Hanford B Reactor: Making plutonium for nuclear weapons
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Take a tour inside the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built in the world. Developed to make plutonium for the first nuclear weapons, Hanford was built in an isolated area in state of Washington. Now open to public, anyone can take a tour. I've included full tour footage.
How the hell did they organise all this, designing the operating components and the research into the nature of Pu? And in such a short space of time. Truly a monumental work.
Look up Glenn T. Seaborg, he was the first to synthesize plutonium from U238 (92 protons, 146 neutrons). He first tried bombardment in a cyclotron and failed. Then realized they could use neutron bombardment (similar to the process in this video), utilizing the fission of the U238 itself, to make U239. The U239 (92 protons, 147 neutrons) will naturally undergo beta minus decay, in which a neutron becomes a proton and releases an accompanying beta particle (electron) and electron anti-neutrino, creating Neptunium 239. The Np239 (93 protons, 146 neutrons) does the same (neutron becomes a proton, by beta emission) and the daughter product is Plutonium-239 (with 94 protons and 145 neutrons). There are some great RUclips videos showing his experiments and the very first weighing of a plutonium sample.
@@EuricusChryseus Yes, he's crucial, but the level of development at the industrial and organisational level is staggering. I have trouble getting my breakfast together and they are building these vast piles at Hanford. Astonishing.
@@nickpn23 Yeah the whole thing is pretty incredible. From what I have gathered working in this field, they had pressure from the government to get things done as quickly as possible and to do it right. They had the most brilliant minds of their day, the best physicists, chemists, etc. They also had unlimited resources, i.e. money and man power. That helps a lot, lol.
With everyone's resources, whether they liked it or not.
started with a smaller one in Tenn, proved it worked, built this one and several more. they're basically about as simple of a nuclear reactor as you get, you just keep shoving fuel elements into it
The factory making the end of the world. It seems so...hum drum.... so routine and dull. The product, however....less boring. I loved the tour - thank you! D.A., NYC
Wayne, I recall speaking with you personally when I was last there in the B Reactor. Thank you for your fine effort there.
Same here. What a fascinating tour! They also another tour of the site area which would be neat to see.
That is absolutely amazing. From the fuel element to a paste to a hockey puck of metal to a ball in a bomb. Wow
Whenever it's said we need to fear a nation having WMD s, nuclear weapons for that threat to be real look for power produced by nuclear. Without such a facility nuclear weapons don't exist.
Nuclear weapons do not exist you been fooled
"absolutely amazing". Have you ever counted the millions of tons of Earth it took to make just one "hockey puck"? Net/Net : It's a shameful waste. There are OTHER was to boil water.
@@arcanondrum6543
There's natural gas and coal and that is where we get around 85 % of our power. Those hockey pucks aren't going to boil water but fuel bombs. Whether it's dug or drilled most of our natural resources are underground and its not coming to the surface on its own.
Try flipping the main breaker in your home for a few days and all that digging won't sound so bad.
@@sammylacks4937 You know , you're funny. Man survived for thousands of years without electricity and Al Gore pointed out we can Boil Water very easily when he debated George "My Pet Goat" Bush.
The minds that created this complexity - all without the aid of computers as we know them. Fascinating.
This is by far the best documentary on this subject/ B reactor I have seen and I live in that area.
The reactor at Chernobyl was predicated on the same principle as this reactor except that it ran at much higher temperatures and pressures and produced 20 times as much power. Even at 250 MW this was a real beast. Crazy to think the first operational breeder was run at 1/4 gigawatt thermal.
Graphite tips on the control rods lol
Just visited today and it was a fantastic tour. Highly recommended!
Ancient tech by today's standards, but it works
Fascinating! I never knew this place existed, although I never really looked into the places that made the atomic weapon fuel. I'd like to take a tour some day.
This installation was crucial in the production of Plutonium used in the first implosion nuclear bombs.
Nice ear rape there at the start.
Thanks.
