@@ash90989 lol you're usually pretty safe unless something goes absolutely horribly wrong and there's a leak. Under normal operation, there's a closed loop that's completely separate from the rest of the water that gets superheated and goes into a heat exchanger. The heat from that goes into the water taken from the lake, and turns it into steam for the turbines, which eventually is cooled back to liquid form and returned. The water in the lake is perfectly safe
@@FireheartIndustries it’s actually safer as counter intuitive as that is. Studies have shown due to the heating and cooling it kills a lot of bacteria (both good and bad) in the water during this process.
They think of that. It'll likely be a slightly different siren along with a notification to your phone and on TV and Radio that it's not a test or drill and to get the fuck out of dodge
@@chicxulub2947 If you don't know the difference it's because you don't know what the sounds mean to begin with, so won't run away no matter what sirens happening. But a real one would go up and down in pitch and is very different sounding.
@@jsjsjsjsjjsnsbsns well "matey" i tried to google it now but it didnt give me anything "matey" so could you "matey" please explain it like a normal human being "matey" without getting cocky "matey"
In Oslo, Norway we have a test of the alarm system every second Wednesday of January and July - at 12 o'clock. To have a test each month is just stupid.
@@theuniversewithin74 if the alarm doesn't go off and their is an emergency it could lead to probably thousands of deaths so its better to be safe than sorry
@@HmineCrafter yes, but testing EACH month seems unnecessary. And it might prime people to not take it seriously if indeed the alarm is real. What if an emergency happens around noon first Wednesday of the month?
@@theuniversewithin74 tests like these only last about 1 or 2 minutes, if something is really wrong than the alarm will go off for much longer than that, so people will still realize something is wrong.
Or every French person ^^ Every 1st Wednesday of the month at noon the firefighters check the alarms for like 5 minutes. (I actually heard the alarm once for a real reason : a chemical factory blew up in my city in 2019. Would not recommend x))
Central European here, no danger of tornadoes or anything like that, but we do still have siren drills every first wednesday of a month, 12:00. Last usually 5 ish minutes.
I remember my cousin from West Virginia came to Ohio and the Wednesday alarms went off, he woke everyone up screaming trying get us all up and we were just like “buddy it’s Wednesday go back to sleep”
the question is, what if a problem occurred at exactly noon on the first Wednesday of the month? How would people know if it's a genuine danger or not?
@@smileynation4020 you’re definitely the type of student in high school to say he’s gonna make it big in the rap industry but ends up working the late shift at McDonald’s
then youll get radioactivity, then when ur pregnant, you will have a disordered baby. then that baby will eventually touch somone, then he will get sick. then loops
There was once a tornado at noon on Wednesday and none of my friends even knew about it since they don’t check the news. Just assumed it was another test and that is actually a terrifying thought
You'd be surprised! While its still way louder at the plant, its not as loud as you expect it do be. I dont know how it works, but these sirens are somewhat around the same volume within its range. But again, they're much louder right next to them, but not as loud as you'd expect them to be.
@@dektarey4024 Perception of sound is logarithmic, hence why we use decibels. If the siren is 130 dB at one meter, 5000 meters (about 3 miles) away the intensity will be something like 1/5000ths that, but still about 60 dB; only half the volume to your perceptions. This is also why the dangers of higher dB sound escalates so fast and why we're so bad at recognizing the issue. Normal conversation is 60db and is just fine but the sound you perceive as only about twice the volume at the siren is intense enough to cause permanent hearing loss almost immediately
@@dektarey4024 well yea, but some sirens actually make you cover your ears. I heard a few older ones that were so loud that I either had to wear ear protection when standing next to them, or cover my ears because it felt as if I would go deaf instantly if I didn’t cover my ears in time. That loud! Some other siren enthusiasts I know even had headaches from hearing loud sirens up close
Interviewer: what’s that Guy: Nuclear annihilation. Interviewer: shouldn’t we be worried? Guy: well if you hear the siren it basically means your screwed, so no point of wasting energy.
Dude, you know they would sound that if there is a potential failure too.. also nuclear fission energy is the safest energy we can grab a hold of as of now.
@@Intrspace What if you're working in the area of nuclear plant? It doesn't need to be scary, but it's irritating when it's above your head. Get some hearing protection.
Im sure they thought this up. I don't think it that hard to notify both athourities and those repsonsable for sending you those emegency alerts for extreme weather/amber alerts and then initiate the alarm. I mean if I got that emergency alert and then saw police rushing around just before the siren whent off I think i'd know it is probably not a drill and gtfo once the siren goes off.
The siren is probably playing from speakers stationed around the city, not just the facility. We do the same thing in the Midwest, same test, same siren, just for tornados instead of a reactor meltdown.
I have a plant near by. Its loudest when in any range of one of the 96 sirens in the 10 mile radius of the plant. So if you live physically close to any one of those sirens, you hear it the loudest. We have one that's about 800 feet across the street from where I work. Its LOUD. Louder than the one in this video.
I live right by Three mile Island [TMI], ( the one that had a partial melt down, and just recently went offline.) Here in PA regulations dicaticate that you'r not using the main reactors while safety testing is underway, making it impossible for this situation to happen.
It’s this kind of thinking that’s got us 25 years behind the rest of the world on a much more “green” fuel source. Face it, we are the number #1 League Nation. But, we’re beginning to trail everybody in a lot of different regions now.
