Meltdown

Season 01 : Pacific Northwest
Episode 07 : Meltdown : Idaho Falls, ID
I got my first job when I was 13-years-old, slinging hotdogs at the county fair. I’ve worked in food service, retail, construction, and have even done a little mechanic work. People go to work to make money to support themselves and their families. They may love their job or they may not, but it needs to be done either way. We go to work every day, confident in our ability to carry out our job and make it home to our families. Sometimes though, we clock in for work and never clock out.
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[@terryford7459]

Does everyone else just love this channel as well as "This... Is Monsters!!", as much as I!?! 😆🤫🤗

[@cl7510]

They’re both excellent channels. 2 that I always watch as soon as I see new episodes.

[@terryford7459]

@@cl7510 oh my goodness yesss!! 👍🏾 😘

[@scottpitner4298]

Yuuuup

[@kssteph1]

YES. he has set the bar high on who i listen too. Now most pod casts sound so unprofessional, it takes major skills to tell a story.

[@THEUnholy1]

I'm addicted to both of them. Can't get enough.

[@jordanberkenpas8408]

My grandfather was the first doctor on scene at this event! His name is John Spickard. He and George Voelz were the 2 doctors on call for the plant. He’s mentioned in a 1994 Department of energy report on Human Radiation Studies.

[@godisgood2349]

Very cool 😎. Well, I say that not knowing if he was damaged by it. If so....NOT cool. Did it affect him?

[@princessromanov]

Geez that must have been something to deal with. You can imagine scenarios to prepare yourself and others for any and all possible emergencies and situations, but to actually be there and be faced with the situation of the radiation along with having to deal with the injuries and the ones who were dead and extracting the bodies. I bet they never imagined that it would be so difficult to retrieve injured people. The only way I can put it into perspective is to imagine a situation where it would just be one things after another just constantly halting every problem or issue just as you think you are making progress. Unimaginable

[@lisas8244]

Wow! That's fascinating.😲

[@ladymopar2024]

Oh my goodness, not annoying at that time how bad nuclear power was other than the bomb dropping had to be so scary

[@777MAG]

Awesome family hx

[@tinykillx2432]

Man, poor Richard Leg. A rod going in through the groin and out the shoulder, then pinned to the ceiling. tough break

[@randynesbit4497]

Lifes a bitch lmaoo

[@cathyb2204]

Good stuff. As an Idaho native, I appreciate this one a lot!

[@joelhernandez7938]

That clock in and never clock out hits hard I was a victim or a workplace shooter I had no idea that clocking in that day meant I was almost clocked out of life

[@renee1961]

I'm glad you're Safe.🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@morticiaheisenberg9679]

I always feel extra upset about people who die at work. It's just even sadder. I'm glad you did not end up on that list Joel. I hope you are fully healed, physically, emotionally and mentally from that experience. Stay safe!

[@nikkiwilder660]

You should replace the word victim with the word: survivor. It's helpful to your soul.❤️

[@shawnedwards7291]

Im very surprised that most of the subscribers from "This is Monsters" didn't immediately subscribe to this channel. I'm definitely here to say that everyone should. We all love this dudes story telling style, the amount of research this dude does, his voice, content, etc. This is a channel that is almost as equally good as the other channel, just different content, that applies to what we r into if we all like "This is Monsters"

[@GrowingwithAnastasia]

I just finally got around to it, being an avid watcher of Monsters. People will make their way here

[@_HimToo]

I assumed this channel would be true crime cases with info about the location of each case. I only decided to check it out cuz I was out of new stuff to watch... and so glad I did! He should give a better description of this channel on his Monsters channel.

[@mayflowerkid4422]

they are coming

[@swassesois]

Me right now.

[@gregbors8364]

You’ve been focusing on the Pacific Northwest so far, and as a native, I say keep it up. You’ll never run out of sinister locales in this part of the country

[@trossk]

I'm happy he gets all the named pronounced correctly.

