Funny considering how shocked people are watching Chernobyl going "They never told them it was dangerously radioactive? How horrible the Soviet Union was!" Then the US does the same shit.
@@dankuzcodbdbd6092 Yes. There is a chance you could set it off if you held the flame right above the surface on a warm day.. thus igniting the vapor, or if the 3ft of gas was in a mostly enclosed space (thus the air filling up with vapor) But if you are standing in a big swimming pool and you just drop the match in... it isn't going to go off.
No one ever mentions that the Castle Bravo explosion was MUCH larger than anticipated by the US. The bomb contained Lithium 7, which was thought to be inert, but actually wasn't inert and caused the explosion to 2.5 TIMES the expected yield.
I actually remember learning that. The whole thing was kinda a giant “whelp that was worse than expected” If I would blame anyone it would be the scientist who incorrectly estimated how big the explosion would be. Cause they estimated what a safe distance would be, but since that was wrong not enough people were evacuated before hand. Generally speaking natives were evacuated to a safe distance but our understanding of the fallout and underestimating the size of explosions was lacking to say the least.
U.S. Government: “What does the dosimeter say?” Marshall Islands: “15,000, but that’s as high as he dosimeter go-“ U.S. Government: “15,000? Not great, but not terrible.”
He He he, this reminds me of Chernobyl disaster, where the high level radiation dosimeter was missing, and the normal dosimeter (with upper limit of 0.01R/s) read "off scale". So the crew chief of nearby reactors assumed that the radiation was just over 0.01R/s (relatively safe) and decided not to order a full evacuation, while the actual radiation was around 5.6R/s, a highly lethal dose. All the staff, including the crew chief died of radiation sickness.
I thought he protected us from far worse monsters? So sure there would be some collateral damage such as civilians but if it's fine for the military then it is fine for a giant radioactive lizard monster.
Imagine you’re just chilling on your islands living off the land/ocean, then America shows up and starts testing nukes in your back yard and dumps their nuclear waste on one of your islands
Keep in mind this was after decades of Japanese occupation which had seen multiple massacres and relocations, as well as settlement which had seen half the population of the islands being Japanese colonists at the onset of the war
The 21st century isn't even of legal drinking age yet, at least in America. Though it is of legal smoking age, considering that law is actually unconstitutional.
THANK YOU. Someone finally talking about the remaining effects of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. The only way to press for proper clean up to the US government is to pressure them for change. Well done mate!!
Fun fact; A very long half-life for radioactive material is actually a GOOD thing. It means it releases radioactivity very slowly. You wouldn't want several tons of radioactive material to have a relatively short half-life.
If you have tons of radioactive material, you really would prefer short half-life to long one. Yes, it would radiate much more at the start, but it will also weaken much faster and thus shorten the time needed for the area to be rehabilitable again.
@@tetraedri_1834 Well, a "relatively short half life" would probably be something akin to a few hundred years, during which, humans would not want to be anywhere in the vicinity of such a strong release of radiation. Meanwhile, a long half-life allows you to be near it for short periods of time with the exposure greatly reduced by a modest amount of distance. Neither option is optimal for habitation. On an otherwise featureless and tiny Pacific atoll, habitation isn't a primary concern. But I guarantee that if I had to be stranded on an island with a radioactive dump, waiting for rescue, I would prefer the island be home to radioactivity with a long half-life.
Its quite sad, from some stories I’ve heard, the kids thought the fallout ash was snow, as they had never seen snow before, so they played with the radioactive material.
Yeah, it's one of those open secret things. The US has done a shitload of horrible stuff like this, including massive weapons tests on the mainland. Almost all of it is out in the open, it just is ignored in educational institutions and the media so most people have never heard of them.
whats the best way to dispose of them then? I'm just curious, I was thinking underground in the desert. Nuclear weapons and waste are here now so there is no going back obv
@@windows95fan65 There’s no “away” in which things can be thrown. It’s got to go somewhere. We need to pick a spot and that’s where it goes. That’s nature’s law. Everything has a place and every place has its things. Yucca mountain was where the US chose. But that’s in someone’s back yard.
2:05 Actually, the mushroom cloud reached a height of 40 km (24 miles) It reached the width of 4.5 miles wide in the first 30 seconds of the detonation
It's not just satellite images or even a picture from a boat. Someone actually went on the actual dome to take pictures. You can literally see people in the photos.
Why mix your units? Some are SI and some are imperial, it is very difficult to follow. Stick to one and mention the conversion units in the frame. That'll help us. Example is at 4:08
@@jan-lukas yes, but everyone who isn't British are foreign so it doesn't matter, they're learning imperial the same way they're learning English, we're helping teach them. Let me help. There's 2.2 lbs in a kilo, so you then think of 1 lb a roughly half a kilo. There's 28 grams in an oz and 36 oz in a kilo. 1 pint is 568ml so 1 litre is roughly 2 pints. 1km is 5/8 of a mile, 1 inch is 2.5cm and 3 feet is about a metre
@@flostein7589 exactly, it isn't. The general British public aren't exactly renowned for their intelligence vis a vis their cousins on the continent and they've managed it for years
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Windscale nuclear disaster at the beginning, It was the worst nuclear disaster in Britain and was worse than Three Mile Island.
