Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Veritasium "The Most Radioactive Places on Earth"

[@pootoobaby738]

I laughed out loud when smokers were revealed as number one. I thought my uranium glass collection would be the thing I got trace amounts of radiation from, turns out it was my camels the entire time! Adding this to my mental notes when I get the urge to pick up a cigarette again.

[@oskar6747]

I said aloud holy fu#%ing s#!t, is that true. I guess I have to quit smoking.

[@extrachannelyt6528]

i like to smoke uranium

[@THE_Nuclear_helppleas]

What

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@oskar6747 That's true but that's radiation to lungs, not to whole person like the other measurements were explained. Still, that's yet another great reason to quit smoking.

[@oskar6747]

@@MikkoRantalainen I hate the way they did anti smoking education in schools in the 90s/00s. I remember being shown pictures of a 5 year old living child's lungs next to a 70 year old autopsy picture of a smoker who died of lung cancer and wondering why am I not shown two dead 70 year olds or two live 30 year olds or anything that would be comparable. And at the same time they were teaching that cannabis is bad, one try can get you addicted and it will make you use heroin I thought that maybe this cigarette thing was also a lie.

[@eypandabear7483]

Hank Green explained once how they reduce collateral tissue damage in radiation therapy: they split the total dose into multiple beams from different directions. So only the intersection (where the tumour is) will receive the full dose. Only slightly related but I found that a neat fact.

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

It's awesome how simple and intuitive that is

[@TechNSpace42]

Some people will skip over this, but that’s actually neat.

[@dawnmeyer1810]

Most of us are here for the "Fun or not so Fun" facts. Thx

[@jimgraham6722]

It's called SABRE treatment. I have been on the receiving end several times. It does a great job of cleaning up tumours.

[@ericmcdonald9803]

Radiation therapy and radiopharmaceuticals are a very interesting topic.

[@skysight1553]

My heart goes out for the smoking Radiation worker who regularly gets CT scans and is really cuddly at night.

[@VelvetSky1102]

and eats bananas

[@LogjammerDbaggagecling-qr5ds]

The highest recorded dose was Cecil Kelly. He was leaning over a tank of uranyl nitrate and it went critical for a reason that I can't remember. They either added too much to the tank, or he turned on the stirring and it created a bad geometry. He immediately felt symptoms, running outside and screaming "Im on fire". They actually put him in the emergency shower at first, because they thought he spilled acid on himself due to his reaction. He died within 35 hours. His dose was like 36 grays or something insane like that.

[@Rhiawhyn]

It was a combination of stirring and volume. There normally isn't enough to cause a reaction in that chamber, however it was just barely below that point due to various reasons so the moment it started spinning in the container it got dense enough to cause an incredibly powerful blast of radiation. He wasn't leaning over it for very long, but that's all it took. A lot of low speed, low 'energy' radiation that dumped right into his everything.

[@enlightendbel]

@@Rhiawhyn there's also Anatoli Bugorski that got hit by a 76 GeV proton beam in an accelerator accident. The exposed parts of his head received a local dose of 200,000 to 300,000 roentgens or 2,000 to 3,000 Sieverts. And because it was so focused, all he got was a hole through his brain AND LIVED. He actually kept doing the repair he was doing when the accident happened, not knowing it burned a hole through his brain. At first he didn't mean to say what happened, but after a while his face swelled up and the effects of the accident started to show. While there were both physical (paralysis in parts of his face and deaf in one ear) and mental effects (far easier to fatigue doing mental work, yet no loss in mental capacity) he kept working as a physicist and lives to see 81 (he's still alive).

[@orchdork775]

That's so terrifying

[@joncrow3228]

If the entire video was an anti-smoking PSA, I can only applaud his efforts.

[@Isurusish]

I read the comments and saw that smokers were number one... And when i got to that point in the video, my jaw still dropped. Damn. Tyler and veritasium may finally be the ones that make me quit for good. Like my dad says, everyone quits eventually. One way or the other

[@Juke-Fox]

20:23 I think the most fascinating part here is that the radiation is so high it starts interfering with the microphone.