[@hollywoodredneck8565]

That's because such a large population in mountainous woods provides a prime region for a lot of messed up situations to happen. Like train wrecks, animals that shouldn't be contained and experimental dangerous jobs

[@gregbors8364]

@@hollywoodredneck8565 Fun fact: Oregon is about 2/3rds desert

[@hollywoodredneck8565]

@@gregbors8364 wow. I actually would have never guessed I drive semi but I've only been down I-5 twice and across the top by the river by Washington boarder a few times.

[@gregbors8364]

@@hollywoodredneck8565 Almost everything east of the Cascades is high desert

[@wickidbloodymetalqueen7901]

I said I'm going to stay away from the restaurant industry yet I got myself a job interview with a hot dog company today!!! Skyline Chilli here I come

[@retard_activated]

Hey is that in CO?

[@annanderson7]

Good luck 🍀

[@andraclark9993]

😂😂😂

[@dev-debug]

I'd never work around a nuclear reactor. Having worked on equipment for decades I will go with the stuck rod suddenly letting go causing it to move too far. It's hard to know when something stuck is suddenly going to move freely while your pulling on it hard. I'm just more stunned this was done manually with nothing in place to stop if from being moved too far.

[@MrFateorfaith]

It's not so bad

[@BeRightBack131]

Exactly what I was thinking. There should have been some sort of mechanism to stop the rod from moving too far. They literally do that with almost anything you can think of, even back then. Why, oh why, would they not have something to stop the rod from moving more than 4 inches? Crazy bad engineering, imho.

[@iamV10010]

"Clock in for work and never clock out." You just perfectly described parenthood 😫

[@morticiaheisenberg9679]

Lmfao 🤣😂🤣😂

[@helenagreenwood2305]

I've clocked out 👍😆 my 3 are grown now I spend my free time sunbathing in the garden and having fun with my 2 year old grandson 💙💙💙

[@katiesterling2070]

I worked at The Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and this was one of the first stories I heard when we were getting a tour of the site. So many of the questions I have had for years of this event were answered in this video! Thank you for making this video! Also, there are safety mechanisms to ensure nothing like this can happen again. I never once questioned my safety working in a nuclear Reactor facility because of the safety measures put in place. I am so grateful for the time I worked at ATR because of the knowledge I absorbed about nuclear. I walked around the Reactor daily and never received any radiation. Science has come so far and I hope it continues with how clean it really is.

[@jerrywayne3467]

Hey Kate is that you girl remember me

[@katiesterling2070]

@@jerrywayne3467 Your name isn't ringing a bell.. I'm sorry..

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

was it an SL-1 type reactor?

[@Listrynne]

My grandparents met at INL in the '50s. Grandma was a chemist and Grandpa a electrical genius. She played with the machines and he kept them running for her. I still live in the area. My best friend is an intern out there now. I drive uber and it's fun meeting all the people that travel here from all over the world for conferences and stuff.

[@donnadinsdale-pr8xy]

So good

[@tinynina76]

I LOVE this new channel!! I swear, you could make watching grass grow an interesting topic! Thank you for these videos! So informative and interesting; and your voice is a welcome guest on my KZbin time.

[@SomewhereSinister]

Challenge accepted!

[@Mandy_Lee]

I have to agree with Nina 🤭

[@rosewater3]

@@Mandy_Lee Thrice! I completely concur 💯 🙂💗

[@tinynina76]

@@SomewhereSinister 😅

[@terryford7459]

@@tinynina76 I MOST CERTAINLY AGREE MA'AM 🤣👍🏾👍🏾

[@RK-yx6ir]

I loved this presentation. I've heard the story before but the focus on the people and interpersonal situations rather than "the day" made it more real and terrifying.

[@miyannaable]

Just a note on the intro - it makes me feel better knowing that such a great KZbin creator knows what it's like to work in food service and retail, which is probably why you're so down-to-Earth. I had a lot of those in my life - truly hostile work environments. Haven't done construction, but I have done warehouse. Like my job a lot right now, so I'm lucky. Another great video on yet another great channel of yours!! Digging this series.

[@charlespes]

As for, "Because, why Rush"😂😂😂😂😂It's so easy to listen to you man!!!

[@polarbearsaysyummy5845]

Ironically there was no need rush. This was a recovery operation from the second the reaction occurred. Actually I am shocked that rescuers went inside despite off the chart radiation levels.

