This is so cool, the way Superman uses his abilities is more than just a way of showing his grandure alone, but it helps him come up with creative ways to solve problems.
@@vincentmanuel6052 Wow that’s a really cool reference of a scene showing Superman’s smarts, and they also threw in the heat vision, x ray vision, and superhearing to serve as a comprehensive summary of all the staple powers
Wayyyy back in the original comics, they had him do this to put out an oil fire (lol) that was going out of control. The writers are nodding off to that one, but making it wayyy more realistic (since water is used to manage reactors, but would do nothing to the oil fire). Great scene. @@MynameisBrianZX
I walked into this show just to scratch an itch and was blown away by how good the pilot is. There’s something about the shot of Supes hitting mach while everyone watches. It just feels so real. Season 1 nailed it.
Seriously. I waited WAY too long because of how WRETCHED the CW shows, once pretty good, had become. A HUGE mistake. The first episode ALONE is worth it.
Awesome homage to the 3rd Christopher Reeve movie with Superman freezing the river and carrying the giant block of ice by using it to put out the fire in the power plant.
It's a pretty good evocation of a comic book, but in the real world reactors aren't built inside the cooling tower and dumping an iceberg on a meltdown would result in a massive radioactive steam explosion.
The crack emptied the cooling tower, he sealed it, then filled it back to with water. Since he didn't have a hose handy, he froze it for easy transport
It's like a reference to the movie Superman 3, how he put out the fire at the chemical plant. Superman III - Chemical Plant Rescue (4K HDR) | High-Def Digest ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ApjDZ-lYAcc.html
@@danielhughes5932No, cooling towers are not full of liquid water, that’s not how this works. A crack in the side would not be that big a deal relative to the reactor overheating. Chances are the core is overheating due in part to loss of coolant, like a pump failure. But by the time core temps get to this level, any restoration of coolant will just result in a steam explosion. The actual fix would be to take the core into space, certainly within Supe’s skill set.
I don't like the trunks. I remember when I was 12 yrs. old, my friends tease superman wearing underwear outside. It's not funny. Even Batman doesn't wear trunks anymore. I like the costume because it matches the modern standard looks.
love it. He shows up and is thinking "How the heck do I stop this?" And he hears the chinese woman say it needs to be cooled down and the water trucks wont get there in time. Instantly he starts thinking. "Ok seal the tower tare then get water." and he goes to work. Shows that while Superman doesnt have all the answers, he is resourceful and learns on the spot. Where as OP Comic Superman is just "oh the reactors melting, i instantly am a master of nuclear fusion. If I do X it will save the day"
except he worked inside the cooling tower, which has nothing to do with the reactor or its cooling setup (they are for the secondary cooling loop which is the power generation system), so all he did was make the floor wet. The reactor would be in a sealed reinforced concrete building several hundred feet away and honestly by this point has already melted down, it can do that without exploding or releasing radiation into the air, the tear in the containment shell has likely flooded the reactor building with superheated radioactive steam or worse, hydrogen, and there is now a major risk of an explosion causing a radiation leak (its contained by the building at this point). That the reactor isn't SCRAM'd already means it can't be, as that would shut it down and stop it generating heat, means this reactor is already beyond saving, now its just all about stopping it or its containment building exploding. OG superman would just yeet the entire thing into orbit, this superman just killed Metropolis at worst, at best caused a major evacuation of the city and several hundred billion in cleanup. Doesn't matter what the chinese woman states, a reactor thats reached this point of failure has already failed, the people talking are about 5 minutes too late and are been overly hopeful about fixing it, it can't be fixed.
@@mikefit3343 that's just basic human visual illusion buddy you see what u want to see in everything. You could learn more about it in some space videos where the people claim to see faces on other planet surfaces just because they see similarities between the two. Sorry had to go nerd mode on you 🤥
@dipanshugupta1606 If what I pointed out was merely an illusion, then how come 57 other different people who agreed to it saw the exact same thing? So I guess they're delusional as well, I suppose 😆 ( I should've been the only one who had seen this Illusion). But I'm not. You ever stopped to think that maybe it is you, who wanted me to buy into your own delusion.
@dipanshugupta1606 Stay on topic. This video is about a fictional character from a planet that does not exist in real time, so why jump to ship onto humanoid faces supposedly found on the moon? ( To answer the statement you've made in regards to that) The moons exterior is made of up to 16% composed of these craters. These crates have been formed by the impact of a meteor, which gives off the impression of faces buried beneath the moons' surface. ( To be technical about it, we have this conversation).
