By popular demand, here is a Sam O’Nella Compilation Video! Note: I was quite wrong about some of the Thorium info. Uranium does eventually decay into Radon. So does Thorium, but in much lower quantities, and the radon isotope has a much shorter half-life (about a minute compared to about 4 days). Sam is absolutely right that one of the biggest advantages of mining Thorium is you simply don’t have to do it as much since it is more fuel dense. Also, mining Thorium and Uranium is far safer than mining coal, simply because you don’t have to do it nearly as much, as you need 20,000 kg of coal for 1 kg of uranium (and even more coal for 1 kg of thorium with plutonium)
Your videos are great, and you take fault when you’re mistaken. I accidentally found your channel when I woke up to it playing on auto play, and I binged most of them. You were also a great resource for my high school presentation on nuclear fission. Congrats on almost 100k!
Or a risk averted by someone already wearing protective gear or being cautious. My bet is safety glases. 10000% some Greg almost had his eye turned into a pin cushion if he wasnt wearing his glasses
The issue is that idea is untrue. Thorium acts the same way as uranium in an older reactor and neither keep going in modern ones. He's basically comparing one of the oldest outdated style of uranium reactor that isn't even legal to use anymore, to a brand new thorium reactor that follows the same safety procedures that modern uranium ones follow.
@@Loserstakethebait yeah im just trying to explain what he said not what i think, and you do make a good point, however i think the reason he explains it that way, is hes trying to sway antinuclear people by confirming their false beliefs and then showing them a shining new way that will fix everything, even though its the wrong way to do it
3:16 the radon come from the uranium. That's because uranium deposits have a naturally higher radon concentration through the uranium series decay chain.
6:17 My understanding (and _please_ correct me if I'm wrong,) is that if your reactor is being sustained by fast neutrons, what you're actually probably having is a nuclear meltdown, or at least a _really_ bad day.
Fast reactors were actually developed before the current light water reactors supplying power today! There are a bunch of “levers” you can pull on when making a reactor that influence its safety (size, fuel, moderator, cooling setup, etc.). One way I’ve seen is just reactor geometry and heat. You immerse your fast reactor core in a molten metal coolant (either lead or sodium) and if things start getting hot, the whole vessel expands. More neutrons leak out, and the whole thing stabilizes automatically. The pool of molten metal has a massive temperature range in which it’s stable, letting your core take much higher temperature swings than current reactors do. A big chunk of today’s reactors are under high pressure to operate (pressurized water reactors), and it can make small leaks problematic as they can disperse radioactive material. Liquid metal-cooled fast reactors operate at room pressure, making any sort of leak less problematic. While most fast reactors use uranium and technically generate more nuclear waste, the fast neutron environment acts like an atomic shredder and splits those atoms for power. In this way, you can actually get very little nuclear waste like thorium, as well as using current nuclear waste as fuel! There’s a new initiative for modern reactors called the Gen IV Initiative (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor?wprov=sfti1) and about half of those reactors use fast neutrons. I’d recommend scrolling through those if you wanna learn more about what sorts of reactors are possible, this stuff is cool!
Hey there Tyler! Love the videos, they're super entertaining and informative 😄 One note I'd recommend for compilation videos, mentioning at the start (or in the first few words of the title) that it's a compilation, will help prevent people from thinking they've seen a video before. Cheers, and keep on being awesome! ❤
Nice job on 100k soon, I found one of your videos by accident and immediately became fascinated with the idea of nuclear energy. thank you for starting a fascination
This channel is so funny to me becuase it bounces back between the low effort reaction commonplace on youtube to the well crafted factoids/commentary/etc about nuclear energy. I mean that in the best possible way btw. Its a kind of whiplash that satisfies the part of the brain that wants to see people react to stuff and the part that wants actual learning. Great channel
This is exactly the compilation I didnt know I needed. Thanks Tyler! Well, not exact to the measurements they would for safety inside a Nuclear Power facility, but exact enough to make chicks think i'm smart.
And decays into Polonium, which is one of the preffered method to assasinate people by the KGB, if they want anybody to know it was an assasination and who did it.
1:50:57 There's a similar 'unit size oopsie' incident in aviation, but with less destruction. The Gimli Glider. They loaded up on waaaaayyyy less fuel than they needed, got halfway through the trip, ran tf outta gas, and the captain had to use his own knowledge from back in his military days to locate a retired runway that hadn't been used since a particular war. It was a Boeing jet, too, so not a little mosquito in the air. Oh, and did I mention that retired runway was being used as a drag strip at the time? So this absolute behemoth of a gigantic metal bird was silently gliding through the sky toward an *occupied* runway with *not-airplanes* everywhere and *no way to warn anybody* because they had *basically no power* and *nobody at the runway had a radio* because *it hadn't been used as a runway in years.* The casualties from the incident? A couple metal barricade fences that were placed along the length of the runway and a few dings and scrapes on the plane itself. Yup. That's it. Nobody died. Wild, eh? Mentour Pilot goes over the details if you wanna know more. If you'd rather hear about other incidents, the Gottröra miracle is a personal favorite alongside Japan Airlines 46E and the Air Astana flight control incident (didn't have a flight number cuz the only passengers were employees who were involved in the incident).
