@@insmileyfacemur4242 surely there’s a financial incentive behind every corporation, but at the end of the day, things were not the same back then as they unfortunately are now.
We aren't the only ones. The USSR had their fair share of failures just as we have. The US did awful things and poor disposal and lost nuclear submarines, but the CCCP (USSR) did as well. Their Chernobyl, our burning coal mines underground, their asbestos and ours. We aren't the only ones who have polluted.
Exactly why they put them there. Exactly why they went back 25 years later. Nothing is done by accident when concerning government "mistakes". The only mistakes are when they are caught lying big while the truth sits right in front of us.
Ehh, I don't know about "journalism" as it seems to me that this piece didn't exactly age well. It features the same scaremongering tactics that the legacy media uses today. The only difference is that back then, there was no cable or internet for them to compete with. I say "didn't age well" because its reporting like this that help conjure up the perception that nuclear waste is glowing green goo when the reality is that the really bad stuff is almost always in solid form, sitting in either a spent fuel pool or dry cask storage onsite where it was used and is therefore CONTAINED. Compare this with the UNCONTAINED non-nuclear waste products that the fossil fuel industries, chemical companies and industrial agriculture have polluted our skies, soil and water with and its not even close. Yeah, I know that Three Mile Island happened just two years later, but people forget that nobody died at TMI, that any release of radiological material was miniscule and that the twin of the reactor that melted down would go on to produce safe, clean electricity for residents of south central Pennsylvania for another 40 years. I can only imagine where our energy grid would be today, the newer safer designs we'd have for nuclear reactors and fuel, and new solutions on how to deal with the "waste" had that incident never happened.
“At the bottom of the ocean……forever….” I guess “forever” back in those days must have meant “until we’re all dead, so future generations have to clean up our mistakes.”
In germany we had put it in a saltmine thats leaking water right now and the polluted saltwater need to be pumped out 24/7. corroding the barrels nobody knows how to get them out. and even though it wasnt licensed for high radioactive waste they dumped it there too.
@@mikeclifford7740That's probably the wisest statement anyone has made. The corruption & level of disregard for EVERYTHING is really at epidemic levels. And the funny thing about so many of the programs & initiatives to "clean up" these undesirable byproducts of humanity is that many of them are truly designed as a "feel good" measure, more than a as a real solution. So very sad.
Only reason I do is because the algorithm can push it in aus but not in America...I'm sure that's why the rest of the world thinks that Australia is dystopian ...but it's just the media having a national agenda ...
@@J-1410 that's strange because here in aus RUclips and google results are extremely censored...for eg if this was in Australia there would be very minimal information on it available to the average Joe...
I had a science teacher in high school (1980s) who showed us films like this all the time. I took 3 of his elective science classes. Greatest teacher ever!
No, it raises the question of how retarded can a human being be? There was a meeting and some engineers made a decision that let's s...t where we eat, there was a debate that is a good idea or not. And the decision was made, supreme. Maybe only russian communists were bigger idiots - there was an idea of Humans being kings of nature so they dropped their waste everywhere and improved nature. Managed to finish a sea - what a result!, meanwhile rest of the world did similar things as I can see
I’ll tell you what’s not a question, they were studying using thorium in Ohio . The waste is salt water . They suddenly shut it down and sent the money to cern…….what also isn’t a question is that serious catastrophic mistakes were made (mistakes or bribes ). And no one is in prison.
@@lovejumanji5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment I assume you're talking about this. I mean, I guess if you just make the shit up you'd be right....
The development of fracking and other extraction methods have extended the life of petroleum energy. Still, it's a finite resource. We're on the downward slide and that's a blessing. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
@@morgothra4483 Well, that's kind of the point. There's no point in saying "we have x until y" as it's untrue, it's "our currently known reserves of x will last until y" While oil is on the decrease, nickel, cobalt and lithium use is on the increase, so we've just changed one resource for another and li-ion recycling is *extremely* wasteful, usually involving simply burning the cells and then reprocessing the ash and less than 10% of li-ion cells are recycled. I would expect to see wars over lithium soon, we already have slave cobalt miners. Nickel is abundant enough to not cause much of an issue. Unless we figure out a way to efficiently extract it from seawater.
Oh my. My heart goes out to that father and his kids. Just looking at his eyes when he's talking about the possibility that he's somehow to blame for their condition is haunting. It wasn't his fault. It was the person who put him in that position and employed him. I wonder how the kids are now if they're still alive?
agreed, i can’t imagine. i’m sure the kids are long gone since the father claimed that those with that condition only have about 10 years life expectancy.
Hurler syndrome typically results in death by 10 years of age. Also, the kids having that disorder has NOTHING to do with his exposure -- _both_ parents need to possess at least one of the modified genes, and even then there's a 1 in 4 chance of the kids getting it. So it was just coincidental and bad luck.
25:20 Uranium will run out by the year 2000 - This prediction did not come true. Apparently, the nuclear industry did not believe this prediction. The industry would not have spent billions of dollars to build plants, only to have them operate a mere 15 to 20 years before uranium was gone.
Yeah, they're never going to bring out "Danger II! We Were Wrong about Waste!" Because it has nothing to do with science either, from start to finish the thing is based on the fact than when people Feel they usually no longer see what's Real. I mean it's done better than many horror flicks I've seen thus far! @@MalWolf01
Scary when you realize you’re downstream 6-8 miles from Maxey Flats. Surprised no one in the scientific community have graphed the correlation of different cancers in relation to dump site? Very strange to me the amount of people who contract various forms of cancer, that also live miles within the area. From personal experience I’ve had several pass from very aggressive forms of cancer and have myself beaten testicular cancer. Would like to see a graph or chart comparing cancer rates before and after, though it’s obvious it’s contributed to higher rates.
My Geiger counter sings when I pass the exit to Maxey Flats on I 64. I have had over 60 grays of radiotherapy over a three month period. I drank raw milk during above ground testing. My baby teeth are still slightly radioactive.
30:50 ….. boom. Just boom. That’s a mic drop moment if I’ve ever seen one, FROM THE 70s! Man can’t even answer a simple, straightforward question that makes absolute sense about his own freaking business. THIS IS WHO holds the health and safety of millions in his hands?! I’d be outraged if I lived in that area.
Scientists do not create solutions but more complex problems one after another. People have the knowledge to create but no wisdom to know when to stop creating foolish technology's. That's why the Amish culture should be more appropriated and admired they stuck to some basic technological inventions. They respect what they got, they do not have the great inventions that so called modern society has but they do not have toxic waste killing everyone.
This is low level nuclear waste, "the everyday refuse of nuclear power plants", it is often not radioactive. Low level nuclear waste includes everything from within boundary of a nuclear plant e.g. light bulbs, computers, office chairs, desks, carpets, overalls etc. It is too costly to test and separate out anything that might be weakly radioactive from non-radioactive, so they just assume it is radioactive and dump it all as low level waste.
I am a disabled vet spent 7 years on submarines SSBN 619 634 and 644 I was a reactor operator this was in the late 80 s I can not tell you where but we put radioactive waste in the ocean a few time a year. I am disabled from a torpedo reload test went wrong.
