Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Roblox Dark Matter: Quantum Science Energy Facility Disaster

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thanks so much for watching! For more Roblox nuclear shenanigans, please check out my reaction to the Roblox nuclear disaster: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ61aaWdo9l7eacsi=kLVAE7y_eL4i4oCS

[@I_Am_Transcendentem]

Mr Folse, any ideas for realism I can add to my own nuclear reactor simulation?

[@youareanidiot7985]

It is a roblox game

[@Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb]

there's a couple videos of some Ukrainian dingleberries that try scuba diving in flooded sections of Chernobyl that is begging for your reaction. the channel is _"kreosan"_

[@captainsuper4194]

If you have a deeper look into the lore and watch a few more videos of the Kerman update you might get a better know how of what it all is

[@pbgaming9517]

Hey Folse, there’s actually a new version! The Kerman Update is actually one of the biggest, if not, the biggest update QSERF has gotten!

[@beesechiscuits]

Holy crap. I only got wind of this after my friend told me about it, and right now I'm a bit flustered and star-struck. Thank you for reacting to my video! Of course, this isn't my game, so I think it might be worth it to try and check out the actual ROBLOX experience itself. I'm not even affiliated with the group who made it actually, and I have no idea about the jargon and stuff surrounding the fictional DMR. Your input is really super informative, don't waste it on me! You should try talking to the people who made the game I made a video of.

[@RawMediaArchive]

i love your vids bro

[@ธนวัฒน์ธุวะคํา-ป7ฤ]

dang I like to watch your video bro

[@redtoyotarav4]

There actually is a fission reactor called "Foxtrot 9" in the game somewhere, it operates like a simplified version of some of the other powerplant games you've reacted to. It still has the given parts like syncing with the grid and such. It's used for research in the game according to the lore. Edit - Electrons are also used as in game currency.

[@camboi6103]

it's also used as a backup power source

[@IWasJustOrdinaryPao]

I wanna see him play the game for himself

[@BruhMoment-cb6yp]

F9 is in the maintenance sect next to a spawn point, to the right of the lift

[@JaysonVaughn]

@@BruhMoment-cb6yp thank you kind sir

[@docbrosstudio7680]

We use it as backup power.

[@GamerRabbit22]

For the reactor there is actually two shutdown protocols in the facility: In the first one that activates before the 10-minute mark you need to lower the reactor temperature below 2500°k and input a code to shut down the lasers (the purple lasers are neutron bombarding units that have their own small fission reactors), this will not work if the temperature it’s too high or one of the lasers is broken (there is a chance of one laser reactor melting down and destroying the laser or a crane in the reactor room falling in the laser). If the first shutdown fails or the 3 minutes window expires the second shutdown option maybe engage and the 10 minutes mark will start. The second shutdown option its extremely dangerous and goes against the facility procedures: Three man must go inside the reactor confinement structure while the reactor it’s on a thermal runaway and eject the three fuel cells at the same time to provoke a combustion stall, if they succeed the reactor will shut down and the codex will spray gallons of water on top the structure to cool it down. The onsite bunkers are for the people that do not have time to evacuate to the surface of the facility because its underground. Thers also more problems that make it harder to shut it down: The code has been erase from the systems and it has to be found manually At one point a crane falls on top of the coolant lines and destroys it. Because all the measurement and control systems are integrated in the core structure the only thing that conects the reactor to the control room are two massive cables, when these breake you loss total control of the reactor. In resume the reactor its not that bad, the systems and accidents are bad because in the lore is supposed to be sabotage disguised as an accident.

[@idkmanreal0008]

i literally cannot read this go to english class

[@Stoney3K]

Fail-safe design? Nah, never heard of it. This is Hollywood facility design, obviously! Designed to maximize dramatic potential (and CGI special effects budget), not safety.

[@tylern6420]

Half of the information in that comment is wrong Did he mistake it for early HIURL or something?

[@inserthandleherelol]

@@tylern6420 Nah, you are the idiot here, the lore, procedures, and everything else is correct.

[@inserthandleherelol]

@@idkmanreal0008 No offense, but your pfp explains why you can't read an essay over 10 words.

[@StillGrillby]

Gordon doesn’t need to hear this, he’s a highly trained professional

[@ProtoHadron]

Its not, its not shutting down AAAAAAAARRGGHH-

[@robloxsciencemoments7735]

SHUTDOWN FAILURE, oh the DMR has turned into a red tomatoes now.

[@ShockedControl]

*Resonance sounds*

[@tango_mango.11560]

ever since watching that half life video this is the first comment I see when going to the comment section lol

[@inserthandleherelol]

Fun fact, a stand-in for Gordon, named John, and Dr. Kleiner are both in the game.

