A Brief History of: The Hanoi Electron Accelerator Accident (Documentary)

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[@Un_Pour_Tous]

I stuck my finger one time in a spark plug.

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[@KhangNguyen-gd3zw]

Side note: At 9:14 the director's name (Trần Đức Thiệp) appeared in the picture. He was and still is one of Vietnam's leading experts in atomic energy, and he is still healthy and well. He talked briefly about the incident in an interview, stating that (after being discharged from hospital and returning home) he initially struggled in performing daily activities but after a while he adapted to living life normally, even driving his motorbike like nothing had happened. He is a distinguished professor and still very much active in the field of nuclear physics

[@RisingRevengeance]

Nice to hear he's doing well, he got lucky all things considered.

[@aspectcarl]

Amazing, and hats off to him. A very uncomfortable video to watch.

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

that's great news.

[@casbyness]

He also cosplays as Ash from Evil Dead at conventions. "It got into my hand and it went bad...so I lopped it off at the wrist..."

[@robc4191]

@@casbyness i hear he loses a lot of wristwatches

[@lukefreeman828]

The animation of his fingers being removed one at a time then a whole hand was unexpectedly horrifying.

[@thetransformatorium7980]

Yeah, that kinda made me cringe. 🤢

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

Spoiler !!!!!

[@relic6457]

@@fredgervinm.p.3315 what?

[@squee222]

human psychology is weird when it comes to hands... we get really effected by seeing hands be injured...

[@T_Mo271]

Yeah, I didn't watch that part - scrolled the video player off the screen.

[@MrRedsjack]

His hands were hit by a deadly dose of radiation, frog skin was applied in an attempt to save his life. *~Frogman the origins*

[@frankychan04]

This Frogman? kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaPReKKcgrRofNU

[@johnladuke6475]

Would he have proportional frog strength?

[@DeactivatedCharcoal]

Wait, what happened to the Frog(s)?

[@Greatlakessailing]

@@DeactivatedCharcoal The rest was fried and served to the lady in room 304.

[@michael-gary-scott]

@@frankychan04 thats what i thought too there's no way

[@sixstringtherapy5038]

The old frog skin fix for irradiated fingers. Works every time.

[@joeyr7294]

Lmao

[@eljanrimsa5843]

He got three left. Who knows what could have happened without the frog skin.

[@jordanbarnett3300]

Spoiler alert

[@furripupau]

I mean, France. What did you expect?

[@jesserothhammer7378]

I tried the same thing when my prince albert tore out, only it was the whole frog and the frog was really a human woman. Or, I was pretending the frog was a human woman.

[@darrenmuse]

Do a brief history of the frog who gave his life to unsuccessfully heal the man's hand. For frogs, it was about a 3 on the importance scale, but about a 9 for that particular frog.

[@specialed6357]

They're making the fricken frogs gay! Reeeeeeeeee!

[@darrenmuse]

@@specialed6357 Alex Jones banged the male frogs.

[@YohanathanD]

I'd say it's closer to a 10 on the frog scale, as had it worked their species would be in jeopardy

[@danielled8665]

​@Yohanathan Downs nah, it's easy and fast to breed huge numbers of frogs. They're one of those species that have thousands of babies with the expectation that 99% of them will never live long enough to reproduce. See rats and rabbits.

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

"Hey, what's that blue glow?" "It's just Cerenkov radiation. Don't worry about it. Pretty, isn't it?"

[@arare-principissaphocarum958]

*Cherenkov Radiation Sorry

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

@@arare-principissaphocarum958 It's a transliteration of the Cyrilic name Черенков, and both Cerenkov and Cherenkov are acceptable English spellings.

[@tomf0olery]

@@arare-principissaphocarum958 nobody cares

[@arare-principissaphocarum958]

@@NoJusticeNoPeace Huh, I didn't know that

[@daisuki9296]

Hehe electrons moving faster than light can in this stuff, no big deal.. pretty cool

[@felixfelix9062]

Holy moly, a radiation incident where the victim survives! That's rare

[@hah5196]

90% event of radiation poisoning isn't fatal.

[@johnladuke6475]

@@hah5196 90% of Plainly Difficult videos are very fatal. This time, the singular victim survived. If it wasn't radiation it wouldn't be on brand for the channel.

