Danger! Radioactive Waste (1977)
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- Danger! Radioactive Wasteby Joan Konner National Broadcasting Company. Films Incorporated.
Examines current methods for the disposal of radioactive waste. Shows the growing pileup of radioactive waste and the lack of safe and satisfactory means for its disposal.
Producer, writer, and director, Joan Konner
Camera, Houston Hall, et al.
Film editors, George Johnson, Clay Cassell
Electronic music, Pril Smiley
Consultants, Harry Woolf, Howard Seliger
“Some of the barrels had leaked” WTF did they think was going to happen
Maybe it were cows which were radioactive and they contaminated waste site?? Maybe it's farmers fault!
That the barrels would vibe
Exactly why they put them there. Exactly why they went back 25 years later.
Nothing is done by accident when concerning government "mistakes". The only mistakes are when they are caught lying big while the truth sits right in front of us.
Yeah and very low levels of radiation detected and no harm to the local wildlife
No
"-Can cause cancer, Especially if inhaled." *Shows workers jack-hammering the floor to bits, no masks, no protective anything.*
surely died by it
We aren't the only ones. The USSR had their fair share of failures just as we have. The US did awful things and poor disposal and lost nuclear submarines, but the CCCP (USSR) did as well. Their Chernobyl, our burning coal mines underground, their asbestos and ours. We aren't the only ones who have polluted.
“At the bottom of the ocean……forever….”
I guess “forever” back in those days must have meant “until we’re all dead, so future generations have to clean up our mistakes.”
In germany we had put it in a saltmine thats leaking water right now and the polluted saltwater need to be pumped out 24/7. corroding the barrels nobody knows how to get them out. and even though it wasnt licensed for high radioactive waste they dumped it there too.
@@indahooddererstewhat is the saltmine called?
@@Sven-kc7rq Asse
Not sure about those days, it's still the same now
@@Sven-kc7rqAsse2.
Back when we had journalism..
I wasn't alive but I can look back longingly. 99.9% of the press is useless today.
Wow I agree. Funny first thing I thought. Imagine ABC doing this today.
I believe this was made by NBC, not ABC
Ehh, I don't know about "journalism" as it seems to me that this piece didn't exactly age well. It features the same scaremongering tactics that the legacy media uses today. The only difference is that back then, there was no cable or internet for them to compete with.
I say "didn't age well" because its reporting like this that help conjure up the perception that nuclear waste is glowing green goo when the reality is that the really bad stuff is almost always in solid form, sitting in either a spent fuel pool or dry cask storage onsite where it was used and is therefore CONTAINED.
Compare this with the UNCONTAINED non-nuclear waste products that the fossil fuel industries, chemical companies and industrial agriculture have polluted our skies, soil and water with and its not even close.
Yeah, I know that Three Mile Island happened just two years later, but people forget that nobody died at TMI, that any release of radiological material was miniscule and that the twin of the reactor that melted down would go on to produce safe, clean electricity for residents of south central Pennsylvania for another 40 years. I can only imagine where our energy grid would be today, the newer safer designs we'd have for nuclear reactors and fuel, and new solutions on how to deal with the "waste" had that incident never happened.
Journalism still exists
Thanks for making this documentary available to all!
☢️🤝🏻
Back when news were news and not clickbate for financial gain
Please work on good and clean oil and gas explorations and extractions, good and clean coal minings, minerals minings, and silica sand minings. Electricity and energy prices will increase a lot again.
Gods (Aliens who created and manage this Universe and Earth) are removing all remaining nuclear fuels from Earth, so all nuclear power plants and nuclear medical devices will stop working very soon.
There will be power outages worldwide.
Aliens (Gods who created and manage this Universe and Earth) bless to clean away the bad people.
Aliens removed nuclear materials, caused the failure of 24 satellites of the European Union Galileo satellite navigation system on July 11th, 2019, power outages in New York Manhattan on July 13th, 2019, power outages in most of the UK on August 9th, 2019, and power outages in Japan on March 16th, 2022.
In August 1945, the United States detonated two nuclear explosions in Japan. On August 17th, 1945, the wind blew the nuclear fallout across the ocean to China. Chinese men worked in the fields, topless and exposed to the nuclear dust. As a result of the two nuclear bombs, more Chinese died than Japanese. Chinese women hid in their homes and wore clothes. Chinese widows were everywhere. The population of China was only about 400 million. There was a misconception that it was a plague, the flu, and other diseases. The nuclear fallout spread to Spain and Britain. King George VI, King of the United Kingdom, was also attached by nuclear dust under his lower right rib and died soon after.