[@violagentsch]

Almost comical. Don't call your husband at work calling off your marriage WHEN HE'S WORKING WITH NUCLEAR ENERGY. 😆

[@jillian7636]

That roadside sign should have also said “don’t pick up any hitchhiker’s”

[@kacey5324]

RIP Richard and to all the other victims 🙏🏽🕊

[@prezzle208]

My grandpa remembers the internment camps. I don't know if it's true or not but I remember him talking about how his dad had Germans working on our farm. After the war the Germans were sent back to nothing. No food or anything and sent a letter back to my great Grandpa asking to come back since at least here there was food.

[@ashleysovilla2037]

There’s a display at the museum of Idaho that covers a similar story about German farm workers writing to Idaho farmers after they’d left to ask for money.

[@levimichael1136]

This is Monsters and this channel are my favorites. Woot woot! New episode! Only way today could be better is if it was Friday.

[@heidimedel]

I still hear people who currently work out at the site in Arco talk about this. I wasn't born yet in 1961. But apparently it was terrifying and people have not forgotten. I try to avoid driving near the site because every time I did in the past; it just gives me the creeps. There's something weird going on out there to this day. On a side note: when I saw the title of this video pop up on my feed, I thought for sure it was going to be about Paul Ezra Rhoades.

[@healthcareforallfiftyseven3773]

No doubt Paul Ezra Rhoades would make a great Monsters episode. I wasn't born until 1965, lived very near Idaho Falls, and never heard about this explosion until now.

[@robm5581]

It's just an empty desert they use to experiment with new reactor designs.

[@AKASweetPears]

@@robm5581 what's the address?

[@hoserbike]

@Heidi Medel IF TOWN!!! LOL I actually like it here now that I'm older. There is a couple that does crime podcasts. They do a very detailed episode of our hometown monster Paul. I can't remember the name of it. I know the lady is really pretty. Looks like a young Mariah Carey.

[@robm5581]

@@AKASweetPears The address is just an office building in Idaho Falls. The actual "site" or laboratory is a massive expanse of desert with various isolated buildings spread out in the middle of nowhere.

[@ladymopar2024]

Flashback to when I was a kid watching the beginning of this video we were continuously doing drills an evacuation to safe places

[@Wimmig43at339]

Very strange, I read about this a few days ago and right now I’m driving to Idaho Falls from across the country to visit family. These oddly specific coincidences happens to me all the time, several times a day on average.

[@TheLordSorin]

Algorithms know all

[@Wimmig43at339]

@@TheLordSorin was no algorithm. He uploaded this 30 minutes into my trip.

[@thepessimisticoptimist9375]

That's is weird. Life is weird. Simulation?

[@ashleysovilla2037]

If it makes any difference, this didn’t happen right in IF. It was probably out in Arco. But still weird. If you even googled directions via the device you watch KZbin from, it would explain the algorithm suggestion!

[@thepessimisticoptimist9375]

Holy shit "he was pinned to the ceiling of the building with a rod through his groan and out his shoulder"?? Wtf. That was a gnarly mental picture. Sheesh.

[@KelticKate]

You may want to look at the lake Chelan WA School bus accident on November 26, 1945. My mother's 15th birthday. It was her bus. It never came so she walked to school. She knew everyone on that bus.

[@polarbearsaysyummy5845]

I just read about that tragedy. I expected a bus full of teens. Not kids 5-17. Can't imagine the town's grief.

[@GrandPrixDecals]

I adore your passive aggressive sarcasm, it’s uniquely Genius!

[@victoriawilliams2786]

Thank-you for telling us about this case! I had never heard of this incident before. It's scary as hell for me. I developed ptsd as a kid due to everything we were tought at school during the cold war. The film's of real nukes being exploded. The shadows left in Japan etc. left me with decades of night terrors. Here we are again in a precarious situation. Thankfully the night terrors haven't returned...yet. Btw, I still can't believe they tought us to hide under WOODEN desks from a ball of fire. 🤦‍♀️

[@tinynina76]

Yeah, I remember that, too. Like hiding under stuff is going to sheld us from nuclear fall-out! They were promoting fall-out shelters, etc. They kept "teaching" us about the nuclear fall-out and what it could do to us: melt us, cause deseases and so on...My coping mechanism was to tune out of these film times. I was in early elementary school when this was going on.

