YT is really messing up at the moment. First the video appeared only as audio. Video appeared later. Now I can add annotations, but i cant actually see the video Im adding them too. If the annotations look a little raggity, thats why!
Tell me about it. I uploaded a 45 minute video where the audio and video deysnced linearly over that time. TH-cam really makes it as hard as they can for up-loaders these days.
I had problems too until i lowered the resolution. then comments wouldnt load... but hey great video. awesome science youre sharing with us. and great insight into the facts.
"California is not a wasteland. Not a radioactive wasteland, anyway" -Thunderf00t, 2014 Truer words have never been spoken, and this has aged like fine wine.
Nuclear power is so scary, imagine if we were orbiting a fusion reactor several thousand times the size of earth with only a few tenth thicknesses of atmosphere between us and it :o
my physics professor took out a small sample of a radioactive cesium isotope and some guy flipped out. It was pretty funny but kinda sad at how misinformed he was :(
@@colc5469 it's been 3 years since I made this post, but to answer he said that the professor was insane and being dangerous. I believe that was the last day he came to class. Definitely did not make it as a physics major.
Chernobyl was basically a regular explosion, which had the horrible side effect shooting radioactive material all over the place and into the atmosphere. So it was more like a dirty bomb than an atomic bomb. The crew at the plant willfully ignored standard safety procedures, almost crashed the reactor and then started it up with so much force they turned the entire reactor into a pressure cooker set to rupture. Which it did. Radioactivity is dangerous, but not deadly per se. Plant life and wild animals are flourishing in the zone around Chernobyl and Pripyat seem to have adapted to the radiation to a certain degree. Deadly mutations exist, but its far from a giant zone of death. That would be the city of Pjongjang, where absolutely no life can thrive. We're constantly subjected to background radiation and don't die. Like Thunderf00t said, a flight on a plane will subject you to more radiation than a trip to the sarcophagus at Chernobyl. I'm not too keen on getting myself too close to radioactive materials, but the scare involved doesn't reflect the actual dangers. It's kind of like with crime in the USA: Over the past 20 years, the number of homocides has dropped by about 40%, but the coverage has exploded by 400%.
Chernobyl was basically just the glorious Soviet technology enabling the workers at Chernobyl to complete the five years plan for energy production in five seconds!
Chernobyl was also a horrible reactor design with a positive temperature coefficient of reactivity. As temp went up, so did reactivity, which caused higher temp, which caused higher reactivity and so on, till the pressure went up faster than the relief valves could release.
Why is Canada so full of this stuff? I mean we all got our problems, but Canada's, interestingly all surround environmentalism....did maybe the Valdez have a big impact on people's attitudes there, or was it something else?
U-238 served the kriegsmarine between 1940 and 1941. It was attacked by a British destroyer and the crew recovered the enigma machine before U-238 sank.
Ob1sdarkside U-406 suffered several mechanical failures and U-124 sunk four ships in two approaches. U-569 made contact and lead the convoy into a trap.
How to make yellow cake at home...you're welcome :) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x13 inch pan. Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk cream sugar and shortening until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating just to combine. finally, stir in vanilla. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Frost and enjoy.
I followed your directions to the letter and now my kitchen is a superfund cleanup site. Any suggestions for radiation containment while baking it in the future?
Vitamin supplements are perfectly reasonable. Vitamins are necessary metabolic compounds used in the body. If someone is deficient in one or more of these compounds, it negatively affects your health. Therefore you take a supplement if bloodwork shows you have a major deficiency. They're also great for people whose dietary restrictions mean they have a low intake of a certain type (consider for example an autistic person whose sensory filter issues prevent them from eating most/all leafy vegetables, leading to low K-intake). Now, "spectrum" vitamins like Centrum are a dash of snake oil, but the basic principle behind them is perfectly reasonable - poor dietary planning is common among Americans, so something like a children's vitamin supplement helps to ensure that poor diet doesn't lead to a deficiency. It's common that they simply aren't necessary, and their manufacturers push for them to be, but they're not all that bad and it's certainly not harmful.
Ninja, I have a lot of allergies, so I take some vitamins, especially C & D, Because, I can't eat fish or many veggies, I used to be able to eat spinach until I was 7. Then it just came back up. Now, I find I can eat a small amount of raw spinach. People who say we should be vegans are insane. They have to take vitamins that are made from animals because there's no way humans can get it all from veggies. Sorry that's the way reality bites. If you con't think so, take a look at a horse or a cow. Then look at your stomach. By the way cows have 4 stomachs. We have ONE.
Marilyn, I could destroy you with long paragraphs of information talking about proper nutrition as a dietitian. However there is a much simpler scientific fact that does the same. Vegans live longer than the average omnivore. Don't bother to argue, you will be bothering with science itself and can do that without my presence, research it yourself.
Were you sober when you wrote this, Smith? What does science have to do with a Freudian slip? Why would it have anything to do with a Freudian slip? A Freudian slip is a Freudian slip. Where you say something that evidently you were thinking of, but didn't want to say.
Thunderf00t claims not to be instantly dead, and yet we only have his disembodied voice to trust in. I'm sorry, sir; I don't have enough faith to believe you are still alive and talking. Checkmate!
If this was a wordplay competition, sure, checkmate! But he is not doing swift word tricks. He is talking about whats real. You see? REAL doesn't care how creative or funny one is with words or self deception. In REALITY you are still entertaining and encouraging the proponents of blind faith instead of reason and skepticism.
Roxidius I'm sure he was making a satirical comment, likely to make fun of those mentioned by thunderf00t in this video. I wouldn't misconstrue satire to be an honest rebuttal.
Exactly. I'm really afraid that many rallying around him don't realize he is being satirical. Believe me I have met many republicans and conservatives who think that Steven Colbert is on their side.
+Eric Taylor Where did I say Islam is our enemy? Depends if you are fighting the computer virus or the person itself. Islam is the computer virus that gets passed on from computer to computer, muslims are the carrier of the virus. Arguing semantics about whether to fight the person, or the virus itself, is a moot point - but I never said Islam was the enemy in my post. I'll say it now: islam and muslims are the enemy, especially extremists who take their religions seriously. Moderates are enablers of the extremists. Just like there were plenty of moderate nazis who went along with Hitler because they were afraid to speak up.
Z505 Software You said, "Until a Muslim gets a bomb..." Islam is not worse or better than any other religion that teaches hatred of others, like Christianity. Let me ask you, if this were WWII would you be worried about the Christians (in Germany) launching attacks, or would you be worried about the Nazis?
+Eric Taylor *Did you seriously* just compare the hatred of the Islamic religion, to Christianity? You must have no idea what's going on in the world right now. Meanwhile Israel is getting bombed and the U.S. is arming them with fancy defense systems. Your 2nd comment, was actually so incorrect, I was forced to consider that the reliability of your first comment. Yes it's that bad.
Mufin Christianity spews hatred all over the place. How many non-religious people kick their teenage children out because they are gay? Christians do, because the Bible says homosexuality is a sin. The strongest opposition to same sex marriage came from Christians. How does same sex marriage threaten Christians? No, it is you who are blind to Christian hatred. Only because you have been indoctrinated in childhood to think Jesus is all about love and acceptance and forgiveness. But only for other Christians. Christian doctrine is very clear on this point. If you are not a Christian you have no chance of being saved. As God would only reject evil, then anyone not Christian MUST be evil, thus hated.
You do know that the US actually employed scientists during the cold war and those scientists job were to make a bomb that turned the Soviet army gay? So if Alex Jones is crazy then so is anyone who approved of that and those 'scientists' who spent valuable time on making a 'gay bomb'
I hate to say this but it was sort of true.. In A way. It wasn't a bomb. It was a chemical that would turn the frogs into A sexual frogs. It's kind of a strange story..I mean Alex Jones was covering it so you know it's gotta be wild.
You fill a dixie cup with this guy's bullshit and oratory skills and put it in a restaurant filled with people, and they'll all die of boredom before he finishes his first sentence. Thank you for your great knowledge, Thunderf00t. Keep slashing down those pseudoscientists.
@@cursedcliff7562Gau - 8 fires 30 mm DU sabot rounds that can only penetrate korean war era tanks(T54, T55, T34-85, IS 3) Modern tanks use composite armor which negates this.
thanks man, in 30 minutes im doing an engineering exam and thanks to you now i am calm. you seem to know a lot of things! i subscribed and liked the video because you did a great job
May I ask you a question? I'm a huge fan of ThunderfOOt so I am very sincere. I am probably not grasping the finer details but the main thing I took away from this video was the it is nearly impossible for a nuclear plant to explode, however wasn't there an explosion at Chernobyl?
+Megan Hess It is not "nearly", it is 100% impossible. What happened at Chernobyl was that their reactor design used a graphite-sodium cooling system which had what is called a positive coefficient of reactivity, meaning that the reactor had to be "fought" to keep it from getting out of control, vice pressurized water reactors (PWR) in America which have a negative coefficient of reactivity and wants to shut down if things get to "hot". (Basically water is a moderator and that means it slows down neutrons, the hotter the water gets, the more apart the water molecules are and the less fissions will take place...and the reactor is always trying to shut down...so it is a much more stable design) In Chernobyl being a positive coefficient it got out of control as the moderator got hotter causing more fissions to take place....it generated a huge amount of pressure and steam which exploded. It was not a nuclear explosion as in an atomic bomb, it was a steam explosion from the heat generation from the runaway thermal reactions. So, not it is NOT possible for a nuclear plant to explode as in an atomic bomb (there simply is not even close to the amount, purity, and configuration required), but like any heat source....it can have a steam explosion, which is what happened.
+Steve McRae Well la-dee- freaking -da! As a former officer in the US army I, too, approve this video. What did I do for Uncle Sam you ask? errr. ahem. Mobility Augmentation. Sound cool? 'Snot. Managed a fleet of transport (materil) vehicles
Most people thinking of exploding nuclear facilities: Freaking massive fiery mushroom cloud! Realistic people thinking of exploding facilities: Freaking lots of steam.
"D'yknow what it is about radioactivity that drives people crazy?" Ignorance. Plain and simple. They simply do not know nearly enough about radiological science...... Fortunately, we have Thunderf00t!
Thunderfoot is a nobody. He's not a professor or an authority figure in anything science-related. He gets idiots to think he's smart by targeting other idiots. He only goes for the low hanging fruit. Literally anyone who knows how to use Google can easily get the facts on radioactivity and know what is or isn't dangerous. If you need a stupid TH-camr to tell you things instead of doing your own research then you're just a mindless drone.
