym@@stellviahohenheim
@@stellviahohenheimOh Hell Nah ☠️☠️☠️
@@grzyb11Dyatlov, the man supervising Reactor 4 during a test at the Chornobyl NPP in the summer of 1986.
@@mcfeddle i know who he is but what does he have to do with this
Everybody's gangsta till the Rods start jumping up and down violently.
HAHAHAH THIS CRACKED ME UP
Marcel Rodriguez lol
What it's just lots of bubbles
which, i'm told, is impossible
you copied comment from other video poor boy
A perfect pool heater. Where do I get one?
@@DanielTseng100 As well as the International Atomic Energy knocking on your door asking about your new high tech pool heater while handcuffing you
@@DanielTseng100 how is he gonna buy one when he can barely afford a pair of socks?
@@DanielTseng100 bawhahaha
Chernobyl
It comes with blue pool lighting also
I'm so happy that we live in a world where Cherenkov radiation is conveniently visible under normal underwater reactor operation so we can witness that beautiful blue glow
It is so beautiful when you are not looking directly at it
@@Rambovietinamita it’s said in the video that you actually can look directly at it because of the shielding provided by the water, but of course I expect that you can’t stay three hours watching at the reaction and not at 1MW
For real. I just got around to watching Chernobyl and wishing I could see what that blue glow would look like in real life, and lo and behold this shows up in my recommended haha
@@dayabloom9634 Well I suppose technically you’re not still looking directly at it because the water is between you and it.
@@TiqueO6 by your definition one still wouldn't be 'looking directly' at it if there weren't water because there'd be air in between
As a PSU student, it was an absolute privilege to be able to tour this facility a few weeks ago and see the reactor operating with my own eyes. Seeing the blue glow of Cherinkov radiation is genuinely one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen.
Im really jealous right now.
You’re right. Though only bad thing is I grew an extra arm and a few extra digits by the time the tour was over.
@@MaSa-bp5qe Ayo
Nice pfp, can apreciate
I thought it meant that orcs were nearby.
It's pretty amazing that all this power comes from simply bringing a natural element into close proximity with itself.
Yes one that's been highly refined and enriched
Even more amazing when you bring a man and a woman in the proximity of each other!
@@HK-Asia-IQ True chemistry.
@@Stevesbe It has happened in nature before. There is such a thing as a natural nuclear reactor underground.
@@LarsLarsen77 yes it's call the earth
Now start revving it a little bit, let's hear that bad boy.
*BOOM*
_uh_ _oh_
Nuclear reactors don't blow like a nuke, but that doesn't me they can't go "nuclear" and create a massive steam/nuclear waste explosion
@dick_kickem 420 IIRC that wasn't an explosion but a meltdown, still devastating nontheless
@dick_kickem 420 for the sake of the argument, the explosion was steam based, not nuclear. you basically drop a super hot rock into a cooking pot and close the lid real fast, it goes boom.
technically the water/steam was radioactive, but it's not a nuclear explosion.
so the explosion was not nuclear, then it was on fire for a bit, which was the main problem as far as radioactive contamination goes.
tl;dr it was radioactive material on fire, not a nuclear explosion, the explosion was steam.
basically the argument is: you got boiled in water, not fried in oil. same-ish result, one's slightly less worse than the other.
@@dacomputernerd4096 did he say nuclear explosion? no... so who asked you?
i just watched Chernobyl and UA-cam's algorithm went batshit crazy
Stanley Pines bro that shit gave me ptsd
Was it the Americans?
You’re delusional! Take yourself to the infermiary
I never even heard of it, and UA-cam put it on my front page.
Glad I'm not the only one
I worked for Commonwealth Edison in Illinois for 17 years as a mobile maintenance mechanic at the Will County Station 18 plant in Romeoville, IL. I traveled to Dresden Nuclear plant many times over during those 17 years for refueling and other maintenance outages. I got to see the fuel pool which had a beautiful cobalt blue glow. I also changed out and rebuilt fuel rod drives. I had a mental understanding of what was going on while the reactor was running but this is the first time I've seen that process. Thanks for sharing this.
That’s quite amazing, what did it take( like the process) to be able to work there?
I’ve always wanted to become a nuclear engineer myself so I’m just curious 👍
The reactor makes trance music while starting up and shutting down.
And luckily it’s non copyrighted trance!
@@AlexLandress I genuinely for a moment thought its the sound from the control rods :)
@@RajarajanPanneerselvam same
Given some of the elements in there you'd think it'd play heavy metal
@@andrewdavies1312 or Death Metal
They should have a speaker that plays the windows XP power on and power off sound when it turns on and off
Underrated comment
They do actually, but you can't hear it underwater.
or 98
chernobyl
@@OnlyTwoShoes Why not? I know pools that have underwater speakers that play music.
I went here on a school field trip once
It was elementary school so nobody understood literally anything they tried to teach us
That’s a perfectly good waste of a field trip
@@rickyheath7607 What field trips did you have? They probably made you go to the park right across from your school.
@@4doorsmorewhrs I'm going to Iceland on a field trip, and still would rather have gone to see a nuclear reactors
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@@rocket2739 nice
I really sat here and watch a spicy cube glow for 10 minutes.
