The Soviet Union’s Nuclear Icebreakers

[@davidhollenshead4892]

You missed a few things: One of the biggest reasons for making a nuclear icebreaker, the waste reactor heat is used to heat the hull in order to melt ice, and produce super heated sea water that is also used to melt ice. Also the Soviets and later Russians use their Ice Breakers to pull the cargo ships they are escorting with large steel cables, so their propulsion engines are not needed during the escort...

[@M33f3r]

Awesome

[@izzieb]

"It was rad". I see what you did there. I'll rem-ember this.

[@RetroJack]

I started watching this channel for chip fab news, but it has rapidly become one of my favourite documentary channels - keep up the good work! 👍

[@jorpjorp]

I'm always fascinated by the many obscure words you can pronounce and the many common ones you cant

[@Rdburnzy]

It means he learns most new words from reading, not listening.

[@thelitmango6333]

Yeah I was about to say I use to be the same until I got more social, as long as someone understand what you're saying that's what matters.

[@purplefood1]

​@@thelitmango6333that's not untrue but when you don't use the words you actually mean you open yourself up to a lot more potential interpretation or confusion. There's nothing wrong with getting things wrong but if you aren't accurate with your words you can't get annoyed when people don't understand what you meant

[@sisyphusvasilias3943]

Amazed at the pace of output on this channel. The depth of research and interesting topics is impressive.

[@phobos2077_]

Just saw one of these giants in St.Petersburg this summer. Just chilling on the bank and this beast silently coasts towards me. That was quite the sight. Fun fact: there was a fisherman in a small inflatable boat. The icebreaker passed very close to him, but the old man seemed to not even notice.

[@conzmoleman]

Depressing city name. It should still be Leningrad.

[@honkhonk8009]

@@conzmoleman Excellent name. Lenin is a good guy, but the Soviet Unions constant Lennin worshipping/dickriding and communism is abhorrent.

[@thepinusnigra]

​@@conzmoleman As St.Petersburg citizen I totally agree with you. At least oblast name remained the same.

[@conzmoleman]

@@thepinusnigra I’ve heard a lot of residents just call it “Petrograd”. Is this true?

[@thepinusnigra]

@@conzmoleman Nah, it's most uncommon one. Older generations still using Leningrad name(also this name is being used as official when city is celebrating day of breakthrough the blockade) , though when it comes to verbal, unofficial talks everyone calls the city as Piter(with focus on first vowel), due how long official name is(without binding to the era).

[@letthetunesflow]

I just want to say how much I enjoy your work, and just how amazing your videos are. You continue to produce some of the most unique and impressively made mini documentaries on topics rarely even covered. The research involved in making such high quality videos on topics like this must be a challenge, especially getting so detailed in your research. Just want to thank you for your amazing and fascinating videos. You have certainly worked damn hard, and have an amazing talent for covering topics with a sensitivity that is very unique and refreshing. The way you bring in the political, cultural, and historical context of each topic you cover is a talent that very few have. The author and KZbinr Dan Davis is the only one else that I know who makes videos with your level of deep topical sensitivity, and ability to bring a deeper context to whatever you are making a video about. Keep up the amazing work, always learn something completely new! Thanks again!

[@marcyanus1430]

i would have liked this comment but.. nice.

[@Kenny-yl9pc]

Most of the information, if not all, can be sourced easily online, for example through Wikipedia. (I know Wikipedia is not the best source, especially in regard to political topics. What I detest is the censoring and most importantly how it is politicized and used for discrediting people by the means of character assassinations when it comes to controversial people or topics, but there are good articles, especially hard science is for the most part reliable, even though they are trying to manipulate/infringe even on them). It is not really difficult to research such topics nowadays. The digital age we are living in makes it very easy to get information, you can argue it is a disadvantage because of information overflow, but the hard part is to find the right information, to acquire the skill in order to determine which sources and information are reliable and trustworthy, and to put them in the right context, in my view, that is the hardest part of research in general. What I give him credit for is, that he puts all the information into a coherent and enjoyable story, furthermore his "story telling"/speech skill makes it even better. I completely agree with you, regarding his coverage of unique/niche topics that one rarely sees in other channels, that shows how much effort and thought he puts into his project, to really deliver quality for his audience, for which I salute him.

[@thepinusnigra]

Taymyr class icebreakers weren't really intended as newer replacement for old icebreakers. It was supposed to service in a different niche, such as towing ships/break ice into Siberian rivers, where bigger ships like Lenin or Arktika was impossible to use.