@@GmHomer Nuke Outage Worker US: ‘General Alert’ status not sheltering in place, or by offsite meeting point and or escape/travel routes. (acc. Wind direction). PUBLIC by General Announcement by Client designated spokesperson up to/and or G.E. Siren. And by municipal emergency affiliates. This is standing in the 16 different nuclear power houses on about 44 to 45 outages I’ve worked over the last 16 years. There is a (1) Client, Contractor, Employee (2) 10 mile to 50 mile alert warning plan for the Public. If you live in these areas and do not know what to do contact your local County Sheriffs office if you live X miles ‘close’ to a functioning nuclear power house.They will tell you or direct you to the proper authorizations in your area.
@@ayyorta if you live within the plant local siren zone, and don’t know what to do (by asking your self or not notified) from the position of you probably having family or relatives) then you are indeed ignorant. Knowing what to do is part of every P.A.T. (Plant Access Training) training and tests before we can enter and work at these facilities. Which are the some of the safest work places in the country. It’s this line of ignorance that’s helped to contribute the USA being 20 to 25 years behind the rest of the Nuclear World Community. Blame your State and Federal Governments and yourself for not learning of/about it, if you live by one. Safety and Awareness begins with you.
We in the netherlands have the sirens all around the country and you can hear them every first monday of the month, they go off to warn us if there is an invasion in our country
There are two different tones that the sirens can use. Alert is the tone heard in the video, which is a steady tone for 3-5 minutes used during tests or as an all clear. Attack is the wailing tone used during an emergency that is also used for 3-5 minutes.
eat-another-pie there is a voice over about 50% of the time the siren is going off saying it is a test. Otherwise (surprise surprise genius!) it either won't say it is a test or say explicitly it is not a test
Reminds me of an apartment I lived in. We had 14 tests a year of the build's fire system (monthly, an annual test of each floor's hallway sensors, and an annual test of the in-unit sensors). They would periodically be running a day or too late, so they literally had everybody trained to just ignore them even if it wasn't on the testing day. Plus the schedules were published so anyone wanting to start a fire maliciously would do it a couple hours before the scheduled test and watch everyone burn. First real fire the alarms didn't even go off, and the second fire nobody evacuated because why would they? Neither were a big deal, no significant smoke or injuries, but it was a great example of why you shouldn't train people to just ignore alarms.
I mean the siren isn’t at the plant itself. There are warning sirens in all of the communities that would be affected if something went wrong at the plant. That’s why it’s so loud. He’s probably less than a mile from the siren.
This is really nostalgic to me. Our city would do it every first friday of the month at noon and i remember i was always sitting at school when it was happening. It stopped like 8 years ago and i totally forgot about it.
I sense a lot of ptsd episodes taking place at that golf course. "C'mon grandpa lets go shoot some golf" "Okay pal" *Siren sounds* "THE NAZIS ARE COMING!!!!"
In Mexico city every september 19 they test the earthquake alarm. In 2017 in the morning of September 19 the alarm went off and no one reacted thinking it was a test. This mistake led to thousands of deaths after the second strongest earthquake in Mexican history hit that same day.
Wrong. In CDMX there were like 300 deaths, and a few dozen more in surrounding states. The thousands were the wounded. And a lot of people reacted to the alarm, it's a well known date thanks to the 1985 earthquake, thats why casualties didn't go higher than that.
For those comments saying if the meltdown happens during the first Wednesday of the month at noon, there is a time limit on the siren if it goes off for usually more than 5 minutes or they can talk from the sirens.
@@violentscorl697 radiation is the chemical that flows in the air after the nuclear explosion happens and gives you cancer the heat from the blast that’s about equal and bright as the sun causes a human to burn up instantly
one of these plants are right next to my school, and everybody just disregards the occasional sirens. these comments just reminded me how weird it actually is
Its not weird at all, tornado alley, all of australia during the dry season, florida hurricane season testing, lots of places do similar stuff all the time You ever wunna witness true creepy look up chicago's broken tornado siren
There was a warning where I live, it woke someone up and they were upset so they overreacted and yeah, they melted down.... A new pack of tic-tacs wouldn't mellow them up
Had a similar thing happen while I was on holiday in Edinburgh. I was walking on the beach (you can see the power plant down the coast) and the siren went off. I legit thought I was about to die
Don’t know if any of you are familiar with Gunnison, Colorado but it’s a small mountain town with no threat of Earthquake, Tornado or really even Avalanche/Rockslide but every single day at 12 the sirens go off. I’m going to have to look up why now but it’s almost comforting
Plot twist: The interviewee knew it wasn't Wednesday; he just lied to the interviewer to keep him happy and blissfully ignorant in his last moments before the plant exploded, wiping out every living thing in a 30 mile radius.
@@user-xw8dp3ve2b Aku-chan the Fukushima daiichi plant actually exploded, the roof came off of it. I watched it on the news when I lived in Japan. The thing that actually explodes is a buildup in hydrogen gas that's released through the meltdown. Matta-ne(✿^‿^)
In reality even in the worst case scenario like a reactor fire you'd have a good few minutes before the smoke reached you, and even then it's not like one breath is deadly.
My neighbour's car alarm would go off most nights, he was shocked that nobody noticed when it getting stolen. Best way to make people ignore an alarm/siren blast it all the time
@@chrishardin4695 of course i know that, its just knowing one of the most dangerous substances in the world is being housed there, gives off a chernobyl vibe
Where I'm from at least, the long continous siren is always a drill, while in case of actual danger the siren would be oscillating tone, so you'd know the difference.
