aww man kento bento such a throwback used to binge watch him once a year before he disappeared.

Is there ANYTHING in the nuclear plant that's green!? Not even waste, like...can you bring us a green pen from someone's desk? Lol

@arthurmoore9488

2 ай бұрын

Shine a black-light on uranium glass. You'll get that cool green glow. If I worked at a nuclear facility, I'd 100% try to have a desk lamp like that. Like those salt lamps, but with a green glow!

@StormsparkPegasus

2 ай бұрын

It is funny that despite "green" being associated with radiation in popular culture, it's pretty much the only color you never see. You see red/orange/yellow (usually just via heat). You see blue when stuff is in water (Cherenkov radiation). But other than that...radioactive things don't emit visible light at all.

@frankfirek519

2 ай бұрын

@@StormsparkPegasus you also can see blue if material goes supercritical but if you see that you might be dead

@StormsparkPegasus

2 ай бұрын

@@frankfirek519 Well yeah but the blue is also just Cherenkov radiation. Although you can safely say that if that's being generated inside your eyes you're dead already.

@GlutenEruption

2 ай бұрын

@@StormsparkPegasus green became associated with radiation due to radio-luminescent phosphors and paint on watchs and in tritium tubes which give off a green light. Since those items were the most common interactions the masses had with radioactive sources and they didn't understand that it's not the radioactivity itself glowing green but the phosphor being excited by the radiation, the green glow just became associated with radioactive compounds in general.

Not really a nuclear contamination situation, but there are 2 towns in Russia that have absurd levels of contaminants in the atmosphere that are arguably worse than Kyshtym because the problems were never really solved, Dzerzhinsk and Karabash. There was a chemical plant that may have produced chemical weapons in Dzerzhinsk, there have been chlorine gas leaks as late as early 2000s and the town has several "landmarks" (there have been efforts to clean them up though): the "Black Hole" - a pond with an absurd amount of heavy metals in it, the "White Sea" - a giant alcali dump. The air in Dzerzhinsk contains high amounts of phenol, bensopyrene and formaldehyde. Karabash on the other hand posesses a copper smelting plant that regularly emits clouds of toxic smoke to the point where residents have to regularly check if the wind is blowing in their direction and close their windows if it does. The local river's turned brownish-red like bromine with its banks colored yellow like sulfur. The local mountain near the plant lost most of its grass cover. Most of those problems come from soviet manufacturing methods that were never properly modernised. It's hard to believe that soviet nuclear fuel manufacturing was any different, though the information about it is obviously more restricted

@orchdork775

Ай бұрын

Scary... those poor people

The thing about the CIA not telling anyone, is that A, it was so far behind contemporary knowledge and safety standards that it was a bit of a moot point, and B, they might have passed the lessons on without telling where they learned them. If an organization like the CIA is giving safety advice, you know that something has happened that they don't want you to know about. Be it in some other nation, or right here in the US. 😬

@josephschultz3301

Ай бұрын

_Exactly._ If the CIA goes out of their way to inform people, even only a little bit, then something _very big_ is going down.

The burning of the houses is unnecessary for the radiation but it is necessary for the humans. It prevents people from sneaking back into the evacuated villages to keep living there, which is obviously very likely to happen if they aren't being told the real reason they have to leave

I like the double intro 😂

I've been watching your react vids for a while now, but this is the first time I realized you're a fellow GT grad! I should have known, since you're obviously a helluva engineer!

@tfolsenuclear

2 ай бұрын

Awesome, thanks so much!! Go Jackets and THWG!

For the SS Savannah project, the environmental impact study concluded that the best place for a meltdown to happen is in water. However, considering their safety culture was non existent, they'd somehow still mess things up. Richard Feynman went to one of sites where they were refining U235. They had all of these drums filled with uranium nitrate stored way too close together. He insisted that the workers handling the materials learn what it is they were making. He explained that if they don't know how dangerous it is or in what ways it CAN be dangerous, not only will people die, but this precious and expensive resource will be lost. Good safety culture is based in teaching people what are the hazards, and why they should care. You're not putting that barrel over here because some nerd told you, you're putting over there so you don't see a blue flash and spend the next 4 weeks with your insides liquefying.

You did your self introduction twice right at the start!

