You're welcome, and thank you! Knowledge is power :)

Yup its pretty nasty. Not much can take it, but surprisingly enough, plain old carbon steel works, provided you passivate it with fluorine first. Breathing the vapor would be certain death mighty quickly. You would end up with Uranyl fluoride and HF directly in the lungs.

thanks so much, I'm glad to hear that! I'll try and help you out with my videos the best i can

"What is it with Russians and nuclear stuff." Do you know how many Japanese workers have died in their chemical and nuclear industries? Bunches. The Chinese also reprocesses nuclear fuel. Every nation that makes nuclear weapons has some degree of reprocessing, because they need to extract plutonium from "slugs" used in fast neutron reactors. Given the safety record of Chinese coal mines, how do you think that things are going in their fuel plants? Feature this - nuclear work is as safe as possible, but it's not perfectly safe. Civilization demands a little dirt under our fingernails, and I say this was a person who works for a nuclear vendor.

Any idea what the lag time is between exposure and effects showing up?

Thank you! Exposure of uranium or hydrofluoric acid?

yes, I will be, along with Reel History's Jared Frederick! It'll be sometime this fall once the movie comes out on streaming

I'd like to take a look. I got a lot of things in mind at the moment, so I'm not sure when I'd get to it.

@@TheAtomicAgeCM Fair enough. I'm a couple of episodes in. There are alot of moments where I'm like "Why is it designed like that?!" It just seems like an accident waiting to happen. And I believe there was a report saying that historical tsunamis had occurred which would exceed their flood defences. So why not plan for such events?! It's also interesting now seeing Japan planning to release the water from the Fukushima Daiichi power station into the sea, and the local fishermen's outrage. Like if it's safe to release, release it near Tokyo, rather than taint the reputation of Fukushima again!

Just a coincidence, I happen to like submarines a lot and play submarine simulators on my other KZfaq channel, so the pictures were for that

it's on the books!

Thank you! My condition is staring at a computer screen all day long haha

Sounds like nasty stuff! I remember such an incident in my college days when something happened at the chemistry building, there was a huge emergency response not unlike what you experienced. That's an awesome t-shirt, too haha

You probably mean Boron Trifluorid, you can take a bath in BaF2 and would survive it ... well probably. Barium has similiar properties like calcium.

@@christophstuwe4330 Right you are! Boron. BF3. Good catch. Similar LD50 though.