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Hey, just a small error i noticed, the aircraft you identified at around 4:55 are C-141 Starlifters, which were the Air Force's primary strategic airlifters at the time, not C-414s as identified in the vid. I really enjoy your content, looking forward to more. Thanks!
@@allangibson2408 that is not knowing how long they spent around it... and assuming they didn’t think it was a heater like another orphaned source we may have seen here
oh sweet summer child. most of human advancement is buit upon a throne of mistakes, sacrifices, blood, and bones. Medicine and Engineering in particular have a truly gruesome history.
Quite - when someone says "nuclear accident" it's only the "big" ones that come to mind. But there have been oh-so-many more... And I only fully appreciate that thanks to this channel.
@@scout360pyroz I wonder what they will tell about my profession of programmer in 100 years. The day a Javascript bug crashed the entire financial world or something. Or the other day a bug in JS killed a billion persons. Because everything has computers in it, and that opens the space for bad programmers and bad software. And computers generally are terrible, they are only fast and not reliable at all.
@@monad_tcp its how projects in general tend to go. I see it in software development, I see it in office worker projects, I see it in construction, I see it in the government. We plan for shit, so our projects come out like shit. The three C's of a construction clusterfuck (failures) Communication Coordination Cooperation Something always goes wrong along these lines and bungles any attempt by normally competent planners to actually plan properly.
I'm Canadian and I live for history. I have never heard of this. It takes some Londoner to tell me something this important happened in my own backyard. Thanks
With all due respect, it's a very big backyard. You could drop the whole of the UK into the Northern Territories and it wouldn't be noticed until spring.
Fun fact- the US and French airborne radiation detection equipment wasn't very effective at finding debris but the technology developed by the Geological Survey of Canada was. Turns out that using equipment sensitive enough to explore for gold mineralization from an airplane is also good at finding Russian nuclear reactor debris.
@@karhukivi Only because there isn't any Au-195, Au-196, Au-198 or Au-199 in nature. And those are the only ones that decay within days instead of seconds like most of the other isotopes. (Outside of Au-197 of course, which is the only one to be found in nature and considered stable)
By now, such strongly radioactive fission products would've decayed so there wouldn't be such telltale signs. Pieces would be less radiologically dangerous, but since laymen wouldn't suspect anything, it might cause longer exposure and more dose received.
@@allangibson2408 The better answer is “it’s complicated.” Most of the radiation wouldn’t have been coming from the U-235 (which is quite safe to handle as long as you aren’t stupid about it; wear gloves, a mask, don’t turn it into a powder), but the much shorter-lived isotopes formed by the reactor while it was running.
on our land we had a rock that snow never stayed on on ,always melted off quickly despite snow surrounding was intact, there was uranium mining proposed in area.
I covered Operation Morning Light as a news reporter for the local Edmonton television station. This is as good a summary as anyone could hope to write for a quick RUclips video, so well done. Although sold as a Canadian operation with US assistance, this was a deeply American operation. Lots of heavy American accents from the usual alphabet soup of US agencies. DoE, DoD, CIA, etc. Great job!
@@joseph-mariopelerin7028 Don't what??? Plainly Difficult clearly only reports on historical events, news-worthy disasters we may never have heard about... SO I'm VERY confident he could find a worthwhile "disaster" for April Fool's Day that actually happened and sounds pretty horrendous, but didn't really cause much of a problem... sprinkle in some of his classic style and humor, and we'd all laugh our asses off as we researched to find out if it was a serious thing or not... because "April Fool's" and all... I personally was driving south-bound around Lexington's New Circle Road on my way to I-75, when a stolen tractor-trailer jack-knifed in the midst of pursuit on the over-pass... No serious injuries, but about 40,000 pounds of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" came over MY CAR as I went under that over-pass, barely dodging the fall-out of the incident... It was a collossal shit-show, and backed up traffic for HOURS, scared my wife at the time to death, because we only had the one cell and she was using it when I made the trip out... BUT other than a handful of fender-benders, only the truck and some of the overpass was even damaged... I spent most of the time in a McD's parking lot to avoid the crossing traffic from emergency vehicles and wrecker-trucks (cleaning up) so I didn't waste gas sitting in traffic... BUT mostly, other than the initial adrenaline explosion (mostly my fountain of obscenities as I expected a lot worse) it was just as hilarious as it sounds. ;o)
@@PlainlyDifficult No worries chap. You’re doing a sterling job on the production of these and deserve every like/share/comment/subscriber that you get!