@keesmills2019

2 ай бұрын

Better safe than sorry eh, good trait for a nuclear engineer 😂

@bami2

2 ай бұрын

Primary and secondary introduction, redundancy is key to safe nuclear youtube channel operations.

@tfolsenuclear

2 ай бұрын

Fixed 😁

@tfolsenuclear

2 ай бұрын

Hahaha, love it!!

@swokatsamsiyu3590

2 ай бұрын

Hey, you can never have too much redundancy when it comes to nuclear😂

My favorite Kento Bento video. And you made a video that expertly shows the safety measures any "normal" place would put in place.

Tyler, I’d love to see your reaction to “Atomic Homefront”. It chronicles the radioactive contamination of St Louis from processing material for the Manhattan Project.

Soon to pass 100K. Well done. Keep going! ❤️

bro this guy is just so cool I love how he's a nerd like me that is interested in science and stuff

4:00 Other than "Kytshym" (fair enough though, "Kyshtym" is just one of those words that can make anyone dyslexic), I don't think those names are butchered at all. Russians have this weird letter "ы" which apparently very few of us foreigners can pronounce truly right, but is generally represented as "y" and it's seemingly pronounced as the "i" in "tin". (Going into rant on poor standardised transliteration efforts now, absolutely nothing to do with the video) Russian Cyrillic to Latin script transliteration is a wild thing though, that "ы" is sometimes represented in romanised texts as "i", despite there being another letter represented as "i" which sounds like the "ee" in "cheese", and becomes even more confusing with "soviet". Because the american pronunciation "soh-vee-uht" is wrong and the british pronunciation "sov-ee-uht" is also wrong because the cyrillic letter "e" is pronounced "yeh" and the "i" in "soviet" is representative of that "yeh". The proper pronunciation being "sov-yet". This also brings up another problem as the letter "й" is transliterated as "y" because it's "y", yet the "ы" from early is (as stated previously) also represented by "y". So really the "й" should probably be replaced by "j" so that the "ee" can be "i" and the "ы" "y". But for some reason this weird constantly changing system is used instead, presumably so it's slightly more pallatable to english speaking eyes as a "j" for "y" would seem German (and somewhat fairly so). TLDR: Tyler's pronunciation is essentially right and Russian Cyrillic is the only true way to experience Russian place names. And a slight addendum or whatever: Russian works like English in that the word "Mayak" (for example), while spelt "M-A-Ya-K" (that weird backwards R you always see in "Russian" fonts is that "Ya"), essentially takes that "y" from "Ya" to make "May" (M-eye). This does also go for basically every other vowel and a letter that is/contains y before the rest of the sound, although "oo" and "y" becomes "oy", for some reason. I'm not some master linguist though, this is just some basic Russian rules I know (as well as listening to different Russian bands), if someone in any way smarter than me has a correction, best to listen to them.

Thank you for doing this video ❤

I forget what its called but there was a netflix show and the host went swimming in one of the nuclear lakes in Russia then ate fish with locals

Another excellent video! I do enjoy these lengthy explanations. The face you pulled when hearing that the cooling water loop of the reactor core was of an open type. I swear that I could see your brains doing triple backflips again. Those Plutonium production reactors were named "Big Ivan". They were also called Прямоточные, or "straight through's", referring to their open cooling loop. And what will really get you going is the fact that the Big Ivans are part of the RBMK's pedigree. And we wonder why it is such a grumpy reactor....

8:20 those cities are so misplaced, Chelyabinks is actually just under the left part of the H and Yekaterinburg is north-west of the C in that light area surrounded by dark green, about as far from the top left of the C as Chelyabinsk is.

The wonders of open cycle nuclear reactors.

@mfree80286

2 ай бұрын

Wait till you hear about Britain's little experiments with air-cooled open cycle reactors :)

@bami2

2 ай бұрын

@@mfree80286 How about an open cycle nuclear jet engine powered bomber the US thought up in the mid-late 40s? Thankfully they realized that having an aircraft exhaust what is essentially fallout was a bad idea before building and testing the thing.

@mfree80286

2 ай бұрын

@@bami2Not "thought up".... built, operated, caught fire. Search for "Windscale Disaster".

@ccricers

Ай бұрын

It's the nuclear version of rolling coal at your neighbors.