@@Fucisko We have sirens for if a nearby volcano erupts and they oscillate on tests, first Monday of the month at noon. I guess it just depends where you are.
yea you can hear these miles from plants, i live near enough to a chemical one that if your outside on the right side of the city it’s pretty noticeable. kinda spooky at first, but after a while it’s pretty normal.
@@riku3716 those are also in concrete buildings built directly into the ground with reinforced concrete Edit: not to mention nuclear fuel can be reused and many other factors which I wont talk about because it would be 500 lines of text at least
The town that l grew in used to set off an old air raid siren every day at noon. (This was back in the 1970's/1980's) They called "The noon whistle". In the summertime when all the neighborhood kids played outside and the noon whistle would go off, we would all head off to our homes for lunch and get back together about an hour later.
The town I grew up in had an air-raid siren for local firefighters to assemble at the station. The area was in Australia and quite bushfire prone. The siren would go some time between 10am and 2pm. The firefighters, all volunteers, didn't know when, they just had to be ready. As a result, air-raid sirens remind me of home and make me happy.
We have this in France every first Wednesday too. Not sure why tbh. I lived on an island before however and I know they’re testing the Tsunami/earthquake/Eruption sirens
@@joeywirt7953 What asshole thought that was a good idea? "Hey instead of testing this while the majority of people are at home, work, or school, and are already most likely awake and alert, how about we run this shit on their day off and tryna sleep in or chill?"
I used to live near Broadmore Hospital in the U.K. They also had sirens in and around the area, in most of the towns surrounding the Hospital. Towards the end of the sirens working lives they would sometimes fail and activate, especially in stormy weather. Which made for some very tense nights of shitting yourself every time you heard something move in the garden!!
Graphite cooling rods are used as part of a heat transfer system designed to help the cooling process... the incident at Chernobyl is one that had it... the joke is deeper than that though because officially Russia denied it happened... and even to this day downplays the incident
“Hello. Yes we’d love to interview you on Wednesday at 12:00pm?”
“Yeh come on down. Should be a good time to record”
Facts tho
Mothers to litrially any1 yes this is a purfect time to visist
Yooo 🤣
🤣
@@GodDid94 your name is this dude
“But, it’s the second Wednesday”
“Oh fuck”
Directed by
ROBERT B WEIDE
*tune plays*
*scene ends abruptly*
@@averagecodm3866 too be continued..
*wake up*
Imagine if he said "Must be the first Wednesday of the month at noon" then checked his watch and it was actually Friday at 11am
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ash90989 lol you're usually pretty safe unless something goes absolutely horribly wrong and there's a leak. Under normal operation, there's a closed loop that's completely separate from the rest of the water that gets superheated and goes into a heat exchanger. The heat from that goes into the water taken from the lake, and turns it into steam for the turbines, which eventually is cooled back to liquid form and returned. The water in the lake is perfectly safe
@@ash90989 I live in Chatt as well and they most definitely do go off lol. Get your ears checked
@@ash90989 yikes reply lol you are from there aren’t ya 😂😂
@@FireheartIndustries it’s actually safer as counter intuitive as that is. Studies have shown due to the heating and cooling it kills a lot of bacteria (both good and bad) in the water during this process.
Let's just hope they never have a catastrophic failure or a meltdown on the first Wednesday at noon
They think of that. It'll likely be a slightly different siren along with a notification to your phone and on TV and Radio that it's not a test or drill and to get the fuck out of dodge
This sound means it is safe to come out of shelter. People who remember war were always happy to hear this sound.
Let's hope the Xenon gas never builds up poisoning the core.
@@Sp00kq Oh, because everybody knows the difference between these sounds (I guess the tourists are the only ones losing here)
@@chicxulub2947 If you don't know the difference it's because you don't know what the sounds mean to begin with, so won't run away no matter what sirens happening. But a real one would go up and down in pitch and is very different sounding.
“Oh wait, I didn’t adjust my watch for daylights savings, we should get moving”
that wouldn’t make since if it was real anyway, people in the background with t shirts and visors on
We should maybe think about relocating our bodies for a minute
@@sherriolsen7578 What are you talking about?
@@sherriolsen7578 Plant manager.
"Would you look at that. We forgot to enable the daylight saving time box"
@@justsomeasshole7388 if they were saving time (winter) they would have jackets on, this comment doesn’t make much sense
“1st Wednesday of every month it goes off”
* checks watch and sees it’s 2:45 PM on a Friday *
I see what u did
i dont really understand why you added the time but
@@Moonlakes google might help you with that one matey
@@jsjsjsjsjjsnsbsns well "matey" i tried to google it now but it didnt give me anything "matey" so could you "matey" please explain it like a normal human being "matey" without getting cocky "matey"
@@Moonlakes i think he wrote that comment at 2:45 PM on a Friday matey
"what does the siren mean?"
"death is imminent, no point in running. But it's Wednesday, so it's aight"
Wednesday is death’s personal day
Ye
Everyone be like: ‘lol it’s just a drill’ till it’s perfect timing and it’s the first Wednesday at noon and it ain’t a drill
In Oslo, Norway we have a test of the alarm system every second Wednesday of January and July - at 12 o'clock. To have a test each month is just stupid.
