Rare Look Inside a SHUTDOWN Nuclear Power Reactor

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In this video, we go inside Canada’s first nuclear power reactor to supply electricity. Also known as the grandfather of the CANDU, the “NPD”, or Nuclear Power Demonstration Reactor, is a 60-year-old legend located in Rolphton, Ontario. It’s the grandfather of the CANDU Units running across the world. Now remember, this reactor is not operational, it was shutdown in 1987. Its not fully decommissioned yet, so a lot of the valves and equipment inside the facility are still intact. It was an incredible opportunity from Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to explore and film inside this facility.
🔗 IMPORTANT LINKS
1) CNL NPD Closure Project: www.cnl.ca/environmental-stew...
2) History of the NPD Reactor: www.aecl.ca/radioactive-waste...
⏰TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Going Inside the grandfather of the CANDU Reactor
01:35 - A road trip to Rolphton Ontario
03:03 - A first look inside the reactor
04:43 - Rotating End Shields (Outside of the reactor)
06:27 - Worlds first single fuel channel campaigns
07:25 - Seeing valves, pipes and systems inside the reactor
08:20 - Inside the Reactor control Room
10:50 - How to refuel the NPD Reactor
12:17 - The Spent fuel Pool
13:01 - Deep Deep Inside the reactor (85 Feet Deep)
13:56 - Moderator Dump Tank
14:50 - Pumps, Steam Generators and Balance of Plans side
15:30 - Part of the reactor core (Feeders)
16:23 - Future of the NPD Reactor
17:10 - Reflections from the past and into the future
🙋🏾‍♂️WHO AM I:
I'm Osama, I have a background in Nuclear Engineering and work in Toronto, Canada. On my channel I help demystify nuclear technologies by simplifying them.
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@dodaexploda 2 ай бұрын

I love how much I've been learning. Now when I hear someone talking about the moderator dump and them being on the "A side", I now know they mean Pickering A.

@dodaexploda 2 ай бұрын

This is amazing. I love how everything looks old and beat up. But when you see the screw jack on the fueling rig that lowered/raised it, that screw jack lost pristine!

@waynesworldofsci-tech 2 ай бұрын

Wow. They should make a museum of the site.

@OsamaBaig 2 ай бұрын

Now that's a pretty neat idea 💡

@waynesworldofsci-tech 2 ай бұрын

@@OsamaBaig Really they should, and it shouldn’t be a shambaholic mess like when HMCS Haida was saved from the razor blade factory. There’s a video interview with one of the guys responsible for saving the ship on KZfaq, the story is absolutely hilarious. Can you imagine calling your wife at home to announce that, “Hey dear, I’ve mortgaged the house but we now own a third interest in a destroyer…”

@dodaexploda 2 ай бұрын

I agree with you. One does wonder if it's possible though. If the land is basically for nuclear experiments where you need high levels of security. You're unlikely going to put a museum there. :(

@devamtrivedi9844 2 ай бұрын

Well informative video as always!! Love this channel and the passion you show for safe, clean and reliable nuclear power, Osama✌🏻

@OsamaBaig 2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Devam! really appreciate you keeping up with the videos ;)

@Ehsan-Musafir 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for doing this Osama!

@OsamaBaig 2 ай бұрын

It's my pleasure Ehsan, thanks for watching!

@jojoman.123 2 ай бұрын

Great video, & informative. Jealous you got this opportunity, now newly subscribed. Thanks.

@OsamaBaig 2 ай бұрын

Appreciate the subscriptions JoJo! Hopefully we can get to 10k subscribers so that I can motivate myself to post another one of these

@josephpiskac2781 2 ай бұрын

Very Cool!

@OsamaBaig 2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Joseph!

@swokatsamsiyu3590 2 ай бұрын

Yes, he's doing reactor videos again🎉 And I'm so jealous! He gets to see the NPD up close. That is so awesome. Funny how you call it "the Grandfather". For some unknown reason, the CANDU has always struck me as a "Great Old Dame." I have to say; looking at the video, reactors always get to live at such beautiful places. What a beautiful place along those shores. When you mentioned that a nuclear reactor is kind of like a kind of living, breathing piece of technology, it reminded me of something an old veteran of the Soviet nuclear industry once said in an interview. "Reactors are like children.... you get to know their peculiarities while spending time with them; You've _got_ to feel how the reactor breathes." And here you are, essentially saying the exact same thing so many years later. I think it is very profound. We should treat our reactors accordingly. As to what reactor you should visit next? I know it is nigh impossible, but it would be so awesome to see you standing next to the biological shield of an RBMK. Just to see the difference between it, and the CANDU, despite both reactors being a pressure tube design.

@OsamaBaig 2 ай бұрын

Swoka thanks so much for your thoughts and comments! It was truly a remarkable moment for me. Next one I really want to visit are the CANDU reactors in Argentina! But hopefully an opportunity pops up there!

@swokatsamsiyu3590 2 ай бұрын

@@OsamaBaig That's right, Argentina has CANDU as well. Am looking forward to see your adventure there. It will be interesting to see how/if they do things different from Canada.

@ungergabor 2 ай бұрын

It is not good that they have to demolish it and not preserve it as an industrial monument.

@UserA441 2 ай бұрын

Hi, can you make a video about Cernavodă NPP?

@OsamaBaig 2 ай бұрын

Yes, absolutely. It's on my to do list to visit Cernavoda!

@cerealport2726 Ай бұрын

If only Australia had followed through with its plan to build nuclear reactors for power generation... instead of stopping the whole thing everything after partially digging foundations on one reactor site.

@steevemachine118 2 ай бұрын

Funny! Nobody talks of the 2 nuclear accident that occured in the 50's at CRL 😂

@frazmeup 2 ай бұрын

I am waiting for the pick up truck dudes in the comments 😂😂

@DecommMan 2 ай бұрын

Lets Decommission it !!!

@OsamaBaig 2 ай бұрын

Great to see your comment Lawrence! Any tips or high level guide on how to Decommission a Candu Reactor?

@kornol Ай бұрын

oh no, it's one of those videos where all the pauzes have been cut out and the narrator says the same things over and over. I'm 3 minutes into the video and I have seen the same footage for at least 5 times. bye

@sunnyrajput1912 2 ай бұрын

Hey Osama, make a video about India's 3 stage nuclear program. I recently heard that India has transitioned into the second stages of its nuclear program. Although I didn't understand much but it has something to do with nuclear fuel where the third and the ultimate stage will be able to use primarily thorium as nuclear fuel.