Uhh when it comes to nuclear accidents sometimes even the most well- intended AND funded projects suffer from a lack of imagination or arrogance. You can't just say "ITS THE GREED!" in this case. It is a very different industry compared to most (thankfully).
Hello, nuclear energy has become much safer and more stable in today's day and age. There is absolutely no reason for humanity to generate energy using fossil or renewable energy. Nuclear is so much more efficient and clean than any other form of energy
@@Nick-rm9kg you mean people went against it and needed to go 7x over the limit and ignored the reaction for HOURS to cause an accident? how is that an argument against it that's like saying ban all cars because someone crashed going 150 in a 30
there is a reason to use renewable energy, building a nuclear plant takes decades and is suuuuper expensive. I agree though, the bulk would be easily done with nuclear and with how easily you can change the output you can use it to compensate for windmills and solar panels on the off hours rather than filling houses with batteries or using fossil fuels. the trash is also something to keep in mind but blown out of proportion by some
@@croozerdog i mean the break even point of a nuclear plant is around 10-18 years and current plants have a lifetime of 60 years and that is growing. They have 1/3 carbon emissions of solar panels that would need to be replace once possibly twice as solar panels have an average lifetime of 25-30 years. Nuclear waste is also next to null now because almost everything is reused and contaminated gear is now the majority of waste which is low risk and low volume. Nuclear also has one of the highest energy capacity per area of all forms, on par with onshore wind and only soundly beaten by coal. Mining is slightly less bad than that of solar and lastly the no downtime and output regulation are a big plus over solar. All in all i'd prefer nuclear over utility grade solar.
The main reason I love this channel is the energy and excitement with which these dark stories are told. I love the passion! I mean the video dives right in and I swear the narrator is jumping up and down while telling the story. just listen to the slight smile in his voice
As long as we pay respects to Sam O'nella for definine the "trivia genre" he didn't start it but he definitely created the standards Kelvin is awesome too don't get me wrong heck to me out side of the respect thing he beats sam for consistency chat history is the worst for me but much respect too
Worst thing is that they estimated nearly perfectly the size of tsunami and the earthquake magnitude, and they were like nah, wont need that, too expensive
People will see this and conclude "nuclear energy dangerous and bad, dont do it" while completely missing the actual point of "those disasters happened because greedy people tried to cut costs"
Windscale looked nothing like that...and the initial design was fine, the problem was adding flammable magnesium for the hydrogen bomb project, it ran for 7 years
Some Informations about Fokushima seemed to be not quite right, but many Sources say it different. It's belived that the actual Deaths because of Radiation are near 0. While always hard to confirm there could be some truth to that, since a real Fallout didn't actually happen. The Earthquake and Tsunami took most of the Lifes, the Stress and Mental Strain and "Ghosts of Fukushima" took some more Survivors. Fukushima is a Place you could Life in again, only the three Exploded Reactors still have the Nuclear Waste on the bottom that can't be removed as of now, but is fully under Control.
Not only informations about Fokushima seemed to be not quite right. - In the case of the Kyshtym disaster, there was no explosion of the reactor, but the explosion occurred as a result of a failure of the cooling system in one of the tanks in Mayak, which contained about 70-80 tons of liquid radioactive waste. - The Windscale reactors were commissioned in October 1950 and were intended to operate for five years, but operated for seven until shut down by fire at Windscale on October 10, 1957. The Windscale fire was not the result of a "bad and stupid design" of the reactors, but because of some good ol' human operator error. Removing all control rods from the reactor core is never a good idea, this mistake, compounded by others, led to an uncontrollable chain reaction that led to a radioactive fire.
@@helloScuffed There were no explosions of the reactors at Fukushima either. The explosions seen were merely hydrogen explosions in the secondary containment structures.
Windscale didn't have hyperbolic cooling towers. It was air-cooled, as the video mentioned, and had a single chimney through which the air was vented. The fuel rods were also pushed through the channels *manually* and there was no mechanism to extract them if they got stuck. So when one of them did get stuck, it heated up and started a fire.
