A Brief History of: The Sodium Reactor Experiment Accident (short Documentary) 

I have the hobby to recommend science-channel to those in c-sections under science-channels... i mean... its kinda self-explanatory, really...

Best analogy ever!

Exactly

Lol. Well said. Scarey, funny and true all in one.

and they say it safe source of energy ... maybe but we haven t found a safe source of human...lmfao

Basically that's the story of Chernobyl.

@@Jodonho You must be mistaken...

Reminds me of the sign that says if it is not broken get a bigger hammer.

Thats the story of lots of places sadly. Or even forcing the reset function on due to those pesky alarms...

fix0the0spade, you are quite correct the operators kept trying to start the thing and over riding the safety systems. They treated it like cranking over an old Ford in the winter.

I'll just put this here, with the rest of the fire...

"Try jiggling the handle of the fuel rod. It works when the shitter is acting up."

In MSR "accident" did NOTHING in Oak Ridge experiment...

Running Windows ME (Meltdown Edition) ?

I am looking at all of that old equipment and how rudimentary it all is and I am thinking "No! You kids are too young to play with those toys, you will hurt yourselves."

Only a professor would think that groundbreaking. Meanwhile us plebs ,who deal with it on a daily basis, take it for granted. Ffs.🙄🙄🙄

@@billy4072 I doubt he considered it groundbreaking -- he was just reminding a bunch of people in a highly scientific field that the lab and the exam room aren't the same. It's much like the engineers who design a car and the mechanics who have to repair it. The engineers aren't wrong exactly but sometimes their design "runs" but it doesn't "work."

That's a quote from the great Yogi Berra who said "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is"

Lol.

That’s up there with “no plan survives contact with the enemy” or, as Mr. Tyson more eloquently put it, “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face”

Best way to do it!

This is research after all. What's the worst that could happen?

@@Yora21 ...and then they found out.

@@Yuzral Yeah...they got defunded [HOP HOP HOP!]

@@PlainlyDifficult Da Comrade what could go wrong so what if it almost melts down its the space heater function for the winter

Very. Back then people didn't care about safety because they mainly didn't know better and had gigantic government pressure to find new ways of using uranium (primarily because govs wanted more nuclear weapons, which governed every early reactor designs choice) and that leads to overly rushed timelines and a lack of respect for the tech. People able then we're too carefree about excursions and often just deactivated safeties because "they knew better lol" Nowadays it's aging plants still using inefficient and dangerous designs which are operated (mostly) more carefully but with companies slashing on costs whenever they can, sometimes even openly shoving aside engineering reports. To problematic outcomes of course.

Check out Rulison, where the best & brightest thought using an underground nuclear explosion would be a great way to fracture oil & gas bearing rock. It was. Problem was (and is) what they produced was highly radioactive. Powers that were immediately removed all evidence of their monumental failure... Except that local land owners and ranchers now had their own, private radium wells.

The experiments at Shotley Manor were done in 8ft pits with a concrete slab roof on brick supports. The logic being, any explosion would blow out the support bricks and entomb the pit, containing the explosion. If only they knew....

They recently (10 years ago or so) found atomic bomb grade plutonium buried in a refrigerator in Hanford. It was left over from the bomb and buried in a nondescript hole in the desert. I believe there was cardboard involved but I can’t remember now

@@manderson147 "Don't open, nuclear weapons inside"

Its the same as keeping a circuit breaker held in, when it keeps on tripping. Then wondering why smoke is pouring out the wiring (people have done this)

@@notmenotme614 good lord

That's why knowing the difference between monitoring equipment failure vs monitored equipment failure is very important!!

What is the correct way to open a pickle jar, then?

Installed an IKEA curtain wire and didn't read the instructions. The thing has 1 moving part, so how hard can it be? Turns out the wire is pulled under tension so the right hand mount has left handed threads. I managed to completely destroy the threads by screwing a right handed peg into a left handed nut.