Yeah pretty much all the nuclear powers have had incidents, and countries where nuclear power plants are used. The US and Russia get all the attention with it cause they obviously were the largest players. But the UK did France both did test too. France tested many nukes in the pacific in the same way America did, but also in Algeria. The UK tested mostly in Australia, Nevada, and the pacific The UK in Nevada might sound weird but most of American and UK testing were joint test and had scientist and funding from both countries. Cause of how interconnected the two programs have been.
@@jtom2958 yeah in fact the Australian nuking is why Australia has so much electricity despite being cut off from most of the world's biggest electrical suppliers, the UK in return for nuking the Australian outback where no one really lives anyway, gave the Australians the means to produce nuclear reactors
Un-fun fact: the bikini, the two piece swimsuit we're familiar with, was named after the Bikini Atoll where they had the nuclear tests. The designer, Louis Reard, hoped his design would create "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar in intensity to the social reaction to 1946 nuclear explosion.
If those 3 examples are nuclear energy’s worst incidents that’s actually a pretty excellent track record, (and Fukushima was caused by a massive earthquake), unless there’s more incidents I’m unaware of.
yeah nuclear energy is extremely safe and reliable when compared to any other energy source and a lot more efficient. nuclear WEAPONS on the other hand... not so much 👀👀👀
Think we still have to account the increasing cancer rates that can likely not be noted. Or the deformities that people get from it. On paper, good track record, but it’s a long term game with a mighty price. Monetarily and physically.
The Fukushima accident caused the deaths of over 10000 people. The killer being increased air pollution due to nuclear energy being replaced with fossil fuels.
Marshallese: *Living peacefully* America: Hey we're gonna test a whole bunch of nuclear bombs on your islands is that alright? Marshallese: No America: Fantastic! We'll set up shop right away
@@mshevy9829 no they don't, theres quite a few orders of magnetude from the crimes that comunism commited in order to slave people to the crimes that US commited mostly fighting said communists.
@@yyeeeyyyey8802 The US government has decades upon decades of atrocities all throughout it's existence that it's rarely, if ever, had to face consequences for.
Why would they if they had the option NOT to? They have the ideal place far far away from the mainland so you bet they're not gonna risk causing any "accidents" on their own soil
@@koharumi1 they did & it didnt end as well. What i meant was that yeah, they could test on their own land, they did, saw that it wasnt worth the risk & just, going elsewhere
@@hyljix To be fair the soviet nuclear disasters are still way worse and in more numbers. So it's more like "we did (unecessary?) bad stuf to halt the badies".
@@yyeeeyyyey8802 Not the time for "whataboutery". Doesn't matter if it was the russkis or americans. Both have fucked up and need to own up for the mess they have created.
@@TP_TheOneWhoDreams no, i'm tired of this anti america bullshit. The only reason why we can look at the past and realise the bad stuf we did is because the world is now a much better place in comparison. And the reason the world is so much better is because of countries like US who fough for freedom and not against it. I'm not saying that US is the best country in the world, but they are clearly on the right side.
Just when the islanders thought they're free from the Japanese, in comes the Americans blasting nukes, irradiated the surrounding, and dumping radioactive materials at their backyard. And we've been told that America is the "good guy"
Unfortunately for this island, the sequels are usually worse than the original😟 . . . . . . I love your videos though because they are very informative and also inspired me to start my own channel!
US Gov: Alright so we got the plans for this dome thing all figured out. It'll be huge and have a thickness of 18 inches. That'll hold it in for sure. We could even dump some of our other waste here too from the mainland. Marshal Islands: Ah nice, the thick bottom casing should the waste from seeping into the water too! US Gov: I'm sorry what?
US: uses islands for nuke testing that have humans around it USSR: uses an island with only some animal life and in a remote area So i think we all can confirm the USSR is better in handeling nukes instead of the US
There are some things that you want to bob up and down with the tides: boats, seals, sea birds. On the other hand, the one thing preventing all the radioactive materials created by the US's nuclear tests, probably shouldn't.
@᪶ ᪶ Wind and solar are extremely limited by land and power. There's only so many places that can use them. Even then, nuclear power is far more efficient at the moment.
Nuclear power is the future. We just need people to stop freaking out just because of events like chernobyl that happened because of people and old equipment. Thorium reactors would be great, and the tech has advance way more since Gen 1 reactors.
For real. Nuclear energy is more reliable and cleaner and more efficient the wind or solar. Plus all the toxic materials in solar panels and wind mills will always be toxic. But radioactive material will one day will stop being dangerous.
