This reactor has since provided millions (billions?) of nuclear medicine doses for diagnosing cancer. For the longest time, radioactive Cobalt-60 was also the "source of choice" for treating tumours inside the body using cross-fired treatment beams. This continues to be the case in lower-income countries. The modern day safety record of the NRX reactor is something to celebrate. Canada's role in this field is second to none!
Pinhole collimator gamma imaging seems to be a field in development even today. Another interesting concept is a coded aperture, used for the same purpose.
Yes! You have digitised new reactor goodies for us. These old films are such a joy to watch. The Polygone voice over, the way these people envisioned the world is somehow incredibly endearing. And to think they engineered everything with slide rules, not computers. The skills these builders had are phenomenal!
@@BlackPill-pu4vi Yep. Among others, Big Oil paid Greenpeace to do nuclear dirty. Cannot have clean, abundant power. If nuclear science hadn't been held back so much, we would be much further along, and nuclear waste would no longer be a problem of any significance. And they already developed a reactor that can use the spent fuel from conventional reactors as fuel. But nope, let's un-alive that project because of political reasons.
A kind of genius no longer necessary, or useful, today. I am always in awe at the solutions dreamed up by those old engineers whose own brains had to stand in for today's computers and calculators. A thousand years of progressive, cumulative, problem solving abilities has been wiped away and replaced by CAD, spreadsheets, and short-term profitability. I wonder how long it would take an army of today's engineers to organise a moon landing without access to integrated circuits...
@ The dangers of substituting fabricated machine algorithms for organic intelligence and training was already foreseen in H.G. Wells, "The Time Machine."
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing. Sometime in the future, if society ever decides to reprioritize real problems over manufactured ones, we're gonna need archives like this to get back to work.
Fun fact..A guy that helped clean this up ....later on he also was the only us president allowed to go to a nuclear accident... which was three mile island.... Jimmy cater....
I remember Jimmy Carter. Far more educated and qualified than any POTUS after him but yet, his presidency was mostly a failure. Just shows that intelligence and moral character are not always good measures of political leadership.
I love how the techniques used by the engineers to deal with the wrecked reactor (wrapping with tarps, fussing around with ropes) were well know to pirates.
@whatisnuclear yeah I think I did hear that somewhere before. But it seems like something that on the surface seems like it'd be really straightforward and simple and you don't really think about.
It would have been regular water: Heavy water's special property is that it's good at encouraging nuclear fission reactions. Handy in a reactor - less so in a laundry.
Canadas role in both the Manhattan project and the nuclear power industry in general isn’t well known. But Canada and the UK had a program before the U.S. called “Tube Alloys”, it’s what eventually became manhattan.
They did specify that the water was filtered through a sand a clay dike into a canal leading to the creek. The canal did not contain radioactivity, so the water was technically clean*. But, let's be honest, wtf are they going to do with the contamination that is now present in that dike? It feels like a Hanford.
Like with peyote? I'm pretty sure LSD was pretty hard to get in Ottawa in the 1890s when this occurred. Whiskey, yeah, no problem, but acid? Hard to even find it there now ffs. Tons of weed tho
An RBMK cannot be critical on natural uranium. It needs some enrichment in order to be able to reach criticality. But yeah, both reactors are a pressure tube design. And also yes, the CANDU shares the pesky positive void coefficient with our big, grumpy Soviet reactor, albeit much smaller. And in case of an emergency, a CANDU can dump its moderator out of the Calandria. Something that is impossible with graphite blocks. That's why that coefficient is much more troublesome, not to mention dangerous, in an RBMK.
There's a now being decommissioned nuclear site not too far from here where some low level contaminated waste water was literally pumped about 4.5 miles out to sea. Look up Winfrith, Dorset. There's is/was a video on here on them installing/building the pipeline back in the 60's(?). The site itself was somewhat interesting as unlike all our commercial nuclear power plants were sited right next to the sea/rivers whereas this was a few miles inland, though the only power generator here was a lower power SGHWR test/prototype reactor, all other reactors were just test/prototype reactors that weren't built for electricity generation.
Different reactor excursion. That happened in an army test reactor in Idaho I believe... Three dead when forcing a stuck control rod out, the steam explosion sheared off the pressure head bolts and impaled one of the deceased to the ceiling. SL-1 reactor.
@@heathcliff8624 He kind of has a point. It's the ignorance shown in this video that is most evident. Not sure where to dump millions of gallons of radioactive water? I know, we'll dump it in a creek! Got a giant steel disc that is dangerously radioactive? I know, we'll cover it with a tarpaulin and bury it in the ground! Got basement full of fission products? Well sand and grind the radionuclides off the porous concrete surfaces and paint over it! (Gosh, I hope there wasn't a lot of dust! - or did that go up in the Dyson they were using?)