@@theuniversewithin74 if the alarm doesn't go off and their is an emergency it could lead to probably thousands of deaths so its better to be safe than sorry
@@HmineCrafter yes, but testing EACH month seems unnecessary. And it might prime people to not take it seriously if indeed the alarm is real. What if an emergency happens around noon first Wednesday of the month?
@@theuniversewithin74 tests like these only last about 1 or 2 minutes, if something is really wrong than the alarm will go off for much longer than that, so people will still realize something is wrong.
@@theuniversewithin74 they also test more frequently probably because of a higher population so their is a bigger influx of people coming in and out
Reporter: It's Thursday...
Awesh I would had been that guy to say it.
F
Directed by
ROBERT B. WEIDE
This was a moment that he knew he just lost his job
*O H N O*
Every person who lives in tornado alley: ah yes, siren wednesday
Every Saturday at noon for me
Or every French person ^^
Every 1st Wednesday of the month at noon the firefighters check the alarms for like 5 minutes.
(I actually heard the alarm once for a real reason : a chemical factory blew up in my city in 2019. Would not recommend x))
For me it’s the first Tuesday of the month
@@tiny_bagel yep same here
Central European here, no danger of tornadoes or anything like that, but we do still have siren drills every first wednesday of a month, 12:00. Last usually 5 ish minutes.
Everybody gangsta till the reactor becomes sentient and learns the concept of time just to bamboozle some unsuspecting homo sapiens
I hate when that happens
Your sense of humour is the same
As mine. We are brothers.
I'm dying LMAO
oddly specific...
But the reactor acts at a subatomic level which is run by governed by the laws of quantum nature and therefore timelessness
I remember my cousin from West Virginia came to Ohio and the Wednesday alarms went off, he woke everyone up screaming trying get us all up and we were just like “buddy it’s Wednesday go back to sleep”
As someone from West Virginia, why the fuck do y’all have sirens for everything
@@stardustsheep here in Texas, many small towns have the noon day bell. It's known as the lunch alarm. Typically towns with one main industry.
@@stardustsheep I’m from WV too, what part u from
So you all still asleep by noontime...niiice😅
@@stardustsheep we have the same alarm on wednesdays here in Charleston
*end of the world*
This guy: “...oh it happens every Wednesday”
They do that with tornado sirens to make sure they are always in working condition
@@dracenut8915 no really
@@wubert4399 just saying facts is all. Its for those who dont know not those that already do
@@wubert4399 yes lmao, i live in texas so we get tornados a lot thats wat out siren is for and they test it every first Wednesday of the month
Not really the end of the world tho...
The interviewer: hey buddy hey hey
Him : what?
Interviewer: it's Tuesday
Lmfao this deserves so much more love
@@HazaHyperion lol thanks
No point running I would just take a seat personally I can't out run that so just hope it's pretty
@@razzy8268 lol I guess
Take my like
I know it’s a test, but it still gives me chills every time I hear it. I am successfully conditioned to fear that particular sound.
Local kids: "yay the week is half over"
Teachers: "Childrens calm down, it's only Tuesday...."
Saw so many comments trying to make this joke original, but you really hit the nail on the head I loved this one.
Well, then its completely over
Nice lol
Dude: if it wasn’t Wednesday, leave and get far as you can
Interviewer: But it’s Monday
👁️👄👁️
Oh shi.. SKEDADDLE
🏃
Shitshitshitshitshitshit
the question is, what if a problem occurred at exactly noon on the first Wednesday of the month? How would people know if it's a genuine danger or not?
That guy: "It's just the regular drill, relax"
Speakers: "This is NOT a drill, this NOT a drill"
That guy: "Oh shii..."
ok..
How tf am I tha 2nd comment😅 yoo listen to my new track and lmk if yall fw it😁
@@smileynation4020 Speak like you have some class.
How it felt when the nuke was heading towards Hawaii🙄 good thing it was actually just a drill though
@@smileynation4020 you’re definitely the type of student in high school to say he’s gonna make it big in the rap industry but ends up working the late shift at McDonald’s
In the Netherlands they do this in the whole country to test the air raid sirens, every first monday of the month
Same in sweden. First monday of every third month.
Geez how braced for war are you guys
@@onehillyboi and because we live next to the nazis
Same in Finland, except it's not everywhere at the same time.
@@Vincent-oc4mt Germany doesn't even have a working military what are you talking about 🤣😭
I'd be more worried if the alarm doesn't go off on the first Wednesday at noon.
I would not
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Now what if looked down at his watch and said "damn it's 3 o'clock runnn"
Genreguru maybe I will
I want to drink myself because of that
All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!
I’m sorry. It had to be done.
When you live there
Ah shit, here we go again.
@@worthlessgg do it, this mission gives no money but it gives some RESPECT +
what if there is a meltdown at the plant the 1st wed at noon, and they just think it's a drill
joshoooooawwwww then they all die...
then youll get radioactivity, then when ur pregnant, you will have a disordered baby. then that baby will eventually touch somone, then he will get sick. then loops
Omega BingleSnort what? That makes no sense.
joshoooooawwwww they will when they realize the alarm goes way longer than normal
joshoooooawwwww they should hopefully know because if its a real one it stays piched but when its a drill it will go up and down
No one:
CZcams: "This needs to be in more people's recommended."
Definate yes
Not great, but not terrible.
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Hey look everyone! A no one: comment! How original!