It's not really freaking out when we relegate the dangers to people that aren't us. That's the main point here is that it's safe for a majority of us but we keep putting the waste product on other people and that's not okay.
@@dinahmyte3749 yeah but this video isn't about nuclear waste from reactors its about nuclear waste from BOMBS which is MUCH more dangerous, also we have the potential to use nuclear waste from old reactors to fuel new ones
Yep, until we can get Fusion Reactors, we should use Nuclear ones more extensively, heck, we will probably need nuclear Reactors to power up the fusion ones.
The problem I see is that nothing can or will be done. Work and health safety standards are much higher now than they were decades ago IN THE THIRD WORLD. The only way I can see this issue being resolved is by the US hiring third-party, third-world contractors to sign a disclaimer to work cleaning up. Then they will be totally liable for all damages incurred to their health. It's a sad but true story I can see unfolding..this can't be done by robots alone and who the hell is going to want to risk their lives doing this job unless they are desperate.
Learn imperial, I had to learn metric, it’s not that difficult. Approximate a yard or 3 feet to be a meter, and a mile to be two kilometers. It’s amazing how dumb the rest of the world is.
@@Alexander_Grant Don't you think it is dumb to use an old system where you use Queen's foot to mesure while the rest of the world is using a global system. It is amazing how some countries are so stubborn to change.
@@alpaktekin249 I think the Imperial system is dumb too. It's not like when we're learning to measure things as children we can tell the country we want to learn metric instead. Take a few seconds and learn some quick ways to convert between the two, it's not difficult.
Fun fact: Seawater is heavier than tap water and nuclear reactors typically use heavy water too. The Fukushima Reactor used sea water to cool the reactor down.
Nuclear energy is like air travel. Statistically safer by a huge margin, but when it goes wrong it goes VERY wrong and kills hundreds if not thousands at once
Thanks for the film. The Chernobyl events are both my hobby and work (I'm the authorized guide to Chernobyl zone). I am happy to discuss this topic with those who are interested in it.
@@badryaalamri3627 Looks like I miscounted there is actually 129. 43 per row, 3 rows.. 43 * 3 = 129. You can clearly see they represent the 6 dead as 6. This is a ridiculous misrepresentation. 4.6% of the chart is represented as dead, while really only .15% died
Dear RealLifeLore: As your avid follower here in South East Asia, watching all your videos, I recommend you use the metric system too. Not all your follower understand English units of measurements.
America is the only place that doesn’t learn the metric system. Every other country uses metric. So imperial isn’t really an “English” measurement system.
is there a reason why you put three mile island (an INES level-5 event) in the mix with the two level-7 events? wouldn't it be better to put kyshtym (a level-6 event) in there instead?
I'm guessing it's because those are the disasters almost everyone knows about. That section of the video was basically saying "You all know about these nuclear disasters, but here's one you've probably never heard of!", so the criteria for their selection was not the severity, but rather the widespread infamy.
@@Ardith_Prime Kyshtym happened in the late 50s. Suprisingly, the deaths of the tourists of the Dyatlov Pass were possibly linked to the disaster, although it happened almost 2 years later.
You didn't mention the fact that the US government didn't tell the servicemen that it was radioactive material.
Neither did they do that at Chernobyl, they just came in with chain mail armor like knights
Funny considering how shocked people are watching Chernobyl going "They never told them it was dangerously radioactive? How horrible the Soviet Union was!"
Then the US does the same shit.
it’s america are u even surprised lol
@@blankspectrum9578 nah fam is the superpower what do you expect?
The Servicemen who built the Runnit Dome were only wearing like t-shirts and shorts. Many took off their shirts due to the heat.
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
― Carl Sagan
And every other person alive is also waist deep in gasoline. And they have no ability to influence the sworn enemies' decisions...
And seasonally amber falls from the sky
Except liquid gasoline is very unlikely to be lit by a match.
@@ChadRazorback is that true?
@@dankuzcodbdbd6092 Yes. There is a chance you could set it off if you held the flame right above the surface on a warm day.. thus igniting the vapor, or if the 3ft of gas was in a mostly enclosed space (thus the air filling up with vapor)
But if you are standing in a big swimming pool and you just drop the match in... it isn't going to go off.
un-fun fact: The creators of Spongebob were inspired by the idea of mutated sealife after castle bravo near the Bikini Atoll.
That's a pretty fun fact
Uhhhhhhh
@RITVIK MENON 😐
@RITVIK MENON Of fucking course
He himself is marine biologist, I believe cmiiw
"Sadly the islands never ended up spawning a terrifying lizard that breaths radioactive fire"
Yet.
I mean, not with that attitude
i read this as he said it
Because in reality, life adapted to the new nuclear environment rather than mutated, this because life have evolved rather mutated there
Sadly
No one ever mentions that the Castle Bravo explosion was MUCH larger than anticipated by the US. The bomb contained Lithium 7, which was thought to be inert, but actually wasn't inert and caused the explosion to 2.5 TIMES the expected yield.
