Argentina's RA-2 Reactor Criticality Incident | Plainly Difficult Documentary
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- On September 23, 1983, a Radiological criticality accident occurred in the RA-2 experimental test reactor, the incident released fissile material, took the life of an operator and irradiated many more.....
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www.cai.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/biblioteca/2018/El_modelo_nuclear_argentino/20181003_Boselli_Alfredo.pdf
"The list of nuclear accidents is nearly exhausted. You can help by *expanding it* !"
They can't take ALL the smoke detectors from us
*CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!*
_sneaks into Los Alamos National Laboratory to obtain fissile materials..._
(Plz FBI this is a joke. Please don't flash bang my doggos.)
@Hansengineering just ordered 1000 smoke alarms.....I'm gunna go hahn on this thing!
"Sadly, there aren't many more disasters to cover"
You and I, Sir, have very different definitions of "sadly".
Balls.
I live in Argentina and certainly never knew any of this. This happened before I was born, but neither my parents or older relatives seem to know about it
Proves how well it was covered up!
To Be Fair... all national governments (and the businesses, & politicians) have a vested interest in "information flow"... And sometimes an 'event' is over-shadowed obscured by current local events/news....
Oooh, finally a new nuclear incident on Plainly Difficult, let's goooo!
yah... .le sigh .. ☢😁
Criticality accidents are so scary how people can receive a fatal dose in a fraction of a second. Instant dead man walking.
Man's cooked
I wonder what it would look like if the whole room was a cloud chamber and we could see the particles streaks. Millions of streaks all at once?
Yes. And the realisation that you're dead, but it will take a few days of increasing agony.
Luckily this man died just a few days after the incident, so he didn't have to suffer for so long, like others did. 😔
It's been so long since we've felt the warm blue glow of a PD criticality accident video.
😇🫥
Argentinian historian here. Amazing video and an amazing subject! Been waiting for this for a long time.
Thank you!!
i´m from Argentina, by the time i have 10 years old and live just 60 miles from Atucha and i have no idea about it.
Proves how well it was covered up!
This happened at the Constituyentes Atomic Center, in the middle of Buenos Aires.
Yes, please do a piece on the incident in Germany ! Be well my friend. Love your channel...
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Thanks for this one, been wanting to see your breakdown of it.
I think things like this should never be carried out on a Friday. There is a mentality that just begs for a f*ck up. Also, it was very much a case of familiarity breeding contempt. Nothing ever happened before, so it isn't going to happen. Sometimes someone with the most experience is the most dangerous because they do things as they always have and won't stick to regulations. On his own, seemingly no PPE, should have had someone watching over him etc, etc.
A good example of this is the Tenerife Airport Disaster where two fully loaded airplanes hit one another on the runway killing over 500 people. The one aircraft didn't get the go ahead to fly and because he was a very skilled pilot and his personality, made the rest of the crew afraid to challenge his decision making.
It was the catalyst for Crew Resource Management in the airline industry.
Same reason you don't buy a car made on a Friday. You want the Tuesday car (post Monday hangover, pre hump day).
The operator was stupid and didn't know he was stupid. So I would say a stupid test before work would be necessary.
back with nucleal
There have been 2 Interesting nuclear Accidents in germany, one in Greifswald 1975.
And another one in Gundremmingen Block A in 1977.
Do the WIPP, c"mon. It is an interesting "disaster" if not as deadly as others! Truck fire, high level waste packed in Swheat kitty litter, contaminated vents, salt creep!!
Like this comment for a vid on WIPP
Yes. Cover it please!! And thank you for the wonderful vid. It was the perfect watch while doing my morning stretches at 6:30am in Kalifornia.
Thank you!!
"Nothing to see here folks. Move along now! Go back to celebrating!"
your accent along with your mellow tone are nice to listen to. i fall asleep to your compilations.
I agree though I find it a wee bit creepy to fall asleep to tales of grossly accidents lol 😊 he could easily have a second income telling bedtime stories.
Thank you!! I do read my children bed stories they are less deathy though!!
New channel time. Bedtime stories by john
You could talk about Broken Arrows or Empty Quivers, like when we almost nuked North Carolina and made a major chunk of it uninhabitable for decades.
john coming back to his roots with this video! the incident in Rhode Island he covered way back when made me a subscriber
I've been waiting a long time for you to do this one. Thanks mate
Had no idea Argentina did that kind of thing.
Thanks John! Of course we want to know about the Germany incident!!!
Will have to watch in peace later. Looking forward to it.
Also, whew, looks like last week's vid with no BG music was an outlier.
Greetings from sunny Hamburg and have a great weekend, John and everyone!
Side note, this year an I-131 canister was stolen from a delivery van in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The empty box was found in a trash container, but the material itself was missing for days. Luckily, there were no reports of anyone hurt.
That’s always scary!!
Man, at least no one got hurt. That is some scary shit how often this happens.
