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The Taiwan Co60 case is pretty much like the city of Juárez case (my hometown in México) where in 1984 a Co60 capsule in a hospital was thrown away like scrap metal by a cleaning person and ended up in a junkyard, where it was mixed along with more metal that ended up as construction rods. A very well documented case!
I'm convinced that Simon won't be happy until he has a lair inside an inactive volcano after his RU-vid empire grew so large that he controls the entire Internet.
At a Steel Mill I toured I found it very interesting that they checked the incoming scrap for radiation something like 8 times before melting it down. They said it is contaminated occasionally when hospital x ray and other machines are scrapped.
Yeah I always thought it was strange (and a bit counter-productive) to not just simply copy/paste a list, with links, to all of his channels under every video on every channel, seems like a missed opportunity that would take very little effort. Oh well, at any rate love his content.
@@d4mdcykey I agree, he always jokes about forgetting the links but he's just neutering himself! His channels do well but he is still far, far, far, far away from the 5+ million subscriber types. This is why they are growing and each new Simon channel is usually just viewers of the other channels...most of them seem to peter out around 200k or less... Great at making content...not so great at marketing it.
They are all owned by different people so... Simon is the host and a few are made by the same group but mostly they are different writers, editors and producers etc..
@@itarry4 Most of his channels are owned by him. A few he has partners with, they aren't owners, they are "partners". Numerous other channels are pure Simon. Most of them have the same writers and editors, Simon is the producer. Just because he pays people to do the bitch work doesn't mean he's not in charge. He is far, far more than just a hired host. Look at his videos from 5+ years ago, they are terrible - nobody would have hired him for that. Him and his partners grew the channels together.
Speaking of the whole insect thing, I once had a stink bug get stuck in the front of my stereo inside the dial and it actually survived in there for almost a year. It's an old stereo from the 60's and it stopped working right. So I was trying to figure out what was wrong with it. I took the cabinet off and this stink bug was crawling inside and it fell further in before I had a chance to grab it. It got stuck inside the dial (the display on the front that shows you which radio station you have on) and I tried everything I could think of to get it out but there's no way I could stick anything in there without breaking it. And there's almost no space to stick anything in there, anyway. I don't even know how the bug got in there because there's only like one milometer of space between the glass panel and front panel of the stereo. And there couldn't be much air in there, either. I was trying to push the bug out by moving the dial and hitting it with the little needle thing that points to the radio station and that made it move a little bit, but it stopped after a while, so I thought it died. I just thought it would stay stuck in there forever and I'd have to have to have a professional repair person take the stereo apart to remove it. I left it alone for about 8-10 months, until someone told me another idea for how I could potentially fix it. The bug worked it's way out of the dial! It was inside the stereo and IT WAS STILL ALIVE! I'm 100% sure it was the same one. The thing had to be like Houdini to be able to get out of there!
Cocaine? No way. He crossed the meth level of productivity two years ago. He must be on that "space coke" stuff that Cheech and Chong were doing with Pee Wee in that movie. It's the only explanation...
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Funny story: i made my apprenticeship as a toolmechanic, i made tools for plastic injection molding, like my colleagues. A few of them worked for a company that made highly complexe parts for internal medicine. Such as needed for heart transplantations or cancer treatments. One time, a customer hospital send back the whole load of products back. The reason: they where radioactice and would disturb the sensible treatments of the cancer patiens. The "disaster control" rolled in and checked everything. They found out the Tool which they made the products was radioactive. They backtracked it to the raw material in the storage, and so on. In the end, it tourned out there where "some guys" who sold scrap of an old russian atomic submarine to a scrapper, and that guy wanted more profit and hide the fact it was radioactive and sold it as regular metal scrap. Then, a steel mill pressed it into steelbars, sold those to a merchand, and that sold it to that company who made a tool out of it which produced radioactive products. Radioactivity is no joke.
I'm surprised the BBC or other huge broadcasting corporation haven't picked Simon up, he's amazing at presenting in an enthusiastic, interesting and comedic way (if you watch business blaze) but im also glad he hasn't and we get to enjoy him without having to pay any license or have to wait for his shows to air between the crap on TV these days. Thanks Simon.
@SİCKBOY if you mean audio books, those are handled by publishers, who will usually provide a selection of talent from an agency for the author to choose from. If he has an agent who is shopping him for voice work, it's a well-kept secret. Considering the many hours it takes to produce a single video, he must have a staff bigger than just Sam n Danny chained in the basement.
Cher? What about the man who survived a wild Rock Star life, Keith Richards? Grandkids of his original fan base are grooving to the music of him, and his band mates.
How many channels do you have?!?!? You upload every day, how to you have time for more then one! And yet I’ve counted five so far! Also love your videos💕
Strange you should mention cobalt 60 and 1982 being the year the scrap metal was processed. In 1983 two guys in mexico working for the hospital in Ciudad Juarez scrapped some medical equipment unleashing thousands of cobalt 60 pellets. Not knowing what it was they sent them to the recycling yard, where it contaminated the magnetic lift cranes and everything they touched. All the contaminated metals were processed with an estimated 20,000 tons produced, of which only around 6,000 tons were traced and recovered. It's known as the Mexican Chernobyl.
Are the "Wooden Nails" perhaps actually pegs driven into predrilled holes? Wood is wood... I think that if you tried to drive a wooden nail into solid wood,it would just snap,no matter how hard.
Cobalt-60 is a common radio isotope used in medical equipment, it's likely that a radiation machine ended up with is radio source scrapped into that steel.
*Do you have a credible medical data source for this claim?* I have read that cancers among flight attendants, particularly breast cancers, are more prevalent than the general population. Never gave it much thought until a dear friend of mine, who flew around the world constantly for over 20 years (professional skater; she did shows with The Ice Capades and Disney on Ice) AND another dear friend, who has been a flight attendant for 30 years, both got it. My skater friend died as a result of late detection and treatment. The flight attendant got the radical surgery early, and is now in remission.
