How Safe is Nuclear Transportation?

[@CuriousDroid]

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[@daddust]

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[@thanksfernuthin]

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[@BazilRat]

As someone who despises abridged books, I don't think the sponsor is for me...

[@TheMothergoose3459]

Hello. Can you please do a video on CBRN please.

[@andy.robinson]

Yeah… sorry. I enjoy your videos, but this choice of sponsor jars against your channel's research-heavy approach.

[@hagerty1952]

One of my early jobs was working at Lockheed on the Mk 4 reentry body (used on the Trident missile). One of my tasks was to update the "STS"or Stockpile to Target Sequence, which is the document that details all of the environments a warhead encounters from the time it leaves the manufacturing plant in Texas until it hits the target. This included abnormal scenarios, such as accidents, as you describe. In particular, the requirement for the shipping cask ("flask" must be a UK term) was that it survive the following (this is from decades-old memory so might not be completely accurate, but you'll get the intent): 1) The truck hauling the cask has an 80 mph head-on collision with another big rig. 2) The collision happens on a bridge 200 ft over a river. 3) The cask falls the full height and slams into the rocks in the river 4) The spilled diesel fuel (and other materials) catches fire and burns for 24 hrs at 800-1,000 F 5) The cask is submerged into the river and lies under water for days or weeks. After all that, there must be no release of radiation and no unauthorized access to the RB's inside. They really do think these things through.

[@jvigil2007]

You're probably the first person I've seen on KZbin who actually knows what they're talking about. No one outside the govt knows what an STS is

[@hagerty1952]

@@jvigil2007 - Thanks. I'm also an Old Crow (but not a turtle).

[@alveolate]

we could minimise these risks to zero if we didn't have nukes, though.

[@notsojoerogan]

@@alveolate You could also minimize the risk of car accidents to zero if we didn't have cars, though.

[@FragEightyfive]

And a good thing to overthink and do right the first time. You do not get a redo our I guess we'll do better next time, there could not be a next time.

[@relevantinformation6655]

Fascinating as always. ☢️ Note: Those handling nuclear materials... please read the ENTIRE procedural book... er, not the 15 minute version

[@zakariahassan1585]

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[@concept5631]

Understood.

[@emjackson2289]

You've got a FIVE THIRTEEN!

[@carbon_no6]

You’d be so lucky! I only skimmed over the front cover! I know everything about this subject so I don’t bother with reading. I was elected to lead, not to read!

[@samm1533]

🤣 lmao

[@KM-mt5gx]

Hey man, just wanted to say that the delivery is brilliant, I particularly appreciate the absence of jarring edits/jump cuts and the complete lack of loud music in the background. Subbed 🙂

[@jasonbrown467]

this is a top notch channel, all the videos are good like this one, go watch all the old ones

[@TirarADeguello]

Fantastic subject to tackle. Thanks for the new episode.

[@daddust]

He doesn’t know anything. He reads the forewords.

[@UmbraHand]

When are we getting nuclear accident ASMR, ala STALKER? Glad to see you here Tirar!

[@TirarADeguello]

@@UmbraHand hey, good to see you, that is a good idea if I can find a soothing Geiger counter sound effect

[@Nukefandango]

Great seeing you here!! Would love to see a nuclear scientist ASMR.

[@chromatron5230]

@@daddust well he does his research before making the script

[@Henchman1977]

I've driven past shipments of Uranium Hexafluoride on hwy 401 several times. Other than the very impressive looking shipping containers and an unfamiliar Hazmat number, you'd never really know it was anything quite so dangerous.

[@allawa]

Yaya Toronto traffic!

[@jonathannagel7427]

Allawa Phantom - I had to look it up: yeah that’s Canada. I’ve seen some crazy transports in the eastern US, I’ll finish watching before saying anything...

[@insanebmxthomas]

Uranium Hexafluoride... it even sounds nasty.

[@hardanalljr.3138]

@@jonathannagel7427 so you're thoughts

[@David-yo5ws]

@@insanebmxthomas I'm worried, there was a toothpaste with Hexafluoride in the advertising. Is that why my teeth glow? ;-)

[@kutter_ttl6786]

" I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is in every corner drug store, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by!" - Dr. Emmett Brown, Inventor.

[@allangibson8494]

It was actually in every hardware store in the US in 1985. Plutonium was used in smoke detectors before they switched to Americium (look up the “atomic Boy Scout” as to why).

[@Ktulu789]

@@allangibson8494 I recall he made a nuclear reactor or something like that?

[@allangibson8494]

Lucas 'Ktulu789' Twice...