11:49 also playing that Cod Mission where you have to snipe the weapons dealer from the top of the abandoned hotel in Chernoybl. On the account that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. took place there too. A Ukrainian version of Fallout
to put all those horrible accidents into perspective. The mortality rate per Terra watt hour of all popular forms of energy generation is higher than nuclear including the accidents. All of them except Solar and solar only recently got lower.
Solar is definitely higher. The studies incorrectly lump prior historical deaths vs solar. And the problem is solar being so rarely used in the past had few deaths associated with infrastructure whereas nuclear took the brunt of the deaths because of Chernobyl. If you take all historical nuclear accidents except Chernobyl into account vs all solar energy deaths then there are less deaths from nuclear energy. There has been one recorded death from nuclear energy over the last 15 years. There were nearly 150 deaths from Solar Installation in the last year alone. Expanded over 15 years you can estimate that 225000% more deaths directly attributed to solar over nuclear.
To reiterate. Deaths from nuclear energy have only gotten lower and become less frequent whereas the death toll from solar has only grown year after year.
Outside of deaths, what about injuries and sides effects directly caused by radiation? Nuclear definitely has potential, any *hint* of risk needs to be removed before the public sentiment on them changes.
13:35 they had bad equipment that made that problem worse. The geiger counters at Chernobyl were programmed to cap off at a safe level which prompted one team to prematurely remove their hazmat suits resulting in mass radiation poisoning, and most of their safety systems had corners cut that made them unsafe.
I feel with Fukushima it is important to mention the senior citizens that volunteered for the cleanup, since their lives had already gone as long as they could
Church Rock happened July 16, 1979. The first successful nuclear test was exactly 34 years earlier on July 16, 1945. It also took place about 170 miles west from Church Rock.
2 things about Fukushima Surprisingly, only 1 direct death was actually linked specifically to the radiation or the nuclear meltdown specifically and 2, this disaster only goes to show how safe nuclear power has actually become, as nuclear plants closer to the epicenter, that actually had their safety systems updated, was perfectly fine, and that Fukushima was the result of the plant owners not adhering to countless warnings about their safety systems
2:16 We find radiation in milk in the US all the time. Once in the late 70s early 80s, there were three long-term contaminations found with milk for years. This is why there is a spike in thyroid cancer and other endocrine fertility issues for people born in the 1970s. The government covered it up, and we still don't know what events caused for the contamination. The Government eledged that it was related to testing in the 50s. The half life math didn't work out, and the grass wouldn't have lived for 20 years, then suddenly get eaten by thousands of cows that generations of cows were grazing on before.
People always forget about SL-1 which is the real reason that Skin Walker ranch had the weird things happen to cows. They were testing them for radiation because the stream that runs over the ranch was contaminated 60miles upstream. Still have high radiation levels to this day.
You don't need a containment building around an atmospheric pressure reactor. It wouldn't do anything. The chimneys had filters built through them, which is why we just threw away some milk, rather than irradiate Cumbria. Because we knew what we were doing. If you're going to make a video on a subject, do it properly.
As much as I'd love to have a collection of various types of radioactive material to experiment with, i also fully understand how difficult the stuff is to contain and safely work with, so it'll never happen.
19:00 "Picture yourself in Brazil" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- - Sincerely, a Brazillian
Nuclear processing excursions are a horrible way to die. In the US, the AEC let people with high school diplomas operate fuel processing equipment. Instead of turning into a Glowing One from Fallout, your cells die and rot from the inside out. If humanity turns both keys, I hope I end up a shadow or nuclear novelty skeleton rather than survive. It's not worth it. Cormack McCarthy's "The Road" is your best-case scenario.
For the Fukushima incident, scientists warned the government that they needed to upgrade their tsunami protection wall, around the plant, to 15-20 meters but the government ignored the climate scientists and then it happened
Way too much reliance on metaphor and allegory for your jokes in this one. Like legitimately 4-5 metaphors that don't relate the problem for easier digestion per incident you spoke about.
It's so comforting to know that every superpower on earth owns up to their radioactive disasters the same way a gradeschooler owns up to dropping an eggy fart on the bus ride home: Just pretend it didn't happen and hope for the best.
