Atomic Age of Reason
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What Can Boeing do to Regain our Trust? | An Engineer's Thoughts
For decades, the name Boeing has been synonymous with air travel. They designed and built legendary planes like the 707 and 737 and pioneered the wide-body “jumbo jet” with the 747.
They earned the trust of the public by consistently providing airlines with safe, reliable planes. But then everything changed with the 737MAX 8. With the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and now the most recent incident on Alaska Airlines flight 1282, we’re left wondering whether that trust can be rebuilt.
Organizations that deal with highly complex and potentially dangerous technologies and do it very successfully are known as High Reliability Organizations (or HROs). This incl...
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A Nuclear Engineer Explains Fusion-and Why We STILL Don’t Have It!
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Does fusion hold the key to our energy future? Harnessing the power of the stars has been the dream of generations. Every science fiction utopia utilizes fusion to power their technologically advanced society. Yet, as the joke goes, fusion power is always 50 years away. So let’s talk about how fusion works, why I think it’s our best option for the future, the technological roadblocks, different...
Oklo: Explaining the Mystery of a 2 Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactor
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A nuclear reactor is considered the peak of modern engineering, but did you know that a reactor can occur naturally? And that one DID occur naturally in Africa over a2billion years ago? In 1972, scientists studying samples from the Oklo Uranium mining facility in the Central African country of Gabon, noticed something odd. Natural Uranium deposits should be 99.27% U238 and 0.72% U235. But these...
Can a Nuclear Reactor Become an Atomic Bomb?
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I’m a nuclear engineer with over 20 years of experience operating, maintaining, and testing nuclear reactors. I want to demystify nuclear power and promote it as a solution to our vast energy needs in the modern world. Safety is the most important concern of an engineer and company culture is vital in maintaining the high standards of safety required for complex engineering projects. Recommende...
Safety is an Engineer’s Duty: The Tragedy of OceanGate Titan
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The loss of the submersible OceanGate Titan on its way to the Titanic wreck site has brought international attention to the words of the company’s founder, Stockton Rush. His negative attitude toward safety and regulation should be a warning to all engineers about the dangers of ignoring safety. I’m a nuclear engineer with over 20 years of experience operating, maintaining, and testing nuclear ...

Комментарии

  • @Watcher1301
    @Watcher1301 12 дней назад

    Not great, not terrible

  • @Rachael-b2h
    @Rachael-b2h 2 месяца назад

    a very interesting video Thankyou.... Can you also give a truthful honest disclosure of the effects of the harm and hazards that have occured and still happening please To make good choices and decisions for all that live on Earth and the Earth itself we have to have a good balance maintain and care not to change or repeat previous bad choices but be wise enough to know when to stop ...to know what is of good for good for all without intent or agendas ....please make good choices for good for all that co exist on Earth and the Earth itself ...

  • @JohnWest-zq5gs
    @JohnWest-zq5gs 3 месяца назад

    Well Stockton Rush you can hear me let me say this safety regulations are put there for a reason so tragedies don't happen like it did with you 5 people are dead including you for not following safety regulations when I work on construction people got fired for not wearing their safety belt safety regulations are put their for à reason

  • @Heka41
    @Heka41 4 месяца назад

    Something about this is kinda creepy.

  • @daniforg
    @daniforg 4 месяца назад

    I saw a lot of explaining vids, you do such a superior job of explaining, that I enjoyed this so much! Thanks and careful with them reactions out there lol… half life omg lol I’m glowing now…☢️🤢👻

  • @hewrecbizman
    @hewrecbizman 4 месяца назад

    One thing I sure know is that if I was able to get my own submarine company going, I'd be too afraid to have a sub built with any cheaper material, and then try to go down to anywhere near the same depth that the Titanic sits at. I'd also want to go through a certification process, because I'd want to really be sure any submarine I'd build would really be safe. I'd want it to be found to be safe by a certification agency. I do believe to a certain point that what Stockton Rush said was right, about if you just want to be safe don't get out of bed, don't get into your car, don't do anything,. The point that my agreeing with that belief ends at, is when it comes to anything like deep sea or deep ocean exploration where there's even almost no room for error, when it comes to planning on going down to even anywhere near Titanic depths. I just don't feel that any ocean depths of any pretty crushing enough pressures is anything to fool around with, when it comes to ocean exploration.