@greg77389 You do know that Thunderfoot is a active and working member in the scientific community right? Sure he is not a person of authority but that does not make him an idiot, and whit your logic Nicolas Tesla, Albert Einstein, Newton was all idiots that we should not listen too becouse they where not voices of authority
I've been pro-nuclear power since I was a kid, and I haven't found anything yet to disprove that it is still the best way to produce our electricity when used responsibly.
labobo you didn’t specify a primary stage fusion bomb I was referring to hydrogen bombs without going into detail, it doesn’t matter if fission is required to create the conditions for fusion the end result is the same
labobo no by end result I meant a fusion event releases the same amount of energy, no matter how it was started It’s just less efficient to have to do fission first
I have a total of ~0.4 millicuries (~15 MBq) of Am-241 so far. That's ~400 modern smoke detectors. I have many other isotopes (natural and synthetic), like Radium-226, Strontium-90, Caesium-137, etc., and even beautiful Thorium and Uranium minerals and Uranium metal and chemical samples. I've been collecting and studying radioactive materials for many years. It's a passion of mine, and I'm doing just fine. I love it! You can do really interesting experiments.
Thunderfoot, thank you for being the voice of reason in a really crazy world that seems crazier every day. That very well may have been the dumbest thing ever said about a radionuclide, but since the title is "about Nuclear Power", what comes to my mind as the the dumbest thing ever said is when they were getting certification for the first commercial light water reactors and the power company said "It'll be too cheap to meter." P.S. I love the Dirty Harry reference! you GO!
All this science stuff is so unfair! I used to be a submarine reactor operator, and I want my superpowers from radiation exposure! But, shit - I forgot - we had less radiation exposure on the boat than we did on land. Damn! I knew I should have sabotaged that reactor!
I live in Japan. I enjoy your post. There are so many people here who have no idea how nuclear power works and they are still afraid of radiation because of the two bombs. This series only helps me to explain that there isn't anything to worry about with Fukushima. Thank you for all the information you provide.
L. Ron Hubbard wrote a whole book about radioactivity, so it's a pretty bold claim to say that someone else owns the dumbest thing ever said about radioactivity. Give Hubbs his props.
Joaquin Fritsch Santis yes and no. Most bullets are cased in a copper coating. These days. But older guns such as pre 1900 used a fully lead bullet. And most weapons now adays are much more powerful than they were. Meaning most. (I say most. But not all) are through and through wounds where the bullet will exit the victim. the military uses ammunition with no lead in it. It's a steel core round, which helps in penetrating light armor and it's more humane.
I am a complete scientific laymen. But it still shocks me how people don’t know how atomic half life works or for that matter hot nuclear fallout works.
also the worse thing that can happen in a reactor is the water heats to a ridiculous temperature and explodes sending the reaction chamber flying through the roof and impaling people with the control rods...that's happened before... still significantly safer than coal...
+masterpwn3r Higly dense material used for ammunition to penetrate armor. Problem, ask the Irak kids that played near the destroyed tanks that were hit by uran-ammunition. They inhaled the alpha emitters that were sitting in the sand after the bullet pulverized when hitting the tank and creating a abnormal heat inside it. Didnt go well for those kids...
Plenty of New Yorkers also breathed in uranium dust from the depleted uranium counterweights on the crashed aircraft. More will die from asbestos than ever be sickened by depleted uranium. The ammunition and the weights are in metallic form, which isn't easily bio-available. But, that doesn't sell sensationalist headlines that'll sell someone's "news product", does it?
>Gunpowder What's actually really interesting about this particular example is that gunpowder doesn't "explode" unless it is kept inside a container until the burning powder can build up enough pressure to rupture said container. This is why firework powder is packed in cardboard tube and such. This is why modern firearms use a cylinder that is plugged on one side and the projectile is press-fit into a cartridge. If one takes any standard .223/5.56 cartridge, sticks it in a rifle designed for said cartridge, and pulls the trigger, they get a "BANG", and 0.224" hole punched in whatever was on the unfriendly side.... HOWEVER, if one takes the exact same round, pulls the bullet, and dumps it onto a fireproof surface, igniting it will only result in a quick burn and some smoke. As there's no means of containing or directing the expanding gases caused by the gunpowder's burning, there's no "bang", there's hardly any flash, and instead of the reaction happening inside of half a second, you get a nice tiny blaze for about 2 seconds... So, gunpowder outside of a properly engineered containment vessel is like low-enriched reactor uranium; you'll get fire and smoke, but not a lot of "bang" or shockwave... Gunpowder loaded into a firearm cartridge, however, is like high-enriched weapon uranium, in that you get a good amount of noise and light when starting the chemical reaction..... It's almost as if you have to design weapons to be weapons before you can use them as weapons............
Aye and don't forget that as TF said, Uranium is highly toxic. Effective the USA dropped tons of chemical warfare weapons all over Iraq and there are damning reports about the results including genetic damage. But hey, go ahead and invade Syria for using chem weapons.Fuking hypocrits, how about taking your own country back from thugs before worrying about other nations?
DeathLordFhyeg Technically, yes. But anything you can do with 1 inch of DU can just as easily be done with 2 inches of lead, at only 1/100th the price.
I recently wrote a paper, it focuses on the topics of public understanding of sciences as reflected in literature. I have reached the conclusion that we can never get rid of these crazies no matter how much science we develop, how much transparent we make the scientific method, how fool prove we make our technology. It is because science is ultimately limited (if not by a universal upper bound, then at least by the resources of a given era), there will be loopholes. Most People have innate fear for things that are unknown or unfamiliar, and unlike scientists who try their best to overcome these fear and solve it, they will take any opportunity to avoid them. Then there will be other greedy people who will take advantage of us because of that inbuilt psychological "defect". The best we can do is understand science as best as we could, learn to abandon our personal beliefs at the face of extraordinary evidence, and always stay skeptical...we can do nothing to get rid of the crazies, we can only increase our own protection against them, and that is through the proper education of science (which I believe almost all pre-college institutes in NA lack, but I am ready to be convinced otherwise.)
***** The problem with educated people is that they see through politicians, so most politicians are careful with educating the masses. Instead it should be their #1 priority.
tabularasa0606 Good point. As much as I'd like to think that education is bad, psychedelics are illegal and capitalism is seen as the only valid system because of people's fear of new things and tendency to hold on to old beliefs, the idea of the people in power trying to retain the status quo doesn't seem too outlandish in this case. And holy shit, that's a long freaking sentence.
Came back to watch this video again, and I'm currently looking at the 1g container of elemental Uranium-238 sitting on my display shelf about 3 feet away, which has been there for a few months now. Unfortunately, because of the information I learned from this video, I immediately died of acute radiation poisoning.
The military uses depleted uranium for ammunition manufacturing. It is actually incredibly well suited for this as it's about as heavy as lead but much harder like tungsten.
Dick Hamilton Believe it or not, I'm completely shittered at the moment. Depending on your proficiency with language, you can still carry yourself quite well; even if you've imbibed the better part of a 750ml (colloquially known as a "two-six," because of imperial measurements) of vodka in the last half-hour. "On the internet no one knows you're a dog" The more you know.
Pretty sure we had some Uranium Nitrate at my secondary school, I recall a zip lock bag with a yellow crystalline substance in it, that was used in our Physics lessons when we learned about radiation, and we were allowed to handle it, and hold it up to the Geiger counter etc. Of course, we all died horribly and turned into RadioActive Zombies.
Absolutely, hence the beer in the photo, us RadioActive Zombies shuffle around mumbling 'Beer!' instead.. You'll notice I'm drinking it outside, in the sunshine, so my glow is masked by ambient sunlight.
My grandpa worked in the nuclear reactor in 1950s and 1960s. He was handling Uranium bars with his bare hands. He would be in room with the reactor without any protection suits and he would be required to take a shower afterwards. That was the normal procedure. I think he was only allowed to be in the room with the reactor for 15 minutes. They would check out how much time each person spent and how much radiation each person received. Their safety measures back then were shocking from today's point of view. And this is clearly and purely anegtodal but my grandpa is now 88 years old and he has not developed a cancer or anything related to radiation. Honestly, it is pretty crazy that he accepted to do such a job in those conditions. Add to that the fact that he was one of the first ones to work there after a deadly incident in that reactor which killed one person and several others had to go to Paris where first ever bone transplantation in the world was done on them.
my god that guy is seriously messed up... I worked in a nuclear reactor once... we had to learn about alpha, beta and gamma... alpha particles can be blocked by a sheet of standard notebook paper! And on the subject of nuclear power reactors exploding, an interesting anecdote: The noted science fiction writer Larry Niven relates a story (I believe it was in the collection "N-Space") in which he was contacted by another writer, asking him to describe how a terrorist could make a nuclear reactor explode... Niven explained that it wasn't possible... can't be done, nothing a terrorist can do would cause a nuclear explosion at a nuclear power facility, even assuming they could gain access and somehow plant a bomb or something... short of actually planting a nuclear bomb, a nuclear power plant cannot explode... period... after relating this informatin to the other writer, she replied "Oh well, my readers won't know that... I'll just make something up." *That* is why idiots think the shit they see in movies and read in badly written novels gets spread around as if it's true...
... On some level, I want California to be a radioactive wasteland. Just to get my haands on NCR Ranger armor. That outfit is probably the most badass post-apocalyptic armor ever designed.
My dad had to go to a city hall meeting because his company was given a project to install a cell tower in a neighborhood, but everybody was protesting because the radio waves were going to "give them cancer"
@@superchuck3259 that's what landscape architects, city planning committee, and structural engineers are for. Honestly some of the rules city planners come up with are pretty strange
@@GabrielWeed Some NIMBYs where I live in Germany managed to prevent a Rail Line from getting Electrified because the "evil Electric Radiation" will give them Cancer. To demonstrate their Theories, they tested the next larger (and electrified) Train Station with a Geiger Counter which obviously picked up the normal Background Radiation, but according to them it was caused by the Overhead Power Lines. To not disprove their Points, they did not take a comparative Reading from another Place without Rail Electrification. Other Arguments of them included, that Overhead Power Lines would be outdated and inefficient, as Battery Electric Trains exist today. Because charging several Tons worth of Batteries and hauling them around all the Time sure is more efficient than getting Power supplied directly via Overhead Catenaries.
What can a dense metal be used for? Well, it can be made into a penetrating dart for a tanks APDS round. It can be used for armour, along with other materials like ceramics, steel, and aluminum. Those are some things a dense material like U-238 could be used for.
+Infinity Salinity That is why depleted uranium is used. Uranium is used a lot, especially in the military, but they use a version that is not harmful.
The really sad thing about the nuclear paranoia, if it hadn't been for them we would not have had an energy crisis in the 1970's AND we would not be facing such a huge problem with climate change.