[@Thundarr995]

When this thing hits 88 mph. You're gonna see some serious shit. 🙂

[@itsevilbert]

Use Polonium instead ? (Was used in spark plugs that were marketed by Firestone from 1940 to 1953)

[@captainevenslower4400]

UK: Finds a sensible way to drive a train by itself. US: ROCKETS!!!

[@jimmym3352]

That's our solution to everything. Everything can be made better by rockets.

[@JWhiteley]

@@jimmym3352 Depends what's on top of those rockets though!

[@h8GW]

@@JWhiteley NUCLEAR-TIPPED ROCKETS!!!

[@gryn1s]

You forgot to mention USSR: PRC:

[@kelborhal2576]

WHOOO! USA! USA! USA!

[@StaxRail]

Perfect timing, a nuclear fuel rod train just went past where I live on its way to Devonport Docks, to help remove rods from decommissioned submarines. A great video on a subject that I quite like!

[@kabalu]

@clanline how do you feel?

[@StaxRail]

@@kabalu very safe, and as a railway enthusiast very excited!

[@buggs9950]

They're actually working on the subs?

[@StaxRail]

@@buggs9950 from what I've heard, yes. Theyre finally removing the fuel rods, allowing them to be broken up safely

[@buggs9950]

@@StaxRail That's quite something. As far as I know we've still got every nuclear sub we've ever had.

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” ― Carl Sagan

[@foximacentauri7891]

@@NerdyNEET tactical nukes will not be a thing as long as soldiers are humans. A full war between nuclear powers will be almost entirely strategical, and would end within a day.

[@paddor]

M.A.D.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Awesome quote

[@yuricorrea2491]

​@@NerdyNEET I think when he says that a nuclear war will be over in a day he means that one of the sides will have to give up. A real war like WW2 nowadays would have a huge impact on civilians. If one of the sides decides that attacking a big dense city will shake the enemy's population enough to force the government to give up, that's a tactical move. A real world war makes countries desperate. The difference between the 40s and now is that you actually can hit your enemy's huge cities from anywhere in the world. Personally, when I think about the "nuclear apocalypse", it's not that the world is a barren field, but huge cities of a country being evacuated because of radiation and the cities that depend on it being abandoned. The world will go on, but a huge amount of lives will be directly affected. More than ever. Imagine a city like Shenzhen being hit, it can throw off the economy of a huge part of China... And it has a huge population.

[@luisgeniole369]

Any scientist that would use his mind to develop nuclear weapons is an irredeemable mass-murder. Conversely, had we used nuclear energy responsibly we'd be technologically years ahead.

[@Elvatofeo]

I love the testing differences between the UK and the US. The UK was all like “What happens in a really bad accident?” And the US was like “Well, what if the enemy weaponizes locomotives???”

[@GunSlinger221]

While I was in the Military US Army, I was assigned to a special unit mainly consisting of Military Police who guarded transports to and from various military facilities in West Germany and the United States. This was during the 1980's, later our team was absorbed by the Dept of Energy and Dept of defense. I was a rotary aviator assigned to these special air missions. They took place in the air, by rail and by roadway. Most of the time you would never know or be able to recognize these shipments. There was never a breach, this shipments have a large contingency of both military and civilian contractors who are armed with the latest and greatest weapons. There is air support, you may not see nor hear this, also special technicians are assigned who constantly monitor the various systems for any type of abnormalities. The bottom line is , it has to be done and its done with the most delicate yet strong touch deemed necessary.

[@infinitecanadian]

Thanks for serving.

[@betabenja]

I didn't know Paul was a three star general

[@DirectorBird]

I'd believe it.

[@popindosin228]

"You can't buy more time" Proceeds 3 minute commercial

[@stevenkelby2169]

Yeah screw this. Get money from patreon. This sucks. Unsubscribed.

[@TheOnlyReefShark]

@@stevenkelby2169 you serious?

[@stevenkelby2169]

@@TheOnlyReefShark Yeah, my attention is too valuable for this.

[@hagerty1952]

@@stevenkelby2169 - You do know that you can skip forward over it, right?

[@stevenkelby2169]

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[@orome9793]

I used to work in the oil industry. For logging wells (open hole wireline) they use some pretty potent radiation sources. I'm talking 10-20 curie gamma and neurton radiation sources. During transportation and when not in use the sources are supposed to be kept on lead 'pigs'. One of the operators at the company I used to work for threw one of the sources in the back of the truck without properly storing it and drove for 2 hours back to the shop.

[@polvoradelrey2423]

Nuclear warhead: "Hi, I can destroy a city" 1 gram of Polonium: "That's cute"

[@themachine5647]

To be fair, one gram of *anything* can destroy a city if converted to energy.

