Nuclear reactor startup (with sound)
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- A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity generation and in nuclear marine propulsion. Heat from nuclear fission is passed to a working fluid (water or gas), which in turn runs through steam turbines. These either drive a ship's propellers or turn electrical generators' shafts. Nuclear generated steam in principle can be used for industrial process heat or for district heating. Some reactors are used to produce isotopes for medical and industrial use, or for production of weapons-grade plutonium. As of early 2019, the lAEA reports there are 454 nuclear power reactors and 226 nuclear research reactors in operation around the world.
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#nuclearReactorstartup
One of the rare instances where something is actually as cool as it is in the movies
This feels straight out of star wars
@@vklmao8677 Powering up the death star shields...
В кино делают хуже
Because some good movies are made with realism in mind, few minor additions may be dramatisation and vfx
This is cooler than in the movies
Something to note is that the reactor here is the TRIGA reactor (short for Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) is only a research reactor. Actual commercial reactors are more confined and are much more powerful than the one shown here. This reactor does not make electricity at all.
Thankyou I came here to ask this. I imagine commercial ones don’t leak radiation out of the core in? Why do these ones? How much shielding would you need?
@@Freshbott2 These reactors don't give off as much radiation as the usual commercial reactor (for instance a PWR or BWR), so water is a sufficient radiation shield. As for the amount of radiation shielding in commercial reactors, there is a lot of shielding involving lead and other extremely dense materials. If you see a PWR/BWR refueling hall, you'll see that the reactor is smack dab in the middle where radiation will not leak as much. And to answer why they need these, a lot of times they are useful for research in general and learning more about how elements n' whatnot come together and mix.
Электричество производит генератор. Реактор производит тепло.
Electricity is produced by a generator. The reactor produces heat.
@@vvdvlas8397 You are correct on that, but the process is more complicated than that. Commercial reactors produces said heat, which then heats water (depending on what type of reactor, for instance a BWR has one loop while a PWR has 2 loops). This water turns into steam, the steam turns the turbines, which in turn spin the generator's magneto and sends the electricity from the magneto into the grid. A BWR does this directly, while a PWR heats up water, the water in loop 1 gets pressurized, the second loop is heated by the first loop which turns the second loop into steam, which turns the turbines, which also turn a generator magneto. The explanation I am giving is more of a pop science explanation, but the reactor operations is mostly the same. There are many other reactors that do this in other ways, but in the end, its simply a fancy (and safe) way of boiling water.
"Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water" - Albert Einstein
@@Freshbott2 These are just a few megawatts reactors for scientific and medical purposes, comercial ones can reach as high as 1600 megawatts, so to keep them relatively small they need to have way stronger radiation shielding.
This feels like it's straight out of a science fiction film! I truly love what humanity's brightest minds can accomplish by joining efforts.
Yeaaahh.. science is fucking awesome.
But the sad reality nuclear reactor just cooler version of steam engine
@@fraidebdl3292 i mean, harvesting any non-renewable energy is basically done with a steam engine
Yes its a water heater
It's the best solution to create electricity and above all the cheapest solution.
Cherenkov radiation is one of the most beautiful colors in the spectrum
Completely normal phenomenon!
It blue.
@@americandissident9062eerie soft blue
@@zgeorgedelydda8954 It blue
@@americandissident9062 eerie soft blue.
POV: you are a spider in a gaming pc
😂😂😂 lol
HAHAHAHAHA so true
can't wait to take it off my gaming pc so I can become Spider-Man
Fun fact: That blue glow, or Cherenkov radiation, happens when charged particles get shot out of the reaction and through the water keeping the reactor cool faster than the light around them.
Basically, light travels a bit slower through water, so the reaction shooting electrons off at light speed is obviously gonna leave a bit of a wave behind. That energy has to go somewhere, so the water particles get "excited" and emit photons.
What you're seeing is a sonic boom, except the light barrier is being broken.
Imagine something breaks the light barrier in a vacuum
Then the core arent blue, blue is the reflection of the light in the water 😂
photonic boom? phonic boom?
