At 0.43 you mention that the allies were in a race to develop the 1st nuclear bomb yet you show the flags of the US, UK, and France when it was the US, UK, and Canada that collaborated to develop it (Manhattan Project). It's a bit misleading.
@@Yarltza19 This incident was 70 years ago. Someone in their 20s back then would be in their 90s today. If there were *any* long-term effects, we would know about it by now.
@@jeffbenton6183 of course they must have seen the effects long ago but what I mean here is the secrecy. This incident simply wasn’t known. The way they kept it this confidential kinda suggests that we will not be informed about the casualties in the near future.
@@Yarltza19 I can't find any evidence that they ever kept any of this secret. Can you cite a source? As far as I know, the names of everyone involved is available to anyone, meaning that there are civilians who know what happened to them. Also, it's *extremely* unusual for military confidentiality to continue for 7 whole decades (especially not for something like this). The reasons why it was made a secret in the first place usually pass rather quickly - the plans for Operation Overlord stopped being secret pretty soon after they were realized. More to the point, imagery from America's first series of spy satellites were top secret until the 90s, when then-Sen. Al Gore was able to pass a law (having been convinced that it was no longer a risk to national security) making the whole database available to scientists and historians. The data was no longer sensitive, the Soviets knew that we had far more capable satellites since then so there was no point in hiding anything. Most Cold War-era secrets that are still kept these days are things that could endanger foreigners working as US agents (since we still use the same tactics to keep them safe) or things like the propulsion systems on submarines that are pretty similar to the ones we still use (when the last 688i sub is retired in the 2030s, I expect that veil to be lifted). There are a few exceptions, but they don't seem to apply here. Specifically, I have in mind the Project Mogul balloon which crashed at Roswell, for instance. They said it was a weather balloon, but it was actually a spy balloon. The USAF didn't admit it until the 80s, not because there was any reason at all to keep it secret, but because it was such a boring failed project, that everyone just kind of forgot that it was still classified, until one USAF historian was looking for something completely different in old documents and stumbled upon it. There are some big late-Cold War projects that are still classified, mostly because it can cost billions to release all those documents, so the powers that be just let it go to save some taxpayer money. This doesn't seem to apply here since, 1) it was just a single, small event, 2) people on the outside still know about it, unlike Project Mogul and 3) because everything that is classified is no longer classified if the President says so, and I have a hard time believing Pres. Carter would've kept anything the US knew about this incident under wraps, knowing what I know about the guy. As for Canada, I can't know for sure, but considering that Britain is even more forthcoming with its own classified data than the US, I imagine Canada has similar policies. The only other reason I can think of why this would still be classified is that *someone* cares more about personal interest than national interest. To that, I say, "who?". Everyone who was in an important leadership position back then is dead now. Most of today's leadership wasn't even born yet when it happened. Who could they possibly be covering for, and why?
Your engineers do not have more education in physics than chemists biologists or toxicologists. The physics and mathematics are the same. Edison generator and dynamos power plants can produce the same current and voltage AC power as any of the usual power plants. The public utilities commission was created by Congress to assure these less expensive power plants were used in the rural electrification of the USA. This did not happen.
Ok, lets say it's "good" to have nucIear power... What about the waste ? What might they be doing with the waste ? FIushing it back out, for you to consume... " Don't Drink The F'ckin Water ! " kDb
I work at Chalk River Laboratories. I will say that this video is a good and honest representation of what happened back then. It was the first unintentional nuclear disaster in human history, and we are still cleaning it up. That's only because the regulatory standard for the nuclear industry is that we make it cleaner than a concrete brick in the sun. If you don't know what that means, please shut up. A concrete brick in the sun produces more radiation than you want to know. Even a banana peel is more radioactive than most "radioactive waste" we produce at my workplace.
Do you happen to know if the radiation caused any casualties (including injuries, not just deaths) among the clean-up crew, or anyone else? I got the sense from this video that there were none, but I just wanted to make sure.
" A concrete brick in the sun produces more radiation than you want to know. Even a banana peel is more radioactive than most "radioactive waste" we produce at my workplace." I'm sure parroting that stuff makes it easier for you, but most of us that aren't paid to live around that stuff really don't believe all that hype. I come from a town (Erwin, TN usa) that has produced nuclear fuel for the us navy and use to be the only plant that did for decades, they parrot that kind of shite too all while those down river suffer high rates of cancers and leukemia. They have ruined the area, been sued by their neighboring businesses for contaminating their land and NFS said the same stupid crap you did, nuclear entities are never truthful with the public. The workers don't really know what is going on, nothing has changed, they tell you BS for you to repeat to make them look better, save it for a company meeting where you will be around more people that will believe it LOL.