[@MaxArceus]

Yeah, if you were to somehow divide the 1 gram of Polonium into millions of equal, and super tiny amounts, and then inject each of those into an equal amount of people, you could kill all of them. If however, you have just a gram of it, and vaporize it in the middle of a city, some people nearby might die, but after just a like twenty meters or so it will already have diluted too much to do much, if any harm. Aka, dropping a gram of polonium on a city would result in perhaps a couple of deaths, maybe a few dozen at most. Dropping a nuclear bomb on a city, (and detonating it), will wipe out the entire city, killing nearly everyone in it. So which is 'cute' now?

[@polvoradelrey2423]

@@MaxArceus I know but my comment is funnier.

[@allangibson8494]

MaxArceus Dropping a few kilograms of polonium salt into the drinking water supply would cause bigger problems. Water supply is the Achilles heel of modern civilisation.

[@polvoradelrey2423]

@@allangibson8494 Stop giving away ideas

[@vortmax1981]

I was expecting "nuclear transportation" to be something like the Orion Drive, not transportation of radioactive material. But this is still fascinating!

[@conors4430]

I remember reading something about a place in the midwest of the United States where decommissioned nuclear weapons were disassembled and then driven a number of miles up a major motorway but there were instances where the vans weren’t properly staffed except just with a driver because it was seen that well they are decommissioned and taken apart so the risk is low. Which is true, but I think there was still a possibility that things could be used for a dirty bomb especially with such lacks security

[@zenteck4950]

Great episode, reminded me of my dad. His job was coordinating the transport of hazardous materials in and out of a decommissioning site. He had quite a few stories. Once, there were some locals protesting outside the site. They'd heard a load of hazardous (nuclear?) waste was to be brought in from elsewhere to be buried, and they were right. But dad had organized a decoy truck to distract the protesters, while the real one with the waste arrived from the other direction and just rolled by about 10 minutes later. Another time he had to fly out to another country, land, then get straight on a transport plane to accompany some cargo back. He was in the cockpit chatting to the pilots (he was an aviation geek) when he noticed they had a military escort. The pilot said the escort was there to make sure they stayed on course. I don't think they even told him what was in that one. Looking back, I suspect that country was Libya, and the cargo was from their abandoned nuclear program, but I'll never know for sure.

[@j.r.7339]

I love how the British in the Clip have 2 Police Buses and the americans have 4 MRAPs.

[@JawTooth]

Interesting video and I like your shirt! It looks like the trains when in the decision of what the safest transport is.

[@disruptivetimes8738]

I worked on 100 ton nuclear flasks for spend rods some time ago and those containers are so beefy build that once filled and sealed, yeah, only a melting furnace could break them. Even a drop from a plane would barely scratch the surface of those containers. The build tolerances and specs are so insane that one container cost half a million euros to build and is made to last several hundred years unattended even in highly corrosive environments. That stuff inside is secure as humanly possible. Funny side note: Once filled, they are designed to heat up to 60 to 80 degrees C from the depleted fuel inside. You could bury such a container in your backyard and have a steamy swimming pool all year long and free heating for your house for the next 50 years or so.

[@captainevenslower4400]

Yes, but we haven't invented a material yet that can't be destroyed somehow. And as far as that is the case, I think we are on a good track with those boxes.

[@erichobbs4042]

If it was not so potentially lethal, having nuclear heating for your home would be a great money saver.

[@disruptivetimes8738]

@Ganiscol Well, there is a thick layer of lead concrete between the steel, so it would take quite some effort to break that, but yeah, given enough time and effort, you could open everything, but why would you want to? You would be the first victim of your success.

[@dakunssd]

Yeah, but wouldn't you need a heat exchanger between the heating and the fuel rods? Unless you want your swimming pool to be hot in the wrong way.

[@disruptivetimes8738]

@@dakunssd No, the container gets hot. The amount of rods you can put in the container and the rate of depletion is calculated so the decay heat peaks out at a certain point. However, if you just bury the container in soil without the means to get the heat away, it will overheat. Normal air convection is enough to prevent that, or a nice pool. Just dump the container into the pool or wrap some copper coils around it.

[@my72dart]

That British flask is at the training centre at Heysham power station. The opposite side has a few more bent fins but you would never think it had been in such a huge impact.

[@mediamattersismycockholste562]

"How Safe Is It?" Well, it's still 2020, so....

[@GRosa250]

Another excellent and informative video Paul. Thank you and keep up the great work!