@@geezlouise420 Photonic. Phonic would probably be to do with phonons, which are particles used to describe vibrations in materials on the quantum scale. Phonons aren't actually real particles, but they are helpful mathematical objects that can still be used to explain real physics phenomena, so we keep using them anyway.
Terribly explained
To expound on my comment from before: Uranium produces 2.4 average neutrons per fission. The problem is that these neutrons have high energy, in the Mega electron volt range. In order to cause a cascade of another fission the neutrons need to slow down to about 0.4 electron volts to be absorbed by another uranium atom. To do this they have to bounce off other material in the reactor core many times, like hundreds or thousands of collisions to lose enough energy. If the material in the core is hot already - it doesn't lose as much energy per collision so it requires more collisions. This extra heat effectively reduces the reactivity of the reactor. Normally the water surrounding the core is used as the moderator, but there are limits to how much energy the water can absorb and dissipate over a short period of time. In these clips there is a prompt injection of reactivity which is not how reactors normally increase their power level, it is closer to how an atomic bomb works. What makes it able to do this is the special fuel used in TRIGA reactors. It is Uranium with a Zirconium Hydride lattice added in. During the prompt injection of reactivity (when the operator shoots out the center control rod) - the hydride heats up faster than the surrounding water can, making the fuel essentially un-reactive in the process. So as the core becomes super-supercritical - the heat itself causes the reactor to become un-reactive and the power level drops to sub-critical. I have pulsed a reactor like this many times - the original Mark I TRIGA in San Diego. We typically injected ~ 60 cents worth ( one cent is supercritical) of extra reactivity and I think the most we injected was just under $6 worth, which felt like an earthquake for a few seconds.
Fascinating! I have questions that may seem sarcastic or meme-y, but I can stop focusing on measuring the extra reactivity in monetary units.
Why do you measure in USD? Does the "value" of a cent (which your description appears to mean it causes the reactor to go supercritical) change in relation to the economic value of the USD - that is, do you have to account for inflation?
I have *several* more questions like this, but I'll leave it at this in case the terminology isn't actually a financial measurement.
@@Catman_CM My understanding of the nomenclature is that when they were first developing nuclear technology they needed to name all of the qualities of a reaction and it was a group effort so they couldn't name these qualities after an individual discoverer so they used whatever names made sense. They used dollars for reactivity, and for neutron cross section they used the unit 'Barnes' as in you couldn't hit the side of a barn. There is no monetary link to the unit names.
@@jamessnook8449 Thanks for the quick answer to a month-old comment!
Disappointing, though. It would have been funny if Soviet calculations were in Rubles, and they had to update it every day based on the current exchange rate.
That glow is magical - no wonder movies depict it like that all the time. I wish I could visit a research reactor myself at some point, I'd love to see that.
Magical? That's the grim reaper. Death itself.
@@tonysudano778 Only if you get too close. If you understand it, and can protect yourself against it, it's not dangerous. If you're scared of radiation, boy is this universe ever a shit place to live in - it's everywhere.
@@dadjake not like Chernobyl though....
I got to see the Breazeale research reactor startup at Penn State on a field trip in 1992. You stand just above the pool of water during starting. The water is about 20 feet deep to the core. It's pretty cool to witness. After it is running, bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen from broken up water molecules bubble up through the water. One of my classmates wore a Roentgen meter that measured millirems, which got checked at the end to make sure we didn't get a high exposure. There is also a tube that extends from the core to the side of the chamber, where samples can be exposed to radiation for materials and fluid testing. It also was used to charge radiation sources for the neutron howitzer we used in the lab to do particle counts.
The boron moderator rods had an electromagnetic coupling connected to the crane. In the even of a power failure, the electromagnet would drop the rods into the grid, and shut down the reaction. I think Penn State has tours of the reactor sometimes. It would be worth looking into.
@@ArnoldsDesignI toured that reactor as well during parents weekend it is definitely something to see.
