What if you put your hand in a particle accelerator?

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Kyle Hill

Kyle Hill

Күн бұрын

On November 17th, 1992 a scientist accidentally stuck his hand in an extremely powerful beam of x-rays at a particle accelerator accelerator facility in Hanoi, Vietnam. This [HALF-LIFE HISTORY] explains what happened next.
00:00 Intro
01:11 Infinite Energy
04:28 By Hand
09:18 Radiation Maze
16:26 Waiting to Happen
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@kylehill
@kylehill 3 ай бұрын
*Thanks for watching.* [VIDEO CONTAINS SOME GRAPHIC IMAGES] We return to our [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] series with a story you probably haven't heard before. The Hanoi Incident is overshadowed in history by Anatoli Burgoski, but ask yourself a question...why was the fate of the anonymous director in Hanoi so different?
@j.21
@j.21 3 ай бұрын
idk edit: please i don't i don't deserve um.. the no like situation... nevermind, sorry for lame replying
@kylehill
@kylehill 3 ай бұрын
then watch @@j.21
@Boredability
@Boredability 3 ай бұрын
Balls
@j.21
@j.21 3 ай бұрын
@@kylehill soon i will
@captainspaulding5963
@captainspaulding5963 3 ай бұрын
Cost cutting, and lack of concern for proper safety protocols would be my guess
@hololightful
@hololightful 3 ай бұрын
It completely blows my mind that there wasn't something as simple as a conspicuous red light in the room that was lit when the machine was turned on...
@AsobiMedio
@AsobiMedio 3 ай бұрын
Soviet engineering baby.
@rijlqanturis625
@rijlqanturis625 3 ай бұрын
Or even just a door interlock. The irradiator I uses at work has a simple mechanical switch on the door into the room, such that the machine cannot be started unless the door is closed, and will immediately trip offline if the door is opened when in operation.
@forceawakens4449
@forceawakens4449 3 ай бұрын
​@@rijlqanturis625ehh i would trust that, the other accelerator incident in this series occurred because one of those interlocks failed
@HogSlopp
@HogSlopp 3 ай бұрын
​@@AsobiMedio tfw u dont even watch the whole video
@jacoblojewski8729
@jacoblojewski8729 3 ай бұрын
@@forceawakens4449 For sure. Any place with respectable safety measures the interlock would be a failsafe intended for if you already screwed up every other safety procedure and mechanism. And you'd be in serious trouble if you only avoided an accident due to the interlock. It'd still be an improvement in this case though.
@npc6254
@npc6254 3 ай бұрын
“How did you lose your hands?” “Antimatter annihilation.”
@Kremit_the_Forg
@Kremit_the_Forg 3 ай бұрын
Antimatter Annihilation is a pretty metal band name !
@Kwatcher100
@Kwatcher100 3 ай бұрын
@@Kremit_the_ForgBit of a mouthful though.
@toolbaggers
@toolbaggers 3 ай бұрын
@@Kwatcher100 said your mom
@chraffis
@chraffis 3 ай бұрын
@@toolbaggers Said your mustache.
@SearinoxNavras
@SearinoxNavras 3 ай бұрын
The annihilation peak was the result of atoms in his hands transmuted by the high radiation into unstable isotopes, some of which decayed with a short half-life via beta+ decay, then the positrons emitted would annihilate with nearby electrons.
@quntface1518
@quntface1518 2 ай бұрын
"Part of my body was inside an active particle accelerator for an extended amount of time" "Vitamin deficiency"
@hoyschelsilversteinberg4521
@hoyschelsilversteinberg4521 Ай бұрын
Vietnam Efficiency
@s.hicks7213
@s.hicks7213 Ай бұрын
😂
@marisawoods
@marisawoods 15 күн бұрын
😂😂😂
@AnonSukhoi30MKI
@AnonSukhoi30MKI 10 күн бұрын
"Here, have some vitamin gummy bears"
@jeanpitre5789
@jeanpitre5789 2 күн бұрын
To be fair, it's really not that far fetched to think a doctor wouldn't have the slightest idea what that actually entails. They are DOCTORS not PHYSICISTS!
@graymonk5972
@graymonk5972 2 ай бұрын
“assuming that if you can’t feel something, nothing is happening” is such a dangerous idea. i can’t feel pain very well due to my medications (for nerve pain, so yes this is intended) but that also means i can’t feel infections until they’re severe. i had an abscess in my gums for 2 weeks before i realized since i just couldn’t feel the pain. it’s something everyone should learn, that just because something doesn’t hurt, doesn’t mean it’s all alright
@catherinebaldwin6580
@catherinebaldwin6580 2 ай бұрын
Oh. I feel that. My brother I swear can’t feel pain. As a kid he would jump out his window onto the bush to play at night. He completely broke his pinkie and only went to the doc after showing mom it can now bend in this direction. And he also had an infection on his tooth and had to be removed. The stinker.
@LaCazaLP
@LaCazaLP 2 ай бұрын
Same reason why we usually do Medical Check ups every few years. Just because you doesnt feel it doesnt mean there is some kind of Cancer growing in you. Do regular Check Ups Guys. There are People who would miss you.
@JaneFlowerbird
@JaneFlowerbird 2 ай бұрын
Aaand now I’m back to having anxiety about having cancer in my ovaries…..
@yasininn76
@yasininn76 Ай бұрын
@JaneFlowerbird cancer has telltale that aren't painful. If you're scared, go to a doctor (unless you live in the US, then chemio might be less costly)
@cyruahawkins5289
@cyruahawkins5289 Ай бұрын
I genuinely thought like this once, like perhaps living without pain would be nice, but then you’d never know what’s wrong with you. It’s like emotions too, it’s good you have them, like being sad or mad cause they tell you, you deserve better or things like what’s right and wrong.😅 Idk, I used to think heaven would be like you never get sad or feel pain but thinking about life like that seems kinda dumb. Like be thankful for your senses. 😂
@kayleighlehrman9566
@kayleighlehrman9566 3 ай бұрын
Bro got his hands irradiated, went home and they felt weird, and he was like "nah it's not the radiation, probably the arthritis"
@deepak_nigwal
@deepak_nigwal 3 ай бұрын
the point is, you would never actually feel anything or realise anything at the moment any stream of particles or radiation pass through your body, nor your body would react to it immediately, no pain, no bite or tinging sensation. Its important to note that the beam dia of stream of particles in small scale accelerators is of few microns to less that a millimeter. If you dont know if the beam is active or not, you would never know if you hit or pass the beamline once or twice, or n number of times while working around it. It is the after effects, and scale of dosage (15:20) which decides the level of damage being done by the particle beam into the body tissues. Then you would realise that something happened to the skin and tissue a few days ago. If you know the beam is active, and you know the path of beamlines, and you still deliberately put your hand into the path, then its another story. But it would still feel like you are waving your hand in the void.
@arcan762
@arcan762 3 ай бұрын
copium
@MegaRyuki
@MegaRyuki 3 ай бұрын
​@@deepak_nigwalyes your body wouldnt react to it immediately but when your hands start to swell and necrotize you dont fucking think its artritis
@scottcantdance804
@scottcantdance804 3 ай бұрын
Told his doctor about getting irradiated while his hands were turning grey and she was like "you need dermatorogist for vitamin deficiency!!"
@edwhatshisname3562
@edwhatshisname3562 3 ай бұрын
He must've been bathing in de Nile. I'll see myself out...
@kirbcake
@kirbcake 3 ай бұрын
imagine STICKING YOUR HAND IN A PARTICLE BEAM GOING THE SPEED OF LIGHT, and when your hand feels weird a few hours later, you just think, "Huh! Weird! Must be my arthritis."
@EaglesQuestions
@EaglesQuestions 2 ай бұрын
Sounds more like denial, to me. To be fair though, what were they going to do with earlier diagnosis? What other treatments?
@fish_bacon
@fish_bacon 2 ай бұрын
Then when it start to rot from the inside ... "have some vitamins!"
@formallydehyde
@formallydehyde 2 ай бұрын
That's just what having chronic illness is like tbh. It's hard to gauge when something is unusually wrong if pain/discomfort is your baseline.
@quokka_11
@quokka_11 2 ай бұрын
Exaggerate much? It's only like 99.999999879% of the speed of light.