Nuclear power won't make a comeback because the West has been deintelligenced. A better word won't pass the cneorss. We don't have the schools, the workforce, the leadership, or the industrial habits to build new nuke power plants. When we did over 40 years ago, it was a clusterfkkk because each power plant was a one-of-a-kind boondoggle that went far over budget and had many problems before being commissioned. France and Sweden did it right. They came up with one good design and made them all the same. An engineer in one can work in another and the economies of scale made repairs and maintenance relatively affordable by nuclear standards.
Wow.......sand filter.......above ground burrial .......that was the reactor.......hmmmm........they did one in my back yard to........rocketdynn ..... It a supper fund site ......
This reactor has since provided millions (billions?) of nuclear medicine doses for diagnosing cancer. For the longest time, radioactive Cobalt-60 was also the "source of choice" for treating tumours inside the body using cross-fired treatment beams. This continues to be the case in lower-income countries. The modern day safety record of the NRX reactor is something to celebrate. Canada's role in this field is second to none!
That pinhole gamma-camera idea was absolute genius!
Pinhole collimator gamma imaging seems to be a field in development even today. Another interesting concept is a coded aperture, used for the same purpose.
It worked elegantly. I was very impressed with how effective it was! It makes sense, but I've never heard or thought of that before.
Yes! You have digitised new reactor goodies for us. These old films are such a joy to watch. The Polygone voice over, the way these people envisioned the world is somehow incredibly endearing. And to think they engineered everything with slide rules, not computers. The skills these builders had are phenomenal!
The future view of the old Atomic Agers was completely feasible. The system undermined it by way of greed and lack of focus.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi
Yep. Among others, Big Oil paid Greenpeace to do nuclear dirty. Cannot have clean, abundant power. If nuclear science hadn't been held back so much, we would be much further along, and nuclear waste would no longer be a problem of any significance. And they already developed a reactor that can use the spent fuel from conventional reactors as fuel. But nope, let's un-alive that project because of political reasons.
A kind of genius no longer necessary, or useful, today. I am always in awe at the solutions dreamed up by those old engineers whose own brains had to stand in for today's computers and calculators. A thousand years of progressive, cumulative, problem solving abilities has been wiped away and replaced by CAD, spreadsheets, and short-term profitability. I wonder how long it would take an army of today's engineers to organise a moon landing without access to integrated circuits...
@ The dangers of substituting fabricated machine algorithms for organic intelligence and training was already foreseen in H.G. Wells, "The Time Machine."
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing. Sometime in the future, if society ever decides to reprioritize real problems over manufactured ones, we're gonna need archives like this to get back to work.
Nuclear Stupid To Be Smart 24 k Years OF Death ALL GREED LIES OF NUCLEAR COME DUE IN THE CANCER LOTTO
there is no planet B.
Fun fact..A guy that helped clean this up ....later on he also was the only us president allowed to go to a nuclear accident... which was three mile island....
Jimmy cater....
Yeah when I got this digitized and was watching it I was looking out for a young Jimmy Carter. Not sure if I see him in there or not.
He's Nuclear Stupid & Had Cancer How Many Times FJC & FJB
@@whatisnuclear @ 41 CPM Vent & Leak See Vogel Is In A Bad WAY Right NOW Cancer FOR ALL = Nuclear
I remember Jimmy Carter. Far more educated and qualified than any POTUS after him but yet, his presidency was mostly a failure. Just shows that intelligence and moral character are not always good measures of political leadership.
And as of this writing the only president to reach 100 years old.
Amazing video and editing! Thanks
Chalk River? More like Polluted Tarp River. That tarp was on sale at Canadian Tire for like 60% off. Friggin good deals there bud.
I love how the techniques used by the engineers to deal with the wrecked reactor (wrapping with tarps, fussing around with ropes) were well know to pirates.
- Arr! What's them dose rate, matey?
- Shiver me timbers! Ten bloody Roentgens per hour, Cap'n
It does indeed make one think
Very interesting and, WOW, what a major PITA.
In watching their method(s) of radioactive cleanup, I just shook my head. Filtering into a creek?
I want to know when the washing the laundry do they use regular water heavy water or something somewhere in between?
I think it was medium water
@whatisnuclear yeah I think I did hear that somewhere before. But it seems like something that on the surface seems like it'd be really straightforward and simple and you don't really think about.
Regular water obviously. Heavy water is very expensive and its properties are not required for plain old detergent action.
It would have been regular water: Heavy water's special property is that it's good at encouraging nuclear fission reactions. Handy in a reactor - less so in a laundry.
Drink Up Cancer Rate Shows The Facts 3 Nuclear Melt Downs In The Sea Never Stopped @ 41 CPM
It’s perfectly safe ,
Except when it isn’t .