Also should be noted that most of the time when people questioned the radiation in Russia the government or military would gaslight it and say it “is American propaganda to make our nuclear advances look weak”
Theres no way a Chernobyl event, 9/11, BP Deepwater Oil Spil, Dust Bowl, Titanic Sinking, Calcutta Cyclone & a holocaust could happen at the same time.
Nuclear power is only terrible when it's built and operated on the bottom line. France has 52 PWR and Thorium Breeder reactors with an immaculate safety record because utilities are a public good there.
Politicians will see this and go: "good thing we built all those nuclear submarines with 16 nukes each instead of building safer power plants"
Modern nuclear plants are extremely safe, and only get safer every year
@@DarkAttack14nah. only safe energy is coal energy
@@alphonseb.931 and oil!
Nuclear submarines are not at all the same thing as power plants.
Yeah good thing there have been no nuclear accidents in 70 years of nuclear submarines existing (for the US at least) :)
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@@ImverySuicidalbruh he just wanted to talk about his new haircut,what u so aggressive for?
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Is it fresh
why nuclear disasters happen
*THEY ARE GREEDY AND TRY TO CUT COSTS...*
Or they are stupid to give 7 times more uranium than is needed
Uhh when it comes to nuclear accidents sometimes even the most well- intended AND funded projects suffer from a lack of imagination or arrogance. You can't just say "ITS THE GREED!" in this case. It is a very different industry compared to most (thankfully).
You know "not greedy and not cut cost" can still make a disaster/accident without "greedy and cut cost"
@@erdwin5613 name one that could not have been prevented
@@Baboner984strong earthquake, aging infrastructure (even well maintained), and human error (professional can still make mistakes)
Hello, nuclear energy has become much safer and more stable in today's day and age. There is absolutely no reason for humanity to generate energy using fossil or renewable energy. Nuclear is so much more efficient and clean than any other form of energy
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@@Nick-rm9kg that's called letting dumb people do dumb things
@@Nick-rm9kg you mean people went against it and needed to go 7x over the limit and ignored the reaction for HOURS to cause an accident? how is that an argument against it that's like saying ban all cars because someone crashed going 150 in a 30
there is a reason to use renewable energy, building a nuclear plant takes decades and is suuuuper expensive. I agree though, the bulk would be easily done with nuclear and with how easily you can change the output you can use it to compensate for windmills and solar panels on the off hours rather than filling houses with batteries or using fossil fuels.
the trash is also something to keep in mind but blown out of proportion by some
@@croozerdog i mean the break even point of a nuclear plant is around 10-18 years and current plants have a lifetime of 60 years and that is growing. They have 1/3 carbon emissions of solar panels that would need to be replace once possibly twice as solar panels have an average lifetime of 25-30 years. Nuclear waste is also next to null now because almost everything is reused and contaminated gear is now the majority of waste which is low risk and low volume. Nuclear also has one of the highest energy capacity per area of all forms, on par with onshore wind and only soundly beaten by coal. Mining is slightly less bad than that of solar and lastly the no downtime and output regulation are a big plus over solar. All in all i'd prefer nuclear over utility grade solar.
for people scrolling in the comments before watching the video, this is fire
The main reason I love this channel is the energy and excitement with which these dark stories are told. I love the passion! I mean the video dives right in and I swear the narrator is jumping up and down while telling the story. just listen to the slight smile in his voice
Love the vids they keep me hooked in unlike other stickfigure TH-camrs keep it up
Kelevin definitely has the cutest character. It's probably the hat ❤ lol
As long as we pay respects to Sam O'nella for definine the "trivia genre"
he didn't start it but he definitely created the standards
Kelvin is awesome too don't get me wrong heck to me out side of the respect thing he beats sam for consistency
chat history is the worst for me but much respect too
Fukushima actually did have a Tsunami wall but it just wasn't tall enough.
Worst thing is that they estimated nearly perfectly the size of tsunami and the earthquake magnitude, and they were like nah, wont need that, too expensive
@@Baboner984 When that happened, I thought, "oh shit." If the Japanese screwed up this bad, we're sitting on a catastrophe here in north America.
