That would be cool if they showed this in schools. I have been thinking of doing some volunteer work at local schools to teach kids a little about radiation.

Stupid comment...

So, when I was in 8th grade, I actually had the privilege of touring the research reactor at Washington State University as part of a summer science camp program that I was participating in. Today I make my living as a mechanic for nuclear reactor support equipment.

nukes no npp yes

Those research reactors are very cool.

No

​@@zorilaz yes

Its really not. Im an engineer in the oil and wind industry (yes the oil industry loves wind power, and hates nuclear pwoer, wanna guess why?), and a nuclear power plant is not really more complicated than an offshore oil rig for instance... and less complicated than an offshore floating wind field... But governments and the oil industry likes to give the illusion that nuclear energy is so complicated and dangerous that we cannot build out nuclear power. Its a shame.... but hey it keeps me in good work!

@@allnamesaretakenb4 totally disagree with your "dangerous" nuclear plants. I worked at on for 10 years. More complicated and SAFE than you can imagine. You should visit one. . . . and the reason there are no more being built is because pussies and tree huggers have convinced the politicians they are not safe. When this generation or the next runs out of oil and natural gas, the nuke plants will continue on. Hopefully wind power will fill in the needs of the many but have seen pressure from groups saying they are killing birds. So what. Those idiots want to live like North Korea??? I say MOVE!

@@allnamesaretakenb4it’s got to be more complicated than oil oils simple you stick a tube in the earth and pump it out off shore is simple is the same just over the ocean nuclear is way more complicated I get wind is easier than nuclear

Amazing

Ever see any UFOs in that area?

@@radwizard Nope

And we really must have nukes if we want clean, dependable energy. I sure do hope the public will come around to being in favor of the new-generation nuclear power plants which, by design cannot run away and "melt down".

That's an incredible story. This year I career-changed from journalism into development, and your comment made me wonder: if you're at liberty to say, what kind of testing process would your code have gone through before it got put to work? As it provides a high-stakes function, I wonder if it's much different than regular code testing...

I couldn’t agree more. If they want people to feel safe they need to be upfront.

It's like you're trying to make yourself out like a superhero or something.... it's totally not a big deal.... c'mon man....😮

@@RadioactiveDrew _How_ did you get permission, I'm wondering?

I worked on the idea of a video for over a month with their media guy on-site that had seen one of my previous videos. There was a bunch of back and forth to get the access I had along with a security check which took a week.

@@RadioactiveDrew well it certainly paid off. We appreciate your going the extra mile and maybe it'll open other doors for you within the industry. 👍

It was a very cool experience and all the people there were as nice as could be. Security for the spent fuel area was very serious.

@@RadioactiveDrew I bet. These people seem like real pros. They're also really even handed and calm and smart....just the people I want working in a nuclear plant!

Everyone that I met there was super cool. Some of them were even fans of the channel, which was awesome to hear.

@Dave Smith If you are uninformed on the topic, it surely would be benfecial knowledge. Even if only for potential ease of mind.

@Dave Smith It relieves the public to know that just a few solar panels on the site, once all the decommissioning is done, will replace the output of all those hazardous systems that old, ignorant people used to think had value.

The psychopaths called politicians in California are way beyond stupid. They are also trying to shut down Diablo Canyon but I did see that Newsome being the idiot he is wants to now get a life extension on the plant as the Kalifornia politicians will see what hell is when they start blacking out the public on hot days. Last summer the public heard DO NOT CHARGE electric cars during high electric demand but that was right after the idiots wanted to ban gasoline vehicles. Get an EV then find out the grid can't support millions of EVs then later the public will find out replacement batteries will make the cost so high you won't be able to keep the car.

believe, not belief

@@dwetick1 feel better? No one cares btw. Folks know what was meant without correcting.

@@mygoogleaccount9990 I care. You must have skipped out of English class, was it "uncool?"

@@bryanphillips6666 there are two types of people, those that can “ extrapolate true understanding from incomplete data “ and those that “…………..”🤷‍♂️ People that spend the time pointing out others obvious mistakes generally fall into the latter category 🤦 It certainly doesn’t show a superior intellect, it’s pretty much just annoying. The need to constantly point out others spelling/grammar mistakes is actually classified as a genuine “mental disorder “, just food for thought I guess 👍🏻

I totally agree.

