How Radioactive Is The First Atomic Bomb Site? 

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@@taylordooley3765 It sounds as though Davis soon found it uninteresting. There's only limited appeal to a big, shallow, radioactive depression in the ground.

I've always been a massive WWII buff, so when I went to Japan years ago, I went to the detonation site in Nagasaki. The bomb detonated over a prison, and the only thing left was a narrow-width bit of dug in concrete that would of formed a perimeter around the prison's foundation. When I stood there, and really thought about it, it was one of those rare occasion where you can feel the weight of a historical event; that only happened twice.

They modified the house since I was there 20 years ago you could see the roof that almost blew off because of the blast and it looks like they repainted as well one thing that use to be there if it’s not any more was the swimming pool that they had to keep them self cool

@@jayklink851 those cities are prosperous.. Thriving. Radiation didn't stop life going on there... All sounds like bullshit to me

that’s rad. did you see the nolan film that just came out?

@@keithwaynejones which one?

@@mmm-hmm oppenheimer

That's so cool

@@noot1254 ah no, i heard it’s trash

That would have been a cool conversation to have on record.

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@@Daniel-vo1vfI’ll put that to record

My grandfather was still in France around that time. He saw a glow come up, too, but it was an ongoing fusion bomb that gave life to Earth.

It may have been Alamogordo Air Field (now Holloman AFB). There is record on their website that B-29's flew from there, and the Trinity site is 60 miles north-northwest, on the other side of the mountains, which aligns with the old man's account.

LOL beware the radioactive rattle snake

The radioactive hissing, ticking & glow in the dark rattlesnake with 3 heads and 6 eyes.

Snakezilla

Something something Nightstker

Hmm...snakes on a plain.

One bomb malfunctioned in the south pacific and spread plutonium everywhere. They sent a bunch of dopes out to pick up the pieces by hand and put them in a hole. They covered the hole with concrete. The site is now going under water due to sea level rise. DOD has known about it for decades but has'nt spent the money to clean it up. The guys who were exposed are some of the many who can't get the government to pay their health costs. The plutonium will spread into the ocean.

That sure is a concerning fact. I wonder who would've been assigned cleanup duty for the fragments embedded with plutonium sent miles all over the desert? That's a short straw you'd really want to avoid....

Wouldve made the Halifax explosion in ww1 look like child's play lmao

Being that nuclear bombs are thermonuclear, I wonder if they evacuated the air out to a complete vacuum and detonated the bomb, no air to expand, just a thought

@@nigelman9506 You'd still have all the radiation pressure, not to mention even at the small scale of the Trinity the immediate vaporization radius is still much bigger than the Jumbo

My great-grandfather did the same thing, but the piece he brought home got confiscated by the military according to my grandmother.

Every minute counted, I suppose. Thank you for pointing out these facts, and thank you for your service.

It was utterly remarkable, especially given how involved the logistics were of staging everything at Tinian.

I remember reading a comment with a conspiracy theory saying that the US never actually developed the bombs but took them from the nazis when they defeated Germany and dropped them on the Japanese. Funny story.

All three weapons were taken from a secret and separate Nazi who had 4 devices on a remote Greek island. The indigenous who helped said all 4 were different. Then one day they were kept inside as one was tested. Days later the Nazi scientists and the other 3 were gone. All that was left was a massive scar that still exists, and some really messed up observation bunkers. When the ground was tested it showed a Nuke was detonated. This all came from an episode of NASAs unsolved mysteries. They give out Earthly formations for study and didn’t know what they had when they detected the scar. It’s since been removed from the series library. So 3 left = Trinity and the two used for combat. All different and using different Radioactive means. Google Nazi Nuke test Rugen Island.

This sounds extremely unlikely.

Still thermally hot in the 70s?

@@user-ty2uz4gb7v probably not thermal heat. Radioactivity is often referred to as hot.

I was at Holloman (medic) 70 to 74. I just hope it wasn't in the water. I know Alamogordo/Tularosa have high cancer rates.

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@@user-ty2uz4gb7v when someone says the term "Hot" their meaning Extremely Radioactive not Temperature

My mother in law saw the blast from Belen NM. Its weird to see the sun rise in the South...

Another ironic thing is my father in law enlisted in the Navy during WW2 Due to 2 of his brothers we're POWs and Part of the ANG 200 Coast artillery unit from Gallup. The brothers and my father in law all came home because of gadget being dropped on Japan !!!