@catherinebaldwin6580
@catherinebaldwin6580 2 ай бұрын
I can understand the doc not knowing what to do since radiation wasn’t that well known at the time, but, um. His hands are black…
@SpiritHawk7
@SpiritHawk7 2 ай бұрын
7:10 Thankfully the assistant was smart and ran to the control room first and not into the active accelerator room.
@sglazekkg6875
@sglazekkg6875 2 ай бұрын
One thing that has always fascinated me with radioactivity accidents (thankfully not this case because only his hands got hit) is the idea that you could see a flash, know you are a dead man walking, but feel zero pain at first. Thinking of incidents like the demon core accidents where the nuclear physicists were smart enough to know they had just been killed hundreds of times over but having to wait for the agonizing process of their body catching up to what their minds knew. If it were me I’d probably seek ways to remove myself painlessly on my own terms immediately, if I were, say, Slotkin.
@SpaghettiEnterprises
@SpaghettiEnterprises 2 ай бұрын
Truly horrifying fate. I like to think at least some of them wanted to make their sacrifice useful to humanity, and so decided to let things run their course for the sake of scientific discovery
@robg521
@robg521 Ай бұрын
I’ve worked in the electrical distribution industry for 38 years dealing with voltages from 11,000v to 132,000v and have known a couple of engineers who have died similar to this. An electric arc flash from a fault at EHV voltages can burn at over 22,000 degree C, [the surface of the Sun burns at 5500 degrees C] But one of the most dangerous things associated with this is the microwave radiation blast that is produced along with it. If you are caught at close range in one of these Arc flashovers without protective clothing it is a death sentence. At close range The heat of the flash melts and vaporises metal, clothing and flesh. You receive 3rd degree burns over your body. But the trouble is that the radiation blast that is produced in effect microwaves and cooks your internal organs. So you are alive lying in your hospital bed, covered on burns and waiting to die as your internal organs slowly start to fail one by one. And there is nothing anyone can do about it. The last I knew one happened in the 1990s, an engineer I knew made an horrendous error, [he accidentally left some electrical test probes plugged to a 33,000volt circuit breaker housing] He turn the system back on so those exposed probes became live,…. The following day he went into the C/breaker housing to adjust a mechanism, he failed to notice the probes were still in and flashed over against their live terminals. The most awful thing was that he had a trainee with him and while being loaded into the ambulance he told the trainee that he knew he was going to die.
@ender4429
@ender4429 Ай бұрын
@@robg521 I think I part of what he was talking about in this situation is that you know you are dead but you feel perfectly fine. No pain or visible damage to the body, just the knowledge you are doomed.
@coryb8432
@coryb8432 28 күн бұрын
​@@SpaghettiEnterprisesI don't know if it's that exquisite I think at the end of the day you could tell people that they have no chance of surviving and they would still go through most of the treatments to try to survive
@flannaz3769
@flannaz3769 27 күн бұрын
​@@robg521and yet hospitals and governments make you suffer through it because unlike with animals they make it illegal to assist in your passing.
@jesper8836
@jesper8836 3 ай бұрын
Two things 1: this man is incredibly lucky it was only his hands in front of that beam. It’s really terrible it happened at all, but at least the human body can survive without hands. 2: “antimatter annihilation” is the hardest thing I’ve heard all day
@alamrasyidi4097
@alamrasyidi4097 3 ай бұрын
some radioactive decay are known to emmit antimatter particles. i guess thats the radiosignature they detected in his hands
@offbrandbiscuit
@offbrandbiscuit 3 ай бұрын
A Russian scientist had a particle beam pass through his brain but still somehow survived, shit is insane
@jesper8836
@jesper8836 3 ай бұрын
@@offbrandbiscuit I watched a video about that a while back and went into it expecting the guy to be killed instantly Probably one of the craziest stories I’ve ever heard!
@aleksandarrudic3694
@aleksandarrudic3694 3 ай бұрын
@@alamrasyidi4097that's true, some naturally occurring radioisotopes decay by beta plus decay (emitting a positron from the nucleus), but in this case the antimatter was created by photon scattering: A high energy photon (a very hard X or gamma particle) hitting a high intensity electromagnetic field (like the one of an atomic nuclei) can, with a certain probability depending on the energy of the photon (the higher the energy, the greater the probability) scatter (exchange momentum) by producing an electron-positron pair. The positron from the pair then quicky annihilates with any of the surrounding electrons, which emits two lower energy photons of exactly the same frequency and in the exactly opposing directions, the event which can be easily detected using scintillating crystal detectors.
@aleksandarrudic3694
@aleksandarrudic3694 3 ай бұрын
@@offbrandbiscuitthat's mentioned in the video - the Russian guy was lucky, ironically, that his accelerator emitted a beam of particles of much higher energy which his tissue was not able to stop, so most of the particles passed through without making too much damage, plus I believe the beam was very narrowly focused.
@Amadrath
@Amadrath 3 ай бұрын
As an accelerator physicist in Germany, I'm used to interlock systems, radiation bunkers, lead fortresses and the like. To think, that as late as the 1990's there were accelerator facilities with so low radiation protection standards anywhere in the world, is quite shocking to me.
@mariehuynh
@mariehuynh 3 ай бұрын
Vietnam is a 3rd world country. That means it's decades behind and accepting second hand equipment.
@tillamook7446
@tillamook7446 3 ай бұрын
It's a nuclear physics institute run by a post-starvation, post-blockade and nearly bankrupt Communist country that absolutely had other priorities than some weird nuclear scientist's demands. To think the country had such institutes is outlandish - kind of like hearing about Zambia having a space programme.
@toolbaggers
@toolbaggers 3 ай бұрын
@@tillamook7446 ...still defeated the US military.
@CrazyBrick30
@CrazyBrick30 3 ай бұрын
As someone who has a short attention span,
@MrThunderTw
@MrThunderTw 3 ай бұрын
Can you then please explain to me what he's talking about in this video at 16:10 the part they "do a check for Antimatter annihilation", I think this part could be BS. Seems like a simple Geiger counter isn't what he means they used for checking if something was dosed. What does "Antimatter annihilation" even have to do with radiation exposure at that point?
@ashrowan2143
@ashrowan2143 2 ай бұрын
Im just imagining strolling into a dermatologists office and saying "heeey so my hands where irradiated and I was told to come see you"
@NaudVanDalen
@NaudVanDalen 2 ай бұрын
11:37 It's ironic how uranium is the best defense against radioactivity, but can also produce it if it's the correct isotope.
@digitalidoit
@digitalidoit 3 ай бұрын
11:40 I know not all Uranium is radio active, but the idea of using Uranium to block radiation is still very funny to me.
@nicholasneyhart396
@nicholasneyhart396 3 ай бұрын
I mean, technically, all Uranium is radioactive, but so is every element from Bismuth or heavier.
@kylehill
@kylehill 3 ай бұрын
*depleted
@jakobc.2558
@jakobc.2558 3 ай бұрын
Whats even funnier is that uranium is actualy _the best_ material for stopping radiation because it is the most dense material we have. Edit: So apparently I am wrong and depleted uranium is not the single most dense material we have. However, it is still one of the most dense and it is also one of the most viable for construction because the other ones are too expensive or will kill you (lead specificaly).
@jwenting
@jwenting 3 ай бұрын
@@kylehillDepleted Uranium is still radioactive, but the radiation levels are so low they're at or below background radiation in most of the world. Still DU plating and other items are always painted or otherwise coated, but that's mostly because Uranium Oxides are highly toxic (chemically), this also as a side effect blocks any alpha emissions.
@soundspark
@soundspark 3 ай бұрын
On one side, you have some alpha particles and a little bit of gamma rays. On the other side you have lethal electron beams and X-rays. Which side do YOU want to be on?
@blankityblankblank2321
@blankityblankblank2321 3 ай бұрын
As far as nuclear accidents go, the man was probably lucky. Losing both your hands is not cheap but far better than what has been covered by this channel in the past.
@The_Keeper
@The_Keeper 3 ай бұрын
Yup. Imagine if he had put his head down there to "eye-ball" it. He would have had his brain leaking from his ears and nose within an hour.
@MySerpentine
@MySerpentine 3 ай бұрын
@@The_Keeper There was a video about that too.
@nguyentandung42
@nguyentandung42 3 ай бұрын
@@MySerpentinehe got lucky that his head was too soft to stop the particle. If it did deliver the full radioactive payload he would be extremely dead.
@_Jay_Maker_
@_Jay_Maker_ 3 ай бұрын
@@The_KeeperYeah, that's happened. He survived!