Naming my first reactor in Hardrock Minecraft "Spicy Cube", thanks! 😂
What you see when you overclock a Core 2 Duo to 5 GHz 😂
This is what it looks like right before the white light
@@chabka34 😂
Nope, that poor cpu will go boom like the Reactor 4
HAHAS
@@SuperBram77 😂
Nuclear reactors you can study/relax to [LIVE]
Lofi/HipHop Nuclear Meltdown you can relax to! [🛑]
In the desert of Chernobyl references, this was a much needed oasis of humor.
Lofi/Hip-hop relaxing world war 2 sounds + after credits nuclear reactor to study and relax to [LIVE]
Can you make that plz
*reactor starts glowing*
AKIMOV WHAT DID YOU DO
Reactor starts bouncing
Vodka cooled reactor Vadyim, is very simple.
@@lucasgomestamba1791 not great not terrible
@@gilbermarcelo7244 not great BUT TERRIBLE
You morons blew the tank
Excellent Demonstration! Thanks for posting!
Oh hi Juan. Didn't expect to see you here!
I did not expect to see you here either cool!
This really goes to show that Nuclear Reactor technology really doesn’t deserve the bad reputation it gets, especially with the modern designs we have for them. Most of the reactors that have had issues in the past were literally designed 60-70 years ago. Think about how much technology has advanced in that time... we can do better.
Its not that nuclear technology is dangerous, as you said, technology is advance enough that something happening like in Chernobyl is highly unlikely..
The concerne is danger from natural causes, like what happened in Fukushima. We dont know what future holds, some catastrophe on bigger scale will happen sooner or later, and then we might have serious problems with those reactors and nuclear waste.
Which also is another concerne, nuclear waste, besides Finland, nobody else permanently store their nuclear waste for now.. Waste is being hold in the power planet itself, or on some locations, but not permanently sealed and buried, and in that state is always potentialy dangerous..
@Hamburglar the exiled yup
Nuclear reactor technology definitely deserves its bad reputation. When operators are constantly vigilant and abiding by all safety procedures, everything's gravy. But it only takes one time for something to fail or somebody to make a mistake and shit goes south extremely fast. Both Fukushima and Chernobyl proved that. Fukushima even had safety backups with backups after them. Mother nature fucked all that up.
@@Rob-hv5zq Fukushima was a bad plant with very bad location and absolutely inadequate safety precautions for earthquakes and tsunami's.
@@Rob-hv5zq Actually stuff cant go down south really fast in modern reactors. Chernobyl was a catastrophe by design which was only able to happen duo to the use the nowadays very outdated solid fission moderator Graphite and the use of only 2% enriched Uranium (instead of commonly used 3-5% which is more expensive) so the catastrophy wouldnt have been a suprise if looked at from nowadays perspective.
Fukushima is a nuclear reactor build on the edge of one of the most earthquake torn islands.
I cannot imagine a case of a modern nuclear reactor going boom if its not right at the edge of a continental plate.
You can run planes into them and the fission reaction is self controlled duo to the design of the reactor, if every worker in a nuclear facility suddenly died the reactors would happily keep on running until fission stops, cooling and moderation is self sustained and unless not explicitly told to do so otherwise by human intervention (or the water pool having a leak...) the fission will decrease not increase.
There was a young lady named Bright
Who traveled far faster than light.
She went out one day
In a RELATIVE way
And returned the previous night.
-Reginald Buller
He wrote this about the Tachyon, a hypothetical subatomic particle, that travels faster than light. Predicted by the mathematics of Einstein’s relativity.
great
Hehe Tachyon egg
Imagine returning before even leaving
Does that mean that tachyons are the answer to time travel?
*“Is Dr. Bright allowed to travels faster than the speed of light in the foundation?”*
Joke aside, it's a nice comment ^^
One HBO series and every1 is a nuclear scientist commenting on reactor core youtube videos 😂
and here you are
All I’m suggesting is that 3.6 Roentgen is not great but not terrible.
All we're saying is that it's only 3.6 roentgen. Not great but not terrible.
@@rts100x5 Get to the infirmary, you're delusional 🤣
you don't need to be specially smart to understand the basic idea of a reactor and the atomic reaction...
There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a reactor running in person. I was lucky enough to work in and around the reactor at Oak Ridge NL and the experience will live with me forever. So many stories and observations of the site itself as well as the reactor. Very cool part of history and visually stunning to see the glow.
"Hey Ferb, I know what to do today!"
Chernobyl ensues
I'm honestly surprised they never built a nuclear reactor on that show. Compared to half the things they built it would be child's play.
Programmer Cat But if done correctly, there’s no reason for there to be an explosion (which wouldn’t actually be a nuclear explosion, the fuel in a nuclear reactor is too poor in fissile uranium-235 for that to happen).
@@GRBtutorials would have been too controversial. Sad since we let fear stop us from going nuclear.
@@aminsaw7564 : You're mistaken, RBMK reactors don't explode!