For anyone wondering this reactor does not generate electricity and is used to test different isotopes for safety in other reactors, and the rippling is water they put it into water because it’s cooled and absorbs radioactive particles before they reach the surface while cooling the reactor, very basic and simple reactor unlike actual ones which require more cooling and heating.
0:10 that is such a beautiful sound
What you don't want to hear from your nuke plant operator: "Whoa!"
3.6 Roentgen, not great not terrible
"oops ...."
Oh, you meant turn the switch clockwise? Sorry.
"I can't stop it" Is probably the scariest one
"I guess we should leave now".
In the early seventies I assembled and welded the handling tool that raises and lowers the control rods. Myself and my fitter fabricated them on an amazing table about 100 ft long and flat within a few thousands of an inch. Once it was all assembled we hoisted it up vertically to test it it was a fun job and as a young machinist and welder I learned a lot.
How do you make a table that large that flat?!
@@spruceg00se
That I do not know. The shop's name was Nuclear Components, and they made experimental reactors for destructive testing.
The table you are asking about was on the shop floor. The truly amazing table was in the quality control room. Two foot thick solid granite accurate to 1/1oth of 1/000.
It was a shop with the reputation of doing projects that no one else could do. They did contract work for Westinghouse and DoD.
@@spruceg00se Maybe they milled it to be this flat
Im a navy seals sniper
@@spruceg00se Once you've experienced true level there's no going back
The commenter below is correct - these are TRIGA reactors. The flash comes from the prompt supercriticality produced from ejecting the center control rod out of the core pneumatically, which also makes the pop sound . The reactor would be taken just critical using the manual control rods and then the center rod would get shot out. As the temperature rose - the zirconium Hydride lattice in the fuel rods would poison the reaction by inhibiting the thermalization of the neutrons and the reactor would come back down to subcritical in less than a second. At the reactor where I worked, during some experiments, we would inject enough reactivity to make the building shake. Even with 20ft of water covering the core - a big pulse would set off the klaxon (it was set to trigger at 5 Rad)
That's wild
Ok, I'm giving up, I'm too stupid to understand wtf you wrote here.
That's incredibly irresponsible to flood radioactivity into the work place. It's also stupid to shake a building during tests - it weakens structures.
No wonder there are so many nuclear incidents - definitely not accidents if that's the attitude of 'scientists' operating reactors..
@@_Obey_don’t worry your not the only stupid one here
@_Obey_ the reactor's designed in a way that it can "go critical" very quickly. Critical means there's enough radiation that it creates a chain reaction, creating even more radiation. That's where the blue glow comes from. This chain reaction is "poisoned" by certain materials that slow down the chain reaction once they get hot enough, which prevents the reaction from exponentially increasing in power and causing a disaster.
That blue glow is so satisfying
Rise and shine, Mr Freeman!
Understanding the intricacies of nuclear reactor startup isn't just about appreciating complex terminology; it's about recognizing the remarkable blend of science, engineering, and meticulous control required to harness the immense power of nuclear energy safely and efficiently. Each term used in describing the process sheds light on the precision and expertise involved, from manipulating neutron flux to orchestrating the choreography of control rods. Explaining these concepts not only deepens our appreciation for the scientific endeavor but also underscores the critical importance of responsible stewardship in utilizing nuclear technology for the betterment of society.
Wisely done, Mr. Freeman. I will see you up ahead.
Forbidden Jacuzzi.
The water would be pretty safe to swim into as long as long as you don’t dive too deep. Water does an amazing job at shielding radiations.
@@IZn0g0uDatAllYou first x)
When you jump into this forbidden jacuzzi, you'd die from gunshot wound before you can even reach the unsafe part.
I was thinking of drinking it . Just to see how it taste .
Underrated comment💀
I got a 20 second ad for this video and it was worth every single second
"and all of a sudden I had a strong metallic taste in my mouth...."
Is that you Slotin?
