Did you know that bananas actually give off a slightly greater amount of radiation than normal fruits. They have trace amounts of Potassium 40 which is slightly radioactive. To get any side affects from the radiation you need to eat 274 bananas every day for 7 years.
@@johantemmink3757 My guess would be; it didn't register. That was the slightly embarrassed smile. Unless it was on the most sensitive scale and even then, I doubt it registered. Those flasks are more or less bomb proof - which is the point. The banana thing is the joke they play on anti nuclear protesters. The supporters - who keep a pretty low profile at such protests - go round with a box of bananas, offering them round and most people take one. One banana is the radiation equivalent to living next to a nuclear power station for a year. Nom - nom - nom.
@@rogerwhittle2078 well the natural background radiation would register, and might actually go down very slightly as the train passed, since the container would shield them from any background radiation coming from the other side.
I worked many Nuclear flask trains, their is never any problem, background radiation is more than these trains will ever be, they seldom stop, just passing by, zero danger.
@@masoodjalal1152 those flasks are virtually indestructible. They tested one by taking a Class 46 locomotive with 3 Mk1 coaches, and remotely accelerated it to 90 mph, right into the side of a nuclear fuel flask. The flask was battered, but did not leak. Greenpeace made up some BS, but evidently they forgot to hire any trainspotters or enthusiasts, who could easily have picked apart their lies in about 5 seconds flat.
So you are looking for Hard gamas with that geiger counter. It looks like a high range meter, which wouldn't give you a reading unless there is high amounts of activity especially with that distance. The thing I would look for would be particulate contamination from the loading process (there won't be any). You could also try to detect radioactive gasses like radon and tritium but I would doubt you would find any of that either. The modern nuclear process is fairly well put together. It has even become more difficult to find contamination around Sellafield.
Two locos because the public don't like it if your engine breaks down and there's a Nuclear Flask stuck next to their house for hours. No real risk, but people would freak out and complain. Better to have 2 so one can sub-in if needed.
@@chriswilson1853 If this was a pure plutonium transport it would certainly look quite different. Gorleben had to add additional shielding despite housing similar containers (cf Skyshine).
@Matej Lieskovský Neutron rediation is the main component of the remaining radiation. For German "Castor" containers, 20 μSv/h at a distance of 2m have been measured.
Apparently, according to the original poster, those two are employees at the reactor doing a check to confirm everything is in order. Probably not anti-nuke by rail if that's their job.
It looked like a regular train to me thought a nuclear train look more like a spaceship maybe levitate or fly just like they told us in the 70s wheres my jetpack
I quite often see these going by behind my flat at Morningside Station in Edinburgh. There are normally 2 of these flasks being transported. I wonder where they're going ?
3.6 roentgens ?!?!? Not great, not terrible !!!! Oh shoe!!!! I forgot to ask if he can stop so I refuel my DeLorean with his plutonium!!!! I pay with old flipper parts
If they were that bothered about this they would have protective clothing on, Also are we supposed to guess the reading based on their facial expressions?
You can see it. Seek for "experimentboy" videos on youtube. One is called "comprendre et voir la radioactivité", it's french but with english subtitles. Switch to 11:20, you will see radiations from a radioactive rock.
When i worked in the power business, i observed spent nuclear fuel being unloaded from the reactor during a planned outage. Now the observation was looking down into the spent fuel pools. Those nuclear-fuel rod assemblies are unloaded by robot under water into the pool. As they make their way into the spent pool you can observe the assemblies glowing. They look blue only because of the water and tank color. Of course if the water was not there i would not be typing this message today. If you were to observe it without the water i suppose it would be white light. By the way the other fuel rods left from previous outages years ago were also still glowing. Its not the radiation you see per say its the reaction of the spent fuel still decaying over time being visible via the heat. Old and retired now so i may have a little of the facts foggy.
I've always thought it would be neat to be able to visualize microwave radiation. The country would be crisscrossed with beams from microwave communication towers.
it was the safest and most economic way to transport radiological material, but with the railway (and electricity supply) now privatised, way more expensive, with todays targets of profit over safety
I mean I kinda interpreted it as just for fun, like "oh interesting a train with nuclear material goes through our backyard? Let's see if anything pops up on our geiger counter!"