As I am just an average person who enjoys science in all its forms, this was a great educational video. Never in my life did I expect to see a nuclear reactor in both start up and shutdown mode.
A very precise process. A matter of inches can be the difference between normal operation and super critical.
It was dumb as fuck. The video lost me when he stated that the blue light comes from electrons moving faster than light...
@@noizW Oh WoW, you just qualified to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for DF's
*Watches one miniseries*
You know, I'm something of a nuclear scientist myself
Comrade dyatlov , it's unsafe .....
@@shreyas2730 you didn't see graphite
YOU DIDN'T!!!!!
BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE
@@sannidhyabalkote9536 it's not good ..... It's not terrible either
I learned more from this video than I did from all my physics lessons in school combined! Thank you UA-cam Algorythm
You're welcome for providing the algorithm with a video that you enjoyed!
It's only a 3.6 roentgen. I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest X-ray
3.6 Roentgen per hour? Take him to the infirmary, he's delusional.
Not great, not terrible.
You are confused RBMK reactor cores don't explode
@@TitanD79 I've seen worse.
Soundtracks161 This copy and paste unoriginal comment is already old, stop beating it with a stick you lame fuck
Don't know exactly why this showed up in my suggested today, but not gonna lie, I'm glad it did.
For those wondering it is going faster than the speed of light in water but not faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
If i am not wrong i think in perfect vacuum, there is by definition no matter. So no electrons to be ejected at high speed from their atoms by the gamma particles from the reactor's core. So i think the question of the Cherenkov effect is pointless in vacuum.
Bruh what are you on
@@richardlepoulo9694 Gen Z is here.. joy
@Bill Bopperton oh boy, you've got to lay off the news and quit the generation stigma - I bet back in your day they were doing the same BS; just accept you're antiquated and make peace with it instead of demonizing the evolution of language and the next generations' way forward
@@richardlepoulo9694 The blue light is Cherenkov radiation, emitted by particles that are traveling faster than however fast light travels through that material. You cannot exceed _c_, which is the speed of light in a vacuum (just under 300,000,000 meters per second), but you _can_ exceed the speed of light in something like water or air, because light slows down when it's traveling through something.
Hence, particles in nuclear reactions can exceed the speed of light (but not c), and when they do that, you see the ethereal blue glow of Cherenkov radiation.
I started working refuel outages, and between outage construction, at a few nuclear powerhouses as a JW electrician in 1989. I have since retired, but I was able to work practically everywhere at the plants. However, I never got the chance to see the blue glow in person, but others did. Thanks for showing me, and explaining, what goes on.
From discovering fire to this, It always blows my mind to think what humans are capable of.
there are many theories that we got some inspiration from other "sources"
Aliens
There are still many fascinating technologies to be discovered in the future now this is a fission reaction I wonder if we could commercialize fusion reaction
This is way more impressive than discovering fire considering fire can be observed to naturally happen.
@@FordSierraIS Not theories, just speculation.
i will likely never need this information on my life, but you can be sure I watched the whole thing
It actually glows blue and it's not even a gimmick. So amazing
Blue is my fav colour so imma eat it
@@jayjaysheroah2485 Am gonna sniff it hardly
@@ocristianoronaldo8294 u need help
My dad use to weld the aluminum cooling pipes on a small test reactor in the DC area back in the 80s . One day the plant operator showed him the reactor core he said he was never more scared in his life. He says the glow was almost purple but eyes were getting pretty bad from all the years of welding
@@Stevesbe Those commercial plants can produce as much as 2 GW of power; so... 6 GW is about 6000 times more oomph than this little darling.
WOW WOW WOW fantastic video. I'm not as afraid of nuclear energy production as I watch these types of videos.
*"Can you tell me how a RBMK reactor works underwater?"*
Not greatly, not terribly
HoovyzePoot That’s a high caliber answer holy fuck.
Toptunov, raise power to 1 Mw!
@@therandomytchannel4318 У Топтунова даже такой цены деления в 1МВт не было на щите управления. У него был аппарат в 3000МВт тепловой мощности. А это какой то примус.
@@0_741 what the fuck did you just said AKIMOV
Look, I studied Nuclear Physics from the hit show Chernobyl from HBO, you might say that I am indeed qualified for this type of matter.
Hat _ lmao dude
Hat _ You’re delusional! Take yourself to the infermiary
And you might also say 3 roentgens is not great, not terrible either.
@@f.r.285 Indeed Comrade.
"I'm a bit of a nuclear physicist myself" -Green Goblin dude
This is just footage of a modern Intel processor.
LMFAO
Yeah, as it does not produce anything but heat.
500 Mw TDP
More like the 5600x
@@f-22raptor25 ?? the 5600X caps out at like 80W lol. Meanwhile the equivalent Intel proc is twice that
This may seem odd, but I love the underwater sounds as the camera is lowered.
UA-cam suggested this vid to me and I'm happy it did. I always love learning something new.
The 117 people who disliked are in shock
Get them out of here
infirmary
I’ve seen worse
Yay 666th comment
Hi little fascist! Why only "get them out"? I bet you want them to be dead huh?
