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Would love to see more of these! Although you might want to change your audio equipment to better suit all that concrete. You could get some great reverb if done right.
How about becoming a Twitch streamer, Dr. Charatsidou? A lot of academics do it, and they stream their content like computer science, math, physics etc. where they get paid for it in a substantial way, you will also have your community of followers who have the same dedication in your art of science. Just become a Twitch streamer, and the World is Yours. Cheers!
Elena, a couple months ago I started watching your videos, and you were the catalyst for me deciding to finally stop letting myself be determined by my learning disabilities and do a degree in chemistry, one of my tob favorite branches of science. Thank you for making your videos ❤
13:10 I don't know why I found this bit so funny 😂 It was almost like a gameshow prize reveal, like "And behind door number 1, you could win: your very own nuclear physicist! 🥳"
Well...this takes me back. I obtained my Nuclear Engineering degree in 1983 from what was then the "University of Missouri - Rolla" (now Missouri University of Science and Technology). We had (and I believe they still have) a small "swimming pool" type reactor where you could stand around "the pool" and watch the reactor at power (I did several startups and shutdowns as part of my course work). It used highly enriched Uranium. After graduating and before my first job I worked for a while at MURR, the Missouri University Research Reactor on the University of Missouri - Columbia campus. At the time it was 10MW and I believe the 3rd largest research reactor in the US. After many years in the US Nuclear Industry, and many more in Computer Tech, I moved back to the Columbia MO area. MURR still operates and I drive by it weekly. Indeed I read an article recently where the University system was planning on either upgrading or replacing MURR. I need to look up more info. THAT might be an interesting "field trip" for you. Thanks for the great content.
this is awesome to see, sweden were pioneers in nuclear technology back then, i think my class at another Swedish uni was the last to have the option to take courses in nuclear engineering, im glad to see that KTH still offers them. im planning a nuclear road trip this summer to try out my new ludlum m3 and this might become one of the stop on the road since its close to Ytterby mine!
Great video as always! As I've said before, it's nice to see a real professional presenting the truth about nuclear energy in easily understandable and fun media. "Edutainment" like this is a critical factor to move forward into a better future. Long live nuclear energy and research!
THAT WAS AMAZING. I know its expensive and time consuming to travel to nuclear facilities, but it makes a fantastic video, and gives the public a brief look at things they would never see otherwise.
nice! We also used the squares during decom. We would have to scan every in very slowly. We worked in pairs and would call out the highest number in the square which is what got logged. the was great, thank you for sharing.
Very interesting field trip, thanks for bringing the camera! Would love to see other sites. BTW, I would be paranoid and use the geiger counter all the time :D
Nice! I know it wasn't the focus of your video or channel, but the geology nerd in me wouldn't have been able to resist taking geiger counter measurements of the bedrock to see if it hit on anything. It honestly would be somewhat comedic, if the natural rock formation tested more radioactive than the decontaminated reactor hall.
New to the channel. Not gonna lie. Love all the nuclear stuff Elina explains and explores but she is gorgeous on top of being a super smart scientist. Love watching the videos!
Field trip! Yay! Great video! Absolutely amazing footage and history. With the Geiger counter I was wondering if you took it to a coal power factory would it detect the higher radiation from the trace elements being burnt along with the coal?
That's an interesting suggestion. However, I think most of the radioactive material in coal will go up with the smoke but it would still be interesting to measure the ashes and the burn chamber to make sure.
@@MikkoRantalainen Some of the very fine ash that comes out very infrequently might be settled on the ground nearby, plus coal dust is pretty common in the area around the plants from handling, so there is probably something detectable there, especially with the Beta window open.
@@nathanwahl9224 Good point about the dust caused by handling. Coal plants need such a huge amount of material in stacks that you cannot avoid causing a bit mess while handling it all.
yes you should do more videos like this, i like the new format. i think i goes well with your regular format as well, makes this type of video feel more grand. keep up the good work
One thing you should have covered that I see some of the nuclear enthusiasts do is the background radiation and of course what else can emit over background. For a non nuclear person, you say the background is 0.20, then your Geiger counter counts up to 0.40, this is twice the radiation, and their mind will go to "Oh this place is twice as radioactive as the city! It is bad!" Which we both know isn't true. How to fix it? Find some everyday location / object that displays the same or higher number on the Geiger counter, past the airplane trip that they would pass by or stay close to in their everyday life. In short, showcasing that the double background reading you had there, was trivial.
