What if you put your hand in a particle accelerator? 

idk edit: please i don't i don't deserve um.. the no like situation... nevermind, sorry for lame replying

then watch @@j.21

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@@kylehill soon i will

Cost cutting, and lack of concern for proper safety protocols would be my guess

Soviet engineering baby.

Or even just a door interlock. The irradiator I uses at work has a simple mechanical switch on the door into the room, such that the machine cannot be started unless the door is closed, and will immediately trip offline if the door is opened when in operation.

​@@rijlqanturis625ehh i would trust that, the other accelerator incident in this series occurred because one of those interlocks failed

​@@AsobiMedio tfw u dont even watch the whole video

@@forceawakens4449 For sure. Any place with respectable safety measures the interlock would be a failsafe intended for if you already screwed up every other safety procedure and mechanism. And you'd be in serious trouble if you only avoided an accident due to the interlock. It'd still be an improvement in this case though.

Antimatter Annihilation is a pretty metal band name !

@@Kremit_the_ForgBit of a mouthful though.

@@Kwatcher100 said your mom

@@toolbaggers Said your mustache.

The annihilation peak was the result of atoms in his hands transmuted by the high radiation into unstable isotopes, some of which decayed with a short half-life via beta+ decay, then the positrons emitted would annihilate with nearby electrons.

Vietnam Efficiency

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😂😂😂

"Here, have some vitamin gummy bears"

To be fair, it's really not that far fetched to think a doctor wouldn't have the slightest idea what that actually entails. They are DOCTORS not PHYSICISTS!

I know of at least one death. But no stories were written about it

​@@user-wi8nc9wo3x how do you know if theres nothing written on it lmao

​@@user-wi8nc9wo3xThen care to share how TF you know? WTF is the point of comments like this 🙄

Didnt one guy get a particle through his head?

​@@CMStrawbridgeAnatoli Petrovich Bugorski

the point is, you would never actually feel anything or realise anything at the moment any stream of particles or radiation pass through your body, nor your body would react to it immediately, no pain, no bite or tinging sensation. Its important to note that the beam dia of stream of particles in small scale accelerators is of few microns to less that a millimeter. If you dont know if the beam is active or not, you would never know if you hit or pass the beamline once or twice, or n number of times while working around it. It is the after effects, and scale of dosage (15:20) which decides the level of damage being done by the particle beam into the body tissues. Then you would realise that something happened to the skin and tissue a few days ago. If you know the beam is active, and you know the path of beamlines, and you still deliberately put your hand into the path, then its another story. But it would still feel like you are waving your hand in the void.

copium

​@@deepak_nigwalyes your body wouldnt react to it immediately but when your hands start to swell and necrotize you dont fucking think its artritis

Told his doctor about getting irradiated while his hands were turning grey and she was like "you need dermatorogist for vitamin deficiency!!"

He must've been bathing in de Nile. I'll see myself out...

some radioactive decay are known to emmit antimatter particles. i guess thats the radiosignature they detected in his hands

A Russian scientist had a particle beam pass through his brain but still somehow survived, shit is insane

@@offbrandbiscuit I watched a video about that a while back and went into it expecting the guy to be killed instantly Probably one of the craziest stories I’ve ever heard!

@@alamrasyidi4097that's true, some naturally occurring radioisotopes decay by beta plus decay (emitting a positron from the nucleus), but in this case the antimatter was created by photon scattering: A high energy photon (a very hard X or gamma particle) hitting a high intensity electromagnetic field (like the one of an atomic nuclei) can, with a certain probability depending on the energy of the photon (the higher the energy, the greater the probability) scatter (exchange momentum) by producing an electron-positron pair. The positron from the pair then quicky annihilates with any of the surrounding electrons, which emits two lower energy photons of exactly the same frequency and in the exactly opposing directions, the event which can be easily detected using scintillating crystal detectors.

@@offbrandbiscuitthat's mentioned in the video - the Russian guy was lucky, ironically, that his accelerator emitted a beam of particles of much higher energy which his tissue was not able to stop, so most of the particles passed through without making too much damage, plus I believe the beam was very narrowly focused.

Smarter than the « Director »

Congratulations, wow! I wish you well in your studies and possible new career :)

I wish you the best of luck

Youse doing Jesus's work. Chin up b.

Sounds more like denial, to me. To be fair though, what were they going to do with earlier diagnosis? What other treatments?

Then when it start to rot from the inside ... "have some vitamins!"

