How to make Plutonium
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2019
- Exploring how Plutonium-238 is produced.
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Milking the Thorium Cow reminded me of the TV show Fringe. The mad scientist had a cow in his lab.
Is plutonium easier to deal with than refining U235/F6 ?
Periodic Videos I have fan mail for the professor and a chemistry question where can I send this? Please do fan mail videos!!!
@@tedphillips2501 No.
@@RobertBardos Google University of Nottingham to get the address. Put the Professor's name as the addressee.
No no that’s the hard way! What you do is: ***information censored***
@Lenny69 シ started with a soap
I saw the video title and immediately thought: “No, Cody, don’t!”
Ah, luckily I managed to copy.your 'diy' way before they censored it!
Ooh boy
Cody got taken by the Chinese
Specifically Plutonium 238 used in Radioisotope Theromoelectric Generators, rather than Plutonium 239 which is used in bombs. 238 undergoes a series of alpha & gamma decays towards stable lead so a lot of the energy remains within the RTG rather than leaking out via beta or gamma rays.
Hi Scott, love your videos!
You're 100% right mr. Maniey watch your channel all the time
Always a pleasure to see you commenting on videos that involve the things that you speak about.
Oooh, nice to see you here.
Oh look, its Scott......hiya....
"accidents happen when you use the wrong equipment"
*uses screwdriver to hold beryllium shield over plutonium core*
It’s a self-vulcanized screwdriver. It might be wrong but it’ll survive the accident like a cockroach or at least well enough for the forensics crew to identify it as the cause of an accident.
Yeah, what could go wrong with that? *Louis Slotin nervously looks around*
Everyone knows that you need TWO screwdrivers to hold the beryllium.
I thought anything more than 1.74 screwdrivers would be overkill?
Hahahaha.. you rock
Got out my old chemistry set, a Christmas present in 1962, took it down to my shed. Can't wait to get started on synthesising a little plutonium. Thanks for the tips.
If you have a set from 1962, you are lucky. The kits today don't have anything in them.
Finally a use for all this neptunium I have laying around.
Whoa! You're that cooking guy! I didn't expect to see you in the comments!
Oh yeah, I think I also have some plutonium laying around my kitchen. Now the only thing I need is a nuclear reactor.
I have some in my smoke detector.
How did you HBO watching noobs even hear about Neptunium?
The EPA has entered the chat
Given the title I was expecting a DIY.
Some scouser, stay at home dad in his backyard?
Just mix some plutonic quartz with cesium and water.
It was a “how to”. But, the moral of the story was safety.
I have a stainless steel container if that helps?
Another Guy thank you kind sir i assume this is correct
I don’t know why, but this guy giving the tour makes me really happy. There’s something special about seeing such knowledgeable people that love their profession lighting up when asked questions about it.
We are on the FBI watchlist now.
Hi, fellas :-)
YOLO
Especially since Biden just said you need nuclear weapons to defend yourself against the government... haha
I was just about to say this. Fbi don't hurt me pls
Why do I hear knocking on my door?
Luckily, I watched this from a safe distance.
Wait, then why do I taste metal?
I filled my monitor with a bunch of mineral oil just to be safe. How did the video end BTW? I missed it everything went black.
@@StephenJohnson-jb7xe Do not use used oil!!!
I watched this in person, through my binoculars.
Or is it?
This is bringing "don't try this at home" to a whole new level.
I would be amazed if you could even try it at home
@@braydenh190 There was a teenager who made a nuclear reactor in a shed in the backyard of his home by purchasing a ridiculous number of smoke detectors, but not safely. His whole neighborhood became an EPA site.
@@firearmsstudent the radioactive boy scout, just the tools the kid used had gamma counts above 100k per second. he later went into the navy but was not allowed to talk to the nukes lol
@@firearmsstudent Did he actually achieve fission or was it just a pile of decaying rods? I don't remember.
@@firearmsstudent he stole them. Not purchased them.
“I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drug store...”
You can get Americium in most corner drug stores. It used to be Plutonium and it's the next element over.
" Doc ........... "
" You Built A Time Machine Out Of A DeLorean ."
1.21 Gigawatts is a hard thing.
Liquid plutonium in a glass bottle
Great scot!!
Professor you are an inspiration. I have no experience or particularly interested in chemistry but your videos are compelling. Thank you.
What I find cool is that we use elements named after our most outer planets for missions that go into deep space.
Yup, the New Horizons craft, which went to Pluto, was powered by Plutonium.
Pluto is not a planet
@@jacktheflipper3591 you are not human!!
@@bannedaccount3752 yeah i know i come from Pluto
Sad venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, makemake, ceres, eris, haumea, sedna, quaoar noise
Me: I should go to bed
TH-cam: Wanna know how to make plutonium?
Me: ok, fine.
Ok, fine.