[@victoriawilliams2786]

@@tinynina76 My night terrors were always, no matter where I was in my dream, of a mushroom cloud and then watching all the people around me melt. I was in elementary school too. I wouldn't wish those night terrors on anyone.

[@tinynina76]

@@victoriawilliams2786 Oh, no! I feel so bad for you! I became an elementary teacher and I know the importance of not bringing any undue stress on my students. So important, right?

[@IMHip2]

I believe some of the "duck and cover" was due to when the explosion happens the shockwave when hitting the building causes the glass in the windows to shoot inward which is why you want to duck and cover. Of course if you survive particles of glass shards only to be taken out with the rest of the explosion hits then well.....at least your weren't cut in the process of blowing up.

[@victoriawilliams2786]

@@IMHip2 😂 When i was a kid i figured having us hide under the desks was so it would be easier to identify us if we burned to death. And that was why teachers insisted on roll call and assigned seating. 🤦‍♀️

[@clifton669]

Got me asking my supervisor if there is any danger in working a register

[@jesusisalive3227]

I live 90 minutes away from Idaho Falls. The INL is still working on portable reactors. They have one that fits on a trailer that can be pulled by a pickup. I think we will start seeing amazing things coming out of the lab. I believe these small reactors are the future of clean power.

[@maple.church]

So exciting to see a new episode posted when I'm awake 😅

[@nancyleehampton8]

You don’t take much time off work and we notice and appreciate you. Just make sure to take the time to focus on all of the good things in life since you spend so much time immersed in the terrible. 💕

[@OreoVII]

"Make sure not to lift it up more than 4 inches, or everything explodes" "Maybe we should install a kind of stopping mechanism or something. I mean, we could just weld a metal pipe or something so that it can't be lifted more than necessary. We don't want--" "It's MY powerplant, we do it MY way!"

[@dillon7748]

I live in Idaho Falls and I'm applying to Idaho National Labs next week. Haven't decided if this popping up in my feed is a good or bad omen yet lol

[@MusicLeeSarah]

Hi Jiles 👋🏼 Fellow Monsters and Sinister listeners 👋🏼 Ty for the upload!🙏💛 My neighbor is all "all nukes know this story..." Needless to say, he's a nuke. And hes an O.G. lol He also says "this guy know his stuff" (Jiles= this guy) Me: "all his listeners know this..." 😉

[@JoyJoysWorld]

I swear I love the opening music.

[@randygunn9499]

Man that is crazy! A nuke rod thru your body from bottom up stuck to the ceiling!! And probly glowing like a bulb!! That is insane!

[@itsjodoe]

What a beautiful opening video-- it goes PERFECTLY with the music. Well done!

[@jillian7636]

I can’t get enough of this and the This Is Monsters channel on KZbin!! ♥️😊♥️😊♥️

[@diegoochoa572]

Hey, I'm from Idaho Falls! Good shit, subbed!

[@stevenoconnor3037]

My jaw dropped at the line about him being pinned to the ceiling 😂😂 well done sir👍

[@renee1961]

Good afternoon, and Thank You.

[@sythiadawn]

Hahahahaha! As a resident of Newfoundland, Canada I completely agree with your comment about the cold!😂😂

[@BucketHeadianHagg]

I wish you had been my history teacher in high school. I would have paid attention to you.

[@dawnt6791]

Same here! I HATED history when I was a kid - memorize these names, dates, and places. NO context. When I went to college was the first time I had a history teacher who didn't focus on that but discussed the CONTEXT - cultural, people's lives, the personal influences, impacts, and results. I suddenly developed a total fascination with history and have been absorbing it ever since. My favorite historical books are FIRST PERSON accounts of events. Even though they are colored by limited perspectives (since no one knows everything about a single event or series of events), emotions, and whatnot, I just love reading what real people went through.