[@jefforymitchell5697]

You're not hearing any interference there at all, just the sound of his clothing and footsteps.

[@picax8398]

derek has one of the most interesting channels on youtube with all the different science topics he covers

[@amaro7489]

Exactly why im subbed, he has an interesting channel with a reaction that is a lot more active than most others

[@moonbrooke27]

Thanks for doing all these videos and adding to them all!

[@tfolsenuclear]

Glad you like them!

[@jakob7d6]

9:18 For example the black forest in Germany. In certain places there you can find radioactive minerals like uranocircite lying around in the gravel sometimes.

[@LadyMaria_AstralClocktower]

Hey, have you reacted to "Why the universe is hostile to computers" by any chance?

[@brohanson]

I don't think he has. I think he should!

[@gw2156]

He absolutely should

[@BurgoYT]

That video is great

[@dawnmeyer1810]

That'd be great! 😮

[@MrDevintcoleman]

If no one else says it, this is all from the PBS documentary that he made called “Uranium: Twisting the Dragon’s Tail.” It has an extremely chilling scene showing how a nuclear launch would have happened, from inside the bunker with the 2 guys who could have ended the world, if the order had been given.

[@FalcoGer]

2:24 A counter can also be calibrated for specific materials, like uranium. Then it takes the measurements, knows what types of radiation emitted and in what proportions, then takes what is detected and then calculates the total radiation that is emitted from those numbers. Say it can only detect beta particles and gamma rays. Then it just assumes that those are all from the calibration source and adds the beta and alpha particles that were not counted due to the construction of the counter. Then that's the total assumed output of the material in question.

[@Gsoda35]

very nice information there! I like to lean on a number of counters in my life. :) bad pun?

[@elverman]

I was smoking a cigarette when the punchline arrived 😂 Honestly would like to see someone take a geiger counter to a warehouse full of bananas and tobacco products.

[@DianaDeLuna]

Henceforth, a unit of 93 nanoSieverts will equal one 'nanaSievert. 🍌 😁

[@asicdathens]

From the mine they extracted pitchblende . Apart from Uranium Curie managed to extract Radium and Polonium and discover these elements. The discovered elements where in minute quantities (from 4 tons of ore they extracted 1 mg of Radium)

[@Metametheus]

Was going to say phosphorous/phosphate mines will probably have quite a high radioactive area considering most are sources of radon and Radium.

[@quantumrobingaming6667]

Love the videos so far. Binge watching as fast as you post 😊. Have you considered reacting to Chernobyl Stalker videos such as Kreosan English? I don't advocate the idea of illegal access to places like chernobyl but they do some crazy/dumb stuff in radioactive sites, getting your reaction would be very interesting.

[@Bigtoedilemma]

Check out, "cleaning up my uranium waste" by NileBlue, a chemist that shows how he deals with radioactive waste. Would love your insight and I think it could be really informational!

[@AxolotlAndy]

I believe he reacted to the whole thing, both the creation of Uranium glass and the cleanup.

[@theemogypsy8198]

Once had a teacher tell me radiation is like the aura of a rock

[@trevorjrooney]

I'm not sure it's really in the wheelhouse of this channel, but Wendigoon did a great video about a criticality accident which resulted in the most irradiated man in history, poor Hisachi Uchi. Really grim story, a bit dark for what I've seen in terms of reactions on this channel.

[@shoshannakf3884]

fun fact: i think i actually recognize that model of geiger counter from school! (doing physics research in a particle accelerator lab - there's radiation safety precautions, esp right now because we're running deuterium at 1.5 MeV)

[@Metametheus]

Sounds more like his is a Dosimeter and not a Geiger Counter. My GQ GmC-500+ sounds very similar to his and displays in CPM with a MicroSievert converter.

[@jakob7d6]

I think as soon as it calculates dose it's a dosimeter.

