I work at the Idaho national lab, I can tell you nowadays there is extremely strict regulations on personal exposure and environmental impact. Any increase in background is probably from what went on when they were first experimenting at the site back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s where is was basically the Wild West of the nuclear age. Great videos, I really enjoy them!
I graduated in nuclear waste classification in the 1990s, we had very strict regulations. Was interesting work, developing new ways to quantify the amounts of radioactive materials in waste matter (industrial and medical waste mostly for us) to increase accuracy.
the gov can't even regulate the intensity of headlights on cars, only a fool would believe they've used their brains in operating these facilities, all they do is create a big radioactive mess
I made my comment before I read yours. And yes, they really did some incredibly dangerous stuff back in the days. Most people do not realize how much nuclear research goes on out there in Idaho where almost no one lives. But the water that flows under the ancient lava fields buried underground goes right under this site and they had no clue what they were doing to that water source. I am still amazed at how long it takes the water to flow down to the Snake River and now much of it has been diverted to potato and other agricultural use. I just hope that the natural filtering of earth keeps the contaminants from reaching the agricultural fields in Idaho. I never knew how beautiful Idaho was until I visited. Something almost everyone on the East Coast should see once in their life. I also had no idea of the vast and insane nuclear experiments performed in this area.
I grew up near Savannah River Site near Augusta,GA and now live in Vancouver, WA. I did the Hanford B reactor tour last summer and have the Los Alamos area, EBR-1, and the Nevada Test site on my want to visit list. Great video.
I always find those windows a little disturbing. I get a weird antiseptic feeling from the monochromatic yellow color of everything behind such windows.
I checked my old high school and they still have leaded glass commonly used and they are over 12 years old, little bit chipped but not shattered. It's amazing that the most changes in history are the most competitive on other nations.
The most amazing part of the whole thing is how absolutely minuscule it is! How the hell did they fit all this in a ~100ft cube?? I measured it on Google maps. The reactor itself, the hot cells, the fuel storage, the NaK handling, the spent fuel storage, the turbine hall, the ZPR!! Is this place like a Tardis and 10 times bigger on the inside than on the outside?? I work at a mid size fusion research facility and the entire EBR1 building could literally fit in our lobby and cafeteria area...and it's not a big lobby!
@@jacobkudrowich the coolant. Nuclei of K and Na are very large compared to neutrons so collisions are highly elastic and the prompt fission neutrons don't thermalize (aren't moderated) and so can go on to induce fast fission in more 235 in the core.
@@Muonium1 thanks ! That's incredible, so it works as both a thermal coolant and fission "coolant" or is it purely a neutron moderator? I literally can't imagine a substance that is worse to handle than that! Radioactive explosive liquid Alkali metals.
@@jacobkudrowich there is no moderator at all. the neutrons are not thermalized in a breeder. it only serves as coolant to the core and heat transfer medium to the Rankine cycle generator.
My favorite part of this entire video was the names written on the wall. I wish people did stuff like this more. As a machinist I often stamp an identifier on the parts I'm most proud of.
Nice, I have signed and put a forever phone number in the servers I have built over the years. Every now and then I get a random call from someone trying my number so I can tell them how the network was wired or come in and service things myself. I always felt I should stand behind my work. 😃
My father got a ton of radiation that later affected his health working there as a college intern after the clean up of the nuclear accident there. There was a MUCH bigger mess there than it was reported.
I'm very sorry for what happened to your Father. Am I surprised it was underreported? NO. Truthful reporting of incidents that kill humans. Long or short term doesn't exist. Look over the the True "all cause" death statistics for the last 2 ½ years and you will see the Truth. The evil psychopathic traitorous organized criminals (PTOCs) do not careabout other people at all. We are not in their club. As George Carlin said many years ago. They do not care about us at all, at all, at all, at all. “But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” George Carlin
@@emerytaylor9734 I need to revist the paperwork as years later it lead to his death, if I remember correctly it was at SL-1 as he was a grad student hired to clean up the mess as they brought in students from West Coast nuclear college programs.
I actually live about an hour and a half away from there, visit every year or 2. What has been interesting to me, is watching more and more areas of the building be opened to the public. When I first visited there as a kid, all you were able to see was the main open part of the building, the hot cells, control room and the steam/generator room. They now have many more viewing areas, as you’ve seen. I also have always found the exhibit on EBR-2 there very interesting, because my father actually worked there for a short time.
I was nine months old when the reactor had its meltdown. During my career as a machinist I made a lot of replacement parts for the CANDU reactors. The precision involved was extremely tight.
There's something kind of magic about the EBR1 museum section, I've read a lot about the reactor program but this walk through tour was a delight to see
My sister's husband living in Idaho Falls was an engineer at the site many years ago..I'm 78 years and the youngest of my siblings..only one left. In your other site about mines I communicated my dad mined urananium in the early fifties near Moab. I'm still fascinated with mining and the desert..retired to Las Vegas near Red Rock.
I was part of the crew that helped store EBR1, and the two nuclear jet engines. Also my dad used to be head of safety out there and he wrote the nuclear safety program that was adopted I can't remember if it was the '80s or the '90s. He also served on the submarine whose mast is sitting outside of Arco Idaho.🥃🍻🥓🇺🇸
@@bobl78 I stopped working there in 06'ish. The last place they had them when I worked there was right outside of EBR-1 to the southeast of the building. But I haven't been out there in a while as I moved to Washington in 08.
This was the most fascinating video you have done so far Mr Drew - I was absolutely glued to the screen from start to finish! Thanks for taking such good shots of the tour information boards, I have never paused so many times in my life 😆
On behalf of your foreign viewers interested in nuclear energy, many thanks for the tour. This is certainly a place I would like to visit, weird tourism compared to regular "standards". Regards from France.
We “accidentally” ended up there when we made one of my wife’s detours, when crossing USA. The area (the states around that area) are in many other cases interesting, geologically, geographically and historically. But the reactor was a huge surprise.😊
Wow.. what an interesting place. I'm so glad they made it into a museum open to the public. Thanks for Radiacode for sponsoring the video. The differences in readings between the two meters in CPM was interesting.
Radeye is a Geiger-Muller technology, the Radiacode is not, it is Scintillation. GM uses electrical impulses whereas Scintillation uses light impulses on a scintillating material. It is comparing apples to oranges. Scintillation in fact has very accurate ultra low energy beta detection whilst the GM pancake here does not. The plastic on the Radiacode is unfortunately what prevents low electron volt betas from being received adequately and as such is obviously not suited for lab use.
@@RadioactiveDrew You and I will disagree intensely on some issues. I have some very strong anti-nuclear positions. But I am extremely well educated and experienced on this topic. I totally support the work you do with your channel. The video content is stunning. Amazing.