People will see this and conclude "nuclear energy dangerous and bad, dont do it" while completely missing the actual point of "those disasters happened because greedy people tried to cut costs"
Windscale looked nothing like that...and the initial design was fine, the problem was adding flammable magnesium for the hydrogen bomb project, it ran for 7 years
This is why British people look funny
Worse, inbreeding.
I'm happy to be one of his subscribers before he hits the 1 million mark
America went from having a Nuclear engineer in the white house to a guy whose only talent is being a nepo baby
Ayee glad to see you uploading again keep up the good work!!
18:14 The picture this is sketched off isn't him, it's a teenager from Texas who was burned in an ATV accident and treated at Shriners Hospital.
theres a lot of slop sam o nella likes popping up but this is some high quality stuff man
It was Homer Simpson
fax 💯
Comrade Simpson, watch ze nuclear power plant while zi am away
What does this button do
COMRADE SIMPSON, NOOOOOOO
His revolutionary 'eeiny, meeiny, miney, mo' protocol would save us though.
Great video! It always makes my day when I see that you posted :)
New to this channel and I already love this dude’s sarcasm. Pure satire shit and I love it. Lmao
Gang, I need you to drop more videos so I can build up and fall asleep to them
25 minute Kelevin video LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🔥
THE PEOPLE YEARN FOR CONTENT
This content is so refreshing no shoving in video ads
The flamengo hat was it for me 😂 liked and subscribed
Some Informations about Fokushima seemed to be not quite right, but many Sources say it different.
It's belived that the actual Deaths because of Radiation are near 0. While always hard to confirm there could be some truth to that, since a real Fallout didn't actually happen. The Earthquake and Tsunami took most of the Lifes, the Stress and Mental Strain and "Ghosts of Fukushima" took some more Survivors.
Fukushima is a Place you could Life in again, only the three Exploded Reactors still have the Nuclear Waste on the bottom that can't be removed as of now, but is fully under Control.
No one died from Fukushima radiation, but around 1500 died from the hurried evacuation.
Not only informations about Fokushima seemed to be not quite right.
- In the case of the Kyshtym disaster, there was no explosion of the reactor, but the explosion occurred as a result of a failure of the cooling system in one of the tanks in Mayak, which contained about 70-80 tons of liquid radioactive waste.
- The Windscale reactors were commissioned in October 1950 and were intended to operate for five years, but operated for seven until shut down by fire at Windscale on October 10, 1957. The Windscale fire was not the result of a "bad and stupid design" of the reactors, but because of some good ol' human operator error. Removing all control rods from the reactor core is never a good idea, this mistake, compounded by others, led to an uncontrollable chain reaction that led to a radioactive fire.
@@helloScuffed There were no explosions of the reactors at Fukushima either. The explosions seen were merely hydrogen explosions in the secondary containment structures.
No way, good enough uploaded today and you did too, let’s goo, I’m sure it’s great since you posted it
I never heard that many metaphors in one video😂
I love this channel
why does the first one show a cooling tower on fire if the reactor was in a state of meltdown?
Windscale didn't have hyperbolic cooling towers. It was air-cooled, as the video mentioned, and had a single chimney through which the air was vented. The fuel rods were also pushed through the channels *manually* and there was no mechanism to extract them if they got stuck. So when one of them did get stuck, it heated up and started a fire.
11:49 also playing that Cod Mission where you have to snipe the weapons dealer from the top of the abandoned hotel in Chernoybl. On the account that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. took place there too. A Ukrainian version of Fallout
And a game series that inspired Escape from Tarkov
I love the STALKER games ❤
Just discovered your channel, 😊 love it!
Something to mention with thr liquidators. Their reward was a bottle of Coca-Cola
Just had a bottle of mexican Coca-Cola with my lunch
At least I didn't have to scoop radioactive graphite for it
'Merica
No it wasn’t Lmfao, just making shit up
No, they received a special medal
i love ur content man keep it up
uranium is the ulitmate bulking food
first, fire vid love you man, you inspire me,
Ayy thanks man!