I watched that video, it's very interesting. Remember that other plane that run out of fuel because the mechanic put the wrong fuel gauge on it, the gauge said 900 kilograms when it was actually empty
Wow I remember when you just had 1000 subs, I was one of them. And there we are, almost 100k. You done good Mr. Folse. Greetings from Germany c: PS. You are the only channel I have whitelisted on my adblock. You deserve it.
RE: Thorium segment... I'm down for an "all of the above" approach. TBH, the closest I ever came to Nuclear Engineering was when a Navy Recruiter wanted me to sign up and opt for Nuke School (in retrospect, it wouldn't have worked out - I'm not that good at higher math [rueful sigh]...) So, I don't want to go beyond my domain of expertise But, why not do both? Assuming design and prototyping have sufficiently progressed, why not both replace the larger fossil fuel plants with uranium reactors and deploy thorium SMRs as needed to fill in the gaps for the smaller plants. Hell, I'd even be in favor of restarting uranium fuel reprocessing, and, given appropriate management, I'm even open to breeder reactors as we transition away from burning dinosaurs. A sufficiently affirmative reactor program might even overcome the power grid issues that preclude transitioning to EVs for at least local transportation. (Why, yes, I am fond of the old-school science fiction meme of having my very own personal SMR in my garage - why do you ask?) Not likely to happen, I'll admit - too many damned fools out there who go spastic at the first mention of nuclear _anything_, let alone construction of any sort of nuclear power plant. (And let's not forget the sociopaths in politics and entertainment who have built the concept of nuclear power into a boogeyman to scare damned fools and children into giving them votes and/or money, may they burn in Hell for all eternity...) Still, a fellow can dream...
22:30 i work in aerospace and half of our customers are overseas, so we end up constantly having to convert between metric and imperial because their standard make them use millimeters and ours make us use inches on every document
BTW 1:22:30 This is actually a misconception of a misconception. The people buried next to the piramid were the few artisans/managers. EVERYONE else were just slaves, all the manual labor was from disrespexted forced labor. the design and managing of the slaves was paid work.
I recognize some of these stories from Thoughty2's channel. Honestly not sure who did it first. Thoughty's aren't quite as funny but have higher production quality IMO.
For that last video, my dad was a butcher for most of his adult life in a small town. I saw the process a few times, but at the packing plant he worked at, they didn't do the high voltage part. Otherwise, the process is pretty much the same. In his plant, the "stunner", which was just a cylinder, used a .22 long rifle shell placed into the back of the bull's skull.
Nuclear should 100% be the main power generation. People get worried about war stuff, but if both sides have nuclear reactors, both sides would lose. And ofc the uninformed are against it. Though "going nuclear" I think more have to do with the extreme energy being harnessed and the uses history have shown. We're talking about nuclear as a whole, which is an extreme energysource we've learned to control. 40:00~ for context
Below Species is, Breed for animals and variety for plants. Like:[G, S, B]Felius, Domesticus, Siamese(Siamese House Cat) For variety take for instance apples, after the G & S some of the varieties are, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Rose, Crab, Rome, & Law.
@7:30 I feel like ability to shut down is the highest priority thing to consider. Chernobyl and Fukashima had control rods and "active" shutdown methods too. Starting with a base element that passively shuts itself down and needs input power/reaction to run is intrinsicly much safer. Doesn't matter if things are "safe 99% of the time" when the worst case scenario is so devastating. When failure is that horrible, you should care about improper shutdown, even terrorist action like Russia military taking over the Zaporizhzhia power plant. Just start with reactions that stop intrinsicly. Use Thorium.
+1 on hutchingson effect. he makes it absolutely clear he is insane. but if it works and harms nothing, why not?! he may have single handedly saved the gulf from being toxic soup. and doesnt ask for credit at all.
I think what would make the most sense for Nuclear power is because Thorium is so much more abundant - use Thorium Plants with Uranium as the Helper/Starter material. Makes perfect sense 🤷♂️
Nuclear science and agriculture have intersected with 'Atomic Gardens', where plants were grown around radioactive sources to induce mutations, and plants with useful mutations would then be grown on farms. Red grapefruit originated from such a garden. This was a sort of precursor to genetic engineering.