The Los Alamos Accident, December 1958:
Acute effects of massive radiation doses on humans
The following text is taken verbatim from Shipman (1961). In summary, an industrial accident occurred in which approximately 3kg of plutonium dissolved in solvent was accidentally brought together in a critical configuration. This resulted in an "excursion" of ca. 1.5 x 10^17 fissions. The industrial worker received an acute, whole-body dose of neutrons and gamma radiation in excess of 10,000 rad or 100 Gy (10mSv = rem), where 5 Gy is considered a lethal dose.
Just to be clear this was not Slotin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident#Known_incidents
"It's the taste of death..."
Cool tech, they need to build more! Many more.
I detect sarcasm
@@Sl3ickNot sarcasm
@@firekiller2141then it's stupidity.
its much safer and more "green" than all others. you just have a low IQ. think of how many die from coal plants each day. i bet you would have no idea do ya?@@HeavyMetalGamingHD
@@HeavyMetalGamingHD only if you don't know wtf you're talking about and even less about nuclear plants.
Why i wanna swim in that tho
You would be fine, just don’t go to deep
Change your name to Tony Stark
You'll be fine too. That's the cool.part
someone did and they were fine.
It's actually quite safe. Water is an incredibly efficient moderator.
Hell yeah brother we need more commercial nuclear plants. Here's hoping for fusion, too!
Nukes need heavy taxpayer subsidies as the cost of decommissioning exceeds the value of the power generated over its useful life, who says corporations hate socialism?
When fusion becomes commercially viable, it will be a great moment for humanity. It has more potential for energy production, which is safer because in the case of an uncontrolled fusion, it doesn't cause a chain reaction and is much less troublesome than current nuclear power plants and their high energy waste. Fusion wastes remain active only for decades, not millenia.
@@santitabnavascues8673 couldn't agree more!
@@santitabnavascues8673I would imagine there's a lot less moving parts, right? Seems like a lot less to break. Some of these new designs make fission plants look like rube Goldberg machines lol
I hope they do one for the RBMK not sure if there is one but if there is ive gotta see it
Blue light is produced by the Cherenkov effect, quite impressive when you see it for the first time ...
It is a gorgeous shade of blue. And like a rainbow, it's even more so when you understand the physics that produces it.
I have seen a pool with the Cherenkov effect with my own eyes as well, it looks really alien and cool
I don't think that's what Slotin was thinking before he got himself killed
Cherenkov effect.
Quite beautiful :)
Completely normal phenomenon!
It blue.
Until it goes wrong.
Until you see it in the air
Can happen with minimal radiation
In 1980 I was at a 1256 MW reactor cooling pool in outage mode. As the nuclear fission slows, the glow of the water dims. It is a color you would never forget. I think they were waiting on a safer radioactive level, so a diver could enter. Nuclear fission is achieved slowly to control the fission, not like flipping a light switch. Chernobyl is a result of hurried reactions and hasty decisions. Most commercial reactors operate until their fuel is spent and they are placed in outage mode for fuel replacement. If a shutdown occurs, it takes a long time for the reacted fuel to stabilize. The startup would be slow and I don’t believe you would hear all the noise. Most tests are performed on computers or simulators to make sure we don’t have a Chernobyl.
It is said (not confirmed tho) that the tests were scheduled at that date in an attempt to "distract" the masses due to the recent acknowledgement that the USSR radar array was a complete waste of money (to be exact, Duga-3) as despite all the interference they caused in radio transmissions thru all Eastern Europe, they simple never worked from the very beginning, so they tried to go "Oi blin, look how our motherland nuclear energy go brrrr" but it ended up going kaboom. Perhaps the explosion was even part of the plan, I have no proof, neither do I have doubts
The reactors shown here are research reactors. If you actually search for Nuclear research reactors you can find many images and articles where reactors like this are shown. They are often build in a way that they produce short high intensity bursts but the reaction itself causes the reactor to shut down again, making it an inherently safe design which at the same time cannot reasonably be used for commercial energy production. Already the fact that you can directly look at the reactor itself is only possible because it is suspended below enough water to shield from the radiation emitted, but this is not the case with commercial reactors since those are focused on producing a large stable quantity of heat and while water is usually present in those reactors too it is mainly used for heat transfer and not for shielding.
