Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Plainly Difficult "A Brief History of the SL-1 Reactor Accident"
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Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Plainly Difficult "A Brief History of the SL-1 Reactor Accident"
Thanks so much for watching! If you want to see my reaction to the Chernobyl series, please check out: ruclips.net/p/PLqzw97Uv36Mn2VnjLKA4TKkYpDJObE1MT&si=cmWArFg8DXetlDdL
Hello, Tyler! Good video you got here. I love Plainly Difficult, they're an excellent channel.
I'm here to drop another suggestion for you, have you seen the TV series: "For All Mankind"?
There's a really cool scene at the start of season 2 where a significant CME from our sun impacts a lunar base - and there are some cool little quirks related to radiation that you could dive into. And it's overall just a really cool scene. Would love to see you react to it. It's the first episode of season 2. There's a few scenes on YT, but it would be much greater to see the actual episode!
Yes please
@plainlydifficult
Thank you for making very educational fun videos. You make learning about nuclear fuel and reactors fun.
@cxjaguar617 Nope! It's got a lot of scientifically backed stuff, but it's really an alternate history, shows what could have happened if cosmonauts had won the moon race instead of the U.S.
Yes, yes, yes! He's finally started on the Plainly Difficult videos. These are very well done. They are a pleasure to watch because of the delivery with his dry British humour. You really want to do his series about the Chernobyl accident as well. They're quite long (especially the last 2 out of the 3), but very well researched and done. I'm sure you'll appreciate them. TMI is another you may want to watch from him.
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A lot to expand on here even after all these years it’s still being proposed as a good idea
John is great and all but he has accuracy issues in some other videos. I'm looking forward to Tyler catching any issues in the nuclear videos.
Edit: He didn't disappoint... like "control rod going critical", prompt/critical, etc
@@MadScientist267
Yes, in this video there are a few oopsies I picked up on myself, but P.D. has become much more accurate in his newer videos. Hearing about "the control rod going critical" was a new one for me, too. Never knew these could do that^^. And the "critical" when someone means "prompt critical" is one of those that keep tripping people up as well.
I've enjoyed Plainly Difficult and I agree about his humour. Having some of the things covered by someone who can add more technical detail is like icing on the cake.
Plainly Difficult's nuclear videos and orphan sources ones are great.
He even has one that very few have covered, where the source got melted down and mixed with the steel, then sold as rebar.
How did we find out about it? A truck carrying the rebar took a wrong turn and used a nuclear facility as a turn around spot, making their radiation detectors go haywire when the truck drove through.
@cxjaguar617dont want to scare you too much but that has happened in the past
@cxjaguar617 Well I recommend watching it first as it will scare you... Yes it was used in building houses, and yes they had to demolish buildings to get to it.
Plainly Difficult's title is: "The Ciudad Juárez Cobalt-60 Radiation Incident 1984"
@@CMDRSweeperCobalt? Haha damn
I love PlainlyDifficult. One of the few channels that ive watched every video.
Same here.
0:43 Yes please Tyler! I would love to see you go through all of them actually. I find your reactions and opinions very informative and I would LOVE to get the reaction of someone who works in the field.
You picked the right one to start on. I love this channel. Hes thorough and pretty funny when appropriate.
I always look for the two guys in hazmat suits.
@@rcrawford42you're standing on my foot
Yeah giving so much control to just 1 control rod is just asking for problems
Plainly Difficult is one of my favourite channels about various kinds of industrial, transport, nuclear or construction accidents.
SL-1 is actually about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls in an area known now as the Idaho National Laboratory (known then as the National Reactor Testing Station). It was definitely not IN Idaho Falls. All of Idaho would probably be considered deserted by most urbanites (I grew up in Idaho Falls and have multiple family members that worked as engineers out at the site in the desert) but Idaho Falls itself is home to about 70,000 people. All the experimental stuff is done far away from them.
one thing to note about SL-1s design is that the control rod was designed to be operated using a crane in the roof of the building. the problem was that during maintenance, the control rod was disconnected from the crane hence the restart procedure required lifting the control rod 10cm with their own hands to reconnect the rod to the crane. add in the stickyness of the rods, the surprising thing is that it took that long before something happened.
Good choice to tackle the 'plainly difficult' series, Taylor! These are all very well done and full of facts that can be elaborated on, although there is a fair bit of overlap with topics you've already covered like orphaned sources. I'll be watching as you go!