Well that escalated quickly LUL
Beautiful video. I've seen the Cherenkov effect several times in person having worked in nuclear maintenance. It's always a sight to behold
Whats even more amazing is st elmos fire on wings of plames or masts of ships. That blue electric discharge glow is something 2 behold no matter its source
Unless it's in open air, then it's the reaper's flashlight
@@Flesh_Wizard: I can't help but think this is a Louis Slotin reference. :(
"Blue light prevents you from sleep"
Me: Cherenkov Radiation?
From a certain point of view it would stop you, but not only from sleeping, but from breathing 😂
Not really, Cherenkov is produced by FTL through a solid/liquid. It's deadly in the aspect as gamma radiation is, which a device screen does not produce.
If you get enough, it’ll put you to sleep for good. 🤣
@@aeureus true, but if you observe Cherenkov radiation in the air or water around you, your weekend plans are pretty much over. I'm aware of only a handful of times people witnessed that phenomena that way, three during the Manhattan Project and in a criticality incident in a Japanese fuel processing plant.
I did chuckle about checking the camera for activation, as they'd be a wee bit above 1 MW to get that kind of neutron flux at that distance in water. But, the tests are standard and mandatory. One thing I do remember about the NRC, they're utterly inflexible in safety procedures.
@@spvillano The NRC is basically a terrorist organization. They are such scumbags I don't know why nobody has done anything to stop them in the decades they have been spreading misinformation and destroying the nuclear industry.
Props to the camera man for sitting underwater for so long
Fr I heard they can hold their breath forever
what's more outstanding about this is the fact the cameraman didn't get affected by the radiation!
@@GhaileruodealThis man is one of Chernobyl’s liquidators, radiation is a laughing matter for him
@@sayhallo3769all the Chernobyl liquidators have either already died or they are already choosing a coffin for themselves because they are already over 78 years old
@@Ghaileruodealhe won’t suffer because most of the neutrons don’t reach him, the water distorts the distance from the core to the operator, there was about 34-44 meters of water or even more
I'm here for my daily dose of 3.6 Roentgens.
I heard it's only about one chest x-ray
Not good , not horrifying
I've seen worse.
3.6? Not great, not terrible.
Are you due for an chest X Ray?
Jesus christ, there are just too many comments about HBO Chernobyl series... gotta take every one to the infirmary, they're delusional.
Take _"The Law" to the medic please
The Law i see what you did there :))
rmbk rector did blewup and core melted , memed soviet stooge ask how did it blew up
You know, if that series spurs an interest in some people to learn more about physics - good!
I didn't see a post from Mr. Christ??
"I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool.
'In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.'"
obligatory xkcd quote
cancer
@authorization batman yeesh someone didn't have their breakfast
@authorization batman you're kind of a dick. Not only did the joke fly over your head but you had to be an ass about it too
@authorization batman BUTTHURT ALERT
@@shutupnerd9694 will you answer the question? I really want know what would happen
Easily one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen on UA-cam!
The lid is off, the stack is burning, I saw it.
He’s in shock, get him out of here.
You're delusional, take him to the infirmary.
the feedwater is mildly contaminated. He'll be fine. I've seen worse
Did you lower the control rods or not?
@@Akeldama9 *. Dry reaches... doubles over... dry reaches some more...*.
comrad dyatlov...
COMRAD DYATLOV!
When the camera was pulled out, it has an extra lens.
👈😂😂
Lmao
hope you dont have extra anything when doing the same thing
Maybe that’s why the new iPhones have three lenses
3-eyed fish lol.
alternative title: testing my nuclear reactor in my pool.
@@PelonMusk who hurt you, my boy
even though the pool is big, a megawatt of heat would get it toasty warm pretty quickly. 👍🏼
DIY,and very cheap,i made it with some spares i had from other projects or found in the trash,so very cheap.
"I made a test on the air turbines of my nuclear reactor and this is what happened XD"
There you go!
My son as a student at Penn State and I got to tour the reactor and look down directly into pool seeing the blue glow from the reactor. Pretty amazing stuff.
This is one of the best videos I have ever seen. The intense blue light after increasing to 1MW invoked some strong emotions for me. The forces of the Universe are truly awe-inspiring. Thank you for sharing this
The lord, God, is indeed great.
@@codecampbase1525 AMEN
The thought that this is only the beginning of what we might be capable of in terms of harnessing the universe for energy. I wonder what other forces lay just beyond our reach
You wrote what I was thinking. We are privileged to be able to view this - an example of processes which our ancestors could not view, nor understand, nor even know existed.
Do not fuck the nuclear reactor.
"Okay class who wants to jump in the pool for extra credit? I know 70% of you are borderline failing so I should have plenty of volunteers."
Swaggaccino funny part is other than the radiation it would probably be perfectly fine if not a bit warm due to the energy dissipating only really dangerous if you go right up and touch the reactor
At least I think so nuclear physicists please correct me
@@supapoopatroopa6882 Exactly. If you went within a couple feet of the reactor it would end very badly, but at the top of the pool (19 feet away) or just under the surface? Probably less radiation than outside the pool. what-if.xkcd.com/29/
@@StormsparkPegasus You beat me to posting that.
