Protection Against Radiation In Uranium Mines 

Put on your asbestos jacket and light up on Marbro you all good back then lol

Daughters of Radon will be my new thrash metal band name.

You know, their recommendation that Uranium miners avoid smoking was very interesting. With the (now public) data available, what they didn't realize they had just stated was that the effects of smoking washed out the signal from *working in a Uranium mine in the '60s*. That's incredible.

Funny how they already noticed the connection between smoking and lung cancer, but only limited their recommendation to uranium miners.

Smoking cigarettes while mining for uranium sounds so American! I feel that freedom!

Leaves sealed door open *guitar riff playing* _Shake hands with danger..._

15:45 that feeling you get when that darn foil dryer vent tube won't clamp to the house....

I will use this next time when I'm going into an Uranium mine

Doing a 13 hour day in a full on respirator is a unique experience. Multiple days a week. It’s like scuba-diving, all about breathing control 😤😶‍🌫️

(16:30) plastic tubing has the added benefit of revealing air flow problems in the appearance of softness, in the plastic duct works.

These old videos are the best, straight facts and no "wow" factor like today's ones

the music really makes it work

A door can be the difference between a safe atmosphere and one dangerous to health. Gotcha. My uranium is fine if we have a fan.

What a wonderful documentary! I was wondering about ventilation used in early uranium mines but was unable to find many good papers on the subject.

Meanwhile asbestos consumption was at a record high. Ironic that they mentioned silica dust.

How i love these old films ! THX for uploading !

Dam, I am procrastinating hard right now.

Somehow I feel this documentary itself has influenced our image of that decade. Some of the people and some of the scenes like the atom decay and the designer at the table remind me of futurama and other programmes like it.

Love the Electron sound effects! Subscribed

Wonderful music!

Mickey Mantle's father and brother both died in their 30s from working in uranium mines in Oklahoma.

20:36 Now that's some "duct tape"

22:20 lmao, that thing losing oil like crazy. You can even see a couple small flickering of light reflecting off the oil dumping out of it.

Excellent, now I know how to sabotage and contaminate a uranium mine. Learn something new every day.

Anyone else surprised to learn that there was a "US Industrial Film Festival"??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Would that be like forklift Sundance?

Weird how the sound of the explosion arrived at the same time as the light from the explosion.

The 3M tape it’s red they make that stuff at Savannah Riverside even has expiration date on X on duct tape great stuff

How to downplay the severity of working in a uranium mine

these are amazing

I’m pretty sure the mine I worked at was a bandaid supply company!

Thanks Mike Wallace. He also narrated "Radium is your friend " and "Smoking radium?"

This was interesting, I learned alot

this makes me want to work in a uranium mine from the 60s

What you watch at 3am on a Tuesday lol

Yes

Those old reports are interesting

Miners from "Hills have Eyes"

Old good quality safety movie, nowadays we lack such producions.

3:35 why is that miner so caked up??? 😳😳🥵🥵

The daughters of Radon... Wonderful name.

We started off by mining for precious stones, then we mined coal, next for gold, afterwards for fossil fuel, later for uranium, recently for Lithium, and nowadays for crypto.

Gosh darnit, there's nothing like the fresh smell of uranium in the morning!

Even back then they knew people who smoked had higher incedences of lung cancer.

"should be remedied" lol

They had a tarp so all good

What is that Rn decay series 💀💀💀💀

I did hvac

I'd still rather work like this in a Uranium mine than in a coal mine

this must've been before we knew carcinogens caused cancer - he refers to the observation that non smoking miners had less cases of cancer. later in the video we also get to see the duct tape actually being used for what it was made for

Ironicaly I'm sure many miners in the word (outside of the west) would kill for that type of ventilation. Not sure if I would rather be irradiated in that mine or consatly be covered in coal particles and die from coal lung. Margret thatcher may have made people go though a real rough time but Im in my 20s and have been to uncountable funerals of old timers that died from coal mining, black lung, other stuff or cancer. When I would visit my grandparents who lived not that far from a mining area they would threaten me by "be good or your going down pit to work" down pit or the pit was slang for a coal mine. That meant nothing to me at the time and I was lucky as only my step grandfather was a forman for one mine, he never mined but did have to inspect some areas in the mine. He died in agony in his 70s of black lung. I had the chance to see a decommissioned coal mine and it looked worse than hell. It had all the modcons and safety stuff installed and they said we would need to use the shower room after and a respirator. I thought they are just teasing us. I had to do a waiver form. It looked like hell on earth, I spent more time on the shower than in the mine and it took a full week to get all the coal out. I think big coal mines in eastern Kentucky are still going or recently shut.

You couldn’t pay me enough to work there!

The world spends its life trying to keep itself in Balance!

My MSHA sense is tingling.

“Smoking cobalt cigarettes”

Whose 'ranium?

6:08 A LoFi Beats to Study / Measure Radon Daughter Product Airborne Concentrations To

this is adorable.

Check out the name of the mine at 6:42.

Does anyone know what year this is from?

This video is OSHA approved 🤣

You won't catch me in that ☢️ hole without a mask

The very first comment in the film... " Except the Japanese."

7:20 so it’s ok if you have 1000😊😊 that chart has 2000 and 3000 working levels but resent research say 4 is the max!

Uranium mine: No smoking. Miners: 1 fag won't hurt anyone.

My dad and stl schools made me watch this and understand the value of life and threats and humanity means camrodery

This feels like something from a fallout arg

Hilarious they talk about dust and smoking, yet not a single person wears a face mask.

I built space craft with laser guns that flew in space

*upbeat glockenspiel* Doctor gestures towards X-rays showing potential tumors.

health and safety training and equipment duct tape and how to apply

funny how he says "billions of americans"

With that music, what could possibly go wrong?

that guy on the thumbnail looks like tom hanks

I mined gold and nuke mineral

I'm trying to get points here

Uranium fever

That's my family

2:20 They had the meme font back then? 😂

I dug gold millions

I welded pipline

If man/woman had restraint, there would be no issue here folks👍🏼

Luke skywalker knows

😎

Yea save the miners, vent the poison gas

I built cancer classes for radation on cancer

It surprised me how they just ducktaped the ends of the tubes, like you couldn't just weld glue or weld them?

How much of this stuff does it take to create a decent amount of energy.. I see no reason why we can't just fully power everything with the energy these elements give away

I built cruise missle designed it it got stolen out of my house

I been abucted by ufo

Guys, how about wearing dust masks?

I built nada it's name

Is “daughters” an actual term in this industry? I’ve been a nuclear explosion/energy nerd for decades and this is the first I’m hearing of this term which is embarrassing to admit.

So where is going this radiation gas after venting?

Protection against Radiation = Wearing a helmet

I see a bright future for robotic mining! Instead of firing those experts, they can work up top operating those robots. They'll be safe, still work outdoors (if they choose), and they're not losing their jobs to those machines they operate.

I built 11

Nasa

How many percent of miners globally being at risks are being protected in the ways described in this video? I suspect it’s near zero percent or what?

This old film is waaay out of date! You might as well watch how the Victorians built bridges with cast iron in the day or used horses and steam winches! Modern uranium mining in the civilized world is done by well-informed experts using robotic mining machines where necessary, and all under the watchful eyes of trade unions and H&S authorities. Things might be different in N. Korea however.

There's a reason they only use machines in mines like this.most of those men probably died not long after retirement.