Thanks, Mr.Submariner!! I appreciate your service "in the Tubes,' and I know you weren't the one giving orders. It's only from speaking with people like you, that THE REST OF US know where to look to find.....
Ouch!! That sounds rough mate. Hope you’re keeping well. It takes nerves of steel to work on a sub I bet. Interesting but it’s a dangerous job. 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧.
All of those workers tearing up the radioactive floors with no masks/respirators. How long to you think they lived? They’re inhaling the stuff. Crazy :(
George burton practically welled up in tears. That man was sick to his stomach in that questioning period. And probably sick to his stomach up to the day he died. Speechless
All by design. We were never running out of oil. It’s actually the only true renewable. Death of organisms mostly in the ocean is what makes oil. It will always be produced by the planet as long as there’s life. Even as a child I found the idea of dinosaurs being eradicated being the source of oil to be ridiculous.
That guy minimized the damage . He said they only know a leak after it happens (with rapid eye blinking) . I bet there is someway to check and mitigate ….but I bet it costs money to do that . He’s president of a sub-contractor company . Idk……then the manager answers the direct questions. Then he said it makes “economic sense”. (For the company ). Perfect front guy.
Well, considering this was filmed 45 years ago, and many of the people in the film looked to be 40 or older, I'd say many passed away from simply old age by now.
Every time it rains, fallout from above ground testing comes back to the earth. People wonder why we're dying from cancer. Growing up in the 1970's it was normal where I lived to lose a kid every couple of years to leukemia. It was a 'normal' thing. We should've known better.
They did but they didn't care just like today they don't care all they want is control we send billions of dollars humanitarian Aid to foreign countries the people of those countries do not receive one red fucking sent
In the first 2 or 3 years after the Czernobyl accident I can recall 2 friends in my age (I was about 5 years, living in a small village in the south of Germany) and one young mother of a friend fell ill with leukemia and Hodgkin disease. Luckily, they all survived. Looking back now, it's pretty suspicious. All families grew their own vegetables in their gardens which might have contributed.
FYI - Hurler’s Syndrome is a recursive condition that requires both parents to carry the recessive gene. @23:12 The documentary implies that working conditions caused Jerry Brown’s children to be born with Hurler’s Syndrome. The reason Mr Brown couldn’t find a doctor to tell him that radiation exposure caused his children’s illness is because…it didn’t. I feel sad for Mr Brown and his family’s medical conditions. I also feel sad that he unknowingly perpetuated a glaring scientific inaccuracy in this documentary about a brutal genetic disorder - Hurler’s.
Waste mismanagement and tracking down where and how much waste was sequestered in small towns all throughout the states is still a problem. Small towns all around my state find some barrels from the 50s buried under a school's baseball field after kids started getting cancers. I believe new waste has had better handling after the Chernobyl accident and, more importantly, Three Mile Island. Mining, refinement, handling, and disposal are much improved from the 70s.
The whole point of this documentary -- indeed, of this entire topic -- is summed up in the conversation at 34:16 : "Isn't it true that every waste-handling process creates a new problem?" "In dealing with radioactive waste, the use of any new process, any commitment of new equipment and facilities naturally creates the problem of disposal of that equipment ... the equipment, when it's served its purpose then becomes waste; in that sense, yes." "So that, in a sense, you have a geometric progression of waste as you try to solve the problem?" "That's correct."
My dad used to weld out at the Hanford tank farm. Sometimes, they'd have Geiger counters on poles mounted on rods above jeeps they'd drive around, first they'd extended the rod over the walls/ mounds before exiting the vehicle. Kind of like sneaking a peek around a corner. Just don't eat salmon from the Columbia river runs. Isotopes get to the river in between 2-6 weeks back in the day.
My uncle also worked and maintained Hanford his entire career. He sprouted an extra "toe" if you can call it that on each foot. No lie. Nobody believes me at first until I show the pictures. He died of a rare blood cancer.
My grandpa worked at Hanford, had a stroke from the conditions he was exposed to. They had these strips of paper that we’re supposed to change color if they were exposed to radiation, they never worked
@@Манлетопия water disperses radiation pretty well but contaminates the soil where the barrels are located. thats the problem. its localized. until spreads out by leaks.
The problem of nuclear waste will only increase. To illustrate this try the following thought experiment : try moving water around without getting other things wet. The water represents radioactivity. So it's an ever-increasing problem. What the waters already in is wet. Taking it out gets something else wet. Burying it gets the ground wet. Etc.
Up until 1971 our family duck hunted along the shore of the Columbia adjacent to Hanford. We put in near Ringold Springs, motored across the river and put decoys in a bay. Thousands of ducks which had come down from Canada pooled on the river so hunting was very good. Eventually two Hanford guards showed up one morning and said we would be arrested for being on Hanford land, they though we came got their by going across the desert, haha, carry a 14' aluminum boat, motor, decoys and gear 10 miles across a sage brush desert. Finally my dad talked some sense into them so they let us go, when we got back to the truck a helicopter was nearby sitting there apparently making sure we werent lying. The next year you couldnt hunt on that side of the river, probably because of a start of this clean-up.
Negative, .... they don't want prying eyes seeing what's REALKY happening on the site ! They don't ever clean anything up, .... only dig it up and bury it elsewhere ! Outa site, ... outa mind ! 1
This is insane. They still have not picked up the waste?! And properly stored them? Right, the nuclear people tell the farmer he’s crazy for thinking the water that the cows are drinking are radioactive. No the farmer ain’t crazy at all, he’s using common sense
Obviously those are things to avoid, but you have to realise that nuclear energy was about to provide EXTREMELY cheap, relatively clean (if you store the waste sensibly) and almost limitless power. This film was undoubtedly funded by the oil industry to vilify nuclear power. The only reason they dumped the waste was the usual story... Money. They could spend hundreds of millions building appropriate disposal facilities , or chuck the barrels in the sea for peanuts. As we've all seen, putting the environment and safety before profits, is extremely anti-semitic.
Look up DuPont Teflon, that will scare the hell out of you there has been an ongoing lawsuit with them for 40 years and we all have the DNA in our system from Teflon skillets
@@lukesmith3283 Being immersed in salt water for so long, they would have rusted away years ago, so unfortunately too late. It's the same with all the man made climate change nonsense they come out with now. They want people distracted by and focused on that, while they quietly get on with dumping chemicals and plastic in the oceans and rivers. A lot of the plastic that ends up in the Pacific ocean is actually 'recycling' from western Europe and the USA. Rather than recycling it, they put a huge percentage of it into ships for export to places like China and the Philippines, and most of it 'magically' ends up dumped in the ocean instead. Most people in the world are good people, but unfortunately all the people who own the banks, corporations and governments have been run by psychopaths since we'll before any of us were born. They care nothing about the environment, animals or other people, simply about power, money, and being above the law.
And... nothing has changed or come to pass since this film was recorded some 40 + years ago. Literally nothing has changed. We are still in midst of the exact same crisis and I honestly do not believe that a solution to the nuclear waste problem will be solved. In fact it has only been more compounded with new fuel rods and new nuclear defense weapons being produced in the time since this films production. I write this after my sibling has passed at the age of 42 from leukemia.