That's just what having chronic illness is like tbh. It's hard to gauge when something is unusually wrong if pain/discomfort is your baseline.

Exaggerate much? It's only like 99.999999879% of the speed of light.

I can understand the doc not knowing what to do since radiation wasn’t that well known at the time, but, um. His hands are black…

I mean, technically, all Uranium is radioactive, but so is every element from Bismuth or heavier.

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Whats even funnier is that uranium is actualy _the best_ material for stopping radiation because it is the most dense material we have. Edit: So apparently I am wrong and depleted uranium is not the single most dense material we have. However, it is still one of the most dense and it is also one of the most viable for construction because the other ones are too expensive or will kill you (lead specificaly).

@@kylehillDepleted Uranium is still radioactive, but the radiation levels are so low they're at or below background radiation in most of the world. Still DU plating and other items are always painted or otherwise coated, but that's mostly because Uranium Oxides are highly toxic (chemically), this also as a side effect blocks any alpha emissions.

On one side, you have some alpha particles and a little bit of gamma rays. On the other side you have lethal electron beams and X-rays. Which side do YOU want to be on?

Hands down

​@@BonjourGuysBasement😅

fr hands gone 💀

for sure 2 thumbs up! well…

Hands gone

Vietnam is a 3rd world country. That means it's decades behind and accepting second hand equipment.

It's a nuclear physics institute run by a post-starvation, post-blockade and nearly bankrupt Communist country that absolutely had other priorities than some weird nuclear scientist's demands. To think the country had such institutes is outlandish - kind of like hearing about Zambia having a space programme.

@@tillamook7446 ...still defeated the US military.

As someone who has a short attention span,

Can you then please explain to me what he's talking about in this video at 16:10 the part they "do a check for Antimatter annihilation", I think this part could be BS. Seems like a simple Geiger counter isn't what he means they used for checking if something was dosed. What does "Antimatter annihilation" even have to do with radiation exposure at that point?

I’m glad he’s doing well!

That’s unfortunate and badass

Buddy turned his misfortune into a fortune

Did he have a hookhand?

If it were me, I would have stopped after the amputation. No reason to have surgery putting my damaged hand into my torso. That's just weird.

I'm Vietnamese too! I always joke with my friends about the war knowing we were literal cave diggers

I wouldn't call the early '90s 'just getting out of a war'. Your war had been over for almost 2 decades when this happened. The fact is that there is a lax attitude towards safety in your country that is evident still today. All I gotta do is watch a Vietnamese motorcycling video to see that. Enjoy. Ignorance is bliss. The fact is that a communist government will never value human life as much as a capitalist one. You took your cues from the Soviet Union and China. A quick study of history will tell you they thought nothing of murdering people en masse to hold power. Even to this day, Russia is still sending human waves against superior troops. That might work when your back is against the wall but they didn't have to invade Ukraine. Putin is just trying to put the Soviet Union back together and his methods speak volumes to that. He would never fire his nukes at anyone simply because his own people would have him hung, drawn and quartered, assuming anyone was left after the retaliatory strike. And, unlike the old Soviet garbage they're using, our nukes would actually mostly work, instead of mostly being duds. Part of the reason their crap is so unreliable is because a lot of those Soviet subjects engaged in sabotage. And it was cheaply designed in the first place. They definitely didn't expect designs from the '50s to be fighting a war 70 years later. I will say that it was not America's place to get involved in your civil war. I will also say that the wrong side won and I think the outcome would have been different if there were never any US troops sent to Vietnam. We handed the communists the win just by getting involved. We are still facing the consequences of meddling in China's civil war today, however I am sure a lot of people in Taiwan are glad we did. But we sealed our own fate by not continuing on to Siberia when we got to Berlin in WWII. The simple fact is that the Soviet Union never should have lasted long enough to have a Cold War, or to corrupt Vietnam with their inhumane ways. You just traded one inhumane dictator (the French) for another. Imperialism comes in many forms and it is most insidious when perpetrated against one's own people. After all, we never tortured any of your people but you did not extend the same courtesy. It is dishonorable. Chances are you have zero idea what really happened at the Hanoi Hilton. You are still subject to anti-American propaganda, even as you pretend to extend diplomatic and trade courtesies. And when I say torture, I don't mean a rap on the head or bright lights, or even waterboarding. I mean torture solely for the purpose of making people suffer as much as possible. Killing them slowly. That's your legacy, next to which carpet bombing empty jungles or even Agent Orange dispersal pales in comparison. We were fighting a difficult war against an insidious enemy. But your side took it out on people who couldn't even run, often because they had been hobbled (deliberately shattering someone's ankles so they can never run again), but mostly because they were captive. Only the lowest excuse for humanity would do such things. What the US did to Vietnam pales in comparison to what numerous communist regimes have done to their own people. And the Soviets put more people in concentration camps than the Nazis could ever imagine. They treated the Jews as badly; millions died in numerous pogroms. While Germany and Japan are tales of redemption, Russia is just still holding on to the old ways. They never got what they truly deserved but if they keep fighting with Ukraine, they definitely will. The EU is moving to admit them as a means to stop the war. If Putin persists, beyond a certain point, he will be facing WWIII but this time Russia won't be on the winning side. China is a paper tiger. Doesn't matter about numbers these days. 200 awesome stealth fighters are better than 2000 crappy ones. When you start to impress civilian ferries into military service because you didn't plan for the thing you've been threatening for 70 years, it isn't a threat, it is just sad and pathetic. Like Kim Jong Un and his big missile. Just compensating for an inferiority complex, a common thread among Communist dictators. What I really don't get is how people could think a government in which they have no say is a good thing. And Vietnam has yet to learn the meaning of freedom. Do yourself a favor and don't make excuses for the fact your Communist government is lax on safety when you have no leg to stand on; don't even really know history. Especially not on RU-vid.

