What If You Fell Into a Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool?

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[@hedgehog1684]

you become a villian in sonic games or movies

[@armpryortimfoldingarmchair386]

I have no words

[@teekalastennet3570]

Don't you just hate it when you accidentally trip and fall into a nuclear fuel pool?

[@hobo8399]

Teeka Lastennet no I do it on a regular basis

[@jj3cx]

@@hobo8399 yeah same

[@hobo8399]

Doge Destroyer yea right so not true only me

[@jj3cx]

@@hobo8399 okay :(

[@hobo8399]

Doge Destroyer liars will always be liars

[@Paul-tt1oi]

Mr beast - "Last to leave the spent nuclear fuel pool wins $20000"

[@kansel8265]

LMAO 🤣🤣 nice one

[@harakirimjospitry4319]

Lmao

[@Vicky-uf7er]

Well that,sounds a like story for another "What if".

[@dantdma932]

No 1 billion dollars

[@maitreyapatni29]

😂😂😂😂

[@NaNi7506]

OMG thank you I was just about to jump into a spent nuclear fuel rod pool you saved me.

[@vxrdrummer]

No problem. Just stay on the surface and no pencil bombs and you'll be fine.

[@mr.unknown1070]

Lol

[@nicolesimmons5704]

?

[@SargeScum]

I know right?

[@johndilla6405]

Did you not watch the video. You would be fine if you fell in. I still would not recommend though.

[@subhazard4297]

Actually falling into one of these pool is quite lethal. For most people, it's the sudden overdose of lead into the body by the nearby guards.

[@AlldaylongRock]

LOL

[@subhazard4297]

@Stewart Fleming That's a low bar, my tap water tastes like flinstones vitamins

[@g.k.1669]

I feel sorry for those people. They spend all day behind the bench or various locations around the plant doing absolutely nothing but watching you badge into the door while they sit there hour after hour.

[@anthonykrutis490]

I worked at Oyster Creek NJ for a shutdown in 06.Its basically a armed camp (After 9/11 they took guarding nuclear plants seriously).They have pill boxes surrounding the turbine generator for gun battles.Really freaks you out when you see guards armed to the teeth (Grenade/Flash bangs etc) walking around.

[@Robert_Douglass]

That would actually be a good Monty Python skit, like the government broadcast from the Home Office on "how to avoid being seen." "Clearly, he couldn't avoid being shot." 😆

[@climlim3569]

"even though its trash, there's no garbage dump in the world that will accept it." best description of me.

[@personaluseonly7148]

r/suicidebywords

[@KrotowX]

So seagulls from that dump wouldn't turn green and will not emit light in night? Boring.

[@videomaniac108]

Maybe we could sell the spent fuel rod packs to the Chinese as portable heaters.

[@KrotowX]

@@videomaniac108 I would not like this idea. Chinese is not so stupid. They will find use for these rods against their enemies, believe me.

[@AverageAlien]

The second I read that

[@jeffreymyles38]

Me: KZbin: what if you fell in a nuclear fuel pool? Me: yeah I might need to know this

[@omshree2448]

I know . KZbin recommended a video named " living on Mars " as if I will ever get their in my lifetime 🤪🤬😑🤣🤣

[@doyouevenwarpbro8674]

I literaly thought this question in my head after seeing a show that talked about nuclear reactors and i got this recomendation

[@doyouevenwarpbro8674]

*recommendation

[@Thalor]

You never know haha

[@rajeev_kumar]

😂

[@MitchellTheMitch]

Everyone gangsta til the control rods start jumping.

[@roderickwilliams67]

RBMK reactor

[@Andrescxli]

💀💀💀

[@fakeerik4931]

Everybody gangsta til graphite on the ground

[@oneshot1266]

@@fakeerik4931 " you can't have seen graphite cause it's not there!"

[@ValeJOR]

Actualy its not the control rods that jumps but the caps that cover the reactor, also we don't use RBMK anymore

[@petarbrlek3278]

I work at a nuclear plant, and in short, here's what will happen: Water serves as a neutron reflector and the hydrgoen absorbs radiation and shields you from it, so virutally nothing would happen to you if you were to swim in it. Touching a fuel rod: Fresh fuel rods are safe and you can hold it in your hand. In fact, we handle fresh fuel rods by hand and use only gloves, although nothing would happen if we didn't. Safety first, though. Spent fuel rods, on the other hand, are extremely radioactive, so if you want to touch it, you will fail because you'll be a goner by then. Now, one thing interesting is, since water is such a strong shield, you could swim in a spent fuel pool up to some extent. 3-4 meters is very safe. Half a metre deeper, you have a couple hours to live. Another half a metre, you have minutes.

[@d3arb0rns]

How much do you make per hour ?

[@jadonlimoges1830]

@@d3arb0rns probably between 55 and 65

[@puciohenzap891]

@@d3arb0rns About 3.6 rontgen, not great, not terrible.

[@christopherleubner6633]

Now if you grabbed a spent fuel rod and pretended it was a light saber... if you could do that than you aren't human.

[@Endermania]

@@puciohenzap891 :d

[@187mrsmith]

So basically you're telling me that pool is more safe than your typical public pool?!? That sounds about right

[@cheedam8738]

Yeah lol. But don't go too deep.

[@jackfanning7952]

You nukies basically are expert at lying, minimizing the risk of nuclear and destroy all living things on earth. How do you look in the mirror in the morning?

[@p3el_]

@@jackfanning7952 you clearly dont understand how nuclear plant works. And i wont bother explaining it to someone as ignorant as you.