Thank you for educating the public on nuclear stuff. Sadly I had heard the term prompt neutron a while ago and it was hard for me to get an answer to. As someone who likes to learn about most all things, nuclear is one of the more frustrating subjects due to the wide range of misconceptions and downright ignorance of people on the subject.
You’re quite welcome!
I'd absolutely love to see you react to more of this series, it's on par with Kyle Hill's Half Life Histories. I binge watched a lot of it a while back.
Kyle Hill has an incredible video on this one as well. I haven't seen this one so it'll be interesting to note any differences in delivery and stuff ;)
I would also react to Kyle Hill he goes a little bit more in depth of what happened and the people who were killed which has caused a lot of speculation
Yeah insisting that the murder-suicide thing is true is just cringeworthy to me at this point. I really think they would have settled that in a bar fight rather than by blowing themselves up.
The first one on his playlist, Windscale, gotta be worth a look - the first really major nuclear reactor accident.
Also, yeah, subs run on small modular reactors - that's Rolls-Royce's strategy with theirs, essentially a marine reactor with extra bells and whistles.
I was looking forward to seeing you react to Plainly Difficult. If I could make a few suggestions for ones that might be interesting: The sodium reactor experiment (nuclear material and alkaline metals, what could go wrong?), SNAPTRAP Reactor (blowing up reactors, for science!), The Kosmos 954 (a reactor falling out of the sky. Where's 007 when you need him?). Regardless, I look forward to the interesting insights that you provide on whatever you cover next.
Richard’s fate was like something out of a _Final Destination_ movie.
Glad to see you covering this guy’s content. He’s done a lot of videos on reactor accidents and orphan source (if I’m using the terminology correctly) incidents.
Thanks for covering this. For me, Plainly Difficult is the original and the best for radioactive ☢️ videos. I'm British so particularly enjoy the humour.
Throughout this video you keep mentioning that today a lot of these things would not be possible (manual movement of control rods, excessive control rod speed, a single fully extracted rod not being capable of causing criticality, etc.) All of those safety items can probably be directly attributed to the lessons learned in this accident.
That and common sense, which was seriously lacking in the design of this reactor. In aviation safety, they say that the safety regulations are written in blood.
I love plainly difficult. I start every day with watching a video of his but Kyle Hills video on SL-1 was incredible. Especially that part about finally finding the body of Richard Legg impaled to the ceiling.
For anyone wondering, prompt critical is when a source reacts upon itself. Delayed critical is when it's controlled with items like boron 10. So, think of it like this; Prompt is the same as nuclear bombs minus the explosive construction to keep the reaction contained till explosion. Delayed is what's used in reactors, etc.
Another topic I'd like to broach personally is the misunderstanding around half-life. Just because a material has reached its half-life it doesn't mean it's safe by any means. It just means literally half has be used. But if something is 10000x deadly, half is still 5000x deadly. I've seen too many people playing around with cobalt-60 from medical equipment because it's 5-10 years old as if its safe meanwhile their photos are full of artifacting.
(Worked in nuclear remediation and survey for a while. Was quite literally the most fun job I had)
Crazy that people who should know would play with a source that way.
I have been hoping you would react to something from Plainly Difficult.
While I do love John's videos, I do think that Kyle Hill's version was better - it told a lot more about the dynamics between the 3 operators, and what was happening to them. This was a disaster waiting to happen - the central conrol rod was only supposed to have been lifted a few inches to reconnect it to the drive mechanism, but these cruciform 'blades' tended to get stuck - regardless of whether it was an accident or deliberate that it was lifted too far, having only one rod causing the reactor to go 'prompt critical' was surely a massive design error!
well not everyone likes the childish approach that kyle have in his videos i think i would like it a bit more grounded but hey thats the beauty of the modern age we have videos for every taste and kyle does bring alot of younger ppl into this topic they would otherwise never touch that for sure a positive. for me the best is that chernobyl guy hes pretty new and totaly grounded and sticks to facts with a wide range of angles not only the western view. and he does not act "modern" ;)
Kyle's videos are super polished, and that's nice, but sometimes it's nice to just focus on the technical aspects. It's the same reason some prefer watching Mentour Pilot over Mayday: Air Disaster. Different folks, yada yada.
@@autdelux I really wouldn't call his coverage of the SL-1 accident "childish." Maybe you should watch it?
I really like Plainly Difficult. He does a great job of including humor without being disrespectful, and he brings attention to a lot of incidents that weren't well covered or forgotten and why they happened.