Most obesities in the USA are because people have forgotten the victims of nuclear war. They need to apologize and use thoughts to retrieve the nuclear bombs to undo the damage. The Manhattan Project produced two different types of atomic bombs, code-named Fat Man and Little Boy.
Nuclear material causes aging, cancer, bad teeth, death, reincarnation, and gravity.
Nuclear materials also cause the aging and deterioration of materials of entire Earth, such as soil and buildings.
Nuclear is used by the devils.
This is a real possession of the devil.
Please no nuclear. Global warming is because human-made nuclear explosions have resonated and destroyed the Sun since 1945.
Gods (aliens who created and manage this Universe) have been repairing the Sun since July 13th, 2002. Gods have been pulling Earth away from the Sun since June 3rd, 2017. Since March 23rd, 2019, Gods have been taking nuclear particles away from Earth to stop nuclear wipeouts and nuclear disasters.
Earth will be cooler to the 1973 level.
Gravity is caused by nuclear materials. If Earth has no nuclear materials, Earth will have no gravity.
Greenhouse gas will flow further away from the Earth’s surface. Earth will be cooler and more comfortable to live in.
Radioactive elements are among the heaviest elements on the periodic table because they are attracted by the nuclear materials in Earth’s core. The nuclear power plants also are attracting and dragging back the flying saucers, which are removing nuclear materials.
Global oil and gas prices and electricity prices jack up because nuclear power plants worldwide are nearly all broken and unable to generate electricity.
The Gods who created and manage this Universe (aliens) made oil, gas, coal, and minerals.
Please use these energies. Gods recycle the landfills, trash, plastics, waste, sewage, and the dead body of water creatures under the crust to make oil, gas, and minerals.
Gods use flying saucers to compress dead trees and plants under the soil to make coals. So Gods can bring better asteroid soil and better seeds to Earth to upgrade Earth. Most asteroids are worth hundreds of millions or billions or trillions.
God bless, I do oil, gas, coal, and Solar resonators.
Please do not use hydropower dams. They caused environmental damages and fishes extinct; also increased parasites, more angry cows, animals, and humans, and more diseases; also increased landslides, risk of dam collapse, and other disasters. Gods are removing the dams.
Gods have arrived. Lots of aliens from other Planets and other Universes have arrived and landed on Earth. They are judging and taking away bad people for reeducation.
If you want to talk to God and ask God to help, you must be vegan. Killing and eating meat, egg, and honey and using animal and insect products is very bad. It is disrespectful of life. It is the worst karma in the Universe. Gods do not like it.
You ask God to read Akashic records to solve your problems and your ancestors’ problems one by one.
Pyramids are good. Detoxification. In my dream, my whole family pooped and pooped a lot.
You can print out the pyramid photos. Think about it. Put the photos in the bedroom, toilet, kitchen, and workplace.
With clean pyramid photos, you can see better too.
The Sphinx is an alien nuclear detector after Earth’s human-made nuclear wipeout. The Pyramids on Earth are emergency hospitals for lightly injured alien-reborns (human body with alien soul) who died during the Earth’s human-made nuclear wipeout. Their souls were in fragments. Aliens recover the soul and put it into the mummy. They brought alien skeleton mold. Because human-made nuclear wipeout was so catastrophic. Many alien-reborns died. That is why there are so many Pyramids in Egypt. Heavily injured alien-reborns were immediately brought back to alien Planets for more advanced treatments.
The Titanic sank because people stole the mummy. The mummy is an alien-reborn (an alien soul in a human body) who died during a human-made nuclear wipeout. Alien came to rescue the mummy to put it back into the Pyramid for healing. Flying saucer span above Titanic, Titanic followed the spinning. Titanic is too weak. As soon as the flying saucer tried to pick up the mummy, the Titanic broke in half. It broke in half before hitting the iceberg. The iceberg was a coincidence. It blocked the water from passing through. It caused more friction and contributed to the disaster.
The Moon’s front face is black because of nuclear explosions from this round of more than 4600 years of civilization on Earth, and many past nuclear wiped-out civilizations on Earth. Nuclear explosions are chain reactions. They kept exploding. The nuclear explosions burnt the front face of the Moon. Every time, aliens had to rush to Earth to remove the nuclear materials to stop the continuous nuclear explosion; otherwise, Earth would be destroyed by humans, Moon would be destroyed by humans, Sun would be destroyed by humans, and the entire Universe would be destroyed by humans. Each past civilization on Earth did not last for about 4800 years. The Moon’s far side is white. There are many pyramids all over the Moon. The Moon’s pyramids are now covered under nuclear dust, the result of many nuclear explosions on Earth blown to the Moon.
