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And the three-eyed fish with legs

It has glowing reports.

The leg of salmon was to die for!

Bet the food is always hot 🥵

Friends of the Earth what is it gonna alien?

I will have to make this suggestion to E.ON. E.ON seems to be cheating its customers; my E.ON smart meter runs up huge bills even when all my appliances are switched off. E.ON therefore, on the basis of my observations, is doing blatant theft.

@@tommorris3688 I friend of mine works in smart meter R&D and won't let them fit one to his house. That told me all I needed to know about them.

All these decades later and the lies continue. How anyone can trust this industry is a mystery to me.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Beware when humans cheer for the excitement of that which has been promised for free..............know they have been lied to.

I believe that comment was made in the 1950's about fusion, not fission. However, it was mistakenly applied to fission. On the other hand, ever since it has been thought about, fusion has always been 30 years away. So, if nothing else, it has the ability to make time stand still.

The British are good at this.

This is what documentaries have always been like in my opinion.

@@krashd I am very entertained by documentaries

For some people, "facts" are all that matter. If titillation is what you want, get a box set from Netflix.

This is a very serous subject mater and as such deserves to reported in a factually accurate way. This is not a subject to be taken lightly.

Oh yeah, it´s a nasty bugger. There´s a man who works for the US government, assessing nuclear proliferation, did the whole Nunn-Lugar thing with the Soviets etc... But his speciality, his ´profession´, and I did not know it existed, was Plutonium Research (forgot the specific name, I was pretty baffled yet not surprised it had a whole branch of it´s own research, being such an oddball). He could wander away from 20.000 Soviet nukes into how plutonium behaves, and it´s one of the most fascinating substances there is indeed, if dangerous. Even I was shocked when I started taking a little bit deeper look at ´just another element´... It appears there´s nothing like it that we know of, no element on the table it fits with. It can take on half a dozen forms, and it´s crystal structure is highly unstable too (due to it´s very high thermal activity caused by high decay rate). The latter is now becoming a big problem in older nuclear weapons stockpiled, much of those used plutonium, and it´s the reason most weapons are currently being retrofitted with highly enriched uranium cores. Not to mention it burns when left into contact with open air for too long, I recall? If I remember the name of that guy/find the RU-vid films, I´ll post the link here.

@@thomasvandevelde8157 You cant refit a Plutonium Bomb with Uran235. There is a complety different design between this two types of bombs.

@@maozedong981 Enlighten me?

@@thomasvandevelde8157 the hydrogen bomb uses a U235 detonation to fuse the plutonium.

@@factorylad5071 Umm, NO. It does not..

Worth watching then.

I noticed that comment - was he seriously suggesting that? I though I must be misunderstanding him but then I remembered the "what if" scenario he referred to

He was saying the solvent slick would have dispersed in rough water, been diluted. Instead it ended up on the beach. It wasn't a pollution mitigation strategy, the solvent should not have been released. They made errors as was stated before that.

@Silently Sceptical Haha I'm not from Egremont! But it is true I do love a bit of jam, but now with peanut butter. Had me some up in the fells this week :)

There was probably a lot that was still classified when Yes, Minister was filmed. They would have eaten it up.

So do you think you're better than me because your dad was a janitor at Sellafield?

@@User0000000000000004 Yes.

@@User0000000000000004 Oh dear, tut tut...your comment is that of an unitellectual-peasant.

Sellafield is a commercial white elephant and should be closed down immediately to save further damage to the environment. There will be a lot of work created, presumably at the public expense, to try to clean up the site, at least partially. Fully cleaning up the site will not be possible; the damage is permanent just for a few years of short-term profit.

0.004% of the atmosphere is made up of C02. Of that, 97% is produced by natural processes over which we have no control. We know that C02 has been at least 10 times higher in the past and life flourished during those times. (That is not a high enough quantity to act as a greenhouse gas, even if the Laws of Thermodynamics allowed for such an effect in the way described by the anthropogenic global warming brigade, which they don't.) Burning coal is not clean by any means, but C02 is really not the problem it's been sold as.

This channel has some great content on the cost benefit analysis of different energy costs/benefits: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cbeJIwF1pVY.html That is a presentation on the cost of nuclear energy. Well worth a watch.