[@Metametheus]

@@jakob7d6 some models like mine can kind of be both, given it provides a CPM as well as microsievert/mrem detection, i feel like dosimeters, at least the non-card units offer much more benefits than a geiger counter given that you can detect the radiation as its occurring and see what your exposure limit has been during your contact time with the source.

[@jkent9915]

7:52 Exposed to 3 bananas per hour, you say. Sounds like my ex wife. -Every boomer.

[@Auroral_Anomaly]

Bro’s fact-checking all of YT at this point.

[@mikelastname]

Hey, these reaction videos are fun. But your shirt reminded me of a joke from an old year book - the structural formula for phenoxymethylchickenwire ;-)

[@pcriged]

I'm familiar with that consumer model of detector. It's based off CPM and gets an estimate of SV based on a CS-137 calibration. Not great for dosimitry, maybe good to tell you when to leave fast.

[@jeremypreston5009]

You should do a video about Hisashi Ouchi.... Due to sloppy procedures at the reactor fuel plant he worked at (poor management safety standards) he received in very short order 17 sieverts and died some 80 days later

[@tfolsenuclear]

Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXqWgKiJgZJ9gK8si=ICwQh8rel7BSzvlh

[@enlightendbel]

Anatoli Bugorski was hit with 2-3K sieverts (none of that micro nonsense) when hit in the head with a 76GeV proton beam. It bored a hole though his brain, jaw and face. He still lives, age 81 and while deaf in one ear and lame in one side of his face, he kept working as a physicist with full mental capacity for several decades after the accident.

[@MinorLG]

My father wrote the training manual for radiation protection at TVA

[@d0nt.w0rry.ab0ut.1t]

we actually watched that veratasium video in my nuclear radiation unit in my freshman year phys. science class (highschool). it's what finally fully activated my brain lol

[@MikkoRantalainen]

8:00 One important thing to understand is the amount of radioactive material in the Little Boy dropped to Hiroshima. It contained 64 kg of uranium. Compare that to Chernobyl which contained about 190 000 kg of uranium during the nuclear accident, or about 3000 times more than Little Boy.

[@IvanBaAl961]

A simple personal counter normally works with beta and gamma. Alpha is somewhat harder to detect because how easily it gets blocked. So grays and sieverts can be considered equivalent in this case.

[@Name-ot3xw]

*Geiger counter reading at the Chernobyl containment building "Yup"

[@SergeyPupkoMusic]

I was eating a banana while watching a portion of this video. I'm doing my part in making nuclear great again. :D

[@Andrew-ep4kw]

The most comical footage I've seen is people protesting a nuclear plant chowing down on bananas.

[@MrAnderson3615]

Do you have any videos on radon? Here in utah, if you have a basement, they test for radon as part of an inspection.

[@IWantToRideMyBike]

An astronaut was just rescued from being stuck in space for a year when he was soupy to be there for only 6 months. Would you be willing to talk about that?

[@bryanwashere5010]

A very interesting channel. Been watching several vids. Nuclear power is definitely something that has to be respected, but it's also the safest form of power generation that we have statistically speaking. And many people take for granted that the Atomic era, beginning with the Manhattan Project, it launched a figurative technological explosion which has been exponentially expanding ever since. Turning 41 here and I find it difficult to even remember how slow PCs were back in 98 when I was in high school... now everybody and their gramma has a computer in their pocket that's 20 times the power.

[@deisisase]

I heard at the elephant's foot, just 2min is enough to make someone really sick and 5min exposure is deadly; how did they get those pictures? And is the elephant's foot as radioactive as an active reactor or is it more due to the lack of carbon rods?

[@the_retag]

Tons less as there is no chain reaction And they did photos from distance and with camera carts

[@jamcdonald120]

12:50 I mean, its not dangerous its self, and TSA knows that. and it looks like it has a mute button, so it probiably wasnt beeping on the plane itself

[@xX_Gravity_Xx]

One of the key issues with a large number of FTL andling distarspace travel theories, is that they ignore the problem of long term radiation exposure. The only ideas I've seen that address this, are even more impossible than the concepts themselves. For a trip to mars, yoy would need to sheild yourself somehow... the energy requirements and increased weight, and resource consumption for doing so make that trip and any other manned long-term space flight a serious challenge.

