" URANIUM PROSPECTING " 1950s NUCLEAR INDUSTRY PROMO FILM COLOR VERSION 66054z

[@danocronopolis]

ha! i totally just found like exactly that scintillator in a flea market yesterday, and found this video last night lol BRB, GONNA GO FIND ME SOME URANIUM

[@BuddyLee23]

I love the PeriscopeFilm intro thing. Sets the tone and lets you know you are about to see some cool old shit.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

AEC official: "What kind of cake would you like for your birthday Tommy"? Tommy: "Why yellow-cake of course".

[@markgnarz5399]

Also search for Nick Cross's "Yellow Cake" cartoon on here. Its a trip.

[@dziban303]

Bitcoin of the 50s

[@chefmike4414]

Watching this was very scintillating Lol

[@loginavoidence12]

we should highlight parts of this reel ( 6:05 ) like your average boomers flying around their private helicopters on their acres of land for uranium to the government. just to piss the zoomies off even more

[@chillydawgg4354]

Always handle uranium with your bare hands

[@thrjfi5360]

Love how the wife hands hubby his scintillator. Oh hunny don't forget this.

[@RobertTKlaus]

So very cool, even plan old rock hunting. Finally, made it to Vegas, but little desert is left. The out of state builders and the over population have houses almost up the mountain sides now! Have to drive far through heavy traffic to find desert. Water prospecting may be more important now!

[@albear972]

Go to National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque

[@paulz5531]

My, times sure have changed.

[@j.b.4340]

This goes well with the other uranium mining video.

[@lenscap8925]

@11:34 they identify Oregon as Washington...and South Dakota as North Dakota...

[@publicmail2]

yea how about that...

[@rapman5363]

It’s the progressive way, I hear New York is identifying as Florida in hopes the sun will shine and it won’t snow any more.

[@chefmike4414]

Ya I saw that too. I live in washington so naturally I was very insulted Lol

[@willowsloughdx]

Close enough for John Q. Public, I guess.

[@ZoruaZorroark]

35K bonus for finding high grade ore, while a lot in todays money, had to have been a total fortune in its own right in this time period

[@BuddyLee23]

Looks to be >$400k in 1950 and >$300k in 1959. Roughly around $350k for most of that decade.

[@glocke380]

My dad and his best friend did some uranium mining in Nevada without much return.

[@oscarholley891]

Your dad and his friend was looking in the wrong place trust me because my dad went there with a friend and I'm now living off of his findings and he is a black man on top of that do you know how long ago that was it's very odd during those times to see a black man in the mines

[@glocke380]

@@oscarholley891 They were mining around Beatty.

[@whirledpeas3477]

I believe your dad's best friend and your mom are two different people of the same sex ,American way is the best 👌

[@manhoot]

I'm not so sure I'd want to mine for something like this

[@Sennmut]

They highlighted Oregon, and labelled it Washington. Hhmm...

[@jagboy69]

Hey tree huggers! Did you hear that? 2oz of uranium has the same power as 800 train cars of coal! You could power a lot of EVS and your electric stoves with it!

[@Acer_Maximinus]

“Did you year that?” You do realize that this video is about 70 years old. This is not new information.🙄 Explain where you plan to put all of the nuclear waste.

[@jagboy69]

@@Acer_Maximinus The same place we've been storing it for the last 70years. Giant casks parked outside of each power plant. Been working fine so far.

[@Acer_Maximinus]

@@jagboy69 “Giant casks…” Exactly. If we built enough nuclear sites to power the nation we would be buried under giant casks of nuclear waste in 100 years.

[@jagboy69]

@@Acer_Maximinus Apparently you have never looked at a power plant from the sky. Start there, and then tell me how many casks are actually visible. Nuclear power plant waste is very small. Then go look up Onkalo and see how Finland solved this problem years ago. Last, shut off CNN!

[@jagboy69]

Wait until they have to start getting rid of the junk solar! The USA will look like a scene out of Wall-E as we drown under mountains of useless panels.

[@kmorton54]

Healthy pass time handling radioactive rocks 🪨

[@justinconroy5621]

nice

[@j.b.4340]

@4:18👍🏻

[@NSPlayer]

I'm going to go claim some stakes

[@davidfaas58777]

I wonder 🤔 is Prospecting For that Kind of Rock Still allowed ? Looks like a Good #Hobby and a Person can make money doing that #Geology Moreover,Those were the Good Days in America 🇺🇸

[@dziban303]

Still allowed? Lol?

[@SomeGuysg]

I wonder if this is still in effect :D

[@MusicSoundPlayer]

That could be me?

[@LennyLeonard]

Wonder how many of these prospectors and their families died from cancer?

[@oscarholley891]

Your dad and his friend was looking in the wrong place dude

[@jfyre1ify]

Cancer...much???

[@bearpump]

@radioactivedrew