Since childhood I remember adults calling all the massive amounts of people with cancer ‘down-winders’ here in Washington State. The amount of cancers, multiple sclerosis, on and on… and it was basically ‘accepted’ as just the way things are. Two years ago our previously completely healthy and vibrant mother died at 65, within 7 months of diagnosis, from a very rare disease called multiple system atrophy, MSA. I can’t help but wonder and be sickened by the thoughts of her disease and horrid, hellish, tortuous suffering and passing being caused by this BS that these companies and our country knew without a doubt were already and would continue to sicken and kill all life within its reach. I cannot believe this BS occurs in the United States. I can only wonder what these people would do if they had to live with watching someone they love die from something caused by their selfish, greedy decisions. ‘Not in my back yard, so who cares’ 😡 Disgusting.
DO WE ??? Chernobyl, ....1986 .... Fukushima ,.... 2011 ,... just 12 years ago and what do you hear about it anymore? you must do your own search to learn of the coverups, fraud, scandal, etc. Watch," SECRETS FROM A BOMB FACTORY " then the book, " THE AMBUSHED GRAND JURY " !
In Russia vast grounds contaminated with transuranium waste. Including some spots in Moscow (Kolomenskoye park) or near Moscow - Elektrostal waste leaks etc. They just don't care/speak about this much. And nothing they do with it.
Ahhh the 70's!!! 30:50 'have you stopped beating your wife?' - a classic answer to a tricky question from a pre-PR savvy CEO! And 14:00, the concrete floor is torn up because it's made of radioactive waste and might cause cancerous dust. Is anyone wearing a mask whilst jackhammering? Stuff that!!!!! What an era. If only we could go back.....
TL;DR 85.000 barrels of nuclear waste were dumped in 1951 into the Pacific a few miles of the coast of San Fran. In 1971, researchers found that the barrels were beginning to leak.. WTF has happened since then.
Forgive me, but cursing isn't going to help, what we need is someone brilliant or commission who can work immediately and find a place or solution to the nuclear waste, check with any expert( Finland, maybe), and take it from there.
Damn it...how hard is it to get a Geiger counter? If you live in a place of concern, get one and check the radiation for yourself. So many examples exist of people relying on some inspection that might or might not come and might or might not be reliable.
It's not that easy...tiny traces of radioactive isotopes might not be detectable with a normal geiger counter, but can be a threat to your health nevertheless.
My wife got me a GQ GMC-600+ Geiger counter with a pancake probe. It is amazing. I am from Grants, NM mentioned in this video. I have always been fascinated with radiation and collect radioactive dinnerware. I also am able to check the radiation levels anywhere, including airplanes. I don't remember what she paid but having a geiger counter is fun and if you explore old places in uranium towns it is a handy tool to have in the Jeep.
If you were already a lawyer by then, why waste time producing NBC docs when you could have been using your given profession to make a difference in the world, Carol? As a law counselor, you could have been doing more for immigrants and lower socioeconomic clients. Hopefully you don't believe in intersectional feminism.
@@DIVISIONINCISION Please don't be angry with her. There's very little she could have done . If you want to see results of a criminal trial of a Nuclear Weapons Plant , watch , ... " SECRETS FROM A BOMB FACTORY " , then read the book about the trial titled, " THE AMBUSHED GRAND JURY " and see how the GOVT weasels out of justice for all !
No Industry should be allowed to release dangerous pollutants out to in the environment for any profit if there is any concern it can harm the environment and those living in it. The ppl living nearby receive no profit just astronomical amounts of physical, mental, and financial costs to their health. This is sick stuff.
I hate seeing those workmen tear up that floor in Grand Junction, wearing no mask breathing in all that uranium dust. I wonder how many came up with cancer or are now dead, I'm sure they didn't dig up just one house floor.
Update from 2023. Still looking for solutions. Still looking for disposal sites. Hanford still leaking. WIPP in Carlsbad started accepting shipment in '99. Glassification plant built but not yet functional.
Grew up in this time, wonder what some these sites look like now. Also during this time period there was a documentary made of military bio-weapons and chemical weapons which was very similar. alarge number of these weapons? Ere being stored in bunkers. Problem was the steel vessels they were stored in were begining to decompose. They couldnt move them to transfer them to new containers for fear of complete failure of the original container. Not sure of what they did, and we'll probably never know....
The guys tearing up the house aren't even wearing masks. Lmfao wow. Horrible. I wish someone would do a follow up doc on this. Could you imagine ABC doing a documentary today like this ? Never. So interesting to watch history. The politicians actually tried to answer with a calm lie , at least they tried to answer the question and not blatantly avoid the question like our politicians today like Trudeau does.
@@APolishPlayer I think we need AI government. Of course, in such a manner as to have human override, but a one AI world government would get us extremely far as a species so long as it is done in such a way as to be considerate of everyone and to do things the way we like things being done… just gentle yet persistent to its core… gentle change but change that lasts… and so on. Too bad this would need to be done in secret or by a new nation that is ready to take the risk vs. reward of such an idea… would be pretty sweet if it could be a choice on a ballot for election… holy shit… I think I just invested a new political party and I will run for president… I will be the candidate but my decisions will be guided by AI… and thus people can vote for this candidate enabled by AI for president… the candidate is the president but the candidate does as little as possible, just ensuring it’s safe and gentle as we are used to, but the overall “doing” that politicians fail to do would be done by the AI… and it would also come up with the initial selection of policies based on big data collected from social media and so on… so the candidate/party would not only have better odds of winning an election but it would also do a great job and would stay the course and get shit done!!! Lol Jk jk… but not Jk… it would be like the Kree civilization in Marvel movies.
You can see the mentacide and mind control even in these older videos...why would they even mention the vet thinking it's copper when it's clearly not. The people r standing there as they die a slow painful death defending the CEO's in their 104th floor office smoking their Cuban cigars as if their family's hadn't been likely living on and cultivating that land for decades prior ...
Good time to remind everyone that dangerous levels of radioactive waste are still being released into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to this day.
Did these locals with a tainted creek even buy a Geiger counter? Back in the 70s, we used to believe whatever the authorities told us. I grew up on a ranch. For anyone to poison our water - unimaginable.
None of those guys jackhammering that radioactive flooring with all that dust are wearing any sort of masks as the narrator says breathing it in causes cancer. Darwin award achieved!!
Do you think they were told it was dangerous? Do you think they were given equipment ? Do you think it was a “mistake “ that cement was made with that sand ? ( they needed to get rid of it ). So quick to judge the innocent people, and not the criminals . That’s the top award .
L comment. The workers are innocent, the boss however is at fault because he's government contracted as said prior to the clip. The workers are highschool kids needing money, and just wanna do good at their job and get it done with, I'm sure if they knew better they probably wouldn't have shown up especially if they knew how it'd turn out.
@Term limits Com Ah, I see. I have a periodic table poster at home and it says Plutonium is synthetic, but I know a few elements can be made synthetically.
@Term limits Com nobody on this comment section knows anything plutonium does not exist in nature in large amounts plutonium is made from neutron activation of uranium 238
@@ytpmichaelrosen9190 Plutoniun is a NATURAL Element and after millions of years, steps down to URANIUM which over time will step down the ladder of elements into common LEAD ! With great costs and Uranium, it's converted into Plutoniun via the HANFORD REACTORS !