@@Lurch-Bot tldr btw 😳 and when it comes to safety guidelines nowadays, much more better than before. And tbh, Vietnam just got out of the Trade Embargo by the fking Murica in the late 90s, before that, war in our country actually ended in the 80s again the Chinese and Cambodian. Just saying, if you really are that good and well understanding then come to our “communist country” and live rather than just trash talking 🫣

How the fuck is he considered an expert

​@@yeos_angel_ power of hindsight?

@@yeos_angel_ he were in his younger day when safety standard was somewhat lacking, consider that in 1992 communist Vietnam has just opened up after the USSR collapse so go figure.

​@@yeos_angel_well I'm sure he's not commiting the same.mistake again for sure

@@yeos_angel_ BREAKING NEWS, EXPERTS ARE ACTUALLY ONCE NEWBIES WHO HAD TO GO THROUGH TRIAL AND ERROR!!!! Please use your brain next time instead of asking dumb shit like that, jfc

Yup. Imagine if he had put his head down there to "eye-ball" it. He would have had his brain leaking from his ears and nose within an hour.

@@The_Keeper There was a video about that too.

@@MySerpentinehe got lucky that his head was too soft to stop the particle. If it did deliver the full radioactive payload he would be extremely dead.

@@The_KeeperYeah, that's happened. He survived!

I’m pretty sure dying is cheaper than losing both of your hands.

Sure he is, dumb bastard hasn't got any hands!

Or he’s just that dumb.

AND now he has weapons for hands, definitely stay on his good side...

Idk homie his silence after hearing what happened to his hands sounds pretty fearful,,

He has no hands, he’s not gonna do shit

THIS EXACTLY HOW I FELT LMFAO LETS GOOOOOOOO

😂 My words exactly. Then I danced.

"What do you mean overcha..."

The wrong hand in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world

I set aside time of my day to sit and watch this

Damn you arthritis!

He even measured himself to be radioactive!

This man needed immediate, aggressive interventions and grafts to begin replacing tissue in his hands with healthy tissue from other parts of his body before the existing, compromised cells reached end of life wear and required replacements from descendants that would be either highly dysfunctional, or not exist at all. Bone and muscle have slow enough turnover giving him precious time to act, unfortunately he decided that if he refused to grasp the gravity of what had happened and ignored it, it would all somehow go away.

@@SearinoxNavras Is that an actual medical procedure? Any idea what it's called? I can't find much about it via google & I thought grafts often fail with radiation damage.

Yep, I wonder what his thought process was....it's staggering that he was in charge, I wouldn't want him in charge of my coffee let alone that facility. It doesn't take a scientist or have any qualifications to know if you put your hands where they shouldn't be, i.e boiling water, acid, fire or anything radioactive then you're fucked, not oh well let's carry on!

To be fair it's not like it would have done much

Guy really did a gojo

Back then when men were real men.

He did tell a doctor about it and they didn't think it was an issue lol

@@chevronlily It fucking would. The faster you treat, the easier it will be in the future, dude hands were literally rotting alive.

How many ended up with radiation poisoning ?.