@@RadioactiveDrew Totally agree. There are stark realities involved in this topic. Right now, as I type, they are salvaging WW2 memorial wrecks in the Java Sea for pre-nuclear steel.
Hearing you muse about the lack of adoption of fast reactors in the US - in my nuclear engineering degree we had a guest lecture from Tony Judd, head of the Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor here in the UK. He had a wealth of stories about the operational history of PFR and why the UK (just like France) didn't adopt fast reactors as part of our fleet. Big tangle of political, technical, economic and environmental issues got in the way of a potentially really advantageous nuclear fleet concept. It's amazing to see the DNA of that reactor on display here, great video.
Love the TÜV Süd Badge on one of the instruments (presumably the radiation monitor) at 00:35 Once again demonstrates how well regarded German safety testing is all over the world.
Drew, thank you for another awesome video!!! The EBR1 is on my bucket list of places to visit but thank you for visiting and making a map with that new piece of kit you have. Radiacode was wise to sponsor this video. Will be buying the 102 from them. You da man!!!!
Nice video and good info. I was a navy nuclear instructor and lived in Arco, the first city lighted by atomic power when EBR1 was tied to the grid by Utah Power and Light. I was often asked to help give tours of EBR1 to visiting nuclear professionals on my days off from job teaching navy students at the enterprise prototype. Thank you for your video.
What a great tour of EBR-1 as it stands today. I've seen a lot of old footage of this remarkable historical site, but seeing it as it is now was a real treat!
We really need more nuclear in our power mix. It would have been nice to have been able to avoid the irrational fear that caused nuclear power to fall out of favor. So many more people die on the altar of fossil fuel plants when the whole time we have had a viable alternative. Environmentalists only want to save the planet if we do it their way; sounds to me like if they don't get their way, screw the planet.
Mineral oil has an index of refraction almost identical to glass. Because of this property, it was there to prevent refraction losses at the boundaries between the different panes.
I live in France and have been working in the nuclear industry for year. This was fascinating ! Thank you for showing these sites, I'd love to go visit them one of these days !
I grew up North of the INL, I've been there a million times on school trips and for fun with the family. It's pretty nifty. They employ a heap of people in SE Idaho.
Your slight increase is about half of what I normally see here which is 10-15 uSv / Hr, so if you're only seeing 6 that is low, and I'm about 13 miles north of Seattle, only reactor that has ever been nearby is a small research reactor at the U-of-W used to make medical isotopes.
I've been told that breeder/spent fuel reactors were considered diplomatically problematic due to proliferation. Spent fuel reactors will likely fill out that gap in the near future as those concerns are not as pressing anymore.
Gotta go see the B Reactor. Just visited myself. Used my gamma spectrometer to get a solid reading on Cesium 137 as well. The tour there is absolutely fascinating.
Cool video, thank you very much. We've been visiting EBR1 in 2012 (we came all the way from Switzerland) and it was a very impressive experience. The place has not changed much in those 10+ years since. Dug the machinery out in the parking lot, nice to see they're still there.
I work at ANL. The hot cell windows on our 1960's era cells were leaded glass and zirconium bromide liquid in between. Was it mineral oil to shield neutrons from fresh fuel ?
I've been there and toured that entire lab and site. Can be done if you make the arrangements, Drew! In Ketchum there is a nuclear watchdog group that takes tours out there every year! They have a museum and "first reactor" site!
fascinating walk round Drew thankyou. surprising the site is still more or less intact when you think of how many others historic sites are no more than a sign and a fence now!
Fascinating, we must have missed each other by minutes. I was there last Friday, and I think that big RV was in the same spot in the lot near the nuclear jet engines. Was an interesting time, the tour was good and worth the time. I was up teaching a class north of there. Also, about 17 miles away is the city of Arco, don't forget to stop by Pickles and try an Atomic Burger. The whole reactor, and stuff in Arco had a really strong Fallout vibe, like from a game they should have made but never did. Funny thing, for some reason people started asking me questions, I kinda went into a little detail and then recommended they check out your channel.
I was there last Thursday…missed each other by a day. The town of Arco is pretty cool. I’ve only passed through it a couple times. I need to give it a good walk thru next time I’m down there. Thanks for recommending the channel.
Sorry to butt in, but I just had to remark on the amusing fact that both of you are named Drew and could not be at the same place and same time together...
Another great video thanks. I think that the problem with breader reactors was the use of NaK. The special handling that NaK required increased the engineering costs. The whole reason for breader reactors was at the time there were fears that there could be a future scarcity in available Urainium (which didn't happen).
@@RadioactiveDrew Even in case o future shortage of uranium, there is recent development on LFTRs (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) being able to breed fissile U-233 from non-fissile Th-233. Taking advantage of thorium fuel cycle also allows us to utilize fertile U-238 to make more fuel. There are tons of U-238 and thorium is about four times more abundant than uranium (in the Earth crust).
Fascinating! I could spend there hours reading all the signs. I love this sort of metalic, industrial smell. New facilities dont smell like this anymore. It's like comparing a steam locomotive to a new, modern electric tram.
My brood hated going to sites like these when we were of the travelling ages. I would read every sign, look at every display, hell, I would spend hours just looking at the doo-dads and what not. Nope, they ran through the doors, looked for games to play, found the snack bar and the souvenir shop, and were back at the truck before I could even get started. Maybe if I ever retire I'll strike out on my own revisit the best of them. Travel safe friend.
My grandfather worked out there. He moved from California to Idaho to work at the "site" for a $0.10 an hour raise. My grandfather bought a a suplus truck from the site where the bed was lined with weld sheets of stainless steel. It was used to transport contaminated material. So, naturally the used it as a family vehicle back home. 😅 Different times. When my father was an adult, he worked at some of the nuclear research facilities as a Janitor. He would have to walk through those radiation detectors and occasionally one would go off. If it did, youd have to strip down, get cleaned and would be sent home in paper clothes. I believe he said that happened to him once and he wasnt too keen on that happening again. I believe he left after that.
@RadioactiveDrew I just called up my father to confirm the story. I heard it back when I was a kid. Apparently, I was mistaken on a couple details. He worked at the Naval Reactor Facility not too far from EBR-1. He said when you left you had to wand over yourself with a "frisker" and if it detected elevated levels of Radon you'd have to change out, but it never happened to him. I think that was my childhood imagination running wild. He quit working there because the NRF didn't pay too well, and American Potato was paying more at the time. Commute time was less too.
I got a Radiacode 102 a couple of weeks ago, the capabilities of the thing for how much it costs are incredible. I never thought I'd be able to do real time gamma spectroscopy literally anywhere for about the price of taking the family out to dinner at a decent restaurant. They're perfectly happy with pizza, I'm sure.