  • @miken7629
    @miken7629 9 месяцев назад

    The problem is experienced Boomers are retiring and new hires just don't know what to do, don't have the skills and work ethic of past employees. Solution: Have a checklist to install everything with steps in sequence and inspection verifying all steps in checklist were completed, will take twice as long but skills will be learned.

  • @annecollins1741
    @annecollins1741 Год назад

    If Stockton Rush paid attention to safety concerns instead of being dismissive and arrogant. Five people would still be alive today. OceanGate is well known for cutting corners.

  • @railgap
    @railgap Год назад

    tl;dr - No.

  • @Kenneth-tz4sx
    @Kenneth-tz4sx Год назад

    He wasn't just dangerous, he was stupid. He was an ENGINEER. With background in aircraft. As an aircraft tech I would love to ask him, when did you ever see even a single aircraft flying around with wire bundles flapping around in the breeze??? That alone should have been sufficient to send people away.

  • @dennischng1827
    @dennischng1827 Год назад

    Im very surprised why a highly qualified engineer had failed to realize that carbon composite material lacks rigidity compared with steel or titanium.the composite structure consists of carbon fibre-resin bonded together and such bonding cannot totally devoid of air bubbles totally.hence under extreme pressure cyclically will cause sporadic damage in the composite bondage thereby constituted in structural failure of the vessel.tjis in my opinion còuld have resulted in the implosion.

  • @robertstuart9381
    @robertstuart9381 Год назад

    Thank you, great way of explaining things. There are Golden Rules for a reason. Rush forgot that.

  • @chriswalden9288
    @chriswalden9288 Год назад

    The cynic in me suggests that replacing the word "innovation" with "significant cost reduction" would get closer to the truth.

  • @PungiFungi
    @PungiFungi Год назад

    The fact that deep sea diving was "so safe" was because of the very regulations Rush sneered at. Like the con man he was, he used this safety record to con people into getting into his death trap.

  • @katherineg9396
    @katherineg9396 Год назад

    I'm not an engineer but I really enjoyed your video. Rush wanted to monetize the deep ocean, and himself.

  • @zeke2566
    @zeke2566 Год назад

    The name stockton rush will live forever! As an example of stupitity that lead to him murdering 4 people and all of ocean gates c.e.o. s are accountable as well- life in prison for all!!........

  • @PotooBurd
    @PotooBurd Год назад

    This is Amazing! INSTANT SUBSCRIBE🌻 keep it up! This is so informative!!! Fantastic reporting; I love this kind of content!🌻🌼🐝

  • @clintstinkeye5607
    @clintstinkeye5607 Год назад

    Some people said I looked silly when I wore a bicycle helmet. I've put in well over 100,000 miles on bicycles and have broken two helmets. My friend Kimberly refused to wear a helmet and she got a head injury so bad that she needs a caretaker for the rest of her life.

  • @jeffbenton6183
    @jeffbenton6183 Год назад

    As a guy who likes reading government budget documents for fun, I'm glad to see that someone on the internet recognizes that $500 million per year is basically chump change important engineering endeavors.

  • @ericaknesek3266
    @ericaknesek3266 Год назад

    Narcissism is deadly, and that is what I believe Rush had, and it cost him and his passengers their lives

  • @ericaknesek3266
    @ericaknesek3266 Год назад

    Has his wife or children been down in that Submersible I’m thinking not

  • @multicoloredwiz
    @multicoloredwiz Год назад

    But what if it turns out we solve the world's energy problems for good and no one is able to start wars anymore??

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 Год назад

      Solving energy would be great for a boatload of reasons, but - *by itself* - it won't prevent war. Russia was the largest *exporter* of natural gas and one of the top 3 *producers* of petroleum in the World. They were also the World's leading exporter of uranium and their own nuclear sector is quite significant. Even with more energy than they could ever need, Putin was still able to order them to invade Ukraine. This is the largest war in Europe since World War II, and it had nothing to do with energy. Ending warfare is important, but complicated. Guarenteeing reliable energy to all humans alive and - who will ever live - would help significantly, but it won't be enough. People fight wars for a bunch of reasons, and not all of them are fought over scarce resources - it's more complicated than that.