Really needed that at 3:00AM
your welcome ma dude
@@jewebychewy7106 he cant hear you lol
Lmfao that cracked me up!
Fascinating to me and absolutely terrifying at the same time. I'm not intelligent enough to understand all of this but they do a good job of dumbing it down enough I can get the majority.
Excellent presentation. Thanks for sharing. Good questions too.
This is so far over my head it's almost inconceivable to me. To think men figured out how to do this just blows my mind.
This is quite fascinating. I was wondering when the fuel rods are empty, Do the maintenance workers, go in to the core and change out the fuel rods ?
Hi Nicholas. Thanks for the question. When I was on the tour shooting this, they demonstrated that the fuel rods loaded into those front tubes would be pushed to a holding container "pool" in the back, where they were eventually collected and hauled out. If I find a link with a good diagram, I'll post here.
@@WayneDevin thankyou. I'm autistic, but i own a Geiger counter, and i understand how radiation works, and nuclear psychics. I own a small piece of natural Uranium rock. But i'm careful, when handling the radioactive material.
Now I know how to make plutonium. Yay!!!
That's such a simple principle for nuclear power, you'd imagine it to be advanced and high tech
The objective was to simply produce as much Plutonium as quickly as possible. Refinement wasn't high on the list priorities. Just brute force.
When working with plutonium, all precautions must be observed.
just touch it, so you can tell everyone you touched plutonium and feel great
I’ve handled many kilograms of A grade plutonium metal in my first job in 1975. I was wearing leaded ambidextrous rubber gloves working in glove boxes. Plutonium produced was part of the reprocessing cycle of irradiated nuclear fuel. Dress included full pvc, three layers of surgeons rubber gloves, rubber boots and SR6 dust mask and pvc hood. It was a great job, all those 49 years ago ..
Plutonium might exist in naturally occurring reactors, however it would probably just be trace amounts because of the uncontrolled reaction.
Plutonium is fascinating. This is a great video. Thanks for posting!
Hi Annie - Thank you for the kind comment and for stopping by my channel. I agree. Plutonium is in a world of its own. You may know this already, but there was a book published not too long ago titled: "Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element" by Jeremy Bernstein. It was pretty good read. Take care and thanks again for the comment.
What's so fascinating about a man-made substance that is more toxic than anything on Earth?
***** All the elements are fascinating to me. Plutonium is especially interesting because , and I'm going to quote you here, "it's a man made substance that is more toxic than anything on Earth."
Annie Deppe I don't find it fascinating because of that. I find it frightening.
Chris Nelson To each their own I guess. I don't want to bathe in the stuff, I just love the periodic table and the order it represents in the universe.
video description is wrong it was not an isolated place, it became one after the government bought the the locals out rather forcibly
Kim Jong Un liked this
And tRump thought KJU liked him! What a farce.
Kim Jong Un fuck this...
like american gangsters(sory,government)?
Kim just protects its country
the usa did burn down dignety,and inocent man,woman,and children....elderly....around the world for decades....
to STEAL and get FAT FATTER FATTEST>>>>YES,they sure win the cake for stealing,bombing,killing,lying....and all there is a devil likes to do to buy its sheep...
but this will not last....the world is going to nuke ya all.
I see what you did there :)
breakline He probably has a couple of these underground
Thank you for posting this. I found it very fascinating. 👍✌️
Thanks for sharing, that was really informative!!
I know a grandson of John Tibbits, the pilot of the Enola Gay. He is absolutely ashamed of that legacy. He is haunted by images of the devastation those bombs caused.
"Sins of your fathers shall be visited upon you"...or something like that.
And he is grossly misinformed about what the alternative would have looked like…
If you think nuclear weapons are bad - conventional invasions are even worse.
Love from DPRK 🇰🇵
Only Kim Jong Fat has internet in DPRK...
I actually was fishing on the Columbia river right next to the hanford site a couple years ago and I could actually see the reactor B and the cooling tower for it
Well, of course you would, if you were next to it!
This is actually a pretty explanation of how nuclear power is generated
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@ 2:50 the operator gets his rods out. The sound is something like: EEEEEEE!