If you do research I be everyone that is watching this, lives 1/2-1mile to 3mile from a radioactive superfund site My daughter came down with leukemia with stage 2 spinal cancer. The doctor said they don’t know what could have caused it. So me being me I did a lot of research and found out that we lived 1/4mile from one of the biggest radioactive superfund site that had three different types of Isotope that was buried around the area during the time of this film It was from, the isotope that was used on the watch, hands and face, power stations, nuclear weapons and subs. And then found out that it was bulldozed up and down the highway when they were building it. Then my sister that lives in another state started researching found out she was 3 miles away from a superfund site. And she live in the mountains.
The woman journalist asking questions is just hammering away 😂 Who is she? Just brilliant interviews 😁 edit: i think she is Joann Konner, director of the documentary. She won a few prices. Sadly died in 2018. Part 2 was just crazy. I thought Mayak was really bad, but seems USA has its share of trouble. And its not "just" Hanford. There is so many dumping sites and abandoned mines and mountains of tailings, just in New Mexico 1100 sites. Its spread all over. If you combine all radioactive waste, normal waste, industrial waste and waste from oil and fracking, USA need weed to keep citizens from rioting 🙂
Northeast Wisconsin is home to Peshtigo, where a small firm that operated from 1963-2014 ended up polluting the ground water. Johnson Controls bought it in 2014 and is doing some work to mitigate the damage. Locals cannot drink the well water.
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Thanks for making this documentary available to all!
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Back when news were news and not clickbate for financial gain
They' are not doing it for you they're doing it because they're getting paid
@@insmileyfacemur4242 surely there’s a financial incentive behind every corporation, but at the end of the day, things were not the same back then as they unfortunately are now.
"-Can cause cancer, Especially if inhaled." *Shows workers jack-hammering the floor to bits, no masks, no protective anything.*
surely died by it
We aren't the only ones. The USSR had their fair share of failures just as we have. The US did awful things and poor disposal and lost nuclear submarines, but the CCCP (USSR) did as well. Their Chernobyl, our burning coal mines underground, their asbestos and ours. We aren't the only ones who have polluted.
“Some of the barrels had leaked” WTF did they think was going to happen
Maybe it were cows which were radioactive and they contaminated waste site?? Maybe it's farmers fault!
That the barrels would vibe
Exactly why they put them there. Exactly why they went back 25 years later.
Nothing is done by accident when concerning government "mistakes". The only mistakes are when they are caught lying big while the truth sits right in front of us.
Yeah and very low levels of radiation detected and no harm to the local wildlife
No
Back when we had journalism..
I wasn't alive but I can look back longingly. 99.9% of the press is useless today.
Wow I agree. Funny first thing I thought. Imagine ABC doing this today.
I believe this was made by NBC, not ABC
Ehh, I don't know about "journalism" as it seems to me that this piece didn't exactly age well. It features the same scaremongering tactics that the legacy media uses today. The only difference is that back then, there was no cable or internet for them to compete with.
I say "didn't age well" because its reporting like this that help conjure up the perception that nuclear waste is glowing green goo when the reality is that the really bad stuff is almost always in solid form, sitting in either a spent fuel pool or dry cask storage onsite where it was used and is therefore CONTAINED.
Compare this with the UNCONTAINED non-nuclear waste products that the fossil fuel industries, chemical companies and industrial agriculture have polluted our skies, soil and water with and its not even close.
Yeah, I know that Three Mile Island happened just two years later, but people forget that nobody died at TMI, that any release of radiological material was miniscule and that the twin of the reactor that melted down would go on to produce safe, clean electricity for residents of south central Pennsylvania for another 40 years. I can only imagine where our energy grid would be today, the newer safer designs we'd have for nuclear reactors and fuel, and new solutions on how to deal with the "waste" had that incident never happened.
Journalism still exists
“At the bottom of the ocean……forever….”
I guess “forever” back in those days must have meant “until we’re all dead, so future generations have to clean up our mistakes.”
In germany we had put it in a saltmine thats leaking water right now and the polluted saltwater need to be pumped out 24/7. corroding the barrels nobody knows how to get them out. and even though it wasnt licensed for high radioactive waste they dumped it there too.
@@indahooddererstewhat is the saltmine called?
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@@mikeclifford7740That's probably the wisest statement anyone has made. The corruption & level of disregard for EVERYTHING is really at epidemic levels. And the funny thing about so many of the programs & initiatives to "clean up" these undesirable byproducts of humanity is that many of them are truly designed as a "feel good" measure, more than a as a real solution. So very sad.
Finally the whole film, thanks for this -
32:30 40 years and no plan to remove the contents... just a giant middle finger to future generations :(
Watching this documentary felt like a bad acid trip. The music was absolutely terrifying.
LOL true
For real, the soundtrack is like a bad dream. Well done.
Watching while dosed on acid. The eerie music matches with the crazy colors. Little intense but has me interested.
And its 2023 and most people never knew this video even existed...
I would say 80% of the WORLD don't even know radiation danger exsist. That's what them/they want too.
Only reason I do is because the algorithm can push it in aus but not in America...I'm sure that's why the rest of the world thinks that Australia is dystopian ...but it's just the media having a national agenda ...
@@StaySane-TV It pushed it here in the US
@@J-1410 that's strange because here in aus RUclips and google results are extremely censored...for eg if this was in Australia there would be very minimal information on it available to the average Joe...
I had a science teacher in high school (1980s) who showed us films like this all the time. I took 3 of his elective science classes. Greatest teacher ever!
The whole world needs to see this
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Excellent documentary.Raises a lot of questions relating to the economic,political and social issues today.
No, it raises the question of how retarded can a human being be?
There was a meeting and some engineers made a decision that let's s...t where we eat, there was a debate that is a good idea or not.
And the decision was made, supreme.
Maybe only russian communists were bigger idiots - there was an idea of Humans being kings of nature so they dropped their waste everywhere and improved nature.
Managed to finish a sea - what a result!, meanwhile rest of the world did similar things as I can see
I’ll tell you what’s not a question, they were studying using thorium in Ohio . The waste is salt water . They suddenly shut it down and sent the money to cern…….what also isn’t a question is that serious catastrophic mistakes were made (mistakes or bribes ). And no one is in prison.
What questions are you thinking?
@@lovejumanji5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment I assume you're talking about this. I mean, I guess if you just make the shit up you'd be right....
1:28 who lives in a toxic waste dump down under the sea? CHAD SPONGE RAD PANTS
"Uranium, like oil is limited and expected to run out by the year 2000"
That didn't quite happen now, did it?
its called a breeder reactor
The development of fracking and other extraction methods have extended the life of petroleum energy. Still, it's a finite resource. We're on the downward slide and that's a blessing.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
@@morgothra4483 Well, that's kind of the point. There's no point in saying "we have x until y" as it's untrue, it's "our currently known reserves of x will last until y"
While oil is on the decrease, nickel, cobalt and lithium use is on the increase, so we've just changed one resource for another and li-ion recycling is *extremely* wasteful, usually involving simply burning the cells and then reprocessing the ash and less than 10% of li-ion cells are recycled.