@@MrPechNoeis the noise from the motors that move the control rods?
@@JinKee yes
Great Scott! 1.26 gigawatts?!
"There is nothing you can do to stop it, Mr. Bond".
Hauntingly beautiful
Notice how those rods that drop in as the light goes off?
Those are the "Control Rods". They are alternated to how much the reactor controllers want the reactor to create energy (full neutron-escape reflection) or if they want to "SCRAM" the reactor (complete neutron absorption).
No, they are not graphite-tipped.
Had to throw the RBMK in there 😂
Oh c'mon... graphite is cheap.
@@joetuktyyuktuk8635 in Soviet Union lives are cheap!
LOL
RBMK reactors actually had graphite tips being used as a moderator, the reactor itself was built to be moderated like that anyway, it also increased the efficiency of boron control rods. What happened in Chernobyl was because of the pressure to complete the test from the higher ups, even though the reactor was stalled and Xenon poisoning was apparent, Dyatlov still ordered the test to be carried out anyway. So, to raise the power of a stalled reactor Toptunov and Akimov literally pulled every single control rod all the way except for 6 of them, turning an already unstable, stalled reactor into a literal steam engine that is about to explode, the last straw was putting all those rods back in with SCRAM (AZ-5) button. So again, they literally asked for reactor to explode even though they already knew RBMK reactors were graphite moderated with the other half of the rod being made up of boron to further stabilize the reactor.
That blue color looks amazing!
what godzilla needs when he’s thirsty
I just can’t get over how fast the control rods change the reaction state. ❤
So that's the blue flash they saw from the demon core.
Imagine being directly exposed to that. Scary stuff.
@@angrydragon4574you can swim drink because a lot of bacteria is dead but not to far down
Probably not. Cherenkov radiation should only occur when something travels faster than light in that medium. It's highly unlikely that a particle was ejected fast enough to produce it, at least, as of my understanding.
This video has real footage but isn’t really accurate. It isn’t a nuclear reactor startup, they are performing what is called a “reactor pulse” on a research reactor which is only about a few metres long. A reactor pulse is when they slightly pull out all the control rods for a brief number of seconds before dropping them back in the core, and this lets the reaction happen briefly. Although it isn’t common to see something like this, it is still quite fun and cool looking through the observation glass while the reactor pulses. Hope this helped 😊
I have seen one of these up close at University. Quite a thing to behold.
Can't wait to see how cheap the safety standards are there
@@Canadianbacon-s9n Research reactors like that are specifically designed so that it's actually impossible to make it do anything dangerous. A critical excursion will change the conditions in the core in such a way that it pretty much immediately stops the reaction.
So because of the fact that every one of these reactors shown in the video is a TRIGA-type reactor, which is the only reactortype that can be run in pulse mode, you actually do not see the start-up of the reactor or the start of the chain reaction or whatever you might think is happening there, but what you see is the operator performing a pulse, where the pulse-rod is ejected by compressed air to reach prompt criticality in about 30 ms, after which the power of the reactor dies down immediately because of the negative temperature coefficient of the fuelmatrix. As noted before, this can only be done with a TRIGA-type reactor, because every other commercially available reactortype used for generating electrical power would turn into a fissionbomb if the operator performed a pulse reaching prompt criticality. In our institute for nuclear chemistry in Mainz, Germany we regularly have visitors from switzerland who need to operate our TRIGA reactor for a week in order to get their license for operating power generating reactors in their home country and you always notice how sweatty their hands and how pale their faces get, when the instructor tells them, that they have to run the reactor in pulse-mode. You would never ever even think about doing this in a reactor armed with several tons of fuel sitting in its core.