@@clanrobertrose8199 I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to say too much but, while radiation controls are usually very strict, it’s possible to make mistakes and, as in this video, radiation is a silent / invisible danger.i remember once designing a room for a hospital in the Middle East. They wanted much thinner concrete in the ceiling than I calculated. Their argument was that the hospital restaurant would be above the treatment rooms and people wouldn’t spend very long there. But what about the staff who work there everyday I asked. In the end, the customer and their architects are responsible for the building and for getting it approved as compliant to local regulations. I only gave advice based on the knowledge of our device’s performance / specifications.

Sorry, I still haven't gotten over the Therac-25 debacle and think you're supporting quackery. They've been trying to market ionizing radiation as a miracle cure for a long time. Still quackery. Oh, you have cancer, let's bombard your body with energy known to cause cancer. 🤷‍♂ Might as well be giving people calomel. And, OMG, we know so much more about cancer than you did when you were 'designing treatment rooms in the late '90s'. Radiation therapy should be illegal at this point. I can't even get a friggin percocet when I throw my back out but they're still irradiating people. Makes sense. Sorry to tell you the profession you devoted your life to is an utter joke. And I don't just mean radiation therapy, I mean medicine in general. I've been sick for two years with symptoms of PAI and AIT, not to mention PsA. They're still trying to figure out what I realized a year ago. They finally found that I have ILD so it should be easier to get the proper tests for the other stuff but probably won't be because doctors these days come out of med school as institutionalized sociopaths. They are quite literally taught not to listen to their patients. And one random blood test is about as scientific as ripping a fart, especially when you have an intermittent condition. I've had to become my own immunologist and treat my condition with supplements and the occasional steroid medication I have to beg, borrow or steal. I had a prescription for Albuterol for exercise induced asthma as a kid but my radiology report has been available to my physician for 3 weeks and still no prescription for Albuterol, let alone the medications I really should be taking to treat it, like Trelegy and Humira. I have glucose levels so low that I would pass out if I fasted. How is it they don't connect the dots when I tell them I cannot take a fasting blood test because I would pass out before I got there? How can they be so arrogant as to assume if they didn't see anything obviously abnormal with my adrenal glands that I couldn't possibly have PAI? This is not at all supported by the copious literature I have read on the subject and if they are waiting for me to have obvious damage to my adrenal glands to treat me, they're headed for a malpractice lawsuit. I had to show photos of bloody sputum to even get an Xray and in spite of telling my physician that I get tested for all kinds of stuff on a fairly regular basis because of my sexual habits and TB is one of them, she still sent me for a TB test. Completely blind to anything but the statistically most likely answer, which wasn't really that considering my last TB test was less than a year ago. I've been off my supplements and steroids for well over a week just so I can take a thyroid test and I feel like shit. If this doesn't give the results the doctor is looking for, I'm going to Mayo so I can see a real physician. And did the doctor bother to order a thyroglobulin antibody test? Of course fucking not. And when do I see her again? 2 months. I am on track to have only seen a physician twice this year with multiple active autoimmune diseases. Damn osteopaths think they know everything and can treat everything. All they really do is sit on their hands and make excuses for not treating you. Like, WTF did you think 'extreme fatigue' meant? Apparently that means I'm fine, lol. At this point I know more about autoimmune disorders than my hack of a physician ever will and the closest thing I ever had to med school was a year at optometry school.

What university has a nuclear power plant? Seriously, if you're gonna BS people, at least do it right. The only nuclear reactor I've ever heard of at a university was the Chicago Pile back during the early days of the US nuclear project in WWII and it was quickly dismantled after they did their experiments. The only way they were even allowed to do it there was because there was a major war on. These days, fuggheddaboudit. The scary thing is they can work on inventing the quantum bomb with reckless abandon because universities definitely have particle accelerators. If a nuclear bomb only needs 10kg of plutonium, imagine how little mass is required on the quantum level to initiate a catastrophic chain reaction. Surprised there isn't a black hole swallowing us as I type.

Hopefully you're better at it than the poor guy who lost his hands.

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Same, I don’t fully understand all the maths and photon level stuff, but man it’s fascinating to me how a naturally occurring material can cause so much destruction to humans, not once or twice, but so many times

Oh. I feel that. My brother I swear can’t feel pain. As a kid he would jump out his window onto the bush to play at night. He completely broke his pinkie and only went to the doc after showing mom it can now bend in this direction. And he also had an infection on his tooth and had to be removed. The stinker.