[@questionablelifechoices7501]

@@jackfanning7952 Lmao you must be from the sixties. Nuclear isn’t going to suddenly mutate everything in sight because that’s fundamentally not how any of anything works.

[@jackfanning7952]

@@questionablelifechoices7501 Keep laughing, idiot. When I was born is irrelevant. What I did is. I worked as an industrial hygienist, familiar with toxic substances and their effect on living tissue, including mitosis and meiosis. Ionizing radioactive atoms disintegrate, releasing subatomic particles that damage the DNA of living cells they come into contact with. The damaged cells can lie dormant for 10-40 years before they start to divide uncontrollably to form new cell clusters in a cancerous tumor. That is how that works, mouth breather.

[@terrellma]

I work in a nuclear power plant, and you actually wear a life vest in case you were to fall in. If you stay towards the surface you would be fine.

[@elephant35e]

Curious, what do you do at the plant?

[@mahay7038]

*cough cough* Chernobyl *cough cough*

[@godlesswolf5816]

I wanna drink it.

[@mit6253]

Mahay Aized yep you’re too hilarious

[@Borex2]

I haven't been in nuclear pool but i visited nuclear reactor. I could see the top of the reactor from a distance. It was working at full power and didn't make a single noise. ☢☢☢

[@OffensiveJestr]

I've been on this earth for 44 years, and I've always wondered what would happen if I fell into a nuclear fuel pool. After all these years, I'm highly disappointed.

[@Teh_Random_Canadian]

How about a nuclear reaction pool, that would be a bit more exciting

[@takayamuramoto4490]

@@Teh_Random_Canadian not really, the experiment reactors would still be safe if the height of water between you and the fuel is 5m. Energy-production reactors on the other hand are deadly, not only due to the radiation because you will be pressed against the rods, but because you will be sucked into the turbine for producing the electricity, also you would have to fall into it when the fuel is changed because they are otherwise sealed. Also for nuclear fusion reactors, the first one in a size where you would fit into is ITER which will be finished in 2025, entering the reaction chamber would spell cruel death as in there will be a vacuum and the low low temperatur of 180.000.000°C.

[@xgamez5698]

@@takayamuramoto4490 Oh, interesting, thank you! That's exactly what I wanted to know! :)

[@honkingoutloud2619]

This video is bs, fuel doesn't only mits gamma rays, it emits beta and alpha. These are particules beta is a free electron that emits radiation and Alpha is a ophaned helium that will absolutly obliterate your organes if ingested in the water

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Fun fact: just under the surface, you would receive LESS radiation than you would outside the pool. Because the water would block the natural background radiation. As long as you stay at least 5 meters away from the fuel rods, the water and the inverse square law will completely protect you.

[@miqotelover]

Thanks for mentioning inverse square law :D

[@ashleynewman3489]

Huh?

[@slefinho]

omg pls enlighten us about that

[@woolzem]

Wow 😅

[@F17THY]

false buddy: you receive a dose which around ponds (non-loitering) signs are displayed as you are intaking well above background levels, if you were to jump into a pond you would likely intake a dose that would give minor radiation sickness and greatly increase the risk of cancer etc... drink one gulp of that water in and you have recieved and internal dose of radiation which with a half life of over a thousand years is likely to kill you within weeks. Side note: All of your theories are based upon realistic equations such as the inverse square law but don't take into account how real scenarios work. Have a look at nuclear plant video of a spent nuclear fuel rod pond and it will describe better

[@arunmohan7399]

What if it rains at same time all over the earth ?

[@rupertacuesta]

Arun Mohan woah, could you imagine the view from space? Our entire planet covered in clouds.

[@rubenmanssens]

Thats already happened once for about 2 million years long

[@someonesomeone5096]

Good one

[@RB-H]

That's happened before

[@xiaomaytech]

@@rubenmanssens seriously dude ??

[@justsomeidiotontheinternet4483]

“This pool is so good it makes me feel warm inside”

[@uncleschubert8083]

Ruben sim? :D

[@tsuchinoko6032]

@@uncleschubert8083 H e l l o d o g g y

[@Oduwuini]

Touch the bottom

[@deadpoolongoogle9682]

Hulk smash

[@TheStumyu]

@@deadpoolongoogle9682 hulk tuah

[@TitanD79]

I've been told it's the equivalent of chest x-ray!

[@leeksoup3199]

TitanD79 Chernobyl HBO! Lol

[@condor2279]

Not great, not terrible.

[@Aguiar412]

I get that reference

[@billymays495]

It's only because I watched the commerical after game of thrones is over

[@mev186]

*slams fist on table* NO!

[@luke-i1w]

The author of XKCD asked his friend, who worked at a research nuclear reactor, what would happen if you tried to swim in their spent rod cooling pool for his book "What If?". The friend answered, saying "In our reactor? You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds." For sure backs up the real question of what are you doing near a spent fuel rod pool, and how did you even get there.

[@theairisamagician830]

Randall lunroe

[@theairisamagician830]

Munroe

[@tnolentin]

@@theairisamagician830 indeed.

[@timothylewis2527]

While he's probably right, I actually work in a nuclear power plant. There's a lot of contradicting info, even amongst people I work with.

[@Agrac16]

​​@@timothylewis2527how can you worked at the power plant but you barely know how any other workers did their job there?? Thats pretty suspicious🤔🤔. Also, if you in fact does work on some nuclear plant, what kind of contradicting info you've told by your co worker?

[@boruto1974]

Just pray and hope you come out alive with super powers.

[@dylant4737]

Boruto xD

My response to the question is rather simple: "that'd, um, rather suck?"