[@Sammy_SillyPilot]

Fun facts. 1. this game takes place somewhere in New Haven, Connecticut. I am unsure if New Haven is a real place, but it powers the entire city in the game. 2. They have a miniature fission reactor called "Foxtrot 9", Mainly used as a auxiliary power for when the main reactor is offline for maintenance and such. 3. Electrons are the game's currency, and you get some for doing achievements such as shutting the DMR off during a emergency, or turning them on. You can also get some for dieing by the DMR, but I'm unsure if you can get money for being killed via the transformers. 4. The lasers themselves are radioactive, which is why the entire area outside the container is also irradiated. 5. "Thermal Systems" are the Emergency Fire Suppression system, which are 3 tanks of some foam or water above the entire DMR. 6. The nuclear regulatory commissioners would never allow it, or OSHA, or any federal organization, which is why they have signs around the place telling staff to report to security if you see any.

[@DummyModder]

New Haven is a real place. I would know. I live in CT

[@DummyModder]

It’s actually Madison CT New Haven county.

[@Kto-to_geometry]

Fact 7: If you use elevator when meltdown, it will fall into DMR chamber, so the evacuation is useless

[@DummyModder]

@@Kto-to_geometryNot really, once the elevator falls there’s radiation up to the exit area, BUT Now you can walk up the elevator shaft instead of using the elevator instead.

[@Gray_Gaming-u7m]

I wonder what was inside the dark matter reactor, was it an atom?

[@deathnoters9829]

11:39 The research facility part of this game is important. The reason this game had "power orders", is because although the fusion reactor is connected to the electric grid, it's still a sort-of "experiment". The power orders are essentially active tests (the reason for the disaster is also a stress test). Like you said, it's carrying the entire New England/East Coast (game set location) area, so it doesn't matter if the power from the reactor is decreased or increased in any sort of way, it will still be exporting enough power for every single home in the state, even the region. They're trying to see if it can hold a certain energy output sustainably. Don't forget that the game is set in 1985 B)

[@deathnoters9829]

(also the reason the disaster occured was because of insider tampering, the automatic shutdown system was "on maintenance" and the manual shutdown codes "mysteriously disappeared". they did end up finding out who did it and slitting their brake lines so good on them ig)

[@rockystudiogaming]

@@deathnoters9829Ah, Kaiser didn't get very far.

[@BradKesalowski]

@@rockystudiogamingalso somebody else told me that Kaiser died 6 days after the meltdown

[@rockystudiogaming]

@@BradKesalowskiAfter Kaiser was found responsible for the DMR thermal runaway, QSO sabotages Kaiser's car and she dies in a crash

[@BradKesalowski]

@@rockystudiogaming got it

[@cgamestoomuch78]

17:34 idk why they call it "thermal" systems its supposed to be cooling systems, i guess they just dont want to call it coolant, it probably sounds more professional.

[@cdredstone]

10:00 I’m pretty sure that load is only the facility… the place is huge. It’s located in a deep mine shaft. Plus, to your questions about why it’s so unsafe, it’s because an employee removed the automatic shutdown system, put a lockdown test on the facility, tampered with fuel cell 3, and scheduled a test on the DMR, shortly before leaving. A DMR meltdown is also not the only event that can happen. There is a warhead located in the facility that was made to explode in case of a data breach involving “Epsilon-8”. Epsilon-8 is a laboratory deep within the energy research facility primarily focused on human experimentation. Had there been a data breach, the information regarding Epsilon-8 would have put many higher-ups at Quantum Science in federal prison (or worse) under hundreds of counts of second-degree murder among other charges. They decided that, in case of a data breach regarding Epsilon-8, it would be better to explode the entire facility and possibly more hoping to destroy any evidence of Epsilon-8’s existence. In the game, however, raiders can enter the facility and hack the warhead controls, leading to the detonation of the facility. There are other events in QSERF that do not involve the entire facility exploding. You can explode a fission reactor named Foxtrot-9, you can dance to California Girls, and more. There are ways to shutdown the DMR. Either get the shutdown code from somewhere in the facility and input it into the control panel, or in the case that doesn’t work you can have 3 people stand on the containment vessel while it is on fire and eject the 3 fuel cells at the exact same time.