@Tyrone-Ward
@Tyrone-Ward 3 ай бұрын
I’m pretty sure dying is cheaper than losing both of your hands.
@ethenoly
@ethenoly 2 ай бұрын
I started watching half-life histories a while ago when I was working in a factory. I quit my job and got into a radiation therapy program. Currently I work as a radiation therapist and am halfway through medical dosimetry school. I can't express how much of an impact this channel and your videos have had on me. Great video as always, keep it up!
@jarvis5552
@jarvis5552 2 ай бұрын
Congratulations, wow! I wish you well in your studies and possible new career :)
@ghostynugget9779
@ghostynugget9779 14 күн бұрын
I wish you the best of luck
@moonshinershonor202
@moonshinershonor202 3 күн бұрын
Youse doing Jesus's work. Chin up b.
@CanadianArchaeologist
@CanadianArchaeologist Ай бұрын
Hands down, the best particle accelerator story I've heard in a while.
@BonjourGuysBasement
@BonjourGuysBasement 15 күн бұрын
Hands down
@WVMOTH
@WVMOTH 11 күн бұрын
​@@BonjourGuysBasement😅
@videoplayback_
@videoplayback_ Күн бұрын
fr hands gone 💀
@brycerausch7840
@brycerausch7840 16 сағат бұрын
for sure 2 thumbs up! well…
@MrBeetsGaming
@MrBeetsGaming 3 ай бұрын
My friend had his hand surgically embedded in his abdomen like that after it got caught is the gears of a machine at a plastic factory, I'll never forget going to visit him and seeing that.... He had initially lost all but his pinky and ring finger and that side of his hand but they ended up having to amputate just above his elbow because of complications. He won a lawsuit against the company because the safety sensor on the machine didn't work and then he opened his own landscaping company called Captain Hooks lol.
@DocBree13
@DocBree13 3 ай бұрын
I’m glad he’s doing well!
@hx5525
@hx5525 3 ай бұрын
That’s unfortunate and badass
@disrespecc9678
@disrespecc9678 3 ай бұрын
Buddy turned his misfortune into a fortune
@P3GProductions
@P3GProductions 3 ай бұрын
Did he have a hookhand?
@rokko_hates_japan
@rokko_hates_japan 2 ай бұрын
If it were me, I would have stopped after the amputation. No reason to have surgery putting my damaged hand into my torso. That's just weird.
@KruskDerTank
@KruskDerTank 3 ай бұрын
The director's name is Trần Đức Thiệp (you can see his name at 13:22). He was and still is one of Vietnam's leading experts in atomic energy, and he is still healthy and well. He talked briefly about the incident in an interview, stating that (after being discharged from hospital and returning home) he initially struggled in performing daily activities but after a while he adapted to living life normally, even driving his motorbike like nothing had happened. He is a distinguished professor and still very much active in the field of nuclear physics even to this day.
@yeos_angel_
@yeos_angel_ 3 ай бұрын
How the fuck is he considered an expert
@kageseiryuu8675
@kageseiryuu8675 3 ай бұрын
​@@yeos_angel_ power of hindsight?
@KruskDerTank
@KruskDerTank 3 ай бұрын
@@yeos_angel_ he were in his younger day when safety standard was somewhat lacking, consider that in 1992 communist Vietnam has just opened up after the USSR collapse so go figure.
@affegpus4195
@affegpus4195 3 ай бұрын
​@@yeos_angel_well I'm sure he's not commiting the same.mistake again for sure
@BlyatifulButter
@BlyatifulButter 3 ай бұрын
@@yeos_angel_ BREAKING NEWS, EXPERTS ARE ACTUALLY ONCE NEWBIES WHO HAD TO GO THROUGH TRIAL AND ERROR!!!! Please use your brain next time instead of asking dumb shit like that, jfc
@morningminh6419
@morningminh6419 2 ай бұрын
I live in Vietnam, so from what i called, the things with regulations and policies for safety didnt apply much for our people back in the days. Especially back when Vietnam was just gotten out of a huge major war and Economy still try to recover itself. Everything we did was trying our best to getting back on track to live and having a better life, knowing that it would cost us life and many things else. And for us people, we usually joking about our braveness is on the top list since we were use to cutting bomb to sell scrap and gunpowder also. So yeah, long story short, it such an honor living in a country like that but also sometimes scary af 😅
@pakapasiti
@pakapasiti 2 ай бұрын
You’ve nailed the atmosphere and ambience of this series so well. It just works so well
@ryshalverson3541
@ryshalverson3541 3 ай бұрын
You’re walking down the street when you see a guy with pirate hooks to replace his hands. He tells you his old hands were annihilated by anti-matter because he decided to mess with radioactive material without any precautions because he’s just that fearless. This is not a guy you mess with.
@realkekz
@realkekz 3 ай бұрын
Sure he is, dumb bastard hasn't got any hands!
@karthiksnayak
@karthiksnayak 3 ай бұрын
Or he’s just that dumb.
@rencart
@rencart 3 ай бұрын
AND now he has weapons for hands, definitely stay on his good side...
@StarSailor1343
@StarSailor1343 3 ай бұрын
Idk homie his silence after hearing what happened to his hands sounds pretty fearful,,
@Che1seabluesdrogba11
@Che1seabluesdrogba11 2 ай бұрын
He has no hands, he’s not gonna do shit
@hasnopants
@hasnopants 3 ай бұрын
Babe, a new Half Life Histories dropped!
@fatdawg21
@fatdawg21 3 ай бұрын
THIS EXACTLY HOW I FELT LMFAO LETS GOOOOOOOO
@tylera.2869
@tylera.2869 3 ай бұрын
😂 My words exactly. Then I danced.
@Mustombrider
@Mustombrider 3 ай бұрын
"What do you mean overcha..."
@kormannn1
@kormannn1 3 ай бұрын
The wrong hand in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world
@solidsnake434
@solidsnake434 3 ай бұрын
I set aside time of my day to sit and watch this
@mattroy9601
@mattroy9601 2 ай бұрын
Half-life histories are some of my favourite content on YT. So interesting, and excellently produced.
@bobtheskutterbot
@bobtheskutterbot 2 ай бұрын
This is superb. I am a radiation worker and have worked with radiation safety systems. This video would be much better training for the workers than what we get! No one knows the work that goes into protection- the shielding calculations and verification, the interlocks and the procedures.
@izzatihassan1475
@izzatihassan1475 3 ай бұрын
Man was told he put his hands in while the machine was on. "Ugh my hands feel weird. Must be that damn arthritis acting up again"
@cavalierliberty6838
@cavalierliberty6838 3 ай бұрын
Damn you arthritis!
@toolbaggers
@toolbaggers 3 ай бұрын
He even measured himself to be radioactive!
@SearinoxNavras
@SearinoxNavras 3 ай бұрын
This man needed immediate, aggressive interventions and grafts to begin replacing tissue in his hands with healthy tissue from other parts of his body before the existing, compromised cells reached end of life wear and required replacements from descendants that would be either highly dysfunctional, or not exist at all. Bone and muscle have slow enough turnover giving him precious time to act, unfortunately he decided that if he refused to grasp the gravity of what had happened and ignored it, it would all somehow go away.
@samius1149
@samius1149 3 ай бұрын
@@SearinoxNavras Is that an actual medical procedure? Any idea what it's called? I can't find much about it via google & I thought grafts often fail with radiation damage.
@jjasper7512
@jjasper7512 3 ай бұрын
Yep, I wonder what his thought process was....it's staggering that he was in charge, I wouldn't want him in charge of my coffee let alone that facility. It doesn't take a scientist or have any qualifications to know if you put your hands where they shouldn't be, i.e boiling water, acid, fire or anything radioactive then you're fucked, not oh well let's carry on!
@Tango_Mike
@Tango_Mike 3 ай бұрын
Being a mere enthusiast who isn't even good at physics, I really can't state how much this channel has taught me about radiation. Thank you so much for the amazing content!
@RCAvhstape
@RCAvhstape 3 ай бұрын
Hopefully you're better at it than the poor guy who lost his hands.
