Nuclear Physicist Reacts to THE SIMPSONS Nuclear Power Plant Episodes
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- Nuclear Physicist Reacts to THE SIMPSONS Nuclear Power Plant Episodes
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In this video, I react to scenes in the Simpsons nuclear power plant episodes from the perspective of a nuclear physicist. I go through the scenes in the Simpsons episodes The Government Fines The Nuclear Power Plant and Nuclear Power plant Fire Drill. I look through what is accurate information about nuclear power plants and radioactivity, in the Simpsons nuclear episode and react to it.
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You seem pretty competent about your work. I guess nuclear reactors are as safe as the people dedicated to run them
I think this may reference Indian Point NY. Yes this is over exaggerated but sometimes it isn't. Them standing in the basement....if that was true and is radioactive water just like in the basement at Chernobyl, yes men standing in radioactive water without protection such as masks means these men inhale the gases being released. They wouldn't last too long.
The next episode from Tschernobyl^^
Hey Elina !
I have been following your videos and these are grt..the way you can explain is grt. so if u can make a crash course on nuclear physics or some technical chapter /details of nuclear physics then it would be great for learners like us.
Hope you will think about it .
Thanks...
Perhaps the German movie "Die Wolke" (based on Gudrun Pausewang's novel of the same name) may be interesting for you.
Its story is about a Chernobyl-like catastrophe in Bavaria.
There are free downloadable English subtitles available if you need them.
I worked at a US nuclear power plant for sixteen years.
Many of my coworkers and I thought the Simpsons presented a fairly accurate representation of a nuclear plant at the time.
Really?
Limerick Generating Station by chance?
Having visited a plant, I was impressed especially how well they captured to look and sounds of the experience even if they exaggerated things just a bit.
Curious nerd question from Finland: define "fairly accurate representation"? 😎
@@mikakettunen7939 IIRC it wasn't bubble gum but a basketball
The one where the inspectors come and fail Homer. Who also somehow manages to cause a meltdown without any radioactive material...which shocks the inspectors.
This. This. This.
@Boco Corwin lol
The bee bit my bottom and now my bottoms big
"I don't know Sir, this stopwatch only goes up to 15 minutes". One of my favourite Simpsons quotes 🤣
“A rested employee is a vigilant employee!” That was quick wit by Mr Burns lol
Very underrated line by Burns:
"Look Smithers, the money and the very stupid man are still here."
My question is did he walk off with the money in his pockets
ROFL! God I love that line.
@@shandrakor4686 No he don't, I was curious too, but he left with empty pockets.
I love how the animators still left the hole in the clipboard and papers after the acid fell through it. A lot animators would've skipped that to save time and money.
I noticed that, too. I like the attention to detail. 😊👍
As an animator, I salute you
Back when Matt Groening ran the show, he was quite strict with how the animation should be handled. He rejected the rubbery animation that came back from South Korea for the pilot in season one because it went against his desire to ground the show in reality.
@@sonicmastersword8080 Wait, Matt Groening quit?? when?
I lost it when Homer barricaded them inside of a "burning" 🔥 building. 😂
One of my all-time favorite topics on the show, humanity in a crisis... The Simpsons capture in stark reality some truth with a sprinkle of humor.
I love that this power plant appears to have only one exit.
It's still funny watching someone's first reaction to a fire drill being to grab the fire extinguisher... So he can beat people out of his way more effectively as he escapes.
I love the one scene where Burns tries to tempt the black Safety Inspector with a choice between a brief case full of money or a "Mystery" box and the Safety Inspector starts shouting "The box! The box!" all excited like he was on a Game Show.😂
The Simpsons have been around so long that I had to explain to my kids why Homer works in a nuclear power plant. Three mile island and Chernobyl were way bigger in the late 80’s early 90’s.
Man...that's wild to think about. It's just such a fixture for me that I don't even think about it
The Simpson's started in 87 as a skit, so Chernobyl was fresh in everyones mind
There are still power plants that have employees that work there today...
@@crazymusicchick the radiation in Chernobyl is actually safe as long as you’re not an idiot, even though the site will remain uninhabitable for many millennia yet. That being said, earlier this year when Russia invaded Ukraine, they entered the heart of Pripyat and almost immediately required a medical evac with severe radiation sickness.