[@boredlbored]

how did the shutdown code just dissapear in the fi nvm it was kaiser

[@BadAtNames0017]

I’m a QSERF nerd so I may be able to clear a few things up. First off, this is an older version of the game, there have been quite a few updates since. Second, the game took place on August 18, 1985. Lore-wise, the DMR explosion occurred before Chernobyl, so… Third, the evacuation route used in the video was possibly the longest route in the game. Employees have a keycard that gives them access to about anywhere in the facility in about a minute. Fourth, the DMR itself isn’t a fusion reactor as far as I know. However, the power lasers (the blue lasers) are each powered by fusion. I do not know what the DMR actually is. Fifth, when they say to evacuate the internal structure in 20 seconds, it’s quite a long time. This is because 1, this countdown cannot occur unless all the fuel cells are inserted, 2, it means just the small area where the fuel cells are, not the entire DMR chamber. I know this is about 9 months late, but whatever.

[@docbrosstudio7680]

The Lasers are Fission, not fusion reactors. That and DMR stands for Dark Matter Reactor, according to the game, Neutrons heat up water to make it boil, then basic thermal plant stuff. Then Dark Matter produced by the hadron collider or that came in from off-site is used to increase the heat by the neutrons, like fission without elements.

[@ch1llspace]

One of the loading screen tips says the DMR is in fact an inertial confinement fusion reactor that uses dark matter as a catalyst mixed into the fuel. The lasers are powered by their own fission reactors.

[@Gray_Gaming-u7m]

Hi QSML nerd, I want to ask you something, what was inside the dark matter reactor, is it a neutron?

[@GamingFloppaYT]

16:20 is actually an entirely different experience (game) called Pinewood Computer Core

[@JakesBlox_yt]

i think he needs to watch another video that the updates game

[@ifeelsosigma99]

​@@JakesBlox_ytnah PBCC will make him have a heart attack

[@alittletyroneonastar]

@@ifeelsosigma99 pbcc is to unrealistic and wacky for a professional like him to watch

[@ifeelsosigma99]

@@alittletyroneonastar thats what i meant

[@jdmacd01]

What about IIS? That’s gonna be something if he reacts to that.

[@popejulianis1701]

just wanna say im not usually a fan of "x" reacts to videos But its refreshing to see a reaction channel actually add to a video and provide new info. keep it up !

[@sylv512]

i think the daily upload schedule makes it worse too

[@laser_red1820]

Yup, but you can't deny the fact that he don't put the video in it's entirety here contrarly to most reaction youtubers. + like you said he give informations on what they do IRL.

[@Canyobility]

It would be cool to watch Folse play these games and provide feedback and comments while playing. These videos are entertaining and informative, but it would be nice to see the whole experience. For example, the part where the core exploded had a lot of cut footage, so it felt a lot less urgent than when you're playing it. Overall, great video, you deserve a lot more subs than you currently got!

[@Merennulli]

The "structural integrity" warning was clearly inspired by Star Trek which has "structural integrity fields", which are sci-fi "energy is a glowing object" fields that help a structure under strain stay intact. As for the "energy as a glowy object", when they do show it, it's the same visual effect as their shield bubbles and it just sort of sits on whatever it's holding together. When "structural integrity (field strength)" drops, the glowy shield effect starts to fade like it's a cloth tearing. That said, you could make a "structural integrity" monitor with force gauges and fixed laser measurements. If a set of lasers pointed at key points along a structural support are misaligned, you could map that misalignment to determine the support was flexing and then set off a warning if that value is too great. And we already use built-in force gauges in bridges to monitor their structural integrity, and then measured periodically. I could totally see something like that being rigged up in a future structure producing enough energy to leave it on all the time.

[@callistofluff]

It takes place in the 1980's... it's referring how structurally sound the DMR's outer structure is.

[@Merennulli]

@@callistofluff This was talking about the audible alert in the game, and that audible alert is straight out of Star Trek. The game may have chosen to have structure issues in reference to what you're talking about, but he was accurately commenting that there is no alarm that goes off telling you the structural status of real world structures.

[@callistofluff]

Yes, there is no monitoring system for structural status in real world structures, but this is a sci-fi game. I'm also not sure what you're reffering to as "straight out of Star Trek", as each FAAS voiceline was recorded by DTrainsMan123, and he also voices Dr Weldman, the voice you hear in the beginning of the video announcing that the reactor operators must be in the control room by a certain time.@@Merennulli

[@Merennulli]

@@callistofluffIn the original post I said "was clearly inspired by Star Trek", so I shouldn't have to clarify in a reply that "straight out of" refers to the inspiration, not an audio clip.

[@WovenAlloy]

i have had some talk with the people who manage and develop into this game and they affirm themselves that this does have to do with the superstructure resonance.

[@stormdrain343]

4:00 just the startup alarm, hasn't escalated. 8:35 they are talking about evacuating the internal structure cause thats literally the inside of the reactor, the confinement room that you were assuming they needed to get out of is perfectly safe. 9:20 the radiation is caused by the catalyzers (the big red lasers) which each have a low yield fission reactor powering them. the red lasers themselves is a neutron beam, although in real life probably wouldnt glow... To be honest the video you reviewed paints the game in a very goofy light, and this is an older version of it.