+Eric Taylor okay, so there is paranoia, but what about Japan radiation.. nothing to worry about, nothing to see here, move along now. Rose colored glasses let's put them on.. nuclear is fine folks. I'm open to being educated as to why we shouldn't worry about nuclear when things like Japan happen... and infect our fish (the food we uhm, eat) with radiation. Is that exaggerated paranoia? NIF (national ignition facility) might be on to something... but they've been working on safe nuclear technology for years now, with little to actually show for.
Z505 Software Okay what about the much more massive radioactive products poured out by coal burning plants, along with tons of CO2 and other pollutants. A coal burning plant produces between 50 and 100 times as much radioactive waste as a nuclear power plant. However in a nuclear power plant it is concentrated in one place, making it much more easy to deal with. Chernobyl and Fukashima were both old, primitive plants. They didn't have fail safe systems. More modern plants can't do what those plants did. Pointing out the accidents isn't realistic. Yes it's bad when it happens, but the impact, as bad as that impact is, of even a really bad accident like Chernobyl is TINY compared to the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels. Even "alternative" energy generation has a huge environmental impact compared to the TWO bad accidents. that have taken place in the 60+ years that nuclear power generation has been used. And those two events took place in less safe power plants than what we have now.
Eric Taylor The Chernobyl design, unlike water moderated reactors, had a positive thermal coefficient of reactivity, in other words it was inherently unstable. From 1986 until 2011 there were NO accidents. How many of the people who think Fukushima was a nuclear disaster know the name of the earthquake? * But it caused thousands of deaths, whereas the only deaths associated with the loss of the reactors, which survived the earthquake and lost their necessary auxiliary power for the coolant, to the subsequent tsunami. The truth is, that a month before the Chernobyl meltdown the IFR project's EBR II proved that all water cooled reactors are technically obsolete -- unless we consider that it was proven in Nixon's time by the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) Experiment. The one flaw that TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima-Daiichi had in common was ceramic fuel and a coolant of water under high pressure. The IFR (Integral Fast Reactor) uses metal fuel cells in a liquid metal coolant that does not boil at atmospheric pressure and reactor temperatures. It is a breeder reactor. see arcnuclear.com or google "GE PRISM" for descendants. The MSR design, also a breeder reactor, uses lithium fluoride salt, which melts at a temperature higher than boiling water, and is in no danger of boiling. The fuel, in fluoride form, dissolves in the molten salt. The MSR uses "thermal" neutrons, like the water moderated designs, and can therefore reach exact criticality with a low concentration of fissile isotopes. The most recent design uses hydrogen nuclei as moderators, in zirconium hydride transatomicpower.com. Both of these designs are immune to meltdown, and as breeder reactors could supply the world for centuries from available uranium and thorium. Solar origin energy, other than fossil solar, was inadequate for the world population of the 18th century. I suspect that the superstitious fear of "toxic plutonium" may put an end to either civilization or the Western democracies. China knows better. * Tohoku
Albert Rogers Will you please re-read my comments. I am not anti-nuke. I am FOR nuclear power. I think it is currently our best option BY FAR for solving the problems of climate change AND our dependence of Arab oil.
"I'd love to see some animated explanations of what went wrong at ... Chernobyl" -hey juri here is good idea, how about we shut down cooling system just for shits and giggles -good idea ... -shift is over gotta go home ... -hey alex why is reactor 4 getting so warm? meh, who cares ... -now warmth is getting uncomfortable -deploy control rods -ups ... (all in russian accent)
Vanadium is found just about everywhere. It's also used in common tool alloys. It's found in a number of foods including apples and eggs as well as soy beans. Vanadium pentoxide is the most toxic and produced during welding steel that contains vanadium. Some of the affects are :- eye irritation, heart problems, respiratory problems, digestive inflamations, skin irritations, all of which are very treatable. Elemental vanadium is able to be handed safely unless you have an alegic reaction to it.
Several non nuclear metal elements to avoid handling are :- calcium, lithium, cadmium, sodium, mercury and even antimony are far more toxic than lead which is far more toxic than aluminium and nickel which are far more toxic than vanadium which is more toxic than iron.
The amount of damage that radiation can inflict is a function of how much energy your tissue is subjected to. The half-life of a substance is a good indication of how rapidly it's energy is released. For a simple example, consider getting some steel wool. That steel wood can oxidize (rust) either over a period of days or weeks ("long half-life"), or you can directly ignite it and cause it to burn in a few second ("short half-life"). In either case, the same amount of energy is released into the environment. But in the case of slow rusting, you could hold it directly in your hand and not notice any ill effects. But if you ignite it and then attempt to hold the burning steel wool directly on your skin, I hope you have something to treat the burns you're going to get. As regards the half-life of different radioactive substances, the most immediate danger is from the short-lived isotopes because of the high energy release they give off. But because of the short half-life, the hazard dissipates over a short period of time and becomes harmless relatively soon. The extremely long half-life substances are not much of a hazard because they don't release much energy. But they stick around a long time allowing idiots to claim that they remain deadly for million to billions of years. And uranium is a rather hazardous substance to get into your body. But not because it's radioactive, it's far more hazardous because it's a HEAVY METAL. Think about the health impact you would get from excessive exposure to LEAD. Same difference. You're being *chemically* poisoned by both substances. If you want a really hazardous radioactive substance, look for something with a relatively short half-life, but a not too short half-life. You want something that has a large energy release, but still stick around for a generation or two. For instance, imagine a nuclear bomb encased in strontium. Such a bomb would release a lot of strontium-90, which has a half-life of 28.8 years. That's short enough to have a lot of energy being released. And long enough that it remains quite dangerous for a couple of hundred years.
I realize that I'm mostly preaching to the choir for those watching this video, but there is an extremely important point as to the safety of nuclear power that I have yet to have a single critic answer: If nuclear power is so unsafe, why is it that the engineers who designed and built the power plant are the least afraid people to actually work there during operation?
The engineers who design and build them do only that. They don't have anything to do with the plant, post build and flash up. why would they be afraid to work there. Everything is perfect, and running like a top, when they finish their work. The danger comes when maintenance costs cut into profits and inspectors are paid off, to delay critical maintenance, NRC has budget cuts orchestrated by NE lobbyists paying off politicians to deregulate NE, construction of facilities on fault lines, (disposal of waste with no oversight in unsafe areas, transported using unsafe containment by unqualified personnel with no oversight). It isn't the production, when everything is working, that is unsafe. It is ageing facilities that the company would just rather abandon, than decommission and clean up properly, faulty maintenance/construction, and waste disposal, that are dangerous.
***** Would it surprise you that there has not been a single death related to radiation poisoning in the commercial sector of nuclear energy? (This statement applies to all western countries and Japan outside of the Soviet Union.) I have spent a lot of time working in and around nuclear reactors while in operation. It is amazing how unafraid everyone is.
Lee Johnson Radiation levels for employees who work close to a reactor is barely higher than background levels. Of course since we are all exposed to radiation on a daily basis from natural sources, biology has in turn evolved such that a low level of radiation is actually good for you. www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/04/01/do-nuclear-power-plants-cause-cancer/ www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/radiation-the-no-safe-level-myth.html
Lee Johnson No it didn't, the best estimate is ~9000. Which is lower than, say, the worst hydroelectric accident, but the only 30 people value is just soviet propaganda.
IamGrimalkin The "30 people" number (31-41 actually) is widely acknowledged by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization which has done an independent investigation into the matter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster There is legitimate concern over long term increased cancer rates as a result of the fallout, though sometimes even these estimates are wildly blown out of proportion. It is very difficult to estimate this number.
I work in the nuclear industry as an engineer and it is super frustrating hearing morons go on about conceptually inaccurate information about nuclear science. It's not just wackos either. Reputable TH-cam channels also get vital concepts wrong.
***** we live in a nuclear age, and there is far too little discussion about it despite its importance. you ought not to take my comment as affirming the views herein, i am glad the discussion is taking place. people can and will make up their own minds.
You should get a high pitch beep warning lmao, I'm watching this on the lower floor of my house and someone upstairs woke up thinking your Geiger counter was a smoke alarm or something 😂
@1:25 perhaps Thunderf00t isn't aware. That is a legal disclaimer that is required to be put on anything sold as any form of remedy, that isn't evaluated by the FDA, etc.. It isn't something Alex Jones just decided to put on there, because he didn't believe in his product.
Jesus, thanks for this video. As a radiological controls technician, I have heard some *really* stupid shit about radiation poisoning and radioactive elements.
fun fact, in school, we were studying some wars and all in history classes and we learned about the dangers of nuclear bombs and do you know what was the "most dangerous radious of effect"? the area wich is not affected by the explosion, cuz ppl will be scared and rush to urgencies with the little sneeze or cough, flooding hospitals for no reason and that was in middle school, so im amazed ppl are still this paranoid about nuclear power
Wouldn't it be the center of where the bomb landed? I mean, I'd rather have people rushing to the hospital for possible radiation sickness than being instantly fried alive.
@@estebanortega8744 cuz those ppl, ig they get any illness or anything at all will think its radiation poisoning, not working, flooding hospitals for decades, and/or leaving the area at all (spreading the fear) and leaving it unprotected and easy to ocupy
@@a_creatorsstuff17 "Flooding hospitals for decades"... what? "Easy to occupy"... what? You must be high as fuck or something. Gl with that bs either way, im out.
I think it's a good thing we have nuclear power plants. Why? Well, if we didn't, there would just be more coal/oil/gas/etc. power plants further harming the planet. Like it or not, nuclear power plants help protect the global environment. Yes, renewables are better, but they are also more expensive hence why nuclear is a good support to going green. If what I have read about nuclear fusion is right, we should develop it fast and replace nuclear fission with fusion as that is more safe and efficient.
teubert2 Actually nuclear is almost completely renewable. Every 18 months nuclear power plants remove the uranium they have in their system. In countries outside America, thanks to Jimmy Carter, there are facilities to renew the uranium. Also, it is believed that there will be a synthetic element that will help improve nuclear power.
There are tables that show the effects of exposure based on time. Briefly handling a rock of uranium is of no concern whatsoever, but having the rock very close to you (say, pressed against your skin) for years can absolutely have negative effects and cause cancer.
@@superchuck3259 Wrong. Although the dead layer of skin blocks some alpha particles, some can still get through to the healthy layer underneath. Think of it like the sun. You shouldn't be afraid of it, but if you're exposed for too long without protection, you could get skin cancer.