[@trydar]

most things in here don’t react well to bullets... 😨

[@brianmessemer2973]

A goddamn cook!! 👨‍🍳

[@hungryanimal5112]

1 ping only

[@brianmessemer2973]

“Buckaroo”

[@carlbennett2417]

A war with no battles, only casualties.

[@erikconfirmed1865]

Engineers: test container's stability by crashing a train into it Everyone: yeah they seem stable Engineers: Screw it we'll do it again but this time the train will be powered by LITERAL ROCKET ENGINES

[@jamesbuckner4791]

Pretty much.

[@jasonbrown467]

@@jamesbuckner4791 remember, during the test there is no radioactive materials involved, i hope

[@jamesbuckner4791]

@@jasonbrown467 there's some radioactive material to so that they can look for alpha beta and gamma radiation. Small amount so you don't have to really worry about getting it spread too far and you don't have to really worry about criticality either

[@jamesbuckner4791]

And the reason why they used rocking Motors is mainly to get these amount of force of a fully loaded train without having to do a fully loaded train. Inertia is one hell of a damn weapon

[@felixs7596]

When Curious Droid and Mustard upload on the same day and both videos are on nuclear transport

[@Predator42ID]

Really the one I saw today was about a giant Russian helicopter.

[@FirelordJade]

@@Predator42ID the giant russian helicopter to transport nuclear bombs.

[@thekidfromcleveland3944]

Hmmmmm

[@Predator42ID]

@@FirelordJade Touche

[@AinsleyHarriott1]

Grateful for another excellent episode from Paul! Thank you !

[@grahamcann1761]

When I saw "how safe is Nuclear Transportation"? I guessed, correctly, what the subject was going to be, but I also thought about the other kind of Nuclear Transportation; Nuclear subs, Nuclear Aircraft Carriers, and then those things that I've heard imagined, (or are they only,) Trains, Planes, Rockets, Ships... and Cars (¿). As always, thank you so very much for your video.

[@alveolate]

now that you mention it... what happens when a nuclear sub/carrier gets hit by a missile? or more specifically, how much explosive power/heat before their reactors go critical?

[@beeble2003]

@@alveolate Honestly, if a nuclear sub/carrier gets hit by a missile, we're already in World War 3 and the precise way in which that nuclear-powered vehicle blows up really isn't the biggest issue of the day.

[@headcrab4090]

alveolate hermeneutist If a nuclear sub breaks apart the sea water will cool and stop the reactor. It could still cause radiation in the sea though.

[@Shaker626]

@@alveolate Usually local contamination, the spent fuel is poorly soluble.

[@jimmym3352]

@@alveolate In terms of the Carrier, probably not so much. The nuclear reactors are pretty far down in the ship. My NEC in the Navy was 3386, so I have experience working in the nuclear reactors, I'm not just talking out of my ass (okay I admit some of it is just theory since I've never been on a ship hit by a missile). Though I've only served on the Enterprise, and haven't served on the Nimitz class. I did my training on submarine Daniel Webster. Obviously a sub is much more vulnerable to being hit by a missile. But a submarine should never be on the surface anyways. A torpedo hit is much more likely, but generally that would not be strong enough to destroy the pressure vessel. The submarine will just sink to the bottom of the sea. Same with the carrier. The primary and secondary shielding of nuclear reactors is substantial. The ship will sink long before those are destroyed. A bigger risk that should not be ignored is a fire like that on the recent Amphib ship fire in San Diego. A fire that burns that hot could be a threat, especially if it happens in port (where the ship can't sink). But keep in mind it would have to melt through a LOT of steel to get to the pressure vessel. The most flammable liquids being JP5 jet fuel aren't stored near the reactor plants. Though the weapons storage is more of a threat since those are stored in the bowels of the ship as well. TL:DR It wouldn't be easy. Most likely the radioactive mess would be at the bottom of the sea. A concern for local sea life, but not much else. But if this happened in port of a busy city like Norfolk or San Diego, this could be a problem. In the case of a meltdown, if it were bad enough it would melt through the bottom of the ship and eventually end up in the water. A contaminated water of a major city would be catastrophic though. It's best not to think of that. The U.S. already has 2 nuclear submarines at the bottom of the ocean, and Russia has several.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I'm so glad how factual you are being, you're not just saying everyone will die, but also not going the other way and saying, it's all good, you can have a readocative enema and you'd be fine. And just going with the facts, yes it is dangerous, but we have made sure we can carry it safely with a lot of measures put in place.

[@Croz89]

I can imagine a discussion between some engineers. "Hey, how can we test this nuclear fuel flask for required impact strength?" "Well, we could do some very boring static tests dropping big weights on to it in a lab, _or_ we could drive a 140 ton train into it and see who comes off worse".

