WW2 Bomb Found At Nuclear Power Station!

The last thing you want to find at a nuclear power station!
Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fe...
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[@OleMisss]

While the history channel is focusing on aliens, the real history nuts flock to Dr. Felton for his weekly lessons.

[@arbyjack2552]

Exactly. Also that waste of time and money Oak Island nonsense.

[@MusMasi]

might as well rename it the science fiction channel FFS.

[@wascallywabbit7102]

Yep! History Channrl hasn't been associated with real history for at least 20 years.

[@carlmontney7916]

I saw this story on the History Channel. They said the bomb was placed there by Aliens.

[@nordsturm3698]

@Arby Jack Oak Island? I live nearby. It should be renamed 'Joke Island' for anybody that believes any of the hype.

[@raypurchase801]

I'm always surprised the results of the tsunami with the nuclear leak weren't bigger. According to most Japanese movies, this combination should've resulted in a mutant dinosaur rising from the sea.

[@rexmundi3108]

Oh they did. It was covered up.

[@andybasstbn]

I'm a little let down, tbh

[@chuckb9867]

I would like to call him God Zuki

[@mabamabam]

The tsunami killed 20,000 people and destroyed 45,000 buildings. Jokes are fun but geez

[@drupiROM]

* Lizard.

[@sincerelyyours7538]

I live in Japan and was about 150 kms from the site of the meltdowns. I distinctly felt the earthquake and most of the aftershocks. It's not the first time a UXB discovery was made during my time here, but it is the first one I've heard of at Fukushima. Thanks for this info.

[@azgarogly]

I was growing up in Soviet Union, the unexploded munition find on a construction site was kinda regular thing. Not everyday, but still nothing extraordinary. I guess, considering how much bombs did Japan get, it was quite a regular there too, especially back in 1960-70s.

[@chrisiooo]

@@azgarogly We still have construction workers find unexploded bombs like at least once a month here in germany

[@anderstopansson]

Verry strrange that God-Zuki didn't arise yet.

[@YouChwb]

@@chrisiooo Dresden?

[@anderstopansson]

@Horn Piper No, blame Godzilla.

[@vanceb1]

I lived on Guam for three years in the early 90s. This sort of thing happened all the time. As I recall, they found unexploded ordnance about once a week on the Naval Station. We lived in Navy housing and one of the neighbor kids found a grenade in the boonies. He brought it home to show his dad. After dad got done wetting his pants he called EOD. Just another day.

[@tttyuhbbb9823]

😂😆😅🤣😂😆😅

[@wolphin732]

Likely then taught what he should have done... and made sure he did it if he found another!

[@blacksquirrel4008]

The irony of them lowering a bluff that would have saved them from flooding just to save pumping costs is not lost on me.

[@ati847]

Very similar happened in my workplace (not a nuclear power plant). The whole area was dug up around 2006, and five years later a 150 mm artillery round was found in the ground, during a construction work. Not to mention that bombs are regularly turn up all around in the city. The latest one was a 500 kg American bomb was found just before Christmas.

[@MusMasi]

Germany? and was it a 500lb bomb or really a 500kg bomb?

[@ati847]

@@MusMasi Budapest, Hungary. The article about the disposal mentioned 500kg, so probably it was a 1000lb general purpose bomb.

[@MusMasi]

@@ati847 not the type of christmas gift you want to find but safely disposed of I guess is better than the anything else.

[@ati847]

@@MusMasi

[@ati847]

@@MusMasi Definitely not something I want under my Christmas tree.

[@duncanbain561]

I worked at Bradwell nuclear power station in Essex, they were always dredging WW2 stuff from the river particularly sea mines. Bomb disposal used to blow these up fairly close to the station.

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

I know it well - I'm from Colchester originally and often walked on West Mersea beach.

[@nickgreaves3355]

@@MarkFeltonProductions Hi Mark was the Parachute Regiment still based there when you were growing up?

[@molybdomancer195]

I think Bradwell was one of the nuclear power stations my father helped design.

[@gonavy1]

Any bit of WWll history is always appreciated when it comes from Dr. Feltons world of knowledge on the subject. Many thanks.