Wow. Amazing tour. Thanks for sharing! When I was young I was lucky enough to take a detailed tour of two major nuclear facilities... ...One was the Shoreham Nuclean Generating Station in New York. ...Another was Union Carbides 5mw research reactor in upstate NY (pharmaceuticals / nuclear medicine). These reactors were in the scammed mode, but there were canisters of Cobalt-60 stored under the deep water of the "swimming pool" reactor as it was called at Union Carbide. Eerie blue glow from Cerenkov effect and all. Incredible.
This was absolutely captivating. I have been aware of this museum for a long time. It now a high priority on my list of places to visit. Super interesting. Atomic power is one of the wonders of the world... Best
Yore videos are awesome you have inspierd me and my brother to get a giger counter and it is pretty cool.we have found some pretty radioactive things in some antique shops. Keep up the hard work!
Nice...I hope so. As cool as I think it is to work at a place like a National Lab, I love what I do. Hopefully I can make a couple videos with INL or LANL in the future.
I visited this place many times as a kid. I remember you used to be able to go up to the hot cell and play with those manipulator arms and stack the blocks inside. Very cool video!
@@RadioactiveDrewhi Drew! I’m one of the tour guides out here and one of you followers told me you made this video I enjoyed watching it! I also wish we could still play with the manipulator arms but because of how expensive and difficult they are to fix we don’t have the time or budget for it. But they are super cool we used to have one set up with just the arms people could mess with but that was taken out last summer
I remember that setup. I’ve never seen it working but now it’s replaced by that theater. Would be cool to have a manipulator setup somewhere in that area.
Radeye b20 costs as much as 3,000 usd, so if your looking to carry this for fun, you better have deep pockets and nothing better to spend it on. The 102 is much more affordable at around 250 euros.
I am an aspiring engineer, I dropped out of university but am definitely going to return to study after some more time working rudimentary jobs. I have a soft spot in my heart for all things chemistry and nuclear science and it's amazing to learn about the experiments that occurred in the beginning of the nuclear age. Those jet engines were something else, especially just to see them sitting there in the parking lot! Excellent video, reminds me and makes me hopeful about what I want to spend my life contributing to. edit Also hilarious that out of everything to take away from this video, people want to focus on how to pronounce words. Makes me wonder if they have to have a meltdown about whether someone says Iron: I-RON or I-ERN
I never knew the old timey hot boxes were filled with mineral oil, i always assumed they were just really thick glass or multi layered, also I do own an anton geiger counter, im going to assume its the same company that made that full body scanner, also i wonder how big those geiger tubes were that were the site dectors, they looked massive
Radiation effects on wildlife are actually minimal. Their lifespans are too short for most of the radiation effects to bother them. This is something I have researched in depth relating to the radiation effects on wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. What was more concerning to me was the Russian invasion there, there were real time reports on Telegram and Twitter of Russian soldiers breaking into a nuclear research laboratory, breaking containers of highly radioactive samples, contaminating themselves, their vehicles, and their bunks.
A bunch of the terrorists were taken away from the area having large blisters on their skin, that's what a local reported. And they took away a lot of equipment, fortunately mostly things they were personally interested in, like PC graphics cards and water kettles, so a lot of scientific equipment remained there, yet vandalised in many cases. So immensely irresponsible and stupid.
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That's an awesome price on the 102. 100% buying one thanks to seeing you use their detectors. Been looking for a casually priced unit but hard to tell what's decent or junk
I wonder if mounting a detector to a drone to reach areas that are hard to get to, or maybe off limits, would be practical or allowed. 🤔 Thanks for taking us along for the ride. Cheers.
Super cool. I especially like how you take nice, clear footage of the infographics so that we can pause and read them. Speaking of those signs, wouldn't a breeder type reactor produce some sort of Plutonium isotope(s)? That sounds like a pretty big incentive to *not* have too many of those out in the world - with nuclear weapon proliferation being a big concern. I noticed that there was a certain change of tone in your voice when you were showing that - so maybe it was implied, Idk... sometimes I can be a bit dense when trying to figure stuff like that out. Anyway.. thanks again for the excellent video.
My father-in-law who worked on an early fusion reactor (a linear predecessor of the tokamac) in California and thermonuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site still pronounces it "nuke-YA-ler".
What do you think about the radio code 102? I've had the 101 for about a year now I don't really see any need to buy the 102 unless it's got upgraded features. Price seems darn near $300 on quick online conversion. Are they offering them through Amazon or anything local? They let me break up the cost of my first one over four payments which made it super easy to afford, then the Ukraine situation started a week after I paid, and I was afraid I'd lost my money, but it came none the less
Wow Drew, this brings back memories. My family and I toured Idaho, and the most impressive place was the Craters of the Moon National Monument. If you came all the way out there and did not visit, you must go back and check it out. After that excellent park, I dragged my family to this site the next day after staying in Arco (Pickle's Place is a must-stop for great burgers btw). I did not have a counter, but it was a really great experience. Many people do not know how much nuclear experimentation was performed in Idaho. Pretty poor location given the Great Lost River runs right near here and the contamination is likely on its way to the potato fields downstream. But back then, they had very little idea about what radiation was going to do. I know they are still doing nuclear stuff out there, but hopefully with more respect for the environment. Back in the day, they just blew stuff up to see what it would do. I will clarify, they did not intentionally blow stuff up at this site, but they did at other sites in this research facility. A great source for more information is www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-Mountains/dp/1605986801
Thanks for the video. I was at the site back in the early 70's at the Enterprise (A1W) power plant prototype. There were some 40+ operating reactors out there the at the time. I might not have called it "the Wild West of the Nuclear Age" to quote Mitch VanDomelen (below), but there was certainly a lot going on out there. A great many projects were going on testing different scenarios and accident sequences. Some of those tests were "test to destruction" so yes - So I guess they could be described as wild.
@@RadioactiveDrew Please don't misunderstand me. I did not mean that the tests were dangerous or unsafe. The safety systems were often more extensive and expensive than the actual test rig. I meant "wild" in the engineering sense because of all the ingenuity and imagination that went into designing these test rigs to produce reliable results while NOT endangering the people on or off the site.
Cool video! I was there last week! I currently work at ORNL and hope to get out to INL soon. It is interesting to see the difference between my world of accelerators and the radiation with them vs the reactors.
Thanks for taking me along with you I live an hour away from ORNL and have taken the in that place it's where I learned about the place you were at I've been wanting to go and see this place your video makes me want to even more now
Very cool video. So interesting to see this stuff. Thankfully it wasn’t destroyed in haste like so many projects that seemed to be of no use when completed. Thanks for posting.
