Why would you dump the spent fuel? It could still be used in other reactors and its perfectly safe to store onsite. This power station was closed much too early...could have run for another 40 years or more.

Its very short sighted to close nuclear power stations. I really hope one day people will understand nuclear better and not have radicals and ignorant people making decisions for everyone else.

The security around that site is no joke...unless you happen to be a deer or elk jumping over the fence.

In this area I wasn't too worried. There are other places in the desert where this could have been a fatal mistake.

Yeah, theaters like to do that to get people to work there. When I first started back in high school I was a projectionist and an usher at a 2 screen theater. Learned a little bit working there.

Its such a cool subject...so much to learn.

No problem, thanks for watching.

I would imagine that's the story of a lot of old uranium mining areas.

@RadioactiveDrew For sure. I have family in Colorado and their sidewalk is radioactive.lol

Film has a romance to it that's for sure. But the reality of how films were shown in the past isn't great. I was lucky that I got to work at places like 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, DreamWorks, Disney, Paramount, Technicolor and Deluxe...as a projectionist. Films were always setup correctly and shown in the best possible environment. The vast majority of film theaters didn't care about making their film presentations looking the best they can be and would often have people with zero technical knowledge about anything, running the projectors.

I’ve never worn gloves to handle film. Threading the leader isn’t a big deal with bare hands.

No, they can have mineral rights underground…but they don’t own the sky. The FAA controls the skies in the US. As long as they don’t make the area restricted air space you can fly over it.

@ got you I see. Completely ignorant assumption but I thought (in California at least) you can’t fly a drone low over somebody’s house because of privacy or something. But that’s good to know and it’s something I’ve got to look into more

Well I'm working on a Part 2 to this video. Hopefully out by the end of the week.

👋 Doing all the research now for which best one to buy. Considering a higher budget to get something actually useful for safety nearby my home. And maybe something to check for radon in my basement air filter since it brings that air up through the house.

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No problem...thanks for watching.

Yeah, Tc-99m is a very valuable isotope in the medical field.

Leader is pretty cool to watch. Little flashes of info sometimes about film stock and color tests.

Well all the other screens were digital projection. My screen was the only one projecting film. When film is done right it can look better than digital.

No, we didn’t go over there.

I will if I get hired to work on a project like this again.

I really liked the music. Guess I have different tastes than some.

This has nothing to do with Fukushima. What’s causing the radiation is naturally occurring radioactive thorium 232.

That’s what some people have said.

Thanks.

Yeah, I think that's total BS. The government already has helicopters with extremely sensitive detectors on them flying the city.

@ thanks 👍🏻

Different sensor material.

I would examine the clock and see if any of the paint is beginning to flake off. Also wouldn't hurt to get a radiation detector of some kind. I have radium clocks and other items but I usually keep them in a display case. So I wouldn't get rid of it, maybe relocate it to somewhere it could still be viewed and not right next to your sleeping area. The radiation exposure for the vast majority of these clocks is pretty low. Also what happened to the radium girls was because they were ingesting a lot of radium in that paint...very different from what you might be dealing with.

@ Thanks. It was about 7 or 8 ft from my headboard. I examined the hands with a UV light and all the paint seems to be intact but the phosphorus is long gone so the hands no longer glow in the dark. I will look into getting a detector. Your videos have me fascinated with radioactivity.

Really? Seems like the inverse of that is true. People that know nothing about the subject are trying to lay blame.

The level of waste is extremely low, especially compared to a lot the energy sources out there. Nuclear uses the least amount of land and has the lowest amount of environmental impact than any other power source. The spent fuel isn't a problem. It can still be used as a power source and can be easily stored onsite. The problem is so many people want to over-regulate it. Our world is going to need an ever increasing amount of power...nuclear is the only way to supply it.

@RadioactiveDrew I think your wrong nobody wants this on there doorstep, they told us coal was a problem after letting us use it for years. The funny thing is we didn't have some of the problems we have now, and the truth is I'm not against nuclear as a power source I'm against the use until we know how to dispose it. When they find away to safely put it beyond use then I'm afraid nobody will convince me

It does.

Thanks.

It wasn't really picking up on isotopes...it was more a mix of gamma energies. But the peaks kind of looked like some of the peaks for Thorium 232...a double peak. I believe it was more spread out.

@RadioactiveDrew Okidok more undefined energies interesting, also what filters did you have on radeye(if any) tnx 😊

It seems really hit and miss with people that have had problems.

Thanks, its a very cool place to visit.

The K-40 was coming from the rocks for sure...the Cs-137 needs further testing to make sure that's what I was seeing.

That would be awesome. But there is so much you see by walking a trail rather than driving or biking it. But in this case having a ICE dirt bike or e-bike version would have been extremely helpful.

Some people aren't use to talking on camera.

Well the platter system works great, some pf the best platters I've used. The Christie film projectors kind of sucked. The film projector I was using on this was a Century JJ, very solid film projector.

@@RadioactiveDrewgotcha 👍 Still very cool!

I'm sure I will.

The vast majority of people are exposed to external dose, so it makes much more sense to talk about that than any other source.

All these various releases of effluents from reactors, fuel processing and reprocessing, contamination from waste storage and radionuclides in soil samples are being ingested and taken up into the body. It's in our food, water, air we breath or absorbed into the skin. Making the assumption that people are mostly exposed externally is not being honest. The fact is, the way that dose is calculated especially internal is proven to be false. The ICRP knows this, the NRC definetly knows this and our National laboratories know this to be true. Effective and equivalent dose uses a tissue averaging instead of the genotoxicity to DNA that causes damage even at low doses that you aren't properly explaining and trying to make the comparison of a flight on an airplane of external exposure versus what we are exposed to on the surface with both external and internal exposures. You are definetly incorrect about this Drew and should know it.

You play some games with your comment section. I can't even respond to your comment? What type of nonsense is this?

Talk to KZbin about it…I saw your last response and this one.

I have, really liked some of their videos. The one with the X-ray tube was pretty interesting.

No problem, thanks for watching and the comment.