[@benjamindover7399]

There is a famous picture from WWII of the Prudential building in Warsaw being hit with a 2-ton mortar shell. After the war, a new building was erected on the spot. When that building was demolished a few years ago, an unexploded shell (2-tons) was found under the foundation.

[@tttyuhbbb9823]

INCREDBLE!

[@rollotomasse]

And what kind of mortar can fire 2000kg shell?

[@kievbutcher]

@@rollotomasse probably a Karl-Gerät mortar, they were used during the warsaw uprising.

[@JoshuaTootell]

16" munitions from Iowa class battleships are about 2700 pounds.

[@rollotomasse]

@@kievbutcherlast time I checked Japan was kind of long way from Warsaw...

[@GlobalTossPot]

What I love about this channel is the format hasn’t changed at all. Still the same theme music, same photo of Mark… it’s just glorious

[@mitchmatthews6713]

We are still "discovering" WW2 history! Thank you, Mark!

[@l337pwnage]

Not so much on youtube, lol, but in other places, definitely.

[@RT-mm8rq]

The fact that we are still finding WW1 ordanance makes me think that we are going to be digging up literally tons of WW2 explosives for the next 100 years.

[@tensionytdaily7436]

This is why I like Mark Felton Channel, when other YT channels review the same thing over and over again. Mark Felton always tell something that were hardly heard or never heard before.

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

Being a couple years older than Doctor Felton , I've seen 3 nuclear disasters 3 mile island in 1979 , Chernobyl in 86 ,and Fukushima in 2011 hopefully I don't see another

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Not a single radiation injury at two of those. Nuclear energy is the safest form of electricity we have.

[@josephvandyck5469]

As a professional nuclear worker who had friends and coworkers at Fuku when this happened, I have seen videos that haven't been seen by the public. I have also heard stories about what happened at site when this happened. I just want to thank you Mr. Felton for this video.

[@sheerluckholmes5468]

A _professional nuclear worker_ suggesting that there are also amateur nuclear workers. Maybe even hobbyist nuclear workers or what about working from home nuclear workers? Mind you, the worst ones would possibly be the child slave labor nuclear workers working in some intolerable sweat shop somewhere.

[@Michael_Hunt]

@@sheerluckholmes5468 He ain't no nuclear boyscout.

[@rvanhees89]

@@sheerluckholmes5468 as a matter of fact there are! E.g. the poor sods clearing nuclear debris at Chernobyl

[@Shinzon23]

​@rvanhees89 You mean the Russian soldiers who dug into the ground and made trenches down wind of the reactor explosion and who are now more than likely coughing up blood from their cancers ravaging their internal organs...?

[@rvanhees89]

@@Shinzon23 and their Soviet uncles before them... But yes, that one was especially criminal Criminal nuclear workers!!!

[@johnrae4633]

In actual fact, the last farm affected by fallout from Chernobyl, located in SW Scotland, only had its Livestock Restrictions lifted within last 10 or so years‼️

[@IMDunn-oy9cd]

I was stationed in Scotland at the time of the Chernobyl event and caught a bit of the cloud of cesium-137. I haven’t developed any superpowers, which is a big disappointment.

[@dimsum435]

I was engaged in re-fuelling a reactor at Chapelcross when Health Physics pulled us off the pile-cap because of high readings. It turned out that the readings outside the reactor were higher than inside. Russia had not yet admitted the accident at Chernobyl. It certainly caused a lot of head scratching that day.

[@JoeC88]

@@IMDunn-oy9cd No superpowers, What a shame. Just don't ask Billy Connolly for advice on the matter

[@shawnmiller4781]

@@IMDunn-oy9cd I think the spider actually has to bite you

[@kabeerthehistorian7445]

Amazing information you don’t get from mainstream books and media. You are a amazing historian who explains unknown facts in an interesting manner.Keep the effort up Dr. Mark Felton.

[@drewford4548]

I appreciate that Mark still records this on a WW2 microphone.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Only Dr. Felton would be able to trace the source of a WW2 bomb found at the site of a nuclear reactor.

[@Unknown_Ooh]

Pretty sure it was the U.S. giving the information to Japanese officials and then the information made it to the media. Do you know how hard it'd be to track down records like that especially being outside of the U.S.?