@RadioactiveDrew or anybody in internet-land reading this... I'm about to drive from Portland to Denver, and I want to take some time to stop and see some cool things. I'll definitely stop at EBR-1, any other recommendations? Nuclear history, air/space/science museums, big science/astronomy, etc. Thanks!
This is where a drone would be very fun. Although stirring up that dust might be a bad idea. I don't know if I'd be hanging out there without a dust mask.
Cool! On our first cross_country tour, we made a stop at EBR-1, had a lunch there and got it on photo even, me mrs K, our lunch and the two reactors in the background. It’s very good you address the issue with radioactive radiation as unlike other stuff that are out there to kill us, radiation is a silent killer.
Driving away from the Yellowstone area I could not imagine something more fascinating than Hebgen Lake and the Geology of that area and earthquake event history. EBR-1? What is an EBR-1? Let's check it out. WOW. Exactly! (this video's title here)! EBR-1 is my current screen saver. The little white "hut" has been cleaned up. It used to be plastered with danger signs, even a "Warning! Hunta virus" warning sign and a pad lock half falling off the ratchety door. Thanks so much for this video and gorgeous time lapse clips.
Maybe use a drone with a detector to explore the fenced off area? SCRAM = Safety Control Rod Axe Man. This is one of the reactors that had an axe man to chop the rope that held the control rods to snuff a runaway reactor.
That was awesome! I was just in Arco last week staying at an RV park there. I don't research the areas that I go to at all, but I saw a building there with it proudly claiming to be the first city to be powered by atomic energy. When I was leading, I passed by the signage and saw that EBR-1 was there. Unfortunately, I had no time to stop and see it. I must have also missed your video on it or I would have put in some effort to make time, but I know I'll be going back to the area again the future. It's on my list now for sure!
Well I’m glad it’s on your radar now. It’s a very cool place to check out…when it’s open. I think the building is closed after Labor Day. But you can always visit the nuclear jet engines.
After watching a few of your videos I decided to get a RadiaCode, at least look for one. The 101s are not available anymore & they were made in Russia (as you've stated previously). Only the 102s can be purchased now & they're manufactured in Cyprus (just east of Greece). Current price is 259 euros + 25 for Cyprus Post totaling 284 euros, which converts to a little over 300 usd. The package tracked only 4 days, after processing, so got it in about a week. Haven't tried it yet. Just got it charged. There isn't a manual that I could find for the 102 so am reading the manual for the 101. They appear the same, maybe the only difference is 101 from Russia and 102 from Cyprus. I still have to attach it via USB to the computer so it can register itself & check for firmware updates. My usage hopefully won't be as intense as yours, but it's an interesting little device. Thanks for your videos.
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I work at the Idaho national lab, I can tell you nowadays there is extremely strict regulations on personal exposure and environmental impact. Any increase in background is probably from what went on when they were first experimenting at the site back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s where is was basically the Wild West of the nuclear age. Great videos, I really enjoy them!
Thanks. Glad you like the videos. I would like to do a video about the INL ones of these days.
I graduated in nuclear waste classification in the 1990s, we had very strict regulations.
Was interesting work, developing new ways to quantify the amounts of radioactive materials in waste matter (industrial and medical waste mostly for us) to increase accuracy.
the gov can't even regulate the intensity of headlights on cars, only a fool would believe they've used their brains in operating these facilities, all they do is create a big radioactive mess
I made my comment before I read yours. And yes, they really did some incredibly dangerous stuff back in the days. Most people do not realize how much nuclear research goes on out there in Idaho where almost no one lives. But the water that flows under the ancient lava fields buried underground goes right under this site and they had no clue what they were doing to that water source. I am still amazed at how long it takes the water to flow down to the Snake River and now much of it has been diverted to potato and other agricultural use. I just hope that the natural filtering of earth keeps the contaminants from reaching the agricultural fields in Idaho.
I never knew how beautiful Idaho was until I visited. Something almost everyone on the East Coast should see once in their life. I also had no idea of the vast and insane nuclear experiments performed in this area.
Do they talk about sl-1 at all?
The Leaded glass windows were fascinatingly impressive
They have a very weird optical effect when you look through them.
I grew up near Savannah River Site near Augusta,GA and now live in Vancouver, WA. I did the Hanford B reactor tour last summer and have the Los Alamos area, EBR-1, and the Nevada Test site on my want to visit list. Great video.
I always find those windows a little disturbing. I get a weird antiseptic feeling from the monochromatic yellow color of everything behind such windows.
and the mineral oil trick
I checked my old high school and they still have leaded glass commonly used and they are over 12 years old, little bit chipped but not shattered. It's amazing that the most changes in history are the most competitive on other nations.
The most amazing part of the whole thing is how absolutely minuscule it is! How the hell did they fit all this in a ~100ft cube?? I measured it on Google maps. The reactor itself, the hot cells, the fuel storage, the NaK handling, the spent fuel storage, the turbine hall, the ZPR!! Is this place like a Tardis and 10 times bigger on the inside than on the outside?? I work at a mid size fusion research facility and the entire EBR1 building could literally fit in our lobby and cafeteria area...and it's not a big lobby!
Great comment!
NaK handling? What the heck did they use NaK for in this reactors ? Very interesting
@@jacobkudrowich the coolant. Nuclei of K and Na are very large compared to neutrons so collisions are highly elastic and the prompt fission neutrons don't thermalize (aren't moderated) and so can go on to induce fast fission in more 235 in the core.
@@Muonium1 thanks ! That's incredible, so it works as both a thermal coolant and fission "coolant" or is it purely a neutron moderator?
I literally can't imagine a substance that is worse to handle than that! Radioactive explosive liquid Alkali metals.
@@jacobkudrowich there is no moderator at all. the neutrons are not thermalized in a breeder. it only serves as coolant to the core and heat transfer medium to the Rankine cycle generator.
My favorite part of this entire video was the names written on the wall. I wish people did stuff like this more. As a machinist I often stamp an identifier on the parts I'm most proud of.
I always like seeing a makers mark on handmade items. Great way to track the history of items and people.
Nice, I have signed and put a forever phone number in the servers I have built over the years. Every now and then I get a random call from someone trying my number so I can tell them how the network was wired or come in and service things myself. I always felt I should stand behind my work. 😃
@@hicknopunk Yes! Whenever I'm deep inside a machine I like to leave labels like that too. Workman like conduct!
My father got a ton of radiation that later affected his health working there as a college intern after the clean up of the nuclear accident there. There was a MUCH bigger mess there than it was reported.
I'm very sorry for what happened to your Father.