Kalos irthes sti Stoxolmi. When I was studying at KTH we got to visit a quite cool area that was burried far beneath surface level. I can't recall it being a reactor in there but it can possibly have been (since at least).
My mate, Bazzieboy, worked at Oskarshamn (repairing CCTV gear) on the Baltic coast, then helped decommission Barsebäck, across the Kategat from Copenhagen (the Danes didn't want a nuclear plant that close to their capital!). His employer also had a contract to help clean up Chernobyl, so he was drafted there for two weeks, using up his entire radiation exposure for a year in the process...
It is true that Barsebäck was retired because the Danish state demanded it (upcoming elections make politicians promise stupid stuff). That Denmark wanted Sweden to build Barsebäck in just that place is never mentioned. They first wanted it but wanted it gone when the public opinion changed.
Love your videos Elina. Now take a tour of the clean up at the Hanford site (500 sq. miles of it) in Washington state, USA. The ongoing work there will continue for years and involves a lot of vitrification of material that was buried or stored during and after WW2. Why tour the facility? To show just how careful, thorough, meticulous and safe the handling of radioactive material can be.
Excellent video and nice field trip. I would hope you could do a video on a Traveling Wave Reactor. I have recently heard about this type of reactor and it seems promising.
I feel many of us do appreciate the tour, I myself do watch others that sneak Illegally into power plants and it is interesting. So thanks for the effort.
Hi Elina My father used to handle the first Swedish electron microscope in Uppsala University during the 1950’s and according to him (He passed away 2011) there was also some kind of reactor once in Uppsala University at that time. I have recently tried to find information about that but are unable to find any so far. In Uppsala at that time there were two fairly famous professors in Physics were active that time like Manne Siegbahn and The Swedberg both Nobel Price in Physics. Do you have any connections that can verify or conclude if there was a reactor or not in Uppsala University at that time of some sort?
Cool. So... what process did they use to decontaminate the area? I thought you were going to sit down at the organ and play. That would have been fun. I expect that, with all that concrete, the room is very acoustically alive. Do they only have the organ, or is there also a piano there? Just curious. I continue to enjoy your offerings. Thank you very much! Looking forward to the next one.
thanks a lot elina ive been wondering how to get a fieltrip to one of them nuclear power plants and now you gave us a trip in the confort or our homes thank you so much
I really love to become a nuclear physicist yet its a different stroy now. Done my Master in Chemistry but going towards different way. Anyways love to see young and beautiful woman who are truly inspiring. Love and Blessings to you, All the way from Nagaland India.
Do a visit to ågesta verket in huddige , a nuclear plant for producing remote heating water for the lokal area. Its being torn out now , the cavern will be plugged with Concrete. Its underground also.
Ågestaverket was swedens first nukelar power reacktor and the Reaktor var runing 1964-1974.Ågesta is lokated in the farsta region of stockholm maybe talk about it as well ???
I love field trips. 😁 I'm glad no one locked you in the secret passage! It was interesting to see you measure radioactivity by specific area. I would have been disappointed had you not brought along your Geiger counter. At the beginning you said that it went critical in 1954 but did not elaborate. I'd like to know more about that please.
"Critical" is a lousy word that the pioneers chose to describe a reactor that was at a steady power level, whether very low or at full power. A reactor is SUPPOSED to be critical when it's operating normally!!! Lower reactivity and power goes down, raise it and power goes up. So it is at a "critical point." Nothing scary about it. It's been haunting the nuclear power industry for years.
Very interesting. I wasn't aware that Sweden did any form of weapons research, although I'm not surprised. They do take defending their neutrality very seriously. It's nice that they were able to repurpose the facility for public use.