Covering Chernobyl in a list of events worse than chernobyl. He's a mad man!
god damn another animation channel that's too good to just not watch it 😭 I have to watch every video now😭
to put all those horrible accidents into perspective. The mortality rate per Terra watt hour of all popular forms of energy generation is higher than nuclear including the accidents. All of them except Solar and solar only recently got lower.
Solar is definitely higher. The studies incorrectly lump prior historical deaths vs solar. And the problem is solar being so rarely used in the past had few deaths associated with infrastructure whereas nuclear took the brunt of the deaths because of Chernobyl.
If you take all historical nuclear accidents except Chernobyl into account vs all solar energy deaths then there are less deaths from nuclear energy. There has been one recorded death from nuclear energy over the last 15 years. There were nearly 150 deaths from Solar Installation in the last year alone. Expanded over 15 years you can estimate that 225000% more deaths directly attributed to solar over nuclear.
To reiterate. Deaths from nuclear energy have only gotten lower and become less frequent whereas the death toll from solar has only grown year after year.
Outside of deaths, what about injuries and sides effects directly caused by radiation?
Nuclear definitely has potential, any *hint* of risk needs to be removed before the public sentiment on them changes.
@@Blackw1ng Everything has risk.
@@Hamletbls nowhere near the degree of a nuclear plant though. Fossil fuels can get close contamination wise but renewable sources are far lower risk.
waiting for our resident nuclear engineer youtuber to cover this
Iodine 131? I like the number
Same
This is great I love these vids
The Flamengo hat on the guy from Goiânia LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
King of metaphors
We need more long vids this is great
Kelevin, I must know WHATS under the hat
Windscale's liquid waste made the Irish Sea glow.
2 mins in and I subscribed. Good content
Poos and wee wees are awesome
13:35 they had bad equipment that made that problem worse. The geiger counters at Chernobyl were programmed to cap off at a safe level which prompted one team to prematurely remove their hazmat suits resulting in mass radiation poisoning, and most of their safety systems had corners cut that made them unsafe.
The worst part of the 87 days guy was that the nurses reported he had zero clue what was gonna happen to him. He thought he'd be home the next day.
23:00 I live to the left of Kelevin’s face and sometimes pass within viewing distance of Three Mile Island. This is probably why turds glow
idk why seeing “whoopsie” made me giggle but it did.
its 2:07am, im exhausted…lmao
Sam'o Nelln't
love your work
(The big iconic hour-glass shaped tube where steam comes out is not the reactor ❤ it’s a cooling tower. The actual reactors are in other buildings)
The cooling towers are not the reactor
I feel with Fukushima it is important to mention the senior citizens that volunteered for the cleanup, since their lives had already gone as long as they could
Church Rock happened July 16, 1979. The first successful nuclear test was exactly 34 years earlier on July 16, 1945. It also took place about 170 miles west from Church Rock.
I'm way more scared of orphaned source objects than these large scale disasters.
Same, it's so terrifying to think that like you could possibly just find a weird rock somewhere and die
2 things about Fukushima
Surprisingly, only 1 direct death was actually linked specifically to the radiation or the nuclear meltdown specifically
and 2, this disaster only goes to show how safe nuclear power has actually become, as nuclear plants closer to the epicenter, that actually had their safety systems updated, was perfectly fine, and that Fukushima was the result of the plant owners not adhering to countless warnings about their safety systems
2:16 We find radiation in milk in the US all the time. Once in the late 70s early 80s, there were three long-term contaminations found with milk for years. This is why there is a spike in thyroid cancer and other endocrine fertility issues for people born in the 1970s.
The government covered it up, and we still don't know what events caused for the contamination.
The Government eledged that it was related to testing in the 50s. The half life math didn't work out, and the grass wouldn't have lived for 20 years, then suddenly get eaten by thousands of cows that generations of cows were grazing on before.
Ahh selafield, the only good job in Cumbria
People always forget about SL-1 which is the real reason that Skin Walker ranch had the weird things happen to cows. They were testing them for radiation because the stream that runs over the ranch was contaminated 60miles upstream. Still have high radiation levels to this day.
You don't need a containment building around an atmospheric pressure reactor.