Well, I chew copper regularly, and I also have my own sodium-cooled reactor in the basement, so I _really_ know what I'm talking about here. Sodium-cooled reactors don't taste _anything like_ copper (unless there's a sodium leak from the primary, in which case the taste is a little like chewing on aluminium _and_ copper simultaneously).

Yep, I know what y'all mean. I installed my own sodium-cooled reactor a few years back. The money savings are just tremendous! I've been patting myself on the back, with the third arm I grew, ever since!

Hahahaha

My sodium-cooled reactor was repeatedly shutting down. I figured something must have gotten clogged up, so I used my bulldozer to rock it back and forth a few times to shake loose whatever was clogging it up. Since then, it's been steadily increasing its output regardless of what I set it to, so shaking it up a tad must have worked. :-) In an unrelated note, my neighbors complain about not being able to sleep at night from their glowing bedroom walls. I asked why they bought a house with such a nifty perk of modern living if they knew it would keep them up. I sort of like the green glow of their house more than the purple glow of mine. The same architect undoubtedly built both houses, but my neighbors definitely got the better end of the stick.

oh yay! i really love the taste of copper and i’m not allergic to it at all! thanks for the advice!

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Underrated comment lmao

This should be pinned👌🤣

All true but those were different times and we learnt what not to do from them

Not wanting to die does wonders for safety regulations.

So, in other words, disasters will always happen so long as humans make and run nuclear reactors. May be better to use a source that won't go so wrong when humans inevitably fuck up.

@@andrewbecker1013 Solar panels are often made with toxic heavy metals, mirror arrays for them can fry birds, oil spills are arguably more devastating to wildlife than nuclear disasters, wind turbines kill birds too, and hydroelectric dams cause various ecological problems. And every form of energy production involves mineral resources, often ones that are mined in some way, which also f*cks up the environment, and can cause non-nuclear carcinogens to end up in people. Nuclear power isn't special in that regard, and the amount of oversight it has means it's probably caused fewer deaths than most of the other power sources in absolute terms.

I'm not sure "exceedingly safe" is the right label to slap on a reactor no matter how it's run. Nuclear power may be safe when everything is running smoothly but there are just so many scenarios where things can go wrong and the results are often devastating. Drowning and electric shock are 2 dangers that would make me not even consider a full bath tub "exceedingly safe."

LOL burst out laughing.. thanks!

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Molten salt is a thing, but it's not this thing.This one has stuff that would much rather burn and have the ash be salt.

hahaha, mouth taste like metal

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Thank you!

....it's CEREBRAL!.....if it was who won on X Factor, it'd have THOUSANDS of subscribers! Welcome to the Early 21st Century!!

It’s heading that way, just needs to catch the algorithm. Think I’ve been round since it only had a few hundred subscribers.

I can. RU-vidrs, in general haven't got the attention span to sit through anything longer than 5 minutes where the host isn't constantly shouting at them in a vain attempt to keep the viewer's focus. Nevermind one that has as many technical details as this channel. The part of this video describing the reactor alone is probably longer than your average RU-vidr influencer's video. People nowadays don't want to have to sit through something for 20 minutes to be entertained. They want to be entertained NOW and constantly. Lose their attention for literally more than 10-20 seconds and they'll stop watching. The age of the internet has made them dependant on that instant gratification. It's very much like an addiction where they need that hit of pleasure right away and getting it only makes them want more. Frankly, the fact that this channel has as many subs as it does is pretty good for this type of channel.

I second that

Typical.😠

They probably acquired it with the knowledge they could "gift" it back when it was properly ruined.

Puts the smallpox blankets into perspective. They are still at it. Have they gifted 3 mile island as well?

That fire didn't help anything

It's far cleaner nowadays but there are caveats about that I can't mention because of NDAs

Yeah, you'll never know for sure, unless you actually try it! Any volunteers? It's for science!

Probably a good idea!

That's (goes away to do the calculation himself) a third of a milimeter. That's not a gap. That's not even wriggle room.