Same reason why we usually do Medical Check ups every few years. Just because you doesnt feel it doesnt mean there is some kind of Cancer growing in you. Do regular Check Ups Guys. There are People who would miss you.

Aaand now I’m back to having anxiety about having cancer in my ovaries…..

@JaneFlowerbird cancer has telltale that aren't painful. If you're scared, go to a doctor (unless you live in the US, then chemio might be less costly)

I genuinely thought like this once, like perhaps living without pain would be nice, but then you’d never know what’s wrong with you. It’s like emotions too, it’s good you have them, like being sad or mad cause they tell you, you deserve better or things like what’s right and wrong.😅 Idk, I used to think heaven would be like you never get sad or feel pain but thinking about life like that seems kinda dumb. Like be thankful for your senses. 😂

I would bet is higher than two, but so far we only have heard of these

that is until a third nickel dropped at your feet. though that would be unlikely. right...?

You may have seen the video from Plainly Difficult! about two years ago "A Brief History of: The Hanoi Electron Accelerator Accident (Documentary)" He includes the sources so you can read the reports. EDIT: There is a lot more info in PD's video and since he links to the reports, you can see it was more 'spicy' than this video makes it out. Also the director's name is known and appears in some of the photos.

I've only seen it happen twice But particle beams are mighty nice Chuck fried his hands like shrimp and rice Neutrons stick to kids

Yeah, I thought this question was already answered by Comrade Bugorski. Please tell me this wasn't a "Hold m'beer" moment! EDIT: Having just watched the vid, I can safely conclude that the way the director handled his irradiation was infinitely more stupid than any "Hold m'beer" moment could ever hope to achieve. 🤦

I'm Vietnamese and I didn't even know we had particle accelerators...

​@@imbutters1468 Same here. My co-worker watched this video and told me about it. My first reaction was thinking " we dont have a particle accelerator. Must be very recent". Nope, 1992.

Honestly if a country isn't well off enough to comfortably fully fund it, they shouldn't be spending money on stuff like this

tried so hard to find news about the incident but the only thing found was a foreign report :(

tbf, it probably wasn't being hidden, one person slowly battling a disease that ultimately took 8 of their fingers isn't much of a news story. Even being due to a particle accelerator, I imagine the cultural understanding in the world in 1992 of particle accelerators was extremely low, no less a developing country.

and worse, depending on the cabling the angles may be limited, requiring more complex duct designs.

Unknown for electronics looks funnier, lol

@@Blackwing2345635 Are there electronics there? IDK, there might be, but I can't be bothered to check, my shift ends in 10

Having worked at CERN, I can basically tell you that it's like that. Or... More like a "We never checked, didn't need to so far, and it'd probably be annoyingly expensive to do so :P" Trust me, the radiation safety down there is a LOT better than this though.

I think that and Kyle's soothing, somber tone is very relaxing

Watching Kyle's videos, and the manner in which he presents all of the information that he does has made it very difficult to watch almost all of the other creators out there. Like you, I go back and watch them time and time again - sometimes picking up little tidbits that I missed the first time.

At most I re-watch Pongsifu or Ssethtzeentach. The latter definitely didn't force me to say this.

Mine is Star-Trek: Next-Gen, for very similar reasons.

NERD! Ha ha ha ha! Yer a friggin' nerd that's why...... so am I except I'm not a smart nerd. I'm just weird

They can read it for sure - the thing cause this to happened is neglected the very basic aspect of "is it on or off" before shit happened...

@@brothercoconut6599 As if they would. All this stuff was specified in soviet manuals as well, and they also had all needed systems (even if they were not well maintained - watch another particle accelerator episode).

We are nothing more than monkees with power tools. The more dangerous something is , the more we have to f@$k around and find out!

Do you remember that giant job fair America through the Vietnam job fair they spent a lot of money to get all these things built in Vietnam during the job fair like the deep sea port and the big are strips and now they have a lot of commercial money there and not too many concerns about OSHA or safety.

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 and how do you know that they do not know russian?

If I may ask, what are nuclear submarines? Those sound extremely interesting!

And the doctor recommended vitamins when he mentioned he'd probably been irradiated?

I completely agree with you, but I think it's also important to remember this was over 30 years ago, when the internet was still in its infancy, information wasn't nearly as readily available as it is today, and the safety culture surrounding nuclear engineering wasn't anywhere near as sophisticated as it is today. At that time, I doubt that anyone outside the USSR had even heard the name "Anatoli Burgorski" before, let alone knew what had happened to him.

Denial is a powerful feeling. He didn’t think it was a big deal. Or if he did he easily to stupid to understand.