I really want to tour this reactor some day.
Does it have a gift shop that sells special yellow cake cup cakes?
Hasn't all the Plutonium the world will ever need already been produced? This is if you consider putting to use recovered Plutonium from the huge number of nuclear weapons produced. I know that using nuclear power to generate electricity can involve the use of fuel that while mainly uranium does contain some plutotonium, even initially.
Thank you for sharing this! I've been curious about what happened to the original Hanford reactors for a very long time. Now I know! I've been a "student" of the Manhattan Project for decades. Both the development of the atomic bombs and the B-29 were examples of America at it's best during WWII. They were just two of many clear examples of what America could do when it was of a matter of survival for free-thinking peoples everywhere.
Ken, thank you for your comment. As a fellow student of the Manhattan Project myself, it means a lot. I think I've read about every book on Oppenheimer, Fermi, and others over the years. When we arrived out to the site, it was something to see Fermi's office and think of the these great minds working there.
That was my hope to highlight this part of history. Of course, the larger Hanford site is massive hazard cleanup site today, and I have several friends whose family were negatively impacted by working at and living around Hanford, so I want to be respectful of their experiences -- while acknowledging that sites such as Reactor B are very significant in both American and world history. I'm glad to see the National Park Service protecting these sites for future generations to learn from and study. Thanks again.
plutonium is considered an unstable metal because its polyphoric and dangerous to handle because it puts out nasty gamma, beta and neutron rays that are pretty potent. and how much does a single hockey puck sized of plutonium weigh?
Derek - Thank you for your comment. One thing I didn't realize until recently is that Plutonium is polyphric; I bet a lot of folks wouldn't think that at first. If I recall right, a plutonium fire almost went out of control in 1957 at the Rocky Flats Plant west of Denver, Colorado. I grew up downwind of that plant, and I remember my dad talking about the site. I could way off on my calculation, but I think one cubic inch of plutonium weights 3/4 of a pound. Heavy stuff for sure. Thanks for stopping by my channel and commenting.
mom was a legal secretary in the 40s,worked at U of C ( chgo)
for dean robert redfield head of the sosh dept,she got acquainted with enrico fermi,lindberg,their function was to collate put down to paper the sociological effects of the bomb use,a quirk about lindbergh,she offered the guy a lift maybe to downtown from the SE side,he declined,he just did not like being in a car with other persons doing the driving.
ma's experiences there were all in casual conversation with us,
mimeograph drawings of the bomb basic design were in her records,,that body of work was declassified at the end of the war, i had them in my possession but lost them in one of my many moves years ago, someone out there may have found them,
Plutonium has a density of 19.86 g/cm^3. A cubic inch is 16.3871 Cm^3 . 16.3871 cm^3 X 19.86g/cm^3 is 325.448 g which is 0.7175 pounds. Pretty close you are! No about that hockey puck. regulations say it has to be 25.4mm thick and 76.2mm Dia. So the volume of a hockey puck is 115.83cm^4 and times 19.86 g/cm^3 works out to 2.3003838 kg and 5.071 pounds.
Love the video by the way.
The Hanford B Reactor is now included in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. The B Reactor created the Plutonium used in the "Fat Man" #nuclear bomb. #WWII #bomb
Wayne Devin ummm. We know
@slaphead1234...ummmm, we know you know everything ....but wow....you must be some kinda farout star scout geekasoreass rex......who knew ?....amazing
BTFW.....some school kids view this....hence the basic info....BUT YOU KNEW THAT.....DIDN'T YOU.....YES !?!....dumkopf.
You could probably scavenge some plutonium from the absolutely NUCLEAR shit i just took after taco bell
I would like to visit Hanford B Reactor now I've watch this video.
It’s an excellent tour. Best in spring or fall, when the heat isn’t so intense. The entire Hanford tour is also wonderful.
I'd love to visit a place like this
It's in the middle of nowhere.