Am I surprised it was underreported? NO.
Truthful reporting of incidents that kill humans. Long or short term doesn't exist.
Look over the the True "all cause" death statistics for the last 2 ½ years and you will see the Truth.
The evil psychopathic traitorous organized criminals (PTOCs) do not careabout other people at all.
We are not in their club. As George Carlin said many years ago.
They do not care about us at all, at all, at all, at all.
“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
George Carlin
Was that at EBR-I or at the INL property
@@emerytaylor9734 I need to revist the paperwork as years later it lead to his death, if I remember correctly it was at SL-1 as he was a grad student hired to clean up the mess as they brought in students from West Coast nuclear college programs.
Has any accident been properly reported up front?
@@oatlordyes , sl-1 is a very well known reactor and had a very well known criticality event
I actually live about an hour and a half away from there, visit every year or 2. What has been interesting to me, is watching more and more areas of the building be opened to the public. When I first visited there as a kid, all you were able to see was the main open part of the building, the hot cells, control room and the steam/generator room. They now have many more viewing areas, as you’ve seen. I also have always found the exhibit on EBR-2 there very interesting, because my father actually worked there for a short time.
Great comment!
I was nine months old when the reactor had its meltdown.
During my career as a machinist I made a lot of replacement parts for the CANDU reactors. The precision involved was extremely tight.
There's something kind of magic about the EBR1 museum section, I've read a lot about the reactor program but this walk through tour was a delight to see
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully one day you can see it for yourself.
My sister's husband living in Idaho Falls was an engineer at the site many years ago..I'm 78 years and the youngest of my siblings..only one left.
In your other site about mines I communicated my dad mined urananium in the early fifties near Moab.
I'm still fascinated with mining and the desert..retired to Las Vegas near Red Rock.
I was part of the crew that helped store EBR1, and the two nuclear jet engines. Also my dad used to be head of safety out there and he wrote the nuclear safety program that was adopted I can't remember if it was the '80s or the '90s. He also served on the submarine whose mast is sitting outside of Arco Idaho.🥃🍻🥓🇺🇸
and what did you do to store them ?
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I stopped working there in 06'ish. The last place they had them when I worked there was right outside of EBR-1 to the southeast of the building. But I haven't been out there in a while as I moved to Washington in 08.
This was the most fascinating video you have done so far Mr Drew - I was absolutely glued to the screen from start to finish!
Thanks for taking such good shots of the tour information boards, I have never paused so many times in my life 😆
Glad you enjoyed it.
On behalf of your foreign viewers interested in nuclear energy, many thanks for the tour. This is certainly a place I would like to visit, weird tourism compared to regular "standards". Regards from France.
We “accidentally” ended up there when we made one of my wife’s detours, when crossing USA. The area (the states around that area) are in many other cases interesting, geologically, geographically and historically. But the reactor was a huge surprise.😊
Wow.. what an interesting place. I'm so glad they made it into a museum open to the public. Thanks for Radiacode for sponsoring the video. The differences in readings between the two meters in CPM was interesting.
Glad you liked the video.
Radeye is a Geiger-Muller technology, the Radiacode is not, it is Scintillation. GM uses electrical impulses whereas Scintillation uses light impulses on a scintillating material. It is comparing apples to oranges.
Scintillation in fact has very accurate ultra low energy beta detection whilst the GM pancake here does not.
The plastic on the Radiacode is unfortunately what prevents low electron volt betas from being received adequately and as such is obviously not suited for lab use.
Love this content. The videography and music background are incredible. You have a first class sponsor, well earned.
Thanks...glad you enjoyed it.
@@RadioactiveDrew You and I will disagree intensely on some issues. I have some very strong anti-nuclear positions. But I am extremely well educated and experienced on this topic. I totally support the work you do with your channel. The video content is stunning. Amazing.
@@rtqii nothing wrong with have a difference of opinion on subjects...as long as we can talk about them.
@@RadioactiveDrew Totally agree. There are stark realities involved in this topic. Right now, as I type, they are salvaging WW2 memorial wrecks in the Java Sea for pre-nuclear steel.
@@RadioactiveDrew did you see the new radiacode 102?
Hearing you muse about the lack of adoption of fast reactors in the US - in my nuclear engineering degree we had a guest lecture from Tony Judd, head of the Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor here in the UK. He had a wealth of stories about the operational history of PFR and why the UK (just like France) didn't adopt fast reactors as part of our fleet. Big tangle of political, technical, economic and environmental issues got in the way of a potentially really advantageous nuclear fleet concept. It's amazing to see the DNA of that reactor on display here, great video.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Love the TÜV Süd Badge on one of the instruments (presumably the radiation monitor) at 00:35
Once again demonstrates how well regarded German safety testing is all over the world.
Drew, thank you for another awesome video!!! The EBR1 is on my bucket list of places to visit but thank you for visiting and making a map with that new piece of kit you have. Radiacode was wise to sponsor this video. Will be buying the 102 from them. You da man!!!!
Nice video and good info. I was a navy nuclear instructor and lived in Arco, the first city lighted by atomic power when EBR1 was tied to the grid by Utah Power and Light. I was often asked to help give tours of EBR1 to visiting nuclear professionals on my days off from job teaching navy students at the enterprise prototype. Thank you for your video.
I thought it was Borax III that powered Arco
I find it so cool this facility is now a museum.
Thanks for showing it to us
No problem...glad you enjoyed it.
Great video, again. I had no idea that EBR-1 still existed, even as a museum. Definitely, the place has a bit of a reputation.
I grew up in Arco, the closest city to EBR-1. Arco was the first city in the world to be lit by atomic power.
What a great tour of EBR-1 as it stands today. I've seen a lot of old footage of this remarkable historical site, but seeing it as it is now was a real treat!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Breeders might be the future (if there is to be a future).
I think it's awesome that they set up a self-guided tour and that they allow that.
We really need more nuclear in our power mix. It would have been nice to have been able to avoid the irrational fear that caused nuclear power to fall out of favor. So many more people die on the altar of fossil fuel plants when the whole time we have had a viable alternative. Environmentalists only want to save the planet if we do it their way; sounds to me like if they don't get their way, screw the planet.
For some reason, I am also completely fascinated by these places and this type of content. Appreciate you doing these videos sir 👊🏼
I'm so glad people enjoy these videos...I enjoy making them.
Mineral oil has an index of refraction almost identical to glass. Because of this property, it was there to prevent refraction losses at the boundaries between the different panes.
It’s amazing how well it works.
I live in France and have been working in the nuclear industry for year. This was fascinating !
Thank you for showing these sites, I'd love to go visit them one of these days !
I hope one day you can visit these sites.
