Not sure I agree. Don't know enough about the design. Oversight, procedure monitoring (where was the control room operator, or we they just doing their thing). Stupid, incompetent management.
@@confusedkiwi5774 The SL-1 Has the issue where the main blade where you activate the core was extremely powerful. SL-1 had 5 fuel rods with the middle being stupidly powerful whereas Chernobyl had over 200. It was awfully made from day 1 which was monitored by newbies with no supervision by higher ups.
It doesn't really matter, this film was produced for engineers and scientists who damn well knew that people were killed during the accident, they just need to find out what went wrong and why it went wrong.
They forgot to mention the part where the army instructed the operators to regularly shim the control blade up and down like that because corrosion in neglected control blade sheaths kept grabbing the blades. Funny the government briefing didn't mention that here.
It's funny how they also didn't mention how the ejected shield plugs turned into missiles and impaled one of the crew members to the ceiling of the room.
OG analog horror... There's something so unnerving about having a 60s film explaining a terrifying incident that involved a nuclear reactor ⊂(•‿•⊂ )
I wonder if this is the accident where one of the operators was impaled and pinned against the ceiling by one of the rods? Two or three of these guys were purportedly so radioactive afterwards that they were buried in lead lined coffins. I also believe the control rods for this reactor were manually adjusted meaning something happened with the operators that caused the excursion. The report I read indicated that a control rod became stuck and the operator was manually trying to force it loose when he jerked the rod upward and past the criticality position causing the accident. There's a lot this old film, which was likely intended for the regulators, doesn't include.
Army Specialist John A. Byrnes being hit by the control rod at ''85 ft/sec'' actually means about 60 MPH. My guess is that he was standing directly over the rod and pulling on it like you would a root out of the ground. It was then that the reactor went critical raising the temperature of the water in the reactor vessel to some 2000 degrees Celsius. That's damned hot! This created an instantaneous explosion of steam that applied pressure to the pulled control rod like a bullet in a rifle. The rod then went directly through Byrnes' ''rod''. Penetrating the poor bastard all the way through his balls, through his stomach, trunk, and then on up and finally out his shoulder! Then the momentum of the control rod carried him up flying airborne. Lofting him impaled and into the ceiling. Stuck there like a pinned butterfly specimen on a tray. All with the control rod penetrating his ''rod''. This is what the story leaves out. If the poor feller ever came to? Well? My guess is that he probably didn't. Yet if he did he would have faced the enormous pain of a foreign object violating his genitals, abdomen, lungs, trunk and shoulder. And that's before the powerful release of gamma rays and whatnot fried his poor ass like a ham in the barbeque.
He died in minuets if not immediately.. autopsy said "missile penetrated chest viscera died of blood loss" the untrained one the young man was said to be heard groaning when the fire department arrived sad stuff. I bet Byrnes did it on purpose. Any sane man would've stopped pulling..
@Smithy18 Wut? Did you even watch the video? They specifically used "FEET PER SECOND" 🤦♂ If you got a problem with it go talk to them first. And that's not even the point. Had they used "metres per second" instead I would have said; Y U NO USE KPH!? So that we can quickly understand how fast something was going without having to pull out a damn calculator to figure it out.
Seems to me that the government was rushing through these projects haphazardly while we were at the height of the cold war. The nuclear reactor that was installed at McMurdo Station in Antarctica was another example of lousy engineering. It was finally decommissioned and removed due to endless problems. The sooner we all agree that man is a flawed creature, the sooner we need to make certain that his oversights and shortcomings are compensated for with a multitude of safeguards.
Absolutely the problem was in the guy manually removing the control rod. So whoever DESIGNED such a stupid, f-edup gimmick should have been arrested. Assuming they caught him before he got back to Moscow... I mean, this POS needed to be lifted 4" but gets stuck all the time? Very easy to picture an accidental extra foot of pull when you yank on it and it breaks loose.
Can you imagine this lack of Engineering and scientist involvement. Was the norm on the Manhattan project? These three men had only a high-school education. They were not technically prepared to deal with this reactor. The truth is I do not think person existed on the planet at this time that was technically prepared for this SL-1 reactor. It was a death chamber.
I learned about LR-1 in 1964 At Nuclear Power School, Baibbridge, But this the first I've seen this complete an explanation of what happened. The list of safety violation, the list of procedural violation are criminal. I hope someone was held to account Jim Taylor, ET 1, Reactor Operator, USS Permit (SSN-595) Retired 1992, LCDR (USN), OIC PMT Norfolk. (I wish they'd let me re-up)
I know let’s make a reactor that’s really easy to skrew up, let’s not put any safety equipment or procedures in place, and let’s make undertrained men who don’t know the consequences do the work!! BRILLIANT!!!
