Rare Look Inside a SHUTDOWN Nuclear Power Reactor
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- In this video, we go inside Canada’s first nuclear power reactor to supply electricity. Also known as the grandfather of the CANDU, the “NPD”, or Nuclear Power Demonstration Reactor, is a 60-year-old legend located in Rolphton, Ontario. It’s the grandfather of the CANDU Units running across the world. Now remember, this reactor is not operational, it was shutdown in 1987. Its not fully decommissioned yet, so a lot of the valves and equipment inside the facility are still intact. It was an incredible opportunity from Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to explore and film inside this facility.
🔗 IMPORTANT LINKS
1) CNL NPD Closure Project: www.cnl.ca/environmental-stew...
2) History of the NPD Reactor: www.aecl.ca/radioactive-waste...
⏰TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Going Inside the grandfather of the CANDU Reactor
01:35 - A road trip to Rolphton Ontario
03:03 - A first look inside the reactor
04:43 - Rotating End Shields (Outside of the reactor)
06:27 - Worlds first single fuel channel campaigns
07:25 - Seeing valves, pipes and systems inside the reactor
08:20 - Inside the Reactor control Room
10:50 - How to refuel the NPD Reactor
12:17 - The Spent fuel Pool
13:01 - Deep Deep Inside the reactor (85 Feet Deep)
13:56 - Moderator Dump Tank
14:50 - Pumps, Steam Generators and Balance of Plans side
15:30 - Part of the reactor core (Feeders)
16:23 - Future of the NPD Reactor
17:10 - Reflections from the past and into the future
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This is amazing. I love how everything looks old and beat up. But when you see the screw jack on the fueling rig that lowered/raised it, that screw jack lost pristine!
Haha yes, there are a lot of parts in the reactor which still look like they are pristine
Well informative video as always!! Love this channel and the passion you show for safe, clean and reliable nuclear power, Osama✌🏻
Thanks a lot Devam! really appreciate you keeping up with the videos ;)
I love how much I've been learning. Now when I hear someone talking about the moderator dump and them being on the "A side", I now know they mean Pickering A.
You got that right! Glad to see your picking up these details as you watch the video
Given that CANDU was originally an alternative name for what we came to know as Douglas Point, I think I'd call NPD the "father" rather than the "grandfather" of the CANDU, although current CANDU plants are clearly of the Pickering generation, one step farther along from Douglas Point. So you could make the case either way. In any case, I regard the CANDU type as the most attractive power reactor available today. It requires no fuel enrichment and no large forging facilities such as LWRs require, which is a huge advantage for rapid deployment of large numbers, which will be needed if the world wants to get serious about "clean energy", and the Pickering pressure-tube rupture accident of 1983 shows how incredibly safe the system is. You can put a CANDU in a high-population area without worry.
As I understand it, NPD was located at the Rolphton site partly because of a nearby hydro plant at Des Joachims, which is apparently pronounced "de-shawms" locally.
In a couple of weeks, I'm headed to Torness in Scotland, to see a very different type of power reactor, but one which can also be fueled on-load. They don't allow video recording, though!
Appreciate you sharing the history of the CANDU reactor with everyone HiVisionary1125!
Wow. They should make a museum of the site.
Now that's a pretty neat idea 💡
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Really they should, and it shouldn’t be a shambaholic mess like when HMCS Haida was saved from the razor blade factory.
There’s a video interview with one of the guys responsible for saving the ship on RUclips, the story is absolutely hilarious.
Can you imagine calling your wife at home to announce that, “Hey dear, I’ve mortgaged the house but we now own a third interest in a destroyer…”
I agree with you. One does wonder if it's possible though. If the land is basically for nuclear experiments where you need high levels of security. You're unlikely going to put a museum there. :(
Thanks for doing this Osama!
It's my pleasure Ehsan, thanks for watching!
Great video, & informative. Jealous you got this opportunity, now newly subscribed. Thanks.
Appreciate the subscriptions JoJo! Hopefully we can get to 10k subscribers so that I can motivate myself to post another one of these
Very Cool!
Thanks a lot Joseph!
Hi, can you make a video about Cernavodă NPP?
Yes, absolutely. It's on my to do list to visit Cernavoda!
It is not good that they have to demolish it and not preserve it as an industrial monument.
Yes, he's doing reactor videos again🎉 And I'm so jealous! He gets to see the NPD up close. That is so awesome. Funny how you call it "the Grandfather". For some unknown reason, the CANDU has always struck me as a "Great Old Dame."
I have to say; looking at the video, reactors always get to live at such beautiful places. What a beautiful place along those shores.
When you mentioned that a nuclear reactor is kind of like a kind of living, breathing piece of technology, it reminded me of something an old veteran of the Soviet nuclear industry once said in an interview. "Reactors are like children.... you get to know their peculiarities while spending time with them; You've _got_ to feel how the reactor breathes." And here you are, essentially saying the exact same thing so many years later. I think it is very profound. We should treat our reactors accordingly.
As to what reactor you should visit next? I know it is nigh impossible, but it would be so awesome to see you standing next to the biological shield of an RBMK. Just to see the difference between it, and the CANDU, despite both reactors being a pressure tube design.
Swoka thanks so much for your thoughts and comments! It was truly a remarkable moment for me. Next one I really want to visit are the CANDU reactors in Argentina! But hopefully an opportunity pops up there!
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That's right, Argentina has CANDU as well. Am looking forward to see your adventure there. It will be interesting to see how/if they do things different from Canada.
i have now see all the nuclear disaster that have taken place in japan and ukraine. i have noticed that not even the nuclear power plant workers. they have no special equipment or any special training for if anything goes wrong. and worst of all they have no special tools or clothes that can protect them from the radiation ☢️
it is very basic stuff that should be kept in any building that works in a place that have risks of radiation. i simply cannot understand why they do not have any of the mentioned. not even special mask requirements
and why they don’t build explosion proof walls around the core
Funny! Nobody talks of the 2 nuclear accident that occured in the 50's at CRL 😂
If only Australia had followed through with its plan to build nuclear reactors for power generation... instead of stopping the whole thing everything after partially digging foundations on one reactor site.
Cool to know that Australia dug the foundations of a reactor site! Which site was this?
@@OsamaBaig It was going to be a heavy water moderated reactor. Planning started in 1969, but was ultimately cancelled in 1971. It was planned to be on the East coast, at a place called Jervis Bay.
I am waiting for the pick up truck dudes in the comments 😂😂
Lets Decommission it !!!
Great to see your comment Lawrence! Any tips or high level guide on how to Decommission a Candu Reactor?
oh no, it's one of those videos where all the pauzes have been cut out and the narrator says the same things over and over. I'm 3 minutes into the video and I have seen the same footage for at least 5 times. bye
Hey Osama, make a video about India's 3 stage nuclear program. I recently heard that India has transitioned into the second stages of its nuclear program. Although I didn't understand much but it has something to do with nuclear fuel where the third and the ultimate stage will be able to use primarily thorium as nuclear fuel.
Indeed, it is a very cool concept that india is working towards, maybe in the future I'll think about making a video like this. India doesn't have a lot of uranium resources, rather it has a lot of thorium. Thus, it makes sense for them to integrate that into the fuel cycle