You may consider trying to get in touch with the "Well There's Your Problem" podcast. They have quite an overlap in subject matter. I bet they would be more than happy to have you on for an episode.

About Gulag workers: Nobody in their mind would ever let them do any meaningful work. Transfering, loading-unloading cargo, cutting down the forests, preparing surfaces and digging was the all hard labour they would do, the complex itself was built but professinal workers from all around the union.

13:00 While the secondary loop is a closed system in all PWR that is really due to how the turbine works. In a Coal power plant the look is also closed. The main reason for the close loop is to benefit from the sub ambient pressure of condensing

Lol at neutrons missing the broad side of a barn.

about to hit 100K lez go

I have heard of this place when I was young. This was an evil place.

Many decades of Soviet rule had created a culture of secrecy and censorship, where anybody even remotely related to a governmental position, or any other influential position, was inculcated into this instinct of secrecy, covering things up, censorship, hiding things. I remember reading an article about someone who had such a severe disease (I don't remember when, maybe the 70's or 80's) that very unusually the Soviet government allowed him to be taken to the United States to be operated there because the Soviets didn't have the technology nor the know-how to do it themselves. The closest family members were also (rather unusually) allowed to go with him. These family members later recounted how utterly surprised they were at the openness of the doctors in the United States. The doctors would constantly talk to them, keep them informed in detail on everything that was happening and what they were going to do, and so on. They were so accustomed to doctors in the Soviet Union never telling them anything and keeping everything in secret and under the wraps, that they were astonished at this incredible amount of openness, communication and interaction.

You should react to the content of this crew entering Tschernobyl Block 4 divingnin it or ice skating when the stuff is frozen. I mean, he dived there with a fisch bubble as helmet...

Really glad to hear your take on this one. To me it's a great reminder that nuclear weapons are the real disaster even when we're not testing or using them in war.

Would love to see something of Love Canal Niagara Falls, Ny..

There was an early reactor here in the u.s. that went bad and im not sure if the people were ever recovered. One got stuck to the ceiling i think.

A KZread channel named azeal made a video about a nuclear incident and I really would like to hear you thought about it

Here in the first minute, I wonder is Tyler using the term "accident" with generosity.

I have a question .. what would happen if a mark 2 reactor's housing unit was missing the upper floors of the 190ft NPPs ??

here is question. Do I remember correctly Hanfort B reactor and Windscale reactor (pile #1, pile #2) were too open loop projects...

After watching your videos for a while I always wondered about the waste caskets (The Good Ones) does the waste eventually expire and are able to be taken down providing more room for fresher waste or are the waste containment silos permanent and will always have to stay?

@nathansmith3608

2 ай бұрын

I've heard it depends, e.g. spent fuel rods will eventually probably either be reprocessed to extract further energy, or buried deep underground somewhere, but it may not happen in the US for decades, perhaps even a century or 2. The technology for reusing spent fuel isn't really economical yet & there's no urgent need to consolidate & bury the stuff either, plus the politics & funding around it are difficult IDK about the lower level stuff

So basically a highly radioactive dirty bomb

5:37 All of the things leading up to the main incident reminds me of the channel Plainly Difficult and his "Disaster Bingo" card... pretty sure this one hits just about everything on his list, and probably a few that he didn't have. "Never saw the likes of this before, and God Damn! It's getting _WORSE!_ " --Skinny Lister and The Longest Johns

So the waste container rupturing was basically a BLEVE explosion. You should do one on Wood River Junction Criticality Plainly Difficult did some documentary on it but sure there are more too. This to me sounds like one of the worst ways to go from a radiological incident.

Isn't weapons grade plutonium the least radioactive type? Non weapons grade has contamination of less stable isotopes that causes bombs to react too early.

You should react to cazy cold war concepts 3: gigaton bomb!

10:46 This is also why capacitors in old consumer electronics always explode and leak. They were based on an incomplete, stolen formula which then got spread really far. Meanwhile, the comparatively ancient capacitors which don't explode and leak, are based on the actual complete formula.

I shall not let my spent fuel pool in the backyard run dry - I promise! 🤞

answered my question about bwrs. cool!