[@kentario1610]

@@johnladuke6475 it has to be either radiation or lethal, like railways, so this still fits

[@sirbollocks5147]

ask the Japanese about that.

[@iamunamed5800]

@@johnladuke6475 Technically if you look at the channel's history it used to be about all kinds of interesting stories from histories. but I guess it really took off with disaster overviews. no surprise to me as the chemical safety boards channel has been oddly popular for years

[@JackFrawley101]

Who knew that safety was important when dealing with Ionising Radiation. What a mind-blowing revelation!

[@lagg1e]

But they had safety. In russian. Isn't cyrillic made out of protective runes?

[@Shotokan1001]

@@lagg1e I think you have to wear them on your body for them to work like that.

[@mgancarzjr]

@@lagg1e Norse runes provide protection. Cyrillic runes provide death.

[@Psyopcyclops]

@@lagg1e Place Of Power, it’s gotta be!

[@CinemaDemocratica]

*hand-blowing.

[@peter_smyth]

I've been to a radiation facility with powerful X-rays. To get the machine to come on, a trained person has to swipe their ID card near the door, then go round the room pressing several buttons to show they've searched for people still inside, then they shut the door from the outside and press a final button. During the search and for a minute after, the lights in the room flash and there is an audible alarm, giving anyone inside a chance to hit an emergency stop button before the beam turns on. The door is obviously interlocked meaning that it can't be open with the beam on.

[@pauldavis2108]

I've been to similar facillities with the same kind of setup. One time I was in one of the beam areas and the radiation alarm (not beam warning) went off. Just about wet myself.

[@benrussell-gough1201]

In the 1970s Soviet bloc, a sternly-worded warning (in Cyrillic) that an official investigation would be ordered against any technician suspected of violating safety was considered taking health and safety to an absurd degree. Additionally, no-one bothered to check if the Vietnamese technicians knew how to set up the device properly, had installed all the safety devices or even knew what the safety devices were. So, you have a base design that considered safety to be an optional extra for 'softies' and was not even being operated by people who knew more than what one or two buttons did.

[@klausstock8020]

@@pauldavis2108 I know how you were feeling. In my case, it was just the alarm that the room is being flooded with CO2. It was during the weekend, no one expected anyone to be in the room so they tested the system. Shocked me so much that I completely forgot to crap myself.

[@DrDeuteron]

there's also a set-up where after the initial clearance by personnel, one needs one of six (for instance) keys to get it. If all six keys are not in the interlock, beam is blocked. So take the key out, and then go through a double door (requiring same key) where only 1 door can be opened at a time. If you screw this up, a new search is required, and when the beam tunnel is 5 miles long: people are very pissed.

[@Tsumami__]

I feel like if I go for my annual check up and the doctor somehow manages to miss my SWELLING and IRRADIATED hand, that would be my last trip to that practice.

[@theRPGmaster]

Haha, Americans and their 'annual check up's. In Europe we get free medical care, with only one catch, it's trash.

[@isilder]

thats a little unfair. 1. he already talked about arthritis , so minor symptoms might have been put down to that . 2. the worst problem was chronic and slow growing, not acute and fast. the chronic disease was due to arteries and veins, they developed scar tissue.. a bit of scar tissue in skin or muscle, not a problem right. Actually the hands rely on the muscles in the arm mostly.... tendons to the fingers.. But in the blood vessels, the plaque forms blockages.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

@@theRPGmaster weird. My husband and I moved to Germany from the US this December and so far he has had better care here (for multiple chronic illnesses) than he ever did in the US. And he had better health insurance than most in the US because he worked at a university.

[@marianmarkovic5881]

You would be surprised what could be missed in annual chck up

[@johnladuke6475]

I'm thinking that there was a lot of corruption and fake "education" involved. Like memorize these figures about radiation levels but don't understand what radiation is or can do, kind of fake education. Then you mix in some corruption of the Director of the place getting his doctor friend to sign off on a bunch of dummy paperwork for employee physicals that were never actually done - including his own.

[@FlyingSavannahs]

It wasn't until the accident investigation turned to Director Thiêp that the finger pointing began.