Would you ever consider putting a radiation scale on your videos? It's confusing (at least for me) when going from Roentgen to Curies, after you kinda figured out Severts.
From Brittanica: One curie (1 Ci) is equal to 3.7 × 10^10 radioactive decays per second, which is roughly the amount of decays that occur in 1 gram of radium per second and is 3.7 × 10^10 becquerels (Bq). For discussion of R and Sv, see: www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-roentgen-and-sievert/
Good to see you finally covering this one, and in more detail than I've seen before, great job. When I was very little I remember seeing this on the news.
Thank you for covering this! I'm Canadian and I only learned about it in law school - Canada trying to get the USSR to clean up its mess in our Arctic was an important precedent in international law.
im just hoping that the remaining satellites of this type were safely put into graveyard orbits before the USSR dissolved. cause if they didnt and they are now disused, its scary to think that a nuclear disaster could just fall from the sky one day
I'm not gonna lie, I thought this was a Dark Docs video when it was uploaded and was like meh, and then I looked at it again just now and saw it was from Plainly Difficult and was like OHOHOH wowowowow
A very well-researched episode. By pure chance I had just read the book "Operation Morning Light" by Leo Heaps which covers the cleanup operation in great detail. While reading the book I was wondering when "Plainly Difficult" will cover this event :D
i actually just read about this a while back, and was surprised neither my dad nor i had heard of it, especially because we’re both Canadian and he was alive at the time
I remember this as a kid. it was on the news daily for about a week, but we didn't have live TV feeds or much detailed information. Mostly just CBC radio news people freaking out. Nobody was hurt, so clearly not gonna be a long lasting news story.
That's pretty cool, I live in yellowknife and I had no idea an old soviet nuclear satellite came down near here. It makes sense the recovery team was pretty quick, having random potentially deadly pieces of debris scattered around in hunting and trapping territory could cause some problems
I was a 12 year old Canadian girl at that time, I vaguely remember hearing about it, of course we didn't have a 24/7 news cycle in those days. I believe we were still only getting two channels on our sets in those days, not much fighting over the non existent remote!
I was a 12 year old Canadian boy then. I remember it on the news for weeks. There was news enough then. More than 2 channels for my place, there was Global, TVO and French channels and US channels on cable, or aerial if you were close to the US
@@seanrodgers1839 In Canada back in the day, television was different depending on where you lived, as you mentioned in your comment. I lived in north central Sask, we had the CBC for news, gaining a couple other channels including a CTV affiliate out of a city 150 kms away, a couple years later. As with many issues in life, not everyone's experience is the seem, though they may live in the same country!
An old colleague of mine was a private in the CF at the time, and was sent up to help search for bits of this satellite; It's nice to finally find out something more about the event. Knowing that I collected bits of Canadian militaria he gave me the personal dosimeter he had to carry while he was there.
Canadian here. It's not "Great Slaves Lake", it's "Great Slave Lake". That's an important distinction because "slaves" makes it sound like the name has something to do with the slavery that was being done to black people by whites in mainly the Southern US. It is not that. The lake shares its name with the First Nations Dene indigenous poeple, who were called "Slavey" by their enemies the Cree. Although the Dene were called that because "Slavey or just Slave is a translation of the name given to Dene by the Cree .. who sometimes raided and enslaved their less aggressive northern neighbours". That said, good video and thanks for covering this!
Another great video! You should check out the Tasman bridge disaster, no one outside of Tasmania really knows about it, and I think it would make a good video.
Love your videos. Just a couple corrections (no, not the plane name). It's the Northwest Territories, not Northwestern Territories, and it's Great Slave Lake, not Great Slaves Lake. The lake is named after the Slavey people.
We have our factory 240km South of Chernobyl by the Dnieper River and although living further south at 10years old at the time still clearly remember the disaster being told to us at school. Bad enough radiation contamination at ground level let alone a 4tonne nuclear reactor falling from the sky. Greeting from Russia (Ukraine).. ❤️
Now there's radiation eating bacteria there and cancer killing antioxidants we could use for humans but it's an exclusion zone so nothing will ever be done with it. Also better hope that radiation soaked forest doesn't ever catch fire otherwise everyone within fifty kilometers of you is dead.