@@purple1968 People like Alan don't live near a nuclear power plant or have flask trains passing their house. It's people like him the world needs less of.
Those flasks are designed to handle a head on impact from a fully loaded freight train travelling at twice track speed, if anything, the derailment caused by this would actually be relatively minor because only three things would leave the tracks, no radiation would escape
the UK tested these in the 1980s by crashing a train into one at 100mph, check out the videos on youtube, look for nuclear train crash test, its pretty spectacular. Totally destroyed the moving train but i think it scratched the paint on the nuclear flask! they're pretty tough things, thankfully.
@@actualghost6565 well unless you're a brainless idiot, you wouldn't move to a house that backed onto a rail line would you?! 🤔😳🤯😆 ...you'd live somewhere else! lol
Would love to live there tractors on your door step I would just sit there chilling waiting for that EE grunt to fly past with a huge cloud of clagg lol happy days!!!🥰😍😍
You have no way of knowing if the cask contained material or was empty. Also it would not have contained plutonium in it's pure form as that needs special processing and it's made in VERY small quantities. Finally the shielding is so good you wouldn't pick it up above background
Graeme Hill if that flask contained anything at all it would have been spent reactor fuel or un irradiated new fuel elements. Or packaged Mlw or Llw. Britain stopped producing plutonium in 1998. The stockpiles have been stored at Selafield since. The only time any form of plutonium is moved is the movement of nuclear warheads for refurbishment or storage and they use a completely different design of flask.
@@richardstout6364 Given that this was filmed in Maryburgh, my guess is that it would be spent fuel from the old Dounreay reactor that was removed and transported to Selafield between 2014 and 2019.
Looks like an INF 1-INF 2 flask, may contain spent plutonium but the placard is missing so we can't say it's fissile or not... So yea not sure. But those 2 work in a nuclear plant
@Cosmo Genesis gamma and neutrons are somewhat present in plutonium that is near critical. I'm thinking these are isotopes from a nuclear plant inside an INF 2 container
@@richardstout6364 The THORP reprocessing plant (closed 2018) produced around 100t of Plutonium. Sellafield has the worlds largest Plutonium stockpile.
I took a Geiger counter with me, on a visit to the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant, in Ontario. Radiation count was lower inside the plant, than the ambient (miles away). I also had one with me when I stood on top of an operating reactor's top plate - no increase in count (Research reactor).
During the 7 months I was at a nuclear power plant , the dosimeter I always had and wore on my belt registered 0.277 Rem. The dosimeter that was left in my apartment registered. .312 REM. The red bricks my apartment building was made of were more radioactive than the power plant. The ELT's calculated that all but 0.011 REM of my dose came from background radiation and the majority of the background radiation was from the walls of my apartment building.
bananas in the supermarket will give off a higher reading
Simon Curtis That's the point. They've designed it to capture as much radiation as possible and prevent the release of any dangerous radiation.
Did you know that bananas actually give off a slightly greater amount of radiation than normal fruits. They have trace amounts of Potassium 40 which is slightly radioactive. To get any side affects from the radiation you need to eat 274 bananas every day for 7 years.
@@empty3293 I think that’s why he said it.
@@empty3293 Thank god, I only eat 273 bananas a day
@@Elec-DIY for 10 years??
Nice to see the locals doing their bit to ensure the quality of the traction with their thrashometer......
ACME supply sells those too??? wonder if there's one that works with bones and tugs?
Let’s have the readings of that meter..
@@johantemmink3757 My guess would be; it didn't register. That was the slightly embarrassed smile. Unless it was on the most sensitive scale and even then, I doubt it registered. Those flasks are more or less bomb proof - which is the point.
The banana thing is the joke they play on anti nuclear protesters. The supporters - who keep a pretty low profile at such protests - go round with a box of bananas, offering them round and most people take one. One banana is the radiation equivalent to living next to a nuclear power station for a year. Nom - nom - nom.
@@rogerwhittle2078 well the natural background radiation would register, and might actually go down very slightly as the train passed, since the container would shield them from any background radiation coming from the other side.
@@chriswilson1853 I had that same thought!!!!!
If my calculations are correct when this baby hits 88mph you’re gonna see some serious shit...