@lolnothanksbill
@lolnothanksbill 3 ай бұрын
@dumbbirdwayne
@dumbbirdwayne 3 ай бұрын
Same, I don’t fully understand all the maths and photon level stuff, but man it’s fascinating to me how a naturally occurring material can cause so much destruction to humans, not once or twice, but so many times
@sembalo1776
@sembalo1776 2 ай бұрын
Love this series! These are always so interesting and has taught and given me more awareness of what radiation is and how it works and honestly making this stuff a little less scary and understandable
@DPM666
@DPM666 2 ай бұрын
4:28 more like "bye hands"
@ShadowSentry211
@ShadowSentry211 23 күн бұрын
I was SO ready to type this same comment only to find this one first 😔
@Mexican00b
@Mexican00b 3 ай бұрын
i mean... the scientist himself took almost a month to look for help... that tells you a lot about their safety and health standards.. a scientist who studied particle accelerators decided to go "nah, ill be fine"
@chevronlily
@chevronlily 3 ай бұрын
To be fair it's not like it would have done much
@xadierz1816
@xadierz1816 3 ай бұрын
Guy really did a gojo
@MrViki60
@MrViki60 3 ай бұрын
Back then when men were real men.
@rcutler9
@rcutler9 3 ай бұрын
He did tell a doctor about it and they didn't think it was an issue lol
@alexturnbackthearmy1907
@alexturnbackthearmy1907 3 ай бұрын
@@chevronlily It fucking would. The faster you treat, the easier it will be in the future, dude hands were literally rotting alive.
@UserNameAnonymous
@UserNameAnonymous 3 ай бұрын
"I can't read the manual. There's nothing in the room to tell me if the machine is on. We have no sensors to tell me if I'm being blasted with radiation anywhere in the facility. Maybe we should be cautious and think about this....nah, FIRE IT UP!"
@brothercoconut6599
@brothercoconut6599 3 ай бұрын
They can read it for sure - the thing cause this to happened is neglected the very basic aspect of "is it on or off" before shit happened...
@alexturnbackthearmy1907
@alexturnbackthearmy1907 3 ай бұрын
@@brothercoconut6599 As if they would. All this stuff was specified in soviet manuals as well, and they also had all needed systems (even if they were not well maintained - watch another particle accelerator episode).
@johnrajtar9829
@johnrajtar9829 3 ай бұрын
We are nothing more than monkees with power tools. The more dangerous something is , the more we have to f@$k around and find out!
@markmcgoveran6811
@markmcgoveran6811 Ай бұрын
Do you remember that giant job fair America through the Vietnam job fair they spent a lot of money to get all these things built in Vietnam during the job fair like the deep sea port and the big are strips and now they have a lot of commercial money there and not too many concerns about OSHA or safety.
@brothercoconut6599
@brothercoconut6599 Ай бұрын
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 and how do you know that they do not know russian?
@lurkingsalt
@lurkingsalt 2 ай бұрын
I can't get enough of Half-Life History episodes. So fascinating and scarily engaging. This series will undoubtedly be noted when Kyle Hill is mentioned in the future.
@Weirdkauz
@Weirdkauz 14 күн бұрын
We be like that. Need to be held in check. I used to ride home in the same bus as an electrician working in my university's nucelar power plant. He joked about dropping his screwdriver into "that thing, tried to fish it out, but couldn't reach it, hahaha" he decided to not alert anyone, telling me "there's heaps of stuff down there"...
@bazzfromthebackground3696
@bazzfromthebackground3696 3 ай бұрын
I thought I had somehow seen this video already, and then I realized I was just remembering the Anatoli Burgorski video. If I had a nickel for every time somebody stuck a body part in a particle accelerator I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice 😅
@crashstudi0s
@crashstudi0s 3 ай бұрын
I would bet is higher than two, but so far we only have heard of these
@hyakushiki4406
@hyakushiki4406 3 ай бұрын
that is until a third nickel dropped at your feet. though that would be unlikely. right...?
@ptonpc
@ptonpc 3 ай бұрын
You may have seen the video from Plainly Difficult! about two years ago "A Brief History of: The Hanoi Electron Accelerator Accident (Documentary)" He includes the sources so you can read the reports. EDIT: There is a lot more info in PD's video and since he links to the reports, you can see it was more 'spicy' than this video makes it out. Also the director's name is known and appears in some of the photos.
@Anon26535
@Anon26535 3 ай бұрын
I've only seen it happen twice But particle beams are mighty nice Chuck fried his hands like shrimp and rice Neutrons stick to kids
@sdfkjgh
@sdfkjgh 3 ай бұрын
Yeah, I thought this question was already answered by Comrade Bugorski. Please tell me this wasn't a "Hold m'beer" moment! EDIT: Having just watched the vid, I can safely conclude that the way the director handled his irradiation was infinitely more stupid than any "Hold m'beer" moment could ever hope to achieve. 🤦
@the_duy_pham
@the_duy_pham 3 ай бұрын
1992 is literally just one year after Vietnam's economy started to take off. The poor equipment and protections for science were not something new, and back then they probably received very little budget. The crazy thing is this incident is literally unknown by the population. The news definitely tried to hide it as much as they could.
@imbutters1468
@imbutters1468 3 ай бұрын
I'm Vietnamese and I didn't even know we had particle accelerators...
@NguyenNguyen-mp7hc
@NguyenNguyen-mp7hc 3 ай бұрын
​@@imbutters1468 Same here. My co-worker watched this video and told me about it. My first reaction was thinking " we dont have a particle accelerator. Must be very recent". Nope, 1992.
@BigM_TV
@BigM_TV 3 ай бұрын
Honestly if a country isn't well off enough to comfortably fully fund it, they shouldn't be spending money on stuff like this
@vuhoangnhatanh879
@vuhoangnhatanh879 3 ай бұрын
tried so hard to find news about the incident but the only thing found was a foreign report :(
@badgoogle4509
@badgoogle4509 3 ай бұрын
tbf, it probably wasn't being hidden, one person slowly battling a disease that ultimately took 8 of their fingers isn't much of a news story. Even being due to a particle accelerator, I imagine the cultural understanding in the world in 1992 of particle accelerators was extremely low, no less a developing country.
@ginkyo
@ginkyo 2 ай бұрын
Incredibly amazing and educational video, I'm Vietnamese and didn't even know about this incident until you talked about it. Thank you for providing an in depth, interesting and educational video, I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am learning about this!
@sexyredtablet6599
@sexyredtablet6599 2 ай бұрын
Just bing watched all 21 of the hall life histories, bloody brilliant in every way. Excellent work to all involved.
@MM-sx7zs
@MM-sx7zs 3 ай бұрын
0:20 I love how the chart has an "Unknown" for the Rad level, like the people charting it all just got tired of walking and said 'fuk it, leave it blank' and just went home.
@Blackwing2345635
@Blackwing2345635 3 ай бұрын
Unknown for electronics looks funnier, lol
@therookiegamer2727
@therookiegamer2727 3 ай бұрын
@@Blackwing2345635 Are there electronics there? IDK, there might be, but I can't be bothered to check, my shift ends in 10
@MrRedwires
@MrRedwires 3 ай бұрын
Having worked at CERN, I can basically tell you that it's like that. Or... More like a "We never checked, didn't need to so far, and it'd probably be annoyingly expensive to do so :P" Trust me, the radiation safety down there is a LOT better than this though.
@AyyyJeyyy
@AyyyJeyyy 3 ай бұрын
I don’t rewatch TV shows, I just watch half-life histories on repeat. I have no idea why, but this is my comfort series. (Definitely has something to do with the immaculate craftsmanship)
@shadowproductions969
@shadowproductions969 3 ай бұрын
I think that and Kyle's soothing, somber tone is very relaxing
@duanebuck193
@duanebuck193 3 ай бұрын
Watching Kyle's videos, and the manner in which he presents all of the information that he does has made it very difficult to watch almost all of the other creators out there. Like you, I go back and watch them time and time again - sometimes picking up little tidbits that I missed the first time.
@__-tp4tm
@__-tp4tm 3 ай бұрын
At most I re-watch Pongsifu or Ssethtzeentach. The latter definitely didn't force me to say this.
@1lovesoni
@1lovesoni 3 ай бұрын
Mine is Star-Trek: Next-Gen, for very similar reasons.
@rush1er
@rush1er 3 ай бұрын
NERD! Ha ha ha ha! Yer a friggin' nerd that's why...... so am I except I'm not a smart nerd. I'm just weird
@AllenKll
@AllenKll 2 ай бұрын
I love these Half-Life Histories. Quality information, well presented.