There should be lots of blinking lights. I know that because that's how facilities like this looked in movies of the '50s and '60s.
The reactor is dormant now. No lights required,.
Awesome video
Every human being needs to visit Hanford.
That's a waste of a trip to Eastern WA.
Theory will only take you so far… 🚬
The Apocalypse Factory.......
A 2 month fuel cycle leaves nearly perfect Pu239 BOOM STUFF. It doesn't have much of the Pu238-240-242, isotopes that do not fission readily for bombs.
Gee whiz, please tell us exactly how toxic the Hanford Site is and for how long the site will remain toxic. Also, please tell us the current condition of the "hot" containment vessels and whether the cooling water has leaked into the Columbia River watershed. Thank you.
It’s not......
I was thinking the same thing as I was watching this.
@@DrRichtoffen1 are you serious? Hanford has been called the most toxic place in America. It leaks hundreds of gallons of radioactive waste into the Columbia River each year. Nothing is being done to repair thing’s there. Hanford has had many close calls and has been said to be the next Fukushima and Chernobyl.
There's always one of you
The Hanford site has been systematically decontaminated since 1989.
That was a totally awesome video. Thankfully, I've done my study and prerequisite learning of nuclear process so everything made sense and I knew what he was talking about. While I find it all totally fascinating, I hate the end product. I wish the method of fission and fussion for use in weapons was never devised.
Im all for using nuclear to boil water and produce power , we need this for our future. I dispise, hate nuclear weapons and the threat of using such , we need to disassemble them, so there will be a future. The more nations that have them , greatly increases the chance of an accident and that someone will just start pushing buttons. There will be no winning a nuclear war, only the end of us all.
He presented the information intentionally in a manner that a layman can understand, no formal education required on the topic🙄... 🤣
Sorry no ❄award for you. ;)
@@Desert-edDave Maybe that's why I understood it. Lol.
Bomb. Producing plutonium for the nuclear bomb from neptunium
how much U-235 does it take to produce the 13.6 lbs of Pu-239 that was used in the trinity test
Derek Wall 20 feet
20 feet worth of it? thats not very much, how can they separate U-235 from the isotope U-238? (natural uranium)
The amount of natural uranium (with its 0.7% U235 content) is complicated by the fact that the Pu239 in the fuel elements tends to absorb a neutron and become Pu240 if left in the reactor for too long. Too much Pu240 makes the plutonium unsuitable for nuclear weapons.
In the end uranium is placed in the reactor so that it produces 2-3 GW days thermal per tonne of uranium (i.e. it produces 2 to 3 GW of thermal energy for one day per tonne of fuel or 2 to 3 days at 1GW thermal power per tonne of fuel). In comparison, power reactors which aren't producing nuclear weapons material will run the fuel until it's expended most of its available energy content. Depending on the reactor design with will be 40 to 60 GW.day/t
They separate the different Uranium with the centrifuges. U-238 is heavier than u-235 because of the different atomic make up!
u cant make plutonium out of U 235, U 235 is only used to sustain the chain reaction and due to fission(division) of u 235 u will get neutrons these neutrons then bombard U 238, which then turns to Neptunium then via beta deca of Neptunium u get Plutonium. thats why nuclear fuels are mixed U235 and U238 :) btw i think commercial reactors fuel rods contain about 5% u 235 the rest ist U 238, u can seperate those two by using their atomic weights with a centrifuge. i might be wrong in some parts of this explanation but its largely correct
where is the Nickelodeon version ?
The tour guide should be "Dr. No"!!!
sort of scary that all the guages and controls for these plants look auntiquated
Thanks for the video.... i'm going to build my bomb tonight.
Just heard the news about tunnel collapse at #Hanford. Thinking of not only the surrounding beautiful river and people in the community outside the plant, but also the kind men in the video I taped for this video recently. Hoping they are okay. #Hanford #nuclear
No One HURT, just another FEAR of Nuclear Moment -- Atoms for Peace! Split DON'T EMIT! DECARBONIZE with NUCLEAR POWER!