[@geonerd]

Your videos are always a delight. Assorted interesting topics, presented in some depth. Thank you!

[@kawafahra]

There are lots of educational channels on YT. I subbed the best of them over the years, skipped the self-praising ones, never payed for any. Yours may be the first worth spending some, your educational style is crystal-clear and, whilst delivered pan dry, keeps enough humour in to sugar coat the in depth analysis. Great content, is there a team behind it, or just one Dude ? Keep up the work, you are great at it. Way better than the very most.

[@weksauce]

Bow is pronounced bao.

[@idzkk]

🐕‍🦺 bow bow

[@fastlanenigeria]

@@idzkk lil one

[@JoeOvercoat]

I’m gonna mess with every sailor i know about how cute their “bow” is. Then double down and manage to pronounce ‘aft’ as…well, you know. ;)

[@WANHandler]

@@JoeOvercoat You’ll give them aneurisms

[@markalexmclennan]

English is a really dumb language.

[@bladesofseven]

I've always been fascinated by the Arktika class breakers, ever since I heard about them from a game called Cryostaisis. Good to see a neat lil overview on em.

[@purplefood1]

Fascinating game tbf

[@xenuburger7924]

I've been fascinated with the Akademik Lomonosov and life in Pevek where it is docked. It makes both electricity and hot water. Even steam baths are connected to it.

[@fastlanenigeria]

Life is simple. Asianometry uploads. I listen.

[@elnadim]

This video's timing is a piece of art. Keep on the great work. All the success!

[@MetaJamm]

Imagine you chilling in borderless arctic snow desert, with screaming winds and meters and meters of rock solid ice under feet, casually waiting when this ship become to get you and your team aboard. So surreal :)

[@titan1070]

less than 10 seconds in the video and you are already making radiation jokes 😂 this is why I love your videos!

[@robertlackey7212]

Great video , Keep up the good work . Would love to see a report about electronics industries in Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , etc.. Perhaps one report to cover them all.

[@Redfvvg]

There is no electronics there. In Soviet times, parts of a very low degree of integration may have been produced there. All microelectronics was concentrated in the Moscow region, and in Minsk.

[@worldoftancraft]

One of those glorious, free, and liberated Na-shi-ons cannot even finish the hydroelectric plant, dam of which is already build before their independence.

[@petertimowreef9085]

Nuclear icebreakers are rad and they have a crushing impact. I like these puns my dude.

[@zgra74]

4:19 Woah! Didn’t expect to see my university’s research reactor pop up in a YT video. The reactor doesn’t produce any usable energy, by the way, only heat. The mechanism shown above the water line is used to move the rods around, although that doesn’t happen often.

[@danaitch4095]

From calculators to icebreakers, chips to watches, this channel has it all!

[@hirboodakhavan7793]

keep up what you do. You are helping the humanity. I like how your delivery skills has improved since the first video.

[@TheNefastor]

Love puns. "It was rad", "crushing impact"... LOL well done.

[@toms5996]

Great video - I especially appreciated the mentioning of the Finnish ice breaker(s).

[@worldoftancraft]

Krasavica naša Suomi

[@westrim]

Finnish him!

[@meatsuitpilot6642]

fun fact: the Bow of a ship is pronounced like ' to take a bow' with the same 'ow' sound as Hour.

[@AndyRRR0791]

...or as in "bough" of a tree which is why it's spelled differently

[@worldoftancraft]

Fun fact: the spelling does not indicate that to me at all

[@LongTran-em6hc]

As an Asian who have no idea how 'ow' in Hour and 'to take a bow' are pronounced, I appreciate this comment.

[@AndyRRR0791]

@@worldoftancraft I know. That's 'cause it's spelled I-R-O-N-Y...

[@worldoftancraft]

@@AndyRRR0791 no, it's spelled "we can't decide for centuries who we are. Either antique yet modern Greeks, either antique yet modern Latins, or French, or somewhat Germans or Norsemen". There you are

[@afriendofafriend5766]

I wasn't expecting a video about the 50 years of victory from you.

[@toms5996]

Victory? Built in Finland.

[@jsoderba]

@@toms5996 No, the 50 Years of Victory was one of the older Arktika class built at the Baltic Yards in Leningrad/St. Petersburg. The USSR continued to build Arktika-class icebreakers throughout the 1980s. Second-to-last Yamal was commissioned in 1992 and as the name implies the 50 Years of Victory was supposed to be done by 1995, the 50th anniversary of Germany's surrender in 1945. I guess the decision to continue building Arktikas as well as ordering the Taymyr class from Wärtsilä in parallell was made because of the increasing importance of Arctic oil, gas and minerals to the struggling Soviet economy.