I would expect to see wars over lithium soon, we already have slave cobalt miners. Nickel is abundant enough to not cause much of an issue. Unless we figure out a way to efficiently extract it from seawater.
@@daviddavidson2357 I definitely agree on likelihood of resource wars in the future, be it lithium, water, food, etc...
@@morgothra4483isn’t there oil like almost everywhere? I’m pretty sure there’s still plenty of oil.
Oh my. My heart goes out to that father and his kids. Just looking at his eyes when he's talking about the possibility that he's somehow to blame for their condition is haunting. It wasn't his fault. It was the person who put him in that position and employed him. I wonder how the kids are now if they're still alive?
sick
🔮🔮🔮??????????
agreed, i can’t imagine. i’m sure the kids are long gone since the father claimed that those with that condition only have about 10 years life expectancy.
Lol😂
Hurler syndrome typically results in death by 10 years of age. Also, the kids having that disorder has NOTHING to do with his exposure -- _both_ parents need to possess at least one of the modified genes, and even then there's a 1 in 4 chance of the kids getting it. So it was just coincidental and bad luck.
Fun to watch 50 years later. They should do a follow up report and see if these predictions came true
the predictions did not come true, that is why a follow up was not filmed
25:20 Uranium will run out by the year 2000 - This prediction did not come true. Apparently, the nuclear industry did not believe this prediction. The industry would not have spent billions of dollars to build plants, only to have them operate a mere 15 to 20 years before uranium was gone.
ruclips.net/video/LmUVb-Sezco/видео.html@@MalWolf01
Yeah, they're never going to bring out "Danger II! We Were Wrong about Waste!" Because it has nothing to do with science either, from start to finish the thing is based on the fact than when people Feel they usually no longer see what's Real. I mean it's done better than many horror flicks I've seen thus far! @@MalWolf01
There is no fun at all watching this, Mr Clausewitz
Amazing how open they were 50 years ago... Today it's much different..
Scary when you realize you’re downstream 6-8 miles from Maxey Flats. Surprised no one in the scientific community have graphed the correlation of different cancers in relation to dump site? Very strange to me the amount of people who contract various forms of cancer, that also live miles within the area. From personal experience I’ve had several pass from very aggressive forms of cancer and have myself beaten testicular cancer. Would like to see a graph or chart comparing cancer rates before and after, though it’s obvious it’s contributed to higher rates.
My Geiger counter sings when I pass the exit to Maxey Flats on I 64. I have had over 60 grays of radiotherapy over a three month period. I drank raw milk during above ground testing. My baby teeth are still slightly radioactive.
30:50 ….. boom. Just boom. That’s a mic drop moment if I’ve ever seen one, FROM THE 70s! Man can’t even answer a simple, straightforward question that makes absolute sense about his own freaking business. THIS IS WHO holds the health and safety of millions in his hands?! I’d be outraged if I lived in that area.
But he says it himself:
"It's a logical thing to do.."
Gross.
Chimps with machine guns. The human race is doomed.
In any area worldwide we are contaminated.
Scientists do not create solutions but more complex problems one after another. People have the knowledge to create but no wisdom to know when to stop creating foolish technology's. That's why the Amish culture should be more appropriated and admired they stuck to some basic technological inventions. They respect what they got, they do not have the great inventions that so called modern society has but they do not have toxic waste killing everyone.
I’d like to know what happened to those workers getting rid of this radioactive waste.
They didn’t appear to be wearing any protective equipment.
This is low level nuclear waste, "the everyday refuse of nuclear power plants", it is often not radioactive. Low level nuclear waste includes everything from within boundary of a nuclear plant e.g. light bulbs, computers, office chairs, desks, carpets, overalls etc. It is too costly to test and separate out anything that might be weakly radioactive from non-radioactive, so they just assume it is radioactive and dump it all as low level waste.
I know. They probably 1 are still around and sick. Or 2 they are passed away
There are other workers working in worker disposal service
They went on to live great lives no cancer
This was in 1977 and since they died, many of their histories have been told and are available. They suffered from a LOT of 'rare' diseases.
I am a disabled vet spent 7 years on submarines SSBN 619 634 and 644 I was a reactor operator this was in the late 80 s I can not tell you where but we put radioactive waste in the ocean a few time a year. I am disabled from a torpedo reload test went wrong.
Yikes
Thanks, Mr.Submariner!! I appreciate your service "in the Tubes,' and I know you weren't the one giving orders. It's only from speaking with people like you, that THE REST OF US know where to look to find.....
100% Service-connected? If so, you're definitely living a comfortable life.
Ouch!! That sounds rough mate. Hope you’re keeping well. It takes nerves of steel to work on a sub I bet. Interesting but it’s a dangerous job. 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧.
Poor you... :(
Theres TONS and TONS of nuclear waste from years of negligence still in the ground all around the USA and Canada
Children will pay ultimately for mans pride..we are all seeing it Now BIG TIME..
We've only added to it with the invention of microplastics
Yeah we can tell by Americans born post 80s
@@TalismanGirls true, true.
Breeder reactors could be built, everything else could be strored to places like Onkalo.
All of those workers tearing up the radioactive floors with no masks/respirators. How long to you think they lived? They’re inhaling the stuff. Crazy :(
They're all doing just fine.
10-20 years at best
George burton practically welled up in tears. That man was sick to his stomach in that questioning period. And probably sick to his stomach up to the day he died. Speechless
All by design. We were never running out of oil. It’s actually the only true renewable. Death of organisms mostly in the ocean is what makes oil. It will always be produced by the planet as long as there’s life. Even as a child I found the idea of dinosaurs being eradicated being the source of oil to be ridiculous.
That guy minimized the damage . He said they only know a leak after it happens (with rapid eye blinking) . I bet there is someway to check and mitigate ….but I bet it costs money to do that . He’s president of a sub-contractor company . Idk……then the manager answers the direct questions.
Then he said it makes “economic sense”. (For the company ). Perfect front guy.
Well, he shot himself 5 years afterwards.
@@SMGJohnare you serious?
That explains everything
Thanks for posting this!
I really dig the tracking, it made it creepier somehow!
Im curious how many people in this film are still with us and what they've seen since this was made.
Well, considering this was filmed 45 years ago, and many of the people in the film looked to be 40 or older, I'd say many passed away from simply old age by now.
agree. i was not able to find any infos on mrs monnie hall.
Old old you mean cancer
@@armando7621curiously, my curiosity is curious.
Wonder how many died of cancer?
Yea metal definitely won’t rust out in salt water…
they strafed those barrels with gunfire because they wouldn't sink so they had to shoot holes in them
Every time it rains, fallout from above ground testing comes back to the earth. People wonder why we're dying from cancer. Growing up in the 1970's it was normal where I lived to lose a kid every couple of years to leukemia. It was a 'normal' thing. We should've known better.
They did but they didn't care just like today they don't care all they want is control we send billions of dollars humanitarian Aid to foreign countries the people of those countries do not receive one red fucking sent
Prob why everything causes cancer, cause otherwise the government couldn't pay out the lawsuit if found culpable.