Plainly Difficult specializes in industrial disasters, and gives good historical background for context (for instance, a history of poor maintenance or problems with a design at other sites). He also breaks down the chain of dumb choices, mistakes, and low-grade malice that leads to the specific result.
Whether it's nuclear, oil-refining, or big civil engineering projects like bridges and dams, he's very good at showing how "accidents" don't just randomly happen, and why single-point-of-failure designs are just BAD.
His delivery is less dramatic than Kyles, but I wouldn't mistake it for lack of sympathy for the people affected by the incidents.
There is rarely just one cause. A description that I like is slices of swiss cheese, where each slice is a contributing factor, and when the holes in the slices of Swiss cheese lineup, the incident occurs.
I'd love to see you react to Plainly Difficult's West Lake Landfill documentary.
I really like your videos. Your information and commentary on nuclear power systems and nuclear energy in general are fascinating to me for some reason. I’m just a firefighter/medic and have no interaction with nuclear power systems but I love learning about this stuff. So thanks for sharing :)
Plainly Difficult is a great no fluff informative channel.
I've seen several of your videos, and feel you may not understand the reason for lead lined coffins. It is not for blocking radiation. It's for maintaining containment of contaminated remains.
Lead prevents moisture, plants, animals, and in some cases, people from getting into the coffin, while also preventing decomposition and leakage into immediately surrounding soil.
These graves are usually in regular grave yards. The surrounding soil may be disturbed for any number of reasons, including possible relocation of remains. Having a reliable container is an important precaution to prevent someone getting an unintended dose down the line.
Yessss! I've been waiting for you to react to Plainly Difficult! Please watch his Chernobyl series.
It's worth pointing out, about the "this kind of thing can happen; one person can be working for you and years later, you be working for them" bit, these men were Enlisted personnel in the _Military._
If you were passed up in favor of a peer for some reason or another, you are *_incredibly_* unlikely to play the Tortoise to their Hare and catch them up and surpass them. Generally it requires that _they_ perform what the Brits so charmingly refer to as a 'Career-Limiting Maneuver' later-on. (All of the American terms are vulgar.)
Also, it's been a hot [particle] minute since I looked at this incident, but I don't think *_any_* of these men _wanted_ to be nuclear reactor technicians; they were _ordered_ to do it. There's a reason Navy Nukes nowadays can _pretty much_ get away with ignoring virtually all military bearing, personal fitness and hygiene, etc; because anyone who _willingly_ does the work, for an Enlisted person's wages, is absolutely mission-critical and can get away with anything up to and including *_physically ejecting_* an _Admiral_ from a nuclear controlled area of the boat.
More Plainly Difficult videos please.
Nice! Been waiting for you to react to plainly difficult. He has DOZENS of great nuclear videos
thank you for making reaction videos on plainly difficult
For heaven's sake, the guy wasn't impaled by a 'shield plug'. It was the upper part of the control rod itself. The rod in the core had a long shaft running up through the head of the vessel, the shielding, and would normally be attached to the drive mechanism that raised/ lowered the rod.
With all the theories I'd say the accident was a combination of them. The operator having issues with a wife divorce at home plus the already known issue of control rods sticking meant he wasn't paying close attention to how far he was moving it plus likely used too much strength and just yanked it out expecting it to be stuck when it wasn't.
This story in particular has always fascinated me, as I did my last bit of training in the Navy's nuclear program at the INEL site outside of Idaho Falls. We drove past it every day in the winter of 1989, before RUclips videos and Wikipedia. All we had were stories from old staff members about how the Army managed to make a reactor go prompt critical BY HAND, killing three people in the process, and that's why only the Navy gets to play with nuclear reactors now.😁
Add me to the chorus of voices recommending Plainly Difficult's videos; he has covered some very interesting criticality events and orphan sources that I had never heard about (and I'm a bit of a nuclear history buff).
Quick comment regarding the handling of the bodies: Yes, the bodies were severely contaminated, but due to the extremely high and dense neutron flux exposure, they were also activated themselves. Between the contamination and activated portions of their bodies, the radiation given off was on the order of 100-400mRem/hr at 1ft even after removal of clothing and initial decontamination.
I would like to point out that the control rod in question was not hand-controlled. The reactor was being restarted and this required the control rod to be re-connected to its motor drive. This was the reason the rod had to be lifted slightly.
I recently spoke with an elderly nuclear engineer who was at the proving grounds when this happened. I asked him what actually happened at SL-1 and he immediately replied "murder/suicide".