I guess that poor little girls parents really didn’t want her in the house at all imagine being told to go out and play at 5:00 am

My paternal grandmother went out to get the milk off the porch in Alamogordo and saw the “ammo dump” explosion.

@@PatrickNthedesert lmaoo

Trinitite isn’t that radioactive now. The most active isotope in it usually is cesium 137, which had a half-life of 30 years. So at this point it should have a little less than a quarter of that cesium left. After about 220 years it won’t be noticeable radioactive.

No problem.

Curious about the stoneworks at about 18:24?

My son was at Holloman during the filming of Transformers. He was an extra, but as he noted to me, "you might see my knee."

🌺🏛️🗽🌺 WSMR kid building the Collussal statue of Freedom might need ARMY backup 😉🌺

There are Titan missle site tours in various places.

You have a good Dad

Science did that.

I second you.

Yeah there has been a huge uptick in traffic on my Trinity Site video. I also made a second video mapping out the radiation of that site. RU-vid haven’t started pushing that yet.

​@RadioactiveDrew have you seen the movie? It was awesome.

I’ve seen it about 20 times now because I’m the projectionist for one of the 70mm film prints. Making a video about the whole process.

@@RadioactiveDrew that’s actually really cool

Whose head was going to explode? Your father's or the gate attendant?

If you visit the towns nearby you will see bigger and tons of petrified tees in people’s yards, around businesses. You could buy a a huge log if you want!

One of my friends was stationed there and grabbed a chunk of trinitite. He kept it under his bed for years. His wife couldn’t get pregnant and he developed cancer. I don’t know if it was related. But lots of rock shops still sell the stuff.

@@sigsin1 sounds like that was the cause

It wasn’t related. I have a stash of it that was liberated by a federal employee from the site. Being an enthusiast I have several means of detecting and classifying radiation sources. Trinitite is not vigorously radioactive. A single piece isn’t detectable more than a few inches away by the most sensitive devices. A few hundred pounds stored close to your body and and in a manner that makes dust that is readily inhaled, well that’s another story.

Maralinga is way more radioactive, as are the Montebello islands.

In the late 1960s, while in the U.S. Navy, I visited the Nagasaki G0 site. By that time, the city had declared the area surrounding the G0 a permanent memorial area named Peace Park. A huge statue of a Shinto holy man (I guess) sitting cross-legged at the exact target coordinates with one hand raised, a finger pointed toward the heavens. Quite an impressive and sobering experience for this 24 year old sailor.

@@dragonmeddler2152 My dad was in the Royal Airforce and was involved with the British A bomb and H bomb tests at Maralinga South Australian outback and Montebello islands in the Indian Ocean and Christmas island in the Pacific Ocean . The radiation he got destroyed his cardio vascular system. The most dangerous test was performed at Christmas island of a hydrogen bomb, they were only around 15 kilometres away from the blast. Apparently the heat was so intense that the service men complained that it was like a electric bar heater being pressed against their skin for a few seconds

I really like interacting with the community here on RU-vid. Usually the people are pretty cool and I don't mind answering questions.

@@RadioactiveDrew Keep being you!😊

10x above background radiation is extremely low.

Any idea why the trinitite enclosure was removed? It was extant when I visited twenty years ago, thanks in advance!

They didnt leave big crators because the bombs were high above it, but sounds like it still blew the top soil away in the blastwave.

@@christianbuczko1481 The tower at Trinity Site was 100 ft high. Compared to the Nagasaki detonation which was set at about 1,650 ft.

@@christianbuczko1481 The original crate was 8 feet deep and 1/2 mile in diameter. The bomb was not exploded "high above it." The bomb was on a 100-foot tower. The site was bulldozed to remove the trinitite because it was radioactive and some fill was brought in. The remainder of the original depression has been filled with wind-blown sand and dust.

@@christianbuczko1481 that crater was pretty big it's just had sand blowing into it for years.

The bulk of the metal was protected by ablation. Project Orion was the greatest/craziest idea ever---imagine sitting in a captain's chair while a nuclear bomb explodes ~100m(?) behind you every second or less!

It might not have been vaporized, but it was certainly liquid metal for more than a few seconds.

@@truthseeker2321 no, a thin layer of surface WAS "vaporized"---ablated, to be precise. The resulting plasma protected the underlying metal, so that the tower was pretty much all there, albeit blown to pieces. The tower was actually reconstructed just to prove this.