I believe the issue of CO2 in our atmosphere is a not too much of a problem because the planet can naturally absorb it as it has done so many times in the. Past. Where as man made Nuclear waste is much more of a concern as the planet has no natural means of removing it.

@@keithflowers9217 " Where as man made Nuclear waste is much more of a concern as the planet has no natural means of removing it." you would be surprised. Google "natural nuclear reactor" - humankind thought it was us who first managed to split the uranium atoms. Wrong. Nature has done that, billions of years ago. Also - nature has developed heck of a lot of rock formations where stuff enclosed within stay isolated for VEEEEEEEEERY long time. Because that's exactly how oil and natural gas were created. which means every single drained oil well is a potential repository for nuclear waste, should we wish to just throw it away.

@@michazajac5881 I have visited the Uranium mine in Australia. This is could be a good place to return your spent waste. Plutonium and all the rest of the heavy metals. Unfortunately this land had been killing the aboriginal people for thousands of years, they knew this place the bad lands. I think its probably best to leave the uranium where it is. Let's spend 25 billion pounds on solar and wind solutions and pump water into the mines to generate power at night. Much safer than having to look after the waste for the next million years!

We'd rather get overcharged buying American energy products, having got involved in the stupid Anti-Russia hysteria.

It also may have broke even in terms of costs, but most likely was a loss. Also it had accidents.

How do you know it's true lol

@Tim Norris So it's "true" because it confirms your opinions. Got it.

wasnt disclosed even till 70s

The two air-cooled piles (the one that caught fire and its twin) ceased operation in 1957. it will take until at least 2040 for them to be dismantled.

@@ColinMill1 I just watched another documentary about Windscale, and there they talked about 2080-2090 until they can even start to dismantle it.

@@elvenkind6072 They have apparently knocked the filters (Cockroft's Follies) off the chimneys and have taken some height off the chimneys themselves but the government only seems to say work will continue beyond 2040 so those dates for the hottest parts sounds likely.

@@elvenkind6072 and when we get there they'll add 30 years

eskmeale gun range is still there and in operation mate.

I remember my nana telling me about this, my granda did the same they live in gosforth now

I used to chew Uranium pellets as a kid and I still have my hair 🤷‍♂️ I’ve also grown an extra testicle and have 4 thumbs. So I’m still doing fine m8

and as fukashima continues to leak hundreds of thousands of tones of water into the ocean every day, the soviet lakes contaminated beyond repair... the US dome in the philipeans that is sinking underwater and pouring radioactive material into the ocean... finland being filled to the brim with nuclear waste that has thousands of years in halflife... contamination of scrapyards and buildings that cant even be demolished because of cesium poisoning... oh yeah... we should have used MORE of this stuff...

Where do you put the waste? How can you be sure that a plant won’t meltdown over decades?

Only if you are gullible and mentally ill

one day .. DESTROYER of planets

Nuclear country has never ever been attacked by another nuclear country think about it

Ofc Soviets knew more things than British about the nuclear power back in the day, what we are seeing today is classic Western propaganda. So, handling like Soviets is OK, important thing is, are we talking about 1990 or 1950? 😆

Judging by the computers and vehicles, mid to late 90s.

1996

Is that not an amazing statement to hear let’s put the fire out with friends to this day it boggles the mind

as opposed to what? You moron.

How do you think they put oil well fires out? They fire artillery into it... I kid you not. The Soviets even used an A-bomb to stop a gas-head leak that kept burned after being shelled with heavy guns too. They dug a second shaft, 1300m deep, planted the 50 kiloton bomb, get the f*ck out with everybody and BOOM!

We need a fanclub !

@@User0000000000000004 Shut up Marty.

EBR 2 was shut down 30 years ago. All funds to it's successor the IFR were cancelled by a GOP led Congress in 1994. Newt Grinrich called it "a huge boondoggle" saying that he worked countless hours to stop funding. There is talk--but little else--of building a new test reactor in Idaho as of Dec 2022. I hope it happens, but we are decades away from commercial thorium reactors, even further away is thermonuclear fusion powerplants.

It was Alibaba.

@@MICKEYISLOWD ; Were they around in the Sixties?

Install Ad-Block for free. Works a treat. I've been watching this for 20 minutes and already 21 ads have been blocked. :)

When you first load the documentary, skip past all the adverts and start it again. Adverts disappear then

What are you? 6 years old?

@@User0000000000000004 Dont be edgy for no reason.