I had to explain it to my mother. Although I just said "it started in the 80s." Cultural attitudes towards nuclear power is way more interesting than steampunk.
I appreciate this show so much more as a adult. Most of the jokes went over my head as a kid.
There are SO many good nuclear power plant scenes from the Simpsons!! Hope to see more of these reactions in the future ❤
Don't tell Frank "Grimey" Grimes that.
*Release the hounds!!!*
(But apparently Elina doesn't know what _Mad dog alarm_ is;)
Elina, you're such a lovely charismatic person! Even when it's a fun/comedic video like this, I always end up learning a lot thanks to you :D
Most of the girls I've ever met in the graduate physics programs have been nice folks.
Elina supremacy ❤omg
Something you might like to react to is the book "All About Radiation" by L Ron. Hubbard (Founder of Scientology). He got an F in Nuclear Physics yet despite this he decided to write a book about it claiming to be a Nuclear Physicist. He makes a lot of ridiculous claims such as radiation poisoning being curable with vitamins. You might find it a fun read lol.
but they might track you down if you buy one of their books
@@getbackinyourtaco what do you mean by "track you down"? You buy a book and they send it. Nothing more happens. I've bought loads of Hubbard's books in the past.
Iodine...one of the few things that actually work...he dismissed as nonsense and suggested vitamin C... 🤦🏼♂️
Radiation poisoning IS curable with vitamins. Take N a day for 0.0003 - 100 years and you will have done a great job. No guarantees. Get your affairs in order. Term life is a good thing for you. Say hi to Tom Cruise and John Travolta as you descend into hell. The smell you sense is Puerco Scientology, and while it likely doesn't taste good (most fervent religious bigots don't) it should allow you to warm your hands. Hell isn't very cold, but the Indians could still win it. Not this year.
@@FiregloIt is a Simpsons joke. Al Gore got alerted when Lisa bought copies of his books, when the joke was set up that Bart buying the alien book was getting broadcasted.
Say hot cocoa again, lol. 😂 this was a good one
the world's greatest nuclear physicist is back
Preach 🎉
As student in college studying Nuclear Engineering Technology your videos are really enjoying . Keep up the good work !
So idk if you're looking for video ideas, but I know when I took my radiation protection course in college I learned about background radiation and allowed dosage for the year. I found that interesting and a topic a lot of my friends and family didn't know much about.
No idea why this channel came up in my feed, but two videos in and enjoying it. When you said another video I was repeating to myself ‘fire drill’, I love that clip, weirdly realistic at least for an office
According to one episode, The SpringField Nuclear Plant is a “1952 Slow Fission Reactor”. While not a real design, it does tell us that it’s an extremely old 50s design(predating the first IRL reactor design in the US, Shippingport, by several years), which would certainly contribute to the poor safety. It was also officially opened in 1968, if that helps.
I absolutely SUBSCRIBED your channel before blink of my eye - I am in love with physics, especially hardcore physics like nuclear et cetera, and The Simpsons - custom tailored, I will be binging your content from start to this day for sure 🖤🤟
Great video also love the thumbnail being less shocky. Thank you
Having worked at a US nuclear power plant for over sixteen years, me and many of my coworkers thought the Simpsons presented the most accurate representation of a nuclear plant. Many of our safety training was entirely based on the safe practices of Homer and his teammates there in Springfield.
Define safe practices.
I’m glad to watch an expert that can laugh at these clips without feeling obligated to explain that it is inaccurate, like anybody could think it was real. You are beautiful when you laugh, BTW.
I love all of your videos so far especially your lab videos. I bet you have lots of fun with your friends.
I think the opening of "Marge vs the Monorail" has some pretty funny nuclear plant moments
I think I suggested a Threads reaction a few weeks back. That's...less funny than the Simpsons...
Thanks will look into them ☢️👩🏽🔬
"So look busy and keep your mouth shut!" 🤣
My new favorite RUclips Channel! Great work on your videos! Can you talk about Three Mile Islands 1979 incident?