[@DummyModder]

Correction. The red ones are the gravitational lasers. The blue/purple ones are the power lasers (or catalysers

[@stormdrain343]

@@DummyModder ah yeah idk how i made that mistake xD

[@DummyModder]

@@stormdrain343 it’s fine. I constantly misspell stuff infact I will randomly misspell words like don’t wreck like this: dent wrock

[@baffowastaken2space]

for information about the dmr. It starts all the Hadron Collider which generates fuel cells for the dmr. You would actually go on the dmr internal structure and lock them in (the internal structure is very hot when running). The dmr uses 6 power lazers, 4 in the front thats visible from the control room and 2 in the back that isnt visible. The power lazers is actually catalyzer reactors that generates neutrons and also some how infuses dark matter along with it then goes down the power lazer to make a beam of neutrons and dark matter. Which leads into the dmr combistion chamber.

[@baffowastaken2space]

(Dark Matter Reactor)

[@cgamestoomuch78]

16:26 thats actually a completely different game, and it uses an open core design instead of contained in a chamber.

[@ultralaggerREV1]

The game has both the main reactor, but when reading some of the lore, the facility has 6 fission reactors that power the “power lasers” and other parts of the facility, but you can only visit one called Project Helios

[@noxious_nights]

The "power lasers", now called catalyzers, are fission reactors that blast neutrons into ports on the reactor superstructure

[@duckyFilm]

In the game wiki, it it said that the research facility is from 1985. It's pretty interesting that the 80's have a very cool exoctic technology that can make a floating fusion reactor.

[@YourLocalMemeMaker123]

Now we can make floating fucking glowing liquid of metal "reason electric magnet"

[@trassical]

Actually, if you were to translate this thing into reality this would be more like an anti matter reactor. Since if dark matter(edit: antimatter, I typed the wrong thing) and matter come into contact they release pure energy and leave behind nothing else. So this could actually be a thing in the future if we find a way to harness power from pure energy and efficiently produce anti matter.

[@trassical]

also the hadron collider can produce anti matter

[@trassical]

gamma radiation is also produced in the collision of matter and antimatter

[@kamatsu8]

dark matter doesn't release pure energy if it comes into contact with matter. You're confusing antimatter and dark matter.

[@nathanpfirman625]

Dark Matter and Antimatter are two entirely different things. Dark matter is something we don’t entirely know much about. While Antimatter we actually have and is extremely rare though.

[@edumission4644]

​@@nathanpfirman625yeah but if you actually play the game the "dark matter" used behaves more like antimatter and the controls in the mcr indicate that it's antimatter instead

[@breegis]

The in-game lore reason why the fusion reaction occurs at such a low temperature is because of the dark matter particles involved. In this case, it allows for the fusion reaction to occur at a much lower temperature than a normal fusion reaction

[@dikastispusavam]

Where do the Dark Matter particles come from? Based on our current understanding of Dark Matter, you’d need to replicate the temperatures at the time of the Big Bang to generate WIMPS (weakly interacting massive particles) and then the only way for the to generate energy is for them to collide, create a gamma ray burst and the radiation drops into a fission reactor.

[@lessthan90degrees]

​@@dikastispusavamim assuming thats why they have a hadron collider, given that particles colliding in the real life LHC can reach 5 gigakelvin

[@dikastispusavam]

@@lessthan90degrees They use it for fuel cells. But I think it’s more efficient to have it made inside the dmr

[@YourLocalMemeMaker123]

​@lessthan90degreesget the reactor shield! "explode"

[@Fun-guy9859]

The game is set before chernobyl. I also assume the reason radiation is in the reactor room is because the core relies on the interaction between dark matter, antimatter and normal matter, which creates gamma radiation.

[@WovenAlloy]

the radiation is mainly due to the chemical composition of the fuel cells and the minerals the magnetic resonance lasers and thermal lasers use. the only moment gamma radiation gets leaked is when the reactor goes over the shutdown time limit and there is multiple holes into the superstructure.

[@Alex-SciFi-employee]

13:44 Mine goes up in Billions of degrees Celsius

[@breegis]

They say "evacuate" for the internal dmr structure, because you will actually die if you are still in there when the reactor ignites. It occurs quite fast, and it is very easy to get stuck inside.

[@Turbo12000]

It’s talking about pressure overload because of over combustion, and overloading the superstructure causing intense pressure, heat and extremely intense radiation inside the superstructure. they can’t just shut it off because they deleted the code to deactivate the lasers heating the core do to renovating the system controlling the core and it’s shut down sequence

[@roller1235]

If you think it's unrealistic so far, wait till you find out it has a 1 megaton warhead in the same facility

[@WovenAlloy]

you def didnt read the lore to think this is unrealistic.