Alright. I'm aware this video is old, but I simply MUST thank you for introducing me to the song Dancing with Tears in my Eyes. It's been on repeat for the last six days and I'm STILL not tired of it. ThunderfOOt, I thank you.
it would be funny because they used to use fluoride as a dumming drug on prisoners, so stupid people would become even less intelligent if they actually bought it.....and used it
superpepleen Found it. The ingredients in Fluoride Shield™ include tamarind, zeolites, organic fulvic acid, shilajit, cilantro and nascent iodine. Here's a little bit about each ingredient: Tamarind has been recognized for its ability to help the body's natural method of eliminating toxic fluoride residues from the body. Zeolites have a long history for attracting and holding toxic compounds in their structure, which is essential to this formula. Fulvic acid is one of the greatest cleansing and nourishing compounds used around the world, and has been utilized to help displace various toxic compounds within the alimentary system. Shilajit is a rare compound that releases out of the mountain walls in the Himalayan mountains. It has to be harvested by hand and there is a limited supply available. It has even been used for thousands of years in Ayruvedic healing. Cilantro is a recognized healing herb traditionally known for its ability to mobilize toxic compounds and other dangerous substances into the blood for safe removal from the body. Iodine may also help the body's natural defense from fluoride accumulation and help cleanse excess fluoride from the system. store.infowars.com/fluoridedetox
@@superchuck3259 Oh my God! You're right! lol! Robocop is "I'd buy that for a dollar!"! Thanks for the correction. Both movies have that "same flavor" to me and it looks like my neurons crossed when I wrote this!
@@mirozen_ All these movies are fun. They do poke fun at things. How far will things be pushed. Like the rich citizen parents that their kid can't be a citizen unless enlists in the military in SST.
@@superchuck3259 Yes! And I loved bits like the kids asking to play with the soldiers firearms...and the bit ending with them handing out live ammo! LOL! Actually the "Citizenship for service" aspect of Starship Troopers came straight from Heinlein's book. The idea was that anyone could amass a fortune or do whatever you wanted to do for a living, but to earn the right to vote you had to voluntarily spend time in service to society. And the ONLY way to join the service was to volunteer - there was no such thing as enforced conscription. The premise was that after some great war in the past tired soldiers who felt they had fought at the whim of politicians who had never been in the service were fed up. They rebuilt society and mandated that the power to "send in the troops" would only be given to those who had themselves served and would be less likely to take it lightly.
no man u-238 is dangerous my brother worked in a nuclear power plant and got shot by a mugger one day.
+Dog Stalin was the mugger u-238?
No he was killed by lead 206 the bottom of the decay chain.
+A Banana it was isis
tgg1217 in the future the shall be called "waswas"
A Banana linda glocke is my idol
YT is really messing up at the moment. First the video appeared only as audio. Video appeared later. Now I can add annotations, but i cant actually see the video Im adding them too. If the annotations look a little raggity, thats why!
I had that exact problem with audio to begin with. After refreshing I just watched the entire video through, no problems at all. Crystal clear!
Vision loaded after I refreshed too.
Tell me about it. I uploaded a 45 minute video where the audio and video deysnced linearly over that time. TH-cam really makes it as hard as they can for up-loaders these days.
Wait so this video was not supposed to be black-screened?
:/
I had problems too until i lowered the resolution. then comments wouldnt load... but hey great video. awesome science youre sharing with us. and great insight into the facts.
"Alphas have lousy penetrating power."
My maturity levels are going off the charts.
Priceless :D
Lol
beta uprising NOW
ROFL, it took like 5 seconds for me to get that MatA57.
Best comment
"California is not a wasteland. Not a radioactive wasteland, anyway"
-Thunderf00t, 2014
Truer words have never been spoken, and this has aged like fine wine.
Is Alex Jones' trying to sell Rad-X ?
+Dragonaut111 I wish it was just as effective :D
+Cameron Johnson #RAD-CHILD4LYFE
+Dragonaut111 Give your bodies to Atom, my friends. Release yourself to His Power, feel His Glow and be Divided.
+Dragonaut111
I just use the Lead Belly perk.
+Paul Phoenix on POINT! Hahaha!
That guy wasn't completely wrong about instant death, since yellowcake definitely instantly made him brain-dead...
+Tyler Moon every time someone says "yellow cake uranium" I think about the scene from the get smart movie.
I love how so many of Thunderf00t's vids are click bait titled, but the title is usually an understatement.
+Elorram Basdo the good kind of clickbait lol. like the opposite of prank channels..
"Nuclear waste gone sexual"
+Flemme Werfer You'll never believe what this yellow cake can do!
+Vaibhav Shah scientists hate this!
Vaibhav Shah ""This non-ionizing powder is fucking super hot bitches, and basically? you're fucking gay""
It's not click bait when it gets your attention with a fact and doesn't pull a switcheroo just for views...
Nuclear power is so scary, imagine if we were orbiting a fusion reactor several thousand times the size of earth with only a few tenth thicknesses of atmosphere between us and it :o
The Helios International High Altitude Fusion Reactor is a bigger threat than dihydrogen monoxide!
@@Bob5mith And i have heard that inhaling just one tablespoon of dihydrogen monoxide could kill in minutes.
Yeah, but try exposing yourself to that reactor without a whole bunch of ozone and a powerful magnetic field shielding you and see how that works out.
the 4th dimension will kill us all! it’s only a matter of time!
THE BORG???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????
Thanks for the warning, I was about te eat some uranium bars
John Lemon dumbass don’t eat uranium bars thorium is better for you
Eh. I prefer plutonium
too salty
Actual uranium bars like from a power plant?
Eat lead instead it saves you from radiation
I've had a small bottle of pure U-238 oxide on my shelf for years. I guess I've actually been dead all this time?
+KV3D Rip m8 :(
+KV3D U-238 oxide is not the same as U-238. But, to be fair, U-238 is barely radioactive anyway. It's U-235 and U-236 that are dangerous.
+KV3D oooooooooooooooooooooo you're a ghost bruh
+KV3D
You're essentially a walking lamp, a mutant, where are the cool powers mate?
+KV3D How many different tpes of cancer do you have ATM?
my physics professor took out a small sample of a radioactive cesium isotope and some guy flipped out. It was pretty funny but kinda sad at how misinformed he was :(
0cheeseburga What did the scared guy do?
sorry. he cant respond. he and everyone in the room died within the hour.
ericsbuds lol
Some people live a life filled with nothing but fear.
Fear of the unknown and invisible.
@@colc5469 it's been 3 years since I made this post, but to answer he said that the professor was insane and being dangerous. I believe that was the last day he came to class. Definitely did not make it as a physics major.
As a nuclear engineer myself I thank you for making this video.
Chernobyl was basically a regular explosion, which had the horrible side effect shooting radioactive material all over the place and into the atmosphere. So it was more like a dirty bomb than an atomic bomb. The crew at the plant willfully ignored standard safety procedures, almost crashed the reactor and then started it up with so much force they turned the entire reactor into a pressure cooker set to rupture. Which it did.
Radioactivity is dangerous, but not deadly per se. Plant life and wild animals are flourishing in the zone around Chernobyl and Pripyat seem to have adapted to the radiation to a certain degree. Deadly mutations exist, but its far from a giant zone of death. That would be the city of Pjongjang, where absolutely no life can thrive. We're constantly subjected to background radiation and don't die. Like Thunderf00t said, a flight on a plane will subject you to more radiation than a trip to the sarcophagus at Chernobyl.
I'm not too keen on getting myself too close to radioactive materials, but the scare involved doesn't reflect the actual dangers. It's kind of like with crime in the USA: Over the past 20 years, the number of homocides has dropped by about 40%, but the coverage has exploded by 400%.
Chernobyl was basically just the glorious Soviet technology enabling the workers at Chernobyl to complete the five years plan for energy production in five seconds!
+0x777 I laughed too much at that.
the city of Pjongjang, where absolutely no life can thrive ?? since when ?
Chernobyl was also a horrible reactor design with a positive temperature coefficient of reactivity. As temp went up, so did reactivity, which caused higher temp, which caused higher reactivity and so on, till the pressure went up faster than the relief valves could release.
Actually, the reactor exploded 3 times.
I'm sad that he's displaying a Canadian flag behind him.
I'm not Canadian, but as a fan I'll dare speak for him:
_Sorry_
I mean, it's where we get most of our uranium from in the US, isn't it?
canada imports about 24% of all uranium used in power plants in the united stats. so, it’s sorta the oppostite
Why is Canada so full of this stuff? I mean we all got our problems, but Canada's, interestingly all surround environmentalism....did maybe the Valdez have a big impact on people's attitudes there, or was it something else?
Fairly certain his accent is from Newfoundland, at least Atlantic Canada.
U-238 served the kriegsmarine between 1940 and 1941. It was attacked by a British destroyer and the crew recovered the enigma machine before U-238 sank.
Thank you Sabaton :o
Ob1sdarkside U-406 suffered several mechanical failures and U-124 sunk four ships in two approaches. U-569 made contact and lead the convoy into a trap.
Hahahaha
To their one shore came the world war
Gleves and Ingham....
Wow lol u238 used in more ways then one
"And what can you do with a very dense metal?"
THORIUM FREAKIN' ROADWAYS!
Possibly, but you can also make projectiles out of it and shoot them against enemy armoured vehicles/tanks.
Depleted uranium, yay...
Tungsten sidewalks
A terrible shell for a tank game.
and we'll also put them in parking lots!!
How to make yellow cake at home...you're welcome :)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x13 inch pan. Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk cream sugar and shortening until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating just to combine. finally, stir in vanilla. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Frost and enjoy.
I followed your directions to the letter and now my kitchen is a superfund cleanup site. Any suggestions for radiation containment while baking it in the future?
But how do we turn the cake into ceramic pellets and subsequentially fuel rods. With my baking skills even an ordinary cake is highly radioactive.
Instruction unclear, died from radiation.
1 block of cream cheese 1cup of light brown sugar 2 the of vanilla mix well in mixer till smooth then frost cake also is a great apple dip
@@masterchief3007 mix potassium iodine pills in the cake batter
Never knew that Alex Jones was a LITERAL snake-oil salesman.
Pay no attention to Smith, he needs desperately to get off the booze.
J. Smith wait how are ALL vitamins snake oil? Sounds bs or else people would've made more a fuss over them
Vitamin supplements are perfectly reasonable. Vitamins are necessary metabolic compounds used in the body. If someone is deficient in one or more of these compounds, it negatively affects your health. Therefore you take a supplement if bloodwork shows you have a major deficiency. They're also great for people whose dietary restrictions mean they have a low intake of a certain type (consider for example an autistic person whose sensory filter issues prevent them from eating most/all leafy vegetables, leading to low K-intake).
Now, "spectrum" vitamins like Centrum are a dash of snake oil, but the basic principle behind them is perfectly reasonable - poor dietary planning is common among Americans, so something like a children's vitamin supplement helps to ensure that poor diet doesn't lead to a deficiency. It's common that they simply aren't necessary, and their manufacturers push for them to be, but they're not all that bad and it's certainly not harmful.
