Thanks. Glad you like the videos. I would like to do a video about the INL ones of these days.

I graduated in nuclear waste classification in the 1990s, we had very strict regulations. Was interesting work, developing new ways to quantify the amounts of radioactive materials in waste matter (industrial and medical waste mostly for us) to increase accuracy.

the gov can't even regulate the intensity of headlights on cars, only a fool would believe they've used their brains in operating these facilities, all they do is create a big radioactive mess

Well, we did blow up at least 3 reactors out there back in the day, two of them on purpose even. The main difference was that with the two we did for testing, we buried the reactors BEFORE we ejected the control rods.

I made my comment before I read yours. And yes, they really did some incredibly dangerous stuff back in the days. Most people do not realize how much nuclear research goes on out there in Idaho where almost no one lives. But the water that flows under the ancient lava fields buried underground goes right under this site and they had no clue what they were doing to that water source. I am still amazed at how long it takes the water to flow down to the Snake River and now much of it has been diverted to potato and other agricultural use. I just hope that the natural filtering of earth keeps the contaminants from reaching the agricultural fields in Idaho. I never knew how beautiful Idaho was until I visited. Something almost everyone on the East Coast should see once in their life. I also had no idea of the vast and insane nuclear experiments performed in this area.

They have a very weird optical effect when you look through them.

I grew up near Savannah River Site near Augusta,GA and now live in Vancouver, WA. I did the Hanford B reactor tour last summer and have the Los Alamos area, EBR-1, and the Nevada Test site on my want to visit list. Great video.

I always find those windows a little disturbing. I get a weird antiseptic feeling from the monochromatic yellow color of everything behind such windows.

and the mineral oil trick

I checked my old high school and they still have leaded glass commonly used and they are over 12 years old, little bit chipped but not shattered. It's amazing that the most changes in history are the most competitive on other nations.

Great comment!

NaK handling? What the heck did they use NaK for in this reactors ? Very interesting

@@jacobkudrowich the coolant. Nuclei of K and Na are very large compared to neutrons so collisions are highly elastic and the prompt fission neutrons don't thermalize (aren't moderated) and so can go on to induce fast fission in more 235 in the core.

@@Muonium1 thanks ! That's incredible, so it works as both a thermal coolant and fission "coolant" or is it purely a neutron moderator? I literally can't imagine a substance that is worse to handle than that! Radioactive explosive liquid Alkali metals.

@@jacobkudrowich there is no moderator at all. the neutrons are not thermalized in a breeder. it only serves as coolant to the core and heat transfer medium to the Rankine cycle generator.

I always like seeing a makers mark on handmade items. Great way to track the history of items and people.

Nice, I have signed and put a forever phone number in the servers I have built over the years. Every now and then I get a random call from someone trying my number so I can tell them how the network was wired or come in and service things myself. I always felt I should stand behind my work. 😃

@@hicknopunk Yes! Whenever I'm deep inside a machine I like to leave labels like that too. Workman like conduct!

Great comment!

I'm very sorry for what happened to your Father. Am I surprised it was underreported? NO. Truthful reporting of incidents that kill humans. Long or short term doesn't exist. Look over the the True "all cause" death statistics for the last 2 ½ years and you will see the Truth. The evil psychopathic traitorous organized criminals (PTOCs) do not careabout other people at all. We are not in their club. As George Carlin said many years ago. They do not care about us at all, at all, at all, at all. “But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” George Carlin

Was that at EBR-I or at the INL property

@@emerytaylor9734 I need to revist the paperwork as years later it lead to his death, if I remember correctly it was at SL-1 as he was a grad student hired to clean up the mess as they brought in students from West Coast nuclear college programs.

Has any accident been properly reported up front?

​​@@oatlordyes , sl-1 is a very well known reactor and had a very well known criticality event

and what did you do to store them ?

@@bobl78 I stopped working there in 06'ish. The last place they had them when I worked there was right outside of EBR-1 to the southeast of the building. But I haven't been out there in a while as I moved to Washington in 08.

I’m glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully one day you can see it for yourself.

We “accidentally” ended up there when we made one of my wife’s detours, when crossing USA. The area (the states around that area) are in many other cases interesting, geologically, geographically and historically. But the reactor was a huge surprise.😊

Glad you enjoyed it.

We really need more nuclear in our power mix. It would have been nice to have been able to avoid the irrational fear that caused nuclear power to fall out of favor. So many more people die on the altar of fossil fuel plants when the whole time we have had a viable alternative. Environmentalists only want to save the planet if we do it their way; sounds to me like if they don't get their way, screw the planet.

It’s amazing how well it works.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks...glad you enjoyed it.

@@RadioactiveDrew You and I will disagree intensely on some issues. I have some very strong anti-nuclear positions. But I am extremely well educated and experienced on this topic. I totally support the work you do with your channel. The video content is stunning. Amazing.

@@rtqii nothing wrong with have a difference of opinion on subjects...as long as we can talk about them.

@@RadioactiveDrew Totally agree. There are stark realities involved in this topic. Right now, as I type, they are salvaging WW2 memorial wrecks in the Java Sea for pre-nuclear steel.

​@@RadioactiveDrew did you see the new radiacode 102?