I'm glad you brought that subject up. I love the study of atomic gardens. I have an idea for it. If Jimson weed is grown in an atomic garden, would it synthesize cocaine? Jimson weed makes atropine, and atropine is very close to cocaine. A few random enzyme mutations could make an enzyme that would change atropine into cocaine
That is not what would happen if a guy sneezed into a nitroglycerin soaked tissue. What would happen is he would suddenly get the worst headache of his life, then he would pass out
@1:32:34 Actually when the atomic age came about they did use focussed radiation on plants to induce genetic differences in DNA to get a faster process vs naturally occuring random mutations from breeding. and then artificial selection from there. Kind of an in between GMO stage of human selecting natural best crops, and humans knowing which gene's to modify to produce better crops.
Not sure if it counts as a flood as it was a gas blanket but had a cryofluid delivery driver spill a notable quantity of fluid and then linger around wondering what to do until they were almost overcome by the vapours.
49:00 it was not mentioned here that the molasses was at a warmed temperature during pumping from the ship it came in on. That must have really sucked to get stuck in it and maybe burned too.
I learned about the "Shake" from the Tom Clancyt novel "The Sum of All Fears". (Public Service Announcement: Ignore the existence of the movie entirely, read the book... and then when you get to the chapter titled "Three Shakes" stop, go eat, drink water, use the restroom, do some stretching exercises and get comfortable... because you're going to finish the novel in one sitting once you begin that chapter).
1:23:00 Not completely sure, might need to double fact check this, but near Mexico city there is a nuclear reactor that if my blurry memory is somewhat right. runs on pretty much the same design and that had a near meltdown around the 80s.
The Thorium LFTRs can use nuclear waste from older reactors as its starter, reducing its radiation level to levels that need 30 years of containment rather than over 100k years. The building cost is cheaper because steam containment isn't necessary.
I'd like to see you react to some nuclear sketches from Robot Chicken. Especially their Brady Bunch Theme Song and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. They've got a whole bunch of nuclear related hijinks.
You can beat the hell out of nitroglycerin with wood on wood and it usually doesn't go off, sometimes a bullet won't set it off......do they really think a sneeze would do the job??
Re: Richter Scale: The Richter scale is exponential; 1 more on the Richter scale means the seismic event released 10 the energy. A Richter 7 earthquake would release 10 times the energy of a Richter 6 earthquake. A Richter 8 earthquake would release 100 times the energy of a Richter 6 earthquake. Richter 3 earquakes happen all the time in certain regions, but are barely noticeable by human standards.
Thanks for explaining why the U.S. doesn't recycle the nuclear waste; when I found out that could be done in highschool it seemed like and obvious solution to getting rid of it all.
Between uranium and thorium I am on Team Both, when we have demand for electricity I want the cleanest and most efficient methods to be used. Uranium and Thorium are 2 of them among a nice array of clean energy methods that work really well, another personal favourite being geothermal. I look forward to a day without coal and oil being needed to generate power.
Nice! @ 21:03 I agree 100%... I hope your safety manager agrees to let that be played.... I suppose you'd have to have an agreement with Sam O'Nella, to use that with permission, but it'd be worth it... Very good explanation.... Maybe it's hard to say, if you already know how to read those.... but I feel like his "UR Good" to "dam son" sliding scale.... Is very good. If you had no idea what you were looking at, and you could remember the sliding scale??? That would help you a lot.... I am not in in nuclear, but if you hang around in industry, maybe a paint & coatings factory, or an aerosol mfg company, you'll see those labels everywhere.... Everything is flammable of course, so you see red 3 on a lotta stuff.... health though, that could be from 1 to 3... And you don't necessarily need to know "everything" to see that Acetone is health 1, and something like MEK is health 2... Good to know that "hey, this is worse...." The mixtape thing cracked me up.... 050... So basically, it's so flammable, it will spontaneously combust outside on a winter day, But health is zero, it won't hurt you in any way.... Heh heh heh!!!!
In adition to the buffalo sentence, there's a chinese poem, only made of the word 'shi' , pronounced with different tones, 92 or 94 times, since there's more than one version.
I learned about nuclear reactors in school some time in the very late 70's or the first years of the 80's. I remember we were taught about the different types, control methods, panic stopping a reactor and handling of radioactive materials and storage of used fuel. I can't remember we were taught about liquid salt reactors, but most of the others I can remember. Now one reactor we were told about but at the time I don't think they were common or even really used yet was breeder reactors. Now as I remember the French were very interested in these as they would make enriching Uranium a lot cheaper, I think. As I said this was more than 40 years back so my memory is a bit unreliable. Now it's been a fair few years since I heard anything about these. Were they not reliable, effective, or dangerous, or was there any other reason we don't hear about them any more? I think they could be used to produce weapon grade plutonium, which is seen as a dangerous thing, so I could see that as a reason not to use them.