One of the maintenance personnel was impaled by one the ejected shield rods and pinned to the ceiling. Two other deaths by radiation exposure later on. Days later it took many men and a crane to retrieve the radioactive body of the impaled person on the ceiling. Why does this presentation neglect to mention these horrific deaths?
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Everyone? I am afraid it's the same few people that keep the cash Mr Perrytr3766. You do know how fascist corporatism works in the USA right?
Are you sure, they were way younger than they looked due to all that smoking and booze. Look at Rod Serling. He was in his 30s when Twilight Zone started! He looks coming up on or over 50!!
It was concluded from analysing this video that the SL1 was a horrible reactor design.
Ain't all small reactors like this horrible, there were military compact reactors which were abandoned.
Lol
Not sure I agree. Don't know enough about the design. Oversight, procedure monitoring (where was the control room operator, or we they just doing their thing). Stupid, incompetent management.
pretty much, I personally find it suspicious to that the violant explosion reinserted the control road. i..e could not of been human error at all ..
@@confusedkiwi5774 The SL-1 Has the issue where the main blade where you activate the core was extremely powerful. SL-1 had 5 fuel rods with the middle being stupidly powerful whereas Chernobyl had over 200.
It was awfully made from day 1 which was monitored by newbies with no supervision by higher ups.
They don't mention that one of the rods impaled one of the scientists to the ceiling and killing him.
True
Rod 7 is the one that had the dude impaled
None of the the three killed were scientists.
It doesn't really matter, this film was produced for engineers and scientists who damn well knew that people were killed during the accident, they just need to find out what went wrong and why it went wrong.
@@KylesDigitalLabThat they had no idea what would happen means it shouldn't have been there to start with.
These old films need to be preserved. I hope youtube is up to the task.
I can tell you they are not
It'll stay up until someone is offended by it, then they'll take it down cause they're pro-censorship cowards
Lol wut?
@@funtourhawk Well, they are based in commiefornia after all.
They left out the part where one of the operators was impaled and stuck to the ceiling.
Assholes, it's the best damn part of the story.
This video doesn’t focus on the victims’ bodies, but it focuses more on how the explosion occurred.
SL 1 reactor is almost as dangerous as the overflowing ashtray in front of the announcer.
They forgot to mention the part where the army instructed the operators to regularly shim the control blade up and down like that because corrosion in neglected control blade sheaths kept grabbing the blades. Funny the government briefing didn't mention that here.
It's funny how they also didn't mention how the ejected shield plugs turned into missiles and impaled one of the crew members to the ceiling of the room.
@@zeezeerhydon7083 Lol, on Wikipedia it says it "pinned him to the roof." What a joke.
Boron carbide was also flaking off the control rods and falling into the reactor making it harder to control. Time bomb!
What we leaned from this; any that could've gone wrong had gone wrong
Here was a case where pulling out too quickly was a bad thing.
Pulling out too quickly is ALWAYS a bad thing.
It’s amazing how much information there is. So many little things and measurements
And nothing about the impaled operator.
OG analog horror... There's something so unnerving about having a 60s film explaining a terrifying incident that involved a nuclear reactor ⊂(•‿•⊂ )
I wonder if this is the accident where one of the operators was impaled and pinned against the ceiling by one of the rods? Two or three of these guys were purportedly so radioactive afterwards that they were buried in lead lined coffins. I also believe the control rods for this reactor were manually adjusted meaning something happened with the operators that caused the excursion. The report I read indicated that a control rod became stuck and the operator was manually trying to force it loose when he jerked the rod upward and past the criticality position causing the accident. There's a lot this old film, which was likely intended for the regulators, doesn't include.
look up plainly difficult. its on his channal.
Yes it is.
Yes sir. Right out in the desert of Idaho.
The very same one.
For the record, civil war men are still leaking arsenic to this day.
Army Specialist John A. Byrnes being hit by the control rod at ''85 ft/sec'' actually means about 60 MPH.
My guess is that he was standing directly over the rod and pulling on it like you would a root out of the ground. It was then that the reactor went critical raising the temperature of the water in the reactor vessel to some 2000 degrees Celsius. That's damned hot! This created an instantaneous explosion of steam that applied pressure to the pulled control rod like a bullet in a rifle.
The rod then went directly through Byrnes' ''rod''. Penetrating the poor bastard all the way through his balls, through his stomach, trunk, and then on up and finally out his shoulder! Then the momentum of the control rod carried him up flying airborne. Lofting him impaled and into the ceiling. Stuck there like a pinned butterfly specimen on a tray. All with the control rod penetrating his ''rod''.