​@@bsnow304as someone who spends much of his time in Vietnam, not much has changed. Had someone that was rock climbing in ha long bay fall improperly into the water and was complaining of back pain. Brought to the local doctor and was told to take a nap and drink water. When this person got back to their home country x rays would show that his spine was fractured. The level of " walk it off ism" here is insane to me.

@@Zitsanrael1117 they knew enough to have a lead maze to protect themselves from secondary exposure, and he knew he just got primary exposure.

I understood that reference

I think I saw that happen... Seems I can picture this too easily.

most of that energy did hit the forge though, so the physics tracks.....

Marvel has interesting interpretations of Norse realms. Niðavellir is no exception.

I hear that if you do it for long enough you get a cool prize

What

AI content relationships are weird. 😅

Once I clicked on a police pew pew video and a body armor ad popped up 🫡 I did laugh out loud

@@PrinceIsotDonut Operator? I love his content.

@@gawainethefirst i do follow him too but it was actually Police Activity. That's what was surprising

😂😂😂😂😂

“He need some milk”

no doubt needed some mineral oils

And he just agreed and went back to work anyways says a lot about his brain power

@@BotWhisperer wtf was he supposed to do? It's old Vietnam, hospitals won't be able to do shit about an irradiated limb other than just amputating it. So he just accepted his faith and went home

Great point

So the brain doesn't really grow anymore or something and that prevents radiation damage from spreading?

I was thinking this at first as well. Never knew about the different displacement of energy between types of beams; very interesting stuff.

Depends on the type of radiation. The brain is very sensitive to cellphone radiation, for example. Brain tumours are quite easily formed with overexposure - especially with children as their skulls are thinner/softer. I always have to cringe hard when a parent gives their young child a tablet or smart(dumb)phone.

​@@Koozwadthere's a quite a bit of difference in intensity and frequency used on a typical mobile device compared to a particle accelerator, buddy. Best, An EE.

Truly horrifying fate. I like to think at least some of them wanted to make their sacrifice useful to humanity, and so decided to let things run their course for the sake of scientific discovery

I’ve worked in the electrical distribution industry for 38 years dealing with voltages from 11,000v to 132,000v and have known a couple of engineers who have died similar to this. An electric arc flash from a fault at EHV voltages can burn at over 22,000 degree C, [the surface of the Sun burns at 5500 degrees C] But one of the most dangerous things associated with this is the microwave radiation blast that is produced along with it. If you are caught at close range in one of these Arc flashovers without protective clothing it is a death sentence. At close range The heat of the flash melts and vaporises metal, clothing and flesh. You receive 3rd degree burns over your body. But the trouble is that the radiation blast that is produced in effect microwaves and cooks your internal organs. So you are alive lying in your hospital bed, covered on burns and waiting to die as your internal organs slowly start to fail one by one. And there is nothing anyone can do about it. The last I knew one happened in the 1990s, an engineer I knew made an horrendous error, [he accidentally left some electrical test probes plugged to a 33,000volt circuit breaker housing] He turn the system back on so those exposed probes became live,…. The following day he went into the C/breaker housing to adjust a mechanism, he failed to notice the probes were still in and flashed over against their live terminals. The most awful thing was that he had a trainee with him and while being loaded into the ambulance he told the trainee that he knew he was going to die.

@@robg521 I think I part of what he was talking about in this situation is that you know you are dead but you feel perfectly fine. No pain or visible damage to the body, just the knowledge you are doomed.

​@@SpaghettiEnterprisesI don't know if it's that exquisite I think at the end of the day you could tell people that they have no chance of surviving and they would still go through most of the treatments to try to survive

​@@robg521and yet hospitals and governments make you suffer through it because unlike with animals they make it illegal to assist in your passing.

I think the fact that whatever happens from then on is inevitable anyway also plays a role in that, there's nothing they can do to reverse the irradiation, so there's no point doing anything except treat the symptoms as they appear, might as well try going on as normal as long as they have left to do so

Just do things the familiar way you've always done, standards and procedures be all damned ;p Such is the Vietnamese style.

One question. Why did the director and other staff not do anything until 24 days later, when his hand was falling apart? They were clearly extremely concerned when it happened. Was there just no point in intervening in an irradiation incident? And the annual checkup doctor 🤦🏻‍♀️ Referring him to a _dermatologist?_ Couldn't he have demanded an expert look at it, if the HINP didn't have one on hand? Edit: ok that was a bit more than one question.