U-235 may be fissile and Th-232 fertile but like you breed Th-232 into U-233, you can breed U-238 into Pu-239, so it's not like you get more fuel from one ore over the other. With uranium you get a fissile material and a fertile material, with thorium it is a fertile material.
Couldn't you also make a bomb from U-233 bred from thorium too? The fissile material in most bombs is Pu-239, it's far easier to breed enough plutonium for a bomb than to enrich enough uranium, so the anti-nuclear proliferation argument falls flat. Just say both fuels have their place.
Hitler didn't build the Autobahn, that was Brüning. Also, technically, wind and solar could be able to handle the base load - if we invested heavily in storage capacity. We now this because a german energy company actually tried it.
Those historical mass psychogenic illnesses make me think that maybe their water or food sources were contaminated somehow. Imagine their wells had some kind of bacteria or fungus, or maybe the wheat used to make their bread and beer had ergot. EDIT: The video actually mentioned it! lol
By popular demand, here is a Sam O’Nella Compilation Video!
Note: I was quite wrong about some of the Thorium info.
Uranium does eventually decay into Radon. So does Thorium, but in much lower quantities, and the radon isotope has a much shorter half-life (about a minute compared to about 4 days).
Sam is absolutely right that one of the biggest advantages of mining Thorium is you simply don’t have to do it as much since it is more fuel dense.
Also, mining Thorium and Uranium is far safer than mining coal, simply because you don’t have to do it nearly as much, as you need 20,000 kg of coal for 1 kg of uranium (and even more coal for 1 kg of thorium with plutonium)
that's what i love about you you admit if you are mistaken. Also congrats on the kid how is he/she?
Your videos are great, and you take fault when you’re mistaken. I accidentally found your channel when I woke up to it playing on auto play, and I binged most of them. You were also a great resource for my high school presentation on nuclear fission. Congrats on almost 100k!
You should play Nucleares. If you get it set up perfectly, you can just sit there doing nothing for a little bit, until something happens.
yes i think thorium is the future beacuse millions of tones of it is already mined and treated as a waste product in rare earth mining
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's where the Radon comes from in the first place lol
Watching you be entertained by Sam O'Nella who I've been watching for almost as long as he's been on RUclips was delightful.
its funny to me how much of the modern era can be chalked up to "then we started putting lead in gasoline"
And the nasty KSI/Logan Paul stuff
“I like my cheese moldy bruh”
@@TheKingMinos I like my gas leaded bruh
@@sylvystf you mean your prime?
Not at all true
My eighth grade chemistry teacher told us that safety regulations are written in blood. They exist because of deaths or grievous bodily harm.
With the occasional near-miss that is taken sufficiently seriously, though this doesn't happen as often as it probably should.
Or a risk averted by someone already wearing protective gear or being cautious. My bet is safety glases. 10000% some Greg almost had his eye turned into a pin cushion if he wasnt wearing his glasses
They exist because of greed
@@filipbitala2624yes, the greed of those unconvenienced by them: employers
@@filipbitala2624bait used to be believable…
I may be wrong but i think what he was getting at in the thorium video is that uranium will keep fissiling if a meltdown happens but thorium wont
a ton of people made comments about this on the original video
That.. face.
In old gen reactors yes
The issue is that idea is untrue. Thorium acts the same way as uranium in an older reactor and neither keep going in modern ones. He's basically comparing one of the oldest outdated style of uranium reactor that isn't even legal to use anymore, to a brand new thorium reactor that follows the same safety procedures that modern uranium ones follow.
@@Loserstakethebait yeah im just trying to explain what he said not what i think, and you do make a good point, however i think the reason he explains it that way, is hes trying to sway antinuclear people by confirming their false beliefs and then showing them a shining new way that will fix everything, even though its the wrong way to do it
3:16 the radon come from the uranium. That's because uranium deposits have a naturally higher radon concentration through the uranium series decay chain.
6:17 My understanding (and _please_ correct me if I'm wrong,) is that if your reactor is being sustained by fast neutrons, what you're actually probably having is a nuclear meltdown, or at least a _really_ bad day.