@@sputumtube 21 ads in 20 mins!googles really doing well!

you do realize this film is nearly 30 years old

@@leescott1775 2019 audit opinion. 2019. You realize this project will take 100 years to complete?

@@Chironex_Fleckeri you mentioned mox and thorpe from the film was my point, thorpe has been and gone, its used now for storage and mox never worked properly. as for the clean up it has to be done sellafield was always an experiment in new technologies, some worked some didnt. but even the clean up is a opportunity to learn new techniques, BTW i work ar nearby LLWR ,110 year bussiness plan how many workplaces can offer that

Thorp is being decommissioned proved not economically viable​@@Chironex_Fleckeri

Huh?? 🤔

mercury fulminate = tinnitus

When it was Windscale, extremely 'hot' (spent) fuel particles routinely escaped the cooling stacks, despite the filters. Most of these hot particles fell in the immediate vicinity, but others were carried away to who-knows-where. Some of the radionuclides in these particles would still be hazardous today.

Reprocesing is needet if one want to close fuel circle and minimalize amount of nuclear waste. it is actualy simple idea,.. only put into Nuclear Waste storage fission products, while Uranium and transurans return into fuel. only problem is it is not economical att since uranium prices are so low. Actualy only country that have reprocesing plants whitout nuclear weapon program is Japan.

Was fine on my end...

@@davelowets You didn't find the ads twice as loud as the narrator, and the narrator twice as loud as the interviewees? I found it unwatchable...

@@paulgush No, I didn't.

@@paulgush I did. And way too many ads....just think of the money they've made on this upload. greed!

I think the problem is your end.

Chernobyl was outrageously exaggerated.

@@paulanderson7796 Now it is on top of the International Nuclear Event Scale. Shockingly, at the time when it happened, the International Nuclear Comission (or whatever it is called) said it was a trifle matter, they would build back better in a few months(!!!).

The sound levels could have easily been addressed, but there are no issues with the video. If you're too young to remember the (then) standard 4:3 aspect ratio, analog TV, and home video tape recording, then attempt to educate yourself about the development of the broadcasting technology you now enjoy (and clearly take for granted).

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 you totally missed the point. The potential viewer was left with the impression this is a new, contemporary video, which it obviously is not

@@bingeltube That was your mistake.

@@davelowets what a fool are you?

Give it a rest please.

@@paulanderson7796 Agreed... Thank you. 🍻

Nonsense

@@WineScrounger No, it is actually true. The proof being that the anti-nuclear movement in the US only really took off in 1979. Now what happened in 1979? The China Syndrome was released in theatres and then the Three Mile Island accident happened. People do not look at places like Sellafield in the UK or Oak Ridge in the US with suspicion because they have military links, they do so because they have an irrational fear for anything nuclear. Even today you have people who are dead against fusion because they hear the word nuclear and panic.

Probably the smartest comment on this video.

Uh, right location, just the wrong name for it and over 40 years too late! Search "Windscale fire" to find that which you seek.

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 I was being Sarcastic. Since they were talking about mistakes I thought they may of touch upon it as well as the leaks. I only live a few miles away and been around the plant visitors tour. Change site name and company name all go's away.

There’s a very good documentary on this that you can find on YT.

That just proves that the government have never really cared, they was letting parents with their kids walk right past it when it was spewing high levels of radiation.

I'm guessing they figured if you watched this, you already knew about it.

@@paul-sr8qk Of course, you are expendable if the government needs something done. Anyone who trusts a government is deluded.

It was a fire, not a meltdown.

@@Samhalta No, it wasn't a "meltdown" created by excessive fission heat, but fuel DID melt, and was released into the surroundings just the same as a typical core meltdown.

Judging by your spelling, so does your brain.

What?

Turn on your captions...

Suck it up. The rest of the world has to deal with American dialogue on everything.

Not like that is a big deal, so far there have only been 7.3 Kilograms of Tritium ever found

In the ground naturally.

Greenpeace is a laughing stock. They sometimes get things right but they basically are a bunch of tree huggers who delve into very complex issues without the knowledge of what is going on. I used to support them but they are now off the mark.

What?

Turn it up then eh

They are not safe. If only they built Liquid Salt reactors which was a working technology in the 60s. They are safe and cheap. You could also build them to fit on the back of a truck for field work. They can't go critical because you have to put energy in for them to work instead of the other way round. When they cool off the salts freeze and nothing happens.