Hahaha...no you wont. That box is tougher then the U.S presidential bunker lol
1,21 Gigawatts!
@@darylatkinson8802 it was a bttf reference
With that much fissionable material, just think of the size of flux capacitor you could power with it! XD
Back to the future reference
I worked many Nuclear flask trains, their is never any problem, background radiation is more than these trains will ever be, they seldom stop, just passing by, zero danger.
But the BBC says .... lol
Iirc, you get a larger dose of radiation from eating a banana, since bananas are ever so slightly more radioactive (Potassium-40).
Its all fun and games until a train skids off the tracks and the reactor is damaged.
@@masoodjalal1152 the disaster is always in the future
@@masoodjalal1152 those flasks are virtually indestructible. They tested one by taking a Class 46 locomotive with 3 Mk1 coaches, and remotely accelerated it to 90 mph, right into the side of a nuclear fuel flask. The flask was battered, but did not leak.
Greenpeace made up some BS, but evidently they forgot to hire any trainspotters or enthusiasts, who could easily have picked apart their lies in about 5 seconds flat.
So happy to be one of the first few to test out the new algorithm with you guys
On behalf of the Chinese drive-thru server on Dude where's my car?
"and then...........?"
I just love this Class Diesel electric. Oh and we can't do without Nuclear just yet.
"You mean this sucker's nuclear?"
"No, this sucker's electrical."
Great Scott!
Dieael-electrical! XP
Little did everyone know that the 37 was carrying the elephants foot from reactor 4
Nuclear train
What I spected to see: a high tech hyperspeed train
The reality: thomas the tank engine
So you are looking for Hard gamas with that geiger counter. It looks like a high range meter, which wouldn't give you a reading unless there is high amounts of activity especially with that distance. The thing I would look for would be particulate contamination from the loading process (there won't be any). You could also try to detect radioactive gasses like radon and tritium but I would doubt you would find any of that either. The modern nuclear process is fairly well put together. It has even become more difficult to find contamination around Sellafield.
Nice class 37s.
3.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible.
Two engines for that one flatcar? Must be government run.
Probably have two locos to make up the braked weight.
Two locos because the public don't like it if your engine breaks down and there's a Nuclear Flask stuck next to their house for hours.
No real risk, but people would freak out and complain. Better to have 2 so one can sub-in if needed.
The main radiologic concern with such transports is neutron radiation, which unfortunately can't be measured with simple geiger counters.
Aren't neutrons stopped by the casing rather reliably?
Decaying plutonium doesn't emit neutrons. It emits alpha particles which can be stopped by a sheet of paper.
@@chriswilson1853 If this was a pure plutonium transport it would certainly look quite different. Gorleben had to add additional shielding despite housing similar containers (cf Skyshine).
@Matej Lieskovský Neutron rediation is the main component of the remaining radiation. For German "Castor" containers, 20 μSv/h at a distance of 2m have been measured.
What type of radiation measurements are you using?
You could reverse this film and get the same effect
One of my farts would give a higher reading ! And that comes with a guarantee ! LOL
I would love to have railway lines back of my house.
I'd still have two buffer cars between the power
I wanted to see the damn Geiger Counter reading!
3.6
@@gabor1991 not great, not terrible
How ppl in the comments section are able to fimd the speed of the train or the intensity?🙁
Only thing more toxic than this train is an Xbox call of duty voice chat
Please don't tell me that these simple folks are trying to measure radiation. The exhaust from that 50+ year old locomotive is more damaging.
These “ simple folk” are nuclear scientists from the reactor.
wash out your mouth, making insulting comments like that about a 37
_Containing_ nuclear radiation is easy
_Ensuring_ its containment is the part that experts are worried about
These folk should carefully realise that such cargo is *much* safer by a country mile on the back of a train as opposed to being conveyed by road.
Apparently, according to the original poster, those two are employees at the reactor doing a check to confirm everything is in order. Probably not anti-nuke by rail if that's their job.
What was the reading?
Welp....I can't be mad at an accurate title, I suppose
The train is diesel the cargo is nuclear .
Why is this video recommended????
Couples goals
It looked like a regular train to me thought a nuclear train look more like a spaceship maybe levitate or fly just like they told us in the 70s wheres my jetpack
I quite often see these going by behind my flat at Morningside Station in Edinburgh. There are normally 2 of these flasks being transported. I wonder where they're going ?
