EAS Scenario #4: Palo Verde

Nuclear power plants have been the best source for carbon-free energy in the world. There have been nuclear disasters with these power plants, like Chernobyl. In the United States, the largest nuclear power plant there is Palo Verde Generating Station. As its location is near a major population center, what would happen if a nuclear disaster were to occur at Palo Verde? This scenario explores that.
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[@pastelskies99]

there is something really creepy about the EAS screen at 20:18 and I love it. It feels like it would be followed up by a corrupt picture appearing

[@SpaceMae]

PLEASE let me and others interested voice act for these. These scenarios are some of the best on the internet, and the only thing it really needs is real people's voices rather than robotic ones. Especially for scenes where we're seeing the perspective of people within the disaster, it could make them so much more realistic with real emotion in their voices.

[@ChaosAndMayhemTV]

I second this - I lent my voice to jayfeather31 recently on the last two videos he has put out, and I love offering my voice out to creators.

[@bob12357]

I can help with this. I used to have a radio show in VA.

[@jimdieseldawg3435]

Totally agree. Voice actors would be the icing on the cake. Particularly when one of the bots is unable to pronounce “nuclear” correctly 😑 Everyone can pronounce “New” and “Clear” so it continues to fascinate me that so many people - including a Cold War historian whom I recently encountered - are unable to string those two phonics together into “nuclear”. Meh. Voice actors for the win 🙂🤟🏼

[@deadleaves140]

I also agree, I’ve been DYING to VA for some people in the community to start out.

[@Bird974]

I actally need help for my upcoming video of a VA if anyone wanted to do

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I've never actually been in a dust storm, but I can imagine a severe one is basically a giant sandblaster, so it's not surprising that it would cause damage. Great job on this one!

[@theM12]

I actually experienced one recently here in SoCal.

[@operatorsebs7558]

Dust storms aren't that bad, but visibility gets really low, and it's windy as hell. Being in one during the night on the side of the highway is scary as heck lol. local resident near the power plant

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

Dust storms act an awful lot like a sandblaster to cars. On top of that, the dust could clog your air filter stopping your engine thus leaving you stranded. I used to watch a KZbin show called Roadkill they got moved over to Motortrend on demand and two guys took a dirt track racing Challenger into the desert and got stuck in a storm. The engine was completely screwed up from that. If stuck outside in one of these storms the dust can rip the outer layer of skin off. I've heard it was worse than getting frostbite mostly because the dust could burn your skin after it rips it open. It's a lot like being hit with salt.

[@stevensather5911]

I went through a dust storm, but I was parked in Lost Hills, CA. That was a wild five minutes.

[@operatorsebs7558]

I live about 20 miles from the plant, and I remember there being a close call in the past, but nothing serious. I'm very curious about the power station and I hope to tour it someday. You can see the water steam clouds from a distance. Grew up in this area Nuclear power is so clean, safe, powerful, and fascinating. 🇺🇲

[@djrandomness3403]

I lived about 3 miles away between 2019-22....tell me more about this close call please?

[@sackyhackMxO]

You’re def in my top 4 EAS creators!

[@derg_txt]

Another amazing Scenario. Great job

[@dimetime35c]

Just want to point out a big error at the start. While yes there was human error in the chernobyl accident it wasnt the primary cause. The design of the reactor used graphite tipped control rods. When the reactor began running away and the AZ button was pressed the rods where supposed to stop that reaction. However with the graphite tipped rods it created a power surge that caused the disaster. Even with a perfect response, the design of the reactor made it impossible for the control rods to stop a meltdown at that point.

[@sethlowe3804]

Very well done this one was great

[@roygoodhand1301]

Isn't Tucson within 100 miles of Phoenix? If so, then that's, like, 85% of the population of Arizona in the Danger Zone!

[@dannyklemmer3316]

Phx is the largest city in AZ 5th largest in the country. Tucson is small compared to the other populated areas/ valley in AZ.

[@kittvulpin]

The northwestern-most edge of Tucson is about 120 miles from Palo Verde Station, so it would be outside of the radius here. However, that is probably where most people would evacuate to if this actually happens. The roads going out would be jam packed with traffic for sure

[@mew3179]

yo you make REALLY good scenarios!

[@Vaniskyy]

Great to see you back buddy! Hopefully you could make scenarios a little more sooner. We miss you!

[@SPCHermitage]

Another masterpiece here

[@hotdogstockimage]

Good Video, would watch again

[@JohnDoe-gh8sk]

Great scenario! You got a new subscriber

[@kittvulpin]

I’ve lived in Phoenix my whole life and always thought about what would happen if Palo Verde ever had a problem or was attacked for some reason. Maricopa County doesn’t have public shelters for its citizens anymore as far as I’m aware. So 5 million+ people could easily be in serious danger •~•”

[@killerwhaletank]

This is good, however given what happened with TMI back in the '70s, the instant that a meltdown was "imminent", they would announce some kind of evacuation plan. These plants absolutely have evacuation plans that are relatively easy to institute when necessary. And this? Oooo boy, this is necessary. Don't shelter in place. If you can, get the f*%& out of there.

[@residentmaple]

Great vid! Only thing is dust storms are usually called Haboobs in Phoenix

[@longclawka]

I love the science used in this video. It makes it seem so realistic.