[@alexanderparker4490]

A dark matter explosion would be like a universe reset button

[@blocksland817]

"ignition"probably means some sort of reaction happening with the dark matter maybe also 3:32 this thing looks like a fusion reactor The type where you put a bunch of lasers and a fuel pallet gets heated to the point it can do fusion

[@xanderplayz3446]

Ignition means starting up the reactor, as I played that game before

[@cookietuber]

15:08 I’m pretty sure the way they do it is by running many electrical wires across the superstructure and see how much came into the wires compared to how much came out

[@keeganplayz1875]

The DMR is supposedly supposed to be an Inertial Confinement Reactor which uses a small amount of produced 'dark matter' on top of normal fusion fuel to "boost" the reaction. Theoretically dark matter is extremely unstable and filled with usable energy.

[@Stoney3K]

The thing is, with any fusion reactor, there is no uncontrolled self-sustainment. You shut off whatever fuel supply the thing has, it goes out. You vent the vacuum chamber to atmosphere, it goes out. You drop whatever magnetic field you have around it, it goes out. Easy comparision: A fission reactor is a campfire that will keep smoldering while a fusion reactor is an engine with a throttle and an ignition switch. There's no failure mode in any fusion reactor that results in it producing more and more energy until the earth-shattering kaboom. Unless the "dark matter" in the game is just a way of handwaving those magical properties to make the reactor unstable and unpredictable, otherwise it wouldn't be challenging.

[@WovenAlloy]

@@Stoney3K You're not wrong though, but the reactor can be easily shutdown until a time mark. On most scenarios in this game, a group of terrorists raids the control room and causes the reactor to go unstable and shatter.

[@WovenAlloy]

@@Stoney3K it takes 30 minutes to unstabilize it until a point where it requires a shutdown procedure, and you still have 6 minutes to simply insert a code and press the button to prevent the explosion. The main problem is the terrorist incursion that usually happens in the control room which prevents a shutdown.

[@Stoney3K]

@@WovenAlloyI was talking about a real inertial confinement fusion reactor when compared to a fictional 'reactor' used as a mechanic in a game. If it was modeled super realistically and fail-safe, then the game just wouldn't be any fun to play.

[@Cfggogkh_2]

Bro why do you guys all have the read more thingy? Like seriously I HAD ENOUGH OOOO FFFFF HAT ING ON EE WI FI

[@GSLM-Official]

Congrats! This video was really good!

[@TimTim-zo5qh]

in this game there is a chance to save the reactor when a timer of 10 minutes appears. You need to find the highlighted shutdown code and enter it into the terminal in the control room. If all the conditions are met, the reactor will shut down. However, even if you don’t have time, at the moment when the reactor changes color from overheating, you can enter the reactor chamber and have time to simultaneously pull out the fuel elements.

[@TheZeepTheGlorp]

10:33 if you look closely,it's 4.001 gW and 3.991 gW, not 4001 and 3991

[@j13myoutube59]

10:25 no no no I'm a grid operator for that place it's 470.0000000000000GW It sometimes glitches out

[@napoleon6221]

Personally I’ve always enjoyed night shift. Lol the wildest shift is day in winter while working in a mine, caging down before the sun comes up and coming back up after it’s set.

[@ThatUntitledPublisher]

Dayshift gamemode when

[@napoleon6221]

@@ThatUntitledPublisher man idk if it’d be fun lol, not seeing the sun at all for 5 days messes with you more than you’d think

[@ifeelsosigma99]

​@@ThatUntitledPublisheri have an idea for dayshift,reactor automatically shuts down in critical situations (breach,overheat),emergency response available,less hand holding (manual startup only) basically harder than nightshift

[@Blueyemonkey16]

I would like to say the reactor basically works by boiling water using a laser of i think its neutrons (thus the reason for the blue lasers) the dark matter allows the reactor to run cooler that what it would, maybe im interpreting it wrong, but thats about how i think it works, also you should read the lore. Its mad Also the red laser is a gravitational laser, it does not serve to bring more neutrons, it just lifts and lowers the reactor. And yes the dark matter lets it run that cold. If you want a more unedited, pu4e experience of how this game works, i can show you :)

[@SirAxel.]

Played this game far too much lol. Perhaps a few thousand hours haha. It’s an older video, from before the massive Kerman update. Still nice to see you play.