@raizenkuroyomi5960
@raizenkuroyomi5960 16 күн бұрын
I craves another video in this series. Between your fantastic narration and the information, it gets me thinking. And with my job, that is a pleasant distraction.
@theentityknownonlyaschad1584
@theentityknownonlyaschad1584 3 ай бұрын
I find it hilarious that I got an ad saying “if your happy and you know it clap your hands” right when you said the scientist lost both of his hands. The KZfaq algorithm has a fucked up sense of humor and I’m all here for it
@WildmanTrading
@WildmanTrading 3 ай бұрын
What
@jamesogden7756
@jamesogden7756 3 ай бұрын
AI content relationships are weird. 😅
@PrinceIsot
@PrinceIsot 3 ай бұрын
Once I clicked on a police pew pew video and a body armor ad popped up 🫡 I did laugh out loud
@gawainethefirst
@gawainethefirst 2 ай бұрын
@@PrinceIsotDonut Operator? I love his content.
@PrinceIsot
@PrinceIsot 2 ай бұрын
@@gawainethefirst i do follow him too but it was actually Police Activity. That's what was surprising
@MarkArandjus
@MarkArandjus 3 ай бұрын
Scientist: So, um, I put my hands in a particle accelerator, they've been irradiated AND ARE TURNING GREY. Doctor: Meh, you just need some vitamins 👍
@ohalee-nkwochachijioke7624
@ohalee-nkwochachijioke7624 2 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@WadUp1247
@WadUp1247 2 ай бұрын
“He need some milk”
@MissesWitch
@MissesWitch 2 ай бұрын
no doubt needed some mineral oils
@BotWhisperer
@BotWhisperer 2 ай бұрын
And he just agreed and went back to work anyways says a lot about his brain power
@yeahah3617
@yeahah3617 2 ай бұрын
@@BotWhisperer wtf was he supposed to do? It's old Vietnam, hospitals won't be able to do shit about an irradiated limb other than just amputating it. So he just accepted his faith and went home
@Jizzlewobbwtfcus
@Jizzlewobbwtfcus Ай бұрын
INCREDIBLE doc! I remember when you used to do those awesome funny science episodes like the one about Alien acid blood and what level of corrosivity it could be. Both styles are GREAT mate!
@Synthetica9
@Synthetica9 2 ай бұрын
I work at a company that manufactures particle accelerators (3:55 shows one of our machines), and while I'm not aware of any serious radiation incident we ever had, it's good to be reminded of the power of these machines
@danwhite3224
@danwhite3224 3 ай бұрын
The cabling and ducting in the "maze" (or labyrinth as we often call it in the industry) can be an absolute nightmare to deal with sometimes! The large coax and SWA cables can be awful to route and often require whole sections of the concrete blocks to be removed in order to install them...
@jwenting
@jwenting 3 ай бұрын
and worse, depending on the cabling the angles may be limited, requiring more complex duct designs.
@awesomehpt8938
@awesomehpt8938 3 ай бұрын
That’s nothing I bet. Kyle can expose himself to a dying star at nidavellir and come out alive.
@Yewtewba
@Yewtewba 3 ай бұрын
I understood that reference
@Essex121514
@Essex121514 3 ай бұрын
I think I saw that happen... Seems I can picture this too easily.
@Conundrum191
@Conundrum191 3 ай бұрын
most of that energy did hit the forge though, so the physics tracks.....
@Volundur9567
@Volundur9567 3 ай бұрын
Marvel has interesting interpretations of Norse realms. Niðavellir is no exception.
@concordemakesvideos1070
@concordemakesvideos1070 3 ай бұрын
I hear that if you do it for long enough you get a cool prize
@thedachor
@thedachor 2 ай бұрын
I install, maintain, and repair industrial x ray systems. The lack of even just some sort of interlock, or signal blows my mind. More than that though, the fact that there was no dosimetry done at all. I wear an accumulative dosimetry badge at all times, and while the machine is powered I must wear an alarming dosimeter. It's strange to look at these stories from the past where we weren't as careful with radiation. Especially in that era where we knew how dangerous it was.
@MrBynwah
@MrBynwah 18 күн бұрын
You delivered that story with the respect and gravitas it deserved. Amazing as always, Kyle. Thanks for making the world a little smarter
@jypsridic
@jypsridic 3 ай бұрын
He dismissed his hand issues as arthritus after knowing he'd been irradiated in the hands? That is the craziest part of this story. If it was me I'd be at the hospital in 10 minutes max, but I'd also assume that literally everything that went even slightly bad was because my hands were trying to kill me now. 'caught a red light? must be the radiation. '
@bsnow304
@bsnow304 3 ай бұрын
And the doctor recommended vitamins when he mentioned he'd probably been irradiated?
@Zitsanrael1117
@Zitsanrael1117 3 ай бұрын
I completely agree with you, but I think it's also important to remember this was over 30 years ago, when the internet was still in its infancy, information wasn't nearly as readily available as it is today, and the safety culture surrounding nuclear engineering wasn't anywhere near as sophisticated as it is today. At that time, I doubt that anyone outside the USSR had even heard the name "Anatoli Burgorski" before, let alone knew what had happened to him.
@JohnnyAFG81
@JohnnyAFG81 3 ай бұрын
Denial is a powerful feeling. He didn’t think it was a big deal. Or if he did he easily to stupid to understand.
@mikelarin8037
@mikelarin8037 3 ай бұрын
​@@bsnow304as someone who spends much of his time in Vietnam, not much has changed. Had someone that was rock climbing in ha long bay fall improperly into the water and was complaining of back pain. Brought to the local doctor and was told to take a nap and drink water. When this person got back to their home country x rays would show that his spine was fractured. The level of " walk it off ism" here is insane to me.
@jypsridic
@jypsridic 3 ай бұрын
@@Zitsanrael1117 they knew enough to have a lead maze to protect themselves from secondary exposure, and he knew he just got primary exposure.
@Djorin
@Djorin 3 ай бұрын
Another factor contributing to the survival in the case of head injury is probably that the brain has little to no active cellular mitosis going on, so is far less susceptible to radiation damage. This can also explain the swelling mostly limited to the soft tissues and the bald spot on the back of the head.
@DocBree13
@DocBree13 3 ай бұрын
Great point
@kosmosXcannon
@kosmosXcannon 3 ай бұрын
So the brain doesn't really grow anymore or something and that prevents radiation damage from spreading?
@obviouslyanonymous
@obviouslyanonymous 2 ай бұрын
I was thinking this at first as well. Never knew about the different displacement of energy between types of beams; very interesting stuff.
@Koozwad
@Koozwad 2 ай бұрын
Depends on the type of radiation. The brain is very sensitive to cellphone radiation, for example. Brain tumours are quite easily formed with overexposure - especially with children as their skulls are thinner/softer. I always have to cringe hard when a parent gives their young child a tablet or smart(dumb)phone.
@kopazwashere
@kopazwashere 2 ай бұрын
​@@Koozwadthere's a quite a bit of difference in intensity and frequency used on a typical mobile device compared to a particle accelerator, buddy. Best, An EE.
@stormbroke
@stormbroke 21 күн бұрын
I have worked most of my career in radiation therapy. In the late 90’s I designed treatment rooms for Philips / Elekta linacs and in 2013-16 worked for Varian Proton Therapy. I was very interested by so much of this video and have subscribed to learn more from this channel. I have many photos and stories from my career but none match the stories that are shared here.
@tatsumicool8443
@tatsumicool8443 2 ай бұрын
Wow, I live close by this institute and still passing by frequently, didn't know such accident happened there until now. Thanks you a lot for the information
@MrEnjoivolcom1
@MrEnjoivolcom1 3 ай бұрын
It’s like on BREAKING BAD where Gayle was saying Walt’s blue was 99% pure while his was 96%. He further told Gus “I know that 3% doesn’t sound like much but…IT IS!” I thought about that when Kyle was saying the LHC could only get 99.9999% speed of light.
@Lucas-yu4bu
@Lucas-yu4bu 3 ай бұрын
Please, check your home's carbon monoxide detector
@excalibastardd
@excalibastardd 3 ай бұрын
​@@Lucas-yu4buno no, he's on to something here
@ChucksSEADnDEAD
@ChucksSEADnDEAD 3 ай бұрын
​@@Lucas-yu4bu He's right. Going from 99% of C to 99.9% is hard, getting to 99.999% is even harder.