[@toms5996]

@@jsoderba Thanks for the info. So many were built in Finland I lost count and apparently some were built in the USSR.

[@CtrlAltRob]

you always pick interesting topics, thx :)

[@edp5226]

you should have a million subs, your educational videos are very informative and well put together, nothing fancy just facts. thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@helsreach001]

If Soviet take economy seriously then we had most technologically advanced power . Space tech is pioneered by Soviet but people are blind to their achievements.

[@topkitena]

Doesn't suit capitalist western propaganda!

[@elliottslamovich5067]

It would be interesting if you did a video on the progression of transistor designs in microprocessors throughout time. Especially with the industry on the verge of switching to ribbon fets, it would be a very relevant video topic for this moment in time.

[@theoruigrok6343]

Great video. Another earlier notable ice-breaker was the one the soviet-union (or maybe tsarist Russia back then) used on lake Baikal, which was a unique ice breaker-train ferry ship for hauling the trans siberia express across the lake.

[@CoreyChambersLA]

Anyone who lives in the arctic knows that the hysteria around global warming is overblown.

[@jakekaywell5972]

Dumb point, since you can see the ice caps melt if you're in the Arctic.

[@adoatero5129]

Interestingly, more than half of the world’s icebreakers have been manufactured in Finland. In addition to having manufactured them decades ago for the Soviet Union, Finland needs them itself, as all Finnish ports are subject to freezing in winter. Most countries that have freezing ports use Finnish icebreakers, but the USA, having bought none, is one of the exceptions. The operators there would like to buy them, as they are technologically advanced, but the USA classifies icebreakers as war ships (presumably just to protect the domestic industry), which makes importing them hard.

[@TroyRubert]

The episode on icebreakers on Big, Bigger, Biggest is a must-watch. How it evolved into the tech we have now is crazy. Humans are OP.

[@jaakkooksa5374]

3:03 Finnish person here. "Urho" is "Hero" in Finnish.

[@frischifrisch6860]

Very interesting, thank you 👍👍

[@somewhere6]

Don't hold your breath waiting for the ice to disappear. It hasn't declined in years and they have stopped showing the records about how low it was in the early 1970s (and earlier in the 20th century).

[@nobodynoone2500]

Shhh!

[@JIUNnF]

A tragic incident in the north, under the ice in the wake of the bulldozer, a machinist who tried to save the car left.

[@Mr.Septon]

I always wished that Canada had gone a similar route with building massive nuclear ice breakers. I actually think the north is the perfect opportunity for Canada and Russia to try and find something that they can work together on. Collectively maintaining a safe and openly navigable artic waterway for commercial transportation. By doing this, a way to ease tensions and find one more way to work together. Collectively would create one of the most important global shortcuts.

[@bulsond]

Unfortunately, this is not possible. The future world will be divided into pan-regions. Your country is part of AUKUS. Eurasia and AUKUS will compete, but not work together in any way.

[@Mr.Septon]

@@bulsond Canada is not specifically part of that one, but we should figure out something similar. Also part of the Five-Eyes. So Canada is in a weird position in that regard. NAFTA also helps ensure a generally intertwined North America, hopefully that expands to the other North American nations other than the big three. We also are a part of the CPTPP among Pacific nations. So Canada doesn't quite have the same opportunities as other nations to blend into their multiple neighbours the way that others do, but we do have a lot tying us in many directions.

[@mechfan01]

Made me laugh within 10 seconds. Great job.

[@paganlecter6819]

theres a hypothesis that Siberia will warm up and become the most burgeoning agricultural area on earth. Apparently Russia is already building some amount of infrastructure to prepare for that.

[@prabuddhaghosh7022]

No point building the infrastructure now as the melting permafrost will buckle the foundations. Wait till the melting is done

[@williamlloyd3769]

Interesting that recently a Finland shipyard couldn’t get regulatory clearance to build a diesel icebreaker for a mining concern.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

what does regulatory clearance mean? they failed to provide documentation? or failed ecology limits?

[@nobodynoone2500]

@@NoNameAtAll2 There are many more reguylations than that, but I too am curious.

[@williamlloyd3769]

@@NoNameAtAll2 - To clarify, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the government of Finland / EU enacted regulations that prevent the Finish shipyard from fulfilling the icebreaker contract for the Russian oil company.

[@zigfisher6592]

@@williamlloyd3769 Good.