@@joshschneider9766 I agree with you, too much cover up and misinformation given by CCCP Socialist State. I now run our families arms repair buisness which has been here decades and many years now have rad measures all over the factory. Levels still vary usually to max safe level. Fishing in the Dnieper River is common occurance but still contaminated. It was a very bad era under government which did not care much for the people. Greeting to you.. ❤️
I live in the Yukon Territory, far west of this incident. Its pretty common folklore up here, a bit of a cautionary tale for those of us that spend time in the bush. If it seems manmade where man hasnt been, beware. In a slightly related note - Here in Yukon, we also had some 'ballon bombs' sent over by Japan in WW2. There were a few casualties, but mostly just a nuisance - however, occasionally folks find the occasional part of a balloon bomb in the bush.
Wow. shows you how good countries are at hiding their blunders, half of the events I have never heard of. Reinforces my thinking that mankind should not be allowed to meddles with things he knows 'b' all about, they think they know but they don't. Very frightening. Well done John.
this was nifty! ever consider doing more space incident stuff? the compounded engineering and process failures that led to something like the Challenger or Columbia disasters for example sound very much in your wheelhouse
It's only a 5 on the PD scale - so it could be only local news carried it. Kinda like that time NASA dropped a tank from Skylab on Western Australia and the council sent them a fine for littering.
why I was 9 yo, I made a radio to listen to nuclear explosions, the testing they were doing, it was so cool, its "sad" they do that anymore. what more can I do, I was born the day Chernobyl happened, always fascinated by nuclear stuff.
@@carneeki It was national news headlines, on the news for weeks in Canada. At the height of the cold war and a radioactive Soviet satellite drops, that's news, for NATO countries at least.
the slave lake has had a bad history with radioactive material, back during world war II the army would dump torn bags of uranium ore into the slave lake at the dock at Fort Fitzgerald, just 10km from Fort smith my home town. its a common tale around here that there are patches of contaminated earth around the community where radioactive material had been buried.
My father in law is one of the people who found one of the larger pieces of the satellite. He was a journalist in Yellowknife at the time and he convinced a pilot over a couple drinks at a bar to take him up and search for it. He wrote an article about it and that got him recognition from a larger paper in Vancouver who eventually hired him. Great story 🍻
@@michaelfodor6280 Except that Hahn didn't create a nuclear reactor at all! Aside from collecting significant quantities of some radionuclides, the best he could manage was to construct a crude neutron source (dangerous nonetheless). The radium-226 and americium-241 he accumulated were also a major hazard.
All of those cores, every one of them that was lofted up in to the graveyard orbit, will sooner or later come back to Earth. It may take thousands of years but they will return to us.
My father in law found one of the larger pieces. He was a journalist in Yellowknife and convinced a pilot at a bar to go up in his plane and search from the air.
I'm here for the soundtracks!! Seriously, though, wasn't there a couple 2-3 cases of Russian sats....I think I heard of this one, but maybe one fell later on.... in the ~80's??? Another Great vid!! Five on the scale..."not bad but not good"
PD dropping another nuclear disaster vid, like the USSR dropping their nuclear spy satellites on other countries, was something I knew I could count on. 👍😂
I wonder how many times I've been outside walking around in nature not realizing that pieces of exploded uranium products from a reactor core could have been scattered all around me.
-Hello, americans? -Yep -Commies here. If you guys detect something in the sky, it's not a soviet nuke. So please don't declare us war. -Ok. What is it, then? -A flying mini-Chernobyl.
Canada: "You owe us $6 million and you can never launch another one of these again." Soviet Union: "Here's $3 million and we are launching another one tomorrow." Canada: "Okay sorry to bother you."
While in the military, I was trained as Radmon, (radiation monitor), back then we were very well capable of completing the work on our own but as usual we did not have the up to date detection equipment necessary to do it before snow turned to water which would spread the radiation further. Thus the help from our neighbour, and yes a little info on the reactor design is helpful.