@@supapoopatroopa6882 My friend worked at a nuke plant. If someone drops something in the suppression pool a diver has to go get it, and I don't think they do a full shutdown. Even if they do the reactor is still full of material.
The clarity of that water is astonishing, I've never seen water so clean & clear before, in such a large volume
I imagine the 1MW of heat plus all the neutron and gamma rays go along way to keeping the water clean. I imagine they also have to keep the water very clean as it's used for research purposes.
The water have to be clean. If there's any salts or unknown ions in the water they will over time make deposits on the side of the reactor walls, which will decrease the heat transmission coefficient, making the water less good at cooling. Most powerplants use deuterium (heavy water/D2O) as cooling and neutron moderator, which has to be very pure.
@@rasmus1600 This isn't a power generating reactor, it's a university research reactor.
@@rasmus1600 I know, I'm not questioning why it has to be so clean. I'm just simply amazed by it.
@@asvarien Even if it isn't generating power, the water needs to cool the reactor.
So, for my EE degree, I had to take a class called "Physics of the Atom. " One day, the professor announced that we were getting a tour of the university's nuclear reactor. We were inside and got a good tour of all the machinery. We were over time by the time we got to the control room, and I had to leave for my next class. I asked if I could come back later and complete the tour. They said, "Sure!"
I returned about an hour later, and I got quite a show. They were training a new operator, and part of that was slowly bringing the reactor up. After it was operating, they turned off the lights and let me peek into the pool. Such a ghostly blue light! It has been over 40 years, and I still remember it.
"You didn't see graphite on the ground because it's not there, CHANGE MY MIND"
*pukes*
You're delusional
Take him to the infirmary
No, no: he's got a point.
_We would rather go and have a sandwich._
See? This one knows!
'Me trying to sleep:
UA-cam Algorithm: "want to know how to start a nuclear reactor !?"
Me: Yes. Yes I do.
Me: Yes i do. LETS Build ONE!! 10 sec. Lader: (lieing on the floor because of radiation positioning)
Your sleep paralysis demon be like "DAMN, thwarted by UA-cam AGAIN!"
It feels like it's always the same people commenting the same thing under every video
A bit more complicated than this lol
Incredible. We’re lucky to see this. Thank you for sharing and annotating it!
As someone who has only a minimal understanding of this process, seeing this is both terrifying and fascinating. Thank you for the annotation. I saw another video showing startup of some reactors, and there was no annotation at all, so it was difficult for a non-nuclear person to know it was going on since. Having worked with engineers, I would never expect you to be able to spell everything correctly.😊
For a channel with very few videos you happen to have THE best (and maybe the only?) video of a running reactor core. That is quite impressive.
yep looked on the internet for ages, for this exact video, almost came to the conclusion that maybe it was too hostile to film a reactor, but now i see it all the info i gathered in the last hour now makes alot more sense.
now I look again. Yeah, i suppose all the Triga vids out there were pulse operations
@@fessy4 Well honestly you're right. It is too hostile. The reason that commercial reactors are covered in huge concrete housings is because they are too dangerous. They would fry any camera in a matter of minutes if not seconds. This is a test reactor so it's much smaller than a commercial-sized reactor.
I've always wanted to see a commercial reactor too but I don't think there's anything we could build that could survive filming it, even if it could how would you get it to the core without killing yourself?
You should look up "chernobyl reactor 4 live webcam stream". Its running fine, everything is good.
@@manrightchea yeah for sure, and i understand its only a simulation reactor, and how crazy is it to see even just the small amount of radiation this camera was exposed to was tearing holes in the film.
one thing i was trying to understand was how are the control rods moved and what does it look like when they halt reaction, when people explained they were rods that were shoved into the core, i just couldnt imagine the process but as i say after watching this it made alot more sense, still an amazing video that gives an insight into how a real reactor works.
I was thinking these days wouldnt they build a reactor with some sort of protected casing for a camera to sit in, while they were building the reactor, that could then wirelessly transmit the footage to a server off site or at least out of the room, but idk im sorta just talking smack i dont know how all those technologys work and if its possible, just thought someone would have done it.
Also, i found a video right after this that showcased 5 different reactors being filmed, this video was included in the compilation as well and was still one of the better ones.
"Alright kids, now we are going to do it again but without the water"
Um, I just remembered I left the oven on at home, and um, I'm afraid I'll have to miss that experiment
I’m not sure if it would work. Water is the moderator to slow the neutrons down to allow them to successfully hit another fissile atom. Now if there was graphite there as well, that would be a different story.
@@davidsteer8142 thanks a good explanation
No water? No moderation and likely wouldn't sustain a chain reaction
@@hiddenInsight486 shhhhh! It's funny to the non-nuclear engineers! Don't ruin it for them!
Imagine being able watch a nuclear reaction happening
You need to go outside sometimes
@@sungazer454 lmao
Looks at sun
@@sungazer454 your name makes this even more hilarious
@@sungazer454 actually the sun uses nuclear fusion which creates alot more energy then the fission that reactors use
Fascinating. The bubble creation by the water molecule being broken apart is very fun. It's a little baby reactor, so cute! The gamma emissions are alarming though... I would err on side side of caution and not tempt fate by being AWAY from the side of the pool during operation...my genome does not need any unplanned collisions with a gamma particle.