Would be better if they actually knew the difference between the Reactor Vessel and a Cooling Tower which is not even part of the primary loop...... And not just Nuclear Power Plants have the parabolic towers, all manner of other thermal steam-driven power plants have them as well whether it's coal, oil, or natural gas fired.
I'm finding it amusing they think its a fixable problem (i noted the stupidity with the towers too). A reactor thats overheated like this has already melted down, its SCRAM has failed, and its containment vessel is apparently breached so the containment building is now a radiation flooded deathtrap. People seem to think that a meltdown means an explosion, it just means the fuels overheated and melted, and no reactor would be allowed to reach that point without been SCRAM'd first, meaning that must have failed (which should be nigh impossible due to the design). Best case here, he stops the explosion (once he realises he's in the wrong place), goes to the reactor building and USES THE DOOR & AIRLOCKS to enter (otherwise he just breached containment and spread radioactive gas across the city) and manually cools it (his breath would work for that arguably). Now the DoE gets to spend the next several decades playing cleanup at a cost of hundreds of billions, likely people die of the limited exposure, and there is lots of political fallout. True best case though is he realsied his mistake, flies around the reactor building, digs out its foundations and yeets the entire building intact into space, no cleanup needed, no fallout, no deaths, just a large hole were the building used to be.
@cgi2002 SCRAM doesn't really fail. It's a light water reactor. If there is no Moderator, which in this case is also the coolant, there is no Reaction. It scrams in the absence of coolant with no need for control rods. However, while the Fission reaction itself has stopped, there is still a tremendous amount of Decay Heat depending on how dirty the fuel is. Even in their cold shut down state, the Core is still making 5% of its thermal capacity, which is why Reactors need continous cooling even when they're not online. This is what melts Reactors that have already "Scrammed". That is what happened at TMI, and also Fukushima. Both Plants lost cooling, so the cores melted. Both plants had Hydrogen Ignitions as well. TMI's hydrogen burn stayed within the containment building and people only knew it happened because of a pressure spike on the containment's pressure gauge as well as the building shuddering. The aftermath of which they saw when they entered the containment for the first time after the accident years later. Fukushima's containment needed to be vented so the hydrogen collected in the ceiling of the reactor buildings (not part of the actual drywell or containment structure) it found an ignition source and blew the blast panels off as the building was designed to do.
@@steamandsmoke97 exactly, a SCRAM can't really fail in that way (can't really fail at all unless you've done a big dumb already in one of a handful of well known "do not do this" ways) but due to what they were saying and how it was about to basically go full chernobyl on them, its clearly not shut down properly hence SCRAM failed in some way. That 5% standby heat (likely even at 10-20%) while it will melt fuel, its not going to instantly cause issues of that magnitude, the building is designed to handle that still. Now give it a few hours for gas preasure to build up and you might have issues, but 5mins isn't nearly enough time. Also you still don't put a block of ice in the cooling tower, hell you don't put it on the reactor either, cooling its surface is pointless, the coolant needs to contact the fuel, not the shell, all cooling the shell will do is make plenty of steam to burn the workers in the area.
@cgi2002 It's obvious the fuel assemblies that comprise the core *inside* the reactor vessel are what need to be cooled, not the outsife of the pressure vessel. However, you forgot something that rapid cooling of the vessel would do, regardless of internal or external. Plant personnel getting flash steam burns is mild in comparison, because they would be dead before they had a chance to realize they were burned. Why? Thermal Shock. If you rapidly cool a carbon steel reactor vessel with ICE, or even just inject extremely cold water, especially into one that is over 40 years old and has been embrittled by neutron bombardment, the reactor itself will fracture like glass and a massive steam explosion will result blowing the vessel and the containment building to smithereens.
Melting tempurature of uranium is around 1100 degrees. So if the pressure vessel is still in one piece, the molten uranium has just melted through it and started pooling underneath the reactor. You know, the same as chernobyl. Then there is the fact that the reactor isn't in the cooling stack, but in the reactor hall, and with the displayed tempurature in an unsealed environment the ice will sublimate and be of no us what so ever in cooling it. Water is a good nutron moderator, but its just going to boil away too fast to be effective. Supes would have to move the ractor and drop it into the ocean, or sink the the reactor into it..