[@isilder]

People in that lab have since become very nervous any time someone asks "can you give me a hand ? ".

[@isilder]

... He used to a lot of manual work with the equipment and materials himself, but he stopped when he got his hands burnt ?

[@johnladuke6475]

*slow clap with 3/5ths of one hand*

[@iknklst]

Reads exactly like the caption to a Dark Side comic panel.

[@the_rover1]

savage!

[@sixstringedthing]

The safety culture was so lax, I'm surprised they didn't set the magnetron up in the courtyard and sell tickets for public admission.

[@redoob9964]

Ah yes, russian writing, the best safety feature

[@rasonbryant]

Not bad not good

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

"But it ain't in American!" Idiot.

[@Stoner075C]

If you can read it, it is safe.

[@Volundur9567]

Instructions unclear, И ежу понятно

[@squee222]

@Dmitry Kara money

[@upstating]

The Vinatom logo still has me in stitches. Somewhere in the world, the spirit of 1996 is still alive.

[@Xer_Alix]

Trust me, pretty much all of our textbooks look about as 90s as that logo

[@productwholeslave2122]

Timestamp! Shit$%@# now I'm that guy

[@hanoifilms503]

We have a general disregard for safety here in Vietnam. On top of that, medical doctors are very poorly trained and often not capable at their job. Knowing this,it is easy to see that this was going to be the likely outcome in a facility like this. Thankfully he survived and they have installed a lock in the door so this specific instance will not happen again but we all need to stay vigilant and help eachother. Thank you for a very informative video

[@greyfells2829]

Similar problem in Eastern Europe. We're too macho when it comes to health and safety. We assume a system will always work if it hasn't caused an accident yet.

[@RCAvhstape]

"Was considered safe due to all the writing being in Russian, which was a questionable safety feature". I dunno, whenever I find a machine hidden behind thick radiation shielding, I just assume it's safe if it looks like it came from Russia. I guess I'm doing it wrong?

[@worldcomicsreview354]

"The cleaners probably won't go poking about with this thing if they can't read what the buttons do, right?"

[@renakunisaki]

I see a huge machine behind radiation shielding with labels in Russian, I friggin run. So I guess it works.

[@Testbeamguy]

Working as a scientist and accelerator operator, the lack of understanding of what could go wrong here terrifies me. As someone also working in accelerator tunnels, I am very glad and thankful for personal safety interlocks.

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Dang Radiation never staying in one place

[@DanksterPaws]

@Sister Supersonic Doesn’t radiating mean to like, excrete? Well maybe not excrete but like to spread material around you. So the radioactive material coukd be stationary, but the effects “radiate” off of it

[@DanksterPaws]

@Sister Supersonic But thats not the stem of the word itself, which is what you were implying. To radiate is to spread out. What you just told me is the definition of the noun not the root verb meaning.

[@DanksterPaws]

@Sister Supersonic You ask me a question the tell me not to reply. What? I’m just saying the object that is radiating another object isnt moving (It could be mvoing, but that’s beside the point), but the one being radiated is.

[@captainshipman7377]

@Sister Supersonic Note that with radioactive material, radiation can also include free neutrons, electrons and alpha particles as well that are being emitted. Not just electromagnetic waves, although in a sense all ‘particles’ are just waves anyway so it’s all the same

[@sigmasquadleader]

I'd be inclined to listen to you, if you had known the word for what happens when radiation bathes a sample, instead of using the word you have been clearly arguing you don't know how to use.

[@sniperboom1202]

I remember when getting my wisdom teeth out I ended up with a necrotic infection. That shit is scary especially when it's so close to you're brain.

[@destree6348]

Glad to see you're still alive. Damn

[@sniperboom1202]

@@destree6348 I did three rounds of antibiotics before I was so fed up that I told the doctor that he either had to go in and scrape the shit out himself or I would go out into the ER to get it done. As soon as they opened up the old stitch wound they went "oh shit that would have killed you". Keep in mind 17 (at the time) years old and I have a dent in my jaw bone from where it was eating away at it for less then 2 months.

[@destree6348]

@Aaron Coolidge-Beard I'm just speechless. Necrotizing anything is so scary, albeit in your dang jaw. I hope it hasn't affected your speech or bite in the long term. I am so sorry you had to go through that.