Fast reactors were actually developed before the current light water reactors supplying power today! There are a bunch of “levers” you can pull on when making a reactor that influence its safety (size, fuel, moderator, cooling setup, etc.). One way I’ve seen is just reactor geometry and heat. You immerse your fast reactor core in a molten metal coolant (either lead or sodium) and if things start getting hot, the whole vessel expands. More neutrons leak out, and the whole thing stabilizes automatically. The pool of molten metal has a massive temperature range in which it’s stable, letting your core take much higher temperature swings than current reactors do. A big chunk of today’s reactors are under high pressure to operate (pressurized water reactors), and it can make small leaks problematic as they can disperse radioactive material. Liquid metal-cooled fast reactors operate at room pressure, making any sort of leak less problematic. While most fast reactors use uranium and technically generate more nuclear waste, the fast neutron environment acts like an atomic shredder and splits those atoms for power. In this way, you can actually get very little nuclear waste like thorium, as well as using current nuclear waste as fuel!
There’s a new initiative for modern reactors called the Gen IV Initiative (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor?wprov=sfti1) and about half of those reactors use fast neutrons. I’d recommend scrolling through those if you wanna learn more about what sorts of reactors are possible, this stuff is cool!
T. Folse be like, "Hey so you know how this guy eats a lot of food? A nuclear reacto-"
I like this. I liked.
Hey there Tyler! Love the videos, they're super entertaining and informative 😄
One note I'd recommend for compilation videos, mentioning at the start (or in the first few words of the title) that it's a compilation, will help prevent people from thinking they've seen a video before.
Cheers, and keep on being awesome! ❤
Nice job on 100k soon, I found one of your videos by accident and immediately became fascinated with the idea of nuclear energy. thank you for starting a fascination
HR might have an issue with that NFPA Presentation 😂
Yeah... definitely didn't age well at all.
Congrats on the 100K!
For me it's your personality, knowledge, and of course your dry sense of humor.
Keep it up!
This channel is so funny to me becuase it bounces back between the low effort reaction commonplace on youtube to the well crafted factoids/commentary/etc about nuclear energy. I mean that in the best possible way btw. Its a kind of whiplash that satisfies the part of the brain that wants to see people react to stuff and the part that wants actual learning. Great channel
This is exactly the compilation I didnt know I needed. Thanks Tyler!
Well, not exact to the measurements they would for safety inside a Nuclear Power facility, but exact enough to make chicks think i'm smart.
I'm sure others have said this but apparently Radon is a decay product of uranium-238, and that of thorium-232 ore.
And decays into Polonium, which is one of the preffered method to assasinate people by the KGB, if they want anybody to know it was an assasination and who did it.
1:50:57 There's a similar 'unit size oopsie' incident in aviation, but with less destruction. The Gimli Glider. They loaded up on waaaaayyyy less fuel than they needed, got halfway through the trip, ran tf outta gas, and the captain had to use his own knowledge from back in his military days to locate a retired runway that hadn't been used since a particular war. It was a Boeing jet, too, so not a little mosquito in the air. Oh, and did I mention that retired runway was being used as a drag strip at the time? So this absolute behemoth of a gigantic metal bird was silently gliding through the sky toward an *occupied* runway with *not-airplanes* everywhere and *no way to warn anybody* because they had *basically no power* and *nobody at the runway had a radio* because *it hadn't been used as a runway in years.*
The casualties from the incident? A couple metal barricade fences that were placed along the length of the runway and a few dings and scrapes on the plane itself. Yup. That's it. Nobody died. Wild, eh? Mentour Pilot goes over the details if you wanna know more. If you'd rather hear about other incidents, the Gottröra miracle is a personal favorite alongside Japan Airlines 46E and the Air Astana flight control incident (didn't have a flight number cuz the only passengers were employees who were involved in the incident).
I watched that video, it's very interesting. Remember that other plane that run out of fuel because the mechanic put the wrong fuel gauge on it, the gauge said 900 kilograms when it was actually empty
Wow I remember when you just had 1000 subs, I was one of them. And there we are, almost 100k. You done good Mr. Folse. Greetings from Germany c: PS. You are the only channel I have whitelisted on my adblock. You deserve it.
Surprised that Sam didn't think about the red and blue being primary colors and yellow is a mix representing a reaction.
Awesome work! Congrats on 100K subscribers! Keep up the great commentary! You review great videos and always make me laugh!😀
RE: Thorium segment... I'm down for an "all of the above" approach.
TBH, the closest I ever came to Nuclear Engineering was when a Navy Recruiter wanted me to sign up and opt for Nuke School (in retrospect, it wouldn't have worked out - I'm not that good at higher math [rueful sigh]...) So, I don't want to go beyond my domain of expertise
But, why not do both? Assuming design and prototyping have sufficiently progressed, why not both replace the larger fossil fuel plants with uranium reactors and deploy thorium SMRs as needed to fill in the gaps for the smaller plants. Hell, I'd even be in favor of restarting uranium fuel reprocessing, and, given appropriate management, I'm even open to breeder reactors as we transition away from burning dinosaurs. A sufficiently affirmative reactor program might even overcome the power grid issues that preclude transitioning to EVs for at least local transportation.