I actually remember learning that. The whole thing was kinda a giant “whelp that was worse than expected”
If I would blame anyone it would be the scientist who incorrectly estimated how big the explosion would be. Cause they estimated what a safe distance would be, but since that was wrong not enough people were evacuated before hand.
Generally speaking natives were evacuated to a safe distance but our understanding of the fallout and underestimating the size of explosions was lacking to say the least.
Everyone gangsta until a *second* Elephant's Foot appears on the Marshall Islands.
congratulations, you have the best comment on this video
@@ghrndez Collect all four and win a stinky Radioactive prize! It'll be the best thing you've ever gotten for the rest of your life :)
Wait....
_where's the Elephant's body?_
@@davisdf3064 at the marshall islands... were fucked
*2 more feet and we can respawn The Elephant*
U.S. Government: “What does the dosimeter say?”
Marshall Islands: “15,000, but that’s as high as he dosimeter go-“
U.S. Government: “15,000? Not great, but not terrible.”
Comrade Donald
Ahh a man of culture I see
He He he, this reminds me of Chernobyl disaster, where the high level radiation dosimeter was missing, and the normal dosimeter (with upper limit of 0.01R/s) read "off scale". So the crew chief of nearby reactors assumed that the radiation was just over 0.01R/s (relatively safe) and decided not to order a full evacuation, while the actual radiation was around 5.6R/s, a highly lethal dose. All the staff, including the crew chief died of radiation sickness.
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This makes me wish godzilla was real since he consumes radiation for sustainance.
😐
For a small cost of human lives. Good thing I don't live near a coast
I don't think a giant monster will help humanity
@@CoreRealm Not with that attitude
I thought he protected us from far worse monsters? So sure there would be some collateral damage such as civilians but if it's fine for the military then it is fine for a giant radioactive lizard monster.
Imagine you’re just chilling on your islands living off the land/ocean, then America shows up and starts testing nukes in your back yard and dumps their nuclear waste on one of your islands
They are the good ones. As always, they only acted selfishly with a good purpose to help humanity. You can keep the irony if you find it.
@@alias_not_needed
I'm sorry, who are the good ones?
@@alias_not_needed helping humanity by destroying it?
Keep in mind this was after decades of Japanese occupation which had seen multiple massacres and relocations, as well as settlement which had seen half the population of the islands being Japanese colonists at the onset of the war
@@davisdf3064 Obviously the ones who need to test atomic weapons on foreign islands...
"it's going to be the greatest disaster of the 21st century"
*again?
Yeah, Justin Bieber was the first.
@@joehoe222 in my opinion, Justin Bieber was better back then
The 21st century isn't even of legal drinking age yet, at least in America. Though it is of legal smoking age, considering that law is actually unconstitutional.
@Sugma Like I said, that law is unconstitutional.
"Unfortunately..."
As a godzilla fan, same man
me too im a godzilla fan
Your profile and name already said that!
Same here man.
2100 AD is "within most of our lifetimes?" This guy has a lot more faith in our longevity than I do!
Sounds like it’s from a speech for kindergarteners......as in age 84 in 2100....
Meanwhile the producers of Chernobyl on HBO, " We got some good matter here."
Nuclear matter*
@@bubassvaba6221 xDDD
@@prathambhardwaj3437 Cmon, its not that funny
@@bubassvaba6221 Comedy is subjective, Murray
no no no no
"not great not terrible"
Next video on wendover productions "The logistics of living in Marshal Islands"
Lol
Just watch "The final years of Majuro" by Wendover
Polymatter meanwhile- Be like how China going to take advantage of this situation and blame USA for destorying earth
@@rj5848 The US is destroying the earth tbh
@@Gurumeierhans the entire human race is destroying earth.
Them: "Oh yeah, if Chernobyl on HBO was so good, why was there no Chernobyl 2?"
America: "Hold my Plutonium."
Lmao
Lol
If Chernobyl 2 is so good, why is there no Chernobyl 2 2?
@Squid Derplord Chernobyl 2: Hiroshima Drift (Purchase DLC for Nagasaki expansion)
Is there going to be Chernobyl 3? :0
I can count the number of times I've been to Chernobyl on one hand
It's seven
That's where I started my youtube channel
haha
wait a minute
hol up
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Best comment ever🤣🤣
Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
-Chernobyl reactor 4
Tai lung, kung fu panda.
Fukushima was a better example
@@hyljix nah
@@hyljix lol Chernobyl is the most disasterous technogenic catastrophy in a human history so far
@@fanteasy7399 and? It didn't pollute the sea like fukushima did, and how this would
Another title : How Americans came and destroyed Marshall Islands and went back .
ONCE AGAIN, they did it!
MERICA'
How America committed crimes against humanity without consequences...
Again...
@@ChadVanHalen5150 MURICA FUCK YEAH! whether it's innocent natives or black people, you can bet America will nuke it or shoot it until it goes away!