[@sniperboom1202]

@@destree6348 there is a feelable dent from how far it got and my jaw clicks if I stretch it to wide and can lock up.

[@destree6348]

@Aaron Coolidge-Beard So there's not a day that goes by that you can forget that even happened. Insane. I just can't comprehend how cases like this where doctors don't take their patients complaints seriously and just take the few minutes to give a check. This was all preventable, which I know you know. Unbelievable. Sorry, my first job was at a dentist and I'm a nurse now so your story just hit me.

[@Jay-ln1co]

Have a hardy dinner. Sit down to enjoy some entertainment. "Hey, kid, wanna see a gangrenous hand?" Boy do I!

[@PNWdad365]

Dry or wet?

[@CesarinPillinGaming]

@@PNWdad365 wet, we're not savages here!

[@frankduncan5685]

As a retired RSO, this is absolutely amazing! I had no idea that anyone in control of such powerful equipment could have a facility so completely lacking in safety design and procedures. A comprehensive safety plan costs so very little and can completely eliminate incidents such as this one. Amazing!

[@greyfells2829]

Today's rules are written in the blood of pioneers.

[@jackbarnhill9354]

Communism!

[@thecatinthecloud4621]

I have a suggestion for a vid: the CIEMAT accident in Madrid in the 70’s that contaminated the Complutense University and the rivers Jarama and Manzanares. It ain’t so big of an incident, but i think its worth mentioning. Also it would be nice to see a video on the Palomares incident.

[@DuyroZeppeli]

Wait, that profile pic looks familiar

[@thecatinthecloud4621]

@@DuyroZeppeli Anime Nicole.

[@DuyroZeppeli]

@@thecatinthecloud4621 call me crazy, but I was sure that it was Manyaki's version of anime Nicole. Hopefully I'm wrong though

[@thecatinthecloud4621]

@@DuyroZeppeli Nah Its a screenshot from one of chapters of the cartoon.

[@DuyroZeppeli]

@@thecatinthecloud4621 me and my goddamn dirty mind lol. That was kinda embarrassing.

[@keleighshepherd345]

Radiotherapy linac engineer here, much twitching at the utter dearth of safety features and a safe working environment Deadly incident waiting to happen!

[@kshatriya1414]

But the Russian text though!!!?

[@keleighshepherd345]

@@kshatriya1414 yeah, I'll admit that would totally make our linacs safer 😂 I'll take the interlocks off the maze doors, that Cyrillic text is the ultimate in safety... Apart from the time a Russian radiotherapy couch wouldn't stop raising and crushed the patient against the head of the linac... www.thesun.co.uk/news/9148137/breast-cancer-crushed-freak-accident/ It's the Sun, so UK tabloid trash, but that was the first link I grabbed!

[@ReverendTed]

7:05 - Here's my favorite quote from the IAEA report on the incident: "The peak was probably annihilation radiation from positron emitters activated in the tissue by gamma-neutron reactions."

[@benrussell-gough1201]

So, basically, the electron beam spawned *antimatter* in his fingers and hand. The word 'boom' comes to mind.

[@deontaeavila3514]

Arousing

[@OfftheWallTales]

Less than 30 seconds in: here is a drawing of someone's middle finger detached. Going to be a good one!

[@justarandomname420]

"What I can't see can't hurt me". Words to live by!

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

A lot of people had that mentality with the corona virus. Imagine if people could visually see it lol

[@johnladuke6475]

You have no idea how many times this advice has saved me from a charging rhinoceros. Just close the ol' peepers, and no harm done.

[@charlesshreeve319]

@@johnladuke6475 Fantastic idea! I'm going to give it a try next time I'm merging with traffic getting on the freeway! Should make it a lot less tricky!

[@johnladuke6475]

@@charlesshreeve319 Lots of charging rhinoceros on your local freeway? Weird, we have that problem locally, but on the residential side streets.

[@charlesshreeve319]

@@johnladuke6475 Yeah! Four wheel rhinoceros! But not anymore! Problem solved!