(Why, yes, I am fond of the old-school science fiction meme of having my very own personal SMR in my garage - why do you ask?)
Not likely to happen, I'll admit - too many damned fools out there who go spastic at the first mention of nuclear _anything_, let alone construction of any sort of nuclear power plant. (And let's not forget the sociopaths in politics and entertainment who have built the concept of nuclear power into a boogeyman to scare damned fools and children into giving them votes and/or money, may they burn in Hell for all eternity...)
Still, a fellow can dream...
Early congratulations on 100K! You’ve earned it man
not yet, still only 99.6K
@@josh-gu6zi yeah that’s why it says *early* congratulations
@@spizun I didn't read it properly
1:08:56
Sam: "InB4 obvious footloose refrence"
Folse: *proceeds to make a footloose refrence*
my brother you played yourself, lmao
22:30 i work in aerospace and half of our customers are overseas, so we end up constantly having to convert between metric and imperial because their standard make them use millimeters and ours make us use inches on every document
and here's a thumbs up for a C&C reference.
Well played, brother... didn't see that one coming.
A "spherical horse in vacuum" is a widely used concept here in Mordor.
mordor xD
@@aiaioioi not so funny when you're in it
BTW 1:22:30
This is actually a misconception of a misconception.
The people buried next to the piramid were the few artisans/managers.
EVERYONE else were just slaves, all the manual labor was from disrespexted forced labor. the design and managing of the slaves was paid work.
Tfolse: Uranium is easy to shutdown.
Soviet/Russian Nuclear Engineer: hold my beer
Yeah it's kind of their fault for not putting enough money into the safety mechanisms
Russian famously screw up many easy things.
The chernobyl reactor would've never melted down under normal conditions, it was the nature of the test they ran that caused the disaster to happen
@@shepardice3775 Yeah, hence the joke. They effed it up so bad, they caused something to happen that was completely avoidable.
@@Kalavani-vz2cztbh, a lot of safety mechanisms were invented AFTER Chernobyl
Radium(Ra, 88) releases way more Radon(Rn, 86). It releases the majority of all known radon molecules.
20:24 5 is for when the material is already on fire
"im gona distract you with another nuclear measurement" proceeds to leave visual of defective baby to ragu on screen for a minute
Some of the richest Uranium(U, 92) was mined in NE Georgia near the SC border.
Thank you for this video... I saw one that was pushing it like this one did. I'm happy you reviewed this.
You walking back immediately after he said domain was added in the 90s LMAO we love mr tyler, we know you aint a oldhead on us xD
@20:22 'I wonder what 5 would be'.
As the example we have is his mixtape, I'd say: "straight-up fire"
this confirms my theory that parenthood has a consolidating effect
Literally had me f*ckin DYING with the RAGU scale. Like omfg. Best scale ever.
I recognize some of these stories from Thoughty2's channel. Honestly not sure who did it first. Thoughty's aren't quite as funny but have higher production quality IMO.
didnt think i'd spend my night watching this, but its fun
"Going nuclear" implies using the nuclear option, i.e. using nukes, not related to the energy sector.
Nah. Modern usage includes the energy sector
For that last video, my dad was a butcher for most of his adult life in a small town. I saw the process a few times, but at the packing plant he worked at, they didn't do the high voltage part. Otherwise, the process is pretty much the same. In his plant, the "stunner", which was just a cylinder, used a .22 long rifle shell placed into the back of the bull's skull.
Been here since 14 Subscribers. Nice to see you getting to 100K soon. Keep up the good work!
I got here at 3k looks like I’ve got some competition😂
Congratulations on the 100K subscribers!
Well deserved!
A huge congratulations on 100,000 subscribers
These are great - thanks for sharing.
That Donkey Kong caught me off-guards
Nuclear should 100% be the main power generation. People get worried about war stuff, but if both sides have nuclear reactors, both sides would lose. And ofc the uninformed are against it.
Though "going nuclear" I think more have to do with the extreme energy being harnessed and the uses history have shown. We're talking about nuclear as a whole, which is an extreme energysource we've learned to control.
40:00~ for context
His laugh at 32:45 always gets me 😂
Sam O'Nella is fantastic!
You said... "give me a lichen." Lol
Below Species is, Breed for animals and variety for plants. Like:[G, S, B]Felius, Domesticus, Siamese(Siamese House Cat)
For variety take for instance apples, after the G & S some of the varieties are, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Rose, Crab, Rome, & Law.