They open and dump them on the beach at low tide.
They will be running between Sellafield and Torness
@@CycolacFan 😂
N U C L E A R T R A I N
Wow
imagine you can trainspot in your backyard
The train should be nuclear powered also
Pretty slow for a nuclear powered train.
Were they supposed to turn younger?
Thought he was holding a gigercountereewse
A reading picking up a radon gas is not impossible in that area.
so one of those containers can fuel a power station for years eh? nice.
It's not 3 roentgen... it's 15,000
Hiroshima Nagasaki people left the chat
3.6 roentgens ?!?!? Not great, not terrible !!!! Oh shoe!!!! I forgot to ask if he can stop so I refuel my DeLorean with his plutonium!!!! I pay with old flipper parts
That train sounds like a duck or goose
If it carries plutonium maybe i can go back to 1955 and give my younger self some and he can go back easier.
wait that may cause a paradox
How very middle class ...... Bless.
DO NOT MAKE SODOR FALLOUT CANON
It is atleast better then transporting it with trucks.
That 37 was speed
More like chicken cage train
Typical middle age locals nothing better to do
If they were that bothered about this they would have protective clothing on, Also are we supposed to guess the reading based on their facial expressions?
Anybody care to explain that actual tipi across the tracks?
is that nigel farage
Nice
muppets
chugington
Alguém aleatório do Brasil em 2021? 🇧🇷
There’s graphite on the roof
எங்க இருக்கு இந்த ஊரு
what was the reading!!
Seriously!! there are alternative words you could take from dictionary for 'SMALL' . Misleading.!!!
So where are they sending the nuclear waste?? Some third world country no doubt
I would love to live there
1000th like
you taste metal?
Sounds like a diesel train to me.
You, Sir, made me laugh :) Thank you :)
@@spavatch 👍
What is the reading.
Is the train nuclear or it contains nuclear.....
It contains nuclear
cool
Brewster
I wonder how radiation looks like if we were able to see it.
there is a thing for that. it measures radiation and gives of these disease like particles (r/tipofthetounge)
You can see it. Seek for "experimentboy" videos on youtube. One is called "comprendre et voir la radioactivité", it's french but with english subtitles. Switch to 11:20, you will see radiations from a radioactive rock.
with a classic well temperatured cloud chamber
When i worked in the power business, i observed spent nuclear fuel being unloaded from the reactor during a planned outage. Now the observation was looking down into the spent fuel pools. Those nuclear-fuel rod assemblies are unloaded by robot under water into the pool. As they make their way into the spent pool you can observe the assemblies glowing. They look blue only because of the water and tank color. Of course if the water was not there i would not be typing this message today. If you were to observe it without the water i suppose it would be white light. By the way the other fuel rods left from previous outages years ago were also still glowing. Its not the radiation you see per say its the reaction of the spent fuel still decaying over time being visible via the heat. Old and retired now so i may have a little of the facts foggy.
I've always thought it would be neat to be able to visualize microwave radiation. The country would be crisscrossed with beams from microwave communication towers.
Cool so lucky
What the fuck. There's literally nothing.
it was the safest and most economic way to transport radiological material, but with the railway (and electricity supply) now privatised, way more expensive, with todays targets of profit over safety
Sad times when people need to check nuclear flasks after industry has tested them to destruction get a life do Gooders!!!
I mean I kinda interpreted it as just for fun, like "oh interesting a train with nuclear material goes through our backyard? Let's see if anything pops up on our geiger counter!"
Exactly.. if nuclear waste was passing by your house wouldn’t you too be interested?
@@purple1968 People like Alan don't live near a nuclear power plant or have flask trains passing their house. It's people like him the world needs less of.
You get a higher reading off one of my farts 💨
Was there any real point to this???
Is there a point to trainspotting? No idea. But I guess it is a cool/unusual train to see, so why not?
What is it carrying?
Nuclear waste with low-level radiation from a power station to a storage site
waste from diesel exhaust to be disposed of
🤔????
and the results are..............