I see why Godzillas atomic breath is blue ☄️
Сколько раз смотрел. Всегда завораживает
im going to drink that water to see how good it is
actually you can it is safe to do so
Regular ahh dihydrogen monoxide
@@chaitanyamishra6479 its safe to swim in, not to drink from!
its pure water. in the chemical sense. that means nothing else than hydrogen and oxygen. oddly enough pure wayer actually can kill you if you drink to much of it as it will play around with your electrolytes...
You'll not likely die of a bacterial infection or pathogen of some type.
The heat ripples are so fast to form and intense, the light sonic boom through water is neat too
Hey, Cherenkov, you gotta see this!
This is both frightening and awe-inspiring at the same time.
It's interesting how you would assume that the rods would be slowly and carefully inserted, yet in reality they just jam 'em in.
slowly inserting the rods can cause heat distribution issues and has no actual benefit
@@chri-k yeah, I don't doubt that there's good reason for it.
Just feels like a nuclear reactor is something that should be handled with care, and therefore for things to go slow.
@@ano_nym care does not imply slow though.
@@chri-kit actually does. care, cautionness. quit being so pedantic
It's a TRIGA reactor. Their control rods work differently than in electric power generating reactors. Different requirements. (And, incidentally, there's no runaway with these reactors - the fuel's temperature coefficient is prompt negative.)
That Charenkov radiation is stunning!😮
It's like something out of a science fiction movie!
I don't know anything about it but it makes me realize what science can do.
I didn't know nuclear reactors can say "Whoa" 😂
It's so Beautiful Nuclear Power
Only once in my life did I see a nuclear reactor in action with the blue glow (Cerenkov effect). With canisters of Cobalt-60 and Cesium-137 bordering each side, each with their own blue / purple glow. This was at the Union Carbide (now part of DOW chemical) 5mw reactor in upstate NY in the early 80s as a VIP guest. The blue glow was mesmerizing and terrifying at the same time, as I greatly appreciated the many meters of water protecting me.
Yes. The world is full of different colors . Everyone has their own fears...
The glow! The wonderful glow!!
Behold, I have made the most complex method of heating water.
It also happens to be a way of producing a ton of energy for very little material.
@@angrydragon4574 anyone who's ever farmed anything in a video game let alone real life know's this is key.
everything gangsta until the graphite rods start bouncing
Truly, power derived from the most powerful reactions in the universe. Both awe inspireing and terrifying. Beautiful in a seductively dangerous way..........
They've figured out how to get power from nuclear fission, next step is nuclear fusion
and all that to be a hell of a way to boil water
@@theenderdestruction2362A more advanced version of this kind of reaction will keep the sun going for billions of years.
@@angrydragon4574the sun is already a giant nuclear reactor
@@geometricaluranium1 I know. It's a fusion reactor instead of a fission reactor.
Muchas gracias por compartir con todos nosotros
That's really cool.
Such a pretty light 😮
Forbidden hot tub.
well if you don't go near the core it aint
Nice video. 20k likes, Not great, not terrible.
"This is the invisible dance that powers entire cities without smoke or flame and, it is beautiful, when things are normal." -Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
Like aviation, nuclear engineering has dire consequences for inattention in design, imperfection in construction, and sloppiness in operation.
@@johnstuartsmith
Hence why Rickover was such an unlikeable toolbag.
He knew that this shit would kill you if you were anything less than perfect.
All of the human technology and dedications for boiling water is crazy
I feel like I just received a lethal dose of radiation by just watching this video.
Those are some gorgeous shades of blue
That water looks so refreshing
I saw someone compare Godzilla minus one’s atomic breath charge up to this. Just like Godzilla’s dorsal plates the control rods slam down onto the contraption beneath it. Pretty cool when you think about it
So a lot of people know what Cherenkov radiation is (aka the blue glow) but not a lot of people understand why it happens. This is a little weirder than people can conceptualize. It happens when particles move faster than light. How do particles move faster than light when nothing can move faster than light? Simple, if these particles are moving through a median that reduces the speed of light below the light constant. In this case, D2O or heavy water.