@@miraflynn8935 No but I threw down the first gauntlet so butt out...LoL... I can do my own research, and if it's in your capacity, do chime in with it!
@@ZenZaBill Oh you can do your own research? Prove it. Also, the onus is not on me to prove I can do my own research, as I have not made a scientific claim as of yet. You clearly understand that already, as you clearly have read scientific research extensively and can identify when a claim needs to be supported with evidence.
The occupation limit for nuclear industry workers is 20mSv. The people of Ramsar in Iran live happily with a background of 260mSv. Their cancer rate appears to be below the worldwide average. The huge issue is that we can’t get useful test data without irradiating thousands for many years. The data collected in Japan assumed radiation attenuation at the same rates as United States buildings. But Japan had wooden buildings which hardly affected the strength of rays coming out of the explosion. This exaggerated the dangers of radiation by many times. This issue has never been resolved.
I think the comparison of the yield of Hiroshima (15 kt “Little boy”) to that of more modern megaton nuclear weapons (at 8:00 ) is somewhat misleading because the radiation from such devices is not correlated with explosive yield.
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@Today I Found Out Take a look at a big Dutch screwup with buildings, they had full insulation, no windows which you can open. People got ill from it, the ventilation was poorly maintained, the air quality was bad and in some cases the pump stood close to the bedroom so that people heard the noise while trying to sleep.
Almost the exact same thing happened in Chihuahua, Mexico in the 80's. Thankfully it was discovered relatively quickly. In 1977, a Radiological machine was acquired by a private hospital in Juárez, Mexico. Regulatory procedures for its handling were not followed and regulators were never notified of its existence. The machine remained stored for years without use and was sold to a junkyard by a clueless and corrupt administrator in december 1983. The core of the machine contained Cobalt 60. Cobalt-60 grains ended up in furniture and construction rods. This was uncovered because an exported shipment of construction rods passed nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, where several sensitive radioactivity sensors went off, causing a scare, an investigation and a diplomatic incident. between Dec 1983 and Jan 1984, more than 3 tons of construction rods and thousands of metal table supports were produced by different companies that bought metal from a steel mill in Chihuahua that used material from the junkyard . Recovery of the material was initiated less than 2 months after the original contamination. This is Washington Post article about it: www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/02/03/a-chance-encounter-led-to-the-detection-of-radioactive-metal/
I find them fascinating all your channels Simon alarming rate when watching chilling changing 🔔 🛎 Ringing crisis mass happens Happy Christmas 🎄 passing
I think it would be better to phrases it like “researchers would relish an opportunity to acquire more data” rather than “gather more data”. Gathering data sounds like a mad scientist killing thousands of people out of curiosity.
I was thinking this was going to be Juarez. I didn't realize this was ANOTHER accident. I'm almost thinking at this point geiger counters should be in place at all foundry facilities as it seems to be a rare problem but when it happens holy crap is it a nightmare.
Sidenote.... simon is going to have his own Dave channel soon. It will be called Simon of course, in between current videos will be blasts from the past with less beard, less weight more studenty simon just for good measure 🤩 your a star bro. Your locking down youtube!
Consider looking up the East Lansdown tailings mortar contamination incident. (Pennsylvania.) My boss at the time lived in the neighborhood where this happened - like on the actual block.
It took me by the second time you said “rads” to realize you weren’t actually saying “rats” 😂 I was like, why are we talking abt cockroaches if we’re apparently measuring radiation by rats (how radiation a rat could survive)
Depends on the species of tardigrade. None of them have all of those traits. An extremophile that lives at incredibly hot temps won't be able to survive cold temps. They are completely different adaptations.
Who’s out there saying “Simon doesn’t make enough videos for me?” I’m pretty sure half of the channels I am subscribed to are Simon and all of his side hustles. 😂
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Don't look at the old factories for radium dials in Chicago then. Many were turned into parking lots, but others stayed in use after 'clean up'. Did you look at the tardi bears? They survive outer space.
9:50 replace the word cockroach with the other insects and that microbe you mentioned and that statement is super accurate. No one wins in a nuclear war.... And more importantly, I'm tired of us always trying to kill each other but if we must, can we please leave the rest of the planet out of it? what did any of the amazing creatures on this planet do to deserve such a fate?
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You should make a channel called "Whistler Consolidated" and upload all videos to it after they've been released on their respective channels for X amount of time. 🤘
The bonus fact about zapping things with radiation makes me wonder, what kind of monstrous source emits over a million rads, how would it be safely handled etc. Surely Simon has a channel where he can provide more details on that.
I heard some story like this but the one i heard i think was in Mexico. Someone scrapped some old X ray machine and the stuff was recycled into other things then years later in some transportation security thing alarms went off and they eventually traced all this back to the one source and the machine.
I was borne in Pittsburgh Pa 1947. We lived in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, and got our water from the Monongahela River. Southeast on the Monongahela River, (the Monongahela River is the only river that flows North in the United States) was the Westinghouse Experimental Nuclear Reactor. This reactor was around East Pittsburgh. This was the first Nuclear Reactor for electrical power after WWII in the early 50's. The attitude toward radiation was much different then today. We had glow in the dirk watches, and my shoes were X rayed in order to see if the shoes fit. I often wonder whether or not radiation was dumped into the Monongahela River?
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Radiation level could be a key to the Fermi paradox. Too much radiation and everything dies of lots of things. To little radiation and everything dies of cancer.
Dad: Well son you see you just turn this switch on and if there were any deadly, deadly radiation nearby it would- geigercounter: *MACHINE GUN FIRE NOISES*