Trash country
THANK YOU. Someone finally talking about the remaining effects of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. The only way to press for proper clean up to the US government is to pressure them for change. Well done mate!!
Fun fact; A very long half-life for radioactive material is actually a GOOD thing. It means it releases radioactivity very slowly. You wouldn't want several tons of radioactive material to have a relatively short half-life.
If you have tons of radioactive material, you really would prefer short half-life to long one. Yes, it would radiate much more at the start, but it will also weaken much faster and thus shorten the time needed for the area to be rehabilitable again.
@@tetraedri_1834 Well, a "relatively short half life" would probably be something akin to a few hundred years, during which, humans would not want to be anywhere in the vicinity of such a strong release of radiation. Meanwhile, a long half-life allows you to be near it for short periods of time with the exposure greatly reduced by a modest amount of distance. Neither option is optimal for habitation. On an otherwise featureless and tiny Pacific atoll, habitation isn't a primary concern. But I guarantee that if I had to be stranded on an island with a radioactive dump, waiting for rescue, I would prefer the island be home to radioactivity with a long half-life.
Its quite sad, from some stories I’ve heard, the kids thought the fallout ash was snow, as they had never seen snow before, so they played with the radioactive material.
thats quite sad, I hope they are ok
@@jits2q127 Probably not
@@jits2q127 obviously not
@@notshubhransh I know but I still hope it..
And caught it on their tongues like snowflakes.
Interesting iv never heard of this.....its almost like they "covered" it up
Ha that’s fucking good lol
Yeah, it's one of those open secret things. The US has done a shitload of horrible stuff like this, including massive weapons tests on the mainland. Almost all of it is out in the open, it just is ignored in educational institutions and the media so most people have never heard of them.
If it was covered up you wouldn’t know about it.
I think everyone here missed the joke
@@unknownunknown743 We got it, they covered the radiation.
Cheronobyl: I am the worst nuclear disaster ever!
Chelyabinsk: Hold my radioactive particles
Even before he said "there's no floor under it" I knew that eighteen inches of concrete on top was insufficient...
The rules of ecology cannot be ignored.
There is no “away” in which things are “Thrown”
whats the best way to dispose of them then? I'm just curious, I was thinking underground in the desert. Nuclear weapons and waste are here now so there is no going back obv
@@windows95fan65
There’s no “away” in which things can be thrown.
It’s got to go somewhere. We need to pick a spot and that’s where it goes.
That’s nature’s law. Everything has a place and every place has its things.
Yucca mountain was where the US chose. But that’s in someone’s back yard.
@@giordanobruno1333 okay, obviously. so again my question was what is the most logical place
2:05 Actually, the mushroom cloud reached a height of 40 km (24 miles)
It reached the width of 4.5 miles wide in the first 30 seconds of the detonation
fun fact: you can go on google maps and see the dome on street view
Wait...
@@davisdf3064 did U found ?
@@vineet6056
Sorry, this is confidential information (no)
It's not just satellite images or even a picture from a boat. Someone actually went on the actual dome to take pictures. You can literally see people in the photos.
@@Bookworm2380 I never want to visit such places
4:10 it would be nice to have these values in the imperial and definitely as well in the metric system, but most importantly in one system uniformly
These are all imperial units, the M is for Mile not Meter🙃
Tobi B It is most definitely not for mile... Do you even know how big a mile is?
Tobi B Go to 5:50 and tell me that it has a diameter of 115 miles.
@@tobib6885 Did you watch the video muted? The guy literally said the dome is 115 METERS wide. Jesus Christ.
@@Saruman38 @joee juan - Judging by the emoji at the end, that statement was most likely a joke.
Why mix your units? Some are SI and some are imperial, it is very difficult to follow. Stick to one and mention the conversion units in the frame. That'll help us.
Example is at 4:08
It’s for the international audience. We British use and understand both
@@StoutProper but not everyone is british! One (imperial or Sl) should be said, and one should be on screen.
@@jan-lukas yes, but everyone who isn't British are foreign so it doesn't matter, they're learning imperial the same way they're learning English, we're helping teach them. Let me help. There's 2.2 lbs in a kilo, so you then think of 1 lb a roughly half a kilo. There's 28 grams in an oz and 36 oz in a kilo. 1 pint is 568ml so 1 litre is roughly 2 pints. 1km is 5/8 of a mile, 1 inch is 2.5cm and 3 feet is about a metre
@@StoutProper yeah, doesn't sound complicated at all. (Sarcasm)
@@flostein7589 exactly, it isn't. The general British public aren't exactly renowned for their intelligence vis a vis their cousins on the continent and they've managed it for years
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Windscale nuclear disaster at the beginning, It was the worst nuclear disaster in Britain and was worse than Three Mile Island.
Never even heard of it
Yeah pretty much all the nuclear powers have had incidents, and countries where nuclear power plants are used.
The US and Russia get all the attention with it cause they obviously were the largest players. But the UK did France both did test too.