[@3un4j0]

Boruto u won’t

[@khumahauzel8004]

Boruto 😂😂😂 I would love that 😄 if that could actually happen😁

[@arnavvaishnav1590]

You mean mutation?

[@AbdullahArRafi]

I was confused about whether to choose a public pool or a spent nuclear pool for swimming. Thanks, now it seems that the spent nuclear pool is the better and healthier option

[@theairisamagician830]

Well actually the public pool is much safer. I tried to swim in a spent nuclear pool and the guards shot me to death. Would not recommend

[@2b2c1d2]

​@@theairisamagician830 😂😂

[@trazonajanina8103]

🤣💀@@theairisamagician830

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Most of these "What If's" just result in death.

[@briannanguyen2830]

I swear I see you everywhere

[@nekroknightz7340]

Damn you and the moustache guy

[@idiashpeza2800]

This one didn’t tho

[@fortifarse]

They also tend to attract the "I don't really DO videos but I have a strong opinion on the title" crowd apparently...

[@PhoenixMF1986]

It's true. But that makes this one kind of refreshing.

[@seany2345]

I work in nuclear reactors moving fuel assemblies in and out of spent fuel pool. Guys have fallen in and they just have to shower a few times and get their dosage tested.. the only big deal is filling out all the paperwork and then being ridiculed for years after lol.People think its unsafe but its actually a very safe job and by far the cleanest/most efficient form of energy production on the planet

[@MargotDobbie]

Id still be irrationally scared of being attacked by a shark

[@blankspace8104]

The first "What If" video that ends up with a decent ending.

[@XavierMathewsEntertainment]

exactly. . . .i was like "well.....that was actually nice". The what if channel has conditioned us for disaster lol.

[@blankspace8104]

@@XavierMathewsEntertainment yeah Loll.

[@naylisyazwina6836]

@@blankspace8104 i'm new here and now i'm concerned

[@endrilimani9855]

Me:*falls falls in a spent nuclear fuel pool* *excepts to transform into hulk* *transforms into shrek*

[@randy7562]

That's better

[@Akyomi777]

somebody once told me, the fuel pool is gonna change me....

[@sergiomoretti410]

Falls falls noticed that after 3 minutes

[@themerrymaker7144]

WIN WIN

[@latviangopnik]

I see this as an absolute win.

[@zharifzamri731]

Wow this is the first time nothing bad happened. Good job What If

[@flowerofash4439]

lol

[@lol-ju8rr]

2:20

[@Aura96968]

@@lol-ju8rr luls

[@IC-lt1xc]

It’s not the first time but there’s still something bad about death in this

[@mirceatim3274]

Why did he not film himself in the radioactive pool if it is safer then an average pool? Or is this for another what if..

[@photog1529]

Forgot to mention that water in the spent fuel pool is borated (contains boron). Boron is very efficient at absorbing neutrons. Borated water is also used when shutting down a nuclear reactor (after dropping the rods) or when reducing its power level. The spent fuel pool is not just simply "water".

[@jethroturner8709]

Not all pools are borated.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Bright green water? The water in a spent fuel pool is ultra pure, to prevent dissolved minerals in the water from becoming neutron activated, and to prevent chemical reactions due to the heated fuel rod cladding.

[@howardbaxter2514]

PointyTailofSatan also, Cherenkov radiation is blue

[@lowowl5299]

lol swimming in something that has old star blood in it would contaminate the pool with filthy human foulness. I would be far more concerned about other t hings than a person swimming in it, more like holy shit does that mean anyone can access the pool?

[@godlesswolf5816]

I love drinking it. It's delicious

[@farhanzaman7835]

It's like mako energy from ffvii

[@awesomemantroll1088]

@@godlesswolf5816 But it's warm water. Wouldn't it taste terrible?

[@inuyasha3083]

nobody: what if: nah, you'll be fine. you'll just be a raisin.

[@ramixpAPEX]

YUM RAISINS🤤

[@Dome31337]

You didnt see any raisins, because they are not there.

[@mattcalza4790]

Maybe your nuts'd be raisins...

[@blu_e1910]

@@Dome31337 who's the band that made the song believer

[@Maurice_Moss]

4 minutes just to say nothing will happen? **facepalm**

[@lukalackovic9059]

at least it's not 10

[@nomada1468]

At least is not 5

[@seraphcopyright5292]

At least now you know you can swim in a radioactive fuel pool

[@Sharpshooter111]

At least it’s not 4 minutes and 30 seconds

[@BrandOffMusic2]

Thanks for saving me

[@philipjdry1234]

It's amazing how the thing we need to survive also protects us from the most dangerous thing we create

[@ethanalexander4050]

we didn’t create uranium lol

[@med4511]

We don't "create" lol. Just using what's on earth and combining/developing/mixing them and trying different things together.

[@JPC1600]

The video totally forgot some other effects : - the acidity of the water due to boric acid - the potential skin/internal contamination due to small loose radioactive pieces

[@Bleckyyyy]

He probably got paid some cash to make it look completely fine, like going to the store to buy bread.

[@88werwolfhun88]

@@Bleckyyyy got paid from who? :D dont be that fucking stupid.

[@Mageroeth]

@@88werwolfhun88 by the nuclear industry

[@bruh7230]

Blue Jay yep to cover up for the fact that people fall into spent nuclear pools every day

[@studywithpraise9584]

(◔‿◔)all my science student

[@MarekUtd]

"Bet you won't jump into that spent nuclear fuel rod pool" Swimmer: "Hold my graphite"

[@radiomanreal]

Yup.

[@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622]

Me: Where did you get that? Swimmer: Chernobyl.

[@vlogmaster9568]

There is no graphite, you are delusional.