You can watch video of the re-creation of the accident by investigators. They determined that an adult man could withdraw the rod by himself, but it required a great deal of effort. Accident seems less likely to me.
I feel kyle hills episode on this was a little better but this was still good to watch!
Love PD videos! Especially the comment bubbles on the characters. "Oh Bugger!" 😂
I’d definitely love to see more videos from this channel to see what you have to add!
looking forward to seeing you react to more plainly difficult videos
"All components limited to packages measuring 2.2x2.7x6m and no heavier than 9.1kg"
That's _got_ to be a mistake right, I think an empty wooden crate would weigh more than that...
Plainly Difficult is one of my favorite content creators, my family watched his weekly videos every weekend, I look forward to them. Please review more.
One of his videos might be an interesting reaction, about an event that I don't think you have done yet, the Windscale reactor fire. Just a thought. Love your channel and videos.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I think Kyle Hill also did a video on this accident, and goes more into the potential murder suicide.
I just had an interesting thought that with the naval reactors on various ships throughout our Fleet. As those ships reach their end-of-life when they are decommissioned, they should be deployed around the nation and have their reactors maintained and fueled as if they were in the active fleet and have them supplement the US power grid.
Before getting to the part of the video where the reasons for why the control rod was moved too far, my hunch was that it was stuck, the guy used a lot of force to move it and when it got free, it moved too far very fast.
Kind-of like trying to crack open a hazelnut with pliers without crushing the nut itself.
1:59 Not just ARPAnet, but computers in general. Many, if not most, of the earliest computers were built for a military purpose.
Bombe machines: Built to decipher Nazi Germany's Enigma code.
COLOSSUS: Built to decipher the Lorenz code that the German High Command used.
ENIAC: Built to calculate missile trajectories.
MANIAC: Built for the Manhattan Project.
Plainly difficult is great content. Definitely do more
PD has covered a few nuke screw ups from the drastic to the pernicious. You can actually approach the guy
I love all of plainly difficult’s nuclear videos, he’s one of the people who started my path of nuclear knowledge
I read about this accident, from a book full of atomic energy accidents, that was loaned to me from a friend. That was back in the 1970s, that I read that book.
I don't normally look at 'reaction' style content, but somebody had brought the original video up to me again, and I saw your video. I thought the following needed to be said:
I'm almost certain Plainly Difficult's script is just a summary of the SL-1 Wikipedia article. I've since fixed the error in the original, but he perpetuated the incorrect information that the National Reactor Testing Station, and thus the accident site itself, was *in* Idaho Falls. His next claim is that the area is "pretty isolated." This would make sense if he had mentioned the real location, but Idaho Falls had somewhere between 19,000 and 33,000 people. (There's a ten year gap in census data here, and this was a HUGE growth period for the city.) There's a some other little bits missing and or incorrect, but that one slapped me in the face when first watched the video.
I don't mean to be too negative, but this sort of thing is a pet peeve of mine. It's especially frustrating because you can see him using satellite imagery of the reactor burial site. I'm disappointed he didn't realize the mistake at this point, as I'm sure he would have seen Idaho Falls from the sky.
Seabees -- CB, Construction Battalion. They're the Navy's combat engineers.
plainly makes great videos thanks for feature him. a newer guy on the block is that chernobyl guy also awsome videos there maybe you can give him a chance as well some day.
Fancy that! I've been wondering how long it would take you to discover Plainly Difficult's channel.
So glad your covering some of his vids, some of the operational/safety mistakes at source sites are cool too, get to see how all the safetys work (and fail)! infact all his nuclear related ones , some of the lost source ones are ones i havent been able to find by other youtubers!
I have a question about the boron used to stop the reaction. So fission occurs when free neutrons interact with the uranium and when you lower the boron control rods then the boron absorbs the free neutrons, starving the reaction, right? So can the boron be satisfied to the point where it can no longer absorb neutrons? If so, what happens to them when they reach that point? And if not, why can't they be satisfied?
PS: If this question is dumb, I apologize but I know absolutely nothing about nuclear reactors and their functionings as I am still really new to your channel
In a way it is technically correct, you could burn the boron through tremendous effort in the same way you can burn Xenon, however boron being often either in liquid or solid form (well a doped material but still) it's density is much, much higher. There is therefore far more of it to sate. Though over time the boron concentration of the rod is going to lower which is why control rods have a fixed life span. Just like with fuel rods, their effectiveness is monitored and they are swapped out when no longer effective.