[@patkins8319]

Actually seen the test flask in person and was amazed how well it faired up to being smashed by a heavy train. The British flasks are something I have seen soo many times up close as the trains to and from Sellafield used to pass through the station I got a train back from high school. Not sure if DRS are using the class 37 locos, they sound nice as they get the power on going north in the early hours of the morning.

[@matsv201]

Meanwhile in Sweden we simply transport them by ship at 40km/h Really very simple.

[@thekinginyellow1744]

@@matsv201 Which is fine if every facility you have is on the coast. Can you arrange a pickup from Green River, Utah, USA?

[@matsv201]

@@thekinginyellow1744 that is really not that good of a place for nuclear power. Way to dry. Its easier to build the power plant in a more suitable place and transport the power there. If cause with 4th gen nuclear that does change.

[@thekinginyellow1744]

@@matsv201 Tell that to Blue Castle Holdings LTD. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGSWZZqZaJ6Vec0

[@kfitzz]

Paul if you made a 45 mins episode I'd watch it! topics you cover are fascinating.

[@falken_gt4]

Good old Class 37s in regular use towing the flasks or “Pandora’s Box”

[@zedfender9423]

Makes a good noise too

[@Automobiliana]

The truck?

[@zedfender9423]

@@Automobiliana lol I'd make a come back but you know it's the truck.🤣👌😎

[@BillMcSwain]

Paul, you are the only Channel I actually sit through the commercial for. Keep up the great work brother! And I'm going to try blinkist

[@JonathanAdami]

since you "can't buy more time" video starts at 2:45 ;) thanks for a great video!

[@bushmanPMRR]

I used to deliver to the Dungeness nuclear power station and a few times saw the train with a flask at the terminus under the crane. It always gave me a slightly eerie feeling knowing what was in that small metal cube. It's worth noticing that there's a miniature steam train service that runs for a few miles from Dungeness and IIRC it's 1/2 scale and the locomotives are a sight to behold. The comfort in the carriages was less so but still worth the ride.

[@jovanjanevski3747]

"Time is important." - Wastes you 2 minutes 45 seconds.

[@dan_]

Or collectively saved many thousands of man-hours by letting people know that such a service exists... I thought Blinkist sounded like a stupid idea initially, if you want to read a book just get the book - but then I realised that there are a bunch of papers and books I've noted down that I never got around to reading (going back years), so a service like this seems like a great substitute for satisfying my curiosity about what insights they contain. I can always buy the book too if I want more detail.

[@dan_]

@@mbbb9244 The purpose of a review is to generally inform you whether a book is worth reading, not to attempt to condense its contents into a shorter form. Besides, I already have a long list of documents I know I'd like to read about, so I'm past the point of needing to see a review, yet I haven't done so for whatever reason. Having the option of reading a (presumably publisher endorsed) summary of a book's findings/contents is certainly better than never getting around to reading the book at all.

[@ooooneeee]

Just skip past it 🤷‍♂️.

[@jasonbrown467]

ads and sponsored bits do not bother me when we consider the amount of time it takes to make one of these videos. its not like you cant fast forward though it and run ad block

[@sysbofh]

@@dan_ Yeah. I once speed read "War and Peace". It's about Russia. There is a reason a book has 900 pages: it needs it, to convey that much information.

[@kben65]

Your videos are truly without bias and enjoyable to watch, thank you

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." -- Marie Curie

[@David-yo5ws]

She had such a radiance about her, did Madam Curie.

[@sprucemaroose]

And of course after her marriage to Mr Ous, Marie Curie-ous

[@Hury209]

Curious Droid, you are if not the best channel out there on youtube, you so much well present topics and usually which I like the most hehe. Thank you so much for this well made material and hard work! :)

[@MichaelD-fn5lv]

I just realized mr. Paul sounds EXACTLY like the Geico gecko! Great video & shirt as always mr. Paul!

[@markboomgaarden4679]

Cannot unhear that now

[@the_hanged_clown]

aaaah I can't stop hearing it now I hate you

[@jamesweir139]

Not even remotely close

[@Nudnik1]

I worked as crane operator for DOE loading used fuel into these and placing them on trucks like these.

[@AbbreviatedReviews]

9:30 Mythbusters taught me that when two objects collide, the energy between them is distributed over more mass. So two trains colliding at the same speed would be double the velocity, but also double the mass to absorb the impact making it the same amount of distributed energy.