[@kevinbyrne4538]

@@Unknown_Ooh -- Dr. Felton routinely unearths the most obscure facts about the war. At this point he must have contacts with almost every historian of the war -- professional or amateur -- alive.

[@billm2078]

Your content quality is remarkable.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

I was a fireman through the 1980s in Merseyside UK, and well remember carrying out weekly "standard testing" of radiation monitoring equipment that we carried on the brigade's "Emergency tender"... It was quite shock to switch on the radiation "Survey meters" and hear them crackling merrily away a week or two after Chernobyl. Farms across the country were affected by the fall out on the land being concentrated into livestock and milk production.

[@russfinley4128]

Farms were not affected by the fallout.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

@@russfinley4128 Please explain why you think that? I will amend my post above to "farms in certain areas of the country were affected."

[@owensmith7530]

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 A large amount of the UK response to Chernobyl was done with an abundance of caution, as much to reassure the public as any real need. It was "there might conceivably be a problem so let's make sure there isn't". I don't know how much actual checking was done, probably not enough since it costs money.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

@@owensmith7530 That was obviously a factor in the reaction to the Chernobyl disaster, but the facts I've detailed in the OP (That is the emergency services radiological survey equipment playing merry hell for weeks after Chernobyl due to the fallout of α & β particle radiation in the north west of England, amongst other widespread areas across Europe so we're led to believe, are not hearsay, but first hand testimony. Any medical problems as a result of that fall out would not have been seen as a "mass extinction" event, but as a long term statistical rise in cancers and other related ailments. Milk & meat across the UK was tested for contamination due to farm animals grazing on areas of countryside that had been exposed to the same radioactive fallout dumped on it as I witnessed in Merseyside, usually in areas with higher statistical rainfall levels. The result was that large amounts of that produce was laballed as "unfit for human consumption" and taken out of the food chain, due to the fact that particle radiation is relatively harmless externally, but FAR more of a problem if ingested (For months afterwards we even used to occasionally & lightheartedly use the survey equipment to see if meat / milk we bought for the fire station crews meals was "glow in the dark" meat... but it never was), . You are aware of the process of low level pollutants being concentrated as they pass up the food chain aren't you?

[@owensmith7530]

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I am aware of low level contaminants being concentrated up the food chain. I am also aware there has been no long term statistical rise in cancers or related ailments from Chernobyl. Not in the UK but not even in Russia and surrounding countries. There was a bump in thyroid cancers but that's about all. Maybe this is because sufficient action was taken at the time. But the fact remains there are people and organisations that claim hundreds of thousands of people have suffered Chernobyl fallout effects when the evidence shows almost none. The people most affected where those that were evacuated. The ones that went back to the exclusion zone and lived in it generally had better health than the ones that stayed away. Psychological factors turned out to be larger than radiation effects for the vast majority of people.

[@thevictoryoverhimself7298]

As you noted, That’s an extremely small bomb to find on mainland japan, most American naval fighter bombers and certainly bombers by 1945 when fighter sweeps over the mainland were happening would be carrying 500lb or 1000lb general purpose or armor piercing bombs. 250lb at the smallest. That makes what dropped it pretty easy to guess: likely a General Motors (née Grumman) FM2 Wildcat flying from a smaller escort carrier. It’s smaller size and the smaller size of its takeoff run meaning it would carry only two of these oversized hand grenades, one on each wing.

[@waynehullihen3066]

I am from Pennsylvania USA and live a couple of hours from Three Mile Island and I remember the accident well. We were all scared of radiation fallout.

[@alexanderwingeskog758]

Chernobyl when you were 12! We are the same age then! I do remembered it also as I live in Sweden and we actually thought one of our own power plants gone haywire at first. And the Soviets would not admit a thing for a couple of days...

[@Newdivide]

I was in high school when this happen in Japan. My dad was in el Salvador on a work trip. When he heard of the tsunami with the power heading in his direction, he book a flight back home

[@krisfrederick5001]

Dr. Felton just discovered a third Japanese "Nuclear Bomb!" ☢

[@jantjarks7946]

🤣👍

[@archstanton6102]

​@@what-apk-me17 scam

[@jaredevildog6343]

He is an amazing person!

[@yaterspoon57]

That bomb might have been many things... but one thing it wasn't - "highly radioactive".