There was once a tornado at noon on Wednesday and none of my friends even knew about it since they don’t check the news. Just assumed it was another test and that is actually a terrifying thought
That’s why they don’t test when the weather is bad. Sometimes around here they won’t even test if it’s cloudy.
@@erickchurch5390
Same only if it’s sunny
Around here they do the test every Friday, but if the weather is even remotely bad they skip it.
Nuclear Power Plant: *"ITS WEDNESDAY MY DUUUUUDES"*
WAIT IS THAT THE MEANING OF THE VINE?
Lmaooo
@@jacobhanekamp2534 no I still don’t know what that vine means
@@ffandrewd2986 it means it is wednesday.
My dude
Underrated comment
Most alarming way of saying "It's wednesday my dudes!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
oh you mean most sirening way
LOL
I CANT!! I CANT BREATHE!!!
I feel like I’ve seen this comment somewhere else
I don't even want to imagine how loud that must be at the plant itself
You'd be surprised! While its still way louder at the plant, its not as loud as you expect it do be. I dont know how it works, but these sirens are somewhat around the same volume within its range. But again, they're much louder right next to them, but not as loud as you'd expect them to be.
@@dektarey4024 Perception of sound is logarithmic, hence why we use decibels. If the siren is 130 dB at one meter, 5000 meters (about 3 miles) away the intensity will be something like 1/5000ths that, but still about 60 dB; only half the volume to your perceptions.
This is also why the dangers of higher dB sound escalates so fast and why we're so bad at recognizing the issue. Normal conversation is 60db and is just fine but the sound you perceive as only about twice the volume at the siren is intense enough to cause permanent hearing loss almost immediately
@@dektarey4024 well yea, but some sirens actually make you cover your ears. I heard a few older ones that were so loud that I either had to wear ear protection when standing next to them, or cover my ears because it felt as if I would go deaf instantly if I didn’t cover my ears in time. That loud! Some other siren enthusiasts I know even had headaches from hearing loud sirens up close
My autistic ears: *RRRRRREEEEE!!!!!!*
Anybody who grew up in Tennessee is completely unfazed by this siren
Yes
Anyone who grew up literally anywhere. Storm sirens get tested the first Wednesday of the month all over the country.
@@CoreyCox25 well that’s what I would have thought but Id guess it must not be that common based on this video and the comments.
Or anyone in Europe. Fire sirens are tested every first Wednesday of the month
Yall know Homer's in there with his feet up eating donuts
Lol. Good one
Heyoooo
my thoughts exactly litteraly word for word my brain
DoH!
lol
Interviewer: what’s that
Guy: Nuclear annihilation.
Interviewer: shouldn’t we be worried?
Guy: well if you hear the siren it basically means your screwed, so no point of wasting energy.
Sad, but true.
Dude, you know they would sound that if there is a potential failure too.. also nuclear fission energy is the safest energy we can grab a hold of as of now.
@@joshuat20k cleanest
@@theone-uc9dm Yeah, that too.. xD
@@joshuat20k not safest at all but it's not dangerous if people take precaution
That alarm still gets me when I’m working in the area. Scary stuff to hear when you’re half awake.
You're half awake at noon on a Wednesday?
@@hypsin0 not everyone is coked up 24/7
Imagine being scared of a siren lol
@@Intrspace What if you're working in the area of nuclear plant? It doesn't need to be scary, but it's irritating when it's above your head. Get some hearing protection.
imagine their only available interview time slot being on the 1st wednesday of the month at noon
Imagine it's not a test and there is actually something wrong and it just happens to be the first Wednesday of the month at noon
They'll probably bail an intermittent sound along with the siren as a redundancy.
Im sure they thought this up. I don't think it that hard to notify both athourities and those repsonsable for sending you those emegency alerts for extreme weather/amber alerts and then initiate the alarm. I mean if I got that emergency alert and then saw police rushing around just before the siren whent off I think i'd know it is probably not a drill and gtfo once the siren goes off.
Literally impossible for something to go wrong
@@AverageAlien Poor choice of words
@@dudicorn6503 Come ere 💋💋💋
If that is THAT loud where they are, imagine how loud it is at the plant
The siren is probably playing from speakers stationed around the city, not just the facility. We do the same thing in the Midwest, same test, same siren, just for tornados instead of a reactor meltdown.
@@alogsdino5311 correct. I work in nukes and you'll see signs and sirens every so many miles from the plant itself
I have a plant near by. Its loudest when in any range of one of the 96 sirens in the 10 mile radius of the plant. So if you live physically close to any one of those sirens, you hear it the loudest. We have one that's about 800 feet across the street from where I work. Its LOUD. Louder than the one in this video.
@@__boomer2__ Ayo can I have a nuke?
@@a.j.a6806 they're pretty expensive,and security is pretty tight so I couldn't steal it very well
But what if it blows the first Wednesday at noon for real😳 everyone is gonna think it’s nothing lol
It will say “this is not a drill” probably
I live right by Three mile Island [TMI], ( the one that had a partial melt down, and just recently went offline.) Here in PA regulations dicaticate that you'r not using the main reactors while safety testing is underway, making it impossible for this situation to happen.
If you're in Finland and hear sirens going off the first Monday of the month at noon, don't worry, it's when we have those siren checks.
that's all over Europe, we have it in the Netherlands aswell
Him: It’s a drill that we do sometimes.
Speaker: this is not a drill!!