Her: I'm sure he's cheating on me
Him and the boys:
Lmao
Putting his control rods in someone else
@@shuggg5646 lol
When he gets home he gets checked for contamination and activation
Why are we talking about memes here? This is for scientists only, not people who love this bumblefuckery we call "memes".
I obviously came here for the Chernobyl memes, but this is endlessly fascinating to watch. The effects of the reactor's process is really a marvel. Thanks for uploading!
Now THIS is the kind of comment I like to see!
_"Conrade, I've seen it. The core it's open!"_
*When the core is open:*
Comrade
He's in shock, get him out of here.
@@comradedyatlov4143 What did you DOOO!
3.6 not great, not terrible
Creepiest scene from the show. Without any context, you just KNOW "No human is supposed to EVER see this"
This was one of the most perfect educational videos i have ever seen. I was curious how this process works, but now i know. Thank you! I love this video!
Cherenkov radiation is such an amazing blue hue.
Imagine being the workers inside Chernobyl the night the reactor blew its top. One of the workers described "a beautiful blue laser stretching to the heavens".
@@MrWolfSnack Id imagine it would be very much brighter since the reactors output was orders of magnitude more than here. But the cost of admission is a bit pricey.
@@MrWolfSnack Is that actually the case, because that seems like bullshit to me...
@@kanekeylewer5704 I know I'm not the person you asked, but oh well. After quite a bit of research on the Chernobyl disaster, I found several witness reports stating something similar, if not that directly. The radiation coming from the exploded core was high enough to kill most of the workers who obliviously went close enough to it, even behind walls, or down in the reactor pumps. It was definitely enough to initiate a large Cherenkov effect.
@@Jeremiah-mj9kw Seems cool as fuck. Its one of those things that is really beautiful but scary as shit.
"Thats cherenkov effect, completely normal phenomenon. I have seen worse "
Its the tesseract effect.
@@BenPortermike hes quoting a line from hbo chernobyl
@@BenPortermike woooosh
@@00Foxhound you cant woosh someone who does not get a reference, a reference is not a joke + he was making one of his own
Comrade Dyatlov?
They offer tours of this facility. You can walk right up to the edge of the reactor pool. They also show you all the other neat facilities within the complex, like the hot cells for handling contaminated stuff. I toured it years ago, HIGHLY recommended.
Can you jump into the pool?
would they allow a foreign citizen to tour this place? (or other reactors in america?).
we only have one shitty reactor in my country and i have driven by san onofre and other reactors while in the states and always wanted to stop.
It is impressive how they move the shielding just a little bit and it doubles the heat power.
I luckily got to see this in person about a year ago and it is one of the most mesmerizing things one can ever see. It’s easy to see why irradiated materials had such a cult following before we knew of its harmful effects, I literally just stood behind the railing in awe of the pulse
One of the best video I have ever seen...and also shot by go pro... have seen the previous version also...the new edited version with the explanation is great...thanks a lot ...keep up the good work .. hope more people will watch it and awareness will increase.
Thank you!
If this was the first time the reactor was running, What would have happened if a diver was holding the camera in the same position and the reactor was only producing 0.5 MW for 30 seconds?
Thre is a German company that made an app "Radioactivity counter" Rolf-Dieter Klein that counts the number of white flashes and translates those (No of flashes / sensor size / time ) in a counter. Why not use the same principle in trying to assess the Gama radiation in your test?
Or you could take a Samsung S7, install the software (make the requested modifications and calibration) and sink it in the pool :)
Which diver? I guess he used a long pole with the cam attached
I remember seeing this at a sterilization plant for medical latex gloves. The techs took me inside during the shutdown and explained how those cobalt blue rods work. It was really amazing to see it's beating heart.
Why would you use radiation to sterilize? Why not use UV?
@@FIGHTTHECABLE UV is still ionizing EM radiation, just at a different wavelength. UV would work in the same way as cobalt, but UV is easily blocked. The contaminants need prolonged, unobstructed exposure to the radiation source, and that’s difficult to achieve with solid objects. Gamma radiation, on the other hand, can easily penetrate the packaging around the product being sterilized, ensuring an adequate dose is provided every time.
@@nickcarey4566 I see, thanks
Wow: are those gloves only sold to hospitals?
@@LybertyZ Medical device worker here. Sterile gloves are used in any environmentally controlled area where necessary. For example, the room where we package and inspect joint replacement parts are in a complete sterile environment. Everyone wears sterile gowns, hats, boots, and gloves. Parts that will be implanted in someone need to be completely clean and sterile before it goes to the hospital (specifically the operating room). Same goes for pharma companies. Drugs need to be completely free of germs or other environmental contaminants before it is packaged for the same reason.
Fun fact: the joint replacement parts themselves get gamma radiation to sterilize the part further in case something managed to get inside the packaging. Sterile environments are not 100% sterile, but they can get really close. The gamma radiation goes through the plastic packaging and kills any "bugs" that may be inside.