Holy shit 😮that’s messed up
In the first 2 or 3 years after the Czernobyl accident I can recall 2 friends in my age (I was about 5 years, living in a small village in the south of Germany) and one young mother of a friend fell ill with leukemia and Hodgkin disease. Luckily, they all survived. Looking back now, it's pretty suspicious. All families grew their own vegetables in their gardens which might have contributed.
dumbass
And we wonder why cancer rates have gotten huge..
This is insane
Thank you for uploading this.
We should show this in schools.
FYI - Hurler’s Syndrome is a recursive condition that requires both parents to carry the recessive gene.
@23:12 The documentary implies that working conditions caused Jerry Brown’s children to be born with Hurler’s Syndrome. The reason Mr Brown couldn’t find a doctor to tell him that radiation exposure caused his children’s illness is because…it didn’t.
I feel sad for Mr Brown and his family’s medical conditions. I also feel sad that he unknowingly perpetuated a glaring scientific inaccuracy in this documentary about a brutal genetic disorder - Hurler’s.
I'd really like to see a follow up to this video that updates us on each of the people, places, and issues presented.
Make one
Excellent Documentary!
I realise the Planet is becoming Toxic, but this is beyond me!
Thanx for U/L, will watch it again and shared.
I was born and raised in Grants New Mexico. There are still crazy cancers popping up from time to time.
This is still a problem today...which is insane.
They've just gotten better at keeping it hush hush
They built the vault in Nevada but the state stopped it before waste could be shipped.
Japan is just dumping their waste into the ocean, with no sanctions placed.
It's really not.
Waste mismanagement and tracking down where and how much waste was sequestered in small towns all throughout the states is still a problem. Small towns all around my state find some barrels from the 50s buried under a school's baseball field after kids started getting cancers.
I believe new waste has had better handling after the Chernobyl accident and, more importantly, Three Mile Island. Mining, refinement, handling, and disposal are much improved from the 70s.
I remember watching this back in the day and have wondered about it often through the years. Thank you for posting this.
Put them around the Whitehouse, they can enjoy them as a fence. Who is this man? He is a wise ass just like me. I admire that.
you gotta love how they used to just record their crimes against humanity
Why at 15:18 doesn’t the guy just dump the wheel barrow directly onto the conveyor?
Breathing the radioactive dust can cause cancer. Meanwhile the builders are breaking it up and not wearing mask 😮
85k barrels?! Holy crap!
Give or take.
The whole point of this documentary -- indeed, of this entire topic -- is summed up in the conversation at 34:16 :
"Isn't it true that every waste-handling process creates a new problem?"
"In dealing with radioactive waste, the use of any new process, any commitment of new equipment and facilities naturally creates the problem of disposal of that equipment ... the equipment, when it's served its purpose then becomes waste; in that sense, yes."
"So that, in a sense, you have a geometric progression of waste as you try to solve the problem?"
"That's correct."
Sick
I should note that contaminated items are low level waste while the original stuff is high level
Saddest thing is that almost nothing changed.
We formerly took journalism like this as standard
My dad used to weld out at the Hanford tank farm. Sometimes, they'd have Geiger counters on poles mounted on rods above jeeps they'd drive around, first they'd extended the rod over the walls/ mounds before exiting the vehicle. Kind of like sneaking a peek around a corner.
Just don't eat salmon from the Columbia river runs. Isotopes get to the river in between 2-6 weeks back in the day.
My uncle also worked and maintained Hanford his entire career. He sprouted an extra "toe" if you can call it that on each foot. No lie. Nobody believes me at first until I show the pictures. He died of a rare blood cancer.
My grandpa worked at Hanford, had a stroke from the conditions he was exposed to. They had these strips of paper that we’re supposed to change color if they were exposed to radiation, they never worked
I knew somebody who grew up on the East side of the Columbia there during the 1960s and her sister had thyroid cancer when she very young.
It's 40 years later and the problem has never been solved. Some folks don't think it's a problem still.
All those drums at the bottom of the ocean 100 miles from NYC. I'm sure they've leaked. How much are people being affected in NY?
Yet we can't detect any radioisotopes in any of the sea water in any good amount
@@Манлетопия water disperses radiation pretty well but contaminates the soil where the barrels are located. thats the problem. its localized. until spreads out by leaks.
The problem of nuclear waste will only increase. To illustrate this try the following thought experiment : try moving water around without getting other things wet. The water represents radioactivity. So it's an ever-increasing problem. What the waters already in is wet. Taking it out gets something else wet. Burying it gets the ground wet. Etc.
@@Манлетопия Water is a neutron moderator.
Up until 1971 our family duck hunted along the shore of the Columbia adjacent to Hanford. We put in near Ringold Springs, motored across the river and put decoys in a bay. Thousands of ducks which had come down from Canada pooled on the river so hunting was very good. Eventually two Hanford guards showed up one morning and said we would be arrested for being on Hanford land, they though we came got their by going across the desert, haha, carry a 14' aluminum boat, motor, decoys and gear 10 miles across a sage brush desert. Finally my dad talked some sense into them so they let us go, when we got back to the truck a helicopter was nearby sitting there apparently making sure we werent lying. The next year you couldnt hunt on that side of the river, probably because of a start of this clean-up.
Negative, .... they don't want prying eyes seeing what's REALKY happening on the site ! They don't ever clean anything up, .... only dig it up and bury it elsewhere ! Outa site, ... outa mind ! 1
They just had another leak into the Columbia
This is reminding me of “The Devil We Know” with the cows in the creek.
That 16mm warbling of the Geiger counter in the soundtrack is bloody unsettling.
“ and there was no immediate danger “ . Brought a smile to my face.
That’s the same thing they said about asbestos
They could clean the asbestos out of talcum powder.. But it's too expensive.
This is insane. They still have not picked up the waste?! And properly stored them?
Right, the nuclear people tell the farmer he’s crazy for thinking the water that the cows are drinking are radioactive. No the farmer ain’t crazy at all, he’s using common sense
Obviously those are things to avoid, but you have to realise that nuclear energy was about to provide EXTREMELY cheap, relatively clean (if you store the waste sensibly) and almost limitless power. This film was undoubtedly funded by the oil industry to vilify nuclear power.
The only reason they dumped the waste was the usual story... Money. They could spend hundreds of millions building appropriate disposal facilities , or chuck the barrels in the sea for peanuts.
As we've all seen, putting the environment and safety before profits, is extremely anti-semitic.
Look up DuPont Teflon, that will scare the hell out of you there has been an ongoing lawsuit with them for 40 years and we all have the DNA in our system from Teflon skillets
All
@@MattyEngland right, that makes a lot of sense. Has anyone decided to go pick it up? And maybe transport the barrels to an appropriate facility?
@@lukesmith3283 Being immersed in salt water for so long, they would have rusted away years ago, so unfortunately too late.
It's the same with all the man made climate change nonsense they come out with now. They want people distracted by and focused on that, while they quietly get on with dumping chemicals and plastic in the oceans and rivers. A lot of the plastic that ends up in the Pacific ocean is actually 'recycling' from western Europe and the USA. Rather than recycling it, they put a huge percentage of it into ships for export to places like China and the Philippines, and most of it 'magically' ends up dumped in the ocean instead.