[@andy.robinson]

I was about to comment the same thing. Instead of doubling the speed, they could reproduce similar forces by simply placing the flask against an "immovable" object (eg. large concrete block)

[@sullyman72]

I concur

[@alandouglas2789]

Abbreviated Reviews both the velocity and mass is additive

[@bazoo513]

You forgot transport bananas, potatoes, tomato paste and other sources of dietary potassium. I hear that some of those radioactive materials are often ingested. :o)

[@ecomotive6158]

The rocket powered locomotive was the best!

[@Intel-6969K]

A follow up video on know broken arrows would be pretty cool

[@reasonsformoving]

Really enjoyed this video. Could you do a video of the deadly effects of radiation that cause immediate death such as the elephant foot? In particular the mechanism?

[@specialopsdave]

TL;DR Your cells melt from the inside

[@JohnDoe-ir2ft]

I used to commute down interstate 75 into Knoxville every day in the 90s. I remember seeing the nuclear transportation trucks quite a bit.

[@HylanderSB]

I always enjoy how he pronounces my state’s name, Mary-land. We just say Merlin.

[@sahhull]

You own Mary-Land? My state indicates you have ownership... Im pretty sure you dont own the state, you just live there.

[@HylanderSB]

@@sahhull You don’t know me. Careful who you throw accusations at.

[@under_archive9179]

this guys collection of shirts is mental it’s really cool

[@buggs9950]

He used to get them from sponsors but hasn't mentioned any in a while.

[@buckroger6456]

CD wasn't in this video despite hearing him for the whole show 🤔🤔 odd since he usually has some cool shirt to show off.

[@blendpinexus1416]

i always love describing how practically indestructable these transportation caskets are. if somehow one was damaged to the point that the nuclear material inside was accessible or could contaminate the environment, the forces neccessary to do that would mean you already have several bigger things to worry about other than some nuclear contamination, like your imminent demise by an atomic blast from a bomb (about the only manmade thing that could do it)

[@cokeforever]

Why even spend 15 minutes on a book, when one can just say he read it? ;) Let the dumbing of populations intensify!

[@chemputer]

I had a "friend" who said his favorite author was, and I shit you not, "Mein Kampf". When I asked him what books "Mein Kampf" wrote, he listed off a couple, including Atlas Shrugged. He didn't believe me that his favorite author was a book written by Hitler.

[@relevantinformation6655]

Back during university days (80s) we used to call those Cliff Notes... of course, all exam questions would be designed by professors not to be covered by cliff notes 🤣

[@relevantinformation6655]

Ben Turner 🤣🤣😳

[@relevantinformation6655]

Unfortunately the nuclear operators at Chernobyl only read the 15 minute version of “Reactor Physics”

[@ooooneeee]

Many contemporary nonfiction books are basically an essay stretched into book size by adding a lot of padding, repetition and superfluous asides. For those kind of time wasting books, blinkist is ideal.

[@brianp6965]

If anyone is interested in what a warhead can withstand, search the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion. A man died when the missile silo's 740-ton door was blown 600ft away, with the warhead right behind it. It didn't detonate, it didn't leak, and it certainly didn't go critical. Those things are TOUGH.

[@evansamekudzi5612]

In Russia, bicycle are used to transport nukes

[@jasonbrown467]

in africa they balance them on their heads

[@N0zer0]

In Russia, nukes transport you.

[@Titot182]

The good old flask outside of Heysham power station training centre! I remember shifts at the spent fuel pools doing movements into those flasks and running experiments for the purge valves.

[@spacejaga]

Never has been...... Well, never has been SO FAR..... 2020 isn't over ;)

[@beeble2003]

Yes, you have correctly identified "never has been" as a statement about the past. CD cannot read the future and doesn't claim to.

[@michaelesposito2629]

beeble2003 woosh

[@chompchompnomnom4256]

When you collide 2 trains head on, the speed doesn't double because the forced is dispersed equally between the trains, so the effective speed is the speed of one of the trains.

[@Maves916]

Short answer very safe. Worked for years with nukes being transported from ICBM sites.

[@patrickwalsh2884]

More info on this via Sandia National Labs., and the US Department of Energy. The tractor trailers used to transport nuclear materials (weapons/components) were called Safe Secure Transports (SST) and the rail cars were Safe Secure Rail cars (SSR). Years go by and names change but the objective stays the same, no accidental or unauthorized detonation of a nuclear weapon/warhead. US Navy mainly used the railcars for their weapons transport. The USAF, SSTs and cargo aircraft. I did plenty of loading/unloading the SSTs and aircraft in the US and in Europe. SSTs are very cramped. Not an easy job to do with so many tie-down chains.

