The Nuclear Reactor Graveyard 

It is pretty hardcore... Lol. 😂 😂 😂

That would be cool!

What happened to Back Of The Yards is probably the story they tell.

hahah...what kids? you would probably be sterile then dead in a few years after being exposed to this radiation with no ppe

@@jacobpoucher Graphite and concrete are not radioactive. Nobody got sick from the Chicago experiments.

somewhere on the path leading to that rock should be a panel with a big red button with a sign saying "Do Not Push This Button". It should be far enough away that when pushed it notifies the local police giving them enough time to intercept people who would more than likely DIG.

I thought it said do not die….

Fucking right tho

Love Tom Scott!

I had exactly the same thought watching this. :)

discount Tom Scott.

@@malinsg1 Indeed, great content but the mispronounciations are rife. If Tom Scott called Chianti 'Shan-tee' he would be stripped naked and burned at the stake the next time he landed in Italy...

Oh and I'm currently at UofC working overnight. Nice to be part of history.

I lived in the back of the yards from 1967-1969. We staying in an apartment in the flat where my Grandparents lived. My Pop installed carpet back then and he had a warehouse in the stockyards. I remember big piles of carpet rolls and a huge sign that said 'SWIFT". I was born in 1962, so I was quite young then. It's all gone now, an office park apparently.

The RU-vidr ChubbyEmu is from back of the yards. Back meaning behind and of-the-yards meaning belonging to the yards.

Jake That’s awesome!!

WOW. That's interesting!

Let's hope the people far in the future who can't read English don't take the graphite blocks home as souvenirs. 😵😵😵

There was no radiation in the material at the surface. The scattered blocks were harmless. they were probably the cutoff pieces left after building the pile. @@acmefixer1

I held the demon core while pissing on the elephants foot

@@charlespatrick1572 One of the reasons for using graphite is that it like aluminium does not become persistently radioactive under radiation exposure unlike heavier materials.

Huh, well it's good you don't have cance- WAIT WHAT.

I'm not sure why, but I want to drink with you.

You may not see what others see.lol the 3rd arm is not normal even though you're from Chicago. Sorry couldn't resist. Grew up 65 miles south of the city.

My father worked in there too!🤣

@@miguelferreiramoutajunior2475 seriously? Because that means your dad would have to be up there in age. That was my great-uncle, my father's uncle, there were a lot of engineers and physicists that worked on that project. He told me stories about how many of the engineers didn't realize what it was going to be used for.

Well sweet. As a headphone user I've been warned....

Josh B don’t get rickrolled? 😂

It's very annoying isn't it. Basic pronunciation is being lost

DAGATHire He is Australian. Perhaps they pronounce them differently, like how Brits pronounce aluminum (aluminium)? Or how Aussies and Kiwis call the letter ‘z’ “zed”.

@@MrTangent No they don't I'm an English teacher. Trust me. It's quite simply that he doesn't pronounce them at all correctly. Simple as that.

Echoed here as well, DAGATHire. It's not an innate thing to do, the proper pronunciation of words come from typically two things growing up: be taught by context or be mocked by your peers when you get it wrong. One being far more fun than the other depending on which side you are on. Nuclear I can forgive, but Cadmium and Chianti need to be corrected. Just go watch "The Silence of the Lambs". If your lucky Hannibal will split a bottle Chianti with you, if you're unlucky Hannibal will have a glass of Chianti with you.

@@venomq2409 Ye. Also sites like wordreferance offer pronunciation examples in English from many different accents. The trouble here is people are confusing the difference between accents and correct pronunciation. The fact he's Australian only affects the accent element and has precisely nothing to do with the correct pronunciation and indeed intonation and stress of individual syllables. Quite correct you learn it through context growing up... But this phenomenon of mispronouncing words is more common these days than ever before.

Actually, and respectfully, there was a full compliment of air force and other personnel who recorded the Hiroshima blast. I knew one of the photographers as a neighbor- Bud Grice. Google Hiroshima bomb blast video.

@@neilreid9005 With all due respect, I *have* done that search, many times. And I want to stress that I am talking about *video* film here, not still images. All video film from the aircraft assigned to record the Hiroshima bombing was blank or black. There were a few *still* images (35mm film camera stock, I believe) that were recovered, but the only actual *video* of Hiroshima is this one, starting at the 6 second mark: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2Pxk4zy_SQw.html .... or this one starting at the 1:11 mark: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_qh--j9_8wY.html which was filmed by a crewman (in either the "Enola Gay", piloted by Tibbets, or "The Great Artiste", piloted by Sweeney) who had an 8mm (16mm?) camera and caught the result well after the explosion. The then-unnamed aircraft assigned to photograph the explosion, piloted by Capt. Marquardt, failed to capture anything that was viewable; all their movie film was either bad from the start, or was somehow exposed during post-mission handling. There are innumerable videos claiming to show the "Hiroshima" bombing that are actually showing the Nagasaki bombing. This was also in a documentary whose name I cannot remember now, but it was stated clearly that all *video* film from the assigned photography aircraft was damaged beyond recovery, and that the one short film by the crewman was the only "moving" record of the Hiroshima bombing. That said, if you can provide any link to a video of the Hiroshima bombing other than the ones I linked, I'd be very interested to see it. EDIT: Watch this video from National Geographic, it states this as fact at the 1:45 mark: www.nationalgeographic.com.au/videos/hiroshima-the-next-day/the-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-5256.aspx

@@sidewinder666666 Can't like this refutation enough.