Possibly lower due to background radiation being shielded by the train. JK
then it derails OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII THAT WOULD BE BAD
Those flasks are designed to handle a head on impact from a fully loaded freight train travelling at twice track speed, if anything, the derailment caused by this would actually be relatively minor because only three things would leave the tracks, no radiation would escape
@@ashermccready safer then a tank car with ammonia,and a tank car with chlorine derailing,and exploding at the same time.
the UK tested these in the 1980s by crashing a train into one at 100mph, check out the videos on youtube, look for nuclear train crash test, its pretty spectacular. Totally destroyed the moving train but i think it scratched the paint on the nuclear flask! they're pretty tough things, thankfully.
3.6 roentgen not great not terrible
I recently watched that. Good show
@@vincentweatherly9991 Do you mean the the series Chernobyl?
The meter only goes up that high :)
@@Mark-jt7ww yeah
@@nikf3188 That's ok as the level is only 3.6
That is such a cool place to live with that railway there!
if you dont mind the noise that is
@@actualghost6565 well unless you're a brainless idiot, you wouldn't move to a house that backed onto a rail line would you?! 🤔😳🤯😆 ...you'd live somewhere else! lol
Yeah until 4am
@@actualghost6565 its an unelectrified single line, i imagine its very quiet
Agreed!!
Ahhh that train has a cold. It sneezed on the way past, bless him
I see the algorithm has worked its magic again
It’s even better for me because I work with Class 37s in my day job.
Only reason I'm here!
thats like the perfect place to live if you're a trainspotter
I thought that was Nigel Farrage at first!
Same
@@insertnamehere0247 same
😱
Immigrant reading.....3.6...not great, not terrible.
@@TheCormTube 😂😂😂😂😂
0:17 When you try to make a silent fart in class
Hahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahaha
Who didn't search it but watched!!! Strange🔥🔥🔥
Your wife looks positively glowing.... (I'll get my lab coat)
🤣🤣🤣
Ami I missing something? Where's the reading?
Would love to live there tractors on your door step I would just sit there chilling waiting for that EE grunt to fly past with a huge cloud of clagg lol happy days!!!🥰😍😍
You have no way of knowing if the cask contained material or was empty. Also it would not have contained plutonium in it's pure form as that needs special processing and it's made in VERY small quantities. Finally the shielding is so good you wouldn't pick it up above background
Graeme Hill if that flask contained anything at all it would have been spent reactor fuel or un irradiated new fuel elements. Or packaged Mlw or Llw. Britain stopped producing plutonium in 1998. The stockpiles have been stored at Selafield since. The only time any form of plutonium is moved is the movement of nuclear warheads for refurbishment or storage and they use a completely different design of flask.
@@richardstout6364 Given that this was filmed in Maryburgh, my guess is that it would be spent fuel from the old Dounreay reactor that was removed and transported to Selafield between 2014 and 2019.
Looks like an INF 1-INF 2 flask, may contain spent plutonium but the placard is missing so we can't say it's fissile or not... So yea not sure. But those 2 work in a nuclear plant
@Cosmo Genesis gamma and neutrons are somewhat present in plutonium that is near critical. I'm thinking these are isotopes from a nuclear plant inside an INF 2 container
@@richardstout6364 The THORP reprocessing plant (closed 2018) produced around 100t of Plutonium. Sellafield has the worlds largest Plutonium stockpile.
I took a Geiger counter with me, on a visit to the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant, in Ontario. Radiation count was lower inside the plant, than the ambient (miles away). I also had one with me when I stood on top of an operating reactor's top plate - no increase in count (Research reactor).
During the 7 months I was at a nuclear power plant , the dosimeter I always had and wore on my belt registered 0.277 Rem.
The dosimeter that was left in my apartment registered. .312 REM.
The red bricks my apartment building was made of were more radioactive than the power plant.
The ELT's calculated that all but 0.011 REM of my dose came from background radiation and the majority of the background radiation was from the walls of my apartment building.
2 People who don't understand radioactivity.
MrB1923 why do you say that ?
@@purple1968 can you show us the reading?
MrB1923 means the downvotes.
@@theepicgun19 no I can’t ....the female scientist filming with her iPad forgot to press record.
They use a Swan as a horn
😂😂😂😂
Railway just behind your house in the countryside?
It's quite my place