Please, no Mars colonization or Moon mining. Please, no nuclear in Space or on Earth. Aliens are at least 50 years ahead of humanity. Humans are bad, having wars all the time. Human invaders on other Planets will be killed. Acts of revenge have started-many massive cyclones around launch sites. Please recycle space junk.
If you genuinely want to do good for humanity and Earth, stop nuclear. Whoever wants to use nuclear power or nuclear material is possessed by real devils. The real devil looks like a combination of a pig, seal, and chimpanzee. Aliens kill the devils. Their dead bodies stink. That is why the ocean is stinky. North Pole arctic water is freshwater because aliens purify them. Niagara Falls near the USA and Canada, and Siberia in Russia are connection points of the enormous water purification and filtration system.
You can go there to hear the sound of alien cargo. It sounds like train cargo.
Gods remove nuclear materials to avoid a nuclear wipeout. Otherwise, within about 200 years, people either use nuclear weapons to wipe themselves out again, or with pesticides, or gene editing.
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They' are not doing it for you they're doing it because they're getting paid
@@insmileyfacemur4242 surely there’s a financial incentive behind every corporation, but at the end of the day, things were not the same back then as they unfortunately are now.
And its 2023 and most people never knew this video even existed...
I would say 80% of the WORLD don't even know radiation danger exsist. That's what them/they want too.
Only reason I do is because the algorithm can push it in aus but not in America...I'm sure that's why the rest of the world thinks that Australia is dystopian ...but it's just the media having a national agenda ...
@@seedy-TV It pushed it here in the US
@@J-1410 that's strange because here in aus CZcams and google results are extremely censored...for eg if this was in Australia there would be very minimal information on it available to the average Joe...
I had a science teacher in high school (1980s) who showed us films like this all the time. I took 3 of his elective science classes. Greatest teacher ever!
Watching this documentary felt like a bad acid trip. The music was absolutely terrifying.
LOL true
For real, the soundtrack is like a bad dream. Well done.
"Uranium, like oil is limited and expected to run out by the year 2000"
That didn't quite happen now, did it?
its called a breeder reactor
The development of fracking and other extraction methods have extended the life of petroleum energy. Still, it's a finite resource. We're on the downward slide and that's a blessing.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
@@morgothra4483 Well, that's kind of the point. There's no point in saying "we have x until y" as it's untrue, it's "our currently known reserves of x will last until y"
While oil is on the decrease, nickel, cobalt and lithium use is on the increase, so we've just changed one resource for another and li-ion recycling is *extremely* wasteful, usually involving simply burning the cells and then reprocessing the ash and less than 10% of li-ion cells are recycled.
I would expect to see wars over lithium soon, we already have slave cobalt miners. Nickel is abundant enough to not cause much of an issue. Unless we figure out a way to efficiently extract it from seawater.
@@daviddavidson2357 I definitely agree on likelihood of resource wars in the future, be it lithium, water, food, etc...
@@morgothra4483isn’t there oil like almost everywhere? I’m pretty sure there’s still plenty of oil.
All of those workers tearing up the radioactive floors with no masks/respirators. How long to you think they lived? They’re inhaling the stuff. Crazy :(
They're all doing just fine.
Im curious how many people in this film are still with us and what they've seen since this was made.
Well, considering this was filmed 45 years ago, and many of the people in the film looked to be 40 or older, I'd say many passed away from simply old age by now.
agree. i was not able to find any infos on mrs monnie hall.
Old old you mean cancer
@@armando7621curiously, my curiosity is curious.
Wonder how many died of cancer?
Yea metal definitely won’t rust out in salt water…
George burton practically welled up in tears. That man was sick to his stomach in that questioning period. And probably sick to his stomach up to the day he died. Speechless
All by design. We were never running out of oil. It’s actually the only true renewable. Death of organisms mostly in the ocean is what makes oil. It will always be produced by the planet as long as there’s life. Even as a child I found the idea of dinosaurs being eradicated being the source of oil to be ridiculous.
That guy minimized the damage . He said they only know a leak after it happens (with rapid eye blinking) . I bet there is someway to check and mitigate ….but I bet it costs money to do that . He’s president of a sub-contractor company . Idk……then the manager answers the direct questions.
Then he said it makes “economic sense”. (For the company ). Perfect front guy.
Well, he shot himself 5 years afterwards.
@@SMGJohnare you serious?
That explains everything
The whole world needs to see this
Did they not know barrels rust in the 50s 😂
Know.
They made the drums.
😭🙏
They should’ve just shot the barrels into space 🚀
In Finland they bury nuclear waste a kilometres under ground in sealed caverns . Stupid Americans
@@hassamprudente8343
Most rockets crashed in those days.
Nobody wants to send a rocket up that might come right back.
they knew, its all about $$$.
Amazing how open they were 50 years ago... Today it's much different..