One of the most contaminated places on earth!
BRIAN CAM another lie. The latest look at the cycle showed about 60 grams CO2 per kwh as process accounting. Way low than conventional fossil fuels but not emissions free. Then there is the back end of the cycle such as fuel rod storage, the casks of steel and stainless steel, the entombment proposed in ceramic concrete etc. This is not a free energy source. Best to haul out the passive and active solar systems computer program from Los Alamos and focus on our necessaries for shelter instead of subsidizing the comfort of a 4,000 square foot palace of a Lake Tahoe multimillionaire run with electric heat and running stupid toaster wire to get the product from plant to end user.
I live in Spokane and myself and others are worried about condition that Hanford is in. The tanks that hold the radioactive waste have never been replaced and they are leaking into the water. There are a lot more critical problems there that put the workers at risk.
It makes great copy! Over nothing.
Can you imagine the workers coming in in the morning: "Hey bill...how was the weekend?" "Oh great, had a BBQ, kids are doing fine..." "Say, can I have one of those donuts, please?" "Sure, here you go. Now.... let's make Armageddon. Whatcha got for lunch there?" D.A., NYC
i would imagine a lot of these guys were proud to have taken part.
bumping the rods is something homer simson can do
Tours are available.
Umm, so Homer Simpson really did work at a nuclear plant?
Random American Nucular, the word is NUCULAR!
hahaha "Can he tell it how far to pump that rod?" woosh
At the time they were doing this complex cerebral work, nobody took thought on how to safely store the waste... So they just filled barrels with it an placed it in an S.E.P. Containment Field and didn't tell the workers what it was (security reasons) so the next group of Caretakers had no idea what was happening until Handlfird and Rocky Flats are more contaminated than Chernobyl.
(S.E.P. = Somebody Else's Problem) (Doug Adams)
so not much has changed in how they do things 50 years?
Boron should never be called a poison, EVER.
" McGRAW DESIGN and ENGINEERING "
Interesting but crappy sound and music way too loud.
was there ever a "A" reactor please.....???????????........h6 uk
Very interesting, thanks for posting
Disposal is relatively cheap also just make it into bullets and fire it into the desert
the future is fusion, the only way to get there is fission
It's disturbing that he confuses neutron moderator and reflector.
Graphite can also reflects neutrons. But I guess in this case you would indeed call it a moderator.
Plutonium is not so dangerous. Just make sure you respect it. Make sure you avoid it becoming critical and your okay. Plutonium is nice because it generates its own heat and you can use it to warm your house. The trick is to avoid whats called critical geometry and your good to go. Oh forgot to add, keep it in a sealed container and surround it with lots of borated water so you can keep some of those free neutrons from activating things in your home and making them radioactive. Follow these rules and you are good to go.
VIDEOSUPERHIGHWAY FUKUSHIMA MELTDOWN Plutonium & people don't mix, Oppenheimer knew it couldn't be made enert and we used it to this day , You are part of the problem, pro nuclear pukes love to normalize plutonium exposure ionization radioactivity contaminates exponentially & is man made not naturally occurring, should imprison you and people like you in fukushima forced to clean it up,. World killers
Well, that's all true (perhaps beyond using it for house heating), but there are other aspects to it as well. If plutonium gets into your body, it will remain there essentially until you die, a very low level radiological contaminant and typical heavy metal poison - unlike uranium, which gets washed out in comparatively short order. There have been quite a few people accidentally (and some cases not so accidentally, unfortunately) who have become plutonium contaminated forming what is known as the upPu club (look it up). As far as I know, no one has ever died explicitly from plutonium poisoning, though it does have a low probability of elevating cancer risk.
puncheex2 Exposure to plutonium is the only known cause of Neuroblastoma per the beir,5 report , .I got cancer ,Exposure to Plutonium more than a low probability of elevating cancer risks ,don't normalize Plutonium exposure , The Great barrier reefs a world heritage site alive for over 25 million years pronounced Dead on February 14th 2016 ,FUKUSHIMA RADIOACTIVE MELTDOWN Dirty bomb in bags of hot rice &saki, grown next to the 30 million 1 ton bag's of radioactive top soil.