[@Hamsterjuices]

"Dave take off the hazmat suit" Poor Dave. :(

[@gregs8672]

This is kind of like my Saturday morning cartoons. Not necessarily as funny, I thoroughly enjoy it

[@robertschemonia5617]

At least there is some good humor in this one. I had to rewind a couple times to make sure I read it right.

[@AnonyMouseXIII]

Ha! Same!

[@tomb4496]

The removal of the middle fingers is tragic.However useful when watching a thrash metal band🤘

[@madwhitehare3635]

😲🤭🤣

[@trevorrogers95]

SLLLLAAAAYYYYEERRRRR

[@sailor664]

I can't believe he was exposed to radiation and everyone was just "yeah I'm sure you'll be alright pal" ain't u supposed to be professionals??? 😭

[@milamber82]

I bet he never even mentioned it to the Doctor giving him his annual check up. You would hope that the director of something like this would know that it probably wasn`t going to be alright.

[@helplmchoking]

bit like the one in the USSR where the guy unwittingly walked right in the path of a particle accelerator, where the beam went straight through his head. dude walked into a particle accelerator, saw a blinding flash and searing pain for a moment, turned around and went home like nothing happened and only got medical attention the next day when he started getting worse. like bruh, even if you thought it wasnt running surely there were some warning bells in your head. along with the particle beam

[@visassess8607]

Then again it was in Vietnam using Soviet equipment

[@greyfells2829]

This is cold-war communist science. It kills people by design.

[@rmt3589]

Professionals are just people, still as incompetent as highschoolers, with their training being the explicit exception. I say explicit, because if a Ph.D never explicitly teaches critical thinking, they may not have it. There's a lot more assumptions and imposter syndrome than you'd like to know.

[@glorifieduniverse5313]

They have pictures of his hands in our radiation safety books. I always wondered what the back story to that picture was.

[@kjamison5951]

“Doctor, what will you use as a skin graft?” “I’ll need the skin of a frog - now hop to it!”

[@keentrasborg2566]

Icwutudidthere

[@Thisisaworkofrat]

gotta watch this, no matter what the police man says

[@Mungobohne1]

Oi good sir you've got a loicense for that ?

[@xdrakken4710]

@@Mungobohne1 I got a loicense fer stabbin right ere

[@Jolis_Parsec]

Better hope you get the nice copper and not the one that terrified poor SoggyNugget for far too long. 😬

[@aggromando7323]

Never heard this one. Great job again PD!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thank you!

[@recurvestickerdragon]

I heckin love the way you did the scale this time

[@ultraman5168]

Oh man, it's Saturday morning and here I go learning again on Plainly Difficult! Still got my fingers crossed for a Tham Luang Cave Rescue video.

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

I see what you did there.

[@lequack6373]

Most, if not all nuclear physicists of VN during this period are trained in USSR and thus are fluent in Russian. It is not much of a challenge like you describe in the video.

[@kurumachikuroe442]

Boosting this for extra accuracy

[@Mrdark7199]

I think he meant Russian as a safety future as a deterrent to others not meant to use the system. and the Russian writing is still more difficult than you would would want for such critical documents a the manual.

[@lequack6373]

@@Mrdark7199 I will have to disagree with that. Provided that the operators are familiar with the language, having an English manual isnt any safer than a Russian manual.

[@philipthepirate1762]

@@lequack6373 100% Agree with you - manuals in my native language are very confusing to me while English is always clear as day.

[@anastasiaphan4202]

My mom said back in the days, French and Russian were quite popular language in Vietnam. Most of my aunts and uncles are scholars and all of them can speak fluent French and Russian. Some can speak fluently 3 or 4 languages. But yeah, Russian language wasn’t the main problem back then.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

You should do the shoe fitting fluoroscopes that were used for decades here in the US.

[@grmpEqweer]

I have heard of that...

[@thetransformatorium7980]

Yeah, I'd like to see him do a vid on those as well!

[@cymbala6208]

Yeah, that'd be a good one!

[@mkocel]

my parents told me about those, lol you stand on the xray machine and it beams xrays thru your feet into your eyes lol

[@johnladuke6475]

@@mkocel You saved me a google search but that just means my brain hurts sooner trying to process retro "safety" standards.

