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The Chernobyl reactor was a stolen Hanford Type B reactor. It wasn't designed to make electricity. It was a highly volatile reactor to make Plutonium. Hence the results.

r/BrandNewSentence

Let's hope a magician never pulls a radioactive rabbit from a hat.

@@AlaskaSkidood i wish subreddit links were a standard that worked everywhere.

*lowered into the sugarman. Come on, get your terminology right...

I'd expect to read something like this in a Fallout game. Not a Periodic video.

*Rob Rod* which is funny because everyone seems to think that radiation is green.... which it isn't... it is blue

Agreed. It's the best shade of blue ever.

To think for a moment The Elephant Foot was just as stunning in open air.

Humble Soldier jeez yeah when you think of what it would have looked like when it was fresh

@@drivenbydemons6537 If you like that kind of blue you might like to take a look at clear UVC neon tubes. I mean on the internet, don't expose yourself to UVC light that stuff is dangerous.

waitaminutedoggie ikr xD

For better or worse Chernobyl is the most well known nuclear power station. Probably worse

Rosatom is still operating 10 reactors of the same RBMK-1000 model across Russia.

@@stephenbrand5661 It's pretty save until next Dyatlov .

@@stephenbrand5661 there have been significant changes to the rbmk since then, they are pretty safe now.

and do huge harm to ecosystems around solor farms and wind farms

yup.

The mistake was the way it was introduced. Talk about bad PR

@@UchihaFabio We also have fossil fuel lobbying to thank for that :/

Wind is the way

well, he is british

@@N00B283 nope he is Aussie actually

@Damjan Incorrect. Born in London. Lived his entire life in England.

Why it's maybe rare is a documentary in itself.

Bryan is awesome

I had him for a chemistry lab when I did Biochemistry and Genetics at Nottingham in the late '90s. Lovely and memorable guy :)

Ming Lord agreed

First time I met Martyn I was a grad student in King's College way back in 1968. During summer my buddies and I went camping and I saw Martyn quietly wandering around in the field, contemplating nature. I approached him and tried to initiate a conversation but he ignored me for 5 or 6 minutes, then made some strange "baaa" sounds, which intrigued me greatly. Turns out it was actually 2017, I was stoned and talking to a sheep. Really nice guy anyway.

If you go to notts take his green chem you won't regret it

You don't happen to acquire a piece of proffesium hair ?

Reminded me of one my managers at work. Very nice guy.

Hes my dad. Can confirm hes cool

No. Sir Martyn is the ONLY presenter. Everyone else is just an illusion. Big

i wonder why every physicist looks like they were shocked with electricity at young age :D

@@owenbryan607 What degree does he have? he sounds very well-spoken, professional and knowledgeable

Ultra-low-temperature condensed matter would like a word with you.

YOU can't trap neutrons. GRAVITY however is a different story.

Unless you want to warp the Earth it'self with either A) enough gravity to turn the earth into a Neutron star, or B) Local Space Time to the point causality is almost looping around on itself and causality is slowed down so much you'd have built a fast forward only time machine, or C) Enough Magnetic power to make Magneto impressed, and no one around it is liquefied yet.

@@guy3nder529 NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!... when you have a silly haircut

@@cyklotronpl7785 Don't you dare criticize Dr Poliakoff's majestic hair!

what about involutes for an oval

Yes!!!! We need one

Only during WW2. Since then it has no longer been involved in nuclear weapons, and is not secret anymore.

There still is... As per the what the man said "they supposedly make power fuel but I don't know much about that..." :)

@@brianreddeman951 The spent reactor fuel gets transported off-site to another more-secret facility.

@@brianreddeman951 Nothing secret about that. MOX fuel is made by recycling spent fuel. Best thing to recycle, by far.

@@lajoswinkler MOX is a different process, that plant is still being made and is only meant for powered reactor fuel. This is a mixed aluminum fuel renaturing process very different from PUREX used for MOX. As a nuclear nerd, I also don't know anything about this program!

Great comment

How freaking cool is that.. thanks for the comment!

You could add that element 106 is named after him.