Glad you liked the video. It’s a cool place to visit for sure. I always enjoy visiting the place. It’s a 3-4 hour drive for me to visit.

I'm so glad people enjoy these videos...I enjoy making them.

Glad you liked the video.

Radeye is a Geiger-Muller technology, the Radiacode is not, it is Scintillation. GM uses electrical impulses whereas Scintillation uses light impulses on a scintillating material. It is comparing apples to oranges. Scintillation in fact has very accurate ultra low energy beta detection whilst the GM pancake here does not. The plastic on the Radiacode is unfortunately what prevents low electron volt betas from being received adequately and as such is obviously not suited for lab use.

I hope one day you can visit these sites.

Glad you enjoyed it.

No problem...glad you enjoyed it.

I hope you get a chance to check it out.

@@RadioactiveDrew thanks for taking the time to send me a reply. It means a lot

Yeah there’s plenty of uranium out there.

@@RadioactiveDrew Even in case o future shortage of uranium, there is recent development on LFTRs (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) being able to breed fissile U-233 from non-fissile Th-233. Taking advantage of thorium fuel cycle also allows us to utilize fertile U-238 to make more fuel. There are tons of U-238 and thorium is about four times more abundant than uranium (in the Earth crust).

It’s a very interesting place to visit. Make sure you bring a radiation detector of some kind for some added entertainment.

I wish they still had that setup.

@@RadioactiveDrewhi Drew! I’m one of the tour guides out here and one of you followers told me you made this video I enjoyed watching it! I also wish we could still play with the manipulator arms but because of how expensive and difficult they are to fix we don’t have the time or budget for it. But they are super cool we used to have one set up with just the arms people could mess with but that was taken out last summer

I remember that setup. I’ve never seen it working but now it’s replaced by that theater. Would be cool to have a manipulator setup somewhere in that area.

It’s a cool place to hang out for the day.

I totally agree. Old places like this have a very particular feel and smell to them, which I love.

My brood hated going to sites like these when we were of the travelling ages. I would read every sign, look at every display, hell, I would spend hours just looking at the doo-dads and what not. Nope, they ran through the doors, looked for games to play, found the snack bar and the souvenir shop, and were back at the truck before I could even get started. Maybe if I ever retire I'll strike out on my own revisit the best of them. Travel safe friend.

No problem. Hope you enjoy using it.

Nice...I hope so. As cool as I think it is to work at a place like a National Lab, I love what I do. Hopefully I can make a couple videos with INL or LANL in the future.

Thanks. I hope everyone that sees these videos tries to check out the places I show. Our world is one filled with so many interesting things.

I’ve been happy with mine so far.

I don’t live that close but I enjoy going there in the summer to visit the site. Takes me about 4 hours to get there.

This reactor did not have an axe man, earlier reactors and piles did though.

Thanks.

I was there last Thursday…missed each other by a day. The town of Arco is pretty cool. I’ve only passed through it a couple times. I need to give it a good walk thru next time I’m down there. Thanks for recommending the channel.

Sorry to butt in, but I just had to remark on the amusing fact that both of you are named Drew and could not be at the same place and same time together...

@@Blend3rman The tour-guide at the EBR-1 was named Andrew.

It was in great shape. Place is extremely clean and well kept.

Glad you enjoyed it.

I figured that’s what people were going to do.

Maybe that’s the reason for it. Seems like a big reason for the mineral oil was for optical clarity with all that glass.

Yeah those area radiation monitors looked very big.

They are very interesting. I would like to do a more in-depth video about them.

Wow, that made me wince reading that last part.

Russian soldiers dug foxholes in the radioactive grounds around the plants.

@@RadioactiveDrew Background radiation levels all around the complex soared.

A bunch of the terrorists were taken away from the area having large blisters on their skin, that's what a local reported. And they took away a lot of equipment, fortunately mostly things they were personally interested in, like PC graphics cards and water kettles, so a lot of scientific equipment remained there, yet vandalised in many cases. So immensely irresponsible and stupid.

Russian soldiers leave Chornobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine says Nuclear operator says troops suffered radiation sickness after digging trenches at contaminated site The Associated Press · Posted: Mar 31, 2022 2:46 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 31, 2022 Ukraine's state nuclear operator, Energoatom, says Russian soldiers suffered radiation sickness after digging trenches in the forested area around the Chornobyl site. (Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated Press)

Glad to hear it. Its a great site packed full of info.

I problem…glad you liked it.

The area that EBR-1 is in happens to be a no fly zone for drones. It’s restricted airspace so the drone won’t even take off.

@@RadioactiveDrew I guess that makes sense. Too bad though, that would be handy in some cases. Cheers.

I love his videos but that makes me wince every time :/ NEW CLEAR!!!

My father-in-law who worked on an early fusion reactor (a linear predecessor of the tokamac) in California and thermonuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site still pronounces it "nuke-YA-ler".

Thanks.

Technically I think they refer to them as Heat Exchangers.

I'm very happy with the 102 so far. I've been using the 101 for a while now with almost zero problems.

No problem.

Glad you enjoyed the video. The Radiacode is a nice tool to have out while exploring areas.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

I hope you get to check it out.