[@joeyr7294]

The text bubbles with cartoons make me chuckle some times. Keep up the good work and awesome content!

[@r13hd22]

10:07 on the bright side, he could still attend a Heavy Metal concert and give approval.

[@bearmouse1000]

LMAOO underrated comment

[@lowkeysoundsystem6174]

8:24 VinAtom: Someone better tell me what's going on. Director: Balls. VinAtom: I see. Carry on then.

[@casbyness]

Vinatom was actually the Autobot that Optimus Prime dispatched to investigate the damage Megatron did to the poor professor.

[@lowkeysoundsystem6174]

@@casbyness I must've missed that episode. 😏

[@danieljensen2626]

You know you're a great nuclear physicist when you measure that your hand is highly radioactive after an exposure and you decide that's fine and you can just sleep it off.

[@hishouha]

I study in Radiotherapy (can't help but tell everyone because I really like that, anyway) The amount of security measures that are taken these days is the result of the... hum.... questionable past of radiation handling 1- We have a "delay" button that we press before exciting the room, this gives 30 seconds until the door fully closes and gives time to anyone inside to get out. 2- Once closed, the door can be opened from inside and out, but if it does the radiation will automatically stop. 3- There are cameras and micros to check the room (and the patient in case something happens) 4- When we ready the machine for radiation, a yellow light turns on on top of the door which means there is no radiation, but it could start at any moment now. 5- When the radiation starts, the red light turns on to say there's radiation currently in the room. 6- We have two STOP buttons, one that temporarily stops the radiation in case something happens and we need to enter the room and one big red button which, obviously, is the EMERGENCY button. If we press the red one, all the power will be shut off including the machine and the lights. 7- In the machine's head, there are two "ionisation chambers", their purpose is to mesure the radiation at all time, if the results of both chambers are different, the machine won't let the treatment begin. This is a security system in case one of the chamber is faulty and doesn't calculate the radiation dose correctly.

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Love the little odds and ends you include in your videos. From the advert pre-roll alert to the little jokes you give the animation characters :)

[@TinaRowand]

I used to work in radiological protection. The level of pure clownshoes on this accelerator room design...I just can't stop laughing, even though I feel bad.

[@nonna_sof5889]

Ah yes, the great safety value of Russian writing. The reason there has never been a single accident in Russia...

[@chrisb9143]

technically speaking, it is true. Never had an accident in Russia

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Honestly, the people at Chernobyl were actually capable employees but it was the communistic hierarchy with someone higher up pushing them to perform the test that caused the accident. The employees there were well aware the test they were about to perform was not to be performed at the energy levels at which the reactor had been running due to a different plant shutting down. They knew the risks of the type of reactor that Chernobyl was fitted with (apart from the graphite tipped control rods but still) but someone higher thought he knew better.

[@nichtreal]

@@chrisb9143 Majak and Njonokasa told me a different Story:D

[@skaweirromeda6787]

Chernobyl isn’t in Russia tho…

[@Notmyname1593]

@@skaweirromeda6787 Not an uncommon joke in ex- soviet countries that nothing bad ever happened in the soviet union.

[@davidhutchinson7888]

"The only safety measure was a bicycle bell in the control room attached to a string running from the door to the MT-17 room"

[@robertschemonia5617]

Ngl, dudes fingers look like hotdogs that have been on the grill for about 5 minutes too long...

[@timmotel5804]

Complacency, ignorance and lack of proper funding do not mesh well where nuclear anything is concerned. History constantly repeats itself. Thanks for posting this.

[@DarkMagicianMan20]

Thank you for sharing this, as a Vietnamese myself, I've never heard of this story and I'm glad I found your video

[@ExperimentIV]

oh boy i feel a Therac-25 episode coming as the chaser to this shot... PD, is this episode foreshadowing edit: my brain doesn't work when i sleep in and then watch this first thing after waking up (more or less)

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

He’s already done a Therac-25 video.

[@ExperimentIV]

@@EvilTurkeySlices LMAO and I've probably already watched it too. check my edit. my brain is legitimately useless

[@grmpEqweer]

Heh. Apparently the Mexican cartels have hijacked trucks carrying radioactive materials twice, so far. To my current knowledge, the radioactive materials have not turned up. Edit: double checked, in the first incident the load was recovered. In the recent one, it has not. The recent one (April 2021) involved NDT equipment.