There used to be a Nuclear reactor under the Naval College in London until the mid 90s. I was told about this by the commander of a fast attack Submarine during a visit to Faslane Naval base in the late 80s. I guess it wasn't a big secret by then 🤔.
Thank a lot for this video! Very interesting Around 10:39 when one block gives 0.40 I thought: using maths in a deceptive way one could say that the square is 100% more radioactive than the background. That would sound concerning, right? :-) Am I correct?
I have recently discovered your channel and subscribed it's been very interesting to hear about this early reactor... iv also seen Documentary footage about many other early reactors including Thorium reactors, it's a shame they were abandoned at the time because the interest was more towards Weapons and not cleaner power, I do find it interesting how they used Heavy water and Natural uranium together in this early reactor. How long would they have been able to run it before a refueling was needed? Are there any more videos you would recommend yourself on this reactor? i would love to know more about it's origins and development... I do have another question for someone of your knowledge, how much more or less efficient would the early natural uranium fuels have been compared to a more modern enriched fuel source? I know Oak Ridge labs would have been playing around with Molten salt Fuels and experimental reactors around that time and many other countries had nuclear programs, some of the science done by the Germans in that era was fascinating, you do wonder how different the world might have been if more efforts were put into Energy generation and not as much into warfare. Thanks in advance for any response and please keep on making interesting videos and going to cool places.
Elina: I was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA {and also lived near Miami for about seven years}. I have been living in northeastern North Carolina, USA -- about a 1-hour drive from the NC Outer Banks -- since the mid-1990s. At about 12:42 in this video: What is this *"MOUNTAIN"* thing you speak of? 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
are you Swedish? I am from Finland. you are the best. although I'm a bit afraid of nuclear power but it's also interesting. you make good videos. the channel was subscribed. greetings from Finland 🤩
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If you haven't show us CERN yet, that would be interesting.
Quiero tú visitas la primera "molten-salt reactor" en el mundo en China...
Would love to see more of these! Although you might want to change your audio equipment to better suit all that concrete. You could get some great reverb if done right.
How about becoming a Twitch streamer, Dr. Charatsidou?
A lot of academics do it, and they stream their content like computer science, math, physics etc. where they get paid for it in a substantial way,
you will also have your community of followers who have the same dedication in your art of science.
Just become a Twitch streamer, and the World is Yours.
Cheers!
How about the idea of a neutron bomb? I have no real knowledge of it but it's a cool concept.
Elena, a couple months ago I started watching your videos, and you were the catalyst for me deciding to finally stop letting myself be determined by my learning disabilities and do a degree in chemistry, one of my tob favorite branches of science. Thank you for making your videos ❤
That's great, good luck on your studies!
Her, Dr. Becky, and Technoblade for me! And I'm going for physics, hopefully general relativity! 😊
Wishing you good luck
Gimili respects a lot now!
@@max410bery Good luck to you as well!
13:10 I don't know why I found this bit so funny 😂 It was almost like a gameshow prize reveal, like "And behind door number 1, you could win: your very own nuclear physicist! 🥳"
Well...this takes me back. I obtained my Nuclear Engineering degree in 1983 from what was then the "University of Missouri - Rolla" (now Missouri University of Science and Technology). We had (and I believe they still have) a small "swimming pool" type reactor where you could stand around "the pool" and watch the reactor at power (I did several startups and shutdowns as part of my course work). It used highly enriched Uranium. After graduating and before my first job I worked for a while at MURR, the Missouri University Research Reactor on the University of Missouri - Columbia campus. At the time it was 10MW and I believe the 3rd largest research reactor in the US. After many years in the US Nuclear Industry, and many more in Computer Tech, I moved back to the Columbia MO area. MURR still operates and I drive by it weekly. Indeed I read an article recently where the University system was planning on either upgrading or replacing MURR. I need to look up more info. THAT might be an interesting "field trip" for you. Thanks for the great content.
As a swed i find it quiet interesting seeing this from your perspective about this place.
this is awesome to see, sweden were pioneers in nuclear technology back then, i think my class at another Swedish uni was the last to have the option to take courses in nuclear engineering, im glad to see that KTH still offers them.
im planning a nuclear road trip this summer to try out my new ludlum m3 and this might become one of the stop on the road since its close to Ytterby mine!