Him: Yeah it’s just a drill. Don’t worry about it.
It’s this kind of thinking that’s got us 25 years behind the rest of the world on a much more “green” fuel source. Face it, we are the number #1 League Nation. But, we’re beginning to trail everybody in a lot of different regions now.
@@1563ckg43 you're far from being #1 lmao
@@1563ckg43 #1? in what your country is an absolute mess
@@GmHomer Nuke Outage Worker US: ‘General Alert’ status not sheltering in place, or by offsite meeting point and or escape/travel routes. (acc. Wind direction). PUBLIC by General Announcement by Client designated spokesperson up to/and or G.E. Siren. And by municipal emergency affiliates.
This is standing in the 16 different nuclear power houses on about 44 to 45 outages I’ve worked over the last 16 years.
There is a (1) Client, Contractor, Employee (2) 10 mile to 50 mile alert warning plan for the Public.
If you live in these areas and do not know what to do contact your local County Sheriffs office if you live X miles ‘close’ to a functioning nuclear power house.They will tell you or direct you to the proper authorizations in your area.
@@ayyorta if you live within the plant local siren zone, and don’t know what to do (by asking your self or not notified) from the position of you probably having family or relatives) then you are indeed ignorant.
Knowing what to do is part of every P.A.T. (Plant Access Training) training and tests before we can enter and work at these facilities. Which are the some of the safest work places in the country. It’s this line of ignorance that’s helped to contribute the USA being 20 to 25 years behind the rest of the Nuclear World Community. Blame your State and Federal Governments and yourself for not learning of/about it, if you live by one. Safety and Awareness begins with you.
I know for a FACT the cameraman was ready to leave
Don't worry, the cameraman always survives
As someone who has a bad habit of forgetting my days a lot, this would be hell for me.
We in the netherlands have the sirens all around the country and you can hear them every first monday of the month, they go off to warn us if there is an invasion in our country
Still stuck in WW2 huh
what if the emergency just so happens to be at the same time when they usually test the siren?
It will play way longer i think.
There are two different tones that the sirens can use. Alert is the tone heard in the video, which is a steady tone for 3-5 minutes used during tests or as an all clear. Attack is the wailing tone used during an emergency that is also used for 3-5 minutes.
eat-another-pie there is a voice over about 50% of the time the siren is going off saying it is a test. Otherwise (surprise surprise genius!) it either won't say it is a test or say explicitly it is not a test
eat-another-pie Then they usually have an announcement over the speakers saying "this is not a test" just like for tornado sirens.
Perfect place, wrong time
No one:
Not a soul:
People with Honda Civics revving at 3 am
Haha so fucking funny dude that must be an original joke. You are so smart to think of it. Congratulations
@@Baskl757 well someone seems to be a bit of a butt hole
Huh ??? ..... I don't get it .
@@Baskl757 you must drive a honda civic
@@Baskl757 honda civic owner who revs his engines at 3 am is mad
I love how the scene is just so calm and everyone keeps playing in the back as if "ah yes nuclear gasses above the golf camp, just like every week"
the steam is not nuclear
@@VictorLundersej i know. i was slighty overdoing it but surely aint healthy. still the contrast of calm and the nuclear power plant is awesome
It's not "nuclear gasses" my dude. It's just steam. Nuclear power is actually an incredibly clean source of power as long as it's handled properly.
@@Isaac-jm4rq "the air is glowing" - Chernobyl miniseries
@@Isaac-jm4rq
Its 100% water vapor. Its harmless
0:36 “must be that over there, right?” *shows a massive explosion
Only water vapour. Its how they cool the cores of nuclear farms
@@guiguisauruxthet-rex2238 its a joke
Reporter: "but it's friday"
Dimitri: starts dancing
Hahaha
Hahahahaha glad to remember that guy
Slavic Hardbass starts playing...
The grandpa: chernobyl flashbacks
*When someone farts inside an Apple Store that has no Windows*
Bob McCoy *Macintosh Plus blasts through your speakers*
Bob McCoy is this a double joke? Apple store with no windows?
Bob McCoy 😂😂😂
Bob McCoy lol
Lol no windows lol cuz it’s iOS instead
Reminds me of an apartment I lived in. We had 14 tests a year of the build's fire system (monthly, an annual test of each floor's hallway sensors, and an annual test of the in-unit sensors). They would periodically be running a day or too late, so they literally had everybody trained to just ignore them even if it wasn't on the testing day. Plus the schedules were published so anyone wanting to start a fire maliciously would do it a couple hours before the scheduled test and watch everyone burn.
First real fire the alarms didn't even go off, and the second fire nobody evacuated because why would they? Neither were a big deal, no significant smoke or injuries, but it was a great example of why you shouldn't train people to just ignore alarms.
All things considered that made a pretty good interview itself. Explains the way of life in the town with a nuclear reactor nearby.
"if u can hear that your in range"
Holy shit that's terrifing u can see how far the plant is already and it's still so loud
I mean the siren isn’t at the plant itself. There are warning sirens in all of the communities that would be affected if something went wrong at the plant. That’s why it’s so loud. He’s probably less than a mile from the siren.
@@Cbaker6191996 still even if hes next to one of the sirens that siren is still a good distance from the plant it's pretty scary
that plant probably just few blocks away, you gotta be at least few km away to call yourselves safe
Sirens aren't strictly at the plant, they are also in the surrounding area
I live a bit farther and it's still loud
Guys: hear siren
"Pans camera over"
Big ass fireball erupts
Well it would be more than a fireball tbh more like a mushroom cloud, its a mini nuclear weapon
@@ultramarine3527 Thats not at all how nuclear power works, but okay cool... ill go with it.