[@BucketHeadianHagg]

@@dawnt6791 what a great comment! I never found anyone who interested me in history, until I married the love of my life who was a serious WWII buff and was into all things military. I despised hearing about it constantly when we first got married, but then we went to the Smithsonian on vacation and saw Enola Gay, and the moon landing stuff, and suddenly I was hooked! I wish your history teacher knew that he effected you in this way. I’ll be that would be such a great thing to hear! I’m a musician for my living these last 35yrs. I’ve traveled all over the world. I found my music teacher from Jr High school and told him about my career, and he came and saw me play a couple times! What a rush. He actually cried and thanked me for looking him up.

[@kssteph1]

LOVE the way you tell a story

[@toniremer1594]

I WISH that there was a way that I could listen to your channel with my tv while I'm cleaning, ironing and cooking. That would make everything a lot better to do. Your channels I brag about, because they're so incredibly phenomenal!!

[@healthcareforallfiftyseven3773]

youtube app on a phone in your pocket and some bluetooth ear buds work well for me.

[@phoebehill953]

With my iPhone and a cheap TV from Walmart, I am able to “mirror” on the TV screen what is on my phone screen.

[@SomewhereSinister]

My TV has a KZbin app on it.

[@verbaldavenci1]

If you got a smart TV capable of Wi-Fi and downloading apps you can cast it from your phone to your TV

[@dawnt6791]

@@SomewhereSinister That's how my parents watch YT as well. Their smart TV has an app for YT.

[@treesha3427]

You have chosen the most amazing music for the intro ....It's perfect and I love it... Absolutely brilliant! 👻👻👻

[@SomewhereSinister]

Chosen? I made it!

[@Mandy_Lee]

Wow, no wonder why it's brilliant 👏

[@rosewater3]

@@SomewhereSinister Yet another reason you're the 🐝 🐝🦵 Right on! 🤩

[@raregem84]

@@SomewhereSinister That's awesome.I love this channel and Monsters.The music on Monsters is great as well.

[@0threnody070]

I am in love with nuclear reactors and the science behind them, and I absolutely am fascinated by this particular instance. This reactor was always doomed to fail considering it was dependent on human operators and had to be manually turned on. Further, even though it was a relatively small reactor, it didn't have an adequate number of control rods. The reactor was dependent on a central control rod which was surrounded by smaller control rods, which could start and stop the reactor whenever it was moved up and down. Because the central control rod was the thing that could start and stop the reactor, it was dangerous to perform maintenance on the reactor because the reactor would have to be shut completely down and the rods completely removed to replace the boron within the rods. Normally, you can operate larger reactors with control rods missing because there are usually hundreds of control rods, and swapping out two or three doesn't make too big of a difference, but because this reactor was so small, it wasn't an option. After this accident, we realized this was a critical flaw in small reactors, and that there should never be one control rod in a reactor that is capable of starting a reaction due to the danger of the reactor reaching criticality. While it was a tragic project, a lot of safety rules came out from this that made reactors much safer as a whole. I still regard this as one of my favorite nuclear reactors because it was so novel and interesting, but they really did skip on putting adequate process controls on this reactor, and it's sad because we will not see small, portable reactors for a long time.

[@ilznidiotic]

"Somewhere, someone is working on something even more dangerous than a nuclear reactor. Could it be where you work?" *carefully inspects flower shop* I'm gonna say "no".

[@johnheiser8765]

I wouldn't be too sure about a flower shop being so safe. My grandfather used to work for a flower shop, and one day he was hit by a drunk driver and died.

[@scallopohare9431]

A woman was stung by a scorpion that hitched a ride in flowers.

[@saul8019]

Thank you I've lived in PNW for 44 yr. and never heard this Sinister Story. Thanks again! Cheers

[@whatabouttheearth]

Want a weird rabbit hole of a story? Dig into Fred Crismans (Maury Island UFO incident in Puget Sound) relationship with Michael Reconosciuto (the INSLAW/PROMIS software/Danny Cassolaro death) when he grew up in Washington. It even goes into Guy Bannister (former head of Chicago FBI/PI who shared an office with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans). The book 'The Last Circle' covers part of the story but who knows what is legit and what is not related to this. There are also several news pieces by southern California reporter Nathan Baca (maybe now in DC) on his You Tube channel (look up Nathan Baca Octopus) covering the possible relationship to the 2005 "murder suicide" of DA investigator David McGowan and his family down in the Indio/Desert Hot Springs area that to the triple homicide in Indio that Danny Cassolaro was looking into, these stories are wild. Fred Crisman was allegedly one of the first people Clay Shaw called after subpoenaed by New Orleans DA Jim Garrisons JFK investigation, so Garrison than subpoenaed Crisman.

