What If You Fell Into a Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool?

Spent nuclear fuel pools are designed to cool fuel rods after they come out of a nuclear reactor. While powering a nuclear reactor, these fuel rods become very, very hot (2,800 degrees Celsius / 5,092 degrees Fahrenheit). After they've spent 3 to 6 years inside of a nuclear reactor, fuel rods are no longer efficient. Problem is, they still emit plenty of harmful radiation, and they will for the next 10,000 years. Even though it’s trash, there’s not a garbage dump in the world that will accept it. So, why is water a good place to put these things and what would happen if you fall into one of those spent fuel pools?
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[@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

[@llm2114]

@@hobo8399 yeah same

[@hobo8399]

Doge Destroyer yea right so not true only me

[@llm2114]

@@hobo8399 okay :(

[@hobo8399]

Doge Destroyer liars will always be liars

[@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

[@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." 😆

[@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

[@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]

😂😂😂😂

[@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]

😂

[@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

[@lukew1383]

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

[@theRealTolentino]

@@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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".

[@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. ☢☢☢

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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 ??

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@wavstudionet]

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

[@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.

[@FinnishCommando]

Where this happened

[@TitanD79]

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

[@leeksoup3199]

TitanD79 Chernobyl HBO! Lol

[@condor2279]

Not great, not terrible.

[@isabellaaguiar412]

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!

[@boruto1974]

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

[@dylant4737]

Boruto xD

[@3un4j0]

Boruto u won’t

[@khumahauzel8004]

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

[@arnavvaishnav1590]

You mean mutation?

[@Nikola95inYT]

More like with cancer tumor 👌

[@user-bj8bk7fv1x]

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.

[@johnathanrobinzine9030]

I like that nuclear reactor pool Making me feel swimming Inside uranium my body and mind feel energy underwater

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@DogeEgodRoblox]

Him saying how could it damage yourself: yeah it can also me:swims out out the pool 🏊

[@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..

[@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

[@dr4x3k28]

Wait so you're telling me I could swim in a pool full of spent nuclear fuel rods and pe perfectly fine? I know what my plan for the weekend is

[@photog1529]

You'd probably be the only one in the pool...which really isn't a bad thing.

[@sachinbhoi5727]

I was thinking of going to the public pool, but thank God I saw this, now I know where to go!

[@PremiumFuelOnly]

So if Russia nukes us, I will be safe jumping in a swimming pool?

[@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

[@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?

[@aussie_philosopher8079]

I worked at a facility and on the weekend we used swim in the reactor water, nice family fun for all.

[@marksprinkle]

Storing this information in my brain right next to what to do if a grenade lands at my feet or what to do if I step into quicksand.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@GokantheHusky]

A spa day at a spent fuel pool as long as the reactor is blocked off sounds like a good idea lol

[@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

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

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

[@superiormike1813]

This is not Watchmojo

[@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)

[@outdoorniche865]

I love how he said other screens like he was scared to say our smart phones emit certain radiation.

[@jimbrown9885]

I know a guy who voluntarily jumped in to save a zip tie clipping that flew in. Imagine how bad the alternative must have been for that to sound like a good idea.

[@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.

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Another place where you can swim: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJKVmn1rjJiqqLM

[@brownpride28576]

What If , how would the world change if Tesla’s replaced all gas powered vehicles ?

[@eyao8382]

A suggestion for what if is.. What if tomorrow is the second coming if our savior. You can revise it if you want

[@torzytube2158]

What If I really like your video and I wish you to solve this problem for me: What If Gravity doesn't exist?

[@ilijapetrovic3888]

I don't think so

[@valobrien9596]

@@torzytube2158 That's a great question! Well first of all no stars would have formed, or planets etc. The heat required to ignite a star(thermonuclear fusion) requires gravity. In fact nothing would have formed, because everything is mostly made of gas, dust, or both. For any of these things to form, the elements must coalesce or clump together, and that requires gravity. It would be a very empty and boring universe without it. I'd love to see "What If" cover your question.