I don't know why but the concept of an alien accidentally coming across a nuclear reactor we threw into space is _hilarious_ to me. Not knowing the literal hell they had found, a real pandoras box.
before you get mad at having nuclear reactors in space remember that it’s extremely useful and cassini, voyager and all modern mars rovers use nuclear power
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Hey, just a small error i noticed, the aircraft you identified at around 4:55 are C-141 Starlifters, which were the Air Force's primary strategic airlifters at the time, not C-414s as identified in the vid. I really enjoy your content, looking forward to more. Thanks!
The two men on the dog sledding trip who found the debris... no radiation injury?
@@KarinaMilne Radiation injury is question of intensity, exposure time and distance. It is almost never instantaneous.
@@allangibson2408 that is not knowing how long they spent around it... and assuming they didn’t think it was a heater like another orphaned source we may have seen here
@Plainly Difficult How about the multi billion fully functional but never switched on 40y old nuclear powerplant Zwentendorf in Austria?
I think the scariest thing about this channel is that there has been enough of these type of events that you're still making fresh content.
oh sweet summer child.
most of human advancement is buit upon a throne of mistakes, sacrifices, blood, and bones.
Medicine and Engineering in particular have a truly gruesome history.
Quite - when someone says "nuclear accident" it's only the "big" ones that come to mind. But there have been oh-so-many more...
And I only fully appreciate that thanks to this channel.
Imagine all the crap thats still classified!
@@scout360pyroz I wonder what they will tell about my profession of programmer in 100 years. The day a Javascript bug crashed the entire financial world or something. Or the other day a bug in JS killed a billion persons. Because everything has computers in it, and that opens the space for bad programmers and bad software. And computers generally are terrible, they are only fast and not reliable at all.
@@monad_tcp its how projects in general tend to go.
I see it in software development, I see it in office worker projects, I see it in construction, I see it in the government.
We plan for shit, so our projects come out like shit.
The three C's of a construction clusterfuck (failures)
Communication
Coordination
Cooperation
Something always goes wrong along these lines and bungles any attempt by normally competent planners to actually plan properly.
I'm Canadian and I live for history. I have never heard of this.
It takes some Londoner to tell me something this important happened in my own backyard.
Thanks
Thank you
@@PlainlyDifficult You do great work. I've been subbed for a long time.
With all due respect, it's a very big backyard. You could drop the whole of the UK into the Northern Territories and it wouldn't be noticed until spring.
@@PaulLemars01 Nah, you'd hear from them the moment they ran out of tea.
@@ConstantlyDamaged lol
Fun fact- the US and French airborne radiation detection equipment wasn't very effective at finding debris but the technology developed by the Geological Survey of Canada was. Turns out that using equipment sensitive enough to explore for gold mineralization from an airplane is also good at finding Russian nuclear reactor debris.
it makes sense, gold is a rare metal particulate, just like lost debree of reactor, its pieces of uranium, that's also small bits of heavy metal.
Additional fun fact. Russia also supplied detection equipment and it was good.
Cool info! Thanks 😊
False fact! The instruments used to detect the fragments of the satellite were gamma spectrometers which do not detect gold as it is not radioactive.
@@karhukivi Only because there isn't any Au-195, Au-196, Au-198 or Au-199 in nature. And those are the only ones that decay within days instead of seconds like most of the other isotopes. (Outside of Au-197 of course, which is the only one to be found in nature and considered stable)
PROTIP: If you're in the NW Territory of Canada in Jan-May and you see something that melts nearby snow, you probably shouldn't go near it
By now, such strongly radioactive fission products would've decayed so there wouldn't be such telltale signs. Pieces would be less radiologically dangerous, but since laymen wouldn't suspect anything, it might cause longer exposure and more dose received.
The half life of U-235 is 700 Million years. If it is subcritical it’s radiation level and heat output would have barely changed.
@@allangibson2408 The better answer is “it’s complicated.” Most of the radiation wouldn’t have been coming from the U-235 (which is quite safe to handle as long as you aren’t stupid about it; wear gloves, a mask, don’t turn it into a powder), but the much shorter-lived isotopes formed by the reactor while it was running.
It's usually best to avoid the NW Territory of Canada.
on our land we had a rock that snow never stayed on on ,always melted off quickly despite snow surrounding was intact, there was uranium mining proposed in area.
Glad to see we have a gentle "5" on the scale today!
Lowest I’ve seen on the scale lol
@@MiTBender I think I saw a 1 once
not great, not terrible
You Haven't Seen It, Because It's not There!!!
It's not 5, It's 15000!