[@maestromecanico597]

I spent 20 years in commercial nuclear power (operations & maintenance) and that was probably the best synopsis presented about the accident. Never came across any buried ordinance, however.

[@jbmbryant]

WW2, the gift that keeps on giving..

[@robhutchins2721]

Airel bombs were often jettisoned if primary and secondary targets were not available or if an aircraft was in trouble. This may have been a bomb that was being jettisoned into the ocean but released early.

[@dcviper985]

I was stationed in Yokosuka. They built a family housing area at Ikego, a former IJN ordnance facility. They used to find UXO with some regularity all around the area.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Was in London, circa 2014, and UXE was found in some re-work of the Underground. Folks there said it wasn’t all that uncommon, still. Gotta admit, they built stuff to last back then, even if it wasn’t built to last.

[@allen_p]

Listening to Mark Felton's amazing real life stories is such a blast. Well, let me rephrase that.

[@MrDevkiwi]

Before I found this channel always thought mark was much older by his voice and knowledge looking forward to many more years of insightful content

[@buffaloj0e]

It is worth pointing out that the old (40+ year) design of the Fukushima plant is why it needed active cooling of the reactors after shutdown. Modern reactors are designed to utilise passive cooling of the core after shutdown eliminating many failure points from earlier designs.

[@russfinley4128]

The melted reactors were contained, killing no one. Modern reactors can use passive cooling for only a few days before active cooling has to be used again. Existing reactors are safe without passive cooling. If the cores melt, the containment domes contain them as happened to the three at Fukushima.

[@libertyvilleguy2903]

Fascinating. Doctor, your research capabilities are remarkable. I don’t know where you go to find out things like Task Force 38 carrier planes attacking that part of Japan on specific dates. I am truly impressed.

[@f7supercereal]

Not only are the historical aspects of this video excellent, but Dr. Felton's high-level explanation of the 2011 nuclear incident are spot-on. Excellent work, Dr. Felton.

[@wilthewizard]

Dr Felton, another great video! I had no idea you had lived in Shanghai. You always have the best, well researched videos. I would be interested to hear a little more about you. How you became a historian, how you choose your video topics and how you conduct your research. Thanks again for the great video!

[@currahee]

yeah after hearing that now i want to know more about him

[@xiaoka]

@@currahee he mentions it in his professional bio on his website and maybe the about info here on YT too.

[@johnhughes8016]

The starting understatement was brilliant! Of all the things you don’t want at a nuclear power plant, a bomb is at the top of the list ...... great British understatement....

[@feedingravens]

Here in Germany, still today people analyze aerial photographs to try to find "Blindgänger". Especially the reconnaisance images taken immediatey after the raid. The critical points are not the bomb craters. but a gap in the row of craters. THAT is the probable point for a dud. A friend of mine was in a club that worked to elevate an almost abandoned airfield to what is now the Museum Flugwerft Unterschleißheim, the oldest airfield in Germany and in 1910 area home of the Otto aircraft company. Back then the club was in a hangar on the other side of the runway, and he said when you drive from the road to the hangar, always stay on the path. That there is a legend that there are factory-fresh flight engines in their crates dug in there, but that the whole green has been mined. As the area is restricted anyhow, it was not worth the effort to clear the area.

[@foamer443]

So there is an area in Germany that is acknowledged to have land mines of some type and the government hasn't cleared them?! Just WOW. Incredible.

[@rolfagten857]

Mark thanks for this contribution, I did not read anything about this in our newspapers at the time.

[@markarca6360]

Here in the Philippines, old WWII bombs, which was defused and the explosive substance removed, was repurposed as bells for public schools. I guess the AN-M30 was the model of the bomb in question, due to its familiar shape (like the one shown in 2:42 - without the front fuse and the back part).

[@moemaster1966]

I’d bet that unexploded bomb has many friends hiding in the sand

[@kenkahre9262]

This unexploded bomb made me wonder just how much ordinance gets found every year in Japan. You hear about Europe all the time, but not elsewhere.

[@MillerVanDotTV]

Probably not a lot since outside of Iwo Jima and some other islands, Japan didn’t have active battlefields. However Europe had two world wars worth of artillery and mines, etc. A lot of Japan mainland Ariel bombing was also firebombs, so I’d expect that very little UXO remains, and what does is probably from the IJN practicing or mining

[@darthfader733]

Regardless of the subject matter, your videos are always informative and appreciated.