I read this with more emphasis on the "ass"
Well done Sir
@@watema3381 thanks lol , most likes ive gotten on a comment before
@@ultramarine3527 nuclear power plants are very different from nuclear weapons and the explosion would be nothing like a nuclear bomb.
This is really nostalgic to me. Our city would do it every first friday of the month at noon and i remember i was always sitting at school when it was happening. It stopped like 8 years ago and i totally forgot about it.
I expected the surrounding area to change into the otherworld while this dude calmly explains the siren sound.
I sense a lot of ptsd episodes taking place at that golf course.
"C'mon grandpa lets go shoot some golf"
"Okay pal"
*Siren sounds*
"THE NAZIS ARE COMING!!!!"
SJB lol I laughed. Oops
That sounds more like the all-clear signal than an air raid siren though.
Nuclear sirens weren't a thing in ww2.
Nein
THAT COMMENT MADE ME DIE LAUGHING! THAT WAS GOLDEN! 😂😂😂
How funny if when he looked at his watch he just started running 😂
Wouldn't be funny, would mean something is very VERY wrong
@@dillonhonore3579 We know... it's called Sarcasm... you should learn kt... or I could go r/woooooosh
It's twel- two. It's two. *Books it*
@@CazzyVR this isn’t Reddit dumbass
@@CazzyVR ohh noo hes gonna do a funny and do the woosh oh no hes gonna whoosh because its extremely unfunny oh no
In Mexico city every september 19 they test the earthquake alarm. In 2017 in the morning of September 19 the alarm went off and no one reacted thinking it was a test. This mistake led to thousands of deaths after the second strongest earthquake in Mexican history hit that same day.
Wrong. In CDMX there were like 300 deaths, and a few dozen more in surrounding states. The thousands were the wounded. And a lot of people reacted to the alarm, it's a well known date thanks to the 1985 earthquake, thats why casualties didn't go higher than that.
For those comments saying if the meltdown happens during the first Wednesday of the month at noon, there is a time limit on the siren if it goes off for usually more than 5 minutes or they can talk from the sirens.
The first Wednesday of each month:
This day is not great, not terrible.
Chernobyl meme spotted
Safety first...
@@moegreene7940 "I've been saying that for 25 years......now RAISE the power.
3.6 roentgen.
Dont you have a siren alarm on every first monday at noon?
That's quite scary
Here before 20 likes lol hi Ray!
Indeed
weeee
Life in the big city!!
Ah yes, one of Ray Mark's comment that didn't reached 1k likes or more
Everywhere in the Netherlands, the first monday of every month at 12 o'clock you hear a loud siren too.
I live here and it’s always so fun to hear it. I’ll be listening tomorrow at noon
"But today's Thursday"
*back there benjamin plays*
-where I live it's thursday rn-
Holy crap I found a fossil comment
"No Worries is just a drill, there should be no acci- oh would look at that my skin is turning green"
@U҉n҉k҉n҉o҉w҉n҉ Don’t you get really tan? That’s how it’s depicted in the show Chernobyl.
@@IanBpa Well yes but eventually your skin will fall off because of the heat
@@Kain1805 *because pf the radiation
@@violentscorl697 Isn't it both?
@@violentscorl697 radiation is the chemical that flows in the air after the nuclear explosion happens and gives you cancer the heat from the blast that’s about equal and bright as the sun causes a human to burn up instantly
Everyone when the plant blows up at noon on Wednesday.
It's just sirn day, no need to panic.
I spent a year on a missile site.
That siren sure brings back memories
one of these plants are right next to my school, and everybody just disregards the occasional sirens. these comments just reminded me how weird it actually is
ig its similar to living next to train tracks, after some time you just dont get bothered by it anymore
perfectly safe, you'd get more radiation from living next to a coal plant.
@@gregdaweson4657 safe for sure, these comments just reminded me how odd it is haha
@@DJTimeLock yes, same with train tracks, you don't even hear them anymore
Its not weird at all, tornado alley, all of australia during the dry season, florida hurricane season testing, lots of places do similar stuff all the time
You ever wunna witness true creepy look up chicago's broken tornado siren
Me: Run, Pray, Cry,
The people: Just another day, another nuclear meltdown, another nuclear apocalypse...
Don't you know that, Australians are immune to radioactivity.
There was a warning where I live, it woke someone up and they were upset so they overreacted and yeah, they melted down.... A new pack of tic-tacs wouldn't mellow them up
Australians are not immune to Rishabh Pant..hahahahahhaa
Don’t be silly. Everyone knows nuclear accidents only occur at 1:23:45am. 🤫😵🤮🔥
@@cnutsack well considering this power plant is here in Tennessee I don’t think we can speak for Australians 😂
That man was so chill about it
Just thinking of the implications of having a nuclear site so close is absolutely terrifying when you think about it.
They are a lot safer than people give them credit for.
Reporter: “Uhhh yesterday was Wednesday, today is Thursday.”