They're not ignorant. They choose to use fear-inducing news to make money.

What better way to brainwash the masses than with fear?

radia tion and contamina tion controlis very high tech there's a lot of man-hours that go into track inc contamina and trending such title ten code of federal regulation part 20 " standards for radiation protection" ifederal is the federal law that covers what radiation protection tech nicians do, any violation of the standard is a violation of federal law, which is why tech nicians are always in the plant when work is being per formed as radiation protection tech nicians we watch the work being per formed to ensure the workers are following their work in structionswe tell them where to stand as they work. it's all about limiting radiation exposure limiting radiation exposure is why we maintainstrick contamination con trols we dont' want any one taking radioactivematerial home lose surface con tamina tion cann get out of control real quickif workers are sloppy as tech we watch how the work is per formed if it's highly contaminated work we have the workers change gloves oftenthethrow out he gloves, rad protection is atough joband gets real tough if the worok in structions are not followedif a worker stands in the wrong place and picks up more exposure than was anticipated, then questions get askedit used to be if a worker got 100 cpm,counts per minute on a hand held frisker then the worker would get grilled as to what he did he would be expected to retrace mentally and maybe find he wasn't allowed to go back to work guys who routinely get contaminated will get extra"help by being bird dogged by radiation protection, if his work habits are sloppy we don't want to have to continually in vestigate radioligal issues, it's our job to protect he public from the hazards of ionizing radiation when it comes right down to it we protect the gene pool, a lot of technicians don't really know what our job comes downt o that toevery bit of design in the plant,, the design of the fuel, the safety systems the containment structure the, reactor vessel head, operator training all are part of keeping the public safe, it all works as a synergistic, whole verything that has to do withe nuclear fuel cycle falls under 10 cfr 20 and that includes mining and fuel manufacture it's interesting job radiation protection you really cannot afford to relax or let your guard down, If i ever get back to work, I'm going to seek permission to video under vessel work which is interesting and physically demanding under vessel work in a boiling water reacto consists of removing the con trol rod drive mechanisms while water coming directly from the reactor vessel pours on to the worker they're dressed in plastic suits to which air is supplied years ago i was covering under vessel when the workers air supply ran outI was told over the head set I was wearing send him out, but his manager didn't know hjat was happening,, they sent him back in he didn't yet realize he wasn't getting air we call the particular suit he was wearing a bubble hood they have a large volume and the way they're put on allows for minima air leakage his bubble hood hadnt't yet deflated its ' hard to explain the process in order to get to under vessel in this particular plant you have to crawl down a temporary track, so the worker crawled backout, when he finally got out he was officially out of air we cut people out of those particularsuits using surgical scissors so as to not stab the worker with pointed scissors, any way as soon as he was cut out he passed out this is what makes radiation protection trickyevery thig has got wo work ever ybody has to be aware of what's happenin g, I have had one guy die on a crew I was covering; he had a heart condition it was known sadly he was cleared to go back to work in oneof the most stressfull jobs nuclearpower has to offer, that was my worst day in nuclear power, there's nothing that can make you feel more helpless having that happen. I went back to my trailer wishing my wife was with me, I really needed a hug, that was years ago and it still chokes me up the gut had a fifteen year old son., it should have never happened.

That yellow foil wrapped around the tube doesn't look safe

it's fine jump in and go for a swim man it'll be the swim of your life🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

100% in agreement with you.

I think Chernobyl helped the demiseof

@@BenskiBoi Politicians and media did that.

You have to be suffering from some sort of brain mass loss..

@@Roastpeef To whom is this comment directed?

Yeah it was a relatively clean plant, now Hope Creek and Indian Point 2....nasteee!!!!

I totally agree about the flying frequently will give you more of a higher dose in the long term.

I work at CERN a ton and the RP people hate it if you accidentally take your dosimeter on a plane.

@@pauldavis2108 lol

@@RadioactiveDrew why is that

@@michaeltaylor8835 There is less shielding from the atmosphere against radiation coming from space.