[@infini_ryu9461]

@@vlogmaster9568 Well yes, actually, this is a Light Water Reactor, they don't use graphite. :)

[@CainySNP]

@@infini_ryu9461 r/whoosh, you didn't get the joke man

[@ananttripathi4264]

What if All mosquito's get extinct?

[@lupreztryson]

No more suffering

[@MYERSSMICHAEL]

@@lupreztryson wrong answer bud..

[@luis9286]

@@lupreztryson then many other animals would go extinct too

[@udith]

It was already answered by him

[@andreiusurelu4278]

They are useless i would like to see that

[@BorisBalinkoff]

I worked at a nuclear power plant and one of the techs fell in the fuel pool. He swam to the side and climbed out. All he said is the water was warmer than he thought it would be. No super powers, no radiation poisoning, and no long term effects.

[@srsorrow1708]

Next, what if “What If” runs out of ideas...

[@cutiemary]

Now thats a topic for another *"What-If"* . 😏

[@charaf.]

That would be a cool What If

[@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841]

What if....they couldn't explain that "What If".

[@superiormike1813]

This is not Watchmojo

[@hankhill5622]

Me falls into to nuclear pool: Dyatlov: He’s delusional get him to the infirmary.

[@robogen1331]

I sell Uranium and Uranium accessories I tell you what

[@dammitrune]

you've earned my respect my man

[@chrissymacneil3811]

Bwah hah hah 🤣 amazing.

[@overcookedwater1947]

*What if my dad finally arrived back home after his trip to the store to buy some milk?* *That's a story for another What If*

[@zerkalt190]

Unoriginal

[@Sanzhikdon]

That's old dude, invent something new.

[@siavashkharasi3209]

Very old

[@zairev3438]

Is that Postal reference by any chance ? :D

[@endkiller7985]

I'm sad now ( my dad left when I was 5 as well tho)

[@TFICS]

It all depends on the facility, I can think of a few that if you fell in you'd be dead in a month or so! This video reflects modern spent Fuel Ponds and not Legacy Facilities which are far more hazardous and radiologicallly challenging. Cool video though.

[@_Matsimus_]

*”T H I S!”* *”T H I S!”* *”T H I S!”*

[@Robomann]

What in the world are you doing here

[@mattynek2]

hahaha he is verified and he wrote a comment hahahaha how funny hahahaha here is your like xd 😂😂😂

[@MysterDaftGame]

Doug demuro ?

[@Emyrun]

@@mattynek2 46 peoples that liked this comment:

[@markokeeper1982]

what in the hell are you doing here lmao

[@GoTurbo]

This video is not 100% scientifically accurate. Water does not completely block electromagnetic radiation, but rather attenuates it, which is slightly different. Alpha radiation travels mere microns before being absorbed while beta radiation travels a few centimetres before being rendered mostly harmless due to the decrease in energy of the high-speed electrons. For gamma radiation, however, the energy is halved per 15 cm (6 in) of water but is never blocked fully and thus being attenuated (reduced). There will be a reduction factor of 100 for 30 in (76.2 cm) of water and 10,000 for 60 in (152.4 cm). Like aforementioned, these numbers depend heavily on the energy of the gamma waves. This is based on ionising radiation, however, and ignores other particles such as neutrinos and so on, though these interact with matter very little and so are not relevant in this context. Additionally, due to Cherenkov radiation, the pool should emit blue light, not green, as this is a common misconception.

[@Sidluvher]

GoTurbo ok nigga havard wants to know your location

[@ajayvispute5437]

can it cause any radiation poisoning or death?

[@r0yce]

@@ajayvispute5437 yes

[@r0yce]

Ikr... The green in movies always bugs me out. Like... Uranium is always associated with a green slimy lava or something...

[@tonys623]

Nobody gives a shit because nobody swims in spent nuclear fuel pools.

[@tanjimriju4832]

what if the whole world was under 1 goverment

[@Paul-tt1oi]

What if there was No government?

[@tanjimriju4832]

@@Paul-tt1oi short answer: the world would be a chaos

[@Ex7y46fy]

Paul would be pretty epic. Definitely would blow up the flat earthers

[@abhishekduggal.2076]

One currency , same prices

[@MarkNorville]

That is already happening, however it will not happen in your life, but you will see the changes that they are making to make it happen. They are already destroying Europe. The Euro is called the Euro DOLLAR and CENTS. The same as Australia. Mmmm I wonder who else good old AMERICA. Prepare your children for the future as it is not going to be a good one.

[@cucumber18685]

I was born and raised near Beloyarskaya atomic station in the Urals, and heard stories of people who regularly went to sunbathe and swim in the technical pools of the station. Needless to say the water was pleasantly warm. As far as I know, no one suffered any radiation poisoning or other effects.

[@frost1183]

Water

[@ilivgur]

Swimming in a nuclear pool is like standing at the edge of skyscraper's roof - you start hearing the void calling to you.

[@AlhamdulilJesus]

Your anxiety is showing

[@EetFuk8]

It's my biggest hobby to use nuclear power plants as a pool.

[@tiltedcloudz]

Oh that's my favorite hobby! XD

[@jcdenton4534]

Pfft. It's my biggest kink.

[@tomazk2638]

Same

[@PossessedZombie]

Was highkey hoping for a more exciting answer.