[@kennethtan6403]

Thank you and Much Love from the Philippines.

[@el_dani]

3:45 exactly the situation I would imagine a soviet nuclear ship from the inside

[@ronjon7942]

Laf. Ouch, but so true.

[@AlexKarasev]

Nice mention of the Toshiba 3D CNC machines. Illegally acquired? - hmm, let's say, illicitly obtained. The same way the US got its titanium from the Soviets for military uses.

[@burnedhrum]

Business as usual

[@Свободадляроссии]

"Lenin is powered by a 3100 ton nuclear plant" would have been a scary sentence to hear in 1917

[@navsenjoy]

Quite interesting topic. Wonder breaking huge chunks of ice into smaller - expedite thier melting or not??? Lastly, sarcism apart USSR was front runner in technology- most of time

[@stanislavkogan]

No story about the Soviet ice breaker fleet is complete without the story of the nuclear service ship Lepse. Look it up - it's wild!

[@teddyshapedsoap]

Incredible video as always. Just keep at it, and you will have well over a million subs. Perhaps even sooner than you realize.

[@davenz000]

A bow on a ship. Wow. Bow.

[@glennac]

“And it was Rad” I see what you did there. 😄

[@AlexanderSylchuk]

They even have floating nuclear power plants which make any arctic activity possible. I remember read somewhere on wikipedia that one of those icebreakers (I think arktica) where just bloated version of some swedish or finnish project, but can't find it now. There's interesting application for icebreakers in Canada, not only in St. Lawrence River but for mining operation in Nunavut and in the Northwest Territories. Mary River Mine is a very interesting story, even wikipedia page was very interesting especially for those who also like to read on Daewoo in Uzbekistan and alike. Is there already an episode on Arcelor acquisition by Mittal Steel?

[@worldoftancraft]

It's spelled 'Arktika'. C has a very different application in Slavic languages

[@AlexanderSylchuk]

@@worldoftancraft oh it's "k" in both places. I just happened to know a few slavic languages. Maybe I decided to chill out on the number of "k"-s, one more "k" and the ship with all the white snow around it might've become prejudiced against coal steamboats.

[@worldoftancraft]

@@AlexanderSylchuk nosotros no somos Latino idiomas XD

[@AlexanderSylchuk]

@@worldoftancraft El polaco está muy influenciada por el látin.

[@simonlinser8286]

hey baby is that an iceberg under there or are you just buoyant... I'll see myself out...

[@PplsChampion]

it's literally like the movie snow piercer except with a bunch of extra unfrozen water

[@WookieChef]

Video is a great ice breaker on the subject.

[@Iangamebr]

We need to commercialize nuclear powered ships as soon as possible if we want to actually transition. Crazy that there's so much backlash against nuclear... The propaganda of oil decades ago really worked....

[@Spacedog79]

There is renewed interest in nuclear powered shipping, Samsung in South Korea are looking in to this as well as several other groups. It really is the best and perhaps only way we'll decarbonise shipping, we should have been doing it a long time ago.

[@Iangamebr]

@@Spacedog79 yeah LNG is maybe an option for morr efficient shipping, but nuclear is 100% the way, there's no other way to transport 100s of thousands of tons of material with other energy sources cleanly.

[@pat8988]

You shouldn’t denigrate steam power too much. Please note that nuclear icebreakers are ALSO steam powered. It just has nuclear fuel.

[@Joulupukkisukka]

Kind of error, there's an art to icebreakers. Drop by one in Finland (if present and not powering something in south-america as often is the case), there's blowing air beneath the ice before going on top of ice and crushing it in certain situations, all-360 degree bridge (and propellers) in new ones.. Lots of cool stuff there. Several hulls, towing capability depending on ice-rating of ships an icebreaker helps. You need lanes because once you break the ice it freezes harder of course.

[@georgewuzheer]

I'll walk into a room full of strangers, drop my trousers and excrete a brown log. Call it the Soviet Nuclear Icebreaker.

[@hygri]

I love your take on stuff. Yes. It was rad.

[@SJR_Media_Group]

Russia has a reputation of building really large things.... Antonov Cargo Planes, Moon Rocket, Ice Breakers bigger than many ships, heavy lift helicopters that can pick up the biggest helicopter from America. Gives them bragging rights. Oh yeah, their Moon Rocket blew up.

[@burnedhrum]

And US "forget" how to build one

[@SJR_Media_Group]

@@burnedhrum Sad but true... thanks for comment.