    • @multicoloredwiz
      @multicoloredwiz Год назад

      @@jeffbenton6183 please dont take my moronic post seriously man

  • @arpioisme
    @arpioisme Год назад

    Is that a batik tablecloth behind you?

    • @AtomicAgeofReason
      @AtomicAgeofReason Год назад

      It’s a blanket that has a Persian carpet-style print.

  • @martinlacouline2049
    @martinlacouline2049 Год назад

    * random idea for a video... maybe describing the criticality accident at JCO Tokaimura in 1999.. we all know about the terrible 80+ days of the guy holding the bucket... but what were they actually doing wrong and why? It was bad, i know that! And it seems that it was a common practice for a while before that ... ( in other words, safety measures in "your" workplace nowadays vs those at the JCO facility in 1999)

  • @martinlacouline2049
    @martinlacouline2049 Год назад

    Much clearer now! Thx!! (I didn't know that Deuterium-Deuterium process was possible... It's even better than i thought). The lack of funding is due to the decades it takes to make this profitable i think... Nobody wants to invest in something they may not see in their lifetime, let alone the next elections, aka politicians. It's sad tough, they should be thinking of their grandchildren... Keep posting, that was really interesting!!

  • @joshv1145
    @joshv1145 Год назад

    Great video 👍... but the audio may need some work, I hope you keep making these

  • @carlcoppola5369
    @carlcoppola5369 Год назад

    I'm happy you talked about what's going on and you didn't mention James Cameron like everybody else is doing in all their videos when there's so much smarter people about submersibles especially the people that built the Pisces submersibles that built 11 of them

  • @manuelseiwald34
    @manuelseiwald34 Год назад

    The goal certainly was to open deep sea diving to the masses which i find legit. I would love to go down there bit not for the current costs. So the „there is no goal“ part is absolute nonsense, sorry!

  • @irritatingaccount
    @irritatingaccount Год назад

    Stephen Baxter covers something like this in somewhere like Africa in his book, Space. Great read, and that segment of the book is... good. Poor Malenfant.

  • @trishayamada807
    @trishayamada807 Год назад

    Truly fascinating! 🌟

  • @trishayamada807
    @trishayamada807 Год назад

    Thanks for explaining the safety issues. What you said made a lot of sense.

  • @JoeOvercoat
    @JoeOvercoat Год назад

    This video should be required viewing for every employee of SpaceX, and not just the engineers, but most especially the engineers.

    • @54blewis
      @54blewis Год назад

      If the law of averages holds true,then it’s just a matter of time and a small yet crucial system or structural failure….that’ll lead to a major disaster…

  • @wbrockstar9550
    @wbrockstar9550 Год назад

    Does anyone happen to know if the rear/aft section of Titan,where the titanium dome & connecting ring are located,was also secured with a bunch of bolts too like the front one?? Im still trying to figure out why Rush didn't just use titanium only to build his submersibles,since they had been verified/certified/classed as a safe vessel?? His biggest problems and the things that got him & his passengers killed was him being cheap with the materials he used and him being in too big of a hurry to get richer.He was talking about building quite a few of these things so that individuals,groups,explorers,etc could go down themselves after a couple days of pilot training.

    • @jimw1615
      @jimw1615 Год назад

      The rear titanium dome on Titan was attached to the titanium interface ring with bolts, also. However, it did not swing open like the front dome did, so it remained in place, bolted up to the ring from the time Titan was first assembled.

  • @HobbyOrganist
    @HobbyOrganist Год назад

    Nuclear power is NOT safe(er) than fossil fuels, not as long as we cant dispose of the highly radioactive WASTE that's deadly for 50,000 years except storing it temporarily in corrodable steel drums in an abandoned salt mine

  • @kymnewman7323
    @kymnewman7323 Год назад

    Mate you took.10 minutes to say what most know. SR was a narcissistic FWit

  • @Rich-yj4ub
    @Rich-yj4ub Год назад

    Nope! It wouldn't explode like a Nuclear bomb but would be much much worse. Chernobyl is a great example or Fukashima.