There’s a scene where there’s an actual radiation leak in the plant and Homer and his coworkers can’t escape because the Emergency Exit is just painted on the wall! 😂
Juhu! New Simpsons-Content!
I adore that little nuclear clap at the beginning
Best thing ever ❤😂
OMG...ive seen these episodes so many times, but i just totally lost when homer locks the scape door.🤣🤣
Homer blocking the exit with the bench because he's the "winner" = CLASSIC SIMPSONS!
Just found your channel, your Simpson reaction videos are great.
Always fun to find a video from another Nuclear worker . (I'm a senior power plant operator at a Candu in Canada)
Blimp attack drills were very important in the 1910’s lol
So in your experience you’ve never seen someone use a plutonium rod on their desk as a paperweight? Or use gum to seal a crack in a cooling tower? 🤣
I assume it's because Elina is European!
(We use uranium as paper weight, gum thing is the samey;)
I suppose you could use natural Uranium as a paperweight instead, throw in some UV lights and you might even get a slight glow too....
@@leeowen4989 No, you couldn't safely use even depleted uranium;)
Buuuut, if we're getting serious, uranium glass under UV light looks exactly as depicted in the Simpsons: glowing green 💚
(And my *guess* is that was the inspiration!)
@@CieplinskiPawel I never said it would be safe :P
But the activity of uranium is so low, you would have to eat it in order for it to do any damage. And even then, depending on the ammount, you would die from heavy metal toxicity before radiation sickness.
On the other hand, a peice of plutonium the size of what is shown would burn through the table because of its own decay heat.
@@leeowen4989 And it's weight is perfect for a... weight. And paper does stop alpha radiation it's so _weak,_ and yes digesting it what ruSSians use to kill people, for example Alexander Litvinenko (polonium 210 of course not uranium, but alpha waves nevertheless).
I can see why a nuclear engineer would think this is funny, when I was a school bus driver I used to love their depiction of Otto.
Your so adorable 😍 Also love the insight you give you seem so chill and kind 😊
Why this woman isn't teaching nuclear physics, I have no idea.
Sometimes, the funniest bits are just a couple seconds long, and most people don't notice them. My all time favorite was Homer taking off his jacket and hanging it on a gauge in which the needle is all the way over into the red zone, and vibrating.
Ah the Simpson's. The best satire of our lives!
Having worked in non-destructive testing for many years and working with radiation daily, I can confidently say that if you walk anywhere on power plant grounds on a modern nuclear plant, as long as you stay out of what is called "the containment", your radiation gauge won't make a peep.
I love your videos!
Aaaaawwwww! You have a tea-rex too! I love mine in wind red, but yours is super adorable too
My favourite paper weight, is an old uranium rod I found laying around, that stuff is remarkably heavy for it's size
All this time I still wanna see how a blimp attack goes
I remember that kind of Geiger counter noise. But the sensor held close to a sample bottle of sludge. From a crude oil production. Really. A good thousand times back ground radiation. And before my time they did sandblasting vessel interiors for revision... without breathing protection.....
I have also seen a colleague ripping the fire extinguisher from the wall including the mount.
Don't underestimate The Simpsons. At least 5 of their gag writers graduated Harvard with math or physics degrees, and 2 have PhDs. If they look like idiots, it's deliberate. One of their jokes was a solution to Fermat's last theorem.
The whole idea of a nuclear power plant in The Simpsons seems to have its origins in the nuclear industry campaign of the 1950s to give nuclear power a better public image. They hired PR firms and spared no expense -- they produced really good art work. Their culmination was a Walt Disney movie, shown on Disney's heavily-watched TV program, "Our Friend the Atom" (1957) (which is on RUclips) with an accompanying children's book of the same title. To show that they could put the war behind them, they had the movie narrated by Heinz Haber, a captain in the Luftwaffe who flew over Poland and the Eastern Front, where he earned an Iron Cross 1st Class. During the war, Haber published studies on the effects of low pressure atmosphere on humans, back in the days before they had ethics committees. Haber came to the US under Operation Paper Clip, and became a consultant to Disney. Human experimentation aside, Haber was a great science communicator. Also consulting on "Our Friend the Atom" was Haber's fellow Operation Paperclip colleague Wernher von Braun.
