Awesome! I was just going to comment on this very thing. Also consider the movies Silkwood (1983), K-19 (nevermind --- i just saw you did it already), and the Sum of All Fears. Silkwood has considerably more nuclear safety matters and is based on a real life story. The other two movies are good but not exclusively about nuclear incidents. K-19 is a sunken nuclear submarine and the Sum of All Fears is about a nuclear weapon detonated in Baltimore (Tom Clancy book). I'm glad you're doing China Syndrome. Experts may find it to be overly dramatic, but it is a movie, yet still manages to educate people on concepts like "defense in depth", which has evolved to include more than 1 contingency at a time.

Nuke em high would be interesting to see

@@AquariusTurtle Already done Sum of all Fears too :) haha. I thought I had Silkwood on the list but it's on there now, could be a good one. thanks!

@@TheAtomicAgeCM By the way, I'm an airline pilot who happens to have a $100 radiation detector (I once interned at Knolls Atomic Power Lab). Care to analyze a data dump to analyze what my yearly dosage is? I've noticed the uSV measurement is higher in the cockpit than in the passenger compartment. I saw your excellent video on measuring radiation so now I'm curious if my yearly dosage is of concern since we tend to fly a lot compared to passengers.

Oh nice. No, I actually don't really want to analyze that data dump haha too much like work. But, this radiation dose chart says a typical NY to LA flight is about 40 uSv, probably from the cabin's perspective (www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/) and this CDC website has some good info about pilot dose, ~3 mSv a year and happens to be the largest of any US-radiation exposed worker [wow] (www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aircrew/cosmicionizingradiation.html)

Remember cancer isn’t the only problem. I think he’s actually right to say the DNA damage isn’t corrected (though I might have said cellular damage to be more complete), I assume part of his point is about the other effects of radiation damage on the cell structure including the DNA. Anti cancer meds are at least a plausible(ish) extrapolation from what medicine can do now, but DNA damage also breaks normal function of the cells themselves needed to keep operating. There are also some direct effects on the structure of cells, including damaging the membranes, but most of the “short term” harm from radiation is from the DNA damage breaking control of various normal cell processes. Among other things, that causes loss of control of apoptosis/cell death, esp in cells related to making blood cells (no red cell production>poor oxygen transport, no lymphocytes/white blood cells>ineffective immune system, no platelets>spontaneous bleeding). Same effect for some other tissues like the lining of the stomach (leads to the nausea etc). So even if they aren’t going to get cancer, without repairing the damaged DNA none of their outcome would actually have changed. Great show, lots of great science, but yeah everything about the medical chairs is basically “magic fix anything” device, haha. (I’m an MD with a prior engineering background that keeps my interest in nuclear tech and space).

@@RocketSurgn_ it would not have been too far fetched that they can slowly repair the DNA damage too. We can, to a limited extent change DNA in cells right now, if you add a century of development, it may be possible to fix this damage. Realistically the therapy would first focus on repairing the DNA in cells which they need short term. Also they can use special medication to stop the cells from apoptosis when they detect the DNA damage, to buy time for the DNA replacement therapy. (this medication in itself would be a powerful carcinogen by the way)

It's also down to (admittedly, fairly hard) sci-fi stuff. One's a Belter, the other's a regular-ass Earth-born human. Miller's constitution was MUCH weaker as a side effect of growing up and living in a low-G environment, much higher chronic radiation doses, poor nutrition, weaker immune systems, and lower-quality health care due to scarcity and poverty. It's a minor plot point much earlier in Leviathan Wakes. Definitely stands to reason Miller would be a hell of a lot worse off than Holden given the same acute dose. On the flip side, it also stands to reason we should give more suspension of disbelief to The Expanse in terms of in-universe pharmaceutical products' capability to combat the effects of acute and chronic radiation sickness. Humanity at this point being an interplanetary species which has to transit between planets and stations the hard(ish) way, that's a lot of cosmic radiation exposure and absorption to mitigate for a lot of people, and it makes sense medical science and technology would advance accordingly.

don't follow the lights! lol

thank you! I'm getting there

Thanks so much for the lovely comment! What a great way to start my birthday. I'll keep it coming as long as people keep watching. Also, awesome lambda symbol.

Thank you!

SPOILERS FOR SEASON 5 AHEAD Yeah this even becomes a plot point in S5 where Holden is immune to the green crap on the planet whose name I've forgotten thanks to the meds he's on due to this.

The fallout shelter one is actually a little bit different. It has three triangles instead of the three circular arc thingies of the trefoil.

@@TheAtomicAgeCM true, but most people- including me- did not know that not notice the difference in the symbology until you pointed it out. Most of the older buildings on my college campus had these signs directing students to basement shelters, and I never noticed the difference in the shelter and trefoil symbols til you pointed it out.

Thank you!

quite true. I think the bleeding on the charts would be generalized whole body type bleeding

ohhh boy, i see what you did there. thanks mr sbraz!

Thank you! and yes, fat man and little boy is definitely in the pipeline.

Thank you! Yeah so something like 15-30 Gy would be like standing next to the open reactor at Chernobyl right after it exploded for a few minutes. (www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/) I wouldn't want to stand right next to an operating modern reactor but it wouldn't be anywhere near that bad.

hello devon! Yes, I'm going to do a whole big reactor whiteboard series. I've been thinking it over as to how I want to handle it but I think I'm going to really include feedback from the viewers. The series isn't for me and I mean it doesn't really matter how I want to organize it, I want to do it in a way that the viewers benefit most so I think I'll start with an intro video of the parts of a reactor (generically speaking) and take the viewers input in to where they want to go from there.

@@TheAtomicAgeCM Thank you for the reply charlie! I think most people would be interested in your thoughts/experiences with these reactors, and why some haven't come to fruition yet. There's plenty of popsci youtubers going over how great they are at a surface level, but not too much information about the unique characteristics and challenges to each.

Good questions here, but they're leaving my field and entering health physics/medicine. The dose won't move, no, after you take your hand out of the shield, no more radiation damage is being done. Whether the damage done to that hand will "overwhelm" your body or immune system is another question that I'm afraid I don't know the answer to.

@@TheAtomicAgeCM I’m just thrilled you responded, thank you! I’ve been watching a lot of your videos and this weekend made my girlfriend watch the back to the future one. Thanks for the interesting and entertaining content!

Any time :) Glad you liked it! More to come

hello! I plan to cover that eventually in a criticality accident series I'm planning down the road. I will cover that accident more from the technical side than the human radiation exposure side, though.

You'd get a lot of gamma ray and neutron radiation. The large containment buildings that house the reactor are not allowed to have anyone in there when the reactor is operating.

yes! it's been on the list of things for me to get to for a while now and I'm looking forward to it :)

it's in editing :)

nice! i will be waiting