I grew up North of the INL, I've been there a million times on school trips and for fun with the family. It's pretty nifty. They employ a heap of people in SE Idaho.
Your slight increase is about half of what I normally see here which is 10-15 uSv / Hr, so if you're only seeing 6 that is low, and I'm about 13 miles north of Seattle, only reactor that has ever been nearby is a small research reactor at the U-of-W used to make medical isotopes.
Fantastic vid.
Never seen a site quite like this before.
Shows just how much money was being poured into nuclear research back then.
Thanks, Drew.
I've been told that breeder/spent fuel reactors were considered diplomatically problematic due to proliferation. Spent fuel reactors will likely fill out that gap in the near future as those concerns are not as pressing anymore.
Gotta go see the B Reactor. Just visited myself. Used my gamma spectrometer to get a solid reading on Cesium 137 as well. The tour there is absolutely fascinating.
Cool video, thank you very much. We've been visiting EBR1 in 2012 (we came all the way from Switzerland) and it was a very impressive experience. The place has not changed much in those 10+ years since. Dug the machinery out in the parking lot, nice to see they're still there.
Glad you liked the video. It’s a cool place to visit for sure. I always enjoy visiting the place. It’s a 3-4 hour drive for me to visit.
I work at ANL. The hot cell windows on our 1960's era cells were leaded glass and zirconium bromide liquid in between. Was it mineral oil to shield neutrons from fresh fuel ?
Maybe that’s the reason for it. Seems like a big reason for the mineral oil was for optical clarity with all that glass.
A nuclear jet engine? What could possibly go wrong?
I got my Radiacode 102, it's pretty awesome. You can actually do a lot with it without using the app which I really appreciate.
I've been there and toured that entire lab and site. Can be done if you make the arrangements, Drew! In Ketchum there is a nuclear watchdog group that takes tours out there every year! They have a museum and "first reactor" site!
fascinating walk round Drew thankyou. surprising the site is still more or less intact when you think of how many others historic sites are no more than a sign and a fence now!
It was in great shape. Place is extremely clean and well kept.
Fascinating, we must have missed each other by minutes. I was there last Friday, and I think that big RV was in the same spot in the lot near the nuclear jet engines. Was an interesting time, the tour was good and worth the time. I was up teaching a class north of there. Also, about 17 miles away is the city of Arco, don't forget to stop by Pickles and try an Atomic Burger. The whole reactor, and stuff in Arco had a really strong Fallout vibe, like from a game they should have made but never did.
Funny thing, for some reason people started asking me questions, I kinda went into a little detail and then recommended they check out your channel.
I was there last Thursday…missed each other by a day. The town of Arco is pretty cool. I’ve only passed through it a couple times. I need to give it a good walk thru next time I’m down there. Thanks for recommending the channel.
Sorry to butt in, but I just had to remark on the amusing fact that both of you are named Drew and could not be at the same place and same time together...
@@Blend3rman The tour-guide at the EBR-1 was named Andrew.
Thanks for recording in 4K. Means I could go back and pause the video to read the information boards. I learned the origin of the word SCRAM!
I figured that’s what people were going to do.
Another great video thanks. I think that the problem with breader reactors was the use of NaK. The special handling that NaK required increased the engineering costs. The whole reason for breader reactors was at the time there were fears that there could be a future scarcity in available Urainium (which didn't happen).
Yeah there’s plenty of uranium out there.
@@RadioactiveDrew Even in case o future shortage of uranium, there is recent development on LFTRs (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) being able to breed fissile U-233 from non-fissile Th-233. Taking advantage of thorium fuel cycle also allows us to utilize fertile U-238 to make more fuel. There are tons of U-238 and thorium is about four times more abundant than uranium (in the Earth crust).
Fascinating! I could spend there hours reading all the signs. I love this sort of metalic, industrial smell. New facilities dont smell like this anymore. It's like comparing a steam locomotive to a new, modern electric tram.
I totally agree. Old places like this have a very particular feel and smell to them, which I love.
My brood hated going to sites like these when we were of the travelling ages. I would read every sign, look at every display, hell, I would spend hours just looking at the doo-dads and what not. Nope, they ran through the doors, looked for games to play, found the snack bar and the souvenir shop, and were back at the truck before I could even get started.
Maybe if I ever retire I'll strike out on my own revisit the best of them.
Travel safe friend.
My grandfather worked out there. He moved from California to Idaho to work at the "site" for a $0.10 an hour raise.
My grandfather bought a a suplus truck from the site where the bed was lined with weld sheets of stainless steel. It was used to transport contaminated material. So, naturally the used it as a family vehicle back home. 😅 Different times.
When my father was an adult, he worked at some of the nuclear research facilities as a Janitor. He would have to walk through those radiation detectors and occasionally one would go off. If it did, youd have to strip down, get cleaned and would be sent home in paper clothes. I believe he said that happened to him once and he wasnt too keen on that happening again. I believe he left after that.
Different times for sure. I'm glad I haven't been that contaminated by something at a site that cared that much about it.
@RadioactiveDrew I just called up my father to confirm the story. I heard it back when I was a kid. Apparently, I was mistaken on a couple details. He worked at the Naval Reactor Facility not too far from EBR-1. He said when you left you had to wand over yourself with a "frisker" and if it detected elevated levels of Radon you'd have to change out, but it never happened to him. I think that was my childhood imagination running wild. He quit working there because the NRF didn't pay too well, and American Potato was paying more at the time. Commute time was less too.
I got a Radiacode 102 a couple of weeks ago, the capabilities of the thing for how much it costs are incredible. I never thought I'd be able to do real time gamma spectroscopy literally anywhere for about the price of taking the family out to dinner at a decent restaurant. They're perfectly happy with pizza, I'm sure.
Wow. Amazing tour. Thanks for sharing!
When I was young I was lucky enough to take a detailed tour of two major nuclear facilities...
...One was the Shoreham Nuclean Generating Station in New York.
...Another was Union Carbides 5mw research reactor in upstate NY (pharmaceuticals / nuclear medicine).
These reactors were in the scammed mode, but there were canisters of Cobalt-60 stored under the deep water of the "swimming pool" reactor as it was called at Union Carbide.
Eerie blue glow from Cerenkov effect and all. Incredible.
That would have been so cool to see.
This was absolutely captivating. I have been aware of this museum for a long time. It now a high priority on my list of places to visit. Super interesting. Atomic power is one of the wonders of the world...
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It’s a very interesting place to visit. Make sure you bring a radiation detector of some kind for some added entertainment.
Yore videos are awesome you have inspierd me and my brother to get a giger counter and it is pretty cool.we have found some pretty radioactive things in some antique shops. Keep up the hard work!