@@MICKEYISLOWD Didn't hundreds of people just die in a coal mining accident in China? Also lung disease and emissions from coal kill tons of people. There have been less than 10 memorable nuclear incidents, but coal mines kill people all the time. Sure nuclear plants have their faults when idiots operate them and it can cause major damage, but nothing similar to what coal, water and The Sun cause.

Nuclear is only safer when conditions are right in terms of management, in terms of the actual events of the world. What happens in war for example? Look at Ukraine now and the fear of a plant getting hit by missiles. What happens during a natural disaster? Remember Fukushima? Nuclear is very vulnerable and the reality is they are POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS. What I think about is this... mankind is always fighting some war or another. And I don't think for one minute we should discount the possibility of a WW3.. the Nuclear power stations themselves could end up being the even worse side effects of a global war. Hundreds and hundreds of Chenobyls leaking endless radiation and absolutely no ability to contain it. Chernobyl itself required a lot of effort to seal the open roof and stop radiation from flooding the out into the atmosphere. That can only happen when you have a functioning state and people with technology and know-how to fix it. Think.. nuclear war would lead to a complete breakdown in civilisations and infrastructure would be utterly decimated. Mankind would be placed back into the middle ages only this time even worse, in a poisoned and black land where sunlight is reduced, where crops won't grow, where deformities and cancers rocket beyond all imagination, where pestilence grows rampant. Mankind will be thrown back into stone age in short time and probably wouldn't survive. All life would struggle in this hellish reality.

@@MICKEYISLOWD Molten Salt Reactors (MSR's) are known for being very unsafe and this is due to them being new technology that is okay, but dev. time is money and the UK economy in 2023 or the last 20 years for say is not in a position for such technological development. I think a further push on providing decom plans are required for the current reactors and new GEN 3+ and GEN 4 reactors... given a good lifetime or a NPP active is 50 years and decom more like 150 years.

I totally agree with you Adam - I think the freedom to perform this kind of neglect was one of the main motivations for Br... sorry, I cant even say that word!

@@davidsmith6355 that and Nigel the Ordinary Beer Drinker painting lies on the side of a bus. I wonder how much money he made from it? As a banker he would have all sorts of inside knowledge on what would happen. But hey, at least we get blue passports now. So worth it, right?

@@WineScrounger haha, quite, passports - to here as noone else likes us! 😂

You forgot Grenfell, perhaps. Potters Bar and countless other rail incidents too.

*_LMFAO!_* Your initial, uh, "paragraph" could easily apply to American _or_ French facilities as well. I'm not anti-nuclear, although I'm certainly anti-conventional-nuclear. If we ever adopt a nuclear power program in Australia, at least the Americans, the British, and the French have shown us how _not_ to do it. You've all made a _huge mess_ of it! Also, conventional nuclear has always been _far_ short of "carbon free".

There's nothing carbon free about nuclear power.

@@christycullen2355 Except there is, because the miniscule amount of waste it produces can be tightly controlled and safely stored.

@@numbersstationsarchive194 How is the waste safely stored? Seems that most plants just keep it on site while they wait for taxpayers to finance a theoretical long-term storage solution.

@@KlausBahnhof And how exactly is that unsafe?

IT IS ! Still shipping heavy water for WMD

Anne Chester oh right we were on the beach there last year someone told us it was no longer been used ?

Sellafield won't close, it's a sprawling city of old and new nuclear projects, but there are parts of the site that require heavy cleanup though including old reactors such as the Windscale piles, two large (incredibly damaged) cooling pools and over a dozen processing buildings.

@@annechester770 Heavy water isn't needed for WMD.

@Floyd1504 You are correct. Both Sellafield and Le Hague spew out lots of radioactive contamination.

The video was produced in 1996. You should acquaint yourself with Roman Numerals! This means it's roughly 23 years old - essentially half of your ignorant exaggeration.

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Sorry, and do apologise for half my ignorant exaggeration. Missed the Roman Numerals. Please forgive me.

The truth is timeless !

No.

@@numbersstationsarchive194 Never

The longest lived fission byproducts are those that present the least amount of danger.

and 12 min mark... we have a leak of radioactive water... oh... well, its probably not bad, it'll be ok