I can feel the power reading off those things from here😮
Godly power
I bring a uranium fever vibe to energetic transition debates most lobbies don't like
Worlds most expensive kettle
What a great jacuzzi.
Forbidden jacuzzi 😳
i wanna swim in it tho
interesting video...not great, not terrible but definitely interesting :)
crazy to think all of that is basically just for boiling water
Boiling water without burning or flame.
Fascinating technology.
And safe if done correctly.
Boiling water without burning or flame.
Fascinating technology.
And safe if done correctly.
Can’t wait to hear a fusion reactor start up 👍
I love how it makes the water fluoresce like that.
I gotta get me one of them...looks like fun...
The power of the universe.
It blue.
Awesome shots ! 👍
Not exactly what I was expecting. Rather than a quick on and off, I expected more of a gradual buildup as the control Roda were taken out.
control rodas are only used in Italian reactors
this is a research reactor, which only runs at high bursts for very short periods of times. actual commercial power plant reactors do have the gradual control rod movement and very slow startups.
That is not true. @@OttoMatieque
Beautiful lighting down there.
So, Half-Life 3 will offer pretty sufficient graphics and outrageous sound design.
I got to visit a reactor once, and it is exactly like this, glow and all. You also get a lower dose in the room than outside sooooooo . . .
That's one clean hot tub ..
Humans are the best water boilers. We will boil it all if we could.
We seem to be on our way. :/
Oceans included?
@@Smedley1947 of course
The entire evolution of the energy science can be summed up into finding more cool ways to boil water
w a t e r
Reminds me of the reactor at NC State. I got to see that reactor several times and it looks similar.
Четвертый Блок ЧАЭС передает вам привет!
I had seen many photos of Cherenkov radiation before I visited the University of Missouri Research Reactor. No photo really captures the remarkable effect.
My pops worked at a few of these. It really is science fiction turned reality, and we've been doing it for a while now. Except i think we are going backwards now, as a lot of these plants can no longer be maintained because of a failing education system.
Ummmmm…..
Then where is the United States Navy getting their bubbleheaded Nukes from?
Wish?
Wal-Mart?
Would love to hear what this guy turned out to be in life lol
@@kitchentrout5867 i mean it had only been 4 months when u made that comment and even now only 10
These are research reactors. They abuse them like this on purpose to study the effects. Reactors that are used for productive purposes aren't started up so harshly.
the fact this thing lives 1 minute away from causing immense painful deaths to millions will always resonate deep inside me.
Safer than others
it's tiny so probably only thousands to a million
Cool! In a micro scale it would make both energy and cost efficient boiler if you think about it.
That’s the only energy drink i didn’t try yet
Oh thank you, now I need to decontaminate my computer !
That did not make any since to me, but……the thought of what is going on Is awesome indeed.
Fingers crossed 😎💨💥😵💫
Damn that ghostly gust in the beginning is 👌
Ah Cherenkov radiation
Completely normal phenomenon!
That's the real solution for the clean energy, and few people are ready for this conversation...
0:09 it looks like a shockwave coming up.
Cool , now nuclear reactor meltdown (with sound) when?
The fuelmatrix used in the shown reactors is physically incapable of melting, as the hydrogen atoms in the zirconiumhydride matrix start to vibrate at higher temperatures to the point where they can no longer moderate the neutrons and even transfer some of their own vibrational energy to the thermal neutrons, which increases their velocity and thus lowers the probability of fission induced by these neutrons. By keeping that in mind, you can say that this type of reactor is inherently safe. You could put an ape in front of the controlpanel, doing nothing but pressing random buttons and nothing would happend.
How did they manage to get a cramra in there
They cramra’ed it in.
Prolly just chucked it in, you can swim in the water
It's a research reactor with water as the lid. Usually, it'd be sealed at the top, because that's an unnecessary waste of space, but this reactor isn't for producing any power, it's for testing. No radiation whatsoever at the top, water can absorb a ton.
I learned you can swim in the water