[@AcornElectron]

brilliant! Always interesting and informative! Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Imagine going to do a X-ray but you find out that Plainly Difficulty is giving a thumbs up to the machine...

[@ValerieprimcessAmanda]

I am happy I found this channel a while back I find the content very interesting. Thank you.

[@JennyfaninSweden]

"God damn it Dave, this is no time for a hazmat suit!"

[@karlmuller3690]

SaRiN vX - Dave, hey Dave man, can you take this shit seriously for a change, and take the damn thing OFF? ... Geez

[@15098D]

Amogus

[@mikeclifton7778]

Incredible video, I can't believe that that installation was ever considered safe, but then again it wasn't considered at all! Great work there Mr Plainly!

[@JGV_IX]

Even the director gave a thumb up for this video.

[@charlesshreeve319]

Although he also gave a thumb and six fingers down.

[@yetigonecrazy]

I lived in Vietnam for a decade, and love the people, the country, etc, and all of the security lapses and work place issues sound so spot on for Vietnam.

[@73Datsun180B]

Yeah you gotta love the commies, not!😮‍💨

[@AlejandroMeri]

The hand shaking animation made it so terrifying!

[@jeffjefferson5095]

“Wrong type of burns mate” Lmaooooo XD

[@kennethstark7753]

Love the new differences between scales! Great idea!

[@hoedenbesteller]

Djeezz how can you be so careless around such dangerous machinery? I can't imagine going through the horrific sequence of losing your fingers and hands..

[@linhnguyenngoc7749]

When you kicked the hell out of 2 superpowers and sawing bombs by hands is not something that surprising, what is "dangerous" again? Never heard of it before!

[@awetistic5295]

Besides the obvious safety issues, this shows how bad chronic pain conditions actually are. Both my mom and I had broken bones without noticing because it wasn't worse than the usual pain. I didn't think, however, that the same thing could happen with radiation damage.

[@user-ut9ln4vd5m]

Whole story's horrifying, but a nicer ending than expected

[@zovjraar]

I just have to say, I love your videos. You can take a serious and\or deadly incident and put a bit of play into it, which makes it more enjoyable to watch and learn about. The whimsy is what really sets you apart from the dried up historical programs that typically cover this stuff.

[@stookinthemiddle]

i love the continuing storyline of the non-steel-toed boot men :D

[@charlesshreeve319]

A safety handout was passed around after the incident. The director was told to hand off the investigation to senior management. He radiated relief at having so few fingers pointed at him as to blame.

[@phil4986]

A simple video camera in the room would have prevented all of this. "I see someone in the room- I'm not turning anything on from here." Great video.

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

I'm already thinking about your other video with the keyboard glitch that would keep activating the machine. That one was crazy

[@genzo53]

We just cut your right hand, but "Go, enjoy Paris!" LOL

[@lsswappedcessna]

the picture: how to potty train your demon core

[@Jolis_Parsec]

Qxir’s probably salivating at the thought of his favorite video subject getting even more time in the limelight. 😋

[@BrianKelsay]

It's really sad that due to poor safety that this guy had to get hurt. Seems like the recommended precautions from IAEA were not that expensive or elaborate and they should have had those already. You just can't handle radioactive materials so carelessly.

[@mikefln]

I LOL’d at the “center for burns” gag. Well played.

[@bificommander]

"Hey, what's up?" "Ehm, boss, think you could sign my time sheet real quick?"

[@mr.messofgeorgia]

I knew a guy that did a lot of work with a company that experiments with radiation in medicine, and the safety regulations back then were, "yeah just don't stick anything you want to keep in the machine if it's on". He lost a lot of coworkers to cancer, though he lived to die of something unrelated. I feel like after hiroshima and the vegas tests people would know just because it doesn't hurt now doesn't mean it won't kill you later, but even in the US tests around radiology were pretty loosey goosey

[@FHBStudio]

Had it not been so tragic, I would've laughed my ass off at the fact that that Japanese guy's name sounds like "ouchie". That is indeed an accurate description of what happened to him. A big big ouchie. I have yet to find a story with more individual suffering than his. If I have, then at least this one is way up there.