Nice and even; just how it should be
I covered Operation Morning Light as a news reporter for the local Edmonton television station. This is as good a summary as anyone could hope to write for a quick RUclips video, so well done. Although sold as a Canadian operation with US assistance, this was a deeply American operation. Lots of heavy American accents from the usual alphabet soup of US agencies. DoE, DoD, CIA, etc. Great job!
“Not great but also not terrible”
Buckle in boys. Last time someone said that we ended up with Chernobyl.
you lie there was no graphite you were mistaken take him to the infirmary he's clearly delusional.
0:37 "It's not 5, it's 15,000"
Arch Lich this is as high as the meter can measure
Lol
From the feedwater I presume.
I loved the smooth jazz drums playing while the search teams were deploying
😬
Same ;)
One day we want an episode on a toddler dropping his empty sippy cup, rated 0 on your disaster scale.
A funny April 1st joke would be to do one that seems like a horrible flood but it turns out to be spilt milk.
That's a SOLID 3! Ever been around a toddler?
@@theFLCLguy hun? don't do that bro :p
@@joseph-mariopelerin7028 Don't what??? Plainly Difficult clearly only reports on historical events, news-worthy disasters we may never have heard about... SO I'm VERY confident he could find a worthwhile "disaster" for April Fool's Day that actually happened and sounds pretty horrendous, but didn't really cause much of a problem... sprinkle in some of his classic style and humor, and we'd all laugh our asses off as we researched to find out if it was a serious thing or not... because "April Fool's" and all...
I personally was driving south-bound around Lexington's New Circle Road on my way to I-75, when a stolen tractor-trailer jack-knifed in the midst of pursuit on the over-pass... No serious injuries, but about 40,000 pounds of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" came over MY CAR as I went under that over-pass, barely dodging the fall-out of the incident... It was a collossal shit-show, and backed up traffic for HOURS, scared my wife at the time to death, because we only had the one cell and she was using it when I made the trip out... BUT other than a handful of fender-benders, only the truck and some of the overpass was even damaged...
I spent most of the time in a McD's parking lot to avoid the crossing traffic from emergency vehicles and wrecker-trucks (cleaning up) so I didn't waste gas sitting in traffic... BUT mostly, other than the initial adrenaline explosion (mostly my fountain of obscenities as I expected a lot worse) it was just as hilarious as it sounds. ;o)
You escaped Glad
Brilliant! A dull Saturday afternoon just got a LOT brighter from this disaster!
Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
Thank you
@@PlainlyDifficult No worries chap. You’re doing a sterling job on the production of these and deserve every like/share/comment/subscriber that you get!
You can't beat the warm glow from a report of a radioactive incident. :)
@@pulaski1 ha!
"Not great, not terrible" - I appreciated this reference
I heard this and immediately shuddered...
I heard it and I'm like that better have been intentional lol
Well it is only Canada 🇨🇦🤷♂️😂😂😂Only joking 😉
Where’s it from
Would you ever consider putting a radiation scale on your videos? It's confusing (at least for me) when going from Roentgen to Curies, after you kinda figured out Severts.
I second that - Sievert FTW!
From Brittanica: One curie (1 Ci) is equal to 3.7 × 10^10 radioactive decays per second, which is roughly the amount of decays that occur in 1 gram of radium per second and is 3.7 × 10^10 becquerels (Bq).
For discussion of R and Sv, see: www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-roentgen-and-sievert/
Canada: that will be $6,000,000 please.
Russia: 355,544,616.66 Rubles, keep the change
Apparently that was the glowing rate
And people worried about acid rain, that's nothing compared to Uranium Rain, or perhaps, "U-RAIN-ium"... :P
Buddum tsss
Or maybe “I-RAIN-U-RUN”
Good to see you finally covering this one, and in more detail than I've seen before, great job. When I was very little I remember seeing this on the news.
Thank you!
Thank you for covering this! I'm Canadian and I only learned about it in law school - Canada trying to get the USSR to clean up its mess in our Arctic was an important precedent in international law.
What a killer way to start my day. Thanks for all your work, man!