Most people in the world are good people, but unfortunately all the people who own the banks, corporations and governments have been run by psychopaths since we'll before any of us were born. They care nothing about the environment, animals or other people, simply about power, money, and being above the law.
And... nothing has changed or come to pass since this film was recorded some 40 + years ago. Literally nothing has changed. We are still in midst of the exact same crisis and I honestly do not believe that a solution to the nuclear waste problem will be solved. In fact it has only been more compounded with new fuel rods and new nuclear defense weapons being produced in the time since this films production. I write this after my sibling has passed at the age of 42 from leukemia.
I’m so sorry for your loss, it’s truly disgusting that it’s still a massive issue
We should blast it into space or throw it out the hatch of the space shuttle
It’s already been solved 😂
@@Cognitoman you must have not paid attention to this film.
@@digdugbingo You mean the same film made 50 years ago that said we also expect to run out of Uranium by the year 2000?
I don't have an answer to that...at least the guy was sincere. Today they wouldn't even give an interview
15.10 dudes with not even a dust mask tearing up radio active floor material ⛏🤒 🔨🤒
I'm kind of surprised they haven't tried to eject it out into space yet
Too much volume.
Superman tossed the nuclear waste into the sun in Superman 4
Since childhood I remember adults calling all the massive amounts of people with cancer ‘down-winders’ here in Washington State. The amount of cancers, multiple sclerosis, on and on… and it was basically ‘accepted’ as just the way things are.
Two years ago our previously completely healthy and vibrant mother died at 65, within 7 months of diagnosis, from a very rare disease called multiple system atrophy, MSA. I can’t help but wonder and be sickened by the thoughts of her disease and horrid, hellish, tortuous suffering and passing being caused by this BS that these companies and our country knew without a doubt were already and would continue to sicken and kill all life within its reach. I cannot believe this BS occurs in the United States. I can only wonder what these people would do if they had to live with watching someone they love die from something caused by their selfish, greedy decisions. ‘Not in my back yard, so who cares’ 😡 Disgusting.
Think about the fact America has shipped manufacturing to China, Mexico and removed 80% of these firms from our shores.
They have to make the CEOs and other shot callers live in the same location that they’re waste was dumped.
And yet Cherynoble and Fukushima are what we talk about...
DO WE ??? Chernobyl, ....1986 .... Fukushima ,.... 2011 ,... just 12 years ago and what do you hear about it anymore? you must do your own search to learn of the coverups, fraud, scandal, etc. Watch," SECRETS FROM A BOMB FACTORY " then the book, " THE AMBUSHED GRAND JURY " !
That's American propaganda for you.
In Russia vast grounds contaminated with transuranium waste. Including some spots in Moscow (Kolomenskoye park) or near Moscow - Elektrostal waste leaks etc. They just don't care/speak about this much. And nothing they do with it.
83,000 barrels were dropped 112 miles from new york in the water…. what is wrong with people…. blows my mind 😢
They still dump nuclear waste into the Hudson river to this day, so what are you worried about 😂
Wonderful commentary. Was OSHA around then? Great voice-over timing starting at 14:08. No respirators for the workers, yet....well, watch it. 😑
OSHA existed since 1971 but it didn't have the power to do anything until the 90s.
Ahhh the 70's!!! 30:50 'have you stopped beating your wife?' - a classic answer to a tricky question from a pre-PR savvy CEO! And 14:00, the concrete floor is torn up because it's made of radioactive waste and might cause cancerous dust. Is anyone wearing a mask whilst jackhammering? Stuff that!!!!!
What an era. If only we could go back.....
Did they not know barrels rust in the 50s 😂
Know.
They made the drums.
😭🙏
They should’ve just shot the barrels into space 🚀
In Finland they bury nuclear waste a kilometres under ground in sealed caverns . Stupid Americans
@@hassamprudente8343
Most rockets crashed in those days.
Nobody wants to send a rocket up that might come right back.
they knew, its all about $$$.
TL;DR 85.000 barrels of nuclear waste were dumped in 1951 into the Pacific a few miles of the coast of San Fran. In 1971, researchers found that the barrels were beginning to leak..
WTF has happened since then.
What?
@@brosefmcman8264 what do the barrels look like now?
Fission’ Chips
Forgive me, but cursing isn't going to help, what we need is someone brilliant or commission who can work immediately and find a place or solution to the nuclear waste, check with any expert( Finland, maybe), and take it from there.
Youre seeing it.
California is Fudged Up!
Damn it...how hard is it to get a Geiger counter? If you live in a place of concern, get one and check the radiation for yourself. So many examples exist of people relying on some inspection that might or might not come and might or might not be reliable.
It's not that easy...tiny traces of radioactive isotopes might not be detectable with a normal geiger counter, but can be a threat to your health nevertheless.
They have electrosmog meters you can measure EMF radiation from cell phones/towers.
My wife got me a GQ GMC-600+ Geiger counter with a pancake probe. It is amazing. I am from Grants, NM mentioned in this video. I have always been fascinated with radiation and collect radioactive dinnerware. I also am able to check the radiation levels anywhere, including airplanes. I don't remember what she paid but having a geiger counter is fun and if you explore old places in uranium towns it is a handy tool to have in the Jeep.
100,000 years? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Who knows
I co- produced a segment of this special on the Maxey Flats nuclear waste dup when I was 25 years old-with Martha Elliot of WNBC-News.
Any idea what became of the plant worker and his children born with disabilities?
If you were already a lawyer by then, why waste time producing NBC docs when you could have been using your given profession to make a difference in the world, Carol? As a law counselor, you could have been doing more for immigrants and lower socioeconomic clients. Hopefully you don't believe in intersectional feminism.
God help us my grandfather died of spinal cancer he was a engineer Santa Fe railroad hailing nuk waste 49age died
@@DIVISIONINCISION Please don't be angry with her. There's very little she could have done . If you want to see results of a criminal trial of a Nuclear Weapons Plant , watch , ... " SECRETS FROM A BOMB FACTORY " , then read the book about the trial titled, " THE AMBUSHED GRAND JURY " and see how the GOVT weasels out of justice for all !
Hi, any follow up done, that would be most interesting.
No Industry should be allowed to release dangerous pollutants out to in the environment for any profit if there is any concern it can harm the environment and those living in it. The ppl living nearby receive no profit just astronomical amounts of physical, mental, and financial costs to their health. This is sick stuff.
lets dump it in your basement like duh
@@ericrotermund1004thankfully they were very sensible and only used radioactive waste to build foundations of houses - much, much safer.
Without nature, man will not even survive on this planet.
Imagine how much more there is today 50 years later.
Nothing's changed. Except quantities.
Thank you for posting this video.
This would be the perfect fifty minute Boards of Canada music video.
If Strontium 90 and Cobalt 60 are “low “ level what is considered high level ?
Has to do with the QUANTITY of material in the waste, not the specific isotopes involved.
@@bobweiss8682 NO, it is the power of the radiation. How much can it penetrate before being stopped.
The transuranics are where you get the off the chart activity levels.