Breathing the radioactive dust can cause cancer. Meanwhile the builders are breaking it up and not wearing mask 😮
And we wonder why cancer rates have gotten huge..
Fun to watch 50 years later. They should do a follow up report and see if these predictions came true
the predictions did not come true, that is why a follow up was not filmed
25:20 Uranium will run out by the year 2000 - This prediction did not come true. Apparently, the nuclear industry did not believe this prediction. The industry would not have spent billions of dollars to build plants, only to have them operate a mere 15 to 20 years before uranium was gone.
czcams.com/video/LmUVb-Sezco/video.html@@MalWolf01
Yeah, they're never going to bring out "Danger II! We Were Wrong about Waste!" Because it has nothing to do with science either, from start to finish the thing is based on the fact than when people Feel they usually no longer see what's Real. I mean it's done better than many horror flicks I've seen thus far! @@MalWolf01
There is no fun at all watching this, Mr Clausewitz
Finally the whole film, thanks for this -
Oh my. My heart goes out to that father and his kids. Just looking at his eyes when he's talking about the possibility that he's somehow to blame for their condition is haunting. It wasn't his fault. It was the person who put him in that position and employed him. I wonder how the kids are now if they're still alive?
sick
🔮🔮🔮??????????
agreed, i can’t imagine. i’m sure the kids are long gone since the father claimed that those with that condition only have about 10 years life expectancy.
Lol😂
Hurler syndrome typically results in death by 10 years of age. Also, the kids having that disorder has NOTHING to do with his exposure -- _both_ parents need to possess at least one of the modified genes, and even then there's a 1 in 4 chance of the kids getting it. So it was just coincidental and bad luck.
This is still a problem today...which is insane.
They've just gotten better at keeping it hush hush
They built the vault in Nevada but the state stopped it before waste could be shipped.
Japan is just dumping their waste into the ocean, with no sanctions placed.
It's really not.
Waste mismanagement and tracking down where and how much waste was sequestered in small towns all throughout the states is still a problem. Small towns all around my state find some barrels from the 50s buried under a school's baseball field after kids started getting cancers.
I believe new waste has had better handling after the Chernobyl accident and, more importantly, Three Mile Island. Mining, refinement, handling, and disposal are much improved from the 70s.
you gotta love how they used to just record their crimes against humanity
I'm kind of surprised they haven't tried to eject it out into space yet
Too much volume.
30:50 ….. boom. Just boom. That’s a mic drop moment if I’ve ever seen one, FROM THE 70s! Man can’t even answer a simple, straightforward question that makes absolute sense about his own freaking business. THIS IS WHO holds the health and safety of millions in his hands?! I’d be outraged if I lived in that area.
But he says it himself:
"It's a logical thing to do.."
Gross.
Chimps with machine guns. The human race is doomed.
In any area worldwide we are contaminated.
I am a disabled vet spent 7 years on submarines SSBN 619 634 and 644 I was a reactor operator this was in the late 80 s I can not tell you where but we put radioactive waste in the ocean a few time a year. I am disabled from a torpedo reload test went wrong.
Yikes
Thanks, Mr.Submariner!! I appreciate your service "in the Tubes,' and I know you weren't the one giving orders. It's only from speaking with people like you, that THE REST OF US know where to look to find.....
100% Service-connected? If so, you're definitely living a comfortable life.
Ouch!! That sounds rough mate. Hope you’re keeping well. It takes nerves of steel to work on a sub I bet. Interesting but it’s a dangerous job. 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧.
Poor you... :(
Excellent documentary.Raises a lot of questions relating to the economic,political and social issues today.
No, it raises the question of how retarded can a human being be?
There was a meeting and some engineers made a decision that let's s...t where we eat, there was a debate that is a good idea or not.
And the decision was made, supreme.
Maybe only russian communists were bigger idiots - there was an idea of Humans being kings of nature so they dropped their waste everywhere and improved nature.
Managed to finish a sea - what a result!, meanwhile rest of the world did similar things as I can see
I’ll tell you what’s not a question, they were studying using thorium in Ohio . The waste is salt water . They suddenly shut it down and sent the money to cern…….what also isn’t a question is that serious catastrophic mistakes were made (mistakes or bribes ). And no one is in prison.
What questions are you thinking?
@@lovejumanji5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment I assume you're talking about this. I mean, I guess if you just make the shit up you'd be right....
Saddest thing is that almost nothing changed.
32:30 40 years and no plan to remove the contents... just a giant middle finger to future generations :(
Theres TONS and TONS of nuclear waste from years of negligence still in the ground all around the USA and Canada
Children will pay ultimately for mans pride..we are all seeing it Now BIG TIME..