Ninja, I have a lot of allergies, so I take some vitamins, especially C & D, Because, I can't eat fish or many veggies, I used to be able to eat spinach until I was 7. Then it just came back up. Now, I find I can eat a small amount of raw spinach.
People who say we should be vegans are insane. They have to take vitamins that are made from animals because there's no way humans can get it all from veggies. Sorry that's the way reality bites. If you con't think so, take a look at a horse or a cow. Then look at your stomach. By the way cows have 4 stomachs.
We have ONE.
Marilyn, I could destroy you with long paragraphs of information talking about proper nutrition as a dietitian. However there is a much simpler scientific fact that does the same. Vegans live longer than the average omnivore. Don't bother to argue, you will be bothering with science itself and can do that without my presence, research it yourself.
0:55 anyone else hear it as "...To protect myself from my family"?
yeah, it wouldnt surprise me if he really does believe it deep down. freudian slip maybe?
Were you sober when you wrote this, Smith? What does science have to do with a Freudian slip? Why would it have anything to do with a Freudian slip? A Freudian slip is a Freudian slip. Where you say something that evidently you were thinking of, but didn't want to say.
The problem is, Freud was wrong more than he ever was right. Even about "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". ;)
monica will take issue with freud on that one....so will slick willie!
He said it wrong,
He said to protect his family from him.
I love how the guy at 3:15 has hand made radioactive placards on his wall. When I see those, I know this is a show I can trust
that look made by a child, no less
I got those all over my house because the entire United States is a radioactive wasteland.
Yes his room looks like a child’s room- jail or insane asylum !!
Thunderf00t claims not to be instantly dead, and yet we only have his disembodied voice to trust in. I'm sorry, sir; I don't have enough faith to believe you are still alive and talking.
Checkmate!
If this was a wordplay competition, sure, checkmate!
But he is not doing swift word tricks. He is talking about whats real.
You see? REAL doesn't care how creative or funny one is with words or self deception. In REALITY you are still entertaining and encouraging the proponents of blind faith instead of reason and skepticism.
Roxidius I'm sure he was making a satirical comment, likely to make fun of those mentioned by thunderf00t in this video. I wouldn't misconstrue satire to be an honest rebuttal.
That needs to be left for her/him to explain. He's comment has apparently caused many "faithful" to do some victory laps.
Roxidius I guess satire only works when the viewer knows it's satire.
Exactly.
I'm really afraid that many rallying around him don't realize he is being satirical. Believe me I have met many republicans and conservatives who think that Steven Colbert is on their side.
12:50 In fact, even nuclear bombs, that are DESIGNED to produce nuclear explosions are diffecult or impossible to set off by accident.
Z505 Software
You people make me sick. Islam is not our enemy. Our enemy are Muslims, but that is secondary. Not ALL Muslims are our enemy.
+Eric Taylor Where did I say Islam is our enemy? Depends if you are fighting the computer virus or the person itself. Islam is the computer virus that gets passed on from computer to computer, muslims are the carrier of the virus. Arguing semantics about whether to fight the person, or the virus itself, is a moot point - but I never said Islam was the enemy in my post. I'll say it now: islam and muslims are the enemy, especially extremists who take their religions seriously. Moderates are enablers of the extremists. Just like there were plenty of moderate nazis who went along with Hitler because they were afraid to speak up.
Z505 Software
You said, "Until a Muslim gets a bomb..."
Islam is not worse or better than any other religion that teaches hatred of others, like Christianity.
Let me ask you, if this were WWII would you be worried about the Christians (in Germany) launching attacks, or would you be worried about the Nazis?
+Eric Taylor *Did you seriously* just compare the hatred of the Islamic religion, to Christianity?
You must have no idea what's going on in the world right now.
Meanwhile Israel is getting bombed and the U.S. is arming them with fancy defense systems.
Your 2nd comment, was actually so incorrect, I was forced to consider that the reliability of your first comment.
Yes it's that bad.
Mufin
Christianity spews hatred all over the place. How many non-religious people kick their teenage children out because they are gay? Christians do, because the Bible says homosexuality is a sin. The strongest opposition to same sex marriage came from Christians. How does same sex marriage threaten Christians?
No, it is you who are blind to Christian hatred. Only because you have been indoctrinated in childhood to think Jesus is all about love and acceptance and forgiveness. But only for other Christians. Christian doctrine is very clear on this point. If you are not a Christian you have no chance of being saved. As God would only reject evil, then anyone not Christian MUST be evil, thus hated.
poor guy, spent 8 years to get all of this wrong.
"Bombs that turn freaking frogs gay"
~wtf
You ever heard about the gay bomb?
Rainbow mushroom cloud
You do know that the US actually employed scientists during the cold war and those scientists job were to make a bomb that turned the Soviet army gay? So if Alex Jones is crazy then so is anyone who approved of that and those 'scientists' who spent valuable time on making a 'gay bomb'
@@RealEyesRealiseRealLies Also the "gay frogs" was sorta real, due to a chemical/hormone being released into the water it made frogs change sex.
I hate to say this but it was sort of true.. In A way. It wasn't a bomb. It was a chemical that would turn the frogs into A sexual frogs. It's kind of a strange story..I mean Alex Jones was covering it so you know it's gotta be wild.
Ignorance about radiation and its effects is nearly universal. Too many bad B Science Fiction movies has guided the public.
If you want to scare people there are 3 topics:
1. radioactivity
2. EM fields
3. microbiology
I know a scarier one, trying to get a christian to read that bible they shake at homosexuals.
Marilyn Newman
Good one.
Religion should be labeled as a mental illness.
+Chris Barth: _Another_ good one, following on the heels of Marilyn Newman's comment...
"The flowers are still standing!"
Gold!
-Peter Venkman 1984
can't wait for thorium reactors, one of the most dense materials known to man.
Wanna power your car with it? For a hundred years?
if only they'd said "One of the Heaviest Natural Findable Materials known to man". xD
It'll be so cool to power lasers with the reactor to boil water.
Will Roberts But of course! Everything's better with lasers!
Mirco De Zorzi
Cuz we all know "The More Steps a System has, the more Efficent it is" xD
"Diametrically orthogonal to reality." applause
11:20 Half life of Uranium 238 minus half life of Uranium 235 equals 3... HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!
No actually it's 3.8 billion years.
I used the numbers 238-235, not the time lengths of the half lives.
Yes bt that's not the half-life...
Rikard Nilsson Yes bt that's not the joke...
WORD SON
You fill a dixie cup with this guy's bullshit and oratory skills and put it in a restaurant filled with people, and they'll all die of boredom before he finishes his first sentence. Thank you for your great knowledge, Thunderf00t. Keep slashing down those pseudoscientists.
lmfao...gold!!
If you look at him however you will understand why he thinks so, he looks like he was one of those children deformed by radiation
+Lee Shang he looks like my french teacher in grade five, she was a woman...
+MoviMakr lol true tho
lol love it.
"What can you do with a very dense metal?"
me: shoot it out a cannon!!!!
or make armor out of it, like in the abrams
@John S its funny because you wanted them to die from the impact not from poison.
its like lead-free ammunition, its silly
Huh wonder why nobody's thought of that... oh wait.
@@TheRealBunnyMan Tanks fire DU rounds, A-10s fire DU rounds, it has loads of penetrating power (lenny)
@@cursedcliff7562Gau - 8 fires 30 mm DU sabot rounds that can only penetrate korean war era tanks(T54, T55, T34-85, IS 3) Modern tanks use composite armor which negates this.
thanks man, in 30 minutes im doing an engineering exam and thanks to you now i am calm. you seem to know a lot of things! i subscribed and liked the video because you did a great job
As a graduate of Naval Nuclear Power school...I approve this video. :)
May I ask you a question? I'm a huge fan of ThunderfOOt so I am very sincere. I am probably not grasping the finer details but the main thing I took away from this video was the it is nearly impossible for a nuclear plant to explode, however wasn't there an explosion at Chernobyl?
+Megan Hess It is not "nearly", it is 100% impossible. What happened at Chernobyl was that their reactor design used a graphite-sodium cooling system which had what is called a positive coefficient of reactivity, meaning that the reactor had to be "fought" to keep it from getting out of control, vice pressurized water reactors (PWR) in America which have a negative coefficient of reactivity and wants to shut down if things get to "hot". (Basically water is a moderator and that means it slows down neutrons, the hotter the water gets, the more apart the water molecules are and the less fissions will take place...and the reactor is always trying to shut down...so it is a much more stable design)
In Chernobyl being a positive coefficient it got out of control as the moderator got hotter causing more fissions to take place....it generated a huge amount of pressure and steam which exploded. It was not a nuclear explosion as in an atomic bomb, it was a steam explosion from the heat generation from the runaway thermal reactions.
So, not it is NOT possible for a nuclear plant to explode as in an atomic bomb (there simply is not even close to the amount, purity, and configuration required), but like any heat source....it can have a steam explosion, which is what happened.
+Steve McRae Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my question
+Megan Hess You are MOST WELCOME! :)
+Steve McRae Well la-dee- freaking -da! As a former officer in the US army I, too, approve this video. What did I do for Uncle Sam you ask? errr. ahem. Mobility Augmentation. Sound cool? 'Snot. Managed a fleet of transport (materil) vehicles
This guy is a fantastic example of why the rest of us Canadians do not take Newfoundland seriously.
Boring Old White Guy I'z da buy DAT builds da bomb & I'z da buy DAT arms her.
Why do newphies make great astronauts? They have been taking up space in school their entire lives.
Most people thinking of exploding nuclear facilities: Freaking massive fiery mushroom cloud!
Realistic people thinking of exploding facilities: Freaking lots of steam.
***** Exactly
+Duct Tape Through radioactive mushroom cloud combustion! Duh!
Oh God the steam!
@@brandonvelde5774 But now the folks are worrying about cow farts!
"D'yknow what it is about radioactivity that drives people crazy?"
Ignorance. Plain and simple. They simply do not know nearly enough about radiological science......
Fortunately, we have Thunderf00t!
I know
Thunderfoot is a nobody. He's not a professor or an authority figure in anything science-related. He gets idiots to think he's smart by targeting other idiots. He only goes for the low hanging fruit.
Literally anyone who knows how to use Google can easily get the facts on radioactivity and know what is or isn't dangerous.
If you need a stupid TH-camr to tell you things instead of doing your own research then you're just a mindless drone.
@greg77389 You do know that Thunderfoot is a active and working member in the scientific community right? Sure he is not a person of authority but that does not make him an idiot, and whit your logic Nicolas Tesla, Albert Einstein, Newton was all idiots that we should not listen too becouse they where not voices of authority
I've been pro-nuclear power since I was a kid, and I haven't found anything yet to disprove that it is still the best way to produce our electricity when used responsibly.