The amount of radiation needed to fully disable a rod however would imply you have a far more pressing problem in any case. Because the kind of energy released would have detonated the core nanoseconds into the excursion..
It’s crazy no matter the profession how fast stuff can go so wrong. I did have a video recommendation, the video is “Breazeale Nuclear Reactor start up” by Alex Landress. It isn’t a super exciting video but shows a close up to a reactor start up. Would be cool to get your input on it! Thanks for the videos Tyler!
Would love to see you do some of plainly difficults videos
On the "shopping list" - it specifies that each container can not weigh more than 9.1 kilograms lol.
Wow the 50s nuclear reactor designs were really wild. Manually manipulating a control rod during service combined with fuel arrangement which was bound to go prompt critical if one control rod was removed ... that is just nuts. I am not a nuclear engineer, but even I can see that's really bad idea. Today no nuclear reactor in operation have these problems :p
I read the official account of this. It included many different individual testimonies regarding the process.
By the end of it, it was pretty clear what happened. The intent was to use a lifting mechanism on the rod. They had disconnected the rod from the lifting mechanism and the rod had settled down past the point where the lift mechanism could be attached.
Easy right? Just grab the end of the thing and lift it up to the point where it could be attached to the lifting mechanism.
Well...
Whoopsie. It was stuck just enough that when he pulled on it.. it came too high up.
There are even telltales on the rod where they say they can even see how far he got it back down before it blasted him. About 3/4 of an inch.
So yeah... this was most likely accidental. They actually know a LOT more than what is in this video.
He has good accident videos. The stick figure animations make them even more interesting.
Yes do more of his videos. I love his sense of humor
I'd recommend the windscale fire by the same person, you could probably give some insiteful knowledge
Personally, I liked Kyle Hill's video better than plainly difficult's; but I don't really watch the latter's in the first place.
I live somewhat near by and am just finding out about this after living here for a few years. Thanks! 🧠
The only thing I might add, as a physicist and occasional RSO, is that I would readily enter a site if up-to 25 Rad/hr, in order to save life and limb; at least to survey the situation. best regards
I really wanna see you reacting to a video. It's basically a tour of a nuclear power plant down here in Brazil. I know the different language can be a problem but I really think it's worth watching it. Shows a LOT of stuff that for sure you know. The video is called "Entramos na usina nuclear de Angra" from "Manual do Mundo". Let me know if you need any help translating something. Really appreciate your content and your effort!
Quais áreas a usina de Angra energiza? Só curiosidade
@@greetingspuppet.198 Olha, não confia no que vou te dizer pois acho que não tenho a capacidade técnica pra te responder, não trabalho/sou próximo da área, mas até onde eu sei a rede brasileira é integrada então tenho a impressão que não dá pra apontar uma região específica. Sendo bem sincero, eu nem sei se a usina está em operação nesse exato momento. Posso pesquisar mais sobre e te responder com um pouco mais de certeza, pode ser? Se disse algo errado, sinta-se mais do que bem-vindo pra corrigir
@@greetingspuppet.198 O que eu havia dito antes está correto. No site da Eletronuclear eles explicam que o complexo de angra faz parte do sistema integrado nacional. O que acontece depois disso tá fora da minha alçada, tentar entender leilões de energia não foi uma experiência tranquila uns tempos atrás e não vai ser agora que vou tentar novamente, hahah. Espero ter ajudado
Wait you guys got a nuclear plant. Heck yeah. Actually brazil could really benefit from nuclear to lower the cost of producing alot of products and tk make pumping water and making more food from less farmland.b
@@Aztesticals We do! But it's a really touchy subject. The technology came from Germany and France and the agreement was a little shady... Take it with a grain of salt because I have only studied it to get into university so I mostly studied the political angle of it... Brazil has many sources of energy but we rely heavily on hydroelectricity. Going nuclear was far more political than practical. Not that it's bad, but we basically signed agreements "trading" technology to make propaganda on top of it, since until this day we basically didn't finish them. Political stunt made by the military in power. If we actually make it work it's gonna be wonderful... Building hydroelectric power plants DESTROYS a lot of things.
Another great channel to check out. Nuclear history videos is Scott Manley's Going Critical series.
Imagine being in a nuclear reactor explosion and you're killed from being impaled, of all things, and not radiation. 😭 What horrible (or actually rather fortunate) luck!
You should check out Kyle Hill's episode on the same incident; he has a somewhat different perspective, and focuses more on the human element.