We've only added to it with the invention of microplastics
Yeah we can tell by Americans born post 80s
@@TalismanGirls true, true.
Breeder reactors could be built, everything else could be strored to places like Onkalo.
“ and there was no immediate danger “ . Brought a smile to my face.
That’s the same thing they said about asbestos
Every time it rains, fallout from above ground testing comes back to the earth. People wonder why we're dying from cancer. Growing up in the 1970's it was normal where I lived to lose a kid every couple of years to leukemia. It was a 'normal' thing. We should've known better.
They did but they didn't care just like today they don't care all they want is control we send billions of dollars humanitarian Aid to foreign countries the people of those countries do not receive one red fucking sent
Prob why everything causes cancer, cause otherwise the government couldn't pay out the lawsuit if found culpable.
Holy shit 😮that’s messed up
In the first 2 or 3 years after the Czernobyl accident I can recall 2 friends in my age (I was about 5 years, living in a small village in the south of Germany) and one young mother of a friend fell ill with leukemia and Hodgkin disease. Luckily, they all survived. Looking back now, it's pretty suspicious. All families grew their own vegetables in their gardens which might have contributed.
dumbass
It's 40 years later and the problem has never been solved. Some folks don't think it's a problem still.
All those drums at the bottom of the ocean 100 miles from NYC. I'm sure they've leaked. How much are people being affected in NY?
Yet we can't detect any radioisotopes in any of the sea water in any good amount
@@manletopia4801 water disperses radiation pretty well but contaminates the soil where the barrels are located. thats the problem. its localized. until spreads out by leaks.
The problem of nuclear waste will only increase. To illustrate this try the following thought experiment : try moving water around without getting other things wet. The water represents radioactivity. So it's an ever-increasing problem. What the waters already in is wet. Taking it out gets something else wet. Burying it gets the ground wet. Etc.
@@manletopia4801 Water is a neutron moderator.
We formerly took journalism like this as standard
I don't have an answer to that...at least the guy was sincere. Today they wouldn't even give an interview
1:28 who lives in a toxic waste dump down under the sea? CHAD SPONGE RAD PANTS
Put them around the Whitehouse, they can enjoy them as a fence. Who is this man? He is a wise ass just like me. I admire that.
Up until 1971 our family duck hunted along the shore of the Columbia adjacent to Hanford. We put in near Ringold Springs, motored across the river and put decoys in a bay. Thousands of ducks which had come down from Canada pooled on the river so hunting was very good. Eventually two Hanford guards showed up one morning and said we would be arrested for being on Hanford land, they though we came got their by going across the desert, haha, carry a 14' aluminum boat, motor, decoys and gear 10 miles across a sage brush desert. Finally my dad talked some sense into them so they let us go, when we got back to the truck a helicopter was nearby sitting there apparently making sure we werent lying. The next year you couldnt hunt on that side of the river, probably because of a start of this clean-up.
Negative, .... they don't want prying eyes seeing what's REALKY happening on the site ! They don't ever clean anything up, .... only dig it up and bury it elsewhere ! Outa site, ... outa mind ! 1
They just had another leak into the Columbia
15.10 dudes with not even a dust mask tearing up radio active floor material ⛏🤒 🔨🤒
I was born and raised in Grants New Mexico. There are still crazy cancers popping up from time to time.
This is reminding me of “The Devil We Know” with the cows in the creek.
I’d like to file a complaint and hold the government responsible with a class action lawsuit, here’s the proof!
حكومتكم تملك ٦٤٧ تريلون لماذا لاتقدم لكم تعويضات وتنظف البيئه والمحيطات
And yet Cherynoble and Fukushima are what we talk about...
DO WE ??? Chernobyl, ....1986 .... Fukushima ,.... 2011 ,... just 12 years ago and what do you hear about it anymore? you must do your own search to learn of the coverups, fraud, scandal, etc. Watch," SECRETS FROM A BOMB FACTORY " then the book, " THE AMBUSHED GRAND JURY " !
That's American propaganda for you.
In Russia vast grounds contaminated with transuranium waste. Including some spots in Moscow (Kolomenskoye park) or near Moscow - Elektrostal waste leaks etc. They just don't care/speak about this much. And nothing they do with it.
100,000 years? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Scary when you realize you’re downstream 6-8 miles from Maxey Flats. Surprised no one in the scientific community have graphed the correlation of different cancers in relation to dump site? Very strange to me the amount of people who contract various forms of cancer, that also live miles within the area. From personal experience I’ve had several pass from very aggressive forms of cancer and have myself beaten testicular cancer. Would like to see a graph or chart comparing cancer rates before and after, though it’s obvious it’s contributed to higher rates.
