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Go to an aerospace museum and put a Geiger counter against the cockpit glass of an older fighter jet. It’s just amazing. These planes often sit for years without anyone opening the canopies, allowing the radium in the dials to decay and irradiate the dust. I also found my wife's grandfather's old thorium light bulbs in our cabin, hidden away in a drawer that hadn't been opened for over 40 years. It almost gave me a scare when the reading was nearly 2800 CPM and about 6600 µSv. The dust in those places is definitely not something you want to inhale. Yet, most people manage just fine, and the exposure time to these things is usually minimal. I always tell my wife that if people knew how much radiation is around us in everyday life, they'd freak out. Edit: The thorium bulbs were obviously radioactive, so I ventilated the cabin once I found them and disposed of them using proper protective gear, in a responsible manner. The drawer had to be cleaned, and the items that had come into contact over the years were also disposed of. The dust is what I fear personally because it can be quite nasty. Thorium primarily emits alpha particles, which can't penetrate the skin but can be very harmful if inhaled or ingested. If you find anything like this, anyone reading this - do NOT touch. The radiation might not be able to penetrate your skin, but inhaling the dust can be very dangerous, especially for children.

You just poisoned 🤢 the water for the whole town chief.

Propoganda Iz so FUN ~ in retrospect... How come 3rd WORLD iz Alwayz illustrated so backwardz & poor ... Hum? - somethingz No Change aah - COUZ 🇨🇦

1:40 - A heavy water solution of uranyl sulfate, copper sulfate, and sulfuric acid on the low pressure side. I bet you that solution is completely non-corrosive. I wonder how it would be possible to eat through metal?

*Catalog description:* A filmed story of the PM-1 nuclear power plant (a pressurized water system), a joint project of the USAEC and the U. S. Air Force, which supplies the power for the radar and space heating of a remote Air Defense Command radar station in Wyoming. The film breaks down the types and contents of 16 air transportable packages, a total weight of about 30,000 pounds: reactor, steam generator, waste tank, heat-transfer apparatus, control room, turbogenerator, etc. Details are given on major components and the design and operation of the system by information on: 741 nuclear fuel tubes in 7 fuel bundles, the "flow" of primary water, the secondary water, details on the makeup of the fuel element tubes, criticality testing, nature of the control rods, tests to determine heat transfer and flow characteristics. The film recounts the airlift of the packages, erection and assembly of the power plant, the work to achieve criticality, and the varied safety controls.

I read that K salts have 280 per minute....

It is a pity that the film we presented exclusively at Dr. Modesto Iriarte Technological Museum former BONUS Nuclear Plant property of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority has been leaked and now is all over the World.

And after living most of my life in Idaho it's nothing but a waste dump

(1:07) Getting caught on film picking your nose immortalized for posterity. 😉

A little spicy, nothing too hot. ;)

DRC?

Kryptonite...

someone get him radaway 💀😭

Just impressive: I lived very close to BONUS back in the day....

We have Biotic Oil and Mineral Oil (Non-Biotic Oil) on Earth .. Mineral Oils and molecular methane and ethane & many benzene type chains can be found on Titan and other Solar System objects

Thank you for digitizing these old celluloid gems. I thoroughly enjoy watching them. They could do so much back then. And pretty much all without computers.

Is it fair conclusion that bowties, ties, cigarets are required to get things done? Somehow building things fast was possible back then (and safe and smart enough). Why have we lost this skill?

"They would have had to have actually believed that the tsars would allow peace...!"

I would love to get to use those robot arms.

Bowties and slide rules, wild.

Actually those troggs stole a crystal generator from one individual around the 1960s and decided to hide it/only use on subs so they could complain about no having energy to back up their wars/gains. They also enjoy call of duty (lesser breeds)

let me just eyeball this neutron beam onto my sample 12:23

I believe this is physicist/chemist Warren Elliot Henry doing the vacancy defect work on gamma phase Fe2O3 at 12:15. The relevant papers are "Intradomain Magnetic Saturation and Magnetic Structure of γ-Fe2O3" Phys. Rev. 101, 1253, '56, and "Reduction of Saturation Magnetization of γ-Fe2O3 and Fe3O4 by Pile Irradiation" J. Appl. Phys. '59. Along with Robert Hein he established that uranium is a superconductor in '57 - "Superconductivity of Uranium" Phys. Rev. 107, 1517.

Peaceful use my ass. That reactor was used to generate other materials for the weapons program. Electricity just happen to help pay for it.

With all that concrete and steel, what could be the total weight of such a plant? Surely a few thousand tons. I don't really see this as transportable by air to remote bases.

I don't believe the love triangle thing, good cover story though.

I like seeing integrated work site for that time ….

Great video!

I’m curious why those two guys were handling the fuel rods without any radiation protection.

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This reactor was often cited in one of my undergraduate nuclear engineering textbooks “Nuclear Reactor Engineering” by Glasstone and Sesonske. It’s still on my bookshelf even though I retired a few years ago. One of my professors was a consultant to Yankee. My senior project involved writing a FORTRAN code for evaluating incore detector signals for Yankee Rowe.

Would be an interesting data-point for radiation hormesis studies!

This film is 65 years old not 6 years ..... Get real..

@whatisnuclear Thank you for this, and for your web site in general. I’m currently working on the fourth book of an alternate history series (the ‘Republic of Texas Navy’ series) centered around an independent Republic of Texas. The story line is currently moving towards the end of WW2, and then there will be a new story arc set during the Cold War / Space race era. One of the technologies I’m considering having the Texans develop is Thorium-based nuclear power, due to the anti-proliferation advantages as they were seen at that time. This information will help me to make that more believable.

What a waste of time and money.

Reminds me of the films we watched in elementary school.

Still Killing Us ALL @ 38 CPM Leak & Vent Cancer Lotto

Why can't we have nice things like this anymore?

“12 months from the first fell tree the structure was finished” Can we take a moment and imagine any government project today being done in 12 months….

Those gauges at the top are cool. Never seen anything like that. And the control room had carpet.

Cool flick! Looks like a nice set up. Forgot to say THANK YOU! for posting this films.

You are like American version of RBMK5000

Future just began!

So 60 years later?

I studied this core design in college and used its design parameters for a senior design project. It has smaller diameter fuel rods than what is typically used in '70s era 3000 MWt reactors. It also does not have control rods in the fuel bundles. If you look at the fuel bundle at 6:50 you will see the bundle is not exactly square, missing some fuel rods on two sides. This was to allow space between the bundles for cruciform shaped control blades.

Coal fired superheater ?! 🤔 7:54

The buildings for this project still exist. One building, just up the hill from the SM-1 reactor building is used by the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) as their HQ. From what I recall, the JPRA building was originally used by the reactor project team as a working office space. The JPRA building is interesting as it has built in shielding as a measure to protect the occupants in the event of a radiologic emergency with the reactor facility. In 2022, the SM-1 reactor building deconstruction began. You can find videos of the deconstruction on CZcams. I do not know if the building is completely disassembled yet, but you could see the building from the Potomac if you had a boat to get there. Google Earth satellite imagery still has the building in-situ. If you do try to see the building via boat from the Potomac: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GO ASHORE at that location!! This area of Fort Belvoir is a secure area not accessible to civilian or military personnel without authorization. You will be arrested and fined heavily if you attempt to do any landing from the water at this location.

Could have filtered out the hiss on the audio when converting

This reminds me the Century Camp video. Impressive.