It was an AMAZING video..
but I have a few questions...
1. What would happen if someone falls in this pool or something gets dropped in the pool while the reactor is on?
2. What material is used to make the pool? Is it concrete only?
.
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Hope to get answers!!
Surface of the pool shouldn’t be much more dangerous than the surface, it’s just water. However, diving towards the core would rapidly increase your exposure to gamma and then neutron radiation, making severe illness more and more likely. Being within three meters of it would probably kill you fairly quickly.
As for the material they usually have a lead layer somewhere to isolate the building, unless the pool is so large rogue radiation is not a danger.
2:35 imagine being so fast instead of a sonic boom you create a photonic boom
Fun fact: if a macroscopic object were moving at "can generate light booms" speeds it would be fussing particles on, and ablating, its forward facing side. It would basically be a moving nuclear explosion untill the object is either consumed or obliterated.
Yes, I am a blast at parties.
@@zombieregime Don't forget Unruh radiation to melt it down.
Actually, that is possible. Named “sonoluminescense”, its natural occurrence is from the punch of a mantis shrimp. There’s also footage of some successful experiments getting bubbles to implode and create (very dim) flashes of light.
@@comicsansgreenkirby that's an entirely different phenomenon.
I can imagine hearing that low growl from the inside of a starship.
J. Vinton oh hell yeah.
@@eiteiei4063 Lol, well fuel and other means of producing energy aren't effecient. You need to refuel constantly. Not with this.
@@slightlyamusedblackkidfrom9153 Well the only real alternative is solar. It requires technically no fuel and it's much more lightweight, at least compared to a nuclear reactor. And it doesn't cause an environmental catastrophe should it crash.
@@eiteiei4063 how would a spacecraft suddenly crash in space?
@@iain3713 During ascent or landing
This is one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. Physics on display.
I know its not very scientific, but youre missing a fine opportunity to put a hotdog on a stick down there
Comrade dyatlow wants to know your location
bad joke, coz about real tragedy...but "like" for idk what) coz its funny if its be only a movie...
Oh you know just swimming in the feed water. Its warm, not great, not terrible.
Oh god no. If he got a hold of this reactor they’d have to make another HBO miniseries. “Anatoly Dyatlov and the radioactive boogaloo: Part 2”
lmao from all the memes here, this one is the best
Comrade Blyatlov!
I never would've thought something as sci-fi looking as Cherenkov radiation would be possible in real life.
3.6 Roentgen, not great but not terrible.
Everybody a nuclear physicist until Professor Legasov walks in.
Legasov was not a physicist ..
@@MileRastovac they never said he was.
@@MileRastovac He was an Engineer
He was a Soviet Chemist
@@sadib3215 He was a Physical-Chemical Engineer
"Before we begin the tour, I must ask: why do you have your phone hooked to a fishing pole?"
"Don't worry about it".
3:32 "And many other things."
Like....anti-mass spectrometry, resonance cascades and xen world relay entanglement teleportation?
Half-Life fan spotted ^^
@@fridaycaliforniaa236
3 Months since original post.
3 hours since first reply.
Half life 3 confirmed?
@@MikeBSc well, it is confirmed 😂
@@saltentity LAST REPLY 3 WEEKS AGO
Gordon doesn’t need to hear all this he’s a highly trained professional!
It's absolutely gorgeous and in my opinion a very plausible candidate for the future. We should do more with this technology. Shame nuclear energy got such a bad rep from the Chernobyl accident.
Even accounting for spent fuel rods (rather small too) it's the safest/cleanest energy around. You're legit just boiling water to create steam, that runs a turbine.
Agreed. If only the world could just see that the Chernobyl incident really was just an example on how not to run a nuclear reactor and quite frankly how not to engineer one lol
The problem isnt that Chernobyl happened. It's that people remember bad things for a very VERY long time. But good things? Those are gone in an instant.
It takes decades to build trust. But mere seconds to destroy it
@@morganwilliamson6393 that's not the problem. It's the toxic waste they produce. We can't just stuff that shit forever underground. Have you seen how the barrels deteriorate? Its a mess to store the aftermath of any nuclear power plant.
@@thomasvlaskampiii6850 Yet we still polute with carbon dioxide which kills millions of people prematurely... So sad that we would need to educate so many people about it to change public opinion. Something petrol companies would never do
Can someone call SHIELD, I think I've found the Tesseract.
Lmao
I literally thought the same
The tesseract had one of the stones in it D:
I will call Loki.
@@smoke4131 Slightly worried that you have his number.
I’m no scientist, or anything close to it, other than some environmental remediation background, but I find stuff like this very fascinating. This video had me captured for 10 minutes.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Less toxic than most kid pools.
The kids wee in them. If this were a kids pool it would glow green/yellow and then there would be 5-eyed squids.
No really, water is amazing radiation insulator, no radiation reaches the surface of that pool. You could literally drink it. Ofc because it de-ionised, you would easily get nauseous, but its not serious.