Sweet! Hopefully I'll be working there in a couple months.
Nice...I hope so. As cool as I think it is to work at a place like a National Lab, I love what I do. Hopefully I can make a couple videos with INL or LANL in the future.
I was just out here three weeks ago my grandparents used to bring me out here as a child great memories your video brought more too light for me
Been playing with my Radiacode 102 myself lately. Been working pretty good.
I’ve been happy with mine so far.
WoW... Thank you for this. Seeing a place I have no opportunity to visit is priceless. This is fascinating.
I visited this place many times as a kid. I remember you used to be able to go up to the hot cell and play with those manipulator arms and stack the blocks inside. Very cool video!
I wish they still had that setup.
@@RadioactiveDrewhi Drew! I’m one of the tour guides out here and one of you followers told me you made this video I enjoyed watching it! I also wish we could still play with the manipulator arms but because of how expensive and difficult they are to fix we don’t have the time or budget for it. But they are super cool we used to have one set up with just the arms people could mess with but that was taken out last summer
I remember that setup. I’ve never seen it working but now it’s replaced by that theater. Would be cool to have a manipulator setup somewhere in that area.
Radeye b20 costs as much as 3,000 usd, so if your looking to carry this for fun, you better have deep pockets and nothing better to spend it on. The 102 is much more affordable at around 250 euros.
I always enjoy your information from a former Nuclear Submarine Sailor Drew!
I am an aspiring engineer, I dropped out of university but am definitely going to return to study after some more time working rudimentary jobs. I have a soft spot in my heart for all things chemistry and nuclear science and it's amazing to learn about the experiments that occurred in the beginning of the nuclear age. Those jet engines were something else, especially just to see them sitting there in the parking lot! Excellent video, reminds me and makes me hopeful about what I want to spend my life contributing to.
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Also hilarious that out of everything to take away from this video, people want to focus on how to pronounce words. Makes me wonder if they have to have a meltdown about whether someone says Iron: I-RON or I-ERN
I’m glad that seeing this video has sparked some interest.
Great video, I live near there in eastern Idaho. I love going to ebr 1 have always wanted a dosimeter to see the hot spots there.
I don’t live that close but I enjoy going there in the summer to visit the site. Takes me about 4 hours to get there.
I never knew the old timey hot boxes were filled with mineral oil, i always assumed they were just really thick glass or multi layered, also I do own an anton geiger counter, im going to assume its the same company that made that full body scanner, also i wonder how big those geiger tubes were that were the site dectors, they looked massive
Yeah those area radiation monitors looked very big.
Waiting for my Radiacode to arrive. Thanks for reviewing it.
No problem. Hope you enjoy using it.
Jet engines and radiation, what more could an inquisitive mind want ?
I remember a documentary film, where they had a reactor powered jet engine mounted on a rail car at that site.
I've seen that same footage.
So, so cool!!! Love your videos!
Thanks.
An impressive facility even today, though it takes some dedication to actually reach it. The creativity is amazing.
Radiation effects on wildlife are actually minimal. Their lifespans are too short for most of the radiation effects to bother them. This is something I have researched in depth relating to the radiation effects on wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. What was more concerning to me was the Russian invasion there, there were real time reports on Telegram and Twitter of Russian soldiers breaking into a nuclear research laboratory, breaking containers of highly radioactive samples, contaminating themselves, their vehicles, and their bunks.
Wow, that made me wince reading that last part.
Russian soldiers dug foxholes in the radioactive grounds around the plants.
@@RadioactiveDrew Background radiation levels all around the complex soared.
A bunch of the terrorists were taken away from the area having large blisters on their skin, that's what a local reported. And they took away a lot of equipment, fortunately mostly things they were personally interested in, like PC graphics cards and water kettles, so a lot of scientific equipment remained there, yet vandalised in many cases. So immensely irresponsible and stupid.
Russian soldiers leave Chornobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine says
Nuclear operator says troops suffered radiation sickness after digging trenches at contaminated site
The Associated Press · Posted: Mar 31, 2022 2:46 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 31, 2022
Ukraine's state nuclear operator, Energoatom, says Russian soldiers suffered radiation sickness after digging trenches in the forested area around the Chornobyl site. (Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated Press)
I quite enjoyed this tour and commentary. Thanks for posting!
Very interesting and well done! And will you show us the "radiogram" of the site, or wasn't it that spectacular? Thank you!
That's an awesome price on the 102. 100% buying one thanks to seeing you use their detectors. Been looking for a casually priced unit but hard to tell what's decent or junk
I'm very happy with the 102 so far. I've been using the 101 for a while now with almost zero problems.
I wonder if mounting a detector to a drone to reach areas that are hard to get to, or maybe off limits, would be practical or allowed. 🤔
Thanks for taking us along for the ride. Cheers.
The area that EBR-1 is in happens to be a no fly zone for drones. It’s restricted airspace so the drone won’t even take off.
@@RadioactiveDrew I guess that makes sense. Too bad though, that would be handy in some cases. Cheers.
Super cool.
I especially like how you take nice, clear footage of the infographics so that we can pause and read them.
Speaking of those signs, wouldn't a breeder type reactor produce some sort of Plutonium isotope(s)? That sounds like a pretty big incentive to *not* have too many of those out in the world - with nuclear weapon proliferation being a big concern. I noticed that there was a certain change of tone in your voice when you were showing that - so maybe it was implied, Idk... sometimes I can be a bit dense when trying to figure stuff like that out.
Anyway.. thanks again for the excellent video.
The change in the tone of my voice might have been the voice over parts that I recorded later.
nuke-LEE-er, not nuke-YA-ler
I love his videos but that makes me wince every time :/ NEW CLEAR!!!
My father-in-law who worked on an early fusion reactor (a linear predecessor of the tokamac) in California and thermonuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site still pronounces it "nuke-YA-ler".
What do you think about the radio code 102? I've had the 101 for about a year now I don't really see any need to buy the 102 unless it's got upgraded features. Price seems darn near $300 on quick online conversion. Are they offering them through Amazon or anything local? They let me break up the cost of my first one over four payments which made it super easy to afford, then the Ukraine situation started a week after I paid, and I was afraid I'd lost my money, but it came none the less
I haven’t seen a big difference between the 101 and the 102. I’ve been told that the 102 has slightly better gamma spectrum resolution.
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Amazing tour of this Nuclear facility. It's now on my Bucket List.
Wow Drew, this brings back memories. My family and I toured Idaho, and the most impressive place was the Craters of the Moon National Monument. If you came all the way out there and did not visit, you must go back and check it out.