@Darkfarfetch In the past 8 years or so, I'd say California has gone from being one of the most beautiful States in the US of A, to one of the absolute worst. Well, not exactly in the past 8 years. More so after 2016. Definitely during the times of the worlds deadliest virus that can be stopped with a piece of cloth over your mouth and nose. Those in positions of power just seem to really want California to become the number 1 shithole. With everything they're doing, I really don't see why anyone would ever want to visit there anymore. Shame really.

Did the training course distinguish between external and internal exposure to radiation>?

We live in a radioactive world. We consume so many foods that contain radioactive elements, that our own bodies give off radiation. Granite counter tops give off radiation. Smoke detectors (which contain Americium 241) give off radiation. Air crews receive far more radiation than most nuclear power plant workers curtesy of cosmic radiation (less shielding at altitude).

Thanks for the kind words. My channel is growing slowly by surely and I'm encouraged by that.

'he guy with 3,5k subs just gave us content as good as some ppl with millions' what amazes me is the way you confuse quality with popularity. have you never heard of ed sheeran, daytime tv, fascism, adele, or macdonalds? all very popular and all utterly dreadful.

@@RadioactiveDrew why do we have nuke reactors,. answer,,for the military, no other reason..salt reactors were banned back in the 50,s as they didnt produce weapons grade material..

Your mom's OnlyFans is still bigger tho

@@RadioactiveDrew if I were you I would have been wearing safety glasses even plastic works

Interesting way to OT.

Should that sort of scrote be working in the nuclear industry?

you mean they got “crapped up” ? LoL ya remember those people

I ran the Bigge crane over at unit 1 during decommission of the containment wall around the sphere.

Where does one find clothes that "purposely set off detectors"? Those are the EXACT kind of people that I would NOT want to be working at my nuclear plant..😒

I agree with that 💯 %. We need to keep educating the benefits of nuclear energy And dispelling the fear of it! If people understood how safe the systems of today can be it would change perceptions!

@@jarheadlife your a re tard.. go visit chernobl.. go buy 1000 tons of waste, & keep it in your house.. only reason we have nuke reactors, is the military,, how fkn old are you, 12.??. d head.. you can not get rid of waste,,its here forever. its like those fk wits with ev cars, ''oh,, there clean energy'',, fkn total bs, brainwashed re tards like you.. in the 50,s we had free energy, clean, it was banned...do some fkn research..

@@jarheadlife It's a great technology but humans have proven we are not responsible enough as a species to be using it. I'm not even against it. Just recognize the shortcomings. Do Chernobyl or Fukushima with any kind of recurrence (as things sit, their spacing isn't adequate)... Things start to go way wrong. As a technology it's a potentially very useful thing, and to the extent we've utilized it, it has been. But while the events are few and far between, they don't need to be frequent and numerous... The aftermath keeps calculating for a while. I'd like to see fusion conquered for energy production... At least the worst that can happen there is localized contamination from neutron activation. Not *nearly* the threat.

@@MadScientist267 Yes and airplanes can crash, dams collapse (and a damn that collapses makes fare more victims than Chernobyl), a worker fitting solar panels on a roof can fall off and get killed, so what? Everything can go wrong, we just have to balance the risk and benefits. A nuclear power plant (a modern one, not Chernobyl or Fukushima) poses very little risk, instead fossil fuel kills hundreds of people EVERY DAY and we accept it as something safe, but it's not! Nuclear waste it's LESS dangerous than the kind of waste that you get by burning fossil fuels, since nuclear waste is simple to store and shield, and it doesn't harm the environment, while fossil fuel waste combustion products do harm the environment and humans, since it causes cancer and other diseases, and we can't simply capture them and store them away, it would be impossible!

@@alerighi It's a question of scale. When any of the "normal" things you mentioned happens, they have a localized effect at worst... This isn't to downplay "severity", but to point out that the entire area around isn't immediately and for all intents and purposes to any living creature, permanently compromised. Yes there are adaptations, but by and large, the area is voided, indefinitely, with a hint of definite... In something like a dam break, you can immediately rebuild. Fast as you can make it happen, it can happen. You gotta walk away with nuclear. You can't walk away but so many times. And given the idea these are not way off remotely located constructs where it's you and the fences... In a moment's notice with the right proximity, you can render an entire city uninhabitable. Forever, to you. That's the key. Storage? Pfft. I agree that's *waaaay* overbaked. This plant is no exception. Holding it's own waste forever more with no plans to change the idea.