[@ajbobb24]

This wasn't even sinister. This was just negligence.

[@FG-cq9mg]

I love listening to you talk about anything! I so look forward to Mondays and Thursdays. My only complaint is that they end too soon!

[@JamesFromTexas]

I've never heard of just-the-tip going so terribly!

[@angelachouinard4581]

When KZbin suggested a video about a meltdown from "Somewhere Sinister" how could I resist that name. Then you started with that cartoon about atomic energy. I'm old enough to have been shown that in grade school. Subscribing to you is gonna be a fun ride! Thanks

[@john-brady]

Truly excellent

[@fatherofmimes4236]

Awesome Upload as always, Loving both your channels!! This one hit home. I used to be a supervisor operator at a large wastewater treatment plant. We were first responders to any chlorine leaks, other than train loads in our state. People have no idea the dangerous chemicals that are around them. Hard to describe the feeling of donning a moon-suit (positive pressure tyvek suit) and Scott air tank as fast as possible. Anxiety and adrenaline at 11. Hearing the alarm during drills was enough to have to change your drawers, never knew if it was a drill or the real deal! We had three real deals. One on the interstate and two at the plant. I puked after the first leak was contained, retired after the third. Thanks for your hard work and sublime grade uploads.

[@milknhoneyhoney]

Yay new video!! Thank you!! Love and appreciate you ❤️❤️❤️

[@lil_brightsides]

i am obsessed with this channel and all of your channels, but i just now realized you used the kahoot waiting song for your intro and i can't stop laughing

[@SomewhereSinister]

Nope. I wrote and recorded that music myself.

[@gangstagarf]

I can't unhear it now. It sounds very similar

[@kinsley7777]

This was an excellent piece ... & To think that a simple "stop" could've prevented it ...

[@kinsley7777]

@@osakarose5612 absolutely ... your hubby's a handy hubby 😀

[@es6986]

When I saw the title I thought what has he gotten into now. As boring 💤 as I find anything nuclear,I have to admit ikept watching and what do you know I was not bored at all. Very much the opposite. So once again thanks for the great upload and looking forward to the next one

[@gailkelly4651]

I love this channel ...as for this story all I can say is ...OUCH 🤕. You are the best ❤️🇺🇸🙋

[@VRed37]

Rewatching this fascinating episode again and I’m thinking “Man, I can’t believe they were still making grave mistakes in 1978!” (3 Mile Island)

[@polarbearsaysyummy5845]

Actually March 28, 1979, my Dad's 35th birthday. President Jimmy Carter later toured the plant. Thanks to a "Readers Digest" subscription from my Grandpa Shirk, I read how this visit almost turned deadly. He was given a radiation badge. At the end of the tour, it showed lethal levels of radiation. Turns out the badge had not been cleared after other visits. Edit to correct date.

[@stykytte]

I know it means selling, but when you said "slinging hotdogs at the county fair" I just imagined a kid throwing cold briney dogs into crowds

[@SomewhereSinister]

Well, you aren't that far off...

[@renee1961]

How Scary this is! How could it not have Safety measures??!!

[@QuestForDetails]

best one yet !! we can all identify with melting down at work...... good thing I don't work with reactors , cheers !

[@Coogi622]

I knew the narrator's voice sounded familiar and my brain was bouncing around like a frog in a tube sock trying to place the voice! "This is Monsters", thanks to those who mentioned it, saved my sanity...one less "Monsters " episode!🤣🤪🤣🤪 New sub here!😺🐾

[@Mandy_Lee]

I absolutely love this channel ❤ 😍 Much luv from the -PNW

[@rosewater3]

I agree 💯! Sending much love to you, yours, my home away from home PNW and all❣️🏞️🌈🌅☔✌️💙✨

[@KyleCotton1]

Damn, John's story was kinda heart breaking. The man was genuinely going through a shitty time. If he knew what the consequences were for lifting the rod too high I can honestly see it being intentional. Not that I support self forever sleep, but dude was compiling a list of reasons to give up. Poor guy.