Awesome vid, as always! One note: at 4:57 those aircraft are C-141s. I think you called them 414s. Otherwise, spot on mate
That puzzled me for a second also. Used to see lots of 141s from MacDill.
im just hoping that the remaining satellites of this type were safely put into graveyard orbits before the USSR dissolved. cause if they didnt and they are now disused, its scary to think that a nuclear disaster could just fall from the sky one day
Probably going to happen to top 2021 off
@@PlainlyDifficult that would be on par with 2021 so far. (p.s love your videos, long time sub)
Even graveyard orbits aren't 100%, collisions with non-orbiting debris happen.
@@tncorgi92 aw brilliant, now iv got a new irrational fear to add the the list haha
This worries me somewhat about those folks trying to develop systems to get rid of "space junk"... ;o)
I'm not gonna lie, I thought this was a Dark Docs video when it was uploaded and was like meh, and then I looked at it again just now and saw it was from Plainly Difficult and was like OHOHOH wowowowow
A very well-researched episode. By pure chance I had just read the book "Operation Morning Light" by Leo Heaps which covers the cleanup operation in great detail. While reading the book I was wondering when "Plainly Difficult" will cover this event :D
i actually just read about this a while back, and was surprised neither my dad nor i had heard of it, especially because we’re both Canadian and he was alive at the time
They brought the debris to the Whiteshell Nuclear labs too {in pinawa Manitoba)
I am Canadian and I have never heard of this either
nothing to see here
Oh, thank goodness! Thanks for easing my mind Abe!
I remember this as a kid. it was on the news daily for about a week, but we didn't have live TV feeds or much detailed information. Mostly just CBC radio news people freaking out. Nobody was hurt, so clearly not gonna be a long lasting news story.
I just love watching your videos with my morning cup of coffee 😊 Thank you for letting me indulge in my special interest all the time lol
You are so welcome!
Another great video!👍♥️🤘
Thank you!
That's pretty cool, I live in yellowknife and I had no idea an old soviet nuclear satellite came down near here. It makes sense the recovery team was pretty quick, having random potentially deadly pieces of debris scattered around in hunting and trapping territory could cause some problems
I love that cat in your picture. They look so silly and cute with their big eyes! What a sweetie 😸
I was a 12 year old Canadian girl at that time, I vaguely remember hearing about it, of course we didn't have a 24/7 news cycle in those days. I believe we were still only getting two channels on our sets in those days, not much fighting over the non existent remote!
I was a 12 year old Canadian boy then. I remember it on the news for weeks. There was news enough then. More than 2 channels for my place, there was Global, TVO and French channels and US channels on cable, or aerial if you were close to the US
@@seanrodgers1839 In Canada back in the day, television was different depending on where you lived, as you mentioned in your comment.
I lived in north central Sask, we had the CBC for news, gaining a couple other channels including a CTV affiliate out of a city 150 kms away, a couple years later.
As with many issues in life, not everyone's experience is the seem, though they may live in the same country!
I was an adult back then and I remember this being reported in the press, even Time Magazine. I don't know how one missed it.
are you a child now!? that's quite the comic book reaction to radiation!
Great retort there
Benjamin Button ?
So is this 5 “not great, not terrible” like Chernobyl “not great, not terrible?”
ya ya... it's just like Chernobyl ...you got it!
It's because it only put out 3.6 rotgen
that would be a 3.6
Thank you. None of us would have gotten the joke if you hadn't explained the punchline.
Great video! One of my professors did a documentary with vice about this.
An old colleague of mine was a private in the CF at the time, and was sent up to help search for bits of this satellite; It's nice to finally find out something more about the event. Knowing that I collected bits of Canadian militaria he gave me the personal dosimeter he had to carry while he was there.
Great video PD! Thanks again for your presentation!
Canadian here. It's not "Great Slaves Lake", it's "Great Slave Lake". That's an important distinction because "slaves" makes it sound like the name has something to do with the slavery that was being done to black people by whites in mainly the Southern US. It is not that. The lake shares its name with the First Nations Dene indigenous poeple, who were called "Slavey" by their enemies the Cree. Although the Dene were called that because "Slavey or just Slave is a translation of the name given to Dene by the Cree .. who sometimes raided and enslaved their less aggressive northern neighbours".
That said, good video and thanks for covering this!
Another great video! You should check out the Tasman bridge disaster, no one outside of Tasmania really knows about it, and I think it would make a good video.
I have heard about this, nice to know the full story on the event.
thanks for the great content
Great video. Keep up the good work fella.