It wouldn't do anything.
The chimneys had filters built through them, which is why we just threw away some milk, rather than irradiate Cumbria.
Because we knew what we were doing.
If you're going to make a video on a subject, do it properly.
Shameless
People when they hear nuclear meltdowns
*Slaps you with a picture of a cooling tower as the reactor"
Sad thing is, Fukushima is probably the least disastrous one on the list of well known nuclear disaters
Nice New Vegas tie-in for the Puerco River disaster...
If the wave is about 15m (49.5 ft)and bro is over half the height then he's at least 7.5 meters tall (24.75 feet)
Quite the girl getter
“It’s like….”
The undisputed king of similes
I wanna hold kelvins stick figure 😌🙏
As much as I'd love to have a collection of various types of radioactive material to experiment with, i also fully understand how difficult the stuff is to contain and safely work with, so it'll never happen.
20:00 THE FLAMENGO CAP ON THE GUY ON THE LEFT 🔥
Ainda bem que alguém percebeu, eu que fiz os desenhos desse vídeo kkskksksskkksks
@@guilhermeveigadeandrade7428 irmão, mt bom pprt na hr eu olhei e pensei ''KRL BONÉ DO MENGÃO'' kkkkkkkkkkk
It’s wild that they had a nuclear reactor while my dad was a kid with no indoor toilet or hot water.
Like most russians today
19:00 "Picture yourself in Brazil" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
- Sincerely, a Brazillian
Nuclear processing excursions are a horrible way to die. In the US, the AEC let people with high school diplomas operate fuel processing equipment. Instead of turning into a Glowing One from Fallout, your cells die and rot from the inside out. If humanity turns both keys, I hope I end up a shadow or nuclear novelty skeleton rather than survive. It's not worth it. Cormack McCarthy's "The Road" is your best-case scenario.
It’s a miracle that the world didn’t turn into a fallout game by now
Poor man’s knockoff Sam O’Nella
For the Fukushima incident, scientists warned the government that they needed to upgrade their tsunami protection wall, around the plant, to 15-20 meters but the government ignored the climate scientists and then it happened
Way too much reliance on metaphor and allegory for your jokes in this one. Like legitimately 4-5 metaphors that don't relate the problem for easier digestion per incident you spoke about.
100% agree super repetitive
If the officials in charge of Fukushima protected the electric system from water than none of this would have occurred
In Chernobyl they were given permission to not follow their guidelines and reactor 4 was the only reactor to not be fixed to prevent the explosion
In all honesty Jimmy Carter was such a micromanager they did a funny skit about it on Saturday Night Live!
@23:00 simple, just like the titanic... the men wanted some peace and quite while they figure out how to fix the problem 😂
It's so comforting to know that every superpower on earth owns up to their radioactive disasters the same way a gradeschooler owns up to dropping an eggy fart on the bus ride home: Just pretend it didn't happen and hope for the best.
Also should be noted that most of the time when people questioned the radiation in Russia the government or military would gaslight it and say it “is American propaganda to make our nuclear advances look weak”
Why did you use cooling towers as the reactor building in the windscale one? (Also the cooling towers were demolished a couple years ago)
Well basically all those people can't boil water with awfully hot material
What happens when government is in charge of.. well, literally anything
Can’t wait to see T. Folse Nuclear react to this
Japan really needs to stop working with radiation before we actually get a Godzilla on our hands
Air cooling a reactor when we have PCs that are water cooled
We've come a long way
Kelevin anddddd good enough in one day. Beautiful
14:20 like actually or a joke
Theres no way a Chernobyl event, 9/11, BP Deepwater Oil Spil, Dust Bowl, Titanic Sinking, Calcutta Cyclone & a holocaust could happen at the same time.
Nuclear power is only terrible when it's built and operated on the bottom line. France has 52 PWR and Thorium Breeder reactors with an immaculate safety record because utilities are a public good there.
Air-cooled reactors were a really bad idea.
hehehe loved the fallout reference
3:52
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Nice Slavic squat, gopnik!
22:21 HavE YoU TRiEd TUrNiNG it OfF aNd oN agAiN?