[@patchvonbraun]

Do you have an opinion on these Radiacode hand-held detectors that are supposed to be able to do energy spectrum measurements?

[@JimMedcraft]

7:47 I’ve been to Hiroshima and it is actually 1 block further away from the bank, that they realised the centre of impact was

[@nensondubois]

What are your thoughts regarding radiation from Brasil nuts? I would love to see a video explaining this in detail.

[@davidg4288]

Eating a banana doesn't actually increase your radiation level for long since if you're healthy your kidneys regulate your potassium level constantly. The amount of potassium in your body remains pretty constant.

[@network_king]

It seems i saw this original video some time ago, i was a bit surprised the end part but remembered now. I wonder how that translates to pipes, weed, etc. I would assume similarly.

[@klardfarkus3891]

Pretty sure those piles at the bottom of he Fukushima reactors are much hotter than chernobyl

[@lolipop20864]

i am now scared of whole bunch of bananas

[@Molloy244]

I wonder what the basement’s In Edinburgh rate as, Radon leaks into them from the Granite.

[@aniceminecraftguy]

Sometimes watching KZbin vids make me smart

[@Tktmonreufj_suisincognito]

Sometimes.

[@Merennulli]

I have reactive airway disorder, so I can't smoke or be around smokers, but like nearly everyone, I have lost good people to smoking. I find it particularly horrible that, while smoking itself is still horrible, the radiation risk is so high purely because of the fertilizer choice. Tobacco is particularly good at uptake of these radioactive materials, unlike most crops, and while other crops are sometimes trying to use more sustainable/renewable fertilizer, tobacco almost exclusively uses mined potassium which brings with it problematic concentrations of the radioactive contaminants. Something around 120k people per year have their lives cut short because the deadly fertilizer is slightly cheaper than the not deadly fertilizer. Again, that wouldn't make smoking ok. It kills 4x that many. But a quarter as many deaths from just a small change to the production and they refuse to do it.

[@chrisbusenkell]

I understand your company has an opening....I'd like to apply to be a "radiation worker," is that an entry level position?

[@jonatanmoewe9983]

In lower Austria we have an area that has huge amounts of natural uranium and thorium, there are places with ~ 0.4-0.5µSv/h, which is way above the average.

[@Xnoob545]

I wonder if people that live there are used to higher dose and less prone to getting cancer from radiation? There are some inconclusive studies that suggest that a bit more radiation could perhaps be good for health to a point

[@sandwich2447]

banana🤝sandwich

[@KenLord]

For Fukushima there were also deaths due to evacuating the old / infirm from the exclusion zone

[@jwenting]

yes, those are counted among the deaths due to the tsunami because the tsunami did the damage there and destroyed their homes. The radiation damage is minimal and declining, the exclusion zone is more a political thing than anything else, as is the high accident rating. That's also why the exclusion zone around the plant is very rapidly being made smaller. There is no practical reason to keep it what it was once the mechanical damage caused by the flooding (and later the retreating of the flood waters) is slowly repaired (or at least the rubble cleared). It could be done even faster, but that'd mean admitting that the exclusion zone isn't related to radioactive contamination and they simply can't do that without making very powerful people angry (leading to political face loss and loss of funding).

[@KenLord]

@jwenting no need to rewrite history. People were evacuated for the perceived radiation hazard. Some of those people were infirm and died due the unnecessary evacuation. It wasn't just about the tsunami damage and flooding.

[@roevhaal578]

Most of the deaths from the Fukushima disaster came from elevated suicide rates among the evacuated population.

[@petrisatukangas7178]

I'd love to see you doing similar reaction to Battle of Chernobyl (can be found on KZbin). Actual documentary of the accident mitigation.