Remove the kids and it will be toxic-free
@@jarskil8862 I would not recommend drinking the water from that pool. Neutron radiation tends to destabilize molecules around it, turning them radioactive. The reactor itself also releases Tritium, radioactive Helium, radioactive Xenon, etc., which can't be effectively caught by the cladding of the fuel rods and remains solute in the containment vessel water. Boiling water reactors are pretty safe, but not THAT safe.
Yep, in fact it's much less cancerogenic than chlorine infested water in the public pools.
I saw this video a couple years ago and remember thinking this fascinating. I’m back after watching HBO’s Chernobyl and the comments are as amazing as I expected.
Alejandro Felix same
"You DIDN'T!!!"
Curiosity after watching Chernobyl brought me here. Thank you for blessing my eyes. Love and blessings.
1. How are the rods (fuel, moderator and control) isolated from water in the pool so that it does not become contaminated?
2. Other than than the control rods being inserted, what other means are there to safely shut down the reactor?
3. Is the reactor designed so that the maximum thermal energy generation cannot overcome the coolant reservoir and catastrophically breakdown the structures and melt down? If so..
3b. .. Is that dependant on the physical spacing restrictions placed between the fuel rods? Or it takes into account the core structure breaking down and the fuel becoming more densely compacted? And if so, to what extent?
4. Are the rods keyed at any point by shape so that they cannot be inserted incorrectly?
Very cool video, thanks :)
For someone like me whom never experienced a nuclear reactor operating, it is amazing to know this technology is fairly new compared to other energy sources. I live a short drive from the Shippingport reactors in western PA. I never fully understood how it works.
Well I’m glad you liked the video! Tons of great explanations online about how they work. Shipping port has some historical significance, as being the first commercial power reactor site.
So cool to think that the bubbles and the cherenkov effect are macro scale effects of things operating at the quantum level.
everything we see is the macro scale effect of things operating at the quantum level though
@Super Cool I don't understand what your point is
However it's not boiling water, it's H2 and O2 from water splitting process
@Super Cool ok, well water undergoes phase change from liquid to gas, which happens due to average kinetic energy of molecules surpassing hydrogen bond energy of liquid water, and hydrogen bonds, like any other covalent bond, are a purely quantum phenomena
Also, the very motion of these bubbles is governed by Newton's laws, which arise as a consequence of motion of the smallest particles comprising the system, and time evolution of these particles is governed by Schrodinger's equation
@Super Cool yeah, but my point is that everything that happens on a molecular level is governed by QM principles, you just need to dig deep enough to reach a point where you need a quantum explanation
I can tell you, you're all wrong. I watched ant man soni know how this works
cherenkov radiation is one of my favorite things to see with these reactor videos
It's completely normal, can happen with low radiations
@@tanguyarzamian1852 I walked around the exterior of building 4 I think there’s graphite on the ground in the rubble.
@@quantumpilot6843 today's reactors doesn't have graphite.
@@norbert.kiszka it was a phrase in chernobyl. i know this reactor dont have graphite.
Very interesting that it’s safe to stand at the edge of the pool while the reactor is running. Scary, but interesting. I wonder what the dose would be if you were to fall in for a second.
Very slightly above background exposure. No danger whatsoever. You would be absolutely fine.
The Cherenkov Effect. Happens with minimal radition.
I'm told its the equivalent of a chest x-ray.
3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible
No! No it's not equivalent to a chest x-ray. It's 400 chest x rays!!
james onde YOU DIDNT SEE A CHEST XRAY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY
"Powers out again babe can you start the backup reactor"
Raise the power.
No, it's not safe.
DO IT
@@theromanbaron shut the fuck up and do your job
@@Setiv1101 you either do your job or I'll make sure you'll never get job in any of the nuclear power plant in your entire life !
@@shreyas2730 there is no graphite
@@Setiv1101 it's just the burnt cement on the roof .... the reactors still intact
I hope you got the GoPro video of the month award... Awesome...
I didnt! That would have been awesome though
Alex Landress question if you drained it and filled it back up would there still be radiation in it and could you swim in it
@@jacobsomething6959 look up Galen Winsor his interview/speech is on UA-cam, he tells his story of when he was in charge of a nuclear facility he would swim in the the 100 degree glowing blue water tub like a hot spring, and would drink it too! To prove to everyone the hoax that it is toxic and that radiation is not poison. Only heat and UV light!
@@veda4life-d5j that radiation is not poison?? what??? You must think the Earth is flat too...
Well it is not poison per se.. It is just tiny subatomic particles flying through your dna and physically taking it apart... We would call bullets poison too then. Radiation causes physical cell nucleus damage which then manifests as cell deterioration, mutation of dna by copying broken parts and ultimately, cancer.
We mostly define poisons as something that causes negative-consequence chemical reaction.
But yes, it is a thing to be used with great care and responsibility. Very, very useful, but dangerous if not conducted properly. And that is why we have scientists and experts which study this and improve safety and protocols all the time, and we don't have reactors in our basements instead of solar panels on the roof.
I noticed a few shadow were wiggling during the work of the reactor. Are they caused by the same reason wiggling shadows appear when you shine light through fire? If not, please explain what are those. Hope I was clear enough.
Warm water currents?