France tested many nukes in the pacific in the same way America did, but also in Algeria.
The UK tested mostly in Australia, Nevada, and the pacific
The UK in Nevada might sound weird but most of American and UK testing were joint test and had scientist and funding from both countries. Cause of how interconnected the two programs have been.
@@jtom2958 yeah in fact the Australian nuking is why Australia has so much electricity despite being cut off from most of the world's biggest electrical suppliers, the UK in return for nuking the Australian outback where no one really lives anyway, gave the Australians the means to produce nuclear reactors
Un-fun fact: the bikini, the two piece swimsuit we're familiar with, was named after the Bikini Atoll where they had the nuclear tests. The designer, Louis Reard, hoped his design would create "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar in intensity to the social reaction to 1946 nuclear explosion.
The USA in movies: Superman
The USA in real life: Homelander
The entire 1st world is homelander
@@dannyagunbia206 no
*USA Government
@@MrYFM2 dont like 30% of usa citizens believe that corona and climate warming are hoaxes?
@@kekerosberg1654 ???
Three Mile Island is not even in the same level as the other two disasters.
everybody gangsta til the fish start walkin'
When people learn that radioactive dirt is a thing that needs to be secured.
Its just spicy dirt.
@@Scazoid Lmao
If those 3 examples are nuclear energy’s worst incidents that’s actually a pretty excellent track record, (and Fukushima was caused by a massive earthquake), unless there’s more incidents I’m unaware of.
yeah nuclear energy is extremely safe and reliable when compared to any other energy source and a lot more efficient. nuclear WEAPONS on the other hand... not so much 👀👀👀
Three Mile Island wasn't really a disaster. It was by far the best of the worst disasters.
Yep, actually, people tend to forget the thousands of lives taken practically monthly by fossil fuels.
Think we still have to account the increasing cancer rates that can likely not be noted. Or the deformities that people get from it. On paper, good track record, but it’s a long term game with a mighty price. Monetarily and physically.
The Fukushima accident caused the deaths of over 10000 people.
The killer being increased air pollution due to nuclear energy being replaced with fossil fuels.
Marshallese: *Living peacefully*
America: Hey we're gonna test a whole bunch of nuclear bombs on your islands is that alright?
Marshallese: No
America: Fantastic! We'll set up shop right away
well america controlled the islands at the time, so not much they can do lol
@@SnoopySnoo america has equal dirt on its vest as the most evil societies ever (nazi-germany, udssr), without getting the repercussions for it...
@@mshevy9829
I wouldn't say equal, but...
Oh yeah, indigenous people, alright, forget what i was saying. You are right.
@@mshevy9829 no they don't, theres quite a few orders of magnetude from the crimes that comunism commited in order to slave people to the crimes that US commited mostly fighting said communists.
@@yyeeeyyyey8802 The US government has decades upon decades of atrocities all throughout it's existence that it's rarely, if ever, had to face consequences for.
the USA after testing nukes without permission and leaving a mess that is a disaster to the locals: "what can I say except: you're welcome"
For the radiation in the sky
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Couldn't America test the nuclear bombs on their own soil!?
They did both. "Fortunately" for Nevada, the majority of tests were underground.
Why would they if they had the option NOT to? They have the ideal place far far away from the mainland so you bet they're not gonna risk causing any "accidents" on their own soil
Nevada..
@@buiminhkhue8641 didn't they test it on their own soil during ww2?
@@koharumi1 they did & it didnt end as well. What i meant was that yeah, they could test on their own land, they did, saw that it wasnt worth the risk & just, going elsewhere
Imagine a volcano erupting below that dome spewing all that into the atmosphere to rain down everywhere...
Dont give the 2020s any ideas. 2020 was bad enough
4:08 meters, inches, square feet and olympic swimming pools. Forgot to add football fields, clearly superior unit of measurement.
Lmao
Where banana?
No, his biggest mistake was not measuring it in Toyota Corollas.
American citizens watching this video, "Are We the Baddies?"
yes
@@hyljix To be fair the soviet nuclear disasters are still way worse and in more numbers. So it's more like "we did (unecessary?) bad stuf to halt the badies".
@@yyeeeyyyey8802 Yes, detonate 67 nuclear bombs on a tropical island, so the baddies are halted
@@yyeeeyyyey8802 Not the time for "whataboutery". Doesn't matter if it was the russkis or americans. Both have fucked up and need to own up for the mess they have created.
@@TP_TheOneWhoDreams no, i'm tired of this anti america bullshit. The only reason why we can look at the past and realise the bad stuf we did is because the world is now a much better place in comparison. And the reason the world is so much better is because of countries like US who fough for freedom and not against it. I'm not saying that US is the best country in the world, but they are clearly on the right side.