After that excellent park, I dragged my family to this site the next day after staying in Arco (Pickle's Place is a must-stop for great burgers btw). I did not have a counter, but it was a really great experience. Many people do not know how much nuclear experimentation was performed in Idaho. Pretty poor location given the Great Lost River runs right near here and the contamination is likely on its way to the potato fields downstream. But back then, they had very little idea about what radiation was going to do.
I know they are still doing nuclear stuff out there, but hopefully with more respect for the environment. Back in the day, they just blew stuff up to see what it would do.
I will clarify, they did not intentionally blow stuff up at this site, but they did at other sites in this research facility. A great source for more information is www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-Mountains/dp/1605986801
Fascinating. TURBINE. or. GAS TURBINE might b better terminology over JET
Technically I think they refer to them as Heat Exchangers.
Thanks for the video. I was at the site back in the early 70's at the Enterprise (A1W) power plant prototype. There were some 40+ operating reactors out there the at the time. I might not have called it "the Wild West of the Nuclear Age" to quote Mitch VanDomelen (below), but there was certainly a lot going on out there. A great many projects were going on testing different scenarios and accident sequences. Some of those tests were "test to destruction" so yes - So I guess they could be described as wild.
Those do sound like wild times...a lot can be learned when safety takes a backseat.
@@RadioactiveDrew Please don't misunderstand me.
I did not mean that the tests were dangerous or unsafe. The safety systems were often more extensive and expensive than the actual test rig.
I meant "wild" in the engineering sense because of all the ingenuity and imagination that went into designing these test rigs to produce reliable results while NOT endangering the people on or off the site.
Cool video! I was there last week! I currently work at ORNL and hope to get out to INL soon. It is interesting to see the difference between my world of accelerators and the radiation with them vs the reactors.
Thanks for taking me along with you I live an hour away from ORNL and have taken the in that place it's where I learned about the place you were at I've been wanting to go and see this place your video makes me want to even more now
I hope you get a chance to check it out.
@@RadioactiveDrew thanks for taking the time to send me a reply. It means a lot
Thank you Drew for the great tour. Those nuclear jet engines are interesting.
They are very interesting. I would like to do a more in-depth video about them.
Great video! I will be reasonably close to INL this Summer, and didn’t know if I should take the time to see EBR-1. I’m definitely visiting EBR-1 now.
Glad to hear it. Its a great site packed full of info.
Great coverage, and demonstration of radiation detector, for a very historic nuclear application research facility!
Should figure out a way to mount the detector on a selfie-stick or some kind of reaching device so you can get readings up/over/at a distance, etc.
Very cool video. So interesting to see this stuff. Thankfully it wasn’t destroyed in haste like so many projects that seemed to be of no use when completed.
Thanks for posting.
Absolutely AMAZING tour. Thanks, very much!
Glad you enjoyed it.
@RadioactiveDrew or anybody in internet-land reading this... I'm about to drive from Portland to Denver, and I want to take some time to stop and see some cool things. I'll definitely stop at EBR-1, any other recommendations? Nuclear history, air/space/science museums, big science/astronomy, etc. Thanks!
Thanks Drew great job ‼️✌🏽
Thanks, glad you liked it.
my second video- thanks- you make great videos, full of so much info, and good camera work- and pace- and explanation- truly good
I try and make my videos better and better. Every time I release a video, I’m happy with it but I’m always thinking I can do better.
This is where a drone would be very fun. Although stirring up that dust might be a bad idea. I don't know if I'd be hanging out there without a dust mask.
Thanks for the tour Drew!
No problem.
Cool! On our first cross_country tour, we made a stop at EBR-1, had a lunch there and got it on photo even, me mrs K, our lunch and the two reactors in the background.
It’s very good you address the issue with radioactive radiation as unlike other stuff that are out there to kill us, radiation is a silent killer.
Driving away from the Yellowstone area I could not imagine something more fascinating than Hebgen Lake and the Geology of that area and earthquake event history. EBR-1? What is an EBR-1? Let's check it out. WOW. Exactly! (this video's title here)! EBR-1 is my current screen saver. The little white "hut" has been cleaned up. It used to be plastered with danger signs, even a "Warning! Hunta virus" warning sign and a pad lock half falling off the ratchety door. Thanks so much for this video and gorgeous time lapse clips.
Thanks.
I absolutely enjoyed this tour of EB1
It’s a cool place to hang out for the day.
Maybe use a drone with a detector to explore the fenced off area? SCRAM = Safety Control Rod Axe Man. This is one of the reactors that had an axe man to chop the rope that held the control rods to snuff a runaway reactor.
This reactor did not have an axe man, earlier reactors and piles did though.
Wow that museum is extremely well curated, especially considering the past issues there.
The national labs know how to clean up a site.
Such a fine tour , A fine reminder of the importance of Nuclear Power
Thanks for the tour. I know I'll never get to see this site in my lifetime. Interesting
Wow! The shots with the thing and the clouds are super impressive!
Thanks.
Awesome and thank you. I know alot about the site. And it's great to see it left as a museum. Of history.
Great Work!! Nuclear is the ”cleanest” energy available to mankind yet the most misunderstood.
I couldn't agree more.
That was awesome! I was just in Arco last week staying at an RV park there. I don't research the areas that I go to at all, but I saw a building there with it proudly claiming to be the first city to be powered by atomic energy. When I was leading, I passed by the signage and saw that EBR-1 was there. Unfortunately, I had no time to stop and see it. I must have also missed your video on it or I would have put in some effort to make time, but I know I'll be going back to the area again the future. It's on my list now for sure!
Well I’m glad it’s on your radar now. It’s a very cool place to check out…when it’s open. I think the building is closed after Labor Day. But you can always visit the nuclear jet engines.
What an awesome museum! Thanks, Drew, love your productions.
Thanks. I hope everyone that sees these videos tries to check out the places I show. Our world is one filled with so many interesting things.
After watching a few of your videos I decided to get a RadiaCode, at least look for one. The 101s are not available anymore & they were made in Russia (as you've stated previously). Only the 102s can be purchased now & they're manufactured in Cyprus (just east of Greece). Current price is 259 euros + 25 for Cyprus Post totaling 284 euros, which converts to a little over 300 usd. The package tracked only 4 days, after processing, so got it in about a week. Haven't tried it yet. Just got it charged. There isn't a manual that I could find for the 102 so am reading the manual for the 101. They appear the same, maybe the only difference is 101 from Russia and 102 from Cyprus. I still have to attach it via USB to the computer so it can register itself & check for firmware updates. My usage hopefully won't be as intense as yours, but it's an interesting little device. Thanks for your videos.
Glad you like the videos. I think the Radiacode 102 has slightly better gamma spectrum resolution. Both units are incredible sensitive.