Ok fine
It is midnight here
Ok, fine.
Ok, its 02:32, after this video its a lot harder to sleep because i ask my self if i can heat my housen in the winter with this plu
yup. exactly what happened to me here just now...
I found this video quite fascinating, as I spent 6 years in my career designing glovebox automation for processing Pu at SRS.
"So hopefully that stuff will see its way on some spacecraft in the mid-2020 timeframe."
Oh boy he didn't know what was coming
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@@raffaeledivora9517 The Plutonium in the video is now on Mars. We did it quicker than expected.
@@fernandoaispuro1819 Ah lol, I thought they meant they were cancelling and delaying stuff, as usual 😅
Perseverance
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FBI OPEN UP
Some time ago you were able to order Caesium on Amazon. No joke... It was a test sample for geiger counters, and my friend wanted to test his counter.
Didn´t took too long for the feds to show up :D
Hue Man Haha, yup. I forgot to write that “he” was a friend of mine.
We were only 14 yo. at this time (2009) 😂
Yes officer, this video right here
Hmm... I don't think the FBI will raid Oakridge soon.
They are the government ...and the FBI would not have the security clearance to get near there labs
This is really cool. NASA has recently proposed a new really neat design for an RTG (nuclear battery essentially) that would require A LOT of these rods and produce enough energy to support a mission on the Moon. Which is probably what they are needing this for in 2024 and beyond. Eventually newer versions of these RTGs will hopefully end up on Mars and maybe even Titan.
I read last year that NASA was testing small fission reactors which use sodium metal to transfer heat to sterling engines, then to reciprocating generator. U 235/ molybdenum alloy with beryllium neutron reflector. The efficiency was around 20% and was designed to run for years.
@@tomspencer1364 That project has been suspended and restarted multiple times, sadly.
Are you the real Anton Petrov?
Nice vids dude
I'm addicted to pigger nussy 🤠
2:05 I do like how the machine not only tips the bottle upside down into the funnel but also taps it to make sure the bottle is empty.
This was so thrilling to watch let alone realising that without this incredible chemistry our knowledge of the universe would not be what it is. A brilliant video
Such a lengthy process, for such a sparse production amount, yet for such great purpose.
And here, I, the commoner, sit and feel like a genius, whenever I 3D-print a simple object, but complain it takes half a day to do.
Fancy seeing you here.
Hey, you do your part. If you can 3D print then your way ahead of the curve for most people. Keep working that creative muscle.
@@derekboyt3383 Yeah...and the lot of us who would love a 3D printer but can't afford it =(
@@1BrknHrtdRomeo - Hey, I don't have one right now. Wish I did.
@@1BrknHrtdRomeo 3d printers are cheap as chips nowadays. You can buy Ender 3 for 200$
Outstanding video! The robotic equipment that was designed to handle these elements, is fascinating.
It reminds me of kids using dryer vent hose to make robot arms on a cardboard robot.
I'm watching this because a friend of mine is a doctor and he wants me to meet him at the Twin Pines mall to test out a science experiment. He specifically said I should have plenty of plutonium if I don't want to get stuck somewhere. So by learning how it is made, I can always travel BACK TO where I want to go. Wish me luck and hope that nothing goes wrong!
Time, Distance and Shielding. The most important concept you’ll ever learn in Nuc energy. As a recent retiree from the field on the plant maintenance side, Distance is now my absolute favorite safety measure.
Genuinely amazing stuff. It isn't often that the actual chemicals and their cool reactions are almost upstaged by the entire mechanical process and safety measures around them.
When I saw the title I thought that's a Cody'sLab video ;)
I wish it was a cody'slab video.
"Power your arduino project for the next thousand years, with this one tiny generator"
He used to have a Uranium processing series but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shut him down after a surprise visit.
@@xnagytibor So THAT'S what happened to those videos. I thought it was a youtube strike down thing.
If it was, it would have been struck down immediately.
Liberals, like those that run youtube don't like an educated public.
@@dunmermage As far as I remember Cody removed those videos himself after a strong suggestion from the NRC. What the NRC hated the most that he converted Uranium into liquid form, risking groundwater contamination.
Thank you for answering a question I have always wondered about regarding the shield glass. I first thought it was about a meter of special glass, and the tint was from years of being exposed to hard radiation.
Thank you for doing these videos.
The robot twisting the little cap off is pretty dang cute.
Fun fact, the green light on the cylinder at ~4:12 is coming from those Keyence devices (marked DIA 1 and DIA 2). They are optical micrometers and can measure the width of an object to an accuracy of ~1 micron at that distance. Pretty cool!
How to make plutonium
Google: " periodic video"
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No one uses Bing. Sorry Microsoft, it's true.
Sonny and that sherrif says “ya-hoo” instead of “yee-haw”
But like you can't really make weapons with plutonium, can you?