[@abdullahiabdikadir3373]

Watching from Somalia 🇸🇴♥️

[@Equiluxe1]

In the 1980's I lived on a farm right at the back of RAF Marham in Norfolk. On a regular basis convoys of vehicles carrying nuclear warheads would move in and out of the base via crash gate eleven which was right at the end of our land. These were instantly identifiable due to the vans of heavily armed men and the breakdown truck and ambulance which went with the trucks carrying the nuclear weapons.

[@davidshakespeare9767]

Suggesting combined velocity should have been tested shows NO knowledge of how crash physics works The one object would have required a mass of ZERO

[@Markle2k]

The single train is massive enough to accelerate the obstacle to some velocity. Two trains will cause a reversal of velocity to the lighter train. There is some logic to it.

[@beeble2003]

Suggesting combined velocity should have been used shows NO knowledge of how head-on collisions happen. In a head-on collision between two trains, it's the locomotives that hit, and that provides a lot of protection to what's behind them.

[@beeble2003]

@@Markle2k "cause reversal of velocity to the lighter train" No, because the collision is highly inelastic: the two trains deform massively during the collision. Also, good old Galilean relativity tells us that two trains colliding while doing 100km/h in opposite directions is the same as a 200km/h train hitting a stationary one.

[@erictremblay6867]

@@beeble2003 Two train of the same mass going in opposite direction and hitting each other at 100km/h is the same has one train hitting a wall at 100km/h. Otherwise we need to revisit physic and toss out all of Newton's laws of Motion.

[@beeble2003]

@@erictremblay6867 No, two trains going in opposite directions each at 100km/h is equivalent to one train hitting a wall at 200km/h. Newton understood this just fine (except for the "train" part).

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

"Operation Grand Slam" and "Operation Smash Hit". I love your dry dry humor! Cheers, from the USA!

[@laskey2175]

2020: "Hold my viruses"

[@MrStarTraveler]

7:13 "Elephant foot"?? I'm more interested in the fire-fighter ghost poking at it.

[@FlyWithMe_666]

Nucular. It’s pronounced nucular. [in Homer voice]

[@CraftAero]

George Bush jr. always made me so nervous. The guy with his finger on "The Button" can't f'n pronounce it !

[@jonathannagel7427]

Frank Grimes sends his regards :-) (Edit: or Grimey as he liked to be called)

[@the_hanged_clown]

laurel?

[@FallenPhoenix86]

@@CraftAero vs the dummy with his finger on the button right now I'd gladly take George back. "The biggest nukes, everyone says so. They're the greatest, very powerful, the best, so beautiful" 😬

[@AE5X]

@@CraftAero You must be thrilled with Biden then

[@noisyboy87]

Love your videos mate. Every time I open YT - I always wait to see one of your new titles 👌🏼 Keep up with all the great work 🙏

[@paulhaynes8045]

Yet another excellent video - and on yet another unexpected subject! Long may you continue.

[@Mr.Beauregarde]

02:45 The Video Starts

[@allawa]

I love the what ifs by the people who hate nuclear anything.

[@scottiramage317]

I’m a simple man - I see a curious droid notification, I click on it

[@daddust]

And then you learn that you can be a genius by pretend reading blinkist.

[@scottiramage317]

Bat Bam Bless, you can’t even get the edited version of your put down correct. I’ll give you a little tip for posting on social media, read it once, read it twice and if you need to read it thrice....

[@scottiramage317]

Bat Bam A study revealed people who say “get some friends” are normally lonely and require friendship the most. It’s ok to feel unwanted and unloved, I suspect you’ve dealt with these feelings all your life..

[@LickMyMusketBallsYankee]

@@batbam2594 Stop projecting your sad, lonely, deprived of human touch contempt on us and go out and interact with people in real life. I know women think you're creepy, but they'll think you're psychotic if you stay down in your basement all day growing paler by the decade.

[@LickMyMusketBallsYankee]

@@batbam2594 You've said simpleton twice now, despite mocking OP for being unoriginal. Do you only have one word for people you view as lesser to you? If so is it by choice or is your brain incapable of complex memory and thought?

[@shikhar10001]

Shipping a nuclear warhead taking care of travel route,security, terrorist attacks but a plane hits you from the sky.

[@phlanjo]

wow that sales pitch at the beginning was wack

[@doctorpex6862]

One of top channels on YT with excellent content.

[@shutu6338]

My dad got a lot of radiation from nuclear ship is this a reason why i look like 16year old but i'm 23 did it affect me like those strawberrys and have Hashimoto's disease xdd Edit. Ship with Nuclear Russian Weapons

[@Predator42ID]

Reality, you just age really well. I still look like I'm in my late teens despite being in my late twenty's.