Wow...this preceeded the Kyshtym meltdown by about 5 years.
Canadas role in both the Manhattan project and the nuclear power industry in general isn’t well known. But Canada and the UK had a program before the U.S. called “Tube Alloys”, it’s what eventually became manhattan.
Dumping radioactive water in a creek?
Inovative
Cancer For ALL The Earth
They did specify that the water was filtered through a sand a clay dike into a canal leading to the creek. The canal did not contain radioactivity, so the water was technically clean*.
But, let's be honest, wtf are they going to do with the contamination that is now present in that dike? It feels like a Hanford.
@@Jack_Luck.v2Solid form is much easier to deal with than liquid.
Low dose, like the water in human bodies.
They probably pump and defuse it through clay and dirt, then take the clay and dirt to a secure dump cite.
The solution to pollution was dilution.
It usually is, even today.
I don’t even want to think about how many people got dosed and how badly.
Like with peyote? I'm pretty sure LSD was pretty hard to get in Ottawa in the 1890s when this occurred. Whiskey, yeah, no problem, but acid? Hard to even find it there now ffs. Tons of weed tho
@@technovikingfan With ionizing radiation, I mean.
when they said "natural uranium" i started to get RBMK flashbacks........
"because cooling water had boiled out of some channels"
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oh god.... it is like the RBMK.......
An RBMK cannot be critical on natural uranium. It needs some enrichment in order to be able to reach criticality. But yeah, both reactors are a pressure tube design. And also yes, the CANDU shares the pesky positive void coefficient with our big, grumpy Soviet reactor, albeit much smaller. And in case of an emergency, a CANDU can dump its moderator out of the Calandria. Something that is impossible with graphite blocks. That's why that coefficient is much more troublesome, not to mention dangerous, in an RBMK.
@swokatsamsiyu3590 voiding of heavy water lowers reactivity because it is the moderator itself
There's a now being decommissioned nuclear site not too far from here where some low level contaminated waste water was literally pumped about 4.5 miles out to sea.
Look up Winfrith, Dorset. There's is/was a video on here on them installing/building the pipeline back in the 60's(?). The site itself was somewhat interesting as unlike all our commercial nuclear power plants were sited right next to the sea/rivers whereas this was a few miles inland, though the only power generator here was a lower power SGHWR test/prototype reactor, all other reactors were just test/prototype reactors that weren't built for electricity generation.
It was Dyatlov I tell you! He was in charge of this one as well, claiming he was on the toilet
Still cant believe dood got spiked to the ceiling, but id take that over radiaton death over weeks..
Different reactor excursion. That happened in an army test reactor in Idaho I believe... Three dead when forcing a stuck control rod out, the steam explosion sheared off the pressure head bolts and impaled one of the deceased to the ceiling. SL-1 reactor.
@rtqii thx I wasn't quite sure!
@@rtqiiThe SL-1 had a single control rod… The runaway happened when they lifted it out to recouple it to its actuator…
Still can't figure out how to spell dude either..
What strikes me here is that no problem cannot be solved. Making nature our bitch.
*ALUMINIUM
300 roetgens, not great, pretty terrible
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what a shitty design (and what a mess)
so they dumped a million gallons of radioactive water onto the ground and let it filter into a creek
Seep that radiation through sand and mud? Chef's Kiss to the guy who told this lie to the public. This is why NP will never make a comeback.
Your ignorance is evident.
@@heathcliff8624 He kind of has a point. It's the ignorance shown in this video that is most evident. Not sure where to dump millions of gallons of radioactive water? I know, we'll dump it in a creek! Got a giant steel disc that is dangerously radioactive? I know, we'll cover it with a tarpaulin and bury it in the ground! Got basement full of fission products? Well sand and grind the radionuclides off the porous concrete surfaces and paint over it! (Gosh, I hope there wasn't a lot of dust! - or did that go up in the Dyson they were using?)
Nuclear power won't make a comeback because the West has been deintelligenced. A better word won't pass the cneorss. We don't have the schools, the workforce, the leadership, or the industrial habits to build new nuke power plants. When we did over 40 years ago, it was a clusterfkkk because each power plant was a one-of-a-kind boondoggle that went far over budget and had many problems before being commissioned. France and Sweden did it right. They came up with one good design and made them all the same. An engineer in one can work in another and the economies of scale made repairs and maintenance relatively affordable by nuclear standards.
President Jimmy Carter was directly involved in the clean up of this accident. His UNEXPOSED relatives mostly died of cancer…
Wow.......sand filter.......above ground burrial .......that was the reactor.......hmmmm........they did one in my back yard to........rocketdynn .....
It a supper fund site ......