How many conspiracies can be packed into a single human, anyway?
Sorry about whatever you may be suffering, but that doesn't excuse you for blaming anyone else for your problems. Wikipedia says about neuroblastoma: "Occasionally, neuroblastoma may be due to a mutation inherited from a person's parents. Environmental factors have not been found to be involved." The statements are referenced in scientific journals. "Several [causal] risk factors have been proposed and are the subject of ongoing research. Due to characteristic early onset, many studies have focused on parental factors around conception and during gestation. Factors investigated have included occupation (i.e. exposure to chemicals in specific industries), smoking, alcohol consumption, use of medicinal drugs during pregnancy, and birth factors; however, results have been inconclusive. Other studies have examined possible links with atopy and exposure to infection early in life, use of hormones and fertility drugs, and maternal use of hair dye." When they say they don't know exactly what causes it, that means they don't know. Other references (science, nature, the NCBI) about neuroblastoma say the same thing, so don't get all wikipedia wimpery on me.
Googling neuroblastoma and bier5 together yields - nothing. I want a to see a reference from you, if you think you can.
Perhaps you thought you could snow me. I, as an engineer with a touch of nuclear physics, don't even know what you mean by "Exposure to Plutonium more than a low probability of elevating cancer risks ,don't normalize Plutonium exposure ." Then it's on to the Great Barrier Reef, dead of a blogger announcement, which has nothing whatsoever to do with plutonium, but that's ok, because Caldecott says its involved, so it is. And we end up with "FUKUSHIMA RADIOACTIVE MELTDOWN Dirty bomb in bags of hot rice &saki, grown next to the 30 million 1 ton bag's of radioactive top soil." Mystifying. English is your first language - use it.
239 Giant Radioactivity is naturally occuring and naturally radioactive materials are required to be mined to build any man made reactor to create any artificial elements.
thanks
Long Island NY had the BNL BGRR. Had 53 fuel rod fires. Hmmm
What if Chernobyl disaster will happen again?
Fukushima. Natural disaster but same consequences.
Maiak disaster..look it MGM up...hidden history...
@@edgain1502Fukushima was contained.
Chernobyl and Mayak weren’t.
Mayak had dozens of “incidents” over its decades of operations, the most recent acknowledged accident was in 2017.
In the British Isles, we should build a place like this, undergound, specifically for plutonium for part of space technology _(not that uranium would not also have usages in that)._
My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love.
USA: "Water-cooled and graphite-moderated was good enough to get us that first batch of plutonium, but we need a safer design for dedicated civilian power generation."
Russia: "SOVIET PLUTONIUM REAKTOR DESIGN PERFEKTED 1956, STILL PERFEKT 1984! MAKES POWER, MAKES PLUTONIUM! MAKES TWO THINGS! MORE THINGS THAN YOU, AMERICA!"
effective speaker
My uncle worked here.
Great achievement. With all respect.
surprised they didn't talk about neon gas and the graphite cracking the reactor going on and off. or did that not happen to this reactor?
Hi mirrorclick -- Thanks for sharing. I was trying to think if the guide mentioned something after I stopped taping. I don't recall him speaking about neon. I do recall him talking about tanks of borated water at the top that would stop the reaction in an emergency (SCRAM) situation. He also mentioned how in the 1950s they replaced the water system with boron balls that would cascade through the system.
Xenon causing the reactor to become unstable.
