My name is Drew and I look for and explore radioactive items and places. Many people believe that the only radioactive places are in Chernobyl and Fukushima...the truth is our world is far more radioactive than many people realize. I make videos that show these places and items to better understand our radioactive world and to share that journey with others.
Thanks for investigating this. I was concerned that it could have been from the San Onofre nuclear plant. A few years ago, that plant was venting radioactive steam for a while.
If it was venting radioactive steam it would have been in low concentrations and dissipated into the air quickly. Btw, I never heard of it leaking steam. I heard the steam generator was leaking, not the same thing.
@@RadioactiveDrew The plant needed to replace a piece of equipment. They installed the wrong replacement part. That part created vibrations that caused cracking in coolant pipes that had corroded in the salty air environment. Neither the plant nor the regulators notified the public that the plant was venting radioactive steam into the air. It was first publicly noticed by someone downwind with radiation detectors. That is why/when the utility decided to close the plant, it would have been more expensive to fix the plant than build a new one. They have decided to encase the spent fuel in concrete on site at the beach. The plant operators, utilities, and regulators had a meeting in Warsaw, Poland, where they decided to saddle the rate payers will all the expenses. I'm normally not suspicious, but...
@@RadioactiveDrew The reason that person was measuring radiation in the air was there was coincidently(?) a cancer cluster in a community downwind of the power plant.
I think the government has forgotten they work for us, now I know it sounds crazy to you dumb people but we pay them. They should not be telling us what to do it’s the other way around wake TF UP.
Worked at one of these plants when it was first fired up. On my first walkthrough of the plant the step-in monitor alarmed..they took my coat...gave it back to me at end of day and said take it home and wash it..I wasn't thrilled. Turns out we had uniforms that were polyester and static from walking around wound build up on them and attract the radioactive particles. Armpits and knee areas were the most common areas..some folks would lose their pants. It was low levels and decay was fast..sometimes you could step out..count to 30 and it would no longer alarm.
Nuclear is the cleanest energy next to solar. Soon as they figure out and start using the nuclear waste in a battery, everyone will be on board. I work refueling outages at a nuclear plant. Would have been way cooler if you showed everyone the rod change during an outage
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT FOUR YEARS AFTER ONLINING A WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRICAL GENERATOR (NUCLEAR) INVOLVED BEACH VANS IN ACCIDENT RECOVERY WAITING FOR PAPERWORK TO START ON IT IN THE EXIT AND ENTRANCE AREA TO: SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION ONLINE 1968. N2632102 rear vehicle driver....
I always have my Radiacode running, tracking my dose when I explore areas like this. It never gets very high because I’m not at these locations long enough.
I live in Alamogordo, White Sands is awesome. Before I moved here, I visited 7 times. Yes the Space History Museum is very good and cool. I go there early every morning with my dog and do a walk and ball chase. Great views, usually a breeze and some friendly people who walk up there also. Also, the memorial to the astronauts who passed during their endeavors is very nice as is Hams burial site. Sunspot is also very cool as is Cloudcroft. Never forget the VLA isn't very far away either. I drive past the big Pistachio nearly everyday. As to the downwinders, there are some left and their are children and grandchildren with higher rates of cancer than would be expected. Part of the issue? Manhattan Project leaders did not inform people living nearby or downwind about the test or potential exposure to fallout. What cancers are covered under Downwinders? Downwinders Leukemia, but NOT chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Multiple myeloma. Primary cancer of the pharynx. Lymphomas, other than Hodgkin's disease. Primary cancer of the small intestine. Primary cancer of the salivary gland. Primary cancer of the brain. Primary cancer of the stomach. Not just White Sands, but from Nevada test sites also. Nevada, Utah, Washington, Idaho, and New Mexico. A good read: abcnews.go.com/US/new-mexico-downwinders-fight-aid-after-manhattan-project/story?id=104538100
I watched the video in that link and the guy saying that the Trinity test was worse than Chernobyl is trying to confuse people. Trinity wasn't anywhere close to what happened at Chernobyl.
I've gotten so many free things doing this - usually they ask what it means and once you tell them it's radioactive, they can't get rid of it fast enough 😂
So you...parked your vehicle in the middle of an actual natural wash and camped on it. Looking at that landscape and how the rocks are carved, during massive downpours and days-long rains, this area is covered in feet of water all the way across. That little pool at the bottom would turn into a raging lowhead dam-equivalent with that much water flowing into it and pull you down right to the bottom and back up again towards the flow going over. Then you repeat in it until you drown, unable to get out.
I like the Radium-painted dials on gauges and clocks, etc. because usually they've got WAY more radium than they really need to, so instead of having to do crazy dangerous stuff like scraping off the paint and mixing it with the new paint, you can instead just throw some new zinc-sulfide lume paint over the old stuff and it'll still glow nicely from the alpha particles if you thin it a little. Strontium aluminate non-radioluminescent glow paint works good for some things but even the REALLY good stuff just doesn't stay glowing for long enough, if you want your watch to be readable by the time you wake up tomorrow or your gun sights to be glowing when you take it outta your holster you need either radium paint, tritium tubes, or some kind of battery-powered electroluminescent system. If leakage is a concern, cover up the paint with a clear coat so it doesn't flake off and get powdery. For me that's less of an issue, I work in HAZMAT on the daily so if I'm gonna open up a clock or something I just bring my respirator home and wear gloves, radium compounds are fairly water soluble so it'll come out in the wash and at the end of the day a few flakes of radium paint is less radioactive pollution than the amount of coal that gets burned to keep my lights on, or the process brine from the oil wells that fuel my car up. If it isn't in my body, it's a drop in the ocean.