My dad used to weld out at the Hanford tank farm. Sometimes, they'd have Geiger counters on poles mounted on rods above jeeps they'd drive around, first they'd extended the rod over the walls/ mounds before exiting the vehicle. Kind of like sneaking a peek around a corner.
Just don't eat salmon from the Columbia river runs. Isotopes get to the river in between 2-6 weeks back in the day.
My uncle also worked and maintained Hanford his entire career. He sprouted an extra "toe" if you can call it that on each foot. No lie. Nobody believes me at first until I show the pictures. He died of a rare blood cancer.
My grandpa worked at Hanford, had a stroke from the conditions he was exposed to. They had these strips of paper that we’re supposed to change color if they were exposed to radiation, they never worked
I knew somebody who grew up on the East side of the Columbia there during the 1960s and her sister had thyroid cancer when she very young.
85k barrels?! Holy crap!
Give or take.
Imagine how much more there is today 50 years later.
This is insane
Thank you for uploading this.
We should show this in schools.
Nothing's changed. Except quantities.
I really dig the tracking, it made it creepier somehow!
I remember watching this back in the day and have wondered about it often through the years. Thank you for posting this.
Since childhood I remember adults calling all the massive amounts of people with cancer ‘down-winders’ here in Washington State. The amount of cancers, multiple sclerosis, on and on… and it was basically ‘accepted’ as just the way things are.
Two years ago our previously completely healthy and vibrant mother died at 65, within 7 months of diagnosis, from a very rare disease called multiple system atrophy, MSA. I can’t help but wonder and be sickened by the thoughts of her disease and horrid, hellish, tortuous suffering and passing being caused by this BS that these companies and our country knew without a doubt were already and would continue to sicken and kill all life within its reach. I cannot believe this BS occurs in the United States. I can only wonder what these people would do if they had to live with watching someone they love die from something caused by their selfish, greedy decisions. ‘Not in my back yard, so who cares’ 😡 Disgusting.
Think about the fact America has shipped manufacturing to China, Mexico and removed 80% of these firms from our shores.
They have to make the CEOs and other shot callers live in the same location that they’re waste was dumped.
83,000 barrels were dropped 112 miles from new york in the water…. what is wrong with people…. blows my mind 😢
They still dump nuclear waste into the Hudson river to this day, so what are you worried about 😂
85,000 barrels and it was 120 Miles off the coast of NY
I'd really like to see a follow up to this video that updates us on each of the people, places, and issues presented.
Make one
And... nothing has changed or come to pass since this film was recorded some 40 + years ago. Literally nothing has changed. We are still in midst of the exact same crisis and I honestly do not believe that a solution to the nuclear waste problem will be solved. In fact it has only been more compounded with new fuel rods and new nuclear defense weapons being produced in the time since this films production. I write this after my sibling has passed at the age of 42 from leukemia.
I’m so sorry for your loss, it’s truly disgusting that it’s still a massive issue
We should blast it into space or throw it out the hatch of the space shuttle
It’s already been solved 😂
@@Cognitoman you must have not paid attention to this film.
@@digdugbingo You mean the same film made 50 years ago that said we also expect to run out of Uranium by the year 2000?
This would be the perfect fifty minute Boards of Canada music video.
I co- produced a segment of this special on the Maxey Flats nuclear waste dup when I was 25 years old-with Martha Elliot of WNBC-News.
Any idea what became of the plant worker and his children born with disabilities?
If you were already a lawyer by then, why waste time producing NBC docs when you could have been using your given profession to make a difference in the world, Carol? As a law counselor, you could have been doing more for immigrants and lower socioeconomic clients. Hopefully you don't believe in intersectional feminism.
God help us my grandfather died of spinal cancer he was a engineer Santa Fe railroad hailing nuk waste 49age died
@@DIVISIONINCISION Please don't be angry with her. There's very little she could have done . If you want to see results of a criminal trial of a Nuclear Weapons Plant , watch , ... " SECRETS FROM A BOMB FACTORY " , then read the book about the trial titled, " THE AMBUSHED GRAND JURY " and see how the GOVT weasels out of justice for all !
Hi, any follow up done, that would be most interesting.
The whole point of this documentary -- indeed, of this entire topic -- is summed up in the conversation at 34:16 :
"Isn't it true that every waste-handling process creates a new problem?"
"In dealing with radioactive waste, the use of any new process, any commitment of new equipment and facilities naturally creates the problem of disposal of that equipment ... the equipment, when it's served its purpose then becomes waste; in that sense, yes."
"So that, in a sense, you have a geometric progression of waste as you try to solve the problem?"
"That's correct."
Sick
I think dude was excited to pay for those who most likely took their own lives for having to endure that tragic song
This is insane. They still have not picked up the waste?! And properly stored them?