The main reason the russians burned the crops, slaughtered the livestock, and then burned the villages was to prevent the villagers from going back. It was unethical, and they obviously lied about why, but as with Chornobyl the people who had lived and worked the land for years wouldn't have left otherwise. People tried to stay in the exclusion zone for that one, some even succeeded. just because you're not supposed to live there doesn't mean everyone listens.

Did you correct their pronunciation of kilometers, to say it with a "ch" sound? I'm curious, because I've never heard an English speaker say it that way, although it's how I pronounce it in Swedish...

Soviet closed cities were a bit different to how say Oak Ridge worked :p

speaking of ur radiation dose not spread like disease if ur a manga fan i recomend bloody monday were radiation being covered up by a diease outbreak is the main arc. i think it be neat to see ur take on the part were they go into how it isnt a disease at all

Enrichment or reprocessing plant?

Its kind of rediculas that even Chernobyl is rated higher. We know that 28 people died of radiation sickness, 2 died from debree, 12 died in a related helicopter accident and about 10 more people died (totally unnecessary) from thyroid cancer Then in Kyshtym with something like 200 died of radiation sickness. That is a pretty big diffrance

@Xnoob545

2 ай бұрын

Chernobyl (i think) affected hundreds of thousands of people with increased cancer and birth defect risks

@domestique3954

2 ай бұрын

Then you don’t know the history: Thousands of liquidators died in the decommissioning process-it’s definitely a 6-figure number. But the Sowjets at that time wouldn’t tell the truth to the world. They lied about the radiation levels to the Germans who constructed the robot to clean the roof of Unit 4,so that the robot died within minutes and they had to use „bio robots“ They dug a tunnel beneath the exploded reactor with thousands over thousands of liquidators where most of them succumbed to acute radiation syndrome

@matsv201

2 ай бұрын

@@Xnoob545 that is almost certanly not corect. The claimed comes from linear non treshold theory. That theory have been on the roaps for the last decade and is pretty much dead today.... The vale for the threshold theory is not quite calibrated yet and its hard to say what number of people been over. But its likely that its orders of magnitude less than preciusly estimated.

And don’t forget the Dyatlov pass incident where a whole group died

@VigilanteAgumon

Ай бұрын

Ask A Mortician did a video on that

Tyler: I dont claim to know everything there is to nuclear Captions: I'm claiming to know everything there is to nuclear

@sayori3939

2 ай бұрын

you're a tiger cub now I'm confused

The toilet paper thing was certainly unnecessary. But it at least has a background rationale to it, legitimate or not. There's more than one story about how toilet paper became a luxury commodity when a region is locked down due to war, and how you could trade it for just about anything else you need. Sooo, the combination of impending lockdowns potentially resulting in you running out and being unable to go to the store, and people just not being able to figure out how to deal with that type of sanitation without disposable paper, as well as stories about how valuable it can become in a crisis… Then as some people made sure to have enough to last a month extra, paper started to run low, others connected the dots and panic ensued. It's kind of why rationing during war is a necessity even when there's plenty of resources and no reason to believe there'll be a shortage. I'd argue that buying toilet paper in excess when fearing the collapse of society is much *much* more reasonable than trying to get rid of radioactive contamination by burning the contaminated source…

Hey tfn! Could you take a look at the thought emporiums fake negative ion products? I think you will like it!

@tfolsenuclear

2 ай бұрын

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@mgfeedthebeast

2 ай бұрын

@@tfolsenuclearlol i did not see it! anyways thanks

Fun fact: Mayak is Russian for "lighthouse". Ended up being appropriate in all the wrong ways.

you should react to Storytime with Jeff

So, why exactly water that was going through reactor became radioactive? Water itself started to radiate...something? Or another thing - why fallout comes after nuke? Like what nuke has done to make everything radioactive? I can't quite get this process of "contamination"

@bami2

2 ай бұрын

Water is an abrasive so it will slowly leach reactor cladding, fission products and reactor fuel with it when it's directly flowing through the reactor. Normal reactors don't have this problem since the contaminated water doesn't leave the reactor building and there are multiple layers of isolation with heat exchangers so that any reactor water can't mix with the secondary or tertiary loops. The water "becomes" radioactive because it's mixed with radioactive material, but it doesn't become radioactive itself. Fallout happens after nukes because after the nuke has gone off, the fireball full of fission products sucks dirt and other material in it, mixing it thoroughly. The fission products attach to the dirt and eventually will fall down back to earth, causing nuclear contamination. With airbursts (detonating nukes quite high in the sky) this is less of a problem, since it will suck up a lot less (or none at all) dirt.