This is what the story leaves out. If the poor feller ever came to? Well? My guess is that he probably didn't. Yet if he did he would have faced the enormous pain of a foreign object violating his genitals, abdomen, lungs, trunk and shoulder. And that's before the powerful release of gamma rays and whatnot fried his poor ass like a ham in the barbeque.
He died in minuets if not immediately.. autopsy said "missile penetrated chest viscera died of blood loss" the untrained one the young man was said to be heard groaning when the fire department arrived sad stuff. I bet Byrnes did it on purpose. Any sane man would've stopped pulling..
Every time these scientific types talk about speed in feet per second I think;
Y U NO JUST SAY MPH!?
@Smithy18 Wut? Did you even watch the video? They specifically used "FEET PER SECOND" 🤦♂
If you got a problem with it go talk to them first. And that's not even the point. Had they used "metres per second" instead I would have said; Y U NO USE KPH!? So that we can quickly understand how fast something was going without having to pull out a damn calculator to figure it out.
@Smithy18 I guess you should politely ask them to change it then 🤷♂
@@vejetbut you are the one complaining about the speed unit issue
if they had actual video of this happening.....jesus. I wanna see it but just the thought of the guy on the ceiling is so chilling
So dangerous ..the rod lowering and raising done manually
Seems to me that the government was rushing through these projects haphazardly while we were at the height of the cold war. The nuclear reactor that was installed at McMurdo Station in Antarctica was another example of lousy engineering. It was finally decommissioned and removed due to endless problems. The sooner we all agree that man is a flawed creature, the sooner we need to make certain that his oversights and shortcomings are compensated for with a multitude of safeguards.
Absolutely the problem was in the guy manually removing the control rod. So whoever DESIGNED such a stupid, f-edup gimmick should have been arrested. Assuming they caught him before he got back to Moscow...
I mean, this POS needed to be lifted 4" but gets stuck all the time? Very easy to picture an accidental extra foot of pull when you yank on it and it breaks loose.
And no mention what happened to the guy lifting the rod and leaning over it..
It wasn’t even the guy lifting the rod, it was the guy standing behind him. At least his death was quick.
Well, really, basic experience with power tools and such would tell you, this is a BAD IDEA.
This really needs more views.
This video deserves more views
people are busy with tiktok and kardashain
@@XeLRUclips Gen Z am I right?
Some of gen z at least
Well, they lie too.much and too many people are too stupid to KNOW they're lying
Can you imagine this lack of Engineering and scientist involvement. Was the norm on the Manhattan project? These three men had only a high-school education. They were not technically prepared to deal with this reactor. The truth is I do not think person existed on the planet at this time that was technically prepared for this SL-1 reactor. It was a death chamber.
I learned about LR-1 in 1964 At Nuclear Power School, Baibbridge, But this the first I've seen this complete an explanation of what happened.
The list of safety violation, the list of procedural violation are criminal. I hope someone was held to account
Jim Taylor, ET 1, Reactor Operator, USS Permit (SSN-595)
Retired 1992, LCDR (USN), OIC PMT Norfolk.
(I wish they'd let me re-up)
10,000psi is unimaginable
That is more than enough to kill a human being. It did just that
This report makes me feel like it was created as a CYA attempt. Just enough to cover managers "A".
I know let’s make a reactor that’s really easy to skrew up, let’s not put any safety equipment or procedures in place, and let’s make undertrained men who don’t know the consequences do the work!!
BRILLIANT!!!
Pretty sure I engineered Brownie's doghouse better than this when I was 7...
One of the maintenance personnel was impaled by one the ejected shield rods and pinned to the ceiling.
Two other deaths by radiation exposure later on.
Days later it took many men and a crane to retrieve the radioactive body of the impaled person on the ceiling.
Why does this presentation neglect to mention these horrific deaths?
Why would they? Lol. So everyone stops them making more money?
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Everyone? I am afraid it's the same few people that keep the cash Mr Perrytr3766.
You do know how fascist corporatism works in the USA right?
Basically this was Chernobyl and the Byford Dolphin in one.
This is interesting given the rumor that a distraught operator did this on purpose.
That was but an unsubstantiated rumor. Which In town that was all they had to go on was salacious rumors.
There's insufficient documentation around this, and sadly they aren't alive to give details. We'll never know.
I was a intergal unit, at band camp.
Murphy was on duty.
Great video. (Though I suspect the guy doing the presenting is dead by now.)
He had a good life.
@@mcleodclan I'm glad to hear that.
Are you sure, they were way younger than they looked due to all that smoking and booze. Look at Rod Serling. He was in his 30s when Twilight Zone started! He looks coming up on or over 50!!
Cave man engineering.