Water is a very good shield against radiation. I think a lot of people don’t understand that.

@@RadioactiveDrew kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZtxda5-xJ65pXU.html

​​@@RadioactiveDrewit is, until it's not. Like what happened at Fukushima. Those pools can evaporate very quickly if circulation is lost, and what happens then? The radiation can create steam, which is water broken into its baser elements by the gamma particle cracking, hydrogen an oxygen. All that is left of the fire triangle is the spark, that caused Fukushima to explode 1 fuel pool right after the next. It was admittedly, a bad design flaw from the getgo. Thanks due to the admittedly ignorant President Nixon, it's the PWR's we are stuck with. Maybe we actually need to go back to the drawing board and rethink Dr Weinbergs reactor designs. Much like he did, when he designed and built the MSRE at ORNL. It was a much better reactor design, as it ran with a molten core fluid (no need to worry about "accidental" meltdowns, with it RUNNING in a continuous molten salt core). All that was left, was figuring out the chemical processing and fuel recovery plant. Which Kirk Sorrenson has done a lot of that, but he's not a chemical engineer. Maybe someday, we will live to see Dr Weinbergs dream come to fruition.

Oh, Canada, no wonder I had never heard of Bruce NP. I've always heard good things about Canada's CANDU reactors.

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My brother AJ Russo was a corpsman out at Camp P around the same time. Perhaps y'all know each other. Lol

Thats a really cool story thank you for sharing

Agreed! I've had the chance to see it in person twice (in a spent fuel pool during a tour, many years ago) and it's stunningly beautiful. Videos of it just don't convey the colour.

That Blue glow might look cool. But believe me. you wouldn't want to go in it. have any splashed on you or your tools or clothes. its nasty Cesium 137. its a by product of the reaction of the Rods in the reactor. and they poison the water with this stuff. probably make a good soup though

There might be some Cs-137 in there but most of it is activated metals from exposure to neutrons. So it would be cobalt-60 and maybe some other isotopes coming from metal corrosion.

@@andrewcowling5804 It's also no longer "blue" when it's removed from the radiation source. The bulk water itself remains largely unchanged by this process.

It's only there for a relatively short time. I remember the first time we put spent fuel in the pool, I went to look at it a few days later and was disappointed that there was no "glow". I did get to see it later on riding on the refuel bridge. It is indeed "cool".

It’s kind of far gone for that. Would take a lot for it to come back online.

@@RadioactiveDrew it would probably be cheaper and safer to build a new one than to re commission the reactor

It has been largely dismantled already.

Thanks for sharing it.

Across the street from HAMMER! :)

MAP-12's are the bane of my existence. 😂

Thanks.

Thanks. Glad you liked it. I had a chance to talk with some of the workers at San Onofre and they all seemed to really like what I’m doing on the channel as well.

Maybe I should reach out to them...see if I can do a video about the site.

That would be killer!!! I’ll take you to dinner too!

Thats incredible, thanks for sharing. How many powerplants like this did you work on?

The Uranium in an unused fuel rod isn't very radioactive, BUT, get several tons of those rods together close enough, and you wouldn't want to be anywhere near it. Yep, it's pretty amazing stuff.

It's a fake disaster event just waiting to happen!

Glad you enjoyed it.

I hope we will go back in times when we had trust in progress and science. It's a shame that installations like this, that can produce clean energy are closed down and replaced by burning fossil fuels!

In the case of California they are not being replaced by anything and it’s just stupid.

I wanted people to see what goes on to enter into a place like the fuel pool area, which shares an area with reactor containment.

Is there such thing as a 1st class?

@@bugtusslealien3931 yes

Yeah that’s exactly why they are there. That area has a bunch of sea gull deterrence. They also have a laser system to scare them off.

Everyone there was very nice.

Yes, Jeff Carey is a good guy.

Yup, 2013 is the year, if I remember correctly, due to several reasons

Mitsubishi set the whole thing in motion when they screwed a steam generator replacement.