@@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 Wow,I never heard about that. I always thought that the tremendous heat would have vaporized it, but of course, it didn't vaporize any of the ships at Bikini Atoll. Thanks for the information 👍

@@truthseeker2321 it's the same idea that protected the Space Shuttle on re-entry. In a modern H-bomb up to 3./4" (20mm) of U-238 or other heavy metal is vaporized to plasma almost instantly, the reaction force driving the implosion of DT and Pu "spark plug"

That sounds really cool.

Its not a gift that keeps on giving. Our bodies are designed to heal from radiation damage. What our bodies are not use to dealing with is chemical exposure.

Forgive me I'm not good at nuclear physics, but are you saying that nuclear power can also be use for greener or eco friendly?

@@Mechantrechyrmang yes. Look up thorium molten salt reactors. Theyre a much, much different design from the common PWR/BWR reactors styles. Basically, the Thorium Salt reactors is much higher efficiency and can get more useage out of fuel than a conventional reactor. So much so that we can use whay we already consider "spent fuel" inside of them. Thus, we have some 700 years worth of fuel just sitting in storage containers in the Nevada deserts (where we send our spent fuel from current reactors). Also, if we can harness the power of fussion, we have unlimited energy. Fusion reactors will also create virtually zero nuclear waste. The only problem with fusion is.. 1. We havent been able to sustain fusion reactors for very long due to the immense heat they produce (millions of degrees). 2. The energy required to start a fusion reaction is more than the energy we get out from it (currently). We are slowly getting there with fusion, but itll probably be 15-20 years until fusion is fully achievable.

@@shaggydaboy2 Since you seem to be an expert. My chemistry teacher told us that "It is really selfish to use our Uranium resources which only last 100-200 years and pollute the planet for hundreds of thousands of years." What is your oppinion on this?

​@@shaggydaboy2interesting 🤔 let's build one 🕜

There is a great interview with Mr. Teller from 1973 saying the very same about the people in the U.S. and how there was a lack of inspiration to study physics and science in general. As you likely well know, Teller envisioned the possibilities that were created by understanding and developing nuclear energy. Unfortunately, today we see little of that vision in the U.S.

That's a cool piece of family history...thanks for sharing.

She would have met Richard Feymann, who was involved in a lot of the calculations made to estimate the effects of the bomb. I met and spoke with Edward Teller, but would have like to have met Feymann.

@@ru2yaz33 My Aunt Mary Argo went on desert hikes every Sunday (their only day off) with her husband Harold (also a physicist) and Edward Teller. She said it was their only day away from the stress of the task they were trying to accomplish. She said they talked about ANYTHING but what they were doing the other 6 days a week. It was the one day they had that provided them even the smallest sense of normalcy and they never broke the rule and spoke about "The Bomb" they were helping so desperately to create.

It helped for sure.

I’m sure the fall open house date is going to be busy. I’m planning to go back out there for the spring time date in April. Had a lot of fun running into fans of the channel.

Yeah but then they put batteries in the counters.

@@rogersmith7396 I wonder what was making them click then?

​@@oriraykai3610 background radioactivity. Not to mention that many elements make it tick, not just the radiation from fallout.

​@@rogersmith7396 actually not. Look at Hiroshima, Nagasaki... These were precise bombs. Now you have these pocket thermonuclear and they destroy half the city and the radiation is way, way worse. Till certain point in the 50s theh were aimed at destruction, since the 70s it's aimed at inflicting casualties.

Same for Hiroshima or Nagasaki. These are thriving cities.

That museum is terrific. Been there a few times. Well worth the stop.

Did she know anything about the plutonium injections on people at that time?

should be proud !!!!!! at least i would be very much !!!!! part of history !!

I’m from Oak Ridge TN

That pretty cool.

This is a month after your question but I can give you a partial answer. The water coming from a functional nuclear reactor is far less radioactive than from coal plants. It's so close to background radiation it's almost impossible to detect. The Fukishima water is another story entirely and I don't know how well the radiation will be diluted. It's not the water that will be radioactive, it's everything in the water that could be dangerous. I just don't know how much radioactive gunk will float in the water nor how long it will keep floating.

@@bigmekboy175 I think the ocean is pretty good at diluting stuff.

Mostly Fukushima discharging into the Pacific is like adding a pinch of salt to a swimming pool. Irrelevant. But there's arguments either side for whether bioaccumulation is an issue.