[@honkhonk8009]

@@burnedhrum You dont forget how to build these things. The tooling and alot of the supply chain parts that made the SaturnV back then, are not available nowadays for obvious reasons. The SLS is probably the closest the US can get to a modern SaturnV with a fraction of the budget required for the SaturnV back then. Rocket making isnt anything new. NASA is just working with a massive budget constraint.

[@robertoroberto9798]

@@burnedhrum They didn’t forget how to make one. The plans are there, but try to make hundreds of companies, most already bankrupt, make small one-off components for a rocket half a century old. Also, we can’t make some components such as the F-1 because there was so many unrecorded micro-changes made by the engineers that even if we copy the plans, it wouldn’t work as well and maybe even blow apart.

[@andreypetrov4868]

I live in the West and when my son mentioned that USSR had built ice breakers with nuclear reactors on board, the school science teacher said that it's impossible. It's amazing what a socialist country can achieve : in 1945 third of the country was just ruins, in 1961 nuclear powered ice breakers, first satellite and first man in space.

[@elizabethnilsson1815]

and all DENYED by you school teacher and still yet

[@MardukTheSunGodInsideMe]

"Alright everyone thanks for watching" Me: You're welcome.

[@hewhohasnoidentity4377]

5 year old me from 1986 approves of the intro.

[@mgkole]

Great and informative video.

[@simplemechanics246]

You missed one of key feature, how these operate. It use massive amount air to pump around under water ship.

[@TehNouk]

70 tons of fuel compered to 45 grams blew my find. It really puts in to perspective how powerful uranium is. The most powerful element in human history and we choose to phase it out. Maybe we should phase out coal powerplant before nuclear..

[@robertoroberto9798]

Unfortunately you have to convince Green Peace and the German Green parties for people to be convinced nuclear is the way.

[@peters972]

This is a good icebreaker if starting a conversation.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I honestly don't understand why in our modern era. With our modern technology and advanced technology and knowledge. Why we don't make tons of nuclear powered ships? It's way better than fossil fuels. It's not even a close competition.

[@JIUNnF]

Why is there banditry in Congolesia, Somali Ukr.?

[@zoNicke]

irrational fear of change

[@lars7935]

Have you seen the crazy hazardous money saving measures commercial shipping does? You can barely trust them to operate a diesel plant and you want to give them a nuclear reactor?

[@ronjon7942]

@@lars7935 that’s a darn good point

[@arturocevallossoto5203]

@@lars7935 At least if something goes wrong in a nuke ship it just sinks and the problem solves itself.

[@olivier_the_dilettante]

"crushing impact" no pun intended?

[@nicolek4076]

Numerous pronunciation mistakes. The front of a ship is the bow, but not pronounced as done here, but in the way the word is used to describe a performer acknowledging the audience's applause. The CH in "archipelago" is pronounced like a K. A sailing vessel the size of Lenin is called a ship not a boat.

[@BracaPhoto]

That core encased in concrete and dumped off the coastline will be an interesting find in 1,000,000 years

[@JIUNnF]

Not found will be recycled.

[@IgnobleKin]

History and memes? My favorite things!

[@maxonheadrick9339]

Perhaps you should make a video about Kharkovchanka.

[@kevinbarry71]

Love your video, but bow rhymes with cow. Unless of course you're firing an arrow out of it. Also, the ice will make it impassible

[@jawoo2228]

Ah, yes, the "Boh" of the ship. Not to be confused with the Steern, the Kewl, the Hool, the Starburst side, or the Part side.

[@tommcewan7936]

Ermahgerd! Nerklear ersbrerkers!

[@jawoo2228]

@@tommcewan7936 I believe it's pronounced "Nook-ya-loor".

[@tommcewan7936]

@@jawoo2228 different meme, dude.

[@jawoo2228]

@@tommcewan7936 Tell us more, Mr. Memer.

[@dahlbergt]

Very interesting, thank you!

[@klam77]

FANTASTIC VIDEO

[@kwask6062]

Jon Y. Thank you God send information with respect and admiration 🙏👍

[@bradsmgads1302]

meme game was strong in this video, well done

[@alexabadi7458]

Great video, thanks !

[@creativecraving]

You're crushing it with those puns! 😂

[@AlexKarasev]

- You're using weapons-grade uranium in Lenin?!! Soviets in the 50s: - Weap... what? We just call that uranium.

[@worldoftancraft]

Uran êstj uran ©

[@jsoderba]

Most marine reactors use weapons-grade uranium. (I think the French use only 7% U-235 in theirs.) It makes the reactor more compact and you can go decades between refueling.