Bencer Sparney they make big eggs that fall from the sky and go B O O M
@Hippo_o _matic cause Google censor stuff and bring kinda doesn't
The most important tutorial ever!
Thank you! I really need this at home!
Oakridge is such a wonderful part of our city! Lived here my whole life and so glad they’re close by
I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest X-Ray
Not great not terrible
You can see the dosimeter on their chest. Probably a combination gamma and neutron dosimeter. Much more expensive than the standard units I would guess - certainly much larger than what I have worn.
But 3.6 röntgen is the equivalent of 400 chest x rays.
How many bananas is that...?
Spreading disinformation, at time like this? :D
Finally i can do my science project
Sannesthesia
Lol
TheClockworkSolution.
I really enjoy learning from your videos. Thank you for making them.
You people out there are making me so happy. Super happy. Well done. You are iconic heroes in shadows and silent. You are nailing humanity in science. Please keep in your brilliant minds that there people around the earth who are proud of you and your work. How ever we are not be able to do amazing actions for you, but we are looking at you people as the treasures of mankind in its deepest , hardest and widest meaning. I love you ❤.
Meanwhile in modded Minecraft:
"Yeah, I just carry around a bucket of molten Plutonium in my pocket."
“and can make a radioactive creeper that’s more powerful than the Tsar bomba”
It's not molten agyboi it's in a solution
@@matthewfredrickmfkrz1934 I know. But then the joke doesn't work.
A bucket of plutonium would probably be always melted because of the radioactivity lol
Permalava that kills you from a distance (now and later , to quote Hank green)
Pretty sure Tekkit had exactly that
Fascinating process for creating this energy source. Obviously it's much more complex than what we see in the theaters. Hopefully, someday, we'll find an energy solution that provides a better alternative but until then I'm glad we have some very knowledgeable people to work on this in a protective and safe manner.
Nice videos. The explanations are a great balance of detail. Which makes them easy to understand.
9:35 “I’ll leave it to the experts”. There’s another level?
Lets put it this way GE has 3000 PhDs in RND and they still cant grow certain nickel alloy crystals perfectly, it has to be done by a select group of 5 or 6 guys in the aerospace department
Some things are just too important to be left to experts. Now back to my shed to finish my room temperature superconductor made entirely of household products!
Bob Armstrong’s his clumsy uncle.
You mean like the experts that used screwdrivers to hold a beryllium shield over the plutonium core?
Well when all you hire is experts, there has to be an expert among experts.
"So if I punched a hole in that, a bunch of oil would come out."
"Yeah, yeah."
What he didn't say was "You'd also die pretty quickly from the radiation" 😂
I love these videos. Thank you for making these!
Uh no
Just going through the first layer wouldn't immediately be fatal. (safety margins, etc.)
@@jfbeam That's true. The other pane of leaded glass might save them.
Surely it wouldn't be that fast- there's no criticality causing massive bursts of radiation, so wouldn't it only pose a long term health risk and put you above your recommended radiation limits pretty quickly, but ultimately not be an immediately life-threatening danger?
"...a bunch of oil would come out." And a bunch of neutrons too... a whole lot of neutrons would come spilling out too!
Thanks for showing us this amazing process. Something a normal person would never normally see or be able to appreciate :)
This was very interesting I had to say I have learn more from this channel then I ever did in school.
I've lived near the Oakridge national lads all my life and this is the first glimpse I've ever had inside.
Yessir Knoxville native 😎
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i'm really loving these radiochemistry videos - please do more.
Radiochemistry has been my passion since I was 10. I've alwayswanted to see actinide elements in their pure form, ifyou get the chance could you show us some (Neptunium in pure metallic form)
Glad you’re enjoying them.
Most of them just look like a chunk of iron
@@borttorbbq2556 exciting no less
How to read your nickname?
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@@zeFoksXIII08 it is called 'purwapada' in javanese traditional script called hanacaraka :)
The precision is amazing.
Great video! Now I'm on a watchlist.
1:00 'Bob Wham'. The other guy, using the fume cupboard, is Dave Kaboom.
Frank Drebin works there too I think!
None of this lousy fume hood rubbish, we’ve got a whole cupboard dedicated to ventilating volatile toxins.
Ahh that's what I've been doing wrong. Thanks for the help guys
Guys, thanks for helping me do advance learning through your videos. Hope you prosper!
I'm so happy I decided to go back to school. There's always something to learn!
This was incredible! I've always wondered about the specifics of these processes. those robot arms
if I made a video about Plutonium it needs to have at least 3 "Not Great, Not Terrible"s in it
Whoever designed this automated machine is absolutely brilliant
great video. always wondered how it was made. Great content
Welcome everybody to the NSA watchlist
Lol
I have been on it....forever, but thanks for the welcome anyway.