Breed is a synonym for race....but it's taboo to say that.
@ShannonDove-sy7ye
Kewl, I din't know that, but I'd never assign a breed to anything other than Felius and Canus Dometicus.
@7:30 I feel like ability to shut down is the highest priority thing to consider. Chernobyl and Fukashima had control rods and "active" shutdown methods too. Starting with a base element that passively shuts itself down and needs input power/reaction to run is intrinsicly much safer. Doesn't matter if things are "safe 99% of the time" when the worst case scenario is so devastating. When failure is that horrible, you should care about improper shutdown, even terrorist action like Russia military taking over the Zaporizhzhia power plant. Just start with reactions that stop intrinsicly. Use Thorium.
This was absolutely hilarious.
As someone who lives near the Gulf of Mexico floods definately just happen every now and then … or more 😂
That NFPA was really funny 😂
1:15 Nuclear power splitting atoms with Thor hammers. Hammer Time.
Tarrare's stomach was found to have dozens of tumors, too.
Like the tiny animal planets? You'll love XKCD's "What If I had a mole of moles?"
Schmidt actually used descriptions like that for his pain index.
+1 on hutchingson effect. he makes it absolutely clear he is insane. but if it works and harms nothing, why not?!
he may have single handedly saved the gulf from being toxic soup. and doesnt ask for credit at all.
It's a uranium 238 explosive space modulator....😂
I think what would make the most sense for Nuclear power is because Thorium is so much more abundant - use Thorium Plants with Uranium as the Helper/Starter material. Makes perfect sense 🤷♂️
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Training in the military.
That’s why they all go together for me.
Nuclear science and agriculture have intersected with 'Atomic Gardens', where plants were grown around radioactive sources to induce mutations, and plants with useful mutations would then be grown on farms. Red grapefruit originated from such a garden. This was a sort of precursor to genetic engineering.
I'm glad you brought that subject up. I love the study of atomic gardens. I have an idea for it. If Jimson weed is grown in an atomic garden, would it synthesize cocaine? Jimson weed makes atropine, and atropine is very close to cocaine. A few random enzyme mutations could make an enzyme that would change atropine into cocaine
That is not what would happen if a guy sneezed into a nitroglycerin soaked tissue. What would happen is he would suddenly get the worst headache of his life, then he would pass out
@1:32:34 Actually when the atomic age came about they did use focussed radiation on plants to induce genetic differences in DNA to get a faster process vs naturally occuring random mutations from breeding. and then artificial selection from there. Kind of an in between GMO stage of human selecting natural best crops, and humans knowing which gene's to modify to produce better crops.
Not sure if it counts as a flood as it was a gas blanket but had a cryofluid delivery driver spill a notable quantity of fluid and then linger around wondering what to do until they were almost overcome by the vapours.
47:35 it was 40 ft. Growing up near the site, I could smell it on hot summer days until the early 90s.
Yay another T. Folse video, he's aweso- 4 hours?! Surely this can't be rea... Wow. Amazing stamina!
"You guessed it, BEETLES!"
49:00 it was not mentioned here that the molasses was at a warmed temperature during pumping from the ship it came in on. That must have really sucked to get stuck in it and maybe burned too.
I learned about the "Shake" from the Tom Clancyt novel "The Sum of All Fears". (Public Service Announcement: Ignore the existence of the movie entirely, read the book... and then when you get to the chapter titled "Three Shakes" stop, go eat, drink water, use the restroom, do some stretching exercises and get comfortable... because you're going to finish the novel in one sitting once you begin that chapter).
I actually almost died from helium😅 19:24
have you analyzed back to the future yet?
1:23:00 Not completely sure, might need to double fact check this, but near Mexico city there is a nuclear reactor that if my blurry memory is somewhat right. runs on pretty much the same design and that had a near meltdown around the 80s.
The Thorium LFTRs can use nuclear waste from older reactors as its starter, reducing its radiation level to levels that need 30 years of containment rather than over 100k years. The building cost is cheaper because steam containment isn't necessary.
I'd like to see you react to some nuclear sketches from Robot Chicken. Especially their Brady Bunch Theme Song and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. They've got a whole bunch of nuclear related hijinks.
You can beat the hell out of nitroglycerin with wood on wood and it usually doesn't go off, sometimes a bullet won't set it off......do they really think a sneeze would do the job??
That bill cosby lobotomy joke was wild
0:10 me smoking weed and drinking smirnoff at 1:30 am after yawning all fay half alseep at a retail job 🧿👄🧿
I feel so called out
40:30 The beatle was given a name that may cause it to go extict. This is irony
Lmao, I just watched your playlist of these last week!