[@deejay4922]

As always, the attention to details is impeccable. What an excellent historian Mark is.

[@raypurchase801]

A bomb near a nuclear station. WHAT. COULD. POSSIBLY. GO. WRONG ?

[@reahs4815]

probably not much

[@_MaZTeR_]

Outcome? Train go boom

[@alibizzle2010]

I would be curious to know what was the last bomb dropped in WW2. If anyone can track it down it would be Mr Felton

[@stevek8829]

It would be Little Boy, the second nuke. World War Two ended then. Continuation wars, like Soviet grab of Manchuria and independence movements are separate. No?

[@nightintheruts617]

Just found this channel few days ago, so happy I did, watched about 10 videos so far, each one is better than the last

[@tolik5929]

Another thing that happened semi regularly , in WW2 , is that a damaged aircraft would simply dump their bomb load , wherever they were , in order to try to get the damaged aircraft back to frienly territory . All sides did this .

[@darkspire91]

1:40 "It was interesting to me as this was my second nuclear accident." "If I had a nickel for every time I experienced a nuclear accident, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice"

[@tomhenry897]

3 that I can remember 3 mile island Chernobyl Japan

[@justdoingitjim7095]

At Fort Mead, Maryland, they allow civilians to hunt deer on old WWII artillery practice ranges. You have to go through a class that tells you how to identify a shell and what to do if you find one. While they said most of the shells were dummy rounds for practice, there were some live rounds used as well. I just happened to find one of the live rounds!

[@blister762]

In 1990 while doing a tour of duty at Ft. Lewis Washington, we made one of our many trips across the mountain to the Yakima Firing Center to train. We were told to dig in near the border of the artillery impact area and we had maps showing the impact area and we were a couple hundred meters from the southern border. After digging through sand and a foot thick layer of volcanic ash from Mt Saint Helen's 1980 eruption I heard a distinctive metallic clink when my pickaxe struck something we thought just a bit of metal that you find all over the place. I brushed the dirt away and saw a very large artillery round. Now I knew the color of various shells but this on was fairly rusty but OD green paint with yellow markings told me it was most likely HE. We pulled back to the rigs and I got on the horn with my CO and explained the situation. He assumed it was practice, because a few blue rounds had been found. When I told him it was OD and what some of the markings were he ordered the entire company out of the area and called range control. They came out with all the various maps drawn of YFC and discovered what was shown to be a cleared area was actually and impact area during the 40's and 50's. So they look into the .50 cal pit I was digging and their faces turned pale and they told my CO we had found a 155mm round with fuze intact. They redrew map for the next printing and extended the danger area several hundred meters. As for my shell? The combat engineers put a small shaped charge on it and let me set it off.

[@nojuanatall3281]

Wow.

[@olgierdogden4742]

Always there. And always credible on the spot reporting. Many thanks Mark.

[@noonehere1793]

Excellent job, as always! Thanks for keeping history alive👍👍

[@DorifutoRabbit]

That must have been a memorable discovery for the workers. Another interesting historical video, thanks!

[@waregraham8335]

I live in Tokyo and WW2 bombs still turn up sometimes, usually found during construction

[@CM-ve1bz]

I was in Hanau Germany in the 70s, they dug up our mess hall steps for whatever reason and surprise there was a 100 pounder resting there.

[@barriereid9244]

We had the same problem in Glasgow along The Boulevard. During WW2 German pilots mistook the dual carriageway for The River Clyde and dropped tons along its length thinking they were sinking ships, because the smooth tarmac surface shone in moonlight.

[@notcrazy6288]

My buddy was a combat engineer. When he was stationed in Germany, a kid dug up a landmine in the playground at an elementary school. He got to dispose it.

[@ColinH1973]

Fascinating anecdote as usual, Mark. Thanks.

[@twilightroach4274]

Thanks again Dr Felton, your work is fantastic & is presented in an captivating manner, I’m always eager for your next episode.

[@acm1137]

Dr Felton has survived two nuclear disasters? Besides his superb historical knowledge and research, I wonder what further powers he will exhibit in time...?