Listen to the dialogue, i thought the same thing but they explain it. "His super breath won't fix it, we need water back in the reactor." (They meant cooling tower but whatever) the ice wasn't only to cool it down, it was the best way to transport the water
Edit: leaving my original comment untouched for context, but rewatching it now i heard dialogue i never did before "his cold breath isn't going to fix it, we need to get water back in the reactor..." So he froze the water to make it easier for him to move a bunch of it, not because ice will help cool it down necessarily. // end edit // original: If his cold breath could make an ice cube capable of cooling the reactor, he didn't need the ice cube - could've just stayed in there and used the cold breath. Since they canonized his super strength making his lungs capable of infinitely compressing the air being the function of it. (And how they can breathe in space)
You need to be careful about admitting cold seawater into an nuclear reactor approaching a loss of coolant accident (LOCA). On some nuclear-powered submarines, a last resort in the case of a loss of coolant emergency is to flood the core with seawater to draw off the excess heat. While this ruins a very expensive reactor, it theoretically saves the rest of the submarine from the meltdown. A cold water accident occurs when the seawater admitted is, as seawater usually is, cold. While cold water is fine for absorbing excess heat, it also traps more neutrons than standard coolant or even warmer water. When the neutrons get trapped, they trigger more fission reactions, generating more heat, in a chain that eventually generates temperatures that no amount of coolant can absorb. Eventually, a cold water accident causes the opposite of what was intended: rather than cooling the reactor, it causes it to approach meltdown. This was portrayed in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, with one of the submarines that had a bad valve that broke and caused a LOCA event. The engineer saw this and opened the exterior seawater valves, flooding the reactor vessel with COLD, DENSE seawater, triggering quite the opposite, the Cold Water Accident. The reactor interacts with the water causing a prompt criticality that overheats the core, melting it down. The poor engineer sees the containment wall get red, then blue from the radiation interacting with the hydrogen, then oblivion as the core melts through the walls and falls to the ocean floor.
Season 4 is going to be great, I mean Jordan doing things like this and his dad somewhere else doing his thing, the mom is like Jordan you cannot take a missile head on, next time try to guide it into space and take the explosive aftermath, now go study your Pre Cal.
Okay, I'm not hating on the show, but hear me out... this. And by this, i mean everything that works for this show, but with Henry Cavill. Holy shit!!!
It's like a reference to the movie Superman 3, how he put out the fire at the chemical plant. Superman III - Chemical Plant Rescue (4K HDR) | High-Def Digest ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ApjDZ-lYAcc.html
@@seijiren5115 well yeah hes also the embodiment of being super but also just a man. I just dont see how hes "unpredictable" when hes literally the strongest in the universe and you can predict he will win or save the day because of that strength. unless he pulls some huge big brain move its not "unpredictable" at least imo. and tbh i dont even get why he used a glacier to do that when he couldve just froze it with his breath and if you know anything about nuke plants the glacier wouldnt have cooled it down lol thr is a reason they use borated water to keep it cool and not just use a gaint ice cube for it XD.
First thing why is he struggling to life that block of ice and second if his breath is so cold he can freeze ocean like that why wouldn't he just blow and freeze the reactor. Smh tv writers man
I’m not sure why he couldn’t have used his freezing abilities while he was there in the first place instead he flys away freezes some ice then flew back
The only thing Ive ever wondered is how does he hang onto huge objects like that ice. Its slippery..he cant grasp it yet he can carry it...its like he has super fingerprints or something.
He has a form of telekinesis. It’s called tactile telekinesis stuff he touches is covered by this telekinesis making it possible for him to lift ridiculous sized objects without breaking them apart due
@NadeerManha actually superboy has TTK, that was created bc it was the best way they could mimic the cosmic "aura" kal-els strength radiates AROUND an object he lifts instead of out through his hands
@@gleove1 "At some point, the ELTs were designed as a means to signal Superman, with one being given to Lois and her father General Sam Lane each. Sam Lane used one when a nuclear power plant near Metropolis was overheating, alerting Superman and allowing him to prevent the disaster.[1]" - Arrowverse Wiki
Its called "suspension of disbelief" try it sometime you'll enjoy fantasy a lot more. But no i get it, fantasy needs to be rooted in some manner of logic. Even If the ice could work. Then his breath used to make that ice would've been way more efficient anyway no need to take 10 minutes going to make ice
Too much heat over a LARGE surface. Thats like you trying to cool a giant room with just one small ac unit.. Sure it may get it done with time, but if you could find a way of cooling the whole room by 5 degrees in five seconds. Its better than cooling portions of it over a long period of time. Also, with a nuclear reactor, its pumping out constant energy, so you need to either cool it all down, or nothing happens.