[@ShiekahTribe]

Although the case is of course incredibly tragic, the way he pronounced the name incorrectly made me cackle (also obviously due to the English meaning). "Oh-chee" is the correct pronunciation.

[@1978garfield]

I love the captions you come up with. These videos would be a hard slog without some humor. It is sad that a closed circuit camera could have prevented this. Then again the alarm being functional probably would have stopped it as well.

[@ribaaz]

Oh sod off Dave, i needed that suit

[@defeatSpace]

I love how much people can learn from tragedies like this.

[@mwethereld]

the no no rays strike again!

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

Good one

[@DaDuck444]

I'm a Cyclotron Engineer for an 11Mev electron accelerator and this shit is bananas. Thanks for the great video

[@slateslavens]

by 0:24 my brain is already going "Therac, he we go again"...

[@brianmurray8943]

Your research and compilation is commendable. Thank you for these great videos.

[@JeffinTD]

That was astounding. Just a hasp on the door and a simple safety lockout procedure like electricians use would have prevented that.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

Between this and a few other channels....it makes learning interesting

[@RezaQin]

Well, he's got a hell of a thumb now.

[@Ginjitzu]

If I've learned anything from living in Vietnam for three years, it's that their approach to safety in general is still what I'd call, "casual".

[@Qallyx]

Why did they measure his hands on the gamma spectrometer? I feel like the director of a nuclear physics institution should know that being exposed to gamma radiation generally does it's damage and doesn't leave you radioactive

[@jeffborders1146]

That must be why no ody thought much about the reading being 511 KeV which is frequency of electrons.

[@cheechmarin4812]

Just in time for tea!! Its been months since ive had a good cup of tea, and its during your vid? Nice start to my sunday!! Keep up the good work sir! Never disappoint!

[@dontnubblemebro]

@El Cruzer Not everywhere bud

[@ScotHarkins]

Safety as an afterthought is not safety at all. Nicely done review! Suggestion: Darkish blue lines on a dark gray background are almost impossible to see unless in a dark room. Low-contrast colors can be tricky, especially for certain low-grade vision problems.

[@MrJest2]

Man, this makes me wince. I used to work at a company where we did numerous high-energy physics procedures, using this exact sort of technology. Some of our machines were huge, with target areas that could easily accommodate a person - or a few people, really. Of course, this being the US and not Vietnam, we had monthly training and safety procedures out the wazoo, as well as various interlocks, cameras, and other physical safety devices. So seeing the setup these guys had is spine-chilling to me. The dude is lucky he escaped with his life... and his risk of developing cancer anyway was no doubt increased several fold.

[@angry_zergling]

Very good example of how full body exposure at x level and only having a small portion of your body exposed at that same level are very very different things, even though at first glance the absorbed dose is the same number and therefore it looks like the same thing. Dude didn't even come down with ARS even though he was bombarded with enough nasties to kill him ten times over because it was, well, a beam - very localized. Think this video provides a very good and easy to understand example as to why knowing a given absorbed dose doesn't tell you very much at all. You need to know how much was exposed to that given rate as the outcomes and consequences can be completely different. (Also: Vietnam has a friggin' 'NATIONAL CENTER FOR BURNS'? With the resources of a whole state thrown behind it, I bet they can spit comebacks that will literally make you cry on the spot. Wouldn't want to get in a freestyle battle with those guys!)

[@Geirkztilb]

Love this channel cause you fuckin' get on with it as soon as the video starts. Good stuff.

[@casbyness]

Yeesh. Even Spock thought to wear gloves, and that was despite only having seconds to reboot the warp drive before the genesis device exploded. O.O

[@ferrispd]

Thanks for a direct and concise video. 5 stars

[@thornepp6286]

Frog skin or fish skin is a lot better for healing and painless to remove when compared to other types of dressings for burns, pulling off bandages over a bad burn will hurt badly

[@fancyflautist]

NEW EPISODE!!!!! I'm so excited!

[@davidtraynor8075]

Hi John, I'd love an episode on the levels of what each level of radiation can do to someone. Love the content, keep it up!!!

[@timarc9895]

Osha Approved. 👍