If it's forming oxides, there are other issues at play. It means you've got oxygen getting in somewhere. And that's bad news bears with molten metallic sodium.

@@Yora21 they literally designed this thing without any wiggle room.. disaster waiting to happen.

I would use different cooland that is not forming anything. Like molten salt.

Thank you I really appreciate your kind words!

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His content is so good that a nuclear incident is now considered to have some benefits. For that i say: raise your control rods 😋

@@lukahutinski9075 as funny as that is its not funny 🤔🤣😐

Apart from the inability to pronounce TH properly

Large portions of Terminator 2 were filmed in the San Fernando Valley (John Connor's foster parents' home, the truck/motorcycle chase scene in the LA river flood channel). So it's totally plausible that Cyberdyne/Skynet are based on the significant nuclear and aerospace testing facilities in Santa Susana, Canoga Park, and other parts of the SFV region.

Matthew Lee *Big McThankies from McSpankies!*

Okay mister magic man

*irritating music on the background*

i think you mean screwball...ol whatshisname should have not been any where near nuclear material...same goes for the goofball that was standing behind him that become that director that lit off, oh which one was it, not Ivy Mike maybe shot Bravo(?) that contaminated the Lucky Dragon 7 because the wind had changed direction hours earlier.....

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Open RADIOACTIVE sodium burn pits.

@@Frisbieinstein that should be treated as such a stupid action comparable to making a nuclear weapon

I'm astounded that they thought liquid sodium could EVER be a good idea for long term use. It's so bloody reactive (read: high-energy, unstable, corrosive) that I'd feel much safer driving a car that uses gasoline as coolant in the radiator.

Yes let's grab the plutonium fuel rods with our hands and jiggle them 🙄😩😒

As it was the fashion of the era

Was there ever an effort made by the government to monitor the health of people who had lived in the area? Or did they just kind of gloss over everything?

"Cancer deaths from radiation release" is either pure lie or fantasy. Alarmists take please in scaring people. It is the shame that alarmist videos like this mimic as scientific.

Or the even less well-known accident at Bohunice A1.

Or SL1

@@Jodonho An episode on that already exists: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IYle_eI5j78.html

Does this list end? Maybe there are accidents which are undisclosed, perhaps...

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on friday the 13th...

Noice!

*_NICE_* ........oh, wait.

n i c e

How rude

Lack of respect, pressured to show results, overachievers

Reminds me of a 'certain' song that says "your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb"...

Maybe it was fun

It happens. Check this out: "Tickling the Tail of the Dragon" experiments: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core.

At the moment it seemed like a good idea.

I know 🥴

The sodium wasn’t the problem... I have an open sodium burn pit in my back yard. (Most people call it a pond)

I read an account of one of the disposal operators who said they regularly placed drums of hazardous materials in the pits and shot them to start the burning.

@@orcoastgreenman Nobody is impressed you've tossed a sample of sodium into your parent's fish pond. The sodium they were burning here included neutron activated reactor coolant, and very much unlike the sample you bought off eBay some of this sodium was radioactive as mentioned in the video.

@@Peter_S_ - you don’t read comments do you... my initial statement was that the sodium was not the big issue. Nice virtue signaling, holier than thou straw man though... No one is impressed by your comment either, dumb and dumberer...

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Thank you it’s a shame we haven’t seen a video from him for ages!

Don’t make me cry :(

What happened to him anyway??

he made a new video a month ago!

@@kjoter And it was beautiful!

Vellioh u right. That was smooth. Almost unnoticeable

Thank you!! I really appreciate it!

@@PlainlyDifficult You're welcome, your channel has become a niche for industrial accidents and your production quality is high.

"Those mothertruckers Environmentalists and Safety Dicks are slowing down the rate of Progress!!!" *Flashback to the good ol times when they burned radioative materials without bloody Hippies doing political pressure against it*

@John Toas Good luck living in a Space Ship, Common Joe

@Patrick led If its inevitable so the most reasonable thing to do is to kill humanity right? Yknow since humanity is doomed to fall it would be simply mercy to kill people.