Tritium doesn’t bioaccumulate.

@@RadioactiveDrew Indeed it stabilises and has a rather short halflife anyway. I'm firmly in the camp of "we evolved to survive on a fairly radioactive planet". Carbon-14 is mostly what's left over after the producing process (called ALPS) I don't think it's that dangerous. Not as dangerous as _not_ discharging it, letting it accumulate on land and another earthquake and tsunami causing a rapid release of _ALL_ the contaminated water at once!

Thanks…glad you enjoyed it.

They really should just have it be open every day at this point there really isn’t much radiation left at this point

@@ianloeb1672 I think the issues are that it is very far away from anywhere, so it wouldn't have much traffic. We drove for four hours from one of the nearest towns, just to get there. Also, it is situated on the White Sands Missile Range, and would need a military presence for all visitors. Again, it is very far out in the middle of nowhere, as a nuclear blast should be :). And further, there is still a lot of trinitite there which would be a public hazard if not tightly controlled. Taking it home to make a necklace would be a really bad idea. So I can at least understand it :).

There was some prepositioning of A bombs to Japan during the Korean War. One of them was on a B-29 that crashed at what was Susuin AFB, killing Gen. Travis & some others. The base was renamed to Travis AFB. Of course, the plutonium pit was not inside the bomb, but the explosives did go off, scattering U-238 all over the area. There's sign radiation warning signs around that area.

I would rather go there than Trinity. A reminder of the obscenity of nuclear weapons.

When I visited Tokyo, I looked over on the street to find an old woman glaring at me with more hate than II 'd ever witnessed. (I'm a gaijin). I pretty much knew at the time why. I was embarrassed.

@@Kinann Why? You never had to stare down anybody who had misplaced race based anger before and set them straight?

More were killed in thermite bombings of Tokyo, Dresden and others. Of course the Nazis gassed 6 million. Stallin killed 36 million Russians.

@@mattmarzula Neither have you, to be fair

Nuke-u-ler?? Dude 😮 I’ll help New-Clee-Ur

​@@drkwoodswhat are you talking about?

@@ironpizza5150 the guy is a radiation expert?? And and cannot properly pronounce Nuclear. Go read my comment again. Now you’ll get it

@@drkwoods You replied to a random commenter. Not the video

Awesome

what did you think of the oppenhiemer movie? is it accurate?

@@kosaki9750 Its too long thats fro sure

@@serzhan222 I thought 3 hours was perfect for the amount of history Oppenheimer has.

It's not highly radioactive at Trinity test site, no more than flying at cruising altitude over Southern Argentina or South Australia

​@@blake9358radiation is higher while flying than it is on the ground? I'm clueless about this matter

When you fly you get way more radiation exposure than spending all day at the Trinity site. Flight crews get more radiation exposure than most nuclear power workers.

​@@johnf.r6658air protects against cosmic radiation to an extent, higher altitudes = thinner air, which means more cosmic radiation gets to you. And that is just one radiation source.

@@RadioactiveDrew Doesn't the plane's skin block all alpha and most beta radiation? Is it mainly gamma inside the plane?

I feel the same way. That’s why I encourage people to have a Geiger counter of some kind with them when visiting the site.

Its a very interesting experience and big part of human history.

This shows the difference between open and closed societies such as Russia, China etc. We must appreciate how free we actually are in the west.

They really should just have it open every day at this point

@@ianloeb1672 this is part of an active military training site, it would be a little dangerous with real new warfare testing going on close by

@@FrickingLunatic they could just relocate the base think of the income the state could generate from this site from both locals and tourists combined every day

Yeah, trinitite isn't that radioactive compared to other things you can find in an antique shop.

It as odd as those "tourists" who go to visit the "Four Corner Monument" and have a photo taken with one foot/hand on the Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah ! Note that there is a long standing controversy about the location of the "exact" 'Four Corners Point', depending on which geodesic survey is taken as reference, the variation in position could be some MILES apart !

@jean-pierrelafaille8713 this is much different then some lines on a map. This site is where the world changed forever. It’s also a big deal getting out to the site because it’s on an active missile range.

@@RadioactiveDrew exactly! I'm all for roadside attractions. But this has quite a bit more gravitas than the largest ball of twine or the above mentioned Four Corners of the US... One is a geographic curiosity, while the other is the place where we learned how to bomb a whole lot of human beings. They're not the same thing.