@LaserTractor

2 ай бұрын

@@bami2 hmm Thanks

@sayori3939

2 ай бұрын

actually there's also the extreme amount of NEUTRON radiation produced in reactors, neutron radiation can make stable isotopes like regular hidrogren to become unstable isotopes such as tritium.

@LaserTractor

2 ай бұрын

@@sayori3939 yes but I guess water is too stable and too good at absorbing neutrons that it's more about small things in water are getting radioactive, not water itself

yo most people includingme dosent even know about MAYAK this is new for us

Why you dunking on people buying toilet paper during covid? That gave me great faith in humanity. It means we're still intelligent enough to know what everyone would miss the most after societal collapse - a clean butthole.

My money would be on "they just don't care". The Russian brand of communism (all communism is terrible) did a lot of bad things to rural poor people. There's a story somewhere of rural Soviets recycling spent first stage rockets that impact the ground close to their village, rockets with hypergolic fuels, fuels the US rocket industry has moved away from, because they are too toxic. Another story of Soviet Russians drying up an entire inland sea, an inland sea with an active fishing industry, no thought given to them of course. So wish people wouldn't go to the Fallout series of games for what a nuclear wasteland looks like.

So wait, all the hot radioactive waste released by soviets is to blame for polar cap melting ? interesting ! 🤣

Why don’t they use that lesser energy to create power ? Maybe they do now a days..? But instead of storing it why not use it to create long term energy? I’m not a nuclear scientist but would like to hear an explanation why not.. Not cost effective. ?

I wager the "green" stuff came from the Simpsons?

Can you please play "Elsworth Generating Station Beta Version". It's a VERY realistic NPP/BWR 5 Reactor Game in ROBLOX. It's based on a real life one!!

Dunno if this would be a feasable Video for you to react, but maybe you are interestet in "Australia's Secret Chernobyl" from the fern chanel

Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan.. supplies around 15%~20% of the world uranium, this area there are some 'lakes' (small bodies of water) that are actually super super radiated, nothing grows within a large radius of the water area, worst one is called Uranium Lake, where you can take the water and actually distill uranium dust from the water.

As a supporter of nuclear power, I believe it's crucial to recognize the scientific evidence supporting its safety and effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions. Nuclear energy emits virtually no greenhouse gases during operation, making it a vital tool in combating climate change.

@Black_567.

2 ай бұрын

nuclear power is scary, man! it's like playing with fire in a room full of dynamite!

@UnitedStatesofAmerica41

2 ай бұрын

​@@Black_567.Actually, modern nuclear reactors have multiple safety features to prevent accidents and minimize risks.

@Black_567.

2 ай бұрын

​@@UnitedStatesofAmerica41nah, man! you can't trust those reactors! they're just waiting to go boom and turn us all into crispy critters!

@Black_567.

2 ай бұрын

But what about the waste? Nuclear waste is dangerous and can harm the environment!

@UnitedStatesofAmerica41

2 ай бұрын

​@@Black_567.Nuclear waste is easily manageable. It gets put into small concrete pellets. Put into barrels, and stored Underground. It's not green goop you see on TV. They can't leak and don't emit virtually any radiation. Also you can recycle about 98% of the radioactive fuel. Only 2% are put underground. We from 1957 produced about the same amount of waste that we produce in One Hour.

How many cancer deaths I wonder

34th like

What no credits for the person who made this video that you "borrowed" Cheap way to make money off someone else's work. I know you don't need to ask to "pinch" this guys video, BUT DID YOU ASK out of courtesy? Why no link to his KZread channel? No credits then it's not right. I'm not watching. Bye....

First!

3:03 Extremely rich coming from a yank! you guys tested over 1000 nukes, most of them on your own soil, with it's own tourist attractions (mushroom clouds as a backdrop to your dining experience). Also - love it how both you and the narrator just gloss over the murder of non combatants - twice - and call it "the might of america" Should be "the war crimes of america" instead

The only thing worse than a react channel is… nothing.