[@farecaregamer1586]

You get the ultra gay

[@cameronjordan897]

@@farecaregamer1586 lies, I fell in once and I turned mega gay, so dont over exaggerate

[@captainpocky]

@Cameron Jordan Exactly. It's much safer than forgetting to say "no homo" before giving your homie a high five for example. That's a lethal dose of hyper gaydiation in mere seconds. -Source: im a nuclear engineer

[@ironpulcinella3586]

@@captainpocky Gayeneer*

[@captainpocky]

@Beliye Kolgotki Thank you, my mistake. You'd think I wouldn't still mess that up after 15 yrs of intensive study

[@Simon-xi8tb]

I've been swimming in this pool at the local nuclear plant for years now. I even invented a new swimming stroke, I call it "the flapper". It's a stroke using all 4 arms in sync.

[@chocolatechipcoochie3677]

First 35 seconds of narration is me trying to reach 500 word req on my essay.

[@druze3210]

Sounds like a broken record

[@abhinavdp7376]

You must be a great writer

[@chocolatechipcoochie3677]

@@abhinavdp7376 no I’m absolutely terrible

[@mh-ki2dv]

But Boris told me it was the equivalent of a chest x-ray....

[@FrostedSeagull]

Max, LMAO. It sounds like the guy who made this video sorely missed his vocation in the old Soviet Union.

[@cattleyaentrolezo2276]

WHAT IF is delusional, send them to the infirmary!

[@cambell9]

30,000 lol

[@oceanman7436]

Yes, 3 million chest x rays

[@radiomanreal]

Its only 3.6 chill out.

[@m.g.540]

You know the fuel rods that just came out of the reactor during the last refuel outage, they are the ones with brightest blue glowing Cherenkov radiation. the oldest are fairly dim by comparison having been there for much longer. The spent fuel pool is usually outside of containment which houses the reactor.

[@phillipmitchell1418]

Well having worked in the spent fuel building myself during a decommissioning i have actually seen someone fall in the pool from the bridge crane on MORE THAN ONE OCCASION.. the truth of the matter is you MAY HAVE SOME CONTAMINATION after leaving the water. How much you may ask? It just depends on if you picked up some particals on your clothing or shoes. On the first occasion he lost his pants with some beta. The second the worker lost his shoes and his shirt.. meaning that it was easiest to just throw them away than to wait for them to dry and have health physics try and remove the particals. Anything that is reading more than 0.05 millerem per hour is considered contaminated and will be delt with before the artical or person will be allowed to exit the controlled area. ( if you stand outside for an hour or more you will will receive somewhere around 0.02) So what is the biggest health risk when you fall into the pool you may ask? The water itself.. in order to keep it clean and free of any type of organisms there is quite a bit of boron added to the water. The level or amount changes depending on the need. So let's just say you injested a mouthful of this water by mistake.. It could induce vomiting almost immediately or you may be perfectly fine depending on the level of boron. When you work over the pool or around the pool it is drilled into you at every pre task briefing that if you fall into the water the most important thing you can do is keep your mouth closed as to not swallow any water.. And there you have it boy's and girls the REAL truth about falling into the spent fuel pool..

[@tanishmehta9072]

What if what if surpassed tseries

[@sidrahaslam6081]

'What if' has a long way to go in that case.........

[@captainvoluntaryistthestat3207]

India invades Canada.

[@itosssaladz1856]

99.99% of tseries subscribers are Indians, so it really is a irrelevant channel to the rest of the world. You ask other(non indians) people if they know tseries, they wont know. you ask them about pewdiepie they will know. this is not be fanboying pewdiepie but only because he really is the no.1 channel of yt.

[@tanishmehta9072]

@@itosssaladz1856 bro I am from India and I swear I am a supporter of pewds and not tseries

[@tanishmehta9072]

@@captainvoluntaryistthestat3207 bro what you said I didn't understand that

[@yoyo6661000]

This video could have been 2 seconds long: “nothing”

[@bladedninja8853]

Gotta get revenue

[@kensurrency2564]

Yes, however explaining it to the public helps dispel fear. Most people don’t understand nuclear power; thus ignorance and fear. If you’ve studied nuclear physics and energy production, the takeaway is basically “keep it cool”. All the rest is standard safety protocols with a little bit of radioactive material handling. Nuclear power is well understood, and we should be using it as much as we can.

[@bladedninja8853]

@@kensurrency2564 how much you willing to bet that the big oil mongers are paying media to paint a bad picture of nuclear power

[@kensurrency2564]

@@bladedninja8853 everything I have. When big money interests are involved, that’s a safe bet.

[@ManOfLore1]

@@kensurrency2564 Well put. Most people have the awful habit of believing everything they hear or see from the media (whether it be news, movies, documentaries) without doing any kind of research on their own. In fact, I shunned nuclear energy until I took some time to learn about it. Now I shun the dishonest anti-nuclear groups which exaggerate (if not outright lie) about the dangers of nuclear energy. Personal horror stories from Chernobyl or Fukushima do not take precedence over peer-reviewed statistical data. And the data states that nuclear energy has resulted in much fewer deaths than any form of fossil fuel and even some renewables.

[@leons7er]

The answer is simple. You will be Thanos.

[@coolashrough4261]

WarumAutotune? No Hulk

[@rltt379]

Ok ima go ahead and destroy the world then

[@chris_wizzudz]

I am inevitable.

[@captainvoluntaryistthestat3207]

@@coolashrough4261 Hulk is green and became hulk thanks to gamma radiation. This nuclear plant releases neutron radiation.

[@coolashrough4261]

Captain Voluntaryist, The Statist Slayer Yes, yes indeed

[@vampiricagorist6979]

This video is absolutely horrifying!! Falling into a vat of liquid at any industrial facility is my second biggest fear!!!

[@frankiehamilton7983]

Nothing happens. Save your 4 minutes. I wish I did.