Right, the nuclear people tell the farmer he’s crazy for thinking the water that the cows are drinking are radioactive. No the farmer ain’t crazy at all, he’s using common sense
Obviously those are things to avoid, but you have to realise that nuclear energy was about to provide EXTREMELY cheap, relatively clean (if you store the waste sensibly) and almost limitless power. This film was undoubtedly funded by the oil industry to vilify nuclear power.
The only reason they dumped the waste was the usual story... Money. They could spend hundreds of millions building appropriate disposal facilities , or chuck the barrels in the sea for peanuts.
As we've all seen, putting the environment and safety before profits, is extremely anti-semitic.
Look up DuPont Teflon, that will scare the hell out of you there has been an ongoing lawsuit with them for 40 years and we all have the DNA in our system from Teflon skillets
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@@MattyEngland right, that makes a lot of sense. Has anyone decided to go pick it up? And maybe transport the barrels to an appropriate facility?
@@lukesmith3283 Being immersed in salt water for so long, they would have rusted away years ago, so unfortunately too late.
It's the same with all the man made climate change nonsense they come out with now. They want people distracted by and focused on that, while they quietly get on with dumping chemicals and plastic in the oceans and rivers. A lot of the plastic that ends up in the Pacific ocean is actually 'recycling' from western Europe and the USA. Rather than recycling it, they put a huge percentage of it into ships for export to places like China and the Philippines, and most of it 'magically' ends up dumped in the ocean instead.
Most people in the world are good people, but unfortunately all the people who own the banks, corporations and governments have been run by psychopaths since we'll before any of us were born. They care nothing about the environment, animals or other people, simply about power, money, and being above the law.
I’d like to know what happened to those workers getting rid of this radioactive waste.
They didn’t appear to be wearing any protective equipment.
This is low level nuclear waste, "the everyday refuse of nuclear power plants", it is often not radioactive. Low level nuclear waste includes everything from within boundary of a nuclear plant e.g. light bulbs, computers, office chairs, desks, carpets, overalls etc. It is too costly to test and separate out anything that might be weakly radioactive from non-radioactive, so they just assume it is radioactive and dump it all as low level waste.
I know. They probably 1 are still around and sick. Or 2 they are passed away
There are other workers working in worker disposal service
They went on to live great lives no cancer
This was in 1977 and since they died, many of their histories have been told and are available. They suffered from a LOT of 'rare' diseases.
Are those metal barrels? Dumped into salt water? wtf
Excellent Documentary!
I realise the Planet is becoming Toxic, but this is beyond me!
Thanx for U/L, will watch it again and shared.
Thanks for posting this!
Nobody can tell me they didnt know those barrels would rust and leak and and the shit inside would leach into the soil.
This has some big oil vibes
Removing the floor due to dust might cause cancer, no masks on all the workers🙄
No wonder so many people have cancer know a days
It's ok, they were Mexicans.
@@johncholmes643 yet probably hold more value to humanity than your hate and division due to a person's place of birth.
Caveman mentality.
Also remember this was even before OSHA was invented.
FYI - Hurler’s Syndrome is a recursive condition that requires both parents to carry the recessive gene.
@23:12 The documentary implies that working conditions caused Jerry Brown’s children to be born with Hurler’s Syndrome. The reason Mr Brown couldn’t find a doctor to tell him that radiation exposure caused his children’s illness is because…it didn’t.
I feel sad for Mr Brown and his family’s medical conditions. I also feel sad that he unknowingly perpetuated a glaring scientific inaccuracy in this documentary about a brutal genetic disorder - Hurler’s.
I wonder if that fish swimming next to the barrel had a fulfilling life.
😮 they probably did!
WOW ... this might as well be CURRENT NEWS 😮
TL;DR 85.000 barrels of nuclear waste were dumped in 1951 into the Pacific a few miles of the coast of San Fran. In 1971, researchers found that the barrels were beginning to leak..
WTF has happened since then.
What?
@@brosefmcman8264 what do the barrels look like now?
Fission’ Chips
Forgive me, but cursing isn't going to help, what we need is someone brilliant or commission who can work immediately and find a place or solution to the nuclear waste, check with any expert( Finland, maybe), and take it from there.
Youre seeing it.
California is Fudged Up!
No Industry should be allowed to release dangerous pollutants out to in the environment for any profit if there is any concern it can harm the environment and those living in it. The ppl living nearby receive no profit just astronomical amounts of physical, mental, and financial costs to their health. This is sick stuff.
lets dump it in your basement like duh
@@ericrotermund1004thankfully they were very sensible and only used radioactive waste to build foundations of houses - much, much safer.
Without nature, man will not even survive on this planet.