Was it Zion Station?

@@logan5girl405 Yes it was. Zion, Illinois

​@@williamalderson6677didnt they shut that one down because an operator did a big no no?

Yeah, it’s disappointing to see San Onofre going away. But I’m so thankful that I got the chance to meet everyone there and make these videos.

I think it’s extremely important to take your own readings and show those readings to the audience.

@@RadioactiveDrew 💯

I'm always working on more.

Do you make good money in this field?

@@leahocon6231 yes, absolutely. The job requires extra training and clearance above the required skill of whatever your trade is, like Ironworker or pipefitter, so that's one reason for the higher pay than just a normal, non-nuke ironworker. Also, most of the plants hire union workers, and there is slightly higher wages for union workers vs non-union. A lot of the guys I knew worked at nukes for 6-8 months of the year, then took the rest of the year off. One downside may be that you have to travel to the sites around the US for outages. Might be an upside if you're into that. Each state has different wages, but typically the North and the West pay the most with the South being the lowest, but still well above average wages for the area.

it's called blue collar paradise for a reason

@@DeanFerraro Hmm, didnt hear that one. It's still hard work, so I wouldnt reallly call it paradise.

I try and approach the subject of radiation and nuclear power as neutral as I can be. I feel like that's a pretty effective way to show it to people that might not know much about it.

I was very thankful to have had the opportunity to be there and see what I saw.

Glad you found it as well.

Thanks. Words of encouragement are always nice to hear.

I'd agree w that, Drew. Top drawer content presented in an informative way. Biggest fan right here! Waiting to blow up is right! Like a nuke! Ha ha.

Hahaha…good one.

Glad you enjoy them.

Thanks.

Its a very beautiful area. The beach is super rocky...like small river rocks.

Everyone that worked there was extremely professional and nice.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Well I'm glad to have you here.

I'm just reading up on it all now.. Apparently he's good, and even went right back to work same day. That's fng wild though. I worked for a malt production plant and on my day off a veteran worker fell into a grain bin by accident, and no idea how long he was there before co workers found him, but he was swallowed up as you just sink. Pretty tragic. Now I understand why my parents didn't like us playing on snow piles that the plows made.

If he fell into the SFP, he got wet and made fun of by his co-workers. Maybe picked up a few mrem of dose in the process which is nothing. The worse part would be if he was a RFO contractor, he probably wasn't invited back for the next RFO.

Ask the worker if he glowed in the dark. That what usually was said by site workers and security.

Hinkley Point C won't be anything like A and B though, A were homegrown Magnox units and B were homegrown AGR units, both of these designs used CO2 as coolant making them safer than water-cooled reactors, C on the other hand is going to be just another water-cooled reactor built by the French and owned by the Chinese. We can thank the Tories for that, between 1979 and 1997 if it wasn't nailed down the Tories sold it off and in 1994 it was the turn of British Nuclear to go the same way as the rest of our industries did under Thatcher and Major.

The problem is only in part the poorly designed plants. Also not only the bad maintenance (France, looking at you, too) and corporate greed. The ugly thing is that all the safety calculations from the height of the nuclear era turned out to be wrong - and they tried their very best to be conservative and cautious. But they expected like one major accident in 300 years with a massive amounts of active plants, and reality ran through that error budget within 50 years. The question that needs to be addressed is none other than how we're supposed to run 250 more years accident-free *knowing* that those safety calculations were underestimating the risks of operation. How to factor in the extra issues of plants being run beyond their calculated lifetime? They underestimated risks and for 20 years corps have reacted to that by ignoring how long those same people planned the plants to run. We know how to build safer plants (actually they overrun their construction times and budgets even more and get more complex), but instead of dealing with the risk - maybe even just accepting it - we are unable to get the discussion there and instead discuss how safe accident-free plants are and how safe the spent fuel is if you put it under concrete that lasts like 1/100 halftime. That ignorance is where the technology becomes infeasible. You need direct consequences for managers and engineers involved malicious shortcuts. You need a well educated public that can handle the fact that a worst case disaster changes the countryside but all non-disaster is what pays their standard of living. If we're just too stupid for that, it's much better to just stop 🛑 overconsuming.