[@oprahwinfrey878]

I got 58 seconds in

[@theworldoverheavan560]

Thanks

[@alexandru.r5354]

Thanks but i watched it anyway also stuff would happen this man says you would get exposed to less radiation then in radiation in that pool then you would experience in your everyday life but thats not true

[@theknitby]

Or just not be an unappreciative bastard and just watch the video. That works as well.

[@jefftparker]

Ahhhhhh the millenial who can't even spend 4 minutes of life for a back story. Shits gonna get real the older you get mate.

[@MikeMike-yd3xe]

Falling into a deep pool and a nuclear plant sounds absolutely terrifying

[@aaronmacy9134]

The minute I hear that breed of voiceover, I know to run back to PBS for my science vids.

[@E4_MAFIA]

Reminds me of the diver that was sucked into a nuclear power plant while diving in the ocean. He was pulled in by giant fans, into a pipe, and spit out into a nuclear fuel pool. He received no radiation from the incident. Interesting stuff.

[@UnknownHumanOnline]

Where this happened

[@0x404-w5w]

HBO Chernobyl recommendations are lit.

[@easgirl2412]

How the water protects the human body from radiation even if a person fell into the pool is insanely cool! I was expecting a lot of negative effects. Boy was I wrong!

[@supernoodles908]

Because water is fairly dense. Have enough matter in the way, it'll stop radiation. Alpha radiation takes a piece of paper to stop it. Beta takes some thick foil. Gamma radiation takes about 1-2m of concrete. The water pools have plenty of excesses :)

[@xiupsilon876]

@@supernoodles908 Beta can be completely stopped by household aluminum foil, or even a piece of cardboard. Gamma is the tricky one.

[@photog1529]

The water is also borated (contains boron at a specific ppm). Boron is very efficient at absorbing neutrons.

[@thedon1570]

You’re not wrong all of this is BS. Does it sound sane to you? Jumping in water that has NUCLEAR RODS in it. Really? You fell for this?

[@jcdenton4534]

1:50 I didn't snap that he was referring to Celsius for a solid 15 seconds.

[@bluebanana6753]

My dad was a teacher. They let people visit the local nuclear plant. The guide said that yoy can swim in it but that they would be more concerned by you contaminating the water. And then i kidd you not they got to walk over one and one student stopped and started pissing in the pool. Safe to say the school was not allowed back ever again. My dad always had the class of trouble makers. He was really good att working with the kids but they did stuff like this also.

[@tiffytifftiff2898]

Lemme save you some time Nothing happens...

[@emperorqianlong527]

SUBSCRIBE TO ME JUST BECAUSE I SAID SO no

[@deadplaya]

What if you drink some of that water

[@tiffytifftiff2898]

@@deadplaya then you're gross

[@ye-1723]

Why Tiff is not ok ?

[@tiffytifftiff2898]

@@ye-1723 depression 🙃

[@tom-wj6pk]

Wow! A what if video that doesn't end on us dying from something horrible

[@sangamithraswaminathan3354]

Ths channel s so underrated

[@wavstudionet]

3:09 Without *FEELING* any negative effects. *12 years later* ❤❌🤖

[@claudialazlok]

you mean my I pad is giving me Radiation right now?

[@letsmakegadgets6899]

no shit

[@sarowie]

You could consider every bit of visible light to be radiation. If someone uses the word "radiation" without much thought, then it looses any meaning.

[@andrutilt6285]

not all radiation is the harmful ionizing radiation

[@anna.318]

It's not the same radiation from the nuclear power plant. It's not harmful like that

[@dumpeeplarfunny]

This video: Pools for nuclear waste are better because they're cleaner. Me: Why don't we use nuclear waste to clean pools then? Wouldn't that be healthier than using chlorine?

[@ahmetrefikeryilmaz4432]

This comment needs more likes than the video its put under.

[@zakarianaji9209]

Is that you forest ?

[@CrylessYT]

The pools are not cleaner because of the nuclear waste.. It's cleaner because there aren't people swimming in it.. Gosh this hurts

[@Slemoster]

Honestly, no. I have a sneaking suspicion this video is bullshit. Water is not a magical shield against radiation. While it is a good buffer, I would gamble that falling into it will still result in cancer within a decade. Same reason why radiation doesn't go away when it leaks into oceans but instead travels to coastlines, killing thousands of fish and putting drinking supplies at risk, not to mention getting evaporated by the sun and rained down onto coastal cities. Just... don't fall into radioactive pools at all.

[@apacheslim]

Rob Nie You dont know what youre talking about

[@Bananaaimingforsubs]

**sighs* *"Somebody once told me"*

[@cloudgaming014]

A What if video where I don't die

[@burrito8402]

I love how he makes videos of questions I never asked, I LOVE IT! Keep up the good work‼️

[@jieddo1]

0:45 Narrator: "This is a Nuclear Reactor" Background: Shows Tokamak Fusion Reactor

[@SimplyTakuma]

Yeah that wasnt very smart.....

[@angeleyes4us200]

Why isn't that smart?

[@idealaccent5110]

He didnt

[@fractal5764]

Still a nuclear reactor

[@cucumbercow7379]

@@fractal5764 it doesn’t produce radioactive waste though

[@michaelmorris9192]

When the spent fuel is off loaded out of the reactor vessel and transferred into the pool it glows a brilliant whitish blue color and the entire bottom of the pool is illuminated by the fuel assemblies suspended in the storage racks. A beautiful sight that looks like something out of a science fiction movie.

[@CrazyEights888]

I'm so happy that I decided to watch this video before planning my family's vacation. We were considering the pool of nuclear waste nearby. We now know that it is the best option for our vacation.

[@rishirajsingh9444]

What if zero was never invented ?