22:14 i mean you could also have just put like a little nub on the side of the rod and like a lock on the reactor roof so that you physically couldn't move it more than 50 cm without first unlocking that little latch that would also have prevented this also you could make the control rods wedged or cone shaped so that the couldn't come that far out without out first removing the fuel assembly around them first there by making this impossable
i am at 23:00 of your video and don't know if this still comes but i saw a very detailed documentary about this accident and the reactor rods tended to wedge themself and strong manual force was required to move them.
The Plainly Difficult videos are my favorites
Yeah, this is the classic accident we all studied. It is the direct cause of the 'cold-stuck-rod' criteria. No reactor design today can go critical with even the most reactive control rod fully removed. Obviously, this reactor with only 5 rods did not meet that criteria.
i don't remember noticing it before, but "the Arctic" is illustrated by an outline of Antarctica.
I keep seeing you state this several time about hbos chernobyl about how it portrays radiation as like a “disease” but ive rewatched the show like 7 different times and i cant find any point in which thats implied
Kyle Hill also discusses the suicide theory, primarily based on the affair that one of the men had with one of the other men's wives. The wife had apparently asked for a divorce and there was allegedly a conversation between the man and his wife shortly before he started his shift that night. Seems far fetched, but people do crazy things.
I would suggest "this ecosystem will kill you if move"
By the octopus lady there is a part where she talks about a bacteria that resists radiation
Another good channel is the "USCSB" US Chemical Safety Bureau. They do for the chemical industry what the NTSB does for transportation (Investigate and provide suggestions but have no power to enforce, so they arent corrupted by power) The video "Iron in the fire" by them is as good as a starting point as any. Nothing nuclear, but plant safety/industrial process safety should be adjacent enough for you to have at least some parallels.
27:41 Imagine being fine enough with radiation to work in a nuclear power plant but dies from impalement instead.
SL1 was one of the most stupid nuclear accidents in history the MANUAL LIFING OF CONTROL RODS CHRNOBYL HAD BETTER SAFETY THAN THIS CRAP!!!!!!!
*whew* now that that’s out of my system great video Mr Folse recently you’ve been on a roll with some fantastic videos keep it up!
you should check out more of plainly difficult's content he has a full playlist of nuclear related incidents.
some suggestions would be:
his Chernobyl series
Therak-25 radiotherapy machine
poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
Lia radiological accident
Tammiku radiation event
Lucky Dragon no.5 radiation event
Ciudad Juarez cobalt-60 radiation incident
Could the breakdown of the control rod lead to friction? Then an overdraw because it being "stuck" and the person tried to lug it out.
safety regulations are far too often written in blood.
Oh yeah here you go, this Plainly Difficult one is pretty good. The Simi Valley disaster at the Santa Susana field laboratory.
A Brief History of: The Sodium Reactor Experiment Accident (short Documentary)
I'm not sure the correct phrasing should be - the reactor shut itself down quickly after the accident, as there was no reactor left haha. Hard to maintain criticality in the event of sudden self-disassembly.
And while I imagine the effect is minimal, you could become radioactive by inducing radioactivity in the sodium, potassium, and I think lithium? in your body.
1:01 i mean ... if you have to die ... thats a hell of a metal way to go lol
There are quite a few nuclear videos on Plainly Difficult's channel. They're all pretty interesting, imo, and his signature basic animations bring a nice, lighthearted element to some otherwise heavy topics. Who knows? Maybe he's covered some incidents you haven't heard of before.
The SL1 incident has so many twists an turns because many people think its the first Nuclear murder. There was a lot of animosity between the two guys too and it was pretty know they hated each other and had came to blows already.
imho, Plainly Difficult's videos are a bit too much on the disaster porn side of things, while Kyle Hill's videos are focused on science communication.
There is also "That Chernobyl Guy" who does attempt to add context for discussion but it seems to get lost on a lot of people in his comments section.
These nuclear disaster videos often attract viewers who come with a lot of preconceived notions that need to be challenged.
If you haven't reacted to it yet. I would love to see your opinion on the Oakridge. National laboratories molten salt reactor documentary video available here on RUclips.
There are plenty of other nuclear accident deaths in the US, like the Demon Core for instance. SL-1 is just the only nuclear reactor fatality.
Bizzare to think the first nuclear disaster with 3 casualties in the USA happened out of a SMALL reactor....like, the size of a SMR.
22:51 i mena you could also have done that back then but like with a worm drive and like a massive gear reduction lol
Did I hear right ? 93 % enrichment?That’s weapons grade isn’t it ?