WHO IS STILL HERE ? This Shit is ridiculous ! Why is this not being talked about today !!!!!!
I'm still here, because after a while people just get used to something and quit talking about it. Look at Ukraine situation, when it first happened, huge news, now except for revolt in Russia, no big deal. I worked a shutdown in a nuclear plant, kinda spooky.
@@donaldatkinson7937 I'm rootin' for putin
Ahhh the 70's!!! 30:50 'have you stopped beating your wife?' - a classic answer to a tricky question from a pre-PR savvy CEO! And 14:00, the concrete floor is torn up because it's made of radioactive waste and might cause cancerous dust. Is anyone wearing a mask whilst jackhammering? Stuff that!!!!!
What an era. If only we could go back.....
The white house fence is a perfect solution bar none
I hate seeing those workmen tear up that floor in Grand Junction, wearing no mask breathing in all that uranium dust. I wonder how many came up with cancer or are now dead, I'm sure they didn't dig up just one house floor.
Mrs ball needs her washer machine!
Those workers who were working without protection are so entitled to big lawsuits.
They are dead
Disposable peons
The pre ground-liner era. The wow and flutter is strong with this one.
Thank you for posting this video.
The workmen at 14:49 digging up the radioactive floor with no masks. And while smoking a cigarette. 😂
Safety cigarette
@@AlphaFlight ah! That explains it!
@@pureblood1978x think about this. By the mid 40s we had already opened the nuclear door, full of danger. YET personal safety wasn't invented or made a law till 1978-1980
@AlphaFlight lol. Actually, yeah that's insane!
The 70s. It was a different time. Smoking was common everywhere, including hospitals. There was increased awareness of the dangers, but it took a new generation to drive change.
Im watching them throw barrels into the sea and my hair is standing up
2020 Still Have Same Problems
Like a start of a bad horror/zombie movie of the 70s. But it's real!
Very little transparency here, these poor people know there's a connection with the nuclear waste but the people in power are fighting tooth and nail
Good luck sueing the government.
The fucked up music makes it amazing/creepy!
John Oliver mentioned this on Last Week Tonight
Did these locals with a tainted creek even buy a Geiger counter? Back in the 70s, we used to believe whatever the authorities told us. I grew up on a ranch. For anyone to poison our water - unimaginable.
If you do research
I be everyone that is watching this, lives 1/2-1mile to 3mile from a radioactive superfund site
My daughter came down with leukemia with stage 2 spinal cancer.
The doctor said they don’t know what could have caused it.
So me being me I did a lot of research and found out that we lived 1/4mile from one of the biggest radioactive superfund site that had three different types of Isotope that was buried around the area during the time of this film
It was from, the isotope that was used on the watch, hands and face, power stations, nuclear weapons and subs.
And then found out that it was bulldozed up and down the highway when they were building it.
Then my sister that lives in another state started researching found out she was 3 miles away from a superfund site.
And she live in the mountains.
Where was the major superfund site you lived next to?
he ded
@@Nobluffbuff north NJ
Hackensack area
40 years later, still no solution.
its like the border enough sometime passes no solution is the solution is the solution
But they went and created a GLOCK
🙏
Apparently nuclear scientists were incapable of realizing that steel drums will rust away in decades!?
Update from 2023. Still looking for solutions. Still looking for disposal sites. Hanford still leaking. WIPP in Carlsbad started accepting shipment in '99. Glassification plant built but not yet functional.
My Dad worked at the West Valley Plant. I grew up in Olean, not too far South of the plant. Olean itself, is a superfund site.
makes me thing that i can't wait for my time to be over on this earth, a life in a society that we never asked for.. imagine the damage that isnt spoken about anymore because its simply been forgotten about with time
These fat cats that just craved off the power and greed to feed their own wealth and lifestyle, they knew that when they will be gone they wont have to worry about the repercussions of dumping such harmful waste into the ocean so seamlessly, the fact that one of these 'Gents' at @4.40 minuets in says its a 'safe amount of radiation' is ridiculous he lived his life of whatever luxury
They never gave a single damn about us and its still the same situation today.
well said
25:25 "...uranium is expected to run out by the year 2000"
There's still plenty of it!!!
In 1989 they said NYC would be underwater by 2000 from global warming...
Want to see that paper.
beyond words
Good time to remind everyone that dangerous levels of radioactive waste are still being released into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to this day.
dear lord, do not forsake us children of these wacky figures who made these decissions
Why at 15:18 doesn’t the guy just dump the wheel barrow directly onto the conveyor?
"85,000 barrels"
Fukushima "we can beat that"
They really expected radioactive waste would be contained in steel barrels under salt water “forever?
WTF🤦♂️