Great video as always! As I've said before, it's nice to see a real professional presenting the truth about nuclear energy in easily understandable and fun media. "Edutainment" like this is a critical factor to move forward into a better future. Long live nuclear energy and research!
THAT WAS AMAZING. I know its expensive and time consuming to travel to nuclear facilities, but it makes a fantastic video, and gives the public a brief look at things they would never see otherwise.
But seriously thank you for taking us along, I enjoy seeing how other countries approach nuclear reactors.
Awesome video! I didn't know Sweden had looked into this!
Elina, You are radiating knowledge! I love it!
nice! We also used the squares during decom. We would have to scan every in very slowly. We worked in pairs and would call out the highest number in the square which is what got logged. the was great, thank you for sharing.
Μπράβο κορίτσαρε ! Εξαιρετική δουλειά !
Thank you for this video, the field trip was very much appreciated :-)
Very nice, thank you for sharing this with us!
Really cool video Elina! Thanks for showing us around this incredible place.
Fascinating, the world needs more like you, elina!
Very interesting field trip, thanks for bringing the camera! Would love to see other sites.
BTW, I would be paranoid and use the geiger counter all the time :D
That was very cool, I hope you can record more tours and field trips.
You are awesome. Great episode. Very interesting.👍
Elinaaaaaaaa!!! Man my evening can't be better, all of my favorite channels bringing out new videos! 😁👍
An unexpected pleasure. Thank you, Elina. Hoping for more field trips soon.
Thats awesome to see R1 in that way! Amazing video as always Elina
This was way cool! More please :)
Love this
This is great! It should be a syndicated show. Hey, Discovery Channel, if you see this, this is what you should be doing instead of reality shows.
Nice! I know it wasn't the focus of your video or channel, but the geology nerd in me wouldn't have been able to resist taking geiger counter measurements of the bedrock to see if it hit on anything. It honestly would be somewhat comedic, if the natural rock formation tested more radioactive than the decontaminated reactor hall.
Very possible!
This was really interesting, thank you very much!
Super interesting. Very surprising to see how it is safe to walk inside a decommissioned nuclear facility 🤔
Its funny that my favorit nuclear scientist is operating from Stockholm! Hope you get to follow the new plans for new Swedish reactors!
6:45 Look up the Quicksilver ultralight plane. The reactor controls are like the space shuttle having Quicksilver controls! 😅
Love that outro haha. Would absolutely love to see more 'tours' like this
New to the channel. Not gonna lie. Love all the nuclear stuff Elina explains and explores but she is gorgeous on top of being a super smart scientist. Love watching the videos!
Oh my god that’s amazing I m so proud of you for filming there ❤❤❤
Field trip! Yay! Great video! Absolutely amazing footage and history.
With the Geiger counter I was wondering if you took it to a coal power factory would it detect the higher radiation from the trace elements being burnt along with the coal?
That's an interesting suggestion. However, I think most of the radioactive material in coal will go up with the smoke but it would still be interesting to measure the ashes and the burn chamber to make sure.
@@MikkoRantalainen Some of the very fine ash that comes out very infrequently might be settled on the ground nearby, plus coal dust is pretty common in the area around the plants from handling, so there is probably something detectable there, especially with the Beta window open.
@@nathanwahl9224 Good point about the dust caused by handling. Coal plants need such a huge amount of material in stacks that you cannot avoid causing a bit mess while handling it all.
yes you should do more videos like this, i like the new format. i think i goes well with your regular format as well, makes this type of video feel more grand. keep up the good work
One thing you should have covered that I see some of the nuclear enthusiasts do is the background radiation and of course what else can emit over background.
For a non nuclear person, you say the background is 0.20, then your Geiger counter counts up to 0.40, this is twice the radiation, and their mind will go to "Oh this place is twice as radioactive as the city! It is bad!" Which we both know isn't true.
How to fix it? Find some everyday location / object that displays the same or higher number on the Geiger counter, past the airplane trip that they would pass by or stay close to in their everyday life.
In short, showcasing that the double background reading you had there, was trivial.