In a field less than 2 miles from the Chatsworth Resevoir, which supplied the drinking water for Chatsworth, Canoga Park, and Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley.

Yeah look at the graphs of radioactivity in environment over time and it coincides perfectly with a massive jump in cancers. Nuke industry hates discussion of that. It was getting back to normal after chernobyl too then fukushima happened. It spreads everywhere and is nearly impossible to link to nuclear contamination, Just takes one hot particle and you are playing roulette.

Czarnobyl could be saved by adding the water, if you add the water to sodium...

The lead singer of Motley Crue’s child allegedly died from a rare form of cancer that was caused by this

@@fenderstratADHD It's insane. I didn't realize Vince Neil lost his daughter to cancer until years later. It's disgusting that a class-action law suit can't be filed against the corporation responsible for so much tragedy. "Too much time has passed."

Same here; from this channel, as well as Kyle Hill's, I've learned more about nuclear power, reactors, meltdowns and fuel than I ever have in school.

Ah the 1950s

It's really like Derek Bieri from Vice Grip Garage was running things here. After saying "it's fine" he'd say "No, it's not. It's good enough. Well, probably not, but we'll start her up anyway." shaking his head and walking away.

And the SRE was only 1 of 4 nuclear meltdowns and there were dozens of other nuclear accidents at the SSFL too, in addition to the heavy contamination from the rocket engine testing. parentsagainstssfl.com/contamination

Read the Book.."We Almost Lost Detroit".

These daredevil "inventors" are so caring, they want to share the award with all around them. Aren't they nice? xD

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Brilliant thank you!

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Sodiun

The Woolsey fire made it real for most people, but the scary thing is it could happen again any day...until we get the cleanup. parentsagainstssfl.com

They already did that, the burn pit is currently totally radio-clean.

Exactly, here's the report for that: parentsagainstssfl.com/accidents

Thank you I’m glad you enjoy the channel

Thank you for watching

Thank you!

I grew up on the other side ( Woodland Hills ). I still remember hearing the roar from the engine tests and seeing the cloud of steam rising above the mountain. Was not aware of the dangerous nuclear tests going on till later. Unreal.

I want another SSFL video too. The biggest problem isn't what Boeing did for a cleanup, but what Boeing isn't going to do. They agreed in 2007 to completely cleanup the soil and groundwater by 2017 and haven't even started the soil cleanup and are saying they shouldn't have to do the groundwater like they originally promised because no one drinks it- but you probably know, being a Simi resident, that Golden State Water uses partial well water that's contaminated from the SSFL. They say because they mix it with imported water that it's "safe enough" but they've only tested for tritium twice in 12 years. Please sign our petition for the complete cleanup www.parentsagainstssfl.com and watch the documentary www.inthedarkofthevalley.com

The Federal EPA put out a FACT SHEET in May 2012 that said that the site was contained and that there was no offsite risk. I walked all of AREA IV - that is where the nuclear research was done - pretty much on a monthly basis with the Federal EPA from 2010 - 2012. I was inside the basement of a SNAP reactor building wearing a hardhat, safety vest, and I had on a dosimeter to record my radiation exposure. I was taken into that reactor by a representative of the Department of Energy. I was up there as a technical stakeholder discussing where they should sample for radionuclides from known accidents and spills. Lots of misinformation in the world regarding what really happened up there.

Giggedy

Yes, blindingly go where no idiots had gone before.

@Mycel Reminds me of of an Air Force test program, I think about the F-35. The tests were completed successfully The result revealed that the technology is not working.

It was the kind of testing facility that many involved in trying to make safe nuclear power at the time absolutely detested Compare and contrast with Oak Ridge

Thank you

@@PlainlyDifficult omgoodness thank you for replying..especially on such and old video. love your work and get to learn so much..please never stop 😄

What?? Wow, as a Tucsonan I had no idea about this…

Thank you