If it's in the Great Lakes watershed, it's definitely being monitored. I treat wastewater from my companys industrial powder coating wash line for heavy metals and I am monitored 4 times a year, more if I were to actually screw up. It's a big deal, the Great Lakes are my life.

@@commodoresixfour7478 That's because you're a private company, no one watches the government sites because government doesn't care.

WaxP3 sure..... meth labs. Because _that’s_ what he said.

That's their problem

@@MrBen527 That's what I was going to say.

Well, at least it's not like the Love Canal.

I think you meant 3:08.

😎😎😎

That was the funniest comment I’ve read in a while. Did you write for that show House, M.D.?

His mispronunciation of Chianti was even worse....

@@ChicagoAussie Ok fair enough. However, presenting scientific content for public consumption requires knowing when you've invented a new element. I shouldn't find myself in the position of having a better knowledge of the periodic table than a presenter. That isn't to say that I didn't learn things from this video, and frankly my videos are riddled with errors... But 'cadium'? Seriously? I would have deleted and re-uploaded anything I released with a boo-boo like that in it.

Nice knowing you pal LOL

Very interesting. My Mother worked at the Met lab.

@@ChicagoAussie Can I ask your opinion on the issue of circumcision? Do they do that in australia.

@@ChicagoAussie They have a section of restored prairie there and a heard of bison as well as the accelerator.

Uhh they still do. They have several. It was just the Tevitron that was decommissioned.

Dont drink the water...

It could be a holy place for the children of atom

@@TheObsidianX good one! Children of the atom megachurch.

Call Obsidian, not Bethesda, since Todd Howard is a tool that's only good for wrecking franchises.

You miss a whole lot in life if you never leave the road.

Chicago Aussie wait he did? That's news to me!

I seen mail order Pile cream

Joshua Joestar Thank you so much you’re my fellow American patriot my son is the same way serving in the military in the Marine Corps is very conservative pro Trump

@@johnydoe7065 so now you've seen that millennials are a little more diverse than you originally thought, next time you get an urge to (metaphorically)bash Millenials, don't forget where we came from.

McTavish McArdle *FBI joins the chat*

@@mikecorleone6797 LOL!

Some of that looks restaged for a documentary type film reel.

@@MilwaukeeF40C ah, that's a good point - still would be interesting to watch the full reel!

FallingShells hmm remember living east of tucson.near one of riverbeds city had dug a dirt cave into side of wash and put old explosives into it we used to go in and play wipe off droplets and flick and explode...turn of last century dynomite was made cheaply saw dust ..few other materials and nitro..this was old stock ..sweating...surprised havent heard anything on news about it

@@miguelcastaneda7236 That sounds rad!

I guess you mean Gaga counter

Geiger counter?

yep spot on, typed that quickly while i was out

Maybe they had the chianti with some fava beans and liver (human or otherwise)!

@@cthuthu333 Is that the chi energy?! Human liver?

@@voornaam3191 Just a reference to the movie "'silence of the lambs"

@@cthuthu333 Okay, that was a long time ago. I remember a prisoner and a story about dying lambs. Lamb and death is quite a symbol. Was there a hidden cross perhaps? The liver is gone. I'll need to find and see it again, I guess. The movie, my liver is still there. Thanks.

Somewhere a OSHA inspector is screaming at all the missed fines thinking what they could have gotten if they've been around back then. It's not like that graphite dust won't fill your lungs like coal dust

It’s still metal dust. Not good for you in any kind of way. Wear your damn PPE!

@@chibobird482 They tried very hard to meet life expectations of that era. It takes quite some effort to die younger. That's why they all smoked and took that harddrug called booze happily. Or they flew to Europe.

ya seen that too...thats crazy...

Relax it only kills you if you known that it’s bad for you besides the 3 packs of Lucky’s he smoked a day since he was 12 years old had case hardened his lungs years ago

You probably can't even pronounce croissant

Steve Stratton He slips in and out of it the whole time.

"...more than enough to cover your house in lights." Supposing those are 6w LEDs indoors or LED Christmas light strings, I'd say it could be accurate.

@@donaldglaser7686 - At the time, man, at the time.

I believe he was talking about the world war two houses'

He didn't say run your house, he said run your housing lights. In the 1950s 200w probably would be enough for lighting in a 2br or 3br house

But it will run enough LED lights to light a house

I can verify this. I am the other person in this account. I still glow slightly green 😁

Best with liver and fava beans according to Dr. Lecter.

@@RCAvhstape I think you mean "lifter" and "flavour" beans to go with that shanty.

Any superpowers?

@@ChicagoAussie once it gets less muddy you should try them out.

@@ChicagoAussie once it gets less muddy you should try them out.

apl175 Hell no im on my way now with a bunch of midgets and shovels

@@ChicagoAussie don't dig up the reactors leave them to rest in peace in their grave and they probably killed the reactors

not those signs believe me

But it was a cold damp day because you had your hands in your Patagonia jacket the whole time.

Have a couple of radium watches and ashtrays that were sold to tourists in Utah, Arizona and other SW states all have radioactive rocks glued in place. When I first had access to a Geiger meter in school it blew my teachers away at the rads coming off. Keep them all in a lead sealed box now. DHS tried to get an order for seizure about 12 years ago, the judge ruled they’d have to pay the antiquities and collectibles value that I placed on them. Since the watches were family heirlooms I told them 10 million they laughed, Judge said put up or shut up. I am enjoined from sale, donation or display but the government lost. Not like enough to make a dirty bomb. Cancer risk is higher from cigarettes or vaping. But having worked with & for the SOB’s as long as they lose all that matters

Tomato tomatwah

By then we have bigger problems