Same, I'm 15 nearly 16 :D
labobo fusion bombs already exist...
labobo you didn’t specify a primary stage fusion bomb I was referring to hydrogen bombs without going into detail, it doesn’t matter if fission is required to create the conditions for fusion the end result is the same
labobo no by end result I meant a fusion event releases the same amount of energy, no matter how it was started
It’s just less efficient to have to do fission first
labobo you mean thermonuclear bombs? Yeah those exist
It's funny because I've got a sample of Americium 241 about a foot away from me while I'm watching this. Not dead yet.
Most people do without knowing it. It's in your smoke detector.
Zapp3012 Where do you think I got it from?
Hands up all those who have a sample of Radium 226 a few feet away. "Puts hand up!"
I've touched it with my bare hands last year, and last time I checked I was breathing and cancer free!
I have a total of ~0.4 millicuries (~15 MBq) of Am-241 so far. That's ~400 modern smoke detectors. I have many other isotopes (natural and synthetic), like Radium-226, Strontium-90, Caesium-137, etc., and even beautiful Thorium and Uranium minerals and Uranium metal and chemical samples. I've been collecting and studying radioactive materials for many years. It's a passion of mine, and I'm doing just fine. I love it! You can do really interesting experiments.
I remember handling alpha radiation in school, you stop it with a single sheet of paper. It's pretty much only dangerous if you ingest it.
Or shot someone with a pellet of a strong alpha emitter, like the Russians did once.
kokofan50 Well.... Yeah.
That was Ricin I believe. The Russians spiked an ex KGB agents tea with an alpha emitter in the UK (polonium 210).
Gamma radiation is bad. He should mention the different types of radiation, some will do harm, some not so much.
kokofan50 that was ricin first of all,next of all it was the bulgarian secret police.
Thunderfoot, thank you for being the voice of reason in a really crazy world that seems crazier every day. That very well may have been the dumbest thing ever said about a radionuclide, but since the title is "about Nuclear Power", what comes to my mind as the the dumbest thing ever said is when they were getting certification for the first commercial light water reactors and the power company said "It'll be too cheap to meter." P.S. I love the Dirty Harry reference! you GO!
Yep, often times, it is too cheap to meter, they should just charge residential customers 150 a month and be done with it.
All this science stuff is so unfair! I used to be a submarine reactor operator, and I want my superpowers from radiation exposure! But, shit - I forgot - we had less radiation exposure on the boat than we did on land. Damn! I knew I should have sabotaged that reactor!
I live in Japan. I enjoy your post. There are so many people here who have no idea how nuclear power works and they are still afraid of radiation because of the two bombs. This series only helps me to explain that there isn't anything to worry about with Fukushima. Thank you for all the information you provide.
I got this magical CUP MADE FROM DEATH next to me because it looks pretty! Death is experiencing some lag apparently!
My friend thought that nuclear power was detonating nukes and using windmills to take the blast wind.
That is genius. Never even crossed my mind that you could hypothetically do that. What would those wind turbines even look like. Hahaha lmao
Well that is a new take on Wind Power.
Wonder if you could con people into thinking that is how wind power works!!!
From looking at his tan at 1:00 , I don't think Alex Jones has been protecting himself from much radiation
That's just the sun. He was talking about Loominotti Radiation Sityetion.
Oh come on now
Picking on Alex Jones is like outplaying a 5 year old at chess
A five year old with thousands of followers praising him for his chess-based skillz.
That five year old needs outplayed.
L. Ron Hubbard wrote a whole book about radioactivity, so it's a pretty bold claim to say that someone else owns the dumbest thing ever said about radioactivity. Give Hubbs his props.
originalhgc Maybe he hasn’t heard about it. Even then, this is still pretty high up there.
ElRon was a genius. One of the greatest con men in the history of crime.
When it comes to nuclear anything Thunderf00t is the one to listen to.
My teacher showed me some yellow cake.
P.S I didn't die
was it vanilla flavored jk XD
Yes
+lonewolf031 it wasn't a cake. That cake was a lie. It's cheese
cheese! cheese for everyone!
Wait, no, cheese for no one.
Spoiler: A very dense material is good for projectiles (bullets).
Thomas Johansson That's why the military uses depleted uranium as ammunition for penetrating tanks.
Joaquin Fritsch Santis I don't think there's enough radiation in d.u. to do anything to a person like that.
Joaquin Fritsch Santis Yeah. It'd probably be similar to being shot with a lead bullet. The metal poisoning will kill you first.
Joaquin Fritsch Santis yes and no. Most bullets are cased in a copper coating. These days. But older guns such as pre 1900 used a fully lead bullet. And most weapons now adays are much more powerful than they were. Meaning most. (I say most. But not all) are through and through wounds where the bullet will exit the victim. the military uses ammunition with no lead in it. It's a steel core round, which helps in penetrating light armor and it's more humane.
Jacob don’t they also use it for shielding in tanks?
I am a complete scientific laymen. But it still shocks me how people don’t know how atomic half life works or for that matter hot nuclear fallout works.
0:44 "fluoride shield". My teeth grow a similar thing thanks to toothpaste.
Science!! Beating ignorance with 80s music, Ghostbusters and 5th Element references! :D
Still better, with Betoven's 5 th.....DADADA DAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Get all your science education from Television and never ever look at the Periodic Table.
Doing so is offensive!
I may disagree with ya on some stuff man, but you always hit the nail on the head with Nuclear Power.
didnt he work at a nuclear power planet for awhile?
@@chetpower772 he works or worked at a research reactor
@@chetpower772 So he knows more than the scaremongers who have no knowledge whatsoever...
Yeah I thought so. I remember him showing us what neutron beam does to a phone camera. And how they seal the reacter room.
Exactly.
also the worse thing that can happen in a reactor is the water heats to a ridiculous temperature and explodes sending the reaction chamber flying through the roof and impaling people with the control rods...that's happened before...
still significantly safer than coal...
You want to know what else happens? Fatal radiation exposure (2500 rads) ...that has happened before.
Even though the Newfoundland accent is unmistakable, when I saw the Canadian flag my heart sank...
I thought I detected quite a lot of Irish in his accent?
@@bazzabaz Newfoundland accent sounds a lot like an Irish accent, depending on what part of "the Rock" you come from
@@scottk6659 Newfie?
@@craiga2002 I am not but know many
Oh Canada 🎶 :-(
Still wanting us to switch to thorium reactors, the waste will be a lot safer for long-term storage.
Oh yeah
Thorium is far too abundant and productive for big energy.
heh... yellow cake.. shit i had a nice slice of yellow cake today.. butter cream icing and all
i prefer chocolate cake with cream and cookies tho
me too but yo haave to admit that alaskan crab omelett tastes very well
Cake.... Cake never changes
Butter cream icing is disgusting (in my opinion)...
2 years... and no "next video in this series"
#FeelsBadMan
+Albert Calinescu yeah i'd like to know as well. PUSH
+masterpwn3r Higly dense material used for ammunition to penetrate armor. Problem, ask the Irak kids that played near the destroyed tanks that were hit by uran-ammunition. They inhaled the alpha emitters that were sitting in the sand after the bullet pulverized when hitting the tank and creating a abnormal heat inside it. Didnt go well for those kids...
Plenty of New Yorkers also breathed in uranium dust from the depleted uranium counterweights on the crashed aircraft.
More will die from asbestos than ever be sickened by depleted uranium. The ammunition and the weights are in metallic form, which isn't easily bio-available.
But, that doesn't sell sensationalist headlines that'll sell someone's "news product", does it?
>Gunpowder
What's actually really interesting about this particular example is that gunpowder doesn't "explode" unless it is kept inside a container until the burning powder can build up enough pressure to rupture said container. This is why firework powder is packed in cardboard tube and such. This is why modern firearms use a cylinder that is plugged on one side and the projectile is press-fit into a cartridge.
If one takes any standard .223/5.56 cartridge, sticks it in a rifle designed for said cartridge, and pulls the trigger, they get a "BANG", and 0.224" hole punched in whatever was on the unfriendly side....
HOWEVER, if one takes the exact same round, pulls the bullet, and dumps it onto a fireproof surface, igniting it will only result in a quick burn and some smoke. As there's no means of containing or directing the expanding gases caused by the gunpowder's burning, there's no "bang", there's hardly any flash, and instead of the reaction happening inside of half a second, you get a nice tiny blaze for about 2 seconds...
So, gunpowder outside of a properly engineered containment vessel is like low-enriched reactor uranium; you'll get fire and smoke, but not a lot of "bang" or shockwave... Gunpowder loaded into a firearm cartridge, however, is like high-enriched weapon uranium, in that you get a good amount of noise and light when starting the chemical reaction.....
It's almost as if you have to design weapons to be weapons before you can use them as weapons............
3:11 Southern California is literally a desert
The rest is fine
I know because I live there
Same
What can you do with really dense metal? I know the answer! You make bullets! That's where depleted uranium ammunition comes from.
Well...spoiler alert.
Or you can breed it into something more useful.
Well if it's really dense, wouldn't it help as a radiation shield, if you would sandwich it between 2 layers of Pb?
Aye and don't forget that as TF said, Uranium is highly toxic.
Effective the USA dropped tons of chemical warfare weapons all over Iraq and there are damning reports about the results including genetic damage.
But hey, go ahead and invade Syria for using chem weapons.Fuking hypocrits, how about taking your own country back from thugs before worrying about other nations?
DeathLordFhyeg
Technically, yes. But anything you can do with 1 inch of DU can just as easily be done with 2 inches of lead, at only 1/100th the price.
I recently wrote a paper, it focuses on the topics of public understanding of sciences as reflected in literature. I have reached the conclusion that we can never get rid of these crazies no matter how much science we develop, how much transparent we make the scientific method, how fool prove we make our technology. It is because science is ultimately limited (if not by a universal upper bound, then at least by the resources of a given era), there will be loopholes. Most People have innate fear for things that are unknown or unfamiliar, and unlike scientists who try their best to overcome these fear and solve it, they will take any opportunity to avoid them. Then there will be other greedy people who will take advantage of us because of that inbuilt psychological "defect".
The best we can do is understand science as best as we could, learn to abandon our personal beliefs at the face of extraordinary evidence, and always stay skeptical...we can do nothing to get rid of the crazies, we can only increase our own protection against them, and that is through the proper education of science (which I believe almost all pre-college institutes in NA lack, but I am ready to be convinced otherwise.)
I think that good education would remedy this, along with many other issues.
*****
The problem with educated people is that they see through politicians, so most politicians are careful with educating the masses. Instead it should be their #1 priority.
tabularasa0606 Good point.
As much as I'd like to think that education is bad, psychedelics are illegal and capitalism is seen as the only valid system because of people's fear of new things and tendency to hold on to old beliefs, the idea of the people in power trying to retain the status quo doesn't seem too outlandish in this case.