Dear Plainly Difficult, I would like to recommend another nuclear accident that happened in Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia) at the nuclear power plant of Jaslovske Bohunice. It was the first nuclear power plant in Slovakia back in the day. Let me know if you've seen this one. Have a good one! Cheers, Simon
😉coming soon!
It's good to see John is going back to radiological stuff now and then. It's the main reason I subscribed years ago. So... yes, Germany 1984 please :-)
Interesting, one I haven’t heard much about!
Proves how well it was covered up!
Waiting for mysterious nuclear incidents to start randomly happening around the world, and the only thing people noticed at the time was a smooth British voice calling themselves "John" was narrating the failure cascade.
😂😂
Greetings from Argentina!!!! It's great you made a video about this accident. 😁
Oh sick! John's gone back to his roots!
Would deffo be interested in that video about the German incident.
The wall still stood in 83...Are we talking east or west?
Rated for 1/10 of a Watt. Generated approximately 300MW.
(Granted, it only generated 300MW for approximately .03 seconds, so about 3KWh. In all, it produced the energy it takes to run a typical space heater for two hours.)
As someone from said country...I didnt knew about this.
As an argentinian, i didn't know about this incident.
It looks like there's something new to learn every day!
Not a little weird seeing this open with the toxicology report from the Schoharie limo crash.
Another glowing example of complacency
Yay! Plainly Difficult is covering a nuclear disaster again. Back to roots and all that.
I think there is an inherent problem in nuclear that the people involved spent quite a bit of time telling other people that it is perfectly safe and any dangers are exaggerated. They hence convince themselves and get complacent.
RA2 starts with the same letter as 'Safety Director with a Long-sleeve Green Shirt and Orange Vest,' almost.
1,000,000 SUBS!!! Congrats!!! Rock on!!!
I'm from Argentina, in 1983 I was 10-years-old and live relatively close to Centro Atomico Constituyentes complex, in San Martín district. Me and my family never know about this incident. This is proof of how well the cover-up worked. Everything bad that happened had to be hidden to people. In the later days of PRN, it was a sad period of dark shadow over the country.
For the Bingo Card, I think Time Pressure might be related as well. Doing the reconfiguration on Friday so they could hit the floor running for Monday suggests that they were more motivated by getting it done on time than done right.
Bro really risked his life cause he didn't want to wait for the water to empty.
Getting back to the classics.
Putting this in perspective and since my parents were born 03/04/1970(father) and 09/04/1974(mother) they were 13 and 9 respectively when this occurred. Just wanted to provide some perspective for people unaware of how semi-recent this incident is in the scope of things
Back to ☢️
Most likely there have been a lot more incidents that have been quietly swept under the rug.
Thanking you from a currently nice, but will be hot, plot in southern Missouri, USA.
If the list of disasters is exhausting, maybe it's best to switch gears into the opposite, accidental discoveries, miraculous recoveries, survival stories, close-shaves... that sort of thing.
Even though anything of the sort will probably not be recorded as well as a disaster, after all things that work rarely get the same scrutiny as things that fail. There's also the possibility that extra characterization may be necessary, which isn't the style of the channel.
Nonetheless, I consider it to still be a venue to keep the stories going.
Good shout!
Did you do the plutonium fire in Washington state?
I love your nuclear videos! Yes please do cover it!
I suspect there may be more incidents in the U.S. as nuclear power stations are brought back online to power AI server farms. For example, Three Mile Island and Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station.
Good luck with reviving a nuclear plant decommissioned 10 years ago. Every certified part is past maintenance and storage criteria, original suppliers don't exist anymore, qualified employees retired. Also upgrading late sixties reactor design to today standards is practically impossible. No idea what are regulatory bodies going to require for new license, but it might be not worth of spending on life time left in 50+ years old plant. Building a new power plant on site right next to the old one would make more sense.
I was expecting another case of operator error. Radiation exposure sounds horrible.
Very much so!!
Yes, please cover the other nuclear incident you mentioned in this video.
A nuclear disaster, yahoo! They got me hooked on plainly difficult first hand !
"Sadly, there aren't many more disasters to cover"
Be careful what you say, they may decide to start making more disasters to get on the Plainly Difficult channel :D
Oh a blue flash...never good.
balls
It must be said.
Glowing-balls at that!
balles
I wonder if you cover the A-1 disasters. Gas cooled and heavy water moderated reactor type KS 150. Two serious incidents happened in 1976 and 1977. The first one resulted in two deaths. Not from radiation, but suffocation on the coolant gas, which was CO2, that flooded the corridors after fuel replacement accident during operating the reactor at full power and the men suffocated after reaching an emergency exit door, that was locked. Why was it locked? To prevent theft. The second incident resulted in a partial meltdown of the reactor core, after which the reactor was permanently shut down. The disassembly and cleanup is expected to be completed in 2033. The accident was later rated as INES-4.