2060: and he'll be sponsored by skillshare
0:46
*'Sadly!'*
Yeah! He is a Godzilla supporter
Lol
I prefer sooo much these kind of videos instead of the ones where you talk over a map for 10 minutes
His voice makes me scared and I don’t wanna go there
Wow this all just sounds like a slap to the face to the people are living on the marshall Islands
Just when the islanders thought they're free from the Japanese, in comes the Americans blasting nukes, irradiated the surrounding, and dumping radioactive materials at their backyard. And we've been told that America is the "good guy"
More like a slap to the face, punch to the balls, and dangerous radiation to their bodies.
@@terxunng1323 Truer words has never been spoken 😤
Why can’t we call the USA an empire
@@ssssSTopmotion It is an empire, if one country slip up. The America would be all over their ass
I wish i didnt know about this. It seems so impossible to ever fix, especially in todays polical world of never getting anything done
Unfortunately for this island, the sequels are usually worse than the original😟
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I love your videos though because they are very informative and also inspired me to start my own channel!
US Gov: Alright so we got the plans for this dome thing all figured out. It'll be huge and have a thickness of 18 inches. That'll hold it in for sure. We could even dump some of our other waste here too from the mainland.
Marshal Islands: Ah nice, the thick bottom casing should the waste from seeping into the water too!
US Gov: I'm sorry what?
US: uses islands for nuke testing that have humans around it
USSR: uses an island with only some animal life and in a remote area
So i think we all can confirm the USSR is better in handeling nukes instead of the US
Before the pandemic he made an epidemic video on Wendover productions and now he is making an American Chernobyl video...
Wait... they are the same guy ?
Not same
@@1grey11 you’re subscribed to buzz feed so please
@@ddsh6192 how does that change anything?
@@mohit_panjwani because it’s buzzfeed
3:23
RLL: "You see..."
Wendover Productions: "You'll hear from my lawyers."
4:00 ‘155 meters wide and 18 inches thick’ biggest crossover ever
There are some things that you want to bob up and down with the tides: boats, seals, sea birds. On the other hand, the one thing preventing all the radioactive materials created by the US's nuclear tests, probably shouldn't.
Nuclear energy is actually one of the safest forms of energy on the planet.
Not for humans
@@thirtythreeyears Yes it is.
*laughing in American government*
Thats why i hate climate change activists they always dismiss nuclear energy.
@᪶ ᪶ Wind and solar are extremely limited by land and power. There's only so many places that can use them. Even then, nuclear power is far more efficient at the moment.
Watching this video in summer of 2023 makes it even more scary.
Nuclear power is the future. We just need people to stop freaking out just because of events like chernobyl that happened because of people and old equipment.
Thorium reactors would be great, and the tech has advance way more since Gen 1 reactors.
For real. Nuclear energy is more reliable and cleaner and more efficient the wind or solar. Plus all the toxic materials in solar panels and wind mills will always be toxic. But radioactive material will one day will stop being dangerous.
It's not really freaking out when we relegate the dangers to people that aren't us. That's the main point here is that it's safe for a majority of us but we keep putting the waste product on other people and that's not okay.
@@dinahmyte3749 yeah but this video isn't about nuclear waste from reactors its about nuclear waste from BOMBS which is MUCH more dangerous, also we have the potential to use nuclear waste from old reactors to fuel new ones
Yep, until we can get Fusion Reactors, we should use Nuclear ones more extensively, heck, we will probably need nuclear Reactors to power up the fusion ones.
Indeed, nuclear power generation is becoming smaller, more efficient, and safer. Example: Ceramic pellets that cannot meltdown have been developed.
The problem I see is that nothing can or will be done. Work and health safety standards are much higher now than they were decades ago IN THE THIRD WORLD. The only way I can see this issue being resolved is by the US hiring third-party, third-world contractors to sign a disclaimer to work cleaning up. Then they will be totally liable for all damages incurred to their health. It's a sad but true story I can see unfolding..this can't be done by robots alone and who the hell is going to want to risk their lives doing this job unless they are desperate.
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And it's sitting atop an "extinct" volcano. This has the makings of the next great cheesy sci fi movie: "The Atomic Volcano"
"how americas chernobyl IS happening on this island"
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2:49 SpongeBob stock footage.
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The Marshall Islands are actually considered in the Oceanic region- not the America's. It's also it's own country.
Marshall Islands is legally a dependency of USA.
Random fact: 90% of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
truth
true but legit copy and paste from my comment, shut up
Ik
Another one : You are reading this
@@Itsme-do5cq ok
Can you PLEASE use metric system for THE REST OF THE WORLD to understand what you are talking about.
That would be great
.3 inches = .762 cm
Learn imperial, I had to learn metric, it’s not that difficult. Approximate a yard or 3 feet to be a meter, and a mile to be two kilometers. It’s amazing how dumb the rest of the world is.
@@Alexander_Grant Don't you think it is dumb to use an old system where you use Queen's foot to mesure while the rest of the world is using a global system. It is amazing how some countries are so stubborn to change.