@@kryojenisist his freeze breath could cool down the reactor instantly but sudden drop of temperature could possibly brings more problems. That's why he use the iceberg to cool down the reactor slowly and not sudden
@@nokkr6m Not to mention, the biggest issue with the meltdown shown in the scene was that water was leaking from the cooling tank and exposing the uranium rods to the air (which superheats it and leaks radiation). By putting an iceberg in there, he’s refilling the cooling tank to make sure the rods stay under water (where they won’t leak radiation into the air).
Listen to the scientists when he goes in they say his breath won't save it because all the water is gone (not sure the difference, prolly isn't, but at least they attempt an explanation) it apparently drained from the crack he seals with his optic blasts. Then because hand scooping water back into it would take too long he freezes a big ass Boulder of it so he can transport a couple hundred thousand gallons at once
Specifically no. Meltdowns aren’t explosive, not like nuclear bombs. What happens is a massive release of radiation closer to a dirty bomb. It’s a giant poisonous mutagenic cloud. However this volatile reaction requires a certain amount of energy to activate, energy beyond the normal operating temperature of a nuclear reactor. Nuclear power plants use water to cool down the reactor so this threshold is never hit. By sealing the system rupture with heat vision, Superman kept any radiation from escaping and made sure the water he brought in would actually cool the reactor properly.
Directly putting ice-cold water inside a breached reactor core would cause a huge expansion explosion, like the one risked ad Chernobyl. But hey, they are making us believe a reactor breach can happen inside a cooling tower without a containment building, and that super guy spewing lasers from his eyes can fix the breach, and that a portable iceberg can cool a reactor down for good...
Well I found this scene an bit stupid tbh.. couldn’t he have used his freeze breath inside the reactor instead of flying out and freezing the water in the sea/lake/river.. Ignoring the science behind what happened for now
Only if he went in the past. They didn't anticipate an explosion happening until it couldn't even be stopped in the length of time shown in this clip. He'd have to use superspeed.
Maybe, but there's two things. 1. Considering this is the modern era and that his sons were born in 2006ish, we can say this takes place in the 2020s. Let's say Clark is in his 40s which would be an appropriate age for having teenage children. He'd landed on earth in the 1970s. He'd be at least 7 when Chernobyl happened. I wouldn't expect a literal child to prevent a nuclear disaster. 2. Considering the multiverse, there's a possibility that Chernobyl didn't go the way we knew it. The mentioned Fukushima, another notorious disaster from 2011 but is overshadowed by Chernobyl in terms of having the title of worst nuclear disaster. The fact they chose that disaster instead to describe the impending impact this one would've been had Superman not intervened, especially considering how everyone was concerned and how the visuals conveyed the disaster, presents the possibility that Chernobyl may not have gone like how it did. Maybe it didn't even happen at all. After all, most American cities in DC comics have different names than in the real world. Why not history have gone different.
Nah, he would have destroyed considering how his solution is chucking a fucking 1000 pound iceburg at it, it would most likely destroy the reactor chamber and release a lot of cancer causing radiation, which is not very good
Frustrating. Just a little bit of research and the writers would know that nuclear reactors are NOT at the bottom of cooling towers. They are in containment buildings. Ugh.
@@almerosepwanzaky6342 No, she’s not. See, Kara has less restraint than her cousin, making her a more dangerous fighter. But as far as the comics and most media goes, Clark *is* stronger than Kara.
There is no way even Superman would have been able to hold on to that iceberg. So, it's ice and automatically slippery, covered in water, even more slippery and he's holding it at an angle. Totally unbelievable.
Unless Superman And Lois is a fine TV show just gonna ignore the CW facts . Evil Superman Captain Luthor origins I don’t really believe it . Lois Lane and Clark Kent just not a big fan of there sons , also with out Brainiac Metallo and Doomsday feel very different . Kryptonite Solider really silent mean because lex Luthor sucks .
Day Of Died , The News Water With Ice , Superman saving Spacecraft , The Flood Homeless people I still recommend Zack Snyder idea on Superman abilities and people reaction . But TV version have choose the silent treatment part Earthquake. Earthquake Nuclear Reactor fine unless Superman can stop it with Heat Vision , Cold Breath and X Ray Vision . Both version have a interesting idea about Superman power but I only recommend The DCEU One .
This is so stupid if you think about. He could have cooled the reactor directly with his ice breath. Why making the circumstances making and bringing a block of ice (which has limited cooling capacity anyway)? This is some lame writing imo.
He didn't "save" the reactor, per se that's a false statement. He merely stopped it from exploding. In its current physical state, with all the damage, It's probably no longer usable. They would have to rebuild a new reactor from scratch.