Another Harvard mathematician/gag writer was Tom Lehrer, who wrote a song, "Wernher von Braun" (also on RUclips) with the famous lines, "Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down, that's not my department, says Wernher von Braun." Von Braun sued Lehrer for defamation, which shows that Nazi rocket scientists don't have a sense of humor.
(There is actually quite a literature on the nuclear industry's 1950s PR campaign. You might want to look at it and tell us what you think of it. Do you think they promised more than they could deliver?)
I'm glad to have your well educated opinion, and it's nice to see that we are in agreement!
One of my favorite episodes! 😂
That sound on a Geiger counter is what you expect after a Nuclear Meltdown like Chernobyl or Fukushima rather than a well maintained nuclear power plant and that person usually wears a hazmat suit as the real world is not the Simpsons.
The pool of liquid radioactive fluid might be an over-exaggeration of the boric acid. Either that or the plant processes its own plutonium chemically.
The one when homer causes the simulator truck to melt down is hilarious
I wonder what an emergency drill in case of a blimp attack on the Nuclear Power Plant would look like.
Love the tea shirt!
This had me laughing way to hard 😭
The best part is that I didn't saw the inspector returning some of the money Burns stuffed in his pockets ;)
Every nuclear physicist needs a plutonium paperweight for Christmas.
1:32 The primary coolant loop is what has always worried me about nuclear power plants, as they are filled with water which has become radioactive, heated to around 600° F and under a pressure of about 1500 psi. If a crack develops in the reactor vessel, heat exchanger, pipes, pumps and other plumbing, the water instantly expands around 1400 times in volume, resulting in a BLEVE, or this case, a radioactive BLEVE. This is why I believe molten sodium as primary coolant offers fission power some hope, if and until fusion power become practical.
can you make a video explaining a few nuclear physics equations like the binding energy one and others just roughly going through them and explaining where each equation is usually applied
"Gum used to seal crack in cooling tower", the absolute most trivial violation that can exist and by far the most innocuous thing in this shambles of a plant. You know the tiny 1cm hole in a half metre thick hunk of reinforced concrete in which there is nothing more than barely above lukewarm, entirely not radioactive water, at atmospheric pressure, yup this is the most worrying thing to see around here not lol. Suffice to say that hole is not compromising that structure in the slightest and there is precisely nothing dangerous anywhere near it to begin with in fact the ones at the nuclear plant I have seen don't even have a wall that low to the ground at all, there is like a 3 metre gap at the base where the entire rest of the tower is supported by an open steel frame, the fresh air has to get in at the bottom to replace the warm air rising out of it, this airflow is the whole point of the cooling tower after all it cools the condensate from the turbines by passively using the fact hot air go up cold air replaces it, repeat continuously. It's convective cooling at work.
randomly found you in my recommendations and i think it was a good find. it seems you're based in sweden? how do you feel about their energy/nuclear policies? i heard a podcast some time before the war with some expert who has been involved almost since the beginning and he was pretty worried about how the energy would be enough very soon in the future. can look it up more if it sounds interesting
At Surry Nuclear Power Station - no fire drill in the 4 years I was there as an electrician - I did go to fire school & was certified for VA & first Aid school to become a EMT -
That sounded weird saying I appreciate your video for the fact that your experienced with nuke facilities lol I just genuinely appreciate the video but it is very cool that this is why you're titling the video as you are!
Where did the idea that radiation glows green come from?
Excellent Job 😁
I am not far from the world's 1st nuclear reactor for peacetime purposes. Shippingport was created from a cancelled aircraft carrier in the 1950s. Now Beaver Valley nuclear station, it also is very near to one of the world's largest coal power plants. A nuclear age playground sits near both and some homes as well on the Ohio River. It is kept up and I have visited twice making videos each time. The nuclear plant has 2 cooling towers, the coal plant 3, both very near the playground, coal plant is across the street. It makes me laugh that they put this so near both plants. Visited both times in my electric car.
This must have been one of the very early episodes. That's a really cute shirt too 😊
The clap at the start of the video scared my dog awake.