It's not a stigma keeping us from building new nuclear plants, our leaders are getting rich off chinese made solar panels & wind turbines. Follow the money, then you'll understand why nuclear is being ignored!
Can you imagine how much energy would be emitted by an entire roof of that stuff? If I didn't already know that Howard Johnson made its roofs out of orange metal tiles, I'd think they were offering kids a whole lot more than 28 flavors in years past. Try using one of those mini razor box cutters. A whole lot faster and safer than your big machete knife, lol. Thanks for the great video. Always very interesting!
I can’t remember off the top of my head but I’m sure it’s the radium source post out of that Pyrotronics smoke detector and I think it was in the 300 uSv/hr range. That number came from the Radeye B20 with an H10 gamma filter.
SO I took the Nevada Test Site tour. Crazy to see in person and visit ground zero and the edges of some huge subsidence craters. I purposely rubbed my (cleaned) shoes in the dirt at the gun turret which is half a mile east of the ground zero of Turk and Badger. Did it more at the lip of Sedan crater and Frenchman Flat. Took the shoes off back at the hotel and put my Radiacode 102 on them for like 6 hours. Whatever may or may not be in that topsoil, the background here in Vegas near the Mandalay Bay is like 260 cpm and my brick exterior bedroom in Denver is about 650+. So my bedroom is officially hotter than my shoes after walking in both Rocky Flats AND the fucking Sedan Crater. I'm a bit gobsmacked. 😆
They won’t get cancer from going down into the mine. Just being exposed to radon isn’t enough to cause cancer. It has to be a high enough dose for a long period of time for it to be a problem.
@RadioactiveDrew I didn't say anything about going into the mine. I'm taking about constantly breathing the bottled air and water. I know about radiation.
When he said that the highest proposed tsunami is 27 feet and they are at 32 feet. Thats the same thinking that caused the Fukushima disaster, mother nature can be highly unpredictable.
I personally wouldn't touch or eat any of that stuff, but im not super familiar with the science and dangers of radiation and the levels that are safe. I'd just be paranoid. Super cool though! I'd want to see them in a cloud chamber haha
I picked up a Ludlum model 3 with a 44-9 hand tool. I figure this is best for detecting radiation on clothes and surfaces. Etc. I also picked up a PUDIEL NR-950. This was an impulse buy that I kind of regret. I really want/need a dosimeter. Was considering the ludlum model 25 but I’m so lost with how many devices are out there. Tech is so good now. But I’m scared to get something too “digital” incase we get hit with emp that knocks out our tech. I could keep in a faraday bag. Any help would be superbly appreciated
Ludlum makes some very solid detectors. I have a Model 12 and 14C both with 44-9 probes. They work very well. As far as a bag to shield sensitive electronics I did do a video featuring this dry bag that also has an EMP resistant material built in. Can't say for sure it would totally work...but I know if you dump your phone into the bag and close it, the signal is blocked. Here's the video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-66dsEciX734.html
@@RadioactiveDrewwhat do you recommend for a good dosimeter. Ludlum model 25, model 23. Budget is a thing. Although I won’t specify a price as my life is worth a lot. I just want something to stand the test of time and I won’t need to buy a new one anytime soon. Thanks for your videos. You are quite knowledgeable
Funny how after Oppenheimer, this place exploded with interest. I am from Santa Fe NM and we've been there several times over the years... now a crowd 😂
For a short time it isn't bad to handle these sources. But if you were to walk around holding the source in your hand all the time I'm sure there might be some damage to the skin from all the alpha radiation. Alpha radiation has a ton of energy but usually it deposits that energy quickly. So it doesn't have very good penetrating power.
Radiation does, in fact, help with inflammation. Lots of peer-reviewed studies on it, the general consensus is that as long as it's from a contained source and isn't actually being INGESTED the hormesis theory does hold true, the main issue with radon spas is all the daughter products and lead that inevitably end up in your system. Some countries STILL use nasopharyngeal irradiation to treat severe sinus inflammation, stuff works. Some of the more recent studies came out during COVID when they noticed symptom improvements in patients that got CT scans or chest X-Rays vs patients that didn't, cause the inflammation cascade's a big reason for long-term bad outcomes. There's also the fact it's a heavy noble gas, like xenon, and those ALSO have analgesic properties so the somewhat-immediate relief from it makes it a lot more noticeable. The vast majority of bad health outcomes related to radon or radiation exposure are either continuous occupational exposure over years, or ingesting of things that are bone or organ seekers, and would still be a major issue even if it WASN'T radioactive - see also, phosphorous and fluorine compounds that do similar things despite being non-radioactive. That's really the big problem with radioisotopes and pollution, and why it's absolutely criminal that oil companies can still use their well brine to salt roads in the winter or control dust in the summer - that stuff is absolutely chock full of radium dissolved in solution, I can pick up on my CDV-700 which brands of frozen corn came from Ohio vs Indiana/Illinois fields cause of the bioaccumulation from dust-suppressing farm roads.
@@RadioactiveDrew IDK I don't live in Ohio, the corn's about 3x background level but non-Ohio-grown corn brands are background. It ain't much until you consider how most of what's actually in there is Radium, not just radon daughters, so it bioaccumulates and doesn't really leave. There's been articles about this stuff going back a decade or more, the WORST is old oil/brine piping that's so bad it's got neutron activation of the steel, scrapyards won't even take old oilfield pipes cause the steel mills have survey meters nowadays. Coal tailings and especially ash ponds are pretty hot too, the NRC made my dad wear a film badge in the mid 80's at Dutch Gap power station cause of how much uranium and radium are in coal, their plant put out MORE radioactive contaminants than the nuclear plant downriver.