Re: Richter Scale: The Richter scale is exponential; 1 more on the Richter scale means the seismic event released 10 the energy. A Richter 7 earthquake would release 10 times the energy of a Richter 6 earthquake. A Richter 8 earthquake would release 100 times the energy of a Richter 6 earthquake. Richter 3 earquakes happen all the time in certain regions, but are barely noticeable by human standards.
Thanks for explaining why the U.S. doesn't recycle the nuclear waste; when I found out that could be done in highschool it seemed like and obvious solution to getting rid of it all.
Hi from the uk Sam o neller yes I will be making the recommendations to our h&s dept
Interesting. I frequenty get the vibe that this guy is sponsored by the nuclear industry to make PR.
1:10 We have light towers now around Freeway interchanges about as tall but way brighter.
31:16 I’ve heard you talking about shakes in a different video, but never anywhere else.
I wonder if yellow means ‘chem reactive’ because of the Great War and mustard (chlorine) gas being yellow.
Mustard gas is not chlorine
"Kendrick lamar is gonna date this video" And then he came back with a diss track to be relevant again
33:04 *T. Folse slowly starts dying of asphyxiation*
Between uranium and thorium I am on Team Both, when we have demand for electricity I want the cleanest and most efficient methods to be used. Uranium and Thorium are 2 of them among a nice array of clean energy methods that work really well, another personal favourite being geothermal. I look forward to a day without coal and oil being needed to generate power.
I wonder if a blend of the two would be a way to produce more reusable products
Nice!
@ 21:03 I agree 100%... I hope your safety manager agrees to let that be played.... I suppose you'd have to have an agreement with Sam O'Nella, to use that with permission, but it'd be worth it... Very good explanation....
Maybe it's hard to say, if you already know how to read those.... but I feel like his "UR Good" to "dam son" sliding scale.... Is very good. If you had no idea what you were looking at, and you could remember the sliding scale??? That would help you a lot....
I am not in in nuclear, but if you hang around in industry, maybe a paint & coatings factory, or an aerosol mfg company, you'll see those labels everywhere.... Everything is flammable of course, so you see red 3 on a lotta stuff.... health though, that could be from 1 to 3... And you don't necessarily need to know "everything" to see that Acetone is health 1, and something like MEK is health 2... Good to know that "hey, this is worse...."
The mixtape thing cracked me up.... 050... So basically, it's so flammable, it will spontaneously combust outside on a winter day, But health is zero, it won't hurt you in any way.... Heh heh heh!!!!
In adition to the buffalo sentence, there's a chinese poem, only made of the word 'shi' , pronounced with different tones, 92 or 94 times, since there's more than one version.
I learned about nuclear reactors in school some time in the very late 70's or the first years of the 80's. I remember we were taught about the different types, control methods, panic stopping a reactor and handling of radioactive materials and storage of used fuel. I can't remember we were taught about liquid salt reactors, but most of the others I can remember. Now one reactor we were told about but at the time I don't think they were common or even really used yet was breeder reactors. Now as I remember the French were very interested in these as they would make enriching Uranium a lot cheaper, I think. As I said this was more than 40 years back so my memory is a bit unreliable. Now it's been a fair few years since I heard anything about these. Were they not reliable, effective, or dangerous, or was there any other reason we don't hear about them any more? I think they could be used to produce weapon grade plutonium, which is seen as a dangerous thing, so I could see that as a reason not to use them.
Doesn’t uranium decay into radon eventually? Could the gas be caused by parts being in different levels of the decay chain?
Unc pulled out the powerpoint oh we finna learn learn
U-235 may be fissile and Th-232 fertile but like you breed Th-232 into U-233, you can breed U-238 into Pu-239, so it's not like you get more fuel from one ore over the other. With uranium you get a fissile material and a fertile material, with thorium it is a fertile material.
Couldn't you also make a bomb from U-233 bred from thorium too? The fissile material in most bombs is Pu-239, it's far easier to breed enough plutonium for a bomb than to enrich enough uranium, so the anti-nuclear proliferation argument falls flat. Just say both fuels have their place.
Hitler didn't build the Autobahn, that was Brüning.
Also, technically, wind and solar could be able to handle the base load - if we invested heavily in storage capacity.
We now this because a german energy company actually tried it.
Also transmission.
Because part of the argument for wind / solar as base load is "well, it's blowing / sunny _somewhere"_
Those historical mass psychogenic illnesses make me think that maybe their water or food sources were contaminated somehow. Imagine their wells had some kind of bacteria or fungus, or maybe the wheat used to make their bread and beer had ergot.
EDIT: The video actually mentioned it! lol