[@paweszutowicz5732]

9:08 Whats actually radioactive is the lasers ( Catalyzers ) because they are literal fission reactors with their ends exposed. edit : 16:33 Theoretically they could. Or they could eject the fuel cells automatically to immediately stop the combustion reaction.

[@j13myoutube59]

16:50 yeah the dmr in this game is a prototype

[@bag_o_chip]

About there being no hope for the reactor and hiding in the bunkers. The core has 2 shutdown options Phase 1 - This is around Code Red. You bring the core to below 5000K and enter the code. This invokes a combustion stall and shuts down the reactor. Phase 2 - This is around Code Black. It happens by chance. It involves opening the reactor door, entering and pulling all 3 fuel cells out (with 3 players) at a very close time. This invokes a manual combustion stall and shuts down the reactor. If P1 and P2 fail or P2 doesn't happen then there is no hope. I would reccomend looking at both endings.

[@robdabob77]

you need to bring the core under 3000k and have no power lasers fail for p1 shutdown

[@liamrichmond9917]

I saw writing saying there was a containment building on the surface but I guess the explosion was so large it broke it

[@boredlbored]

ye, we saw what happened in qsml. (old more futuristic version of the game)

[@ursr.3417]

This not actualy QSERF i could do a better showcase also every power laser (blue lasers) is powered by an off-site nuclear plant, also the reactor can be shutdown by 2 ways: 1. Emergency shutdown system 2. manual fuel-cell ejection. The hadron-collider produces the dark mater fuel, foxtrot-9 is a realistic fission reactor with syncing and all that, btw this game plays around the time where back into the future was released. Also the red lasers are gravitational lasers that make the reactor levitate, the cooling and power of the DMR (dark mater reactor) is not realistic perhaps you should watch a full showcase of QSERF (Quantum Science Energy research Facility) or a new video about RBWR (Realistic boiling water reactor) because it got updated. I hope this fixes some of the problems of the video that you were watching.

[@skylovescars69420]

16:24 Why is there a shot of PBCC?

[@ThatJay283]

i shocked myself on an electric lighter. it would've given me plenty of free electrons, but it also gave me 2 small white dots on the tip of my finger.

[@deeppal148]

13:54 cold temp might mean gravity based fusion or cold-fusion reactor, cuz it's sad dark matter has insane gravitational effects...

[@ElderonAnalas]

man, i know it being on the night shift. i generally work nights for 12 hours clock in at 7pm, clock out at 7am lol

[@chaosinsurgencyorci2423]

Quick thing i want to say, the radioactivity in the chamber isn’t coming from the reactor itself, it’s coming from the lasers producing enough neutrons to keep the reactor online

[@corrstud0]

The fact that this video was 7 months ago does not do QSERF justice, we need another!

[@maximBro3000]

By the way, the reactor after it collapses is turning into a black hole.

[@lennycampagna734]

The same staff requirements apply in nursing....so much so that not only do we have to stay over if coworkers are late; but in many instances have to be "mandated" to work second shift in a row to keep staff minimums met (and yes those mandates suck as much as they sound)

[@CooperRogersJP-lh8or]

I recommend actually playing the games, they’re really fun! Even if they aren’t exactly accurate all the time, it’s still an enjoyable experience

[@robertchapman2174]

So... how that reactor "works", it's using fission byproducts/neutrons to power the reactor, that's what those "blue lasers" are for.

[@robertchapman2174]

that's why there is a radiation warning on the main structures.

[@robertchapman2174]

and when that reactor collapses, it can actually destroy the power laser containment vessels and release radioactive particles.

[@robertchapman2174]

and in this video that alert is not the true alert in the actual game. It unusually uses the current EAS system instead of what was in that era-correct video.

[@cristianemontagner9616]

This is my take on how this would work irl: The dark matter would actually be antimatter (antihydrogen in this case), wich is contained inside that giant containment vessel, by using the lasers to suspend it in the middle of a basically perfect vaccum. Then hydrogen is shot at the antihydrogen, thousands of times per second, generating energy and heat. This heat gets absorbed by the chamber walls, heats up oil,and that oil is used to superheat water, wich then explosively evaporates into steams wich then turns absolutely MASSIVE turbines, generating power. The reactor could explode like this, as an overpressure if too much hydrogen is injected, causing the pressure in the vessel to increase. And as fuel is injected with it, the pressure exponentially increases, egentually causing the reactor to explode. And if the explodion cloud gets to the antigydrogen, it could get even bigger.