[@mariano7699]

Well... if your father were been contaminated with radiation Made in USA 🇺🇸 🙂 😀 🙃 😉 😄 🇺🇸 🙂 😀 🙃 😉 😄 probably you'll feel more satisfied and @ 16 years older, and nuclear God blast knows what type of illness would orbitateing on your family 👪 . And you proudly... won't made any case.

[@gx1400sc]

A new Curious Droid video, simply the best , thanks ...

[@Arkipelago2]

First

[@liamcool6499]

No, curious droid was as he posted the pinned comment 4 hours before anyone else. So ha.

[@SteveVi0lence]

I live in an area of multiple military bases and was able to see one of these convoys. Heavily guarded by military with weapons hot and on display, and local police with roadways shut down so the product can be moved in n out really quick. Saw it in one of those special cylinder containers.

[@psammiad]

"Berk" shire? It's "Bark" shire, good grief you're English you should know! 😂

[@HooyahPeacock]

Pedantics... doing the lords work

[@kevinbias664]

We live close by the missile silos in Wyoming and have seen a few convoys. Kinda fun to watch and it's pretty obvious what they are transporting.

[@DimBeam1]

2:46 till the end of an advert. Shame on you.

[@nicholasn.2883]

How dare he make money.

[@remid27]

Shame on YOU for saying that.

[@spacejaga]

I must agree. Real viewer oriented content creators usually make integrations after subject of the video is fully discussed, meaning at the end. KZbin ad trashing all videos is sickening enough to be annoyed about "decent" channels (those who disable auto-ad placement) doing early integrations :/

[@DimBeam1]

Just check the quality content from his earlier videos to this drivel he bleats out now. Not good enough. And he probably knows it.

[@bondisteve3617]

Well done droid...thanks again

[@cragzuk]

Cannot believe I have only just stumbled on this channel. Very interesting and very British. Awesome :)

[@Bugnarok]

Thank you for bringing this subject. I was wondering for long how they did it and now you enlightened me. Keep the great contents.

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

Are there any videos like this about the transportation of medical waste? Between nursing homes, drugstores, clinics, and hospitals - I'm pretty sure there is more sharps material passing through streets than high-level nuclear.

[@krashd]

Good point, how do the yellow bins get moved around.

[@ableone7855]

You are a most excellent instructor and speaker. Thank you for your interesting videos!

[@elmutchos6726]

Surreal seeing a Curious Droid video of Nukes being transported outside my town

[@dylancorfield9462]

The picture of the gentleman by the “elephants foot” looks like his souls or ghost was leaving his body as he was standing there. Very interesting stuff keep up the great content!

[@polvoradelrey2423]

From 1946 through 1993, thirteen countries used ocean disposal or ocean dumping as a method to dispose of nuclear/radioactive waste.

[@derekp2674]

That is true but only waste classified as "low level" was allowed to be disposed of that way. In the UK, equivalent waste items can now be disposed of at the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) in Cumbria.

[@krashd]

As opposed to munitions which get dumped in local seas anything nuclear tended to get dumped in the middle of an ocean so that it would fall to the bottom where water pressure would limit dispersal and the material had miles and miles of water to dilute it. It wasn't a sensible idea but it also wasn't anywhere nearly as bad for the environment as people suggest.

[@derekp2674]

@@krashd Also, at least as regards UK disposals, the waste drums incorporated concrete structures that could not rapidly corrode in sea water. Modern LLW waste packages are also usually grouted up with liquid cement to provide a barrier against the easy dispersal of radionucludies from the package.

[@philv3683]

Once way back when I was working in Munitions Storage Area story goes a shipment of a nuclear ? arrived late at night and left very early AM it was well protected with trigger happy security.

[@LambChopRides]

Very interesting as always, didn't know these weapons were transported like this 👍

[@enb3810]

This is actually a great time for this video, I was wondering how they transport things such as tritium, which are in gun iron sights, watch faces, and gun optics. Aparrently is fairly simple.

[@geoffkirk4956]

Your videos are absolutely brilliant man

[@s3vR3x]

My day is made! Paul posted a new video! WOOT!!!

[@shodan1337]

Love these videos. Love the shirts and the carefully researched information

[@jordanrighi4136]

I love your channel. But, I just listened to your introduction ad. It sounds to me like you have finally discovered Readers Digest Condensed Books. Also, that is your most amazing shirt yet! I want one!

[@greengaming1004]

always asked myself this question , thanks for making the video !

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

I live 2km from a 6 reactor power plant, I don't even think about waste anymore, it's just common place to see them transporting stuff under heavy guard. I wandered too close on my bike one time and they came at me with the MP5's drawn LOL.