  • @briananderson4032
    @briananderson4032 Год назад

    Pretty good video. Just a suggestion, either move your que cards to an area closer to where you are wanting to look and talk into the camera b cause your eyes trend away from your focal point or even better yet, learn your script. Bullet points are great as in an outline. You have 3 basic parts. 1) you tell your audience what you are going to tell them. 1- through what ever and a to z in the progress chart. 2) you tell them what you want to tell them completely and 3) you tell them what you just told them. Just a suggestion. Good topic.

  • @docbrosstudio7680
    @docbrosstudio7680 Год назад

    Short answer: No

  • @danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk

    The big lesson here that the Greenies who are trying to destroy nuclear energy by hiding facts in favor of ruinables is that the waste didn't spread all over the region. That means their talking point to demonize nuclear energy via the waste is a non sequitur argument. The waste is not the problem they want it to be and could be buried literally anywhere, even without casking. They also don't want you to know about breeder reactors or reprocessing which make more sense than burial in any event.

  • @travhammer
    @travhammer Год назад

    Wow. Great Creds

  • @multicoloredwiz
    @multicoloredwiz Год назад

    Insane that such a thing could have even come to be. Awesomen!

  • @martinlacouline2049
    @martinlacouline2049 Год назад

    (If you want an idea for a future video, explaining nuclear fusion would be much appreciated. It's really interesting, but I have a hard time understanding the whole thing)

    • @AtomicAgeofReason
      @AtomicAgeofReason Год назад

      Thank you for the idea. I'll add it to the list. I believe fusion could be our future and would love to help people understand how it works.

  • @martinlacouline2049
    @martinlacouline2049 Год назад

    I heard about that in college 25 years ago! I was talking about it to my brother just a week ago but i'm NOT a nuclear physicist at all, i didn't know how to explain it like you do, so he didn't really believe me! Thx i will send him the link right now! (i love the channel btw keep posting👍)

  • @1over137
    @1over137 Год назад

    BTW... Have you played Nucleares on Steam? Would make an interesting video (if you are permitted) to see how you play with the simulated reactor. (It's basically a "College level" PWR quite like TMI). There is no manual and they aren't actually allowed to give you one apparently.

    • @AtomicAgeofReason
      @AtomicAgeofReason Год назад

      I have not played that. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the idea.

    • @1over137
      @1over137 Год назад

      @@AtomicAgeofReason It's a very steep learning curve, though maybe not for you. I have made it through about 4 refueling cycles without major event, all audits passed. The most annoying thing is the pressurizer. Its just difficult to keep it balanced. Everything is fine for days and then pressurizer under pressure alarm or a transient steam alarm. The trouble seems to be how the game models wear and integrity of components/machines. If you let the pressurizer get out of tolerance once, it damages it slightly and it just won't retain balance from then on. You have to constantly switch the manual heaters in and out. Other than that, balancing the heat flow through the steam gens, turbines and condensor with the reactor "factor" is the hardest bit to work out as it can reach many different equilibriums, so unless you know that you just chase your tail and constantly drop out of steam, drying the steam gens or flooding them.

  • @1over137
    @1over137 Год назад

    Surely it doesn't need to be a sustained critical reaction, a pulsed, spartatic, infrequent sequence of small fissions would still make the daughters. Of course natural uranium under goes fission, why would it not? It's just that the 0.7% thing being the initiator of any means it is small and cant go critical at any mass. I am assuming all naturally occurring uranium has daughter isotopes or possibly 'activated' or heavier elements like Pu.

    • @1over137
      @1over137 Год назад

      Sorry. Correcting myself. It can go critical with the right moderator and shape.

    • @AtomicAgeofReason
      @AtomicAgeofReason Год назад

      So, Yes, uranium undergoes natural fission periodically. However, that is a predictable statistical property of the material. The thing here is that there was a LOT more of the fission products than should have been there indicating a significant amount of fissioning beyond what would be expected. Yes, it is possible for natural uranium to be used for sustained fission, but not with normal light water as a moderator. The CANDU reactors use heavy water as their moderator and use natural uranium as a fuel. It is not really possible for what we're talking about with a 'natural" reactor like at Oklo.

  • @geobergh
    @geobergh Год назад

    This should be broadcast massively to stop the stupid association ignorant peoples make between reactor plan and atomic bomb...