[@spar1a-dvn]

4:00 the thing with the dark matter reactor, Is that IT EXPLODES

[@mick2171]

16:29 That is in Celsius

[@toomanyvowles]

Here is some lore on how the reactor works The fuel cells are a combination of dark matter and uranium, the dark matter allows the reaction to run at colder temps The DMR itself im pretty sure is a fusion reactor, the lasers. Also known as neutron bombardment units, use fission reactors There is a second reactor in the game called. To my knowledge. The 267 sterling fission reactor, AKA F9. Due to it being located in the foxtrot-9 sector, its fuel cycle can last in excess of 10 years. Also the DMR explosion pretty much vaporized the entirety of the bottomside of the facility.

[@tornadochasingsiege]

They say to evacuate the internal structure of the reactor because the inside isnt sealed to radiation, you literally get microwaved inside

[@ThatJay283]

0:50 i've kinda gotten like this without night shift lmao. like just from messing up my sleep cycle and messing up my bodies internal clock so maybe when it is 5 pm it is basically morning for me.

[@emre_ez]

The ignition wasnt badly timed, its not auto. It's just that some other guy went up to the control room and confirmed the ignition edit: in game theres actually a few minutes where you are meant to have the reactor off as it says: "when the shift buzzer sounds, the DMR must be on." and the shift buzzer doesnt sound until minutes later

[@UCG3JVqTBd5E7hE1FAlO9wNw]

I love this game. So glad that you're reviewing it!

[@ElderonAnalas]

i think they use the hadron collider to produce the fuel as far as that goes

[@Omni_cron]

the reactor turns into a black hole with the newest update

[@gonnaenodaethat6198]

one can measure integrity of something via running electricity through it and observing current. that is essentially how fancy cars can measure their own brake pad thiccness and warn the driver on the centre console

[@bruhmoment3741]

fact: this game takes place in 1987 (if i remember correctly) and the explosion of the DMR is canon, and was so powerfull, that the US goverment thought the soviet union was attacking them on the day of the meltdown. Also the "Evactuation" part of the refueling process is so that all players leave the inside of the superstructure (the place where fuel assembilies are inserted) because (as the game describes it) if you are inside during the startup and operation phase, you will essentially be microwaved. Also please play "Realistic boiling water simulator" its probably the simplest and yet still complex way to operate a reactor. if you get enough points you can even operate Unit 2, alongside with the whole turbine room for it.

[@Thegreatpotato1973]

Just wanna say that a lot of this footage is old and not everything is up to date but most things seen should be pretty up to recent

[@paulrichardspencer]

It isn't dark matter that is the problem here, surely it'd be anti-matter that would be a problem. By my basic understanding dark matter could literally be everywhere, just undetectable by normal means.

[@emre_ez]

Ok so essentialy you are saying that you should just be able to shut it down. But the reactor has 2 shutdown options essentially. 1: Maintenance mode when fuel cells are low(they arent) 2: Emergency Stall : This has a code which has been deleted from the systems in the lore of the game so you cant engange the emergency stall protocol to shut it down IN LORE. in game you can find the code on a note and use it to engage the emergency stall protocol to stall and shutdown the reactor

[@samuels1123]

Believe the integrity monitoring system is predictive, to assess threat of breach based on how many systems have failed. The system does successfully predict when core control was lost, and then went into negatives as the control lines melted. The whole reactor is a bit unsafe because it's a research facility testing the application of dark matter collected from a particle accelerator as a source of heat, even more unsafe when the emergency shutdown system is sabotaged.

[@GirlWarrior57534]

2:13 I thought the Dark Matter Reactor (DMR) was a boiling water reactor..

[@Your-local-wallhammer]

For your info, it would wipe the entire state out, its a fuson reactor that also uses dark matter fuel, so VERY LARGE exploson, not many people would live.

[@S-ACV]

Funny fact: each blue beam is called a power laser, but they are infact particle beans, each "power laser" (or Neutron Bombardment Unit) is a fission reactor Another funny fact: the game has a line that goes something like: "If you ever wanted to know why you need to vacate the internal structure? Not doing so will microwave you"

[@cubeengineer]

What if you'd actually play these games?

[@juutakaster]

In the game lore the reactor has suffered a meltdown due to sabotaging and basically a whole revenge master plan orchestrated by the inventor of the "Dark Matter Reactor"

[@Hobbes0123]

It’s been awhile, but Id recommend going into the game yourself and check it out. There was some stuff the video missed

[@wash36]

why was the sound on video muted it aint copyright

[@AncienMultico]

Actually the power lasers (neutronic bombardement units) uses a fission reactor and a neutron generator so its the lasers that produce radiation

[@Duck.knight]

you are EXTREMLY underrated

[@96calvin]

There are 2 chances to shutdown the reactor as long as all lasers are online theres 1 for phase 1 which is just searching for a code and doing these things theres 1 for phase 2 where you have to eject all fuel cells within 3 seconds of each other (they will come out flying) causing a combustion stall