[@Bitchslapper316]

Thanks for sharing Mark. It's odd how the world can place one near two major separate events, in your case both nuclear power disasters. I was in Manhattan on a middle school trip on a school bus near the 1993 WTC bombing when it happened. Then in 2001 I was working a few blocks away from the WTC when the planes hit and the buildings fell. I have heard stories of the same person surviving both atomic bomb attacks in Japan during WW2 (I may have heard that on this channel if memory serves).

[@ArpRLB]

Thanks for this top-tier history channel. As it’s been well-said, it’s so good to have this high-quality channel instead of the better-known lower-quality offerings. This video was in particular excellent. Thanks, Dr. Felton!

[@1008chaz]

It would be great to see more pacific theater content from this channel. It seems like almost no one in the west knows much about one of the deadliest conflicts zones of WW2.

[@SoloPilot6]

2:40 -- There is no such thing as an "AN Series" bomb. "AN" is a header meaning that the numbers which follow are on the American "Army/Navy" item specification list, which includes everything from weapons to communications equipment to the individual nuts and bolts used in aircraft. Cannon-cockers would call this an "M30," but the whole designation is something like "Bomb, Aerial, General Purpose M30." With that, you could look down the list and find the appropriate specifications. For that matter, each of the individual items noted in this illustration there have their own AN numbers (such as the nose fuze) -- "M30" is the designator for the complete assembly, ready to use. My guess on where it came from pretty much agrees with you, that it was dropped by a carrier-based fighter, but I think it was likely on a gun emplacement, vehicle convoy, troop concentration or small military installation as a target of opportunity during a harassment and interdiction raid. That it drove so deep indicates either a dive-bombing attack, or level bombing from altitude. Dive-bombing would be against a point target, level bombing against an area target. Either way, it would likely have been one of several dropped by that one plane, either as salvo, rippled, or multiple passes. You can bet that the Japanese and American military folks went through records on both sides to figure out what the target was and who attacked it, so they will know how much more ordnance might have been scattered around, and where.

[@Henry_Jones]

Chernobyl? You should do a cross promo with Ushanka Show. He was a teenager in Kyiv Ukraine when it happened and has made many videos about it, all good watches.

[@pigmanobvious]

I find it fascinating the amount of unexploded ordnance still remaining from WW2 as well as WW1. With WW1 the western front in particular. I read once that it will take another 200 years to clean up .

[@tomhenry897]

Think it’s 200 years for it to rot away

[@pigmanobvious]

@@tomhenry897 No the French government is actively going over the entire western front cleaning up small sections every year and at the rate they are going in their own estimation it will take over 200 years. To this day millions of acres of France is off limits to the public because of the danger.

[@ashively1]

Mark Felton is superb in his research presentation! I love his books as well. His contribution to our human history is unprecedented and underappreciated!

[@sficlassic]

This is a story that has and will play out across the world for many years to come.

[@javiermartinezjr8849]

The Fukushima tsunami was horrible I remember seeing people running towards there family only to get swept away with there arms out..I knew that was there end,seing people in cars screaming,I cried man, then the after math, fun fact the emperor's daughter actually disguised herself and went to the sight in secret and helped look for people,dead bodies RIP and clean up, very commendable Mark Felton is the og of KZbin one of the first channels I subbed too

[@Tommys0311]

Hi there Mark, another great video!

[@7pan7pan93]

Bro was 2 minutes in when he commented this

[@Tommys0311]

@@7pan7pan93 well, I like bombs, ww2 and nuclear stuff. So imo it’s a good video just from the title, no doubts regarding the content

[@irish3335]

Another great WWII story coming back to the forefront today! Thanks Dr Felton

[@lucasgordon7232]

Thanks for all you do mark!

[@scavenger9579]

When i was à kid in the 80's i found what looked like a giant rifle bullet in a forrest, so i tried to carry it home, it was very heavy so i rolled it with my foot on the geound till i got home....it ended up being still loaded and caused the bomb disposal peoples to come. I ended up mentioned in the news paper !!

[@MusMasi]

was it a shell from a smaller cannon like a 20mm-40mm or something?