I love learning new things
An automatic like just for the Dyatlov reference. Watching this video, then back to the Six Nations!
Love your illustrations (and the Hazmat tee I bought really attracts attention). Maybe a series of tees with MAPS?!
Great video btw!
Thank you!!
This feels like the closest thing to an actual UFO recovery will ever see
Another excellent video and something a bit different, many thanks for the entertainment.
This is closer to home then the usual Plainly Difficult subject matter. Cheers!
Thank you for another fantastic video!
Loving the whimsical music mate!
Great video, thanks. Fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.
Love your videos. Just a couple corrections (no, not the plane name).
It's the Northwest Territories, not Northwestern Territories, and it's Great Slave Lake, not Great Slaves Lake. The lake is named after the Slavey people.
cool video. good work.
We have our factory 240km South of Chernobyl by the Dnieper River and although living further south at 10years old at the time still clearly remember the disaster being told to us at school.
Bad enough radiation contamination at ground level let alone a 4tonne nuclear reactor falling from the sky.
Greeting from Russia (Ukraine).. ❤️
Now there's radiation eating bacteria there and cancer killing antioxidants we could use for humans but it's an exclusion zone so nothing will ever be done with it. Also better hope that radiation soaked forest doesn't ever catch fire otherwise everyone within fifty kilometers of you is dead.
also shame on your neighbors that thought radiation poisoning was contagious and shoved a bunch of people back into the exclusion zone to rot and die
@@joshschneider9766
I agree with you, too much cover up and misinformation given by CCCP Socialist State. I now run our families arms repair buisness which has been here decades and many years now have rad measures all over the factory. Levels still vary usually to max safe level. Fishing in the Dnieper River is common occurance but still contaminated.
It was a very bad era under government which did not care much for the people.
Greeting to you.. ❤️
Ukraine 🇺🇦 is not Russia 🇷🇺 Never will be.
Lovely! I was just recently on a satellite history craze and couldn't find much other info about this incident 😩
Good thing the Adventurers didn't bring that piece back to warm up their camp.
Very interesting, thanks John 😊
USSR and not paying up is a more iconic duo than Britain and rain.
They paid halve, of course they won’t pay the full amount 😅
That logo is sweet!
This is quite a unique nuclear reactor incident
I live in the Yukon Territory, far west of this incident. Its pretty common folklore up here, a bit of a cautionary tale for those of us that spend time in the bush. If it seems manmade where man hasnt been, beware. In a slightly related note - Here in Yukon, we also had some 'ballon bombs' sent over by Japan in WW2. There were a few casualties, but mostly just a nuisance - however, occasionally folks find the occasional part of a balloon bomb in the bush.
Cool. Keep it up.
This was a good one. Thanks.
Awesome 👏 as always!
Wow. shows you how good countries are at hiding their blunders, half of the events I have never heard of. Reinforces my thinking that mankind should not be allowed to meddles with things he knows 'b' all about, they think they know but they don't. Very frightening. Well done John.
this was nifty! ever consider doing more space incident stuff? the compounded engineering and process failures that led to something like the Challenger or Columbia disasters for example sound very much in your wheelhouse
Weird. I don't remember hearing about this. Admittedly, I was 9 years old, but this was the kind of thing I always listened to.
It's only a 5 on the PD scale - so it could be only local news carried it. Kinda like that time NASA dropped a tank from Skylab on Western Australia and the council sent them a fine for littering.
why I was 9 yo, I made a radio to listen to nuclear explosions, the testing they were doing, it was so cool, its "sad" they do that anymore. what more can I do, I was born the day Chernobyl happened, always fascinated by nuclear stuff.
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It was national news headlines, on the news for weeks in Canada. At the height of the cold war and a radioactive Soviet satellite drops, that's news, for NATO countries at least.
You always listened to reports of nuclear reactors raining down from space? Is it common in Canada?
the slave lake has had a bad history with radioactive material, back during world war II the army would dump torn bags of uranium ore into the slave lake at the dock at Fort Fitzgerald, just 10km from Fort smith my home town. its a common tale around here that there are patches of contaminated earth around the community where radioactive material had been buried.