Hahahaha I really love the explosion at the beginning and your facial expression so cute ❤️❤️
'I've seen more orderly behaviour in a Ritz Brothers film!" xDDDDD
I think the Simpsons nuclear plant scenes are based on the movie, "The China Syndrome", not any visit to any actual nuclear plant.
I once read an account of a sailor onboard a Nimitz class nuclear Aircraft carrier about radiation.
There are radiation detectors in the ship because... Its a nuclear ship, they want those on board, but they never read too high, except when sailing into the port of Naples. The readings would go down once in open water again.
Turns out, there's a coal power plant in Naples. The suspended particles in the air and waste water that the plant dumps into the sea contain radioactive isotopes of Carbon, at a way higher level than whatever can be found on a ship with nuclear reactors on board.
This anecdote serves to drive home the fact that you'll receive a higher dose or radiation living close to a coal power plant than a nuclear power plant.
yup its why we actually do need to move a way from coal, since they have the highest death per power produce against 1950/60s tech nuclear that has the lowest lol.
That was funny af
Don't want to be negative here so... maybe you should explain what a Geiger counter detects, maybe a vague "how it works". What are safe radiation levels on a nuclear power plant. Why you won't find pools of radioactive fluorescent green liquid (or barrels full of it) on a nuclear facility, or even why a plutonium bar wouldn't do good as a paper weight... you know, things a nuclear physicist could tell us about, that would be a lot of fun
Yes, I already left this exactly suggestion on one of your posts.
Blue Jay's two recent videos "Radiation in a nutshell" and "The worst radioactive ideas in nuclear history."
Actually, I believe back than it was just the first one.
Thank you! Will make sure to look into them ☢️👩🏽🔬
elina: "oh, there's my video!"
me: "woho, two elinas!"
I dont know if it's the first, but the original Doom game for the PC had pools of fluorescent greenish stuff that was radioactive and kill you if you stepped/fell into it. It's just a classic trope of "radioactive goo" at this point.
Almost spewed my drink when they turned on their Geiger counters.
Makes me feel old as I watched these episodes when I was young. But you don't appear to have seen any Sampsons before... classic Simpsons when it was awesome👌
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when these episodes were new too, lol
What is sad is that this should be an (acid) criticism of how things are done, but this really happens in many places. Not nuclear facilities, I hope...
I never noticed the wierd way that Mr Burns drinks coffee at 4:50
That Carl and Lenny fight always gets me.
Lol. Awesome reactions. You're cool lady. Well done.
Lol I freaking love your shirt 🤣
As for the fire drill, I have a motto I have always lived by: When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!
I think that guy walked out of the room with the money still in his coat.
If I remember correctly, the first video came from the episode where Burns runs for governor (of whatever unnamed state Springfield is in) in hopes of loosening up safety regulations. Aren't nuclear power plants primarily regulated by a federal agency?
I think Springfield is in Oregon
What is the exact moment that a neutron turns into an oldtron? Even though everyone calls me the Genius, I am totally stumped by that question.
You had me at "Nuclear Physicist REACTS." That wasn't exaggeration, by the way, that's business as usual in The Simpsons' universe.
I’d imagine the DOE would have marched him off in handcuffs before they got to Homer.
Hilarious. I loved watching these exact shows when I was just a kid. Idk how old you are but I think im a tiny but older. Can we get a reaction on the itchy and scratchy show clips lol. I appreciate your video with the fact that your experienced with Nuke Plants. Dud you used to watch The Simpsons as a kid or nah?
I LOVE BLINKY LOL
Using chewing gum to patch a cooling tower is certainly an engineering fiasco, risking some kind of collapse or steam precipitation or something, but in a typical nuclear plant, there's no appreciable radioactive material coming out of the cooling tower. Not only does the energy generation process typically separate the water from the radioactive material, but there's the added benefit that radioactive material tends to be way more dense than rising steam. Now, dust is another story. Radioactive dust is definitely a thing.
I'd be interested in finding what YOU think of the NEXTGEN nuclear plant designs...particularly the one by Myrvold!
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I want this series to just be you watching the Simpsons. Don't even compare it to real life, just have fun!
😆😆😆👏👏👏 great channel!
The cooling tower is non radioactive. Its just a passive concrete structure. Having cracks in it, as long as it lengthwise, is really not a problem