[@AlexKarasev]

@@jsoderba I learned a new thing today. Thanks!

[@rockattack]

7:05 the map of the sea is a Dutch map. Who else on this planet would have maps of obscure parts of the world oceans. Go Dutch!

[@if5566]

At 0:07, is this radiation related pun intentional? Pretty great either way!

[@pmi6248]

That's what i was looking for!

[@DRakeTRofKBam]

I could use these in my awkward small talks.

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

90% U235. Wow.

[@Cam-q8w4x]

Love the video but can you maybe use a sponge or something on your microphone, the sharp inhalations are very jarring. Cheers

[@dos1809]

Great stuff! Had a chance of being on Lenin :) Also you could have mentioned this beast of a boat : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput - its a nuclear powered merchant ship capable of traveling in frozen waters.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

He missed one of the biggest reasons for making a nuclear icebreaker, the waste reactor heat is used to heat the hull in order to melt ice, and produce super heated water that is also used to melt ice.

[@TheGreatAtario]

2:45 A ship's bow rhymes with plow, not know 8:02 The CH in archipelago is pronounced K

[@worldoftancraft]

The glorious orthography of the language that surely lives nowadays, not in the B.C. times :) It's actually *aspirated* K. Not just simple K.

[@vb2534]

Icebreakers and crushing impact =comedy genious

[@philippebarillecavalier9275]

The newest generation has a not terribly memorable name and they should have kept the color theme of the Arktika. This red and black, it's just so good.

[@tolentarpay5464]

Note from the Pedantic Police: As previously mentioned by my esteemed colleague (see nxt Comment), when used in relation to ocean-going vessels, the "Proper Queen's English" pronunciation is indeed Bao ("Bow" or, the front of the ship); your pronunciation "Boe" = reference to the motive component used for propelling an arrow (thus, "Boe-and-AhRoe"/bow & arrow; pls pardon my amateurish efforts at phonetic spelling... it's not my strongest talent)... Additionally, Archipelago is said as "Ahr-kee-Pell-a- goe"; the "h" is silent (for some reason...honestly, English is littered with these archaic holdovers; seriously, people think learning Mandarin is challenging - only English has Rules on when/how to USE the bloody rules! That's Poms for you... ...except for The Queen, of course; obviously, QE 2nd is Special, God Bless Her/May She RIP...). Please do not perceive any of this as criticism; I find your vids very topical (how you manage that much research & prep EVERY WEEK is beyond me...) & reliably "on point", without even a sliver of American-style faff & B.S. If I wasn't just 2 steps away from being a complete penniless bum I'd love to support you beyond offering linguistic feedback. On a more relevant topic, though, I'm Australian & spent about 10 years working in the Taxi Industry (in Front Office & Admin roles; I've never actually been a Driver) in Perth, West Australia; I used to be personally acquainted/on first name basis with most of Perth's cabbies. Like anywhere else they were regular people living their lives... EXCEPT the majority of them were foreigners from Non-English speaking backgrounds. One thing I've never really understood is the long-simmering "national/ethnic antipathy" that's always existed between Australians & Indians (i.e. from India); seriously, it's definitely a 2-way thing as well. Could you do a video exploring where this comes from? Excellently produced video-essays, man. Professional & always informative; very watchable!

[@dwaynezilla]

I had to do the math. 80 kg of uranium is about 4.2 litres. Basically on the order of a four-litre/one-gallon milk jug

[@hamishneilson7140]

Gunna be pedantic for a quick second: the front of the ship, the bow, isn't pronounced like a bow and arrow. Think of it like when you say "Ow!" from stubbing your toe, but with a B in front. Your videos are fantastic and I love the information, but I just grew up on the ocean and want to help you educate people on topics like this!

[@ronjon7942]

U really thought you were the first or only…sigh.

[@anonymousAJ]

Thank God someone is breaking the nuclear ice

[@dwaynezilla]

If you are looking for a tow, I can tell you I don't have the gear. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career as an icebreaker. Skills that make me a nightmare for the ice sheets around you. If they let your ship go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for them, I will not break them. But if they don't, I will look for them, I will find them, and I will break them.

[@richardm9934]

A ship's 'bow' rhymes with 'cow' :) Muu-sic to my ears, this video

[@StaffordMagnus]

So, what you're saying is that if you're hosting a party... these are the ships you would want to invite?

[@sventallariko3322]

Very interesting job, but it would be nice for you to include the information sources you use to make the videos.