[@apostolisvontas]

Then we wouldn't have the problem of dividing by 0 😂😂😂

[@donmilano1437]

Ask the romans

[@SanDiego619RS]

What if I accidentally pee in a nuclear reactor pool??? ☢️

[@benjamintegels171]

If you did that about 30 cameras and likely 50 people would see it...you would be instantly escorted off site and would lose your job indefinatly! But if you got rid of all the external factors to simply peeing in the spent fuel pool...nothing at all would happen except you would be relieved lol

[@khalidmurii]

The water color will be changed into GREEN ... 😁

[@taetae7996]

@@benjamintegels171 that sounds like a personal experience. If so it would be a great viral video

[@anton_c8gur]

Youll be taken to the infirmary

[@niels4473]

B O O M

[@Jafmanz]

what if you provided some quality content?

[@freetrailer4poor]

No need 1.3M views = $5000

[@rnavratil8487]

@@freetrailer4poor For 1.3M views you could get from $500 to $1500 but definitely not $5000. Definitely not on KZbin

[@Jaqen-HGhar]

@@rnavratil8487 haha if you think KZbinrs are only make $500 for $1.3M views then you are buying into them selling you on the fact that they are poorer than they really are so that you will fund their patreon or stop using adblock. KZbinrs that consistently get million views on videos and have million plus subs like this guy are making six figures at least or they are doing something wrong.

[@rnavratil8487]

Jaqen, what the fuck are you taking about

[@jonathanconnor7920]

Yeah, what? 😑

[@WarrenStarCat]

Galen Winsor used to go swimming in the spent fuel pool. No problem.

[@thaleshb9380]

I always repeat the part when he says “that’s a topic for another, WHAT IF” 😅👌

[@wesamalsafadi6311]

We already try to swim in the titan's lake 😂😂😂

[@l.av.h7812]

Thank you, now I will add it to my bucket list of things to do in my lifetime.Can't wait to swim in a spent nuclear fuel rod pool.

[@sag1493]

No no NO

[@MarkIsTiredAlways]

@@sag1493 wait do you mean every day people fall into spent nuclear fuel it's perfectly safe unless you go deep

[@francesbernard2445]

No one would willingly fall into any kind of waste tank while committing suicide. To say so or to say instead that swimming in one is safe only shows a high degree of incompetence not worth listening to at all.

[@YSongCloud]

Waste tank? Where is a waste tank mentioned?

[@umarabdullah5510]

I use spent nuclear fuel rods in my homes hot water heater instead of electricity and I feel great, my skin is literally glowing with health.

[@Ex7y46fy]

Easy answer *I would be reincarnated as shrek*

[@M3ynn663]

Jayden Y comment of the day

[@Ex7y46fy]

mastgamer GAME OVER I’m subscribing to your channel

[@angelgomez1918]

FINALLY MY QUESTION IS BEING ANSWERED. everytime i saw one of these i always wondered what would happen? feeling of pain? or that shining thing

[@bronwynm451]

angel gomez to be honest I doubt this is right even though it’s in water there would still be quite a bit of radiation so for the short term it’s fine but they never mentioned the long term and what could happen

[@alifputra7369]

Nothing will happen as long as you don't swim too deep. These pools are normally 12 metres deep and only 6 metres are necessary for the radiation to drop to acceptable levels so you should be okay for the first 4 or 5 metres.

[@peterzingler6221]

The shining thing is scherenkov radiation. Electrons traveling faster then lightspeed and leaving sort of light ultrasonic boom behind

[@scoobydoowhereareyou94]

@@peterzingler6221 peter your explanation of something complicated,strange and exotic in a way that is simple,is the best thing on the internet. i think you may go to 2nd best later,if i find a pornhub video about hot milfs,who cant pay the workman.

[@3User]

@@peterzingler6221 cherenkov radiation*

[@gordondahle7844]

Before the Advanced Test Reactor went on line in 1967 management allowed some of the guys to swim in the fuel pool. To their surprise the demineralized water seriously cut down on their buoyancy. The swimmers had to tread water with much greater effort to keep from sinking! The water in a reactor is as clean as possible because any minerals in the water passing through the core can become radioactive. To keep the radioactivity as low as possible they use VERY clean water. If a person were to fall into a fuel pool they could easily drown if that person was not a good swimmer. If that person got to close to the fuel rods the radiation would finish them off. The biggest hazard in a fuel pool is the lack of buoyancy in the water. Also the water does have some radioactive contaminates in it. You wouldn’t want to ingest any of that water.

[@tridentgum63]

I think this is the one video where if something happens to you you actually don't die 😂

[@moketli9517]

What if everyone on Earth dissapeard for 1 day

[@Cj-tg3ms]

Tesss

[@Mr-incredrible]

Remind me of spongebob

[@dragondrag9983]

We would return the next day

[@siavashkharasi3209]

lame

[@heizhummer6326]

Not as bad as it sounds

[@karanpandey1602]

Mom : Where are you going son ? Child : Swimming Mom : Where ? Child : Um, Most likely to a spent nuclear fuel pool Mom : * BLANK *

[@charlesbridgford254]

The biggest issue for the divers that we use in the pools is heat exhaustion. The pools run at about body temperature so you quickly overheat in a drysuit.

[@supernoodles908]

Public swimming pools are normally 28-32c. 30c water is perfectly fine to sit in (if you're just wearing a normal swim trunk). Don't wear a dry suit lol

[@Dustydante]

“Curiosity killed the cat” Yes, I would touch the radioactive rods. Yes, I would. I really would. It doesn’t sound harmful touching them.