My father in law is one of the people who found one of the larger pieces of the satellite. He was a journalist in Yellowknife at the time and he convinced a pilot over a couple drinks at a bar to take him up and search for it. He wrote an article about it and that got him recognition from a larger paper in Vancouver who eventually hired him. Great story 🍻
One of my instructors was sent there for the phase one search. It was a basic slog for the whole unit in the arctic cold. They had full winter kit Lol
I always loved small nuclear reactors, if one fell in my backyard I would probably heat my home with it (then die of radiation poisoning)
😂😂ah the Lia method
how many of them felt off the sky nobody ever heard about because exactly that lol
It worked for Matt Damon!
Why wait for one to fall in your backyard? Take the DIY approach. ruclips.net/video/nCwWX_9grrE/видео.html (Excellent vid BTW.) :D
@@michaelfodor6280 Except that Hahn didn't create a nuclear reactor at all! Aside from collecting significant quantities of some radionuclides, the best he could manage was to construct a crude neutron source (dangerous nonetheless). The radium-226 and americium-241 he accumulated were also a major hazard.
4:57 I think you meant to say C-141's. aka the Lockheed Starlifter.
My bad thanks for the heads up
My brain must have seen the image and overrode what I heard, I thought he did say c-141, then I went back
C-141A.
Great stuff 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
A small blooper, you said "C-414" instead of "C-141" at 4:58
Great video though! I enjoy all of your content thoroughly.
All of those cores, every one of them that was lofted up in to the graveyard orbit, will sooner or later come back to Earth. It may take thousands of years but they will return to us.
I'm liking the music update!
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THAT'S MY BOY
My father in law found one of the larger pieces. He was a journalist in Yellowknife and convinced a pilot at a bar to go up in his plane and search from the air.
That time you drop the control rods but your whole reactor is weightless in freefall.
My phone started to glow after this video was dropped.... Interesting
Good start to morning
Oooh! A disaster channel. Just discovered and subscribed.
As a Canadian, I never knew about this one until today.
I'm here for the soundtracks!! Seriously, though, wasn't there a couple 2-3 cases of Russian sats....I think I heard of this one, but maybe one fell later on.... in the ~80's??? Another Great vid!! Five on the scale..."not bad but not good"
The one in the early 80s was Kosmos 1402, I remember being a bit scared of that one as it passed over the UK during its descent.
PD dropping another nuclear disaster vid, like the USSR dropping their nuclear spy satellites on other countries, was something I knew I could count on. 👍😂
Boom!
0:41 my man knows his audience *chef’s-kiss
It's kind of scary what might be up there just wait to come back down. Thanks John....
0:37 Dat Chernobyl reference
I wonder how many times I've been outside walking around in nature not realizing that pieces of exploded uranium products from a reactor core could have been scattered all around me.
I’ve never heard about this incident before, very interesting video! (I’m surprised they even got half of the funds paid back.)
What's better than a nuclear accident? A SPACE nuclear accident!!! Great video as always!
Now days from your thumbnail people would think a youtube reactor fell to earth 😂 nice video 👍
I remember this from when I was a kid. It was all over the news.
Nothing like relaxing with a level 5 nuclear accident on a sunny Saturday afternoon, with the added bonus of Soviet satellites 😁
Another good video
Great video. Just one minor correction: It's the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, not C-414. Thanks!
-Hello, americans?
-Yep
-Commies here. If you guys detect something in the sky, it's not a soviet nuke. So please don't declare us war.
-Ok. What is it, then?
-A flying mini-Chernobyl.
Canada: "You owe us $6 million and you can never launch another one of these again."
Soviet Union: "Here's $3 million and we are launching another one tomorrow."
Canada: "Okay sorry to bother you."
Loving the music
Thank you!
Great video!
I prefer your videos without background music., just my 2 cents.
While in the military, I was trained as Radmon, (radiation monitor), back then we were very well capable of completing the work on our own but as usual we did not have the up to date detection equipment necessary to do it before snow turned to water which would spread the radiation further. Thus the help from our neighbour, and yes a little info on the reactor design is helpful.
I don't know why but the concept of an alien accidentally coming across a nuclear reactor we threw into space is _hilarious_ to me.
Not knowing the literal hell they had found, a real pandoras box.
I see PD vid I click
You know, for such sobering topics, you have a very chirpy tone!
Thank you
before you get mad at having nuclear reactors in space remember that it’s extremely useful and cassini, voyager and all modern mars rovers use nuclear power