[@sirrudy1233]

I love this game, but your real world nerdy talk was awesome 😂

[@ranroncan]

16:18 this is a different game called pinewood computer core

[@BelgorathTheSorcerer]

I'm not a physicist, so take what I say here with a grain of salt, but I read about dark matter almost daily. I'm totally fascinated by it. I think you are thinking of antimatter instead of dark matter at the beginning. Dark matter is something that probably exists because it's creating gravity, but we can't see, interact with, or detect it directly yet. From my understanding, antimatter isn't really any more or less energy dense than its regular matter counterpart, but when antimatter comes into contact with normal matter both annihilate into pure energy. There could be an entire civilization of antimatter beings though, that would think of us as antimatter. This was a really interesting scenario though, and as always I really like your videos.

[@Midna_174]

Maybe we are the antimatter beings.

[@trassical]

that's what im saying, this seems more like antimatter

[@BlackOperator75]

The reason of it being a "dark matter reactor" (DMR for short) is because the DMR produces steam to turn those turbines, the dark matter in the DMR is to keep it more cool, along with the coolant helping it. (in the newer version talk to the npc inside the control room) Edit: the fuel cells contain the dark matter, thats why you refuel them at the hadron collider at sector A

[@Radioactive_195]

Its a inertial confinement fusion reactor it only uses the dark matter at low temperatures... (and the blue lasers are fission reactors :3)

[@gonnaenodaethat6198]

The current popular fringe science is some connection between using particle accelerators to make quantum turbulence great enough to sustain a super small black hole that sucks up dark mater alone....then you use the radiation from the black hole to power a steam turbine like normal. However, I don't think the game is using that model...it's probably using a laymen's understanding of the concept. Or, ha ha dark mater make hot thing spin xD

[@alittletyroneonastar]

the part where the temp was 6.8 million degrees was a flashback from PBCC

[@Axelbur13l]

I think they say "radioactive present in this area." To like covered up the blackthole that the reactor caused under the research facility.

[@gamerlovesdogs17]

@tfolsenuclear I have seen many of your videos reacting to a Roblox video. I am wondering if instead of reacting you would ever actually play them? It could allow you to explore beyond what the video shows and teach us more, and Roblox is free which allows you to play it without costs.

[@LorrieAFutrell]

The reactor can be shut down but it usually fails depending on the temperature

[@rockets-space]

The temperature in Kelvin is likely referring to the surface of the exterior section of the reactor. The version of the game in the video is outdated, and cuts out many details that are present in the actual game. I recommend this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXicq6lnm75glZo (This video shows all possible events in the game)

[@zidekrzofficer72]

Im fan of the game, because I like the events, since the big update which changed the Meltdown event and the stall event too and they added back the good meltdown Phase 2 shutdown which is ejecting every fuel cell at the same time which instantly shutdown the reactor and stall it, well you need luck to get that event but it's very good feeling when you do an epic move

[@randomstuff2315]

There’s probably no shelter in place because the radiation would be so powerful by the time they could leave there houses they would have died or starvation or dehydration

[@CodeCodey]

Actually there is a chance that in Ignition Sequence it says "You may be wonder why we need to evac the Reactor internal structure i raise you this question, Have you ever wondered how it is to be in the microwave while its running

[@j13myoutube59]

This was before two major updates to the game

[@walaw2469]

13:56 just wanna say that the k probably mean by thousands

[@535Salomon]

This is why you never ask Chatgpt to give you a design for a nuclear reactor.

[@iiBright2676]

They definitely didn’t ask ChatGPT for it, this game came out wayy before ChatGPT even was known about

[@boredlbored]

​@@iiBright2676it evolved from small funny red glowing ball to even cooler ball but with metal to dude turn the fucking temp down i dont want another goddamn meltdown

[@Eluderatnight]

In thousands of gigawatts if it goes off the rails you are screwed.

[@arandomsystemglitch2398]

I know you have some knowledge in these fields but its possible stuff like dark matter is alot more energy efficient(ig) then we currently can see also i would assume if something has a well start up during shift change we could just assume maybe it's like that for safety reasons affterall in current era we know just like the basic basics and have really only barely stepped into realms of things like particle excellerators and it's on such small scales that well if anything happens its not exactly noticed or noted down

[@WRLDAROUNDRU]

11:32 made me literally explode from laughter

[@abiks4918]

"Magical orange pokeball explosion" AHHAHAHAHAHAHA XDD. I would like to see how you play this, or a video that talks about this place in more detail.

[@Caramel_Custard_Flan]

There are a lot of game like these in Roblox like.. A Core Game, North Shore Mountain Research Site,Etc all of which are very interesting