And holy shit, that's a long freaking sentence.
Came back to watch this video again, and I'm currently looking at the 1g container of elemental Uranium-238 sitting on my display shelf about 3 feet away, which has been there for a few months now. Unfortunately, because of the information I learned from this video, I immediately died of acute radiation poisoning.
U238 is very dense. what can you do with very dense and heavy lumps of metal...?
Thunderfoot is going to make a nuclear trebuchet!
The military uses depleted uranium for ammunition manufacturing. It is actually incredibly well suited for this as it's about as heavy as lead but much harder like tungsten.
NOTICE TO ALL VIEWERS: THIS NEWFIE DOES NOT REPRESENT CANADA.
dredawgz1
Topkek.
***** Dana looks like a drunk to me. It's the eyes.
Dick Hamilton
I'm a drunk and even I don't say shit this stupid; especially without actually looking into what I'm talking about.
***** y'know, I don't believe you are... perfect punctuation, no spelling errors :-)
Dick Hamilton
Believe it or not, I'm completely shittered at the moment. Depending on your proficiency with language, you can still carry yourself quite well; even if you've imbibed the better part of a 750ml (colloquially known as a "two-six," because of imperial measurements) of vodka in the last half-hour.
"On the internet no one knows you're a dog"
The more you know.
Pretty sure we had some Uranium Nitrate at my secondary school, I recall a zip lock bag with a yellow crystalline substance in it, that was used in our Physics lessons when we learned about radiation, and we were allowed to handle it, and hold it up to the Geiger counter etc. Of course, we all died horribly and turned into RadioActive Zombies.
Absolutely, hence the beer in the photo, us RadioActive Zombies shuffle around mumbling 'Beer!' instead.. You'll notice I'm drinking it outside, in the sunshine, so my glow is masked by ambient sunlight.
We couldn't have done that in my high school hen I was growing up, because someone would have stolen it to snuff later, for sure...
My grandpa worked in the nuclear reactor in 1950s and 1960s. He was handling Uranium bars with his bare hands. He would be in room with the reactor without any protection suits and he would be required to take a shower afterwards. That was the normal procedure. I think he was only allowed to be in the room with the reactor for 15 minutes. They would check out how much time each person spent and how much radiation each person received. Their safety measures back then were shocking from today's point of view. And this is clearly and purely anegtodal but my grandpa is now 88 years old and he has not developed a cancer or anything related to radiation. Honestly, it is pretty crazy that he accepted to do such a job in those conditions. Add to that the fact that he was one of the first ones to work there after a deadly incident in that reactor which killed one person and several others had to go to Paris where first ever bone transplantation in the world was done on them.
I live in California. If it's a waste land, no one has told me or the millions of other people here.
It's a wasteland for other reasons.
I am not a genius with geography or anything, but doesn't the sun kinda kill alot of plants that try and grow there?
No. California is a very diverse state when it comes to plant life. The south is a desert but the north has giant redwood trees.
***** It's a joke son. Don't let it go over your head.
***** I think he's referring to the idea that California isn't a very nice place to live.
my god that guy is seriously messed up... I worked in a nuclear reactor once... we had to learn about alpha, beta and gamma... alpha particles can be blocked by a sheet of standard notebook paper!
And on the subject of nuclear power reactors exploding, an interesting anecdote:
The noted science fiction writer Larry Niven relates a story (I believe it was in the collection "N-Space") in which he was contacted by another writer, asking him to describe how a terrorist could make a nuclear reactor explode... Niven explained that it wasn't possible... can't be done, nothing a terrorist can do would cause a nuclear explosion at a nuclear power facility, even assuming they could gain access and somehow plant a bomb or something... short of actually planting a nuclear bomb, a nuclear power plant cannot explode... period... after relating this informatin to the other writer, she replied "Oh well, my readers won't know that... I'll just make something up."
*That* is why idiots think the shit they see in movies and read in badly written novels gets spread around as if it's true...
... On some level, I want California to be a radioactive wasteland.
Just to get my haands on NCR Ranger armor. That outfit is probably the most badass post-apocalyptic armor ever designed.
My dad had to go to a city hall meeting because his company was given a project to install a cell tower in a neighborhood, but everybody was protesting because the radio waves were going to "give them cancer"
Bigger risk is the eye sore of the tower and if it falls on your home!
@@superchuck3259 that's what landscape architects, city planning committee, and structural engineers are for. Honestly some of the rules city planners come up with are pretty strange
@@GabrielWeed Some NIMBYs where I live in Germany managed to prevent a Rail Line from getting Electrified because the "evil Electric Radiation" will give them Cancer. To demonstrate their Theories, they tested the next larger (and electrified) Train Station with a Geiger Counter which obviously picked up the normal Background Radiation, but according to them it was caused by the Overhead Power Lines. To not disprove their Points, they did not take a comparative Reading from another Place without Rail Electrification. Other Arguments of them included, that Overhead Power Lines would be outdated and inefficient, as Battery Electric Trains exist today. Because charging several Tons worth of Batteries and hauling them around all the Time sure is more efficient than getting Power supplied directly via Overhead Catenaries.
What can a dense metal be used for? Well, it can be made into a penetrating dart for a tanks APDS round. It can be used for armour, along with other materials like ceramics, steel, and aluminum. Those are some things a dense material like U-238 could be used for.
No instant death from the radiation though
+Infinity Salinity That is why depleted uranium is used. Uranium is used a lot, especially in the military, but they use a version that is not harmful.
You could use it as a radiation shield. It should stop those gammas nicely.
Depleted Uranium is a great gamma shield
@@infinitysalinity7981 name three types of radiation....
The really sad thing about the nuclear paranoia, if it hadn't been for them we would not have had an energy crisis in the 1970's AND we would not be facing such a huge problem with climate change.
+Eric Taylor I am one of the people who suspect that the fossil fuel industry encourages the paranoia.
+Eric Taylor okay, so there is paranoia, but what about Japan radiation.. nothing to worry about, nothing to see here, move along now. Rose colored glasses let's put them on.. nuclear is fine folks. I'm open to being educated as to why we shouldn't worry about nuclear when things like Japan happen... and infect our fish (the food we uhm, eat) with radiation. Is that exaggerated paranoia? NIF (national ignition facility) might be on to something... but they've been working on safe nuclear technology for years now, with little to actually show for.
Z505 Software
Okay what about the much more massive radioactive products poured out by coal burning plants, along with tons of CO2 and other pollutants. A coal burning plant produces between 50 and 100 times as much radioactive waste as a nuclear power plant. However in a nuclear power plant it is concentrated in one place, making it much more easy to deal with.
Chernobyl and Fukashima were both old, primitive plants. They didn't have fail safe systems. More modern plants can't do what those plants did.
Pointing out the accidents isn't realistic. Yes it's bad when it happens, but the impact, as bad as that impact is, of even a really bad accident like Chernobyl is TINY compared to the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels. Even "alternative" energy generation has a huge environmental impact compared to the TWO bad accidents. that have taken place in the 60+ years that nuclear power generation has been used.
And those two events took place in less safe power plants than what we have now.
Eric Taylor
The Chernobyl design, unlike water moderated reactors, had a positive thermal coefficient of reactivity, in other words it was inherently unstable.
From 1986 until 2011 there were NO accidents. How many of the people who think Fukushima was a nuclear disaster know the name of the earthquake? *
But it caused thousands of deaths, whereas the only deaths associated with the loss of the reactors, which survived the earthquake and lost their necessary auxiliary power for the coolant, to the subsequent tsunami.
The truth is, that a month before the Chernobyl meltdown the IFR project's EBR II proved that all water cooled reactors are technically obsolete -- unless we consider that it was proven in Nixon's time by the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) Experiment. The one flaw that TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima-Daiichi had in common was ceramic fuel and a coolant of water under high pressure.
The IFR (Integral Fast Reactor) uses metal fuel cells in a liquid metal coolant that does not boil at atmospheric pressure and reactor temperatures. It is a breeder reactor.
see arcnuclear.com or google "GE PRISM" for descendants.
The MSR design, also a breeder reactor, uses lithium fluoride salt, which melts at a temperature higher than boiling water, and is in no danger of boiling. The fuel, in fluoride form, dissolves in the molten salt. The MSR uses "thermal" neutrons, like the water moderated designs, and can therefore reach exact criticality with a low concentration of fissile isotopes.
The most recent design uses hydrogen nuclei as moderators, in zirconium hydride
transatomicpower.com.
Both of these designs are immune to meltdown, and as breeder reactors could supply the world for centuries from available uranium and thorium.
Solar origin energy, other than fossil solar, was inadequate for the world population of the 18th century.
I suspect that the superstitious fear of "toxic plutonium" may put an end to either civilization or the Western democracies. China knows better.
* Tohoku
Albert Rogers
Will you please re-read my comments. I am not anti-nuke. I am FOR nuclear power. I think it is currently our best option BY FAR for solving the problems of climate change AND our dependence of Arab oil.
I'd love to see some animated explanations of what went wrong at Fukushima and Chernobyl. You do a great job illustrating these things.
"I'd love to see some animated explanations of what went wrong at ... Chernobyl"
-hey juri here is good idea, how about we shut down cooling system just for shits and giggles
-good idea
...
-shift is over gotta go home
...
-hey alex why is reactor 4 getting so warm? meh, who cares
...
-now warmth is getting uncomfortable
-deploy control rods
-ups ...
(all in russian accent)
So the longer the half life, the less harm it can cause?
Can Vanadium be handled without gloves?
Vanadium is found just about everywhere. It's also used in common tool alloys. It's found in a number of foods including apples and eggs as well as soy beans. Vanadium pentoxide is the most toxic and produced during welding steel that contains vanadium. Some of the affects are :- eye irritation, heart problems, respiratory problems, digestive inflamations, skin irritations, all of which are very treatable. Elemental vanadium is able to be handed safely unless you have an alegic reaction to it.
Several non nuclear metal elements to avoid handling are :- calcium, lithium, cadmium, sodium, mercury and even antimony are far more toxic than lead which is far more toxic than aluminium and nickel which are far more toxic than vanadium which is more toxic than iron.
The amount of damage that radiation can inflict is a function of how much energy your tissue is subjected to. The half-life of a substance is a good indication of how rapidly it's energy is released. For a simple example, consider getting some steel wool. That steel wood can oxidize (rust) either over a period of days or weeks ("long half-life"), or you can directly ignite it and cause it to burn in a few second ("short half-life"). In either case, the same amount of energy is released into the environment. But in the case of slow rusting, you could hold it directly in your hand and not notice any ill effects. But if you ignite it and then attempt to hold the burning steel wool directly on your skin, I hope you have something to treat the burns you're going to get.