@@destituteanddecadent9106 kyle did explain this in the video. "A developing country, using foreign machinary without manual with local language, lack of safety procedures, lack of resources". This incident probably the reason why my nation atomic technology never develop and probably never will. It a sad but true reality

​@@DarkMagicianMan20 you surely do underestimate scientists and experts in this country doing their best for the sake of your people. Dalat Nuclear Research Institute is and will continue to carry out researches and supply radioisotopes and radiopharmaceuticals for hospitals throughout the country. Just please don't assume boldly the ability of other people based on your limited knowledge and spitting it as if those were the matter of facts

@@minhtoriwt I'm sorry if i offended you because my reply not stated clearly this is just my opinion. I didn't mean Vietnam not have ANYTHING to do with nuclear related research, but we still don't have the capability to build, maintain a nuclear reactor( this is what I mean in atomic tech). I trust many Vietnamese like me want our nation to forward our understanding of the atom. Also I use the word "Probably" so I still believed.

Please, check your home's carbon monoxide detector

​@@Lucas-yu4buno no, he's on to something here

​@@Lucas-yu4bu He's right. Going from 99% of C to 99.9% is hard, getting to 99.999% is even harder.

You seem like such a passionate teacher! We need more like you !

I think you meant "radiology", not radiography

@@thetruthisoutthere5173 No. I meant RADIOGRAPHY. There is a difference. I promise.

@@lays_bbq_chips6299 Thank you! I can honestly say I do not hear that very often. It means a lot to me.

Man I hope I as passionate as you when I become a professor. I know my students wouldn’t be with the “hellfire” that is math.

Every safety law is written in blood.

Googled it; shouldn’t have done. At least I know what my nightmares will be about tonight 😳

Reminds me of a story I heard from an old employer (in the context of a safety brief). I used to work for the manufacturer of spiral conveyor belts - house-sized contraptions that move a conveyor along a circular path, usually either inside a blast freezer or a proofing oven. luckily in this accident no one got cooked or frozen unlike the tuna incident, but it was pretty grisly, so, fair warning: I'm about to describe an industrial accident, as it was described to me. The machine in question - the conveyor spiral - basically operates by winding the belt horizontally around a large metal cage like a spool of thread. The cage rotates, and the cage itself is actually what drives the motion of the belt - there is a central motor in it that turns it so that the belt is not under too much tension (rather than just pulling on the belt, which would snap it). but when you are installing the new belt, it's tricky to get it on - you can't just yank on it, you'll never be able to pull hard enough even if snapping the belt wasn't a concern. You have to get the cage turning at the same time as mild tension is applied to the belt to keep it from slipping off. And because this is a very big machine, you can't just do that from the outside and run around - it's too wide and tall. So you have to be up inside the cage to do this, and you need to have a couple of helpers manually turning the cage by hand, and this has to be pretty well coordinated. Apparently, from what I gather, the install team did not have helpers turning the cage manually. Instead, they just turned on the motor. But the thing about this motor is that it absolutely will not stop turning unless a tremendous force is applied to it. It's a low-speed, high torque motor meant to drive something that weighs at least a couple tons. If you catch a body part between the rotating cage and the stationary frame, the motor won't even hesitate to crush you. And that's exactly what happened - but it wasn't a body part, it was a whole torso. Apparently the person inside the cage and the person on the controls had not coordinated well enough, and the person inside was not fully inside when the motor went on - they were halfway through climbing up. I heard they got sliced fully in half, right across the midsection.

@@transcyberism1459 Fucking hell.

You did, when the Cold War made Vietnam important.

What beats me, is that nobody translated the papers from Russian. There were many Vietnamese scientists and other workers in Soviet Union; Vietnam sided with USSR to ward off China. Many must have known Russian at high proficiency. I also find it hard to believe that at least some of the Vietnamese scientists hadn't studied in USSR

​@@EeeEee-bm5gx I think it was less that they couldn't translate or read it, and more that they were in a hurry and being complacent.

​@@Suhdudeyah😂😂😊

​@@Suhdudeyahactual vietnamese pepole in hanoi didnt know what are particle accelerators because they didnt get taught of it alot

Nah, it's just arthritis.

apparently not if it took him a damn week to work out that maybe radiation could be bad for his hands

Yeah true, I chalk it down to a "this is fine" moment. You know its not, but it's more comforting to pretend otherwise.