Ive got a hazmat endorsement...i am on that list already!
Actually, since they're British, that would be MI5. The American CIA might be interested, too.
LOL
This was fantastic, what a terrifying and interesting job
Thanks, I was thinking about making some at home and this video helps a lot!
There are so many necessary roles that are required for the possibility of space travel. The chemists, the fabricators, the work crew who built/maintain mission control, the people who handle and transport chemicals, all are unique careers in the background that support the entire industry. An engineer can design a rocket, but one can never R&D without them.
Everyone has a role. The suits for Apollo were sewn by the best bra seamstresses at Playtex!
@@5roundsrapid263 that's a neat fact
I also liked how the robotic arm tapped the little vial a couple times! heh
PS what a great name is Bob Wham!
Very human.
"I can't believe how gentle you can be with that thing". *chuckles*
absolutely fascinating
Thanks bro 🙏, you helped me do my science homework
"How to make plutonium"
Iran: MY TIME HAS COME
come to daddy
OH, NOW YOU TELL US!!!
When I googled “How to build a nuke” I was expecting more of a 6 hours video, this is ten minutes!
Off the professor's closing remarks: I work in software engineering for a tier-1 research university in the US, and am currently working on a project that will eventually see use by NASA and actually be used in space exploration. It is a damn adrenaline rush thinking about how something I am working on will eventually further humanity's understanding on space, so I understand this guy's excitement about it completely - it is INCREDIBLY COOL!!
Absolutely Amazing!
Congratulations everyone, you are now on a watch list!
I solemnly swear I will use this knowledge only for altruistic reasons, and not to make lethal doses of instant sunshine.
100 points to Slytherin
This is awesome! Very informative.
Thanks
I Really needed this information
Bob "Wham", the atom smasher.
Okay so apparently this isn't a tutorial...
It obviously is
My dissapointment is immeasurable
r/HolUp
I know exactly how to do it now, I just need to send out some feelers to Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist for a neutron reactor, robots, radiation shielding and Neptunium. Easy peasy.
Thanks, I was about to do this.
Thanks for the info!
0:19 That mug has to have pretty amazing flavours in it!
Just by watching this video with that the title, we're all now on the CIA and Secret Service watchlist
As this video is British, you're probably on a MI5, MI6, and SIS watchlist as well.
@@jamesharmer9293 ur on an ms13 watch list and principle watch list lol
Absolutely incredible
This was fascinating to watch!!!
2:00 I could watch that thing go to work all day...
I'd be very interested in a video about how they deal with the waste from this type of process.
Shevek magic eraser.
Send it to Mars
Really an amazing video. Glad I found it
10 years ago I worked with cnc’s designing parts for company’s.
Setting Datums are a major part in keeping tolerances on point. Laser technology I’m sure has come a long way, instead of using micrometers or older methods.
How do you keep the robotic arms and tools selection carousel from malfunctioning, with such high radiation interference?
The sensors must be going mad. 😂
Great channel and best wishes. 😀
I’m sure in the future that plutonium will be available in every corner drugstore, but in 2015 it’s a little hard to come by.
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My heart's on fire for Elvira
Giddy up🎶
(You gotta be a certain age to get it)
Oh man, I hate when something makes me think about how old I am.
(Omm poppa mow mow.)
Wow thx for recepie I need it so much
My dad was a structural steel iron worker and his crew put most of the concrete and steel in at Oak Ridge. During that time it was the most secure place in the US. The security there today is still some of the most restricted in the US. This video is interesting but the main job at Oak Ridge is enriching uranium for nuclear weapons.
How do we get to Pluto? Use Neptune! :D
Clever 👏🏼
did*
Congrats everyone, we are all on a watch list now XD
This is amazing
This was so interesting. Thanks
Oh what I would give to be a part of that! To say that I helped to put a rover on mars or helped send a satellite on its way to Pluto.
Ahh yes. I just had a ton of neptunium laying around and didnt know what to do with it. Thanks guys!
Great Scott!
Now, YOU ARE ON A LIST!
"The Central Intelligence Agency"
Wants to know your location.
[Allow?] [Block?]
They've known the location of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, for more than 70yrs!
Me: *Facetimes*
Mobile browser app can’t locate itself within a state’s most populated city even with the help of a GPS. Still demands to read the dynamic assigned IP address and geolocate from that, which is being borrowed from the major urban center in the next state over- free onioning.
@@MrWombatty It is still a mistery where it was before then
Doesn't matter, they will find your location if they really want.
But it's nice of them to ask though.
I prefer that it's used for space missions, than for nuclear explosives.
Nuclear reactors would be the better option honestly.
That's automation on another level!
Homer finishing his work-day in the intro of 'The Simpsons' is what I'm reminded of!
For most of his life, Homer worked with a glove box as a nuclear technician. Then he became a safety inspector.