@@alpaktekin249 I think the Imperial system is dumb too. It's not like when we're learning to measure things as children we can tell the country we want to learn metric instead. Take a few seconds and learn some quick ways to convert between the two, it's not difficult.
Marshall Islands: Exist
The US: *A great place for our nuclear test*
Same goes for the French with French Polynesia
Wow, this was handled so recklessly, nuclear fallout shouldn’t be taken so carelessly
Everybody gangsta till uranium rods start jumping and channel tips on the ground
Fun fact ...water is a really really really good way of containing and dispersing radiation ...
Fun fact: Seawater is heavier than tap water and nuclear reactors typically use heavy water too. The Fukushima Reactor used sea water to cool the reactor down.
Nuclear energy per kWh is still the safest, and it is getting safer and cheaper and realiable.
Agreed. Let's use warheads as fuel for the next generation of smaller, more efficient (and safer) nuclear powerplants.
Nuclear energy is like air travel. Statistically safer by a huge margin, but when it goes wrong it goes VERY wrong and kills hundreds if not thousands at once
America's definition of freedom for the Marshalese.
I swear I'm soo sad seeing those fish dying because of this radioactive ☢️ disaster in big groups.. 😔😔
Thanks for the film. The Chernobyl events are both my hobby and work (I'm the authorized guide to Chernobyl zone). I am happy to discuss this topic with those who are interested in it.
5:00 this is a very misleading chart. 4000 men represented by 126 men on the chart. 6 men died, represented by 6 men on the chart.
You read that all?
@@badryaalamri3627 Eh? I don't understand what you're asking
@@IChooseAHandle you counted every number?
@@badryaalamri3627 Looks like I miscounted there is actually 129. 43 per row, 3 rows.. 43 * 3 = 129. You can clearly see they represent the 6 dead as 6. This is a ridiculous misrepresentation. 4.6% of the chart is represented as dead, while really only .15% died
Dear RealLifeLore:
As your avid follower here in South East Asia, watching all your videos, I recommend you use the metric system too. Not all your follower understand English units of measurements.
Most people I know who have grown up with the imperial system don't even know what a meter is, so it doesn't surprise me
@@justalivetothrive529 These videos are aiming at an international audience, so yeah, use the international system of measurements only, please.
As an American, I agree this educational content needs to be in metric units. If it's good enough for science everywhere, it's good enough for me.
Just use both. Put the imperial system next to the metric system.
America is the only place that doesn’t learn the metric system. Every other country uses metric. So imperial isn’t really an “English” measurement system.
Why tf did you do that America...
No one knows
It's a superpower country no one gonna do shit about it so why not
@@zora508 yeah
Do you upload these as podcasts anywhere? I love listening to your episodes everywhere I go!
Can you make more videos on space I miss those :)
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@@lonelyburger2995 ok
@@lonelyburger2995 you're not gonna gain an actual life. That's for sure
If only the people of the Marshall Islands had Skillshare.
is there a reason why you put three mile island (an INES level-5 event) in the mix with the two level-7 events? wouldn't it be better to put kyshtym (a level-6 event) in there instead?
Because fear is the goal, not logic.
Three mile island is probably more well known.
@@f-35enjoyer59 probably this. I’d never have even heard of Kyshtym
I'm guessing it's because those are the disasters almost everyone knows about. That section of the video was basically saying "You all know about these nuclear disasters, but here's one you've probably never heard of!", so the criteria for their selection was not the severity, but rather the widespread infamy.
@@Ardith_Prime Kyshtym happened in the late 50s. Suprisingly, the deaths of the tourists of the Dyatlov Pass were possibly linked to the disaster, although it happened almost 2 years later.
I am more worried about the contents than "global warming".
"Might be," "Maybe," "Could be," "Seemed to be," --- STOP ALREADY!
Well, this was terrifying
I remember Wendover did a documentary on Majuro
this guy helps me understand the world a lot better
haha global superdisaster go brr
I very like your videos, but never get the measures in the imperial system (like at 4:15), can you add a metric conversion too? ☺️
@spider love 🤷♂️
Americans: "Chernobyl was terrible, the US would never allow something like that to happen"
Also Americans:
You forgot to mention that the Castle Bravo device was not supposed to be anywhere near as large a blast as it was.
It was a calculation error.
Three mile island was nothing compared to fukushima or Chernobyl.
Right. Equating them as this video does makes one question the author's judgment.
Does it help that Three Mile Island is on the page directly across from the other two in American university textbooks?
Finally a video about Oceania
4:11 i love your videos but please why do u use meters, cubic feet and inches all in one? Its kinda infuriating.
Congrats on 4M subs
This video is missing a lot of important context.
like the people who lived on the marshall islands whom were tested on to see what nuclear fallout would do to human beings
Ah swimming pool, california, a measurement only american can understand
I dislike you didn't mention how nuclear energy is historically the energy source with the lowest human death toll
I think its talking more about a governments negligence on the matter of nuclear waste
But where does all the waste go?
2:47 hey it's the Spongebob explosion