[@spaciousflame]

Bruh, even spent fuel rods are deadly within seconds of being in contact with them. If you are close enough to touch a nuclear fuel rod, you're pretty much dead, as far as I know. Even in water, its still deadly to be a few feet away from it.

[@Dustydante]

@@spaciousflame I don’t mind dying in the name of scienc😈

[@Demicleas]

@@Dustydante if you touch them you'll just sit down and shake your head in disappointment and disappear just like those German sciantist in black Mesa.

[@Dustydante]

@@Demicleas suicide is on my bucket list.

[@EllaGP22]

“Phone screens give off small amounts of radiation” -*proceeds to throw phone as far as possible*

[@Alan-hz7wc]

By reading this reply, at least 6 radiation atoms had just entered your eye.

[@3User]

@@Alan-hz7wc no, not 6, I'd assume a couple thousand alpha and beta particles

[@GWinvader101]

“There’s not a garbage dump in the world that will accept it” When, west lake landfill

[@DanielP-jq4dj]

3:20 Is that Merritt athletic club in eldersburg Maryland?

[@crawdaddy7667]

This is the actual way super mutants are made in fallout

[@crawdaddy7667]

@Thespirit 84 Ave, true to Caeser?

[@angrybill]

Well now...interesting for as far as it goes. I spent 13 years as a nuclear power plant equipment operator. The spent fuel pool was one of the things I regularly operated. First of all the water is a "moderator" in that is is a shield against harmful radiation. It isn't perfect but it helps. I heard of someone who fell into a spent fuel pool but never met anyone who actually had that unfortunate incident. It's true that if you get into a spent fuel pool and stay near the surface you would likely not be exposed to too much radiation. One thing the video doesn't mention is that the water in most if not all spent fuel pools contains Boron (Yup..the very same Boron that "Twenty Mule Team Borax" is made from.) which we added to the water. In the two pools I had responsibility over it was added to the tune of 2450PPM (Parts per million.)and kept that way at all times. Boron is a "Neutron Poison" in that it absorbs Neutron radiation. So if you dunk a fuel assembly into that water it renders the fuel assembly "relatively" passive as to Neutron emission. If the fuel assembly is rendered safe from Neutron radiation then why can't you swim near one in that Borated water, you ask? Well, Neutron radiation is only one form of radiation. Gamma is also a incredibly deadly radiation and the boron in the water does nothing to block the gamma radiation, or very little in any event. Our two pools had approximately 23' of water above the highest emitter in the pool. It is the water that blocks gamma rays from hurting you which is what the video moderator mentioned, that as long as you didn't get too close to the actual fuel assembly you wouldn't get harmed. Gamma radiation from a used fuel assembly is unimaginably deadly but under all that water is is rendered relatively docile. As an operator we protected ourselves from the things in the plant by being ever vigilant of three basic safety mechanisms, "Time, "Distance", and Shielding. "Time meant that if you had to get near a harmful emitter you approached, did your job, and cleared out of that area. "Distance", meant that the further you could stay away from an emitter and still do your job, the better. "Shielding", meant that anything that you could keep in between yourself and an emitter, such that the shielding blocked the emitters emission, the better. In my entire nuclear career I absorbed 268 Millirem of radiation That is 268/1000 of a Rem. A very small dose indeed over thirteen years.

[@petarbrlek3278]

I also work at a nuclear plant, and surprised you guys use Boron, because we don't

[@petarbrlek3278]

Also, Gamma radiation really isn't a problem since it doesn't penetrate skin and doesn't travel far.

[@YSongCloud]

@@petarbrlek3278 Huh?? Are you thinking of Alpha, perhaps? Gamma can travel further than the other types and is, by far, the most penetrating over Alpha and Beta.

[@repairdroid77]

Cherenkov radiation Is blue not green. This posting is to present facts but has an incorrect animation.

[@DrBolt-kj5iv]

Tough

[@ericxue3244]

everyone thinks its green so its close enough

[@spitty3456]

Uranium is green. That's why everyone thinks its green. Cherenkov radiation apparently is what you get when your charged particles are moving as fast as light. Otherwise, there's no light. And I just found all that out on 5 seconds of Google. So take your rick and Morty lookin ass home. You a Jerry, not a rick

[@austinwilson4440]

Well that comes from the actual reactor pool that has live fission going on not dead nuclear pods that are never gonna be used again

[@neilrosenau9238]

repairdroid77 the next Gatorade flavor!

[@QESPINCETI]

USE THE HEAT TO GENERATE MORE USEFUL ENERGY

[@user02628]

What If: Can You Make A Video About What If The Purge Actually Happens.

[@Nosx.pe.]

People die.

[@3User]

All the edgy 12 year olds who think they've mastered melee tactics and firearms through fortnite and GTA die trying to take on murderers

[@bornlyrics8167]

First comment.. whay if asgard was real... Hit like if u want it

[@travelwithzorro]

people will make memes of it by saying it ass-guard not asgard

[@babajitrickshotssquad3397]

Count me in

[@Random_dude8907]

Lol i am watching thor ragnarok right now..

[@thd6011]

*_A S S - G U A R D_*

[@varunrangnani4189]

Would be awesome

[@L74824]

Btw that water is not your every day water... Its Heavy Water i.e D2O. And that waste is not significantly dangerous for 10,000 year as mentioned. Yes it is dangerous but for just 100-200 years, after that the radiation would be so low that you wont even notice. I thought that What If will mention this facts and clear the misconception. But its not the case in the video.

[@nelsonclub7722]

When the uranium fuel is used up, usually after about 18 months, the spent rods are generally moved to deep pools of circulating water to cool down for about 10 years, though they remain dangerously radioactive for about 10,000 years.