[@rams8571]

good to know im not getting radiation from cuddling with a partner in bed 😥

[@jasonknight1085]

Minor nitpick, when I was getting my DoE cert for working at a couple superfund sites, we were taught it's inverse cube law, since we don't live in two dimensions? So 1/8th (2^3) not 1/4 (2^2)every time the distance doubles? Surface of a sphere, not circumference? Or am I remembering that wrong? (it's been 28 years) I guess with a meter 1/4 might actually be right since they have such a narrow window. Been fun watching your videos and remembering stuff I've not dealt with in over two decades. Was a little dissapointed he didn't mention Kazakhstan, where to this day people there make astronauts look like tea totalers thanks to the Soviets just not giving a flying purple fish about the people living there.

[@GlenCooper-sj4lh]

Inverse square law.

[@patheddles4004]

It is inverse square not inverse cube, because it is surface area of a sphere rather than volume of a sphere. You're right about the geometry, but you've misremembered the formulas. Volume: 4/3 * π * r³ Surface area: 4 * π * r² Circumference: 2 * π * r

[@jwenting]

wonder what the dose is near the lake at Kyshtym. It's probably still pretty hot as well, and almost certainly still a closed area inaccessible to foreigners (the Soviets don't like their dirty little problems exposed). I know the lake the Soviets dug out using nuclear detonations in Kazakhstan still has a pretty high background level 60 years after they executed the experiment. Kyshtym was a deliberate decade (or more) long dump of highly radioactive waste without containment vessels.

[@janzizka9963]

To eat 50 millions of bananas would be pretty hazardous then 🤣

[@Thisandthat8908]

Why don't they use as smaller number for sievert nano? instead of using a compeltely different word?

[@klardfarkus3891]

Trinitite was never created by any other nuclear blast?

[@greenlight2k]

I would have guessed Banana Plantation but, oh well...

[@marianmarkovic5881]

6:00 not sure baut ocupation, but chainsmokers got a lot, so any stresfull ocupations can go there,... (post edits) hell yeah,... Btw yesterday a read about 2 radiation exposition studies, First was about Increased Diabetes rates depending on dose (study on Fukushima post accident workers) and second is about overall Cancer rates in workers in nuclear enviroment..

[@Antron_Edition]

There’s a cool story that was a criticality accident at the tokaimura nuclear plant, hisashi ouchi received 17 Sv of radiation. That’s more than Aleksandr Akimov who received 15 Sv at the Chernobyl accident. You should cover hisashi ouchi.

[@tfolsenuclear]

Nuclear Engineer reacts to Peaked Interest "The Most Radioactive Man in History" kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXqWgKiJgZJ9gK8

[@Antron_Edition]

@@tfolsenuclear diddnt see it time to watch it

[@theemogypsy8198]

Have you seen the russain divers that went diving in Chernobyls flooded area i can't remember what its called but its on youtube

[@maxtew6521]

I'd rather die a radioactive smoker who's at a much higher risk for cancer than die drunk and high. For me, it's a calculated risk. These sticks of death are part of the edifice -- along with a program of recovery -- that keeps me from prisons, institutions, and (immediate) death. Can't seem to function without them.

[@TunaIRL]

You can just be without. But it does require discipline.

[@WarRobotGod72]

6:04 Minors caught me off guard lol

[@JohnRandomness105]

Is it specific to tobacco? Or to just inhaling smoke into one's lungs that exposes the smoker to high radioactivity?

[@the_retag]

Tobacco specifically afaik

[@jwenting]

@@the_retagall smoke, but tobacco smoke is particularly bad. What happens is that certain radioactive elements concentrate in the ash as things are burned. What wasn't mentioned in this video for example is that the heaps of ash outside coal fired powerplant are pretty radioactive, and the flows of ash being deposited are these days monitored in case the radiation levels increase to the point where the ash needs to be treated as radioactive waste (it happens rarely, but it does happen at times that a batch needs special disposal). My graduation work in nuclear waste classification techniques was in part focused on developing the technology to enable that scanning to be done accurately.