@DarkMagicianMan20
@DarkMagicianMan20 3 ай бұрын
Being a Vietnamese and this story was in the 1992, it not surprise me at all. Even though now we have safety measure but due to lack of resources and malpractices, accidents happens all the time.
@tosyl_chloride
@tosyl_chloride 3 ай бұрын
Just do things the familiar way you've always done, standards and procedures be all damned ;p Such is the Vietnamese style.
@destituteanddecadent9106
@destituteanddecadent9106 3 ай бұрын
One question. Why did the director and other staff not do anything until 24 days later, when his hand was falling apart? They were clearly extremely concerned when it happened. Was there just no point in intervening in an irradiation incident? And the annual checkup doctor 🤦🏻‍♀️ Referring him to a _dermatologist?_ Couldn't he have demanded an expert look at it, if the HINP didn't have one on hand? Edit: ok that was a bit more than one question.
@DarkMagicianMan20
@DarkMagicianMan20 3 ай бұрын
@@destituteanddecadent9106 kyle did explain this in the video. "A developing country, using foreign machinary without manual with local language, lack of safety procedures, lack of resources". This incident probably the reason why my nation atomic technology never develop and probably never will. It a sad but true reality
@minhtoriwt
@minhtoriwt 2 ай бұрын
​@@DarkMagicianMan20 you surely do underestimate scientists and experts in this country doing their best for the sake of your people. Dalat Nuclear Research Institute is and will continue to carry out researches and supply radioisotopes and radiopharmaceuticals for hospitals throughout the country. Just please don't assume boldly the ability of other people based on your limited knowledge and spitting it as if those were the matter of facts
@DarkMagicianMan20
@DarkMagicianMan20 2 ай бұрын
@@minhtoriwt I'm sorry if i offended you because my reply not stated clearly this is just my opinion. I didn't mean Vietnam not have ANYTHING to do with nuclear related research, but we still don't have the capability to build, maintain a nuclear reactor( this is what I mean in atomic tech). I trust many Vietnamese like me want our nation to forward our understanding of the atom. Also I use the word "Probably" so I still believed.
@BettyBo-zg1ok
@BettyBo-zg1ok 5 күн бұрын
I really like these more seriously narrated videos you do. I can fall asleep to them with how calm your voice is.
@donle9553
@donle9553 2 ай бұрын
My dad worked there and that case was famous. His motorbike later transformed to be used with his left hand. My dad was the one who brought by him self the box containing radioactive material from that institute to another one in Dalat by train. There is another case when a scientist fell on stares while bringing a big acid tank with another in the Chemical Institute.
@Peptuck
@Peptuck 3 ай бұрын
It's amazing how often both the victims and doctors involved initially dismiss radiation accidents like this as nothing serious at first, and only realize just how bad things are days or weeks later.
@Cu_tea_party
@Cu_tea_party 2 ай бұрын
I think the fact that whatever happens from then on is inevitable anyway also plays a role in that, there's nothing they can do to reverse the irradiation, so there's no point doing anything except treat the symptoms as they appear, might as well try going on as normal as long as they have left to do so
@carelessdreamer
@carelessdreamer 3 ай бұрын
This really reminds me of the tuna canning incident. People don’t even think about safety until someone gets hurt. And even then, people forget why it’s important, and some poor rando has to pay for it.
@JustShotsForMeh
@JustShotsForMeh 2 ай бұрын
Every safety law is written in blood.
@MEMyselfandIKN1984
@MEMyselfandIKN1984 2 ай бұрын
Googled it; shouldn’t have done. At least I know what my nightmares will be about tonight 😳
@transcyberism1459
@transcyberism1459 2 ай бұрын
Reminds me of a story I heard from an old employer (in the context of a safety brief). I used to work for the manufacturer of spiral conveyor belts - house-sized contraptions that move a conveyor along a circular path, usually either inside a blast freezer or a proofing oven. luckily in this accident no one got cooked or frozen unlike the tuna incident, but it was pretty grisly, so, fair warning: I'm about to describe an industrial accident, as it was described to me. The machine in question - the conveyor spiral - basically operates by winding the belt horizontally around a large metal cage like a spool of thread. The cage rotates, and the cage itself is actually what drives the motion of the belt - there is a central motor in it that turns it so that the belt is not under too much tension (rather than just pulling on the belt, which would snap it). but when you are installing the new belt, it's tricky to get it on - you can't just yank on it, you'll never be able to pull hard enough even if snapping the belt wasn't a concern. You have to get the cage turning at the same time as mild tension is applied to the belt to keep it from slipping off. And because this is a very big machine, you can't just do that from the outside and run around - it's too wide and tall. So you have to be up inside the cage to do this, and you need to have a couple of helpers manually turning the cage by hand, and this has to be pretty well coordinated. Apparently, from what I gather, the install team did not have helpers turning the cage manually. Instead, they just turned on the motor. But the thing about this motor is that it absolutely will not stop turning unless a tremendous force is applied to it. It's a low-speed, high torque motor meant to drive something that weighs at least a couple tons. If you catch a body part between the rotating cage and the stationary frame, the motor won't even hesitate to crush you. And that's exactly what happened - but it wasn't a body part, it was a whole torso. Apparently the person inside the cage and the person on the controls had not coordinated well enough, and the person inside was not fully inside when the motor went on - they were halfway through climbing up. I heard they got sliced fully in half, right across the midsection.
@JustShotsForMeh
@JustShotsForMeh 2 ай бұрын
@@transcyberism1459 Fucking hell.
@RaindropsBleeding
@RaindropsBleeding 2 ай бұрын
this was a really interesting story. thanks for making this video without a bunch of silly gags
@ucvu2412
@ucvu2412 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for covering this. I am from Hanoi and have never even heard of this incident so that was a very interesting watch.
@flyingsodwai1382
@flyingsodwai1382 3 ай бұрын
7:59 That is the coolest most badass sci-fi sentence I've ever heard and it's not even fi!
@whiteegretx
@whiteegretx 3 ай бұрын
We gotta steal it and put it in our books
@Frank-os6gq
@Frank-os6gq 3 ай бұрын
Not even what? What does fi! Mean?
@Nettahasleftthebuilding
@Nettahasleftthebuilding 3 ай бұрын
@@Frank-os6gqfi stands for fiction so sci-fi is scientific fiction
@matthewcarpenter4716
@matthewcarpenter4716 3 ай бұрын
KYLE!!!! I teach radiography and this video is perfect for my students! The explanation of radiation protection is perfect! The graphs are on point for showing the levels of radiation compared to what they will be producing in the clinic! Thank you so very much for posting this content. A link is going on my LMS for them NOW!
@lays_bbq_chips6299
@lays_bbq_chips6299 3 ай бұрын
You seem like such a passionate teacher! We need more like you !
@thetruthisoutthere5173
@thetruthisoutthere5173 3 ай бұрын
I think you meant "radiology", not radiography
@matthewcarpenter4716
@matthewcarpenter4716 3 ай бұрын
@@thetruthisoutthere5173 No. I meant RADIOGRAPHY. There is a difference. I promise.
@matthewcarpenter4716
@matthewcarpenter4716 3 ай бұрын
@@lays_bbq_chips6299 Thank you! I can honestly say I do not hear that very often. It means a lot to me.
@catherinebaldwin6580
@catherinebaldwin6580 2 ай бұрын
Man I hope I as passionate as you when I become a professor. I know my students wouldn’t be with the “hellfire” that is math.
@tokugeeky2931
@tokugeeky2931 2 ай бұрын
Great video as always. It scary how all the doctors and scientists involved is so calm when someone hand was radiated like this and just treat it like minor inconvenience 😂
@thessnope7810
@thessnope7810 2 ай бұрын
I work with nuclear submarines and I absolutely LOVE these videos. Very much brings perspective and grounds thought processes of normal everyday work upon a nuclear plant and is an important reminder of why there are such stringent work controls and standards where I work. Thank you for the educational and entertaining videos!
@jarvis5552
@jarvis5552 2 ай бұрын
If I may ask, what are nuclear submarines? Those sound extremely interesting!
@waywardgun
@waywardgun 3 ай бұрын
That moment of realization must have been truly horrifying, that from a brief 2 minute incident you know your hands are going to slowly die.
@FutureDeep
@FutureDeep 3 ай бұрын
Nah, it's just arthritis.
