Hanford Nuclear B REACTOR: TOUR & EXPLORE

[@JasonGarber-n9y]

It's cool to see how far technology has come when u look at all the gages and control terminals where operators sit .

[@CobraShuttle]

My Grandpa was an electrician here. Seeing all that wiring I can see why I had such a fascination with complicated electronics when I was young. It was literally in my blood.

[@johntrottier1162]

I was able to take the tour a few years ago. I have a special interest in that I was a Nuclear Power operator in the US Navy. It was really fun to see where it all started.

[@lreid2495]

Cheers Mike, for the many who won't get there. Fascinating.

[@davidwagner6116]

Thanks, I have wanted to visit the Hanford site for years

[@Yaivenov]

Interesting safe at 7:35 the walls are thick like a source safe but its location next to a drafting table seems incongruous.

[@brutalbasspro]

The whole area was a government secret. They didn't want anyone knowing things they shouldn't. There are signs at other area museums that are from the 40s and say don't talk about work basically to anyone. The homes and grocery stores literally everything in handford and richland were government owned. I've lived in the area for a while the history is interesting.

[@Erik-rp1hi]

Thanks for sharing. I always wanted to go there. What a project, world changing.

[@ashleecatron9765]

I got to toure the inside of b reactor at Hanford and I loved it I loved learning about the nuclear stuff but i I also learned how the bomb was made .

[@chuckh.2227]

Thank you for taking us somewhere where we may never have the chance to go

[@SantaFeproductions-2024]

I live near by and it’s a public tour in Richland washington

[@wendingourway]

Quite amazing the complexity! What could possibly go wrong...?? lol That is definitely a tour that I would like to take as I am kind of enjoy older technology. Good stuff. Bruce and Otis

[@kathyamos]

We did this tour a couple of weeks ago.

[@cymbala6208]

Thank you for the video!

[@BushyHairedStranger]

Signing up for a tour of the B-Reactor this spring/summer. I was able to see Mt.St. Helens in 1983 well prior to the salvage operations completion abd before the Observatory was built up on Windy Ridge. It was incredible! Forest Service took my Grandfather & I up there when it was all just gravel logging roads. Explosion was bigger or more violent than Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

[@MikeCarpenter-Adventures]

Hey that's pretty cool. I only saw it on television. My wife has stories of driving through ash in eastern Washington. I think the B Reactor tour might not be available for a couple of years, as they are doing renovations. I saw info about it in the Tri-Cities newspaper. Thanks!

[@Regulareverydaynormalguy1]

I grew up in Richland and I've seen this reactor from the outside so many times. Never seen thr inside! So cool!!!

[@MikeCarpenter-Adventures]

The tour is free and totally worth it!

[@BushyHairedStranger]

@@MikeCarpenter-Adventuresbelieve there is a wait list for tours due to popularity now…

[@jaykirschenman]

Old timey fonts for warning signs are the comic sans of their day. 17:25 - Chef's kiss.

[@dfirth224]

It was built there to be close to the Grand Coulee Dam. It took HUGE amounts of electricity to process the uranium, etc. for making the bombs.

[@Capture.Castle]

Grand Coulee Dam is about 3 hours away from this reactor, and on a different river.

[@skunked42]

Very well done!

[@MikeCarpenter-Adventures]

Thank you very much!

[@hx2415]

Thanks💎💎💎

[@joeconiglio]

Thank you. Great film composition and informative. Liked all the metal work and graphics. Definitely a well kept time capsule of the 1940’s. -Joe in Walla Walla

[@MT-GER]

7:38 is that toilet paper in the safe?😂

[@johno9507]

Have you ever noticed how the radiation symbol looks like the cross section of a implosion type nuclear bomb with the explosive lenses and plutonium pit?

[@D43vil]

So what would you keep in a safe in the control room office?

[@frazzledhaloz3184]

Interesting fact.. hubby was stationed on subs and carrier’s in the Nuclear dept. for 20 yrs.. he said we were exposed to more radiation from a microwave than anything he was exposed to… e8 ETCS….HUGS

[@cymbala6208]

18:56 what is "barrier cream"?

[@johntrottier1162]

A hand cream type product that could be used instead of cotton gloves to prevent the skin coming in contact from certain materials. A cream would protect the skin from alpha or beta forms of radiation. Both types of radiation are charged particles and have very limited penetrating power. A sheet of paper will stop and alpha particle.

[@mattharvey8712]

Bravo......like the green and white paint job......post war era.......they just let u walk around.....I would carry a radiation gidercounter with me....cheers

[@howdy627]

My grandpa and uncle worked there, It didn't turn out good it, i went to ther 6 hour tour

[@LarryWhite-kw5mj]

Its 3000 miles away from maine,i dont think i will see it.

[@simonjackson7269]

You just want tge tour guide to be Dr. No!!!

[@GMT439]

So where is the so called Reactor in this video? All I see evidence of is Hydro Power.

[@madcavemantd2]

I wonder how many workers this reactor killed, not to mention all the contamination to the river and the people living on it. The river is still dangerous.

[@Rawdiswar]

What levels of pollution have been measured?

[@zf4hp24]

Nobody was killed or even remotely irradiated at this reactor. Take the tour and you'll be educated. Stop with the naive scare tactics.

[@brutalbasspro]

​@@zf4hp24 while Im not sure it was at this reactor Harold Ralph McClusky took a ton of radiation at the Handford site they called him the Atomic Man!

[@Draxindustries1]

A real shame this reactor is not in use anymore. It could very easily be put back into working condition.

[@brentboswell1294]

The control and instrumentation systems would have to be made digital to comply with current control system and instrumentation system standards.

[@Draxindustries1]

@brentboswell1294 I agree but sometimes analogue can be more reliable.

[@brentboswell1294]

@@Draxindustries1 I don't think that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the USA would allow operation without a DCS these days. Of course, Hanford Reach operated outside the jurisdiction of the NRC, since it was built before the NRC was created 😉 It was unique in that it was a "breeder" reactor, which took natural Uranium in and produced Plutonium for the US Military...

[@Draxindustries1]

@brentboswell1294 This is exactly what Dounray in Scotland UK did. The second reactor built there was a breeder. It produced quite vast amounts of Plutonium from the Uranium. It wasn't without its problems though with the nearby beach being contaminated with fragments of pellets. It's now slowly being dismantled with a workforce predicted to be there for the next circa 30 years..

[@carlvalle8539]

that's a joke right ?

[@douglashayes-mccray2044]

Slow down. Let us read & examine this place.