Yes before they added extra rods the reactor did keep poisoning it self with xenon
They are talking to Joe and Mary Q. Public. You know, the salt of the earth. Good people, certainly eager to learn (why else would they be in the Washington desert), but not ready to take on the nuclear engineering burdens of the world. In fact, those reactors, as with all reactors, suffered the xenon poisoning that I think you are alluding to. Fermi was still working on the B reactor when its power output started dropping. Someone on his team (can't remember who) theorized that as uranium was split into fission products, one of them, Xenon-135 was being created. It's a powerful absorber of neutrons (better than boron, even). ABsorbing a neutron changed it into Xe-136, which is not as poisonous. You run the reactor, the xenon builds up and snuffs out the reaction. Xenon decays with a 9 hour half-life, so after a while the reactor comes back to usefullness, only to repeat the cycle over and over. Fermi determined that the solution was to run the reactor at a higher rate, converting all the Xe-135 to Xe-136 as fast as it is created. Graphite degradation is another altogether different problem.
Fuck, you are in just about every fucking comment, how much do you get paid to say how great this shit is, I've lost count of how many times you feel the need to stick your oar in.
How long did the boron last before needing to be replaced?
It does not wear out significantly.
@@k4be.Wigner effect
Excellent
The purpose of a nuclear reactor is to generate weapons grade plutonium. Power generation is a coincidental benefit.
Plutonium 239 isn't used in power reactors.
It is created.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239
paulanderson79: Not true. Plutonium can be mixed with U-235 to become the active ingredient in MOX (mixed oxide) fuel, rather than pure U-235. A large number of today's power reactors are driven by what used to be bomb cores in Soviet and American weapons.
OneFastDuster: and your statement is not true either. A reactor can be optimized and run under conditions to favor one of the two (and probably other) outcomes. Power reactors are designed so that a lot of the created plutonium is fissioned in the reactor to create more heat; the fuel is used far beyond the 6-8 week optimum for plutonium, in fact until the buildup of fission products poison's the fuel (and most of the U-235/MOX is consumed). A reactor designed to create plutonium runs differently and is fueled differently than a power reactor. No country builds power reactors with a yield of plutonium in mind - its cheaper and more efficient to build reactors just for that purpose.
But you need the already scarce U235 to fuel the reactor in order to make Pu-239. Pu-239 is an entirely artificial element. It does not exist in nature. Magnesium Oxide is simply the cladding for the reactor fuel rods. Hence the Magnox reactors name.
More plutonium for bombs
Is that Homer Simp
I don't care about the nukes, I like the science
NUCLEAR POWER IS Science.
BRIAN CAM Nuclear power plants =Tepco / Ge Death Incorporated! ! World killing science
Thorium was the RIGHT choice from beginning FUCKS!
After the xenon incident i would consider this reactor as faliture, scrap it and try to do something with molten fuel like molten salt.
bro IRL homer simpson
BANG!
The outside looks like chernobyl
Similar to the windscale reactor?
Windscale was cooled by air, Hanford B by water. That's the most important difference.
2:29 seconds eeeennnnnnnhhhh! That's exactly what those control rods do! Sheeuuhh! Ask anybody!! I promise! Lol!
WOW, just WOW!,
Cookie Monster? Does that guy know anything about nuclears power or atoms.
Music at 1:50
This is where Homer Simpson worked!
Say I got a cup of uranium-238 attached to a string, how long would I have to spin it around until I got enough uranium-235 to make a 20-30kt bomb. I have a problem neighbor I really want to be rid of and building my own little boy is reallly the only sensible answer. I’m not very good at “maths” so a fat man esc implosion device is out the question but I’m pretty sure I could whip up a gun type trigger
My dream is to learn in nuclear engineering and work to make the first fusion reactor for the world but sadly I might make the second since I am only 15 years of age...
raptor rayven precautionary principle. Most physics is a new science and hubris is something we cannot afford. Bringing the sun, a celestial body we are still trying to understand onto the planet for an experiment is not a great idea imho. Best to study what it does and figure out just why that curve ball thrown called a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) happens and figure out how to protect us from the next Level 5 impact and develop lead time.
Theres no such thing as a dumb question
So graphite causes the reaction ?
Zoes Dada it focuses the radiation to where they want it to go
moderates the reaction.
Obama didn't even know about Hanford green is he
So this isn’t a DIY tutorial?!?
You didn’t see graphite. I did,You didn’t !because it’s not there!!.