[@healthcareforallfiftyseven3773]

It also sounds like this disaster was inevitable and would have happened regardless. Brittle boron strips and whatnot.

[@KyleCotton1]

@@healthcareforallfiftyseven3773 Agreed. I wasn't implying he did it intentionally. Just that the I could definitely see how that idea was tossed around by investigators. Definitely an avoidable tragedy all around

[@kenkaniff8428]

@@KyleCotton1 I don't think it was intentional cuz it wasn't even clear that he knew that error would kill him but we will never know. I too think this was inevitable. The crusty boron strips got the rod stuck and there was no safety mechanism in place to prevent it from being raised over the 4". Bit yes I too could see how that idea would be tossed around especially with no real safety mechanisms in place. They would of loved to of blamed it on suicide I think. But then again that proves to everyone that there were no safety mechanism in place so . . . 🤔🤔🤔

[@KyleCotton1]

@@kenkaniff8428 is this Ken Kaniff....from CONNECTICUT?! lol yeah they definitely could have but some sort of bar or something to make sure it wasn't raised above the limit

[@kenkaniff8428]

@@KyleCotton1 it sure as hell is me "c0ckboy"😂😉 if you know Ken Kaniff you know that line so I'm not being disrespectful🤘

[@Blaklege63]

Seabee’s are awesome. They can build so many things out of just scraps. Its amazing. In Okinawa they built an incredible desk out of pallets for my dad who was a gunny sgt

[@janebailey8032]

Wow!

[@Nonayabizness360]

Could you do a story about three mile island and the nestle chocolate factories cows that were near that reactor? Also the actor John Wayne used sand from the desert where they were testing nukes for one of his movies and almost every single cast member that came into contact with that sand died from some form of cancer some shortly after and some many years later. Human being’s should never have this type of energy it’s effects on our bodies, our planet and animals is horrifying.

[@nicoleheeb8137]

Love your videos! Thank you so much

[@amymccammon9078]

Ive lived in Idaho Falls for a long time and heard the rumors about the reactor. Someone I will not name was raped by he man who was pinned to the roof. She was 8 years old when he assaulted her and it happened shortly before the explosion.

[@terriarnold4364]

Excellent research.Thank you and God Bless.💝🗽😀

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady2]

This is good content. 👍🏻 I look forward to hearing more. Thanks. ✌🏻💟🌎💡🇺🇸

[@renee1961]

The pictures, and videos are amazing!

[@opelikaalabama1991]

The theme song to this channel is so good

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Ironic that an already dead body that becomes irradiated does not decompose but a healthy live body that becomes irradiated decomposes from the inside out.

[@MusicLeeSarah]

The irony...

[@retard_activated]

Right?!

[@dappppppppt]

Somewhere out there I can imagine a sicko scientist or ten working on 'lab rats' to try and find the fountain of youth 😪

[@ericalagrasta7657]

Love this as much as its predecessors. Fine work!

[@srahhh]

I had no idea Idaho was part of the Pacific NW... I have such a geographical blindspot for that area. I thought it was part of the Great Plains! TIL

[@indiatastic]

Nope! Directly east of WA/OR! I think only the skinny part is Cascadia though.

[@NEPZ1993]

Bro I live here in Idaho falls I have never heard of this!

[@jbmbryant]

I've been familiar with this tragic event for many years but never with this level of detail. Very nicely done!

[@rockfoots]

@Just Me I'm sure you've heard this before, but you look just like MISTER DOG. Amazing. I grew up on the edge of the Arco Desert and knew a lot about this event. More than is detailed here.

[@kristyp2585]

Love this series. Thank you!

[@spookyapril4803]

i love hearing about dark stuff in places where i used to live. like in great falls we had a serial killer live here

[@gamerbanee]

I love both of your channels, more for your sarcasm than even for the stories.