[@CrabRangoonSortaGuy]

at 17:20 you said it matters how long hes there but u pause and make him stand there to absorbs more ionising radiation how could you do this D:

[@henarkforrestal]

shame he didn't mention Lake Karachay...

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

Why do cigarettes have plunonium and lead? Is this added? Tobacco leaves don't have this do they?

[@GlenCooper-sj4lh]

Po-210 and Pb-210 occurs naturally in air and soil as well as in high-phosphate fertilizers used on crops.

[@ThatJay283]

6:01 my guess would be sitting next to a coal power plant

[@dirrtbikekid7]

He should go to banana farms. And then trucks hauling lots of pallets of bananas and see how much is there lol

[@michaelernst3731]

Airline Crew. Is there a Flight Limit for Airline Crew due to the amount of Rads they get from Flying ?

[@unnamellie]

Probably air pressure too

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Yes. It's more of a radiation exposure limit. It's the same for any other job at risk of radiation exposure.

[@TheMono25]

Is vaping included

[@etch3130]

21:48 this is not exactly true, while it is very radioactive. The absolute values are inhospitable but not impossible to manage, if you search youtube you can find many early videos from soviet scientists performing surveying in the ruins of unit 4.

[@emmata98]

6:00 pilots

[@bluepen61]

Respirators work when one is clean shaven. Beards challenge the effectiveness of respirator.

[@amadeusjohansson]

What about kiruna the mine

[@trains-ip3kr]

Banana overload LOL

[@LanzGroßmann]

RADs from Fallout, know it. Can you make a reaction video to the Fallout series?

[@vladthe_cat]

Man, i hate it when I accidentally inhale uranium 🙄

[@jasonsobczak8835]

Being a smoker i didn't know radiation risk from smoking I know it was a cancer Hazzard but I come from a long line of smokers who's never actually had any sort of effects and lived into their 90's guessing I come from a strong background....but I should slow down and probably quit my habit

[@unnamellie]

Can you tell us your thoughts about Japan dumping nuclear waste water into the pacific ocean?

[@odedantebi8086]

I hate smoking.

[@masterxthetuber747]

You said his name wrong

[@FalcoGer]

The suits are white so that any contaminants are easily spotted.

[@Ole-vu9yj]

My recommendation for reaction: videos by 'bionerd23' on YT, e.g. - 'brazil 2012: sunbathing on radioactive beaches' - 'brazil 2012: the secret of the radioactive sand' - 'chernobyl 2013: radioactive ant bites & 115 mSv/h of pure gamma radiation' - ...

[@piercemaciain4847]

Maybe that’s was give nicotine it’s mental enhancement properties and causes testosterone to boost after smoking…yeah I’ve weighed the risk and have seen how smokers in my family tree faire and will keep smoking

[@Willvr56]

Are you a nuke cuz u light up my world

[@reoproedros]

lets talk about radiation , a known radiation from ancient times. heat . and lets set the scale that 1 unit of heat is a million celcius degrees . in what range a variation can be deadly to humans when they are unprotected ?? is it in the mil scale or is it in the micro scale ?

[@ultrametric9317]

Dose from sleeping obviously depends on how hot your partner is :) (ducks)

[@tomorin233]

Please talk about the Japanese government dumping Fukushima water into ocean, I wish to hear someone’s professional opinion! Thank you

[@tfolsenuclear]

The TRUTH about Fukushima Radioactive Water - Nuclear Engineer Debunks the Panic kzbin.infoJe_gf4vz1Y4?feature=share

[@AzillaKiami]

Day 20 of asking if Mr Folse likes beans even though he already answered

[@edug1168]

Wouldn't that be 100 nanosieverts 😉 🤓 😁

[@edug1168]

Banana

[@BlindSpectet]

Banana

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

13:59 "accident"

[@Kansasavation]

5:20 W rizz

[@puppiTube]

I only wat T.F now. Nothing else. I only want a nuclear engineer to explain things to me from now on, ever.