[@kev996]

Nice scenario!

[@AleronRattan]

I love how the news people are just ghosts

[@footystar1GamingOfficial]

Correction. Palo Verde WAS the largest power plant in the US. The Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant has been the largest nuclear power plant in the US since 2013.

[@wyattbishop8194]

Outside the fact this is a HUGE reach, well done scenario

[@cherryb893]

6:11 "Moving north at fifty million miles an hour?" Whaaat? 😮 At that velocity it would reach the Sun in under two seconds, let alone Palo Verde. Or even Phoenix. I think that might originally have been scripted as 55mph.

[@scotthayes4135]

This scares me about Nuclear One in Arkansas. It's not too far from where I live and what if it gets hit by a tornado.

[@L0STDREAMER2415]

Radioactive dust storm I didn't even know that those existed

[@jjenk911]

Dust storm still going with fallout in it, essentially. Thus radioactive dust storm. Scary stuff.

[@dmitri546]

Well they do now, so suck it up buttercup

[@nanoteal3773]

very nice

[@Pug1537]

Palo Verde =Green Stick

[@miragelee9754]

Me realise that the Three mile island can be worse: Oh HELL NO!

[@dmitri546]

As a fellow Pennsylvanian, I shall join you in screaming HELL NO

[@Phoenixweatherradios]

KEC94 sounds nothing like this.

[@ALucarioCalledMarcos]

°clicks gun° Tell me. Tell me all the sirens you used in this scenario

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

"A Meltdown is not expected"? Well, I can say that not only would this message NOT be broadcasted inside a plant just on general principal (They'd hold shift-start meeting about it, but not make a station-wide announcement) plant officials would never use the term MELTDOWN in any way unless a massive accident is actually occurring let alone said one wasn't expected. I mean, you better hope is wasn't expected because if you survive the explosions and the radiation, the FBI would be crawling up your butt looking for Foreign peanuts in your turds.

[@robertchapman2174]

i believe that the announcement was supposed to be plant-wide.

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

​@@robertchapman2174I would say mechanical breakdown warning would be broadcasted throughout the plant, but the word meltdown would not be part of the normal safety vernacular. The one thing you don't want to do in an industrial setting like a nuclear plant is use any terms that actually have to do with that catastrophic a consequence in mind. You're more prone to have your workers do really stupid things if they're panicking. Now, if this plant was dumb enough to broadcast such vernacular over their PA system, it's not very surprising the plant exploded. The faster they try to work the worse the work ends up becoming. Incidentally, a meltdown would not immediately invoke an explosion. The meltdown would have to happen first, then you might get a hydrogen gas explosion which is not that big, then if the corium melting out of the destroyed reactor core burnt through the ground and hit groundwater, then you'd have a massive steam explosion. Not a mushroom cloud, and way more devastating considering it would be contaminating groundwater and blowing radioactive steam into the air from parking lots. I know these things are just for fun and entertainment, but the Captain Planet level of research kind of irks me.

[@cleveryoutubename4445]

Time to play some Darude.

[@robertchapman2174]

Add some "Breach" from the Project Borealis soundtrack and you got the perfect Palo Verde meltdown escape music.

[@davepaez2019]

This is good but a nuclear meltdown wouldn't cause a nuclear detonation. If it exploded at all it'd be because of internal core steam pressure

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

There's the China Syndrome that CAN cause an explosion. It'd be a steam explosion once it hit the ground water under the plant, but it would be an explosion nevertheless and it could throw nuclear fallout far and wide.

[@tyb1329]

Uh.. I would think that this would be a Fukushima type incident due to how American reactors are built.

[@shiningarmor2838]

It's pretty much impossible for a nuclear power plant to cause a nuclear explosion. Remember, though, this is a work of fiction.

[@mrpeach2023]

Time length?

[@cityinsanity]

33 minutes.

[@ItzBIULD]

Jesus FUCKING christ 50 MILLION miles per hour?

[@cityinsanity]

Hold up. Was there a War scenario leak?

[@enternlv0id]

No?

[@EASbear]

Does this take place in The Visit timeline?

[@EAS2020]

not really since phoenix would still be irradiated by 2027 (when the visit and its prequel occur) after the events of palo verde considering how chernobyl in ukraine is still irradiated today irl

[@EAS2020]

and the visit's prequel occurred mostly in phoenix

[@EASbear]

@@EAS2020 oh okay, I’m just saying that because when I saw the CNN part, it apparently looks the same. or I thought.

[@crispinsantiago413]

​​@@EAS2020 19:47 Do you have the link for the siren

[@xotiic_on_capcut]

I’m sorry, did you say 50,000,000 miles per hour winds???

[@crispinsantiago413]

No. It said 59 mph.

[@dmitri546]

Radioactive glitch, happens all the time

[@NillTest]

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but If I read Palo Verde correctly it just means green stick.

[@robertchapman2174]

"green *radioactive* stick" perhaps?

[@NillTest]

Yep.

[@cherryb893]

😂​@@robertchapman2174

[@yeetbosh]

Shit well there goes myself

[@libsocalex8235]

Cool but a meltdown is impossible at palo verde