[@blueindigoqueen7077]

Both ur channels are absolutely amazing! I really hope u continue to make new videos for this channel. Cause between this and ur other channel ur going to be climbing to the top in no time!!

[@courtneymore4315]

I've loved you for as long as you've been doing monsters but I gained a whole new level of appreciation and gratitude when you made the video on Daybell you made it so easy to understand and follow and about the only one that hasn't made my brain turn into a webbed link chart!

[@julieloucalcote1368]

Awesome story!

[@solidxkilla]

Yay another one!

[@candicebergstrom4490]

I think many folks have worked in a variety of industries, too, & probably some of the same ones mentioned in your work history.(0:01) But, you've found your calling, my friend! The hard work & dedication will continue paying off! 🤑

[@pickledragonrebel]

So much history so many don't know. Thank you for telling and spreading this history that isn't so was well known, if at all these need to be brought out in the light !!!

[@jahempress26]

Wow ,boy I so glad you stop fast food I'm learning so much and how you tell it pulls you in ,you can see your hard work, KZbin should pay you

[@LeCharles07]

The concept drawings for the nuclear powered jet engine are pretty wild. To think anyone ever thought a reactor on a good idea is also pretty wild.

[@jarroddavis7538]

I enjoy both of your channels, great content.

[@greendragon4058]

Wow you're going back to my time, I remember watching that commercial and when you brought it back it was like oh my God it was instantly back there. What a scary time it was though thanks for covering this. Everybody covers the Bikini Atoll, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl but we forget that it also happened here

[@nixm9093]

Loving this channel, thank you 😊

[@benmcreynolds8581]

The way this thing exploded was something bout of a nightmare. Like imagine just how terrible that design was that you had to have human workers manually hand pull on the reactor rods. Then add that the rods overtime got build up on them so they stuck or were really difficult to be precise with adjusting it. Then imagine that "if the rod moved 4 inches or more that it would explode so forcefully in milliseconds that it would impale one worker into the tall roof of the reactor room!" It obliterated the other guys in other ways, the one guy was literally impaled so intensely into the ceiling. Just because the reactor rod (probably) accidentally moved more than 4 inches because it was hard to move, stuck, and really tricky to move accurately and precisely. Then none of the responders understood how to not get radiation sickness. Seriously this and other stories like Chernobyl, is why society as a whole has such a stigma against nuclear energy, and haven't committed to modern advanced nuclear energy options. The sad thing is, it's because the engineering and knowledge was so poor back then that it was like prehistoric compared to how far science, engineering, computers, technology/robots, safety measures, material science, different types of reactors like small form reactors, LFTRs, Thorium Reactors, liquid reactors, and if built today they have advanced so much that they would never build something like this where it was literally up to people freely hand pulling up sticky rods with no safety measures, idk maybe even if they had a stopper they could have moved around to each rod they adjusted and if 4 inches or more was "instant death 💀" then how about you build something that (DOESN'T LET THE ROD MOVE MORE THAN 4 INCHES!) and the workers didn't even really understand how dangerous the circumstances were..

[@christineann3296]

I worked for this “insurance company “one time and I think about 6months into the job the FBI took all of our computers and everyone got fired. And my boss was arrested for some sort of tax fraud. Good times good times

[@genevievegalvan1516]

Your voice is captivating yet soothing ! I can’t get enough of your channels. I look forward to your posts every week :)

[@SonOfFloki]

I was born and raised in Idaho Falls and I had never heard this story. Super crazy.

[@deanepritchywitch5905]

If Jiles with a J had the only working microphone after a zombie apocalypse I'd be screwed. I fall asleep to Jiles' voice most nights. I'd probably wake up with a zombie chewing my leg. 😂😂

[@Idaho-Idaho]

I worked on some of the final cleanup work at the SL1 reactor site in the late '90's. This was the ARA-2 facility. The building was already down and just the foundation and the ARA-16 tank remained.

[@SomewhereSinister]

Oh how interesting. Yeah those reactors clean-ups take years and years. I believe Chernobyl will never be cleaned up fully.