Hey there Mr Reynolds i have family in Belfast. Lots of us Reynolds.

The cold war was important considering the millions of innocent people you guys killed at a blink of an eye. Americans were afraid they would be killed the same way soon.

It would be great to see the video of combustion from the engine in operation. Is there an enlargement function; as in neutron microscope?

@@scottperry9581 Depending on engine-size you won't need any enlargement. BTW there are numbers of videos to be found on YT of engines with see-through cylinder heads, even slow-mo ones.

Nothing pubic I could find, but I linked to a video of a coffee maker with the same technique above.

I was hoping they'd add the footage of it after the Professor mentioned it. I was cliffhanger-ed with no hope of a sequel.

I must see it

"boron in the form of B4C, is present in the inner fuel plates. In particular, 2.8g of 10B are present in the whole IFE (0.0164g/plate). It is used to shift the power to the outer fuel element and reduce the core reactivity" This is important as the core of this reactor uses highly enriched uranium. This is so the neutron economy can be high at all points in the fuel cycle, but also means excess reactvity in the core areas has to be managed with absorbers built into the fuel elements.

Glad for you to have had this opportunity to make use of your knowledge

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wouldn't boric acid corrode the metals?

Astronauts have described seeing flashes of light while in orbit and it's thought these are either photons that zip through the eyeball and activate a part of the astronaut's retina, or some cosmic ray that impacts neurons and causes the person to see a flash even though the particle wasn't actually visible. So in a sense, we can 'see' these charged particles as long as they hit the right spots in our optic nerves. Not sure what kind of exposure you'd be talking about if you were working close enough to the reactor and somehow the shielding failed and you started seeing regular flashes.

Thanks for mentioning. I didn't notice the first time I watched. Both phenomena in a single shot are fascinating.

@@Clean97gti It's also possible to have neutrinos hit the water in our eyes, giving off a flash of light. Neutrino detectors work the same way, looking for the flash. They would be exceedingly rare events to happen to a person, perhaps never in a lifetime given how little neutrinos react with ordinary matter, but certainly possible.

@@Restilia_ch Except that the odds of a Neutrino hitting ANYTHING are supremely low, let alone water inside your eyeballs. At SuperKamiokande, the water is heavy water and its a tank the size of half a football field, and yet they see 5 or 6 neutrinos per month

@@ZeNashB I know it's extremely low. Doesn't mean it's impossible.

NOOCLEAR!

There is no such thing as nucular research...

When the procedure for "lowering hammer into pool and whacking container top" fails

In rod we trust.

how else you gonna pay for all that hastalloy, beryllium, fuels, europium? you could put a nice tropical background sunset image behind the blue water with the right lighting and itd make a great postcard though!

it's actually what most reactors are lol

it's called a reactor for the fact that it reacts things so yeah sit back and watch that ominous glow yo

*choose quickly they’re decaying as we speak*

@tester123532456 there's literally a video of a engineer pouring out a colt 45 40oz malt liquor for the tevatron, why do you gotta act like that....

BigVinnie lol you have the link for that video?

Germany's really digging a hole for itself with its refusal to use nuclear energy. Not only do they have to import dirty fuels to replace it, but they'll probably have to import nuclear isotopes for nuclear medicine as well.

"cleanest". Waste takes millions of years.

@@RBuckminsterFuller It is better that way. Espescially since france is on fire.

@@Erksah68 Not with gen4 reactors that allow for processing of fuel waste. LFTRs, for example, are a much better option nowadays.

Also safest, but people don't want to mention that- the number of casualties/fatalities per megawatt produced are significantly lower than even renewables. People just think of the scaremongering of the big three disasters which resulted from catastrophic negligence, and fail to realise just how rare these actually are. And yet nobody hears about big coal power station explosions or fires, or underground coal seams that keep burning for decades on end. Nuclear's bad rep is mostly unwarranted.

It's like a very muffled version of the Man in the White Suit noise.

@Disappointed looks like somebody got in those waters in the wrong time 'cause they got BURNED!