@comyuse9103
@comyuse9103 3 ай бұрын
apparently not if it took him a damn week to work out that maybe radiation could be bad for his hands
@waywardgun
@waywardgun 3 ай бұрын
Yeah true, I chalk it down to a "this is fine" moment. You know its not, but it's more comforting to pretend otherwise.
@carpemkarzi
@carpemkarzi 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for these. As a former Nuc med tech, safety is pounded into our brains and we were not dealing with accelerators. It is also baffling that those literally studying the effects of the X-rays on a sample had so little concept of what there were dealing with. As you mentioned , if they can’t feel anything, nothing is happening…sigh.
@conor9966
@conor9966 3 ай бұрын
Its not totally surprising that they didnt appreciate the necessity of all the structural and logistical safety issues as after all: theyre just procedural, structural and such at least one step removed. What i find totally baffling is that anyone competent enough to actually gain anything from particle acceleration research would not appreciate the need to go to a hospital immediately and instead takes a "wait and see" approach.
@kaihimwong8269
@kaihimwong8269 2 ай бұрын
For the person who survived with the beam passed thru his head, Bragg peak is one. Radiation biology also plays a role I believe in terms of their responding time. Very educational and interesting video captures the basic elements of radiation protection where lot of people in the past was not aware of.
@DIROXIDE
@DIROXIDE 2 ай бұрын
I always feel comforted when I hear that classic same old intro music when Kyle gets ready to go in depth on radiation-related videos
@GoneZombie
@GoneZombie 3 ай бұрын
My internal monologue the entire time I'm watching HLH: "aaaaaaaaaaah! "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
@dimitrilepain3821
@dimitrilepain3821 3 ай бұрын
Every goddamn time i'm sitting in my chair, screaming at my desktop for how simple most of these incidents seem to be preventable from a today's point of knowledge. Yet dismissing your hand feeling 'weird' for your arthritis instead of THE RADIATION BEAM YOU GOT THIS MORNING is infuriatingly ignorant. Ngl, i find it hard to sympathise. Not that i'm not sympathising, but this guy makes it real hard for me is all i'm saying.
@ninadgadre3934
@ninadgadre3934 3 ай бұрын
@@dimitrilepain3821bro was subscribed to WishfulThinkingProMax
@hx5525
@hx5525 3 ай бұрын
@@dimitrilepain3821Not necessarily ignorance. The guy was just coping and hoping what he felt was a psychological problem or anxiety rather than admit the worst. And for some reason, Asians hate going to the doctors. For an Asian at that time, things would have to be seriously wrong to go for a doctor visit.
@dimitrilepain3821
@dimitrilepain3821 3 ай бұрын
@@hx5525 "The guy was [...] hoping that what he felt was a psychological problem [...] rather than admit the worst." That is literally ignorance. He knew fully well what the consequences of his actions could and very likely would be, yet he dismissed that possibility, because it made him feel better in the moment. That. Is. Ignorance.
@HuyNguyen-ll9gz
@HuyNguyen-ll9gz 3 ай бұрын
As a Vietnamese person, I did not know this happened in Hanoi
@nguyenminhhieu7962
@nguyenminhhieu7962 3 ай бұрын
Tôi lên mạng xem thông tin r thầy thường che tay phải hoặc đeo găng
@tosyl_chloride
@tosyl_chloride 3 ай бұрын
Xem vid này tôi mới biết đến GS Trần Đức Thiệp (13:20). Chắc phải là người trong ngành vật lý hạt nhân mới nắm bắt được
@kivuntuntija
@kivuntuntija 3 ай бұрын
I'm from vietnam and I didn't even know we have a particle accelerator
@kyledodson2992
@kyledodson2992 3 ай бұрын
May i ask as an American, why do the Vietnam people write English so well? Every Vietnamese comment under this video has spot on English! Very impressive.
@tosyl_chloride
@tosyl_chloride 3 ай бұрын
@@kyledodson2992 While it's true that the younger generations of Vietnameses have familiarized themselves with English to a great degree, in the specific case of this comment section it's more about sampling bias than anything else. People without a sufficient degree of English proficiency wouldn't go out of their way to watch an English video about nuclear physics after all, and having a video about Vietnam would surely draw out the English-capable Vietnameses within the population of viewers.
@kpdk1454
@kpdk1454 2 ай бұрын
We miss your old superhero videos! Your recent work has been maximum quality!
@BadgerVito
@BadgerVito 2 ай бұрын
What a fantastic video! Fascinating story, beautifully told.
@Alistorshenanigans
@Alistorshenanigans 3 ай бұрын
I would never expect seeing Vietnam in Kyle Hills video, not the literal city where I was born and its not about Pho but about partical accelerator accident??? This is so cool
@anngo4140
@anngo4140 3 ай бұрын
On Lunar New Year no less!
@sendthis9480
@sendthis9480 3 ай бұрын
I wanna open a Pho restaurant and call it “Pho King Delicious”
@Milehighssc5280
@Milehighssc5280 3 ай бұрын
You are not original ​@@sendthis9480
@jacoblojewski8729
@jacoblojewski8729 3 ай бұрын
Hearing the serious lack of safety controls and procedures in these accidents is always eye opening to me. I remember doing radiography (a form of non-destructive testing) at my facility once. Everyone but essential personnel were removed, even when the source was in its enclosure. Extra shielding was installed. Extra radiation monitoring was done both before and during movement of the source from enclosure to its testing target (the x-ray source was moved remotely along a track). Signage was placed on all entrances, announcements made over the announcing circuits both before and periodically during the testing. All personnel in the affected area had to wear additional dosimetery with audible alarms (our usual dosimetery was long-term passive devices read once a month) both during the tests and when the source was secured. And our usual dosimetry was read daily even though involved sending it to a separate building, precluding us doing any work while it was being read. You don't mess around when radiation is involved. Remember TDS - Time, Distance, Shielding? Well you can't do crap about Time and Distance if you have no knowledge at all about when and where the radiation is. And Shielding can be ineffective without *testing* it with radiation measurements to ensure it's doing what you think it's supposed to be doing.
@kanwalpreeetsingh
@kanwalpreeetsingh 2 ай бұрын
I can’t stop listening to Kyle with that deep eerie music. The Half Life series are the best.
@awake7309
@awake7309 2 ай бұрын
The writing on this video is truly encapsulating….. Jesus man bravo just insane work
@binaryghosts5131
@binaryghosts5131 3 ай бұрын
Also going over the lack of concern and procedure this sounds like a case of the people involved not knowing what they are doing and not knowing the implications of what they are doing and just simply doing as they are told on the job. This is what a competency crisis is.
@pauldavis2108
@pauldavis2108 3 ай бұрын
You can go stand in a particle beam at CERN. The north area fixed target beam lines produce pions from the SPS protons. They "turn off the beam" by putting a 2m long concrete block in way making the area safe to access. What the block actually does though is convert the pions into a muon beam. While standing in the beam you feel nothing but it is odd to mentally realize that something is passing through you with the only indication being the flashing lights on your detector electronics. It makes you feel very transparent, like the world isn't really real.
@lynx4082
@lynx4082 2 ай бұрын
Please stop putting that many spaces after sentences it's an eyesore
@AmbassadorBreadloaf
@AmbassadorBreadloaf 2 ай бұрын
cope and seethe @@lynx4082
@TheHesseJames
@TheHesseJames 2 ай бұрын
@@lynx4082I hope you can cope and not suffer long term damage.
@alicethemad1613
@alicethemad1613 2 ай бұрын
@TheHesseJames didn’t you hear him, you monster? His eyes are sore. That’s irreparable damage for sure.
@user-ym4xy6us5e
@user-ym4xy6us5e 2 ай бұрын
​@@lynx4082 Triple spaces after a full stop _are_ highly unusual. His comment is informative though, with good spelling, grammar, capitalization and punctuation. I don't think it's worth criticizing, particularly when your own comment contains nothing of value and no punctuation to boot.
@theBATgoesUPoh
@theBATgoesUPoh 2 ай бұрын
I say this a lot but thank you so much for what you do with this series. Using your platform to demystify radiation and the history of nuclear research is extremely important
@dn7923
@dn7923 2 ай бұрын
These are the best, thanks for your work
@brockoala2994
@brockoala2994 3 ай бұрын
Holy cow it's where I live! Though I never knew we had a particle accelerator, let alone such accident!
@Suhdudeyah
@Suhdudeyah 3 ай бұрын
You did, when the Cold War made Vietnam important.