[@scavenger9579]

@@MusMasi it was ww1 artillery round

[@shoominati23]

I remember After the Chernobyl incident occurred, some of the affected kids and families who had lost their homes came out to Australia and were billeted with various families. Our Scout Troop took some of their kids on various activities and field excursions, I don't know if they emigrated permanently or they were found places to stay and returned though.

[@daved7024]

Mark, Thank you so very much for the excellent documentaries you provide your listeners. Have blessed New Year.

[@winstonsmith478]

Thank you for answering the question that immediately came to my mind: HOW did such a puny bomb get there?

[@jjeherrera]

Interesting research! I wonder how the constructors missed it. And yes, one can only wonder if there are any other bombs around the site.

[@tomhenry897]

Probably just reburied it

[@adamanderson3042]

Another possibility random 'unexploded' bombs that are found in the middle of nowhere is that when you are a fighter plane in WW2 with bombs on your wings and you encounter an enemy fighter, you will usually eject the bombs, as the bombs weight and aerodynamic influences over the fighter maneueverability are totally decisive, making most(but not all) types of aerial combat totally untenable.

[@alabamatechwriter6959]

I lived in Germany in the 1970s and early 80s. Explosions from WW2-era bombs were fairly common. The irony is that American military bases were often built atop former German bases, so explosions were often there. I remember passing by a motor pool (i.e. parking lot for military vehicles) and seeing a blocked off area and large hole where a bomb had exploded early that morning. While relatively rare, it happened enough to cause alarm but also to be expected. Unlike anti-personnel or -armor mines used in later wars which could usually be found, buried bombs were generally impossible to find. Unless they have all exploded, there are likely a number of bombs still lying in wait in Germany today. My guess is that their explosive drive trains have all deteriorated enough to render them inert, but I would be cautious about digging holes there anyway. :)

[@subtropicalken1362]

Not long after the accident, I attended a presentation by a GE nuclear engineer whom I knew at the time. He was sent to the site right after the accident to learn more about the situation obviously given that GE reactors were involved. He said the safety measures for the reactors functioned exactly as they were designed including battery backup systems. What I have never seen reported is that after the batteries had been used up, the reactor owners trucked in generators to keep the cooling systems going. Sadly and unbelievably, there was a plug mismatch between the generators and the plant power system. By the time they found a matching set it was too late. Here in Brunswick county, NC on the cape fear river there is an almost exact copy of the Fukushima reactor. Still humming along after nearly 50 years. GE’s global nuclear headquarters are located in nearby Wilmington, nc.

[@Cragified]

It wasn't just lack of power once the batteries shorted our or were drained that caused the event. A lot of the backup systems were not sufficiently protected given the location of the site. Most of the backup electrical system and control circuits weren't watertight, weren't positioned high enough. And the conduit tunnels that ran through sights weren't watertight. The men manning the facility did a heroic job restoring what they could given the mess and initially while the site was flooded they had no means to move about the facility as no passageways were watertight. When you overtop a sea wall. The sea wall now acts like a dam keeping the sea water from draining back into the sea. Virtually no instrumentation was functioning even while there was backup power due to the mess on the site.

[@ericatkinson7006]

You are wrong. BSEP is a GE BWR 3.5. The Fukushima reactor is a GE BWR 1.0. What happened at Fukushima is simply not possible at BSEP.

[@subtropicalken1362]

@@ericatkinson7006 well that is what the nuclear engineer from GE told us in the audience. Plus I knew him at the time. Perhaps he said or implied it was “essentially” the same in that both were bwr’s. Brunswick is an old facility (hence the 1.0?) but as you probably know they keep finding ways to the extend the life of it. BTW I have toured that plant but it may have been pre-9/11.

[@saintuk70]

I will digress, but shows the difference in reactor design that, given 3 reactors melted down in Japan, it only released about 10% of the radioactive contamination of Chernobyl's single reactor. I remember Chernobyl well, right before my O'grades here in Scotland, and more importantly the effects it had on rural Dumfries and Galloway where I lived. Brought home just how close we were to Sellafield too.

[@sealove79able]

Cheap Communists.

[@MusMasi]

kind of scary that there is a active war zone near those plants now.

[@tomhenry897]

It’s ok Got socialised medicine If the Ukrainians haven’t killed them yet Survived the war Die of cancer

[@russfinley4128]

@@MusMasi What is it about low levels of radiation that scare you? It's a mild carcinogen, like the many hundreds listed by the EPA. Exposure might increase the odds of cancer in a lifetime, like sunshine, or asbestos.