That was fun! Yes, do more of this kind of content.
Great field trip video.
Welcome to Sweden! I visited this site a couple of years ago. Very interesting!
How about a video about R2 and the current reactors at Studsvik?
That was a great video. Thank you very much!
Super interesting video. Thank you very much. I always look forward to new videos.. Good luck to the channel...🎉
Walking between the mountain and the reactor housing - braver than me!
Do a tour of one of the running facilities in Sweden and possible also talk with someone about the plans for building new reactors.
Great work Elina
Kalos irthes sti Stoxolmi. When I was studying at KTH we got to visit a quite cool area that was burried far beneath surface level. I can't recall it being a reactor in there but it can possibly have been (since at least).
My mate, Bazzieboy, worked at Oskarshamn (repairing CCTV gear) on the Baltic coast, then helped decommission Barsebäck, across the Kategat from Copenhagen (the Danes didn't want a nuclear plant that close to their capital!). His employer also had a contract to help clean up Chernobyl, so he was drafted there for two weeks, using up his entire radiation exposure for a year in the process...
It is true that Barsebäck was retired because the Danish state demanded it (upcoming elections make politicians promise stupid stuff).
That Denmark wanted Sweden to build Barsebäck in just that place is never mentioned.
They first wanted it but wanted it gone when the public opinion changed.
Love your videos Elina. Now take a tour of the clean up at the Hanford site (500 sq. miles of it) in Washington state, USA. The ongoing work there will continue for years and involves a lot of vitrification of material that was buried or stored during and after WW2.
Why tour the facility? To show just how careful, thorough, meticulous and safe the handling of radioactive material can be.
Excellent video and nice field trip. I would hope you could do a video on a Traveling Wave Reactor. I have recently heard about this type of reactor and it seems promising.
Vi borde starta vårt kärnvapenprogram igen!
Elina, you are a superstar 😊
That would be so cool to get see a place like that.
Thanks for the great field trip!
I feel many of us do appreciate the tour, I myself do watch others that sneak Illegally into power plants and it is interesting. So thanks for the effort.
Best episode yet 😊
Thank you so much for this
Hi Elina
My father used to handle the first Swedish electron microscope in Uppsala University during the 1950’s and according to him (He passed away 2011) there was also some kind of reactor once in Uppsala University at that time. I have recently tried to find information about that but are unable to find any so far.
In Uppsala at that time there were two fairly famous professors in Physics were active that time like Manne Siegbahn and The Swedberg both Nobel Price in Physics.
Do you have any connections that can verify or conclude if there was a reactor or not in Uppsala University at that time of some sort?
Awesome! Keep the coming.
Thank you for this interesting video.
Cool. So... what process did they use to decontaminate the area?
I thought you were going to sit down at the organ and play. That would have been fun. I expect that, with all that concrete, the room is very acoustically alive. Do they only have the organ, or is there also a piano there? Just curious.
I continue to enjoy your offerings. Thank you very much! Looking forward to the next one.
Just here for the hair, smile, and accent
Really nice video. 👍
Great video, thanks!
thanks a lot elina ive been wondering how to get a fieltrip to one of them nuclear power plants and now you gave us a trip in the confort or our homes thank you so much
That was fun! Interesting hidden history.
Field trip! Whoop whoop! 👍👍
I really love to become a nuclear physicist yet its a different stroy now. Done my Master in Chemistry but going towards different way.
Anyways love to see young and beautiful woman who are truly inspiring.
Love and Blessings to you, All the way from Nagaland India.
Do a visit to ågesta verket in huddige , a nuclear plant for producing remote heating water for the lokal area.
Its being torn out now , the cavern will be plugged with
Concrete. Its underground also.
Frankly I'm just impressed they managed to put it together with 15000 pages of pictograms and a single hex wrench.
...that would be the IKEA reactor then...
Impressive that they had a Mac mini back in the '50s 😂
Can you do a video about the dangers (if any) of possible disasters at Zaporizhia nuclear power plant as a result of the nova kakhovka dam breach?
Very cool!