Removing the floor due to dust might cause cancer, no masks on all the workers🙄
No wonder so many people have cancer know a days
It's ok, they were Mexicans.
@@johncholmes643 yet probably hold more value to humanity than your hate and division due to a person's place of birth.
Caveman mentality.
Also remember this was even before OSHA was invented.
My Dad worked at the West Valley Plant. I grew up in Olean, not too far South of the plant. Olean itself, is a superfund site.
I hate seeing those workmen tear up that floor in Grand Junction, wearing no mask breathing in all that uranium dust. I wonder how many came up with cancer or are now dead, I'm sure they didn't dig up just one house floor.
Mrs ball needs her washer machine!
Update from 2023. Still looking for solutions. Still looking for disposal sites. Hanford still leaking. WIPP in Carlsbad started accepting shipment in '99. Glassification plant built but not yet functional.
Grew up in this time, wonder what some these sites look like now. Also during this time period there was a documentary made of military bio-weapons and chemical weapons which was very similar. alarge number of these weapons? Ere being stored in bunkers. Problem was the steel vessels they were stored in were begining to decompose. They couldnt move them to transfer them to new containers for fear of complete failure of the original container. Not sure of what they did, and we'll probably never know....
The pre ground-liner era. The wow and flutter is strong with this one.
The guys tearing up the house aren't even wearing masks. Lmfao wow. Horrible. I wish someone would do a follow up doc on this. Could you imagine ABC doing a documentary today like this ? Never. So interesting to watch history. The politicians actually tried to answer with a calm lie , at least they tried to answer the question and not blatantly avoid the question like our politicians today like Trudeau does.
not until all accountable are dead +. The follow up will cause societal turmoil.
@@APolishPlayer I think we need AI government. Of course, in such a manner as to have human override, but a one AI world government would get us extremely far as a species so long as it is done in such a way as to be considerate of everyone and to do things the way we like things being done… just gentle yet persistent to its core… gentle change but change that lasts… and so on. Too bad this would need to be done in secret or by a new nation that is ready to take the risk vs. reward of such an idea… would be pretty sweet if it could be a choice on a ballot for election… holy shit… I think I just invested a new political party and I will run for president… I will be the candidate but my decisions will be guided by AI… and thus people can vote for this candidate enabled by AI for president… the candidate is the president but the candidate does as little as possible, just ensuring it’s safe and gentle as we are used to, but the overall “doing” that politicians fail to do would be done by the AI… and it would also come up with the initial selection of policies based on big data collected from social media and so on… so the candidate/party would not only have better odds of winning an election but it would also do a great job and would stay the course and get shit done!!! Lol
Jk jk… but not Jk… it would be like the Kree civilization in Marvel movies.
agree. i learned more from this than the "news" today. sad.
It's okay, they were Mexicans.
You can see the mentacide and mind control even in these older videos...why would they even mention the vet thinking it's copper when it's clearly not.
The people r standing there as they die a slow painful death defending the CEO's in their 104th floor office smoking their Cuban cigars as if their family's hadn't been likely living on and cultivating that land for decades prior ...
This is Real Journalism... to bad it doesn't exist in 2023.... thank you!
Good time to remind everyone that dangerous levels of radioactive waste are still being released into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to this day.
I think dude was excited to pay for those who most likely took their own lives for having to endure that tragic song
Are those metal barrels? Dumped into salt water? wtf
I wonder if that fish swimming next to the barrel had a fulfilling life.
😮 they probably did!
31:13 the stuff you used to be able to say! 😂
So what are thry doing with the waste now, have they improved storage techniques. Or is it still leaking into the environment?
"85,000 barrels"
Fukushima "we can beat that"
whenever i buy land, i check beforehand that nothing radioactive has been buried in the area (and that there are no military installations nearby)
The white house fence is a perfect solution bar none
Why was the Yucca Mountain abandoned as a repository for nuclear waste? Water table too high in that area?
Too much attention.
WOW ... this might as well be CURRENT NEWS 😮
@37:00 I wonder if this is what they call Ionized salt?
This has some big oil vibes
Did these locals with a tainted creek even buy a Geiger counter? Back in the 70s, we used to believe whatever the authorities told us. I grew up on a ranch. For anyone to poison our water - unimaginable.
Those workers who were working without protection are so entitled to big lawsuits.
They are dead
Disposable peons
None of those guys jackhammering that radioactive flooring with all that dust are wearing any sort of masks as the narrator says breathing it in causes cancer. Darwin award achieved!!
Do you think they were told it was dangerous? Do you think they were given equipment ? Do you think it was a “mistake “ that cement was made with that sand ? ( they needed to get rid of it ). So quick to judge the innocent people, and not the criminals . That’s the top award .
L comment. The workers are innocent, the boss however is at fault because he's government contracted as said prior to the clip. The workers are highschool kids needing money, and just wanna do good at their job and get it done with, I'm sure if they knew better they probably wouldn't have shown up especially if they knew how it'd turn out.
25:35 Wait plutonium is made from uranium?
@Term limits Com Ah, I see. I have a periodic table poster at home and it says Plutonium is synthetic, but I know a few elements can be made synthetically.
@Term limits Com nobody on this comment section knows anything plutonium does not exist in nature in large amounts plutonium is made from neutron activation of uranium 238
@@ytpmichaelrosen9190 Plutoniun is a NATURAL Element and after millions of years, steps down to URANIUM which over time will step down the ladder of elements into common LEAD ! With great costs and Uranium, it's converted into Plutoniun via the HANFORD REACTORS !
If you do research
I be everyone that is watching this, lives 1/2-1mile to 3mile from a radioactive superfund site
My daughter came down with leukemia with stage 2 spinal cancer.
The doctor said they don’t know what could have caused it.
So me being me I did a lot of research and found out that we lived 1/4mile from one of the biggest radioactive superfund site that had three different types of Isotope that was buried around the area during the time of this film
It was from, the isotope that was used on the watch, hands and face, power stations, nuclear weapons and subs.
And then found out that it was bulldozed up and down the highway when they were building it.
Then my sister that lives in another state started researching found out she was 3 miles away from a superfund site.
And she live in the mountains.
Where was the major superfund site you lived next to?
he ded
@@Nobluffbuff north NJ
Hackensack area
In the northeast for sure.
John Oliver mentioned this on Last Week Tonight
The fucked up music makes it amazing/creepy!
The woman journalist asking questions is just hammering away 😂
Who is she? Just brilliant interviews 😁 edit: i think she is Joann Konner, director of the documentary. She won a few prices. Sadly died in 2018.
Part 2 was just crazy. I thought Mayak was really bad, but seems USA has its share of trouble. And its not "just" Hanford. There is so many dumping sites and abandoned mines and mountains of tailings, just in New Mexico 1100 sites. Its spread all over. If you combine all radioactive waste, normal waste, industrial waste and waste from oil and fracking, USA need weed to keep citizens from rioting 🙂
Northeast Wisconsin is home to Peshtigo, where a small firm that operated from 1963-2014 ended up polluting the ground water. Johnson Controls bought it in 2014 and is doing some work to mitigate the damage. Locals cannot drink the well water.