[@crf80fdarkdays]

@@russfinley4128 i think your taking his comment out of context.

[@featherweight1910]

When I was stationed on Guam the amount of UXO still discovered there is incredible. A US Navy EOD unit is there just to handle it all. My house was built on Nimitz Hill where the Marines swept up to the Japanese HQ at the top. Looking without a metal detector in the sword grass just off the yard, we found two Japanese grenades, a US mortar that had been fired but did not detonate, and buckets full of Japanese and US small arms brass and live ammo. Also found a Japanese enlisted man’s canteen. Interesting to think it had all been just sitting in the dirt for 70+ years where it had fallen during the invasion. Cheers to another great video Dr. Felton.

[@Party4Lemons]

"This was my second nuclear accident" really does make it sound like your responsible for both Fukushima and Chernobyl haha

[@stevesloan7132]

Chernobyl's radiation had a limited spread!? I think not. There were heightened radiation readings on instruments on the roof of the Meteorology Building at UW-Madison starting only two weeks after the disaster! Madison is the Capital city of Wisconsin. I saw the meters myself.

[@russfinley4128]

Harmless levels of radiation you should note. That's the key. We are surrounded by radiation.

[@azgarogly]

The difference between measurable and dangerous increase of radiation levels.

[@cjsrescues]

I was in Frankfurt when Chernobyl exploded. I lost my twins to stillbirth 3 months later.

[@cjsrescues]

@JZ's BFF thank you.

[@joeysmith5074]

Thank you as always for your great and informative videos.

[@dennisvandermarkt8263]

Nice Mark keep them coming. Very informative

[@JamesThomas-gg6il]

Thats not a bomb, that's a godzilla egg.

[@GenXMafia]

I would venture to say that as long as they go undisturbed there is no real danger of spontaneous explosions. I don’t recall anything like this happening anywhere in modern times. Again SPONTANEOUS being the operative word. Dr. Felton has there been any?

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

No, its normally construction equipment bashing them. Though vibrations could possible set one off - a car park being a less than ideal thing to place overhead.

[@MusMasi]

@@MarkFeltonProductions surprised the clearing of the ground to build the carpark did not set it off.

[@foamer443]

Not a bomb, but I seem to recall in France, 10-15 years ago, a WWI sapped mine that had not exploded during the war and it's location lost did spontaneously detonate.

[@willyeverlearn7052]

I really like your content. Generally short, to the point and from what I can tell, some the best researched on the net.

[@racketyjack7621]

Dr. Felton, I sure enjoy your presentations. Espesially the unusual or unknown. Thank you for your efforts. Keep 'em coming sir.

[@stevew6138]

I was living in the southern Philippines when the 2011 incident occurred. I had with me then an old Civil Defense low level radiation survey meter (yes, I'm one of those). Within a week I was seeing about 1/4 RAD under my gutter downspouts.

[@russfinley4128]

Harmless levels of radiation I might add.

[@stevew6138]

@@russfinley4128 Yes, I know this. If one owns the tool, one must know how to use it. I was illustrating the distance traveled in that time.

[@coreydarr8464]

I was in Germany in 1986 my wife and most pregnant women I knew had miscarriages! I knew it the Russians fault!

[@russfinley4128]

Extensive studies have found that Chernobyl didn't cause any miscarriages.

[@paulmurphy42]

Keep 'em coming Mark!

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

Yikes! Thanks for sharing Dr. Felton ❤🇨🇦

[@BronxBastard730]

Good morning Dr. Felton , another interesting video . Your content is always top notch

[@SergeantExtreme]

As an American, it's surprising to see a government actually clean up a superfund site (though I suppose with Japan's extremely limited land mass, they kinda have to). In America, the government would just declare the land to be unlivable and call it a day.

[@evilchaosboy]

It's forunate that it didn't trigger the bomb! I'm surprised Godzilla didn't get triggered! Cripes! \m/

[@giebby369]

Thank you Dr. Felton

[@MrXdmp]

Thanks Dr. Felton!

[@David-tm4yj]

Every day's a school day, great video as always.