Tôi lên mạng xem thông tin r thầy thường che tay phải hoặc đeo găng

Xem vid này tôi mới biết đến GS Trần Đức Thiệp (13:20). Chắc phải là người trong ngành vật lý hạt nhân mới nắm bắt được

I'm from vietnam and I didn't even know we have a particle accelerator

May i ask as an American, why do the Vietnam people write English so well? Every Vietnamese comment under this video has spot on English! Very impressive.

@@kyledodson2992 While it's true that the younger generations of Vietnameses have familiarized themselves with English to a great degree, in the specific case of this comment section it's more about sampling bias than anything else. People without a sufficient degree of English proficiency wouldn't go out of their way to watch an English video about nuclear physics after all, and having a video about Vietnam would surely draw out the English-capable Vietnameses within the population of viewers.

We gotta steal it and put it in our books

Not even what? What does fi! Mean?

@@Frank-os6gqfi stands for fiction so sci-fi is scientific fiction

Its not totally surprising that they didnt appreciate the necessity of all the structural and logistical safety issues as after all: theyre just procedural, structural and such at least one step removed. What i find totally baffling is that anyone competent enough to actually gain anything from particle acceleration research would not appreciate the need to go to a hospital immediately and instead takes a "wait and see" approach.

On Lunar New Year no less!

I wanna open a Pho restaurant and call it “Pho King Delicious”

You are not original ​@@sendthis9480

Every goddamn time i'm sitting in my chair, screaming at my desktop for how simple most of these incidents seem to be preventable from a today's point of knowledge. Yet dismissing your hand feeling 'weird' for your arthritis instead of THE RADIATION BEAM YOU GOT THIS MORNING is infuriatingly ignorant. Ngl, i find it hard to sympathise. Not that i'm not sympathising, but this guy makes it real hard for me is all i'm saying.

@@dimitrilepain3821bro was subscribed to WishfulThinkingProMax

@@dimitrilepain3821Not necessarily ignorance. The guy was just coping and hoping what he felt was a psychological problem or anxiety rather than admit the worst. And for some reason, Asians hate going to the doctors. For an Asian at that time, things would have to be seriously wrong to go for a doctor visit.

@@hx5525 "The guy was [...] hoping that what he felt was a psychological problem [...] rather than admit the worst." That is literally ignorance. He knew fully well what the consequences of his actions could and very likely would be, yet he dismissed that possibility, because it made him feel better in the moment. That. Is. Ignorance.

Please stop putting that many spaces after sentences it's an eyesore

cope and seethe @@lynx4082

@@lynx4082I hope you can cope and not suffer long term damage.

@TheHesseJames didn’t you hear him, you monster? His eyes are sore. That’s irreparable damage for sure.

​@@lynx4082 Triple spaces after a full stop _are_ highly unusual. His comment is informative though, with good spelling, grammar, capitalization and punctuation. I don't think it's worth criticizing, particularly when your own comment contains nothing of value and no punctuation to boot.

You will be very lucky with limb. Most of these injuries are on body, and there isnt much you can do.

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 full body amputation

Never heard of this incident as well, but you can google the professor's name (13:20 - Trần Đức Thiệp). Maybe this is only known in nuclear physicists' circles.

Exactly what I told my girlfriend.

You have to take into account this is Vietnan so not even close to being advanced as other modern countries and it was 1992

A correction that changes nothing at the end result is completely irrelevant within the context of this kind of video.

You just made me feel dumb.

@@Astraeus.. ok and?

@@Astraeus.. I'm with @kikivoorburg on this one... the fact that it changes nothing to the rest of the video is itself completely irrelevant: the simplifaction is simply incorrect. Many people watch these videos, and those types of mistakes are remarkable common (I've seen these mistakes on many university-level math exams), despite it being the result of a very basic algebraic formula that everyone has heard of, namely that (a + b)² = a² + 2ab + b², and not just a² + b². So, I think it is at least necessary to mention this mistake in the comments... to be honest, I absolutely cringed when I saw that simplification made, especially on a Kyle Hill video, where he seems to be very cautious and thorough with the scientific explanation of everything going on.

I would add that the famous E = mc^2 is more correctly written as E_0 = mc^2 (where E_0 means energy at rest). To go from E^2 = m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2 to E = m c^2 for p = 0, you would write it as E^2 = m^2 c^4 (1 + p^2 / (m^2 c^2)) and then expand sqrt(1 + x^2) for small values of x as sqrt(1 + x^2) ~= 1 + 1/2 x^2 + ... - which would lead to the classical equation E_k = 1/2 m v^2 for kinetic energy.