Ågestaverket was swedens first nukelar power reacktor and the Reaktor var runing 1964-1974.Ågesta is lokated in the farsta region of stockholm maybe talk about it as well ???
I love field trips. 😁 I'm glad no one locked you in the secret passage! It was interesting to see you measure radioactivity by specific area. I would have been disappointed had you not brought along your Geiger counter. At the beginning you said that it went critical in 1954 but did not elaborate. I'd like to know more about that please.
I think she meant operational not critical. She also said later that she turned the Geiger counter off, when she clearly meant on.
@@7Rendar Critical does not mean what you think it means.
"Critical" is a lousy word that the pioneers chose to describe a reactor that was at a steady power level, whether very low or at full power. A reactor is SUPPOSED to be critical when it's operating normally!!! Lower reactivity and power goes down, raise it and power goes up. So it is at a "critical point." Nothing scary about it. It's been haunting the nuclear power industry for years.
Very nice! A pity there are no details about the reactor core and how it was built.
Very interesting. I wasn't aware that Sweden did any form of weapons research, although I'm not surprised. They do take defending their neutrality very seriously. It's nice that they were able to repurpose the facility for public use.
There used to be a Nuclear reactor under the Naval College in London until the mid 90s. I was told about this by the commander of a fast attack Submarine during a visit to Faslane Naval base in the late 80s. I guess it wasn't a big secret by then 🤔.
6:50 are those shoes standard issue for Nuclear Physicists?
Thank a lot for this video! Very interesting
Around 10:39 when one block gives 0.40 I thought: using maths in a deceptive way one could say that the square is 100% more radioactive than the background. That would sound concerning, right? :-) Am I correct?
The geiger counter does not measure "hot particles" that may be lurking in the concrete walls.
AWESOME!!!!!
In july I visit a operating nuclear power plant in the Swiss im am exited af
I have recently discovered your channel and subscribed it's been very interesting to hear about this early reactor... iv also seen Documentary footage about many other early reactors including Thorium reactors, it's a shame they were abandoned at the time because the interest was more towards Weapons and not cleaner power, I do find it interesting how they used Heavy water and Natural uranium together in this early reactor.
How long would they have been able to run it before a refueling was needed? Are there any more videos you would recommend yourself on this reactor? i would love to know more about it's origins and development...
I do have another question for someone of your knowledge, how much more or less efficient would the early natural uranium fuels have been compared to a more modern enriched fuel source?
I know Oak Ridge labs would have been playing around with Molten salt Fuels and experimental reactors around that time and many other countries had nuclear programs, some of the science done by the Germans in that era was fascinating, you do wonder how different the world might have been if more efforts were put into Energy generation and not as much into warfare.
Thanks in advance for any response and please keep on making interesting videos and going to cool places.
I’d like to go see that reactor some day. 🙌🏻
Elina: I was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA {and also lived near Miami for about seven years}. I have been living in northeastern North Carolina, USA -- about a 1-hour drive from the NC Outer Banks -- since the mid-1990s.
At about 12:42 in this video: What is this *"MOUNTAIN"* thing you speak of?
🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
What about Jamaica?? I think I read somewhere that the natural radiation is sum what high and can affect nut production.
Pretty cool video. I enjoy content like this and I liked to hear about why, how, when, etc.
are you Swedish? I am from Finland. you are the best. although I'm a bit afraid of nuclear power but it's also interesting. you make good videos. the channel was subscribed. greetings from Finland 🤩
From her name and accent, I would say she's Greek
Very informative.
Hello Elina ❤
The hole in the wall had some serious analog horror/found footage energy lol
Very interesting.
as a suggestion, you could do a tour of the Austrian nuclear powerplant
Hello Elina when running uranium gas through a centrifuge how many times do you have to do it to achieve 98% enrichment?
"Oh look, someone left this hatch open. Let me close it." That is when the claustrophobia really kicks in.
Είναι τρελό το ότι μπορείς να κυκλοφορείς εκεί μέσα χωρίς PPE
all they got was a few thermometer sensors to look at?
The ENDING 😂😂😂FROM THE WHOME OMG I LOVE THIS
I'm voting for more field trips.