[@leiseboswell9848]

This is surprisingly calming for my weird anxiety

[@LocalAriral]

Two of my favorite things: pools and radiation(speaking of which, could I technically put radiation in a pool you can buy at a store? Probably not)

[@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.

[@LegoDork99]

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

[@gabrielpowers766]

It sounds like the sort of pool that even if they say it wouldn't hurt you at all, that you you still wouldn't want to fall in.

[@gpdareapa]

dang bro i was thinking about falling into a nuclear fuel pool of rods thanks man

[@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

[@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.

[@OtterTreySSArmy]

Remember that you'd die from the bullet from the guard before the radiation would get you, should you wish to swim in one

[@imbe.]

This is what you call "empty information with a positive twist".

[@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

[@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

[@WarrenStarCat]

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

[@kekekeke2200]

Although a lot of friends who worked in nuclear plants were told to not stand to close to the pools because of condensation

[@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.

[@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

[@realmackle]

I did a tour of a plant and they said this exact thing. It was really interesting to think about

[@williambinions4205]

Jesus. I was not expecting that. I thought if you jumped into a radioactive pool you would come out some sort of superhero

[@aaronmacy9134]

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

[@_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

[@Hoshimaru57]

Randall Monroe covered this. In short, you’d be mostly fine. As long as you didn’t sink all the way to the bottom. Probably keep a few meters distance just to be safe. But more importantly, anyone trespassing attempting this would be arrested or shot on sight.

[@Rollins-ek3li]

So glad I know this safety tip because there are fuel pools every 10 ft in my neighborhood. One never knows -

[@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.

[@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.

[@waynemetevia7983]

Now I know where to have my next pool party. 👌😁

[@shrekinator489]

I read in a book called "what if?" (yes I see the irony) and it talked about this exact situation. and it mentioned a guy who needed to find an old unknown object and it was one of those spent fuel rods that broke, and he grabbed it and he had to have his hand cut off due to the radiation.

[@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.

[@user-bj4nu4yw5i]

HBO Chernobyl recommendations are lit.

[@Aresenal1739]

Thanks I had a friend who fell into a nuclear fuel pool. I watched this video and gave him tips to survivr

[@lonesoul663]

Radiation in itself is one of the weirdest things to exist. An invisible energy than can screw you over.

[@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

[@jcdenton4534]

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

[@joblake627]

Can someone make a live stream thats just watching one of those pools or a reactor please the're calming to look at

[@iamarizonaball2642]

It’s honestly my dream to swim in one of these. I’m not joking, I really do.

[@MikeMike-yd3xe]

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

[@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

[@troyhilderhof1444]

Fun the fact, the pool is also deionized so it’s actually safer to swim in this with no chance of electric shock

[@sodreir.8666]

Well so, coming out after a swim with a third arm is just an delirium of mine

[@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

[@rishirajsingh9444]

What if zero was never invented ?

[@apostolisvontas]

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

[@donmilano1437]

Ask the romans

[@srbrown2841]

There are a few errors here. One, it isn't the water that traps most of the radiation, it's neutron absorbers in the support racks, mainly boron compounds. Two, the images of glowing blue cores are just that, live reactor cores in research, not power, reactors. I worked on experiments beside one many years ago and looked down into the pool a number of times, it's rather eerie. If you fell into one of those you would be dead within an hour or less. The blue light is cerenkov radiation generated when particles created by the fission reaction travel through the water faster than light in the water. When the control rods shown hanging above the core are inserted into the core the glow essentially disappears.

[@kaano3770]

Him: it's safe! Me: ok, jump in , lemme see

[@Bananaaimingforsubs]

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

[@tom-wj6pk]

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

[@petercampbell4220]

Hardhat divers are sent in for repair. The water still has dissolved and particulate contamination. And watersports is uncomfortably thermally warm. The dive suit gets a little dirty, the diver stars clean.

[@markkaminski2416]

If you have seen one, the water is beautifully crystal clear except at the bottom near the fuel rods and containers holding components of the fuel rods bundles. That area is blurred due radialitic decomposition of the water. That was the explanation from HPs on site.