The protests seem to be outside of the Army base when I’ve been there. Can’t imagine people doing a protest at the ground zero obelisk lasting long now.

Museum is closed and guards are A-holes!

Yes it surprised me you had to have permission to go to the museum but they let me in. I mostly remember the V2 as it was surprising to me. Very large extremely complicated. Did'nt look like something from the 1940s. Once they let me through the gate nobody paid any attention to me. Tried to see the boneyard at Davis Monthan. They said it would take a week to get FBI clearance. I thought it was a joke to see a bunch of scrap metal and was'nt happy. I think they take bus tours now.

Yes, the V-2 rocket display is unforgettable...

That would be weird, that MPs would collect the pieces taken.

I go mine exploring in Cornwall uk. There is the mine were Madame curie got her uranium ore from. The radon gas levels are insane. You can get youre self 30/60 msv a hour. 😂😂😂😂

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This is cool man thank you for sharing! Why do the Rockies have so many RADS?

@@samuelb7546 It's not specifically the Rockies, but the higher elevations get a higher exposure rate from cosmic rays and their secondary radiation from collisions between energetic particles from space interacting with air molecules up in the stratosphere. This principle was actually discovered by 19th century scientists working from balloons over Europe. They didn't know what was generating the radiation, but detected the higher levels using gold-foil electroscopes and other early instruments. Really fascinating to read how many discoveries are far older than most people know!

@@samuelb7546 Part is altitude. A lot of radiation comes from the Sun and our atmosphere can protect us from only so much.

That sounds like fun.

Glad to have you aboard.

Then why would you worry? Thermonuclear war will be the same to you as slipping on ice and dying, the same as you growing old and dying? Its not even worth worrying about. The soul advantage to nuclear firearms is that you know you will never suffer their fate, less every single person in the world will as well.

@Mark Bohm Joshua : A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

@@c3aloha had to watch it again last week!

Not my type of place i wanna visit Life is short

there is a fantastic talk on this from the inside plus his journey out to NM by nobel winning scientist who worked on this project here on YT. RICHARD FEYNMAN from the bottom .... something like that. it was fabulous! and he is funny. i just heard it. He is very special. i was amazed to hear a first hand on site talk. YT is so wonderful.

I was there too on 4/1/23. I saw you.

Thanks.

​@@RadioactiveDrew I bet you kept a little chunk of that... "Glass". It's ok I won't tell anyone your secret 😉😉 Obviously joking. I know you have too more integrity to do that 😊

Wow, that’s crazy to hear…that they wouldn’t even let you pick up the trinitite.

There is no check points. Or passes neededto go. You just drive out there and look at it

@@anthonydelgado7710 I'd pay to see you drive right through the Stallion Gate without a pass. 🤣

Thanks.

Dang, that’s a lot of government service.

@@RadioactiveDrew Dad was stationed at fort Bliss, before that Germany. Mom and Dad decided to buy a house in El Paso and make it home permanently. They had their 50th wedding anniversary at white sands. Dad will be 92 this December. Mom will be 90 in November. Watching your video and seeing the movie Oppenheimer awoke many memories ❤️ thank you.

Your welcome, glad you enjoyed the video.

On my 4th watching of it today…only because I’m the projectionist for the 70mm.

​@@RadioactiveDrewthat's so cool lmao.

I’m making a video about it.

@@RadioactiveDrew looking forward to it

No problem. It was a fun time making this video.

Its a very fun experience....for people into that type of thing.

Glad you liked it.

you should take it on an airplane and see what it reads at higher altitudes.

I would like to head out that way one day and check those locations.

The B reactor at Hanford WA conducts tours.

I don’t brag about exposure. I do talk to people about the places I go to.

A God by nature is usually smart

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Everyone's got a gimmick these days.

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the sub.

No problem.

rad 🙄

Thanks. I would recommend going there. Its pretty cool to check out. Plus if you've never been to White Sands NP you should check that out as well.

@@RadioactiveDrew If I get to retire next year, I am planning on visiting the West and doing some Nuclear Tourism!! You would be interested in my latest find in an antique shop a few weeks ago - a Radi-Glo ring still on the card. Little sucker is a bit spicy - 55,000 cpm If I get a chance, I will send you a pic of it!!

@@randyhavener1851 I've heard of those rings before. I've never found one though. That is pretty spicy for a small source.

I think that’s what makes this whole field of study so interesting.