Nathaniel B it’s post-production for sure but that’s a hilarious way to put it

No , an old guy had a long poot. He had been waiting a long time , but then he had read about the medicinal curing qualities of neutron bombing the colon. So in he went. Best day of his life.

You're in shock, get to the infirmary.

"This will be our final episode..."

Oops just lit radio active graphite on fire

Put boron on it!😁

You didn't see graphite

Nah ... those are gamma radiation particles. Photons. I don't think normal cameras are sensitive to neutrons.

Is this the same glow that is talked about in the Demon Core video?

The dreams of yesterday are the workings of tomorrow!

@@dsdsspp7130 they also convert elements to other elements, especially heavier elements.

@@dsdsspp7130 they explicitely said the turn curium into californium and neptunium into plutonium. those are not just different isotopes.

unite perry All radioactive elements decay to a lower form, eventually, uranium-238 decays to lead-206.

Transmutation I think is the modern term

you have an amazing channel man

What is it? It's blue light. What does it? Turns blue.

@@instrumentenfreak Its actually high energy electrons moving faster than the speed of light in water

. @@instrumentenfreak yeah- it's as Mafagamer 1999 said - it is when the electrons travel faster than the speed of light does in that medium (the water), so they become excited and produce blue light

@@MafagamerDE That's true but I need to correct you: it happens with any charged particle, not necessarily electrons.

@@pomegranatechannel Oh yeah true, but usually with water cooled nuclear reactors, the only charged particles that make it that far is beta decay radiation (high vel. electrons). Alphas are stopped almost instantly and protons, as far as i know, are not a decay product.

Do you remember when then buried nuclear waste under a parking lot and it melted the concrete?

Shouldn't be a problem one might think. It's not nuclear science.

8 feet = 2.4 meters 9 feet = 2.7 meters 36F = 2C 100F = 38C 120F = 49C 156F = 69C 24 inches = 2 feet = 0.6 meters 20 inches = 1 foot 8 inches = 0.5 meters 25 tons = 50,000 pounds = 22680Kg

@@jimknowlton342 Isn't a ton a thousand Kg ?

@@D4RKBRU73 He's converting the imperial to metric. An imperial ton is 2000 lbs... So a little over 1016 kilos. A metric ton is 1000 k.

@@sujimtangerines Ah ok thank you

It is even cooler in person than in the videos, if you can believe it. There are a decent number of universities with reactors you can tour & the "TRIGA" design is the coolest imo b/c you can watch the reactor while it's critical. I've seen HFIR from this vid, ATR in Idaho, & MIT's reactor, but the humble TRIGA at Texas A&M was the one I could most easily stare at for hours haha

I agree that it is cooler to see in person. It is eerie, when you are looking right at it, knowing what makes it visible. I've worked in spent fuel pools quite a few times, when spent fuel is being brought in straight from the core in refueling outages. I've also seen the fuzzy effect in video recordings. I am the programmer for the AREVA ECHO-330. We set up our system on top of empty spent fuel pool storage racks. Spent fuel was brought to the system, fixed in place, and in line with our multiple transducer array, and high radiation resistant camera. A regular camera can not handle the radiation from fuel that just came out of the core. Even with the radiation resistant cameras, the fuzziness is there. Part of it is heat from the fuel making currents in the water. And part is the effects of the radiation itself on the camera sensor. In discussion above, people are talking about fuzziness you see with your eyes, if looking at fuel live and in person. But Daniel's original question said 'interference in videos'. It is more noticeable in videos than it is in person. Other than the currents in the water due to it being circulated for cooling, and from heat coming off the fuel, if you are standing by the pool looking directly at spent fuel, I don't recall the fuzziness that you see in recorded video. So it is the high radiation affecting the camera sensor. It has been a few years since I was at poolside. But I have hundreds of hours of poolside work in my history. I live in Lynchburg, VA, mentioned in this interesting video. Been to some of the places mentioned in the video, and familiar with some of the process, including Cf-252. We used that in one of my systems at work and swapped it out every two years. It has a very short half-life. I think about 2.6 years.

We still are, the program is still at very small scale, but at least it is something.

@Disappointed no? I'm not sure why it would be seen as one