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with a 1.5% failure rate which is, at the very best, 1000 times greater than civil aviation. Imagine if it ever got close to that fabled launch every week or so....

I would like to talk to Todd about some of these things. I know it's been awhile since he wrote his book, but there's several points that should have been answered differently. When you drill down to the exact reason why the blame lies heavily on Byrnes, you discover that the C-Clamp was already on the rod follower and no more "exercising" or any significant manual lifting needed to be done. The four inch lift was to get the C-Clamp on the rack. The procedure they were following was one where it takes 2 guys - one to briefly lift the rod with the handling tool, and the other one, the supervisor, needed to remove the clamp. The extra lifting had to be intentional. The other part of the blame goes way deeper than Tucker is saying, as well. Argonne designed it, ran myriad tests with their engineers on site, and ran off into the sunset. Almost exactly a year prior to the accident. The cheapness of components, thanks to the Army, and the bad design, thanks to ANL, combined with metallurgical and corrosion problems and operational problems. All of the finger pointing was correct. The emergency exit was blocked. They had to stop messing with fuel plates for fear of breaking off more boron strips. Good point about not having an officer (2nd Lt) to oversee and babysit these morons. Emergency light circuits had to be manually engaged.

For those, like me, that are old enough to remember this at the time of release, but also the fear we all had back in the late 70's and through the 80's that we were on the verge of nuclear war. I'm Scottish so having nukes on our doorsteps has always been a thing. An example of this was living within 5 miles of a NATO fuel dump and one of the most secret NATO bases.

Three mins in and I’ve got the first comment. Shelly, I know youtube isn’t your main platform for your podcast but you deserve so many more subscribers and viewers. Absolutely incredible content.

Kind of looks like an oil rig

Atomic Yams = excellent name for garage band.

What is this..

Stick it 1km+ underground and just forget about it in the event of social collapse. Old Mines vanish insanely quickly, like on the order of 50-100y. Mining down 1+km requires enough sofistication and technology that those doing the digging will be able to recognize the hazards.

Grammatical mistake in title! Aside from that, great work, alway nice to hear a sister talk stem topics, and nuclear history being one of my special interest areas is a bonus.

Thank you for your upload

Sounds like the control rod was stuck and a arial hoist was used to lift the rod as can be seen in the picture as it was jammed under stress the rod would fly up at the speed to cause the explosion as 85 pounds is very heavy to lift at speed.

I'm 78 years old. My uncle worked developing the atomic (fission) bomb, first at UC Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, and then at Lawrence Livermore on fusion weapons. I have a photograph of him with Glen Seaborg and Ernest Lawrence at Spenger's in Berkeley. I have some very interesting photos, some are Polaroids. My intent is to get them to the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Alburquerque. I've been there and it's fascinating, to say the least.

Found out about this event from a Comic. Your video was the first one I could find with any info on the almost event. Thank you

You have so many important guests! Why do you not have 100,000 more subscribers?

Quality content! Subscribed :)

I was working a logging job just north of three mile island on the day of the event. It was an enormous wake up call not just to the nuclear development push but also to environmental consequence.

since JFK signed off on this a couple months b4 killed did it have anything to do with his death?

I never got or rember the button and my parents never told me about it. 1st I hear of it was long after both died and 2 years ago got the 1st letter in mail. letter only had phone number and email and neither were answered nor return call made, same for 2nd letter a year later.

they also tested with open air spraying of hazmat and nuclear chems in St Louis in the 60s

I learned 2 years ago I was apart but they wont respond to my contacts from the 2 letters I received the last 2 years. I have Gorlins syndrome which I think was due to the gov testing done when I lived in st louis in the early 60s

Why coming back with this old Tchernobyl crap over and over again ??? How about showing instead the public several different probability calculations as proof that nuclear power generation is by far - BY FAR - the safest way to produce clean, green, cheap mass produced electricity !

Oooooh you naughty fella…if you were 17 in 1986 you’d know what a correspondence course is! I was 20 that year, I know what they are! For you younger folks, it’s basically the ancient version of online learning, though clearly postal so no chance of seeing a tutor.

Excellent intellectual work! You could throw a couple bikini girls in the thumbnail to boost your reach.

Riveting - actually I’ve had Midnight in Chernobyl on my to read pile for several months. It’s now just moved to the top.. I’ve read most of the books on the subject & watched & rewatched documentaries but there was a lot here I didn’t know or *thought* I understood but as ever there’s more to the story. THANK YOU ❤❤

Diatlov did nothing wrong.

Very well told. I've always been fascinated about SL-1. Also, Elkhart native here! Small world...

It's too soon to worry about spent fuel. we'll build waste-burners long before we run out of U235 We have SHOVEL READY High temp TRISO reactors now. WE need to be cranking them out on assembly lines. You don't need complex reactors when the complexity (moderator, temperature coefficient) is built into the fuel.

Love this book

CCCP is no more. There's no reason to insist on the tip of the rod. It was irrelevant to the outcome.

Thanks this is very interesting. Lot of what I already know, but because I'm addict and "Chernoholic" I need allways more tales from Chernobyl. 😀

The americans exploded 100 nuke bombs during the 40,s & late 70,s. Plus 4 huge missle siloh accidents they kept secret by pure luck they did not wipe out half their country. The thousands who worked on these tests & clean up all died or got cancer. States that were downwind from these tests got cancer & still getting it. All the lovely islands they destroyed. They have killed way more of their own people than they killed in Japan but nobody talks about it because it was so secret. Then you add all the contaminated waterways now destroyed by the Fracking disaster i would love to know were you get fresh water in the U.S.A. Chernobyl is a small sample of Nuke mishaps. They have just released all the films of their Nuclear foolishness from back then on Utube & it is really hard to wrap your head around the destruction they did out of fear for something that was never going to happen.

AI generated propaganda part of the nuclear death cults attempt at improving its dismal image, so that they can have a "nuclear renaissance"...

As a friend once told me, “Never hire chefs to run a nuclear power plant.”

All of the sudden Oppenheimer is the new Tesla. Both are incredible people. But you and everyone else is. SMH

I'm not a physicist, but this is fascinating. As for the picture of the plasma (hope I got that right) within the torus is beautiful.

This is great, thank you for putting this together!

Thank you for putting this awesome podcast on RUclips 🎉. Well done btw

Very informative! Thanks for putting it on RUclips! Robert Franklin is awesome!

Hell...Sputnik and the missile gap were part of misinformation, meant to make the USSR seem more powerful by "beating" the US into orbit. JFK and LBJ ran on the mythology of the missile gap, even after Ike briefed them both about why the US knew that there was no missile gap. The US fell for it just like the earlier "bomber gap", and built and deployed a LOT more missiles and other weapons than we really needed to. Oh, and as for an person deliberately using nukes like Ripper did in this one, that is not nearly as possible as is used to be in the 1950s and early 1960s. A thing called Permissive Action Links (PALs) were installed for all nukes, and while the system had big flaws early on, they were made quite effective in the 1970s. There may still be some ways to get around them, but the PALs make it very very hard for an unauthorized person to choose to acv on their own to use nuclear weapons.