As regards the half-life of different radioactive substances, the most immediate danger is from the short-lived isotopes because of the high energy release they give off. But because of the short half-life, the hazard dissipates over a short period of time and becomes harmless relatively soon. The extremely long half-life substances are not much of a hazard because they don't release much energy. But they stick around a long time allowing idiots to claim that they remain deadly for million to billions of years. And uranium is a rather hazardous substance to get into your body. But not because it's radioactive, it's far more hazardous because it's a HEAVY METAL. Think about the health impact you would get from excessive exposure to LEAD. Same difference. You're being *chemically* poisoned by both substances. If you want a really hazardous radioactive substance, look for something with a relatively short half-life, but a not too short half-life. You want something that has a large energy release, but still stick around for a generation or two. For instance, imagine a nuclear bomb encased in strontium. Such a bomb would release a lot of strontium-90, which has a half-life of 28.8 years. That's short enough to have a lot of energy being released. And long enough that it remains quite dangerous for a couple of hundred years.
I realize that I'm mostly preaching to the choir for those watching this video, but there is an extremely important point as to the safety of nuclear power that I have yet to have a single critic answer:
If nuclear power is so unsafe, why is it that the engineers who designed and built the power plant are the least afraid people to actually work there during operation?
The engineers who design and build them do only that. They don't have anything to do with the plant, post build and flash up. why would they be afraid to work there. Everything is perfect, and running like a top, when they finish their work.
The danger comes when maintenance costs cut into profits and inspectors are paid off, to delay critical maintenance, NRC has budget cuts orchestrated by NE lobbyists paying off politicians to deregulate NE, construction of facilities on fault lines, (disposal of waste with no oversight in unsafe areas, transported using unsafe containment by unqualified personnel with no oversight).
It isn't the production, when everything is working, that is unsafe. It is ageing facilities that the company would just rather abandon, than decommission and clean up properly, faulty maintenance/construction, and waste disposal, that are dangerous.
***** Would it surprise you that there has not been a single death related to radiation poisoning in the commercial sector of nuclear energy? (This statement applies to all western countries and Japan outside of the Soviet Union.)
I have spent a lot of time working in and around nuclear reactors while in operation. It is amazing how unafraid everyone is.
Lee Johnson Radiation levels for employees who work close to a reactor is barely higher than background levels. Of course since we are all exposed to radiation on a daily basis from natural sources, biology has in turn evolved such that a low level of radiation is actually good for you.
www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/04/01/do-nuclear-power-plants-cause-cancer/
www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/radiation-the-no-safe-level-myth.html
Lee Johnson No it didn't, the best estimate is ~9000. Which is lower than, say, the worst hydroelectric accident, but the only 30 people value is just soviet propaganda.
IamGrimalkin The "30 people" number (31-41 actually) is widely acknowledged by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization which has done an independent investigation into the matter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster
There is legitimate concern over long term increased cancer rates as a result of the fallout, though sometimes even these estimates are wildly blown out of proportion. It is very difficult to estimate this number.
3:25
"But he's not done telling people things that are diametrically orthogonal to reality."
Omg, that's amazing lol.
I just saw an advert for Molten Salt Reactors at the start of this video, I'm so excited!
I work in the nuclear industry as an engineer and it is super frustrating hearing morons go on about conceptually inaccurate information about nuclear science. It's not just wackos either. Reputable TH-cam channels also get vital concepts wrong.
i'm glad you're doing this series.
***** I dunno, you don't sound that happy.
***** we live in a nuclear age, and there is far too little discussion about it despite its importance. you ought not to take my comment as affirming the views herein, i am glad the discussion is taking place. people can and will make up their own minds.
***** What was said that is factually incorrect?
***** Bile and thuggery is all coal-thumping antinuclear lunatics have left.
@Thunderfoot Would you please do a video that explains how and why radiation is dangerous ?
Thankyou
Can't you use Wikipedia where you are?
How do you study something for 8 years straight and learn absolutely nothing?
Cody's lab worked with yellow cake for about an hour and he is still here making freakin awesome science videos.
@0.55 Look at Alex's blink rate when he makes his promise about his fake product... SOOOOO obvious!
I love you so much, thank you for reminding me that there are people with common sense out there.
Unfortunately common sense isn't common enough.
You should get a high pitch beep warning lmao, I'm watching this on the lower floor of my house and someone upstairs woke up thinking your Geiger counter was a smoke alarm or something 😂
@1:25 perhaps Thunderf00t isn't aware. That is a legal disclaimer that is required to be put on anything sold as any form of remedy, that isn't evaluated by the FDA, etc.. It isn't something Alex Jones just decided to put on there, because he didn't believe in his product.
Could you do a video about Thorium as as source for electrical energy in molten salt reactors?
Jesus, thanks for this video. As a radiological controls technician, I have heard some *really* stupid shit about radiation poisoning and radioactive elements.
"Man comes along and digs this radioactive shit out of the ground"
LOOOOOL
fun fact, in school, we were studying some wars and all in history classes and we learned about the dangers of nuclear bombs and do you know what was the "most dangerous radious of effect"?
the area wich is not affected by the explosion, cuz ppl will be scared and rush to urgencies with the little sneeze or cough, flooding hospitals for no reason
and that was in middle school, so im amazed ppl are still this paranoid about nuclear power
Wouldn't it be the center of where the bomb landed? I mean, I'd rather have people rushing to the hospital for possible radiation sickness than being instantly fried alive.
@@estebanortega8744 surprisingly, no, cuz of the time the area is afected by radioactivity, ppl fill it for decades
@@a_creatorsstuff17 That doesn't change anything. Why would the area where people aren't affected be dangerous.
@@estebanortega8744 cuz those ppl, ig they get any illness or anything at all will think its radiation poisoning, not working, flooding hospitals for decades, and/or leaving the area at all (spreading the fear) and leaving it unprotected and easy to ocupy
@@a_creatorsstuff17 "Flooding hospitals for decades"... what? "Easy to occupy"... what? You must be high as fuck or something. Gl with that bs either way, im out.
Why is it only fatal in restaurants?
***** I see. I was thinking maybe it reacted chemically with condiments or became agitated when exposed to muzak.
I think it's a good thing we have nuclear power plants. Why? Well, if we didn't, there would just be more coal/oil/gas/etc. power plants further harming the planet. Like it or not, nuclear power plants help protect the global environment. Yes, renewables are better, but they are also more expensive hence why nuclear is a good support to going green. If what I have read about nuclear fusion is right, we should develop it fast and replace nuclear fission with fusion as that is more safe and efficient.
teubert2
www.nasdaq.com/article/why-the-safest-form-of-power-is-also-the-most-feared-cm390588
Erik Olafsen Why do you link that to me when I'm already aware of the importance of nuclear energy? :P It is an interesting article though.
I was just agreeing with you, and offering evidence.
Erik Olafsen Ah I see. Thanks :)
teubert2 Actually nuclear is almost completely renewable. Every 18 months nuclear power plants remove the uranium they have in their system. In countries outside America, thanks to Jimmy Carter, there are facilities to renew the uranium. Also, it is believed that there will be a synthetic element that will help improve nuclear power.
I've owned uranium for almost two years, and it was siting in my house for almost tow months and i'm still very much alive
There are tables that show the effects of exposure based on time. Briefly handling a rock of uranium is of no concern whatsoever, but having the rock very close to you (say, pressed against your skin) for years can absolutely have negative effects and cause cancer.
@@greg77389 Uranium that is natural, not part of some reactor or bomb . It won't harm you even if against your skin for years. Your skin protects you!
@@superchuck3259
Wrong. Although the dead layer of skin blocks some alpha particles, some can still get through to the healthy layer underneath.
Think of it like the sun. You shouldn't be afraid of it, but if you're exposed for too long without protection, you could get skin cancer.
Alright. I'm aware this video is old, but I simply MUST thank you for introducing me to the song Dancing with Tears in my Eyes. It's been on repeat for the last six days and I'm STILL not tired of it. ThunderfOOt, I thank you.
Are people really buying fluoride shield?
it would be funny because they used to use fluoride as a dumming drug on prisoners, so stupid people would become even less intelligent if they actually bought it.....and used it
superpepleen
fluoride shield isn't fluoride. It's probably got iodine in it, maybe come soluble calcium.
then why call it fluoride shield?...........i need to look up the ingredient list.
superpepleen Found it.
The ingredients in Fluoride Shield™ include tamarind, zeolites, organic fulvic acid, shilajit, cilantro and nascent iodine. Here's a little bit about each ingredient:
Tamarind has been recognized for its ability to help the body's natural method of eliminating toxic fluoride residues from the body.
Zeolites have a long history for attracting and holding toxic compounds in their structure, which is essential to this formula.
Fulvic acid is one of the greatest cleansing and nourishing compounds used around the world, and has been utilized to help displace various toxic compounds within the alimentary system.
Shilajit is a rare compound that releases out of the mountain walls in the Himalayan mountains. It has to be harvested by hand and there is a limited supply available. It has even been used for thousands of years in Ayruvedic healing.
Cilantro is a recognized healing herb traditionally known for its ability to mobilize toxic compounds and other dangerous substances into the blood for safe removal from the body.
Iodine may also help the body's natural defense from fluoride accumulation and help cleanse excess fluoride from the system.
store.infowars.com/fluoridedetox
NwoDispatcher Oh sweet Jesus. It's one of those "all-natural" things. I knew something was extra-fishy when he said "God's cornucopia."
lol I must say I really liked the RoboCop "Would you like to know more?" at the end! Brilliant! :-)
Star Ship Troopers
@@superchuck3259 Oh my God! You're right! lol! Robocop is "I'd buy that for a dollar!"! Thanks for the correction. Both movies have that "same flavor" to me and it looks like my neurons crossed when I wrote this!
@@mirozen_ All these movies are fun. They do poke fun at things. How far will things be pushed. Like the rich citizen parents that their kid can't be a citizen unless enlists in the military in SST.
@@superchuck3259 Yes! And I loved bits like the kids asking to play with the soldiers firearms...and the bit ending with them handing out live ammo! LOL!
Actually the "Citizenship for service" aspect of Starship Troopers came straight from Heinlein's book. The idea was that anyone could amass a fortune or do whatever you wanted to do for a living, but to earn the right to vote you had to voluntarily spend time in service to society. And the ONLY way to join the service was to volunteer - there was no such thing as enforced conscription. The premise was that after some great war in the past tired soldiers who felt they had fought at the whim of politicians who had never been in the service were fed up. They rebuilt society and mandated that the power to "send in the troops" would only be given to those who had themselves served and would be less likely to take it lightly.
So... what's the name of the next video in the series?
Sapioit I’m also interested in this.
They have yellow cake in a museum in Tennessee; I was around it for a couple minutes and people both visit and work there