Speaking of the rounded off corners analogy, If you aren't familiar with Dr Reason's Swiss Cheese Model check it out
Its so interesting to me that you've covered nearly all mayor accidents. Maybe you could pivot to nuclear development instead. Germany certainly has some strange takes on nuclear with their decommision of a powerplant that could have operated just fine. Nuclear industry in france has also escaped the public's view somewhat.
90% enriched?! Fucking hell I'm surprised they didn't bolt a rocket motor on each rod and have it double as a missile silo.
That is the terrible thing about cutting corners. Because you get away with it, you keep doing it, until you don't.
Thank you for that video. I'd like to see one about the German Incident. I don't remember any from that timeframe, so I'm curious on what you find.
If you're planning on doing a dark side of science video, may I suggest Harris Isbell's drug experiments? It's not as dark as some others, but it does involve questionable consent(he mostly experimented on prisoners) and some other fun stuff like keeping subjects on daily doses of LSD for over two months.
Imagine if this guy would be like those TH-camrs or mainly TickTockers who always need to up their contents and start to make nuclear disasters to have more content to make...
6:07: _"Pelotas!"_
1:47 Argentina in the late 1950s and early 1960s ...
So there were *definitely* people with German accents involved, weren't there?
Yes probably
What do the flags in the top corner actually mean?
Create a video about smelting cesium capsule in Electrostal, near Moscow in 2013
Thanks for the suggestion
BABE!! Take your lunch break cause Plainly Difficult just dropped a NUCLEAR EPISODE!
What, no one shouting the Argentinian equivalent of balls?
I'm a bit confused by the U.S. Department of Transportation toxicology report on a car accident. The guy was critically wasted but not by radiation. 😁
Being an infant Government is a pain because you can't allow bad things to happen and if they do you sweep it under the rug. If not your people might loose faith and turn you into Dutch style BBQ.
Hi there John
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@PlainlyDifficult can we do a breakdown of the fatal dose suffered by daurius Jedburgh?
I can look into it!! Thanks for the suggestion!
I just looked it up isnt Darius a fictional character?
J in Spanish is pronounced as an H. Sounds like Hooon-ta.
Wait a minute... Even the worker had not removed the moderator, the pure working near full rods, without water in the reactor is deadly anyway, so far as I know. In a TV show who covers up physics, an physician explained, that simply.
standing in front of an new fuel rod will kill you within minutes. We're using robots for such things.
May be I got something wrong in this vid. 😮😮
Regarding the German accident: If you need a German to English translator, I'd be happy to help! East or West Germany, if I may ask?
I believe it was west eastern block wouldn’t give up on nuclear that easily
@@PlainlyDifficult And, as far as I recall, they only had one reactor, with the second never finished as the reunion of both kind of stopped any plans to. I'll look into it, we had about eight accidents/incidents in the west last I checked, so I'll see what I can find!
Also, you're the one who got me interested in disasters, especially nuclear ones, in the first place, so thank you!
@@PlainlyDifficult Do you mean the incident where they accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb at the RAF Base Brüggen?
I'm not so knowledgeable about the nuclear stuff. Your explanations usually make it understandable. I'm trying to understand what actually caused the issue here.
He left enough water that would have taken hours to evacuate by pump. Then an incident happens in milliseconds, which seems just shy of one second of time. Then you mentioned the remaining water burned off. It burned off that quickly? all the water? in less than a second?
What actually initiated the reactor reacting? He was taking out the rods. so that must have been okay or he wouldn't have done it. He intended to take out even more water.So that must have been okay, or he wouldn't have done it. Would taking out all the water have caused it not to happen? Did laying those two rods next to each other cause it to happen?
I'm sorry. Its just not clear to me.I don't know enough about this stuff.
The sole death also wasn’t wearing PPE
Doubt that it would've helped much!
I wonder how Argentina was able to acquire 90% HEU. Mail order from the US?
Goddamnit Senor Hilter.
1984 was a bad year for environmental disasters, it seems...
Very bad
Yes
You sound waaaaaay different than the last nuclear video. What's going on?
Patience mr plainly D, Putìn is working on your lack of nuclar incidents... sooooo many ways his war could cause damage to nukeular facilities.
I agree!!
so... what was the actual "meltdown" lm confused
Oh, nuclear tradition again
Evaluation at work.
Get the original files and go in depth in more aspects. People watch five hours essays on anything. Sonichu saga is proof.
6:01 Shouldn’t the glow be blue?
The English language strikes again! The J in junta has more of an H sound to it.
Sounds like "hu" in humid or human, and not a soft "h" like in hunt or hunger.
I was more worried about Urainium, read and written.
Personally, I pronounce it with a P, which reflects how I feel about those governments :)
@@IridiumRedTheOrigina
a “C” would be better.
haha, thats not a nife!
Has china ever had any accidents?
Each of your videos is a story that touches the deepest feelings and emotions. Thank you for your sincerity and talent!🍅💟⚽️
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Are those your goats?
Wait a minute, did he just pronounce junta (hoonte) with a J? 😅
☢? : 😁
Why is it always in May?!?
Muclear may