@EeeEee-bm5gx
@EeeEee-bm5gx 2 ай бұрын
What beats me, is that nobody translated the papers from Russian. There were many Vietnamese scientists and other workers in Soviet Union; Vietnam sided with USSR to ward off China. Many must have known Russian at high proficiency. I also find it hard to believe that at least some of the Vietnamese scientists hadn't studied in USSR
@danamullins2723
@danamullins2723 2 ай бұрын
​@@EeeEee-bm5gx I think it was less that they couldn't translate or read it, and more that they were in a hurry and being complacent.
@josephkimani2089
@josephkimani2089 2 ай бұрын
​@@Suhdudeyah😂😂😊
@El-Djazir-Blobfish
@El-Djazir-Blobfish 2 ай бұрын
​@@Suhdudeyahactual vietnamese pepole in hanoi didnt know what are particle accelerators because they didnt get taught of it alot
@wa5657
@wa5657 3 ай бұрын
it never ceases to amaze me how scary radiation is.... exactly because of it's stealthiness and how people get used to it and forget to be cautious around this beast (no shade, i know i would get careless, it's sadly natural when something becomes routine)
@ender4429
@ender4429 Ай бұрын
Honestly the fact that somebody losing their hands is one of the worst particle accelerator incidents in history is pretty good.
@user-wi8nc9wo3x
@user-wi8nc9wo3x 24 күн бұрын
I know of at least one death. But no stories were written about it
@jakefromstatefarm1405
@jakefromstatefarm1405 2 ай бұрын
Oooooo, got a sweet intro now for the series. Nice 👌
@sammyi2505
@sammyi2505 3 ай бұрын
This just reinforces to me that if I (somehow) ever get an irritated limb, I'd want it amputated quickly. I'm not dealing with long term molecular damage, thank you.
@alexturnbackthearmy1907
@alexturnbackthearmy1907 3 ай бұрын
You will be very lucky with limb. Most of these injuries are on body, and there isnt much you can do.
@gi70st
@gi70st 3 ай бұрын
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 full body amputation
@LegendWolfA
@LegendWolfA 3 ай бұрын
Wow, gotta say the intro is sick. Also surprises me that this is an incident happened where I was born (Hanoi) but Ive never heard of it, so thank you Kyle for bringing it to my attention. I know a high school teacher there who does nuclear physics, and he shared that he was actually going to study to become a nuclear scientist and helped the country build its first nuclear power plant, but after incidents like this one and the Chernobyl meltdown, the plan was cancelled due to concerns of safety and risks of meltdown. Very interesting video overall, looking forward to see whats next.
@tosyl_chloride
@tosyl_chloride 3 ай бұрын
Never heard of this incident as well, but you can google the professor's name (13:20 - Trần Đức Thiệp). Maybe this is only known in nuclear physicists' circles.
@dianelipson5420
@dianelipson5420 2 ай бұрын
Beautifully explained and delicately stated. Well done.
@macsmich8273
@macsmich8273 2 ай бұрын
Your videos are so well made!
@TheSkubna
@TheSkubna 3 ай бұрын
Most surprising there was no indicator in the room saying the experiment was live.
@kikivoorburg
@kikivoorburg 3 ай бұрын
Small point: at 2:41 you have 'E = mc^2 + pc' on the screen, but 'E^2 = m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2' doesn't simplify to that! The real simplification is setting 'p = 0' (which is basically true for non-relativistic speeds) and then E^2 = m^2 c^4 does simplify to E = mc^2
@Astraeus..
@Astraeus.. 3 ай бұрын
A correction that changes nothing at the end result is completely irrelevant within the context of this kind of video.
@itsjustme8846
@itsjustme8846 3 ай бұрын
You just made me feel dumb.
@amongsussyballs
@amongsussyballs 3 ай бұрын
@@Astraeus.. ok and?
@doryantemmerman9049
@doryantemmerman9049 3 ай бұрын
@@Astraeus.. I'm with @kikivoorburg on this one... the fact that it changes nothing to the rest of the video is itself completely irrelevant: the simplifaction is simply incorrect. Many people watch these videos, and those types of mistakes are remarkable common (I've seen these mistakes on many university-level math exams), despite it being the result of a very basic algebraic formula that everyone has heard of, namely that (a + b)² = a² + 2ab + b², and not just a² + b². So, I think it is at least necessary to mention this mistake in the comments... to be honest, I absolutely cringed when I saw that simplification made, especially on a Kyle Hill video, where he seems to be very cautious and thorough with the scientific explanation of everything going on.
3 ай бұрын
I would add that the famous E = mc^2 is more correctly written as E_0 = mc^2 (where E_0 means energy at rest). To go from E^2 = m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2 to E = m c^2 for p = 0, you would write it as E^2 = m^2 c^4 (1 + p^2 / (m^2 c^2)) and then expand sqrt(1 + x^2) for small values of x as sqrt(1 + x^2) ~= 1 + 1/2 x^2 + ... - which would lead to the classical equation E_k = 1/2 m v^2 for kinetic energy.
@elevatorsfromromania
@elevatorsfromromania 2 ай бұрын
Greetings Kyle! Awesome video as always!! Please consider doing a half-life video based on the Tokaimura accident and treatment of Hisashi Ouchi and Masato Shinohara
@fuelerr
@fuelerr 2 ай бұрын
Really appreciate your efforts. Big props. Thanks
@hoangsoncameralabvn
@hoangsoncameralabvn 3 ай бұрын
I'm Vietnamese, born and living in Hanoi. But this is literally the first time I heard there is a particle accelarator in my country, let alone this story. Truly each day is a chance to learn something new.
@alistairmaciver4721
@alistairmaciver4721 3 ай бұрын
Didn't fucking ask bro.
@hoangsoncameralabvn
@hoangsoncameralabvn 2 ай бұрын
@@alistairmaciver4721 then why bother? I didn't even respond to you
@phanngockhanhchi2971
@phanngockhanhchi2971 2 ай бұрын
insane considering how old and worn down the atomic institute building is, let alone the fact that such building even store a fucking particle accerelator.
@zakosist
@zakosist 2 ай бұрын
Maybe your country were hiding the truth
@bachlehuy2208
@bachlehuy2208 2 ай бұрын
same i searched for the professor name and nothing show up, only a few newspaper about him and his researches
@evanpie711
@evanpie711 3 ай бұрын
The intro is so cool!
@kylehill
@kylehill 3 ай бұрын
It's good right!?
@captainspaulding5963
@captainspaulding5963 3 ай бұрын
Wholeheartedly agree!
@Kemecgabriel
@Kemecgabriel 3 ай бұрын
It is really good! Was it Thorsten Denk who made it or MR. Mass who made it? @@kylehill
@kylehill
@kylehill 3 ай бұрын
This was actually one of my Kevins @@Kemecgabriel
@retro_jojo3159
@retro_jojo3159 3 ай бұрын
Its a good intro for sure, but the old intro had a more fitting vibe. Sorry to be "that guy"
@amandajoslin-kk5zc
@amandajoslin-kk5zc 2 ай бұрын
This is fascinating. Thanks for this video.
@DEDZED
@DEDZED 2 ай бұрын
Please never stop these videos ❤
@mistingwolf
@mistingwolf 3 ай бұрын
"... Assuming that if you can't feel something, nothing is happening." Shivers!
@FutureDeep
@FutureDeep 3 ай бұрын
Exactly what I told my girlfriend.
@grahamcann1761
@grahamcann1761 3 ай бұрын
Once upon a time, many years ago, I got to go along on a private tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, given by one of the top Physicists to a Physicist who was working on an Accelerator in Australia (who happened to be my father's cousin's husband). At one point they got talking technical, using many words that I couldn't begin to fathom, and then remembered that I was standing there with them, and they apologized to me. And I honestly told them no apology was needed. I didn't understand what they were saying, but I could hear and see their passion and excitement, and it was awesome! I mention that story to say this: You are a science communicator helping us mere-mortals understand and appreciate the magic of science, but; perhaps one day you could give us an undiluted video of something where you talk-tech were you allow us to be confused by the tech-talk. I know it's still a cherished moment for me, even though I don't remember any of it. (I think maybe they talked quarks and then got smaller, maybe.) As always, thank you so very much for the videos.
@saintespritco8645
@saintespritco8645 2 ай бұрын
It was, i think, the most interesting video i've seen since a long long time !
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