1600 MW

@100SteveB While in the 1970s things might have looked very different, what with the oil cartel creating an oil crisis, and gouvernments wanting that sweet plutonium to pursue their cold war goals... You simply cannot justify nuclear today on an economic basis. Never mind risk, or environmental impact (although those do somewhat factor into the cost of financing such operations). The simplest and most undeniable metric is the strike price: * Hinkley Point C is currently projected to be 128.09GBP/MWh, if and when Hinkley does go online. It is currently projected for commissioning in 2028, after a projected 11.5ys construction time. * Dogger Bank A,B and C are currently projected to be 49.77GBP (A) and 52.41GBP (B and C) per MWh. Offshore wind is still 3x as expensive as onshore wind, making it one of the most expensive forms of renewable energy. Actual construction of the first bits (laying the undersea cables) started in 2022 and while each section should have a commissioning time of between 2-3 years, the first turbines are already delivering power. If you look at construction cost, a similar story emerges: * An EDF EPR costs 16B GBP to build (hinkley) for 1.6GW at a theoretical 90% capacity factor (yeah, right, the french are more like 72% on a good year), or 11.11GBP per watt (effective, with capacity factor). * Dogger Bank C will cost 3B GBP for 1.2GW nominal capacity, at a 60% capacity factor, or 4.17GBP per watt (effective). Again, these numbers correlate to the strike price. Even when using the overly expensive Tesla Megapacks (1000megapacks would cost 1593.27M usd,and hold 3854.40MWh) at 34c GBP per Wh, you can add 20Wh of battery storage per W of generating capacity for Dogger Bank to plug the difference with the EPR. Then there is the decommissioning cost: In September 2021, Belgian politicians made public the projected cost of decommissioning (and for long term storage) of the 7 ancient reactors in Belgium (6GW nominal capacity): 18B EUR, or 3B EUR per GW installed. This was the optimistic end of the scale that industry provided, as the greens leaked the upper projection at 42B EUR, or 7B EUR per GW. These numbers would add 8.5B GBP (9.6B EUR) or 19.8B GBP (22.4B EUR) to the cost of Hinkley. Or 2.9GBP and 6.9GBP per W (effective). Or another 8 to 20Wh of expensive battery storage for Dogger Bank. And even then there will be change left to pay for decommissioning of the off-shore wind park. Whoever is still for nuclear today, has never looked at the actual numbers.

@@udirt In the entire history of US commercial nuclear power, not a single member of the public has been killed. That is an amazing record of safety.

You and me both.

Glad you are liking the content...more to come.

cant wait to check it all out my friend ! 🙌🏽🙌🏽

I find the production of medical isotopes super fascinating. Hopefully I’ll do a video on it in the future.

Glad you enjoyed it. Making the video was super interesting. It’s one of those things where you wish you could just absorb more info if you weren’t so focused on making a video about the whole thing.

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks...I feel like it turned out really good and was an awesome location.

your point is,.??..nuke is dangerous, poison, kills millions. only reason we have nuke reactors,,is the military..

It doesn’t kill millions…where are you getting that from?

Deionized water can't be irradiated. That's the number one reason.

It can all be irradiated, doesn’t matter if it’s deionized. It can also be changed into tritium from neutrons hitting it.

You don't have a clue lol The reason water makes such a great radiation shield is because it's mostly hydrogen. The rest of everything you mentioned is irrelevant to the idea.

Thanks.

you're exactly right. also, there's no good reason to shut it down. we're gonna need it.

The thing is Fukushima is regarded as the second worst nuclear disaster in history and its death toll was zero. Two people died at the plant and that was because they drowned during the tsunami. That is why I will always treat the anti-nuclear crowd like those who are terrified of spiders, both are irrational fears I can never get my head around, I mean coal kills more people every week around the world from respiratory diseases than nuclear has killed over the past 100 years.

Indian Point?

Thanks.

Low-level beta radiation isn't that dangerous. Those particles aren't very good at penetrating, and so even your skin is pretty effective shielding. As long as it's just the radiation, and there aren't radioactive particles floating around where they can be inhaled or swallowed, there's not much danger.