Guy: “🥲”
Had a similar thing happen while I was on holiday in Edinburgh. I was walking on the beach (you can see the power plant down the coast) and the siren went off. I legit thought I was about to die
Did the beach walk turn into a beach run
lmao at that point id just jump in the water a lot safer than being on land if it exploded im assuming
@@GamerGavin04 it would not be safer at all
@@GamerGavin04 yeah it would literally be the opposite of safer
If I'm on vacation and shit hits the fan, I'll be fine with it cause I'm happy as can be personally.
Don’t know if any of you are familiar with Gunnison, Colorado but it’s a small mountain town with no threat of Earthquake, Tornado or really even Avalanche/Rockslide but every single day at 12 the sirens go off. I’m going to have to look up why now but it’s almost comforting
Plot twist: The interviewee knew it wasn't Wednesday; he just lied to the interviewer to keep him happy and blissfully ignorant in his last moments before the plant exploded, wiping out every living thing in a 30 mile radius.
nuclear power plants can't explode! they can melt down but never have a nuclear explosion
@@user-xw8dp3ve2b Aku-chan the Fukushima daiichi plant actually exploded, the roof came off of it. I watched it on the news when I lived in Japan.
The thing that actually explodes is a buildup in hydrogen gas that's released through the meltdown.
Matta-ne(✿^‿^)
@@user-xw8dp3ve2b Tell me, how an RBMK reactor explodes?
- I don't know.
In reality even in the worst case scenario like a reactor fire you'd have a good few minutes before the smoke reached you, and even then it's not like one breath is deadly.
@@hamaljay Right, however I'm talking about a nuclear explosion.
Noone:
That one kid who slowly moves his chair across the classroom: 0:10
I knew what would happen yet I still laughed
LMAO
HAHA CHAIR NOISES GO BRR N LIEK MAYMAYZ DURRHURRRRR
Yo that's me
HAHAHAHAHA
i love how people are just casually golfing in the background pretending everything is fine.
My city does this too. My childhood was remembered today
"He's delusional, send him to the infirmary."
Siren:THIS IS NOT A DRILL, EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY
reporter:Ah chill it’s just a drill
My neighbour's car alarm would go off most nights, he was shocked that nobody noticed when it getting stolen.
Best way to make people ignore an alarm/siren blast it all the time
Ohhhhh now I get why these alarms are like that! Now I get from where the money comes from too...
Most nights != once a month at a specific time.
We have one of those in Washington near Mount Rainier. Everyone in the valley hears a test siren on the first Monday of the month at noon.
Just looking at the towers actually working while the siren is going off gives the strangest feeling
Why?
Nothing to worry about. It's just steam. If you see anything else coming up into the air, then be afraid.
@@chrishardin4695 of course i know that, its just knowing one of the most dangerous substances in the world is being housed there, gives off a chernobyl vibe
I get what you're saying. I thought the same thing. It's so unsettling 😟
@@ajax478 there are thousands of things far more dangerous than a nuke plant
Imagine when they actually need it, it’s coincidently on the first Wednesday at noon
I'm pretty sure they will say on the speaker that " this is not a drill"
Where I'm from at least, the long continous siren is always a drill, while in case of actual danger the siren would be oscillating tone, so you'd know the difference.
@@Fucisko We have sirens for if a nearby volcano erupts and they oscillate on tests, first Monday of the month at noon. I guess it just depends where you are.
@@fafathought7506 its a megaphone, of course its not a drill
@@Shmozone We have those in the Netherlands as well. I'm not sure what for though..
I live in Tornado alley and I knew what day it was and what time it was the second the siren started and everybody was still chill.
yea you can hear these miles from plants, i live near enough to a chemical one that if your outside on the right side of the city it’s pretty noticeable. kinda spooky at first, but after a while it’s pretty normal.
Interviewer: 😱
Interviewee: 🥱
People from tornado alley be expecting to see a tornado, and they get caught off guard when they get exposed to radiation!
Imagine if a tornado hit a nuclear plant and grabbed high level radioactive waste to toss around.
@@riku3716 That'd be scary as hell! Good thing they thought of stuff like that when they built the reactors.
@@riku3716 a nuclear plant can probably take a direct hit from an ef5 with no damage to the reactor building
@@CarlosAM1 How about used fuel pools and other storages of radioactive waste?
@@riku3716 those are also in concrete buildings built directly into the ground with reinforced concrete
Edit: not to mention nuclear fuel can be reused and many other factors which I wont talk about because it would be 500 lines of text at least
You could sound that alarm on the 1st of April at 4am or something for a really epic April Fool's joke.
The town that l grew in used to set off an old air raid siren every day at noon. (This was back in the 1970's/1980's) They called "The noon whistle". In the summertime when all the neighborhood kids played outside and the noon whistle would go off, we would all head off to our homes for lunch and get back together about an hour later.
"Don't worry, someone probably just let the reactor meltdown, usually they only explode like after 40 seconds, so we have time, relax".
"Oh ok".
The town I grew up in had an air-raid siren for local firefighters to assemble at the station. The area was in Australia and quite bushfire prone. The siren would go some time between 10am and 2pm. The firefighters, all volunteers, didn't know when, they just had to be ready. As a result, air-raid sirens remind me of home and make me happy.
Everyone else is scared to death of them; but hey, thanks for the warm joyful comment.
@@JonatasAdoM for sure dude. Warm and joyful. 😊
Loved hearing this when I moved to Port St. Lucie.
Blows up on the 1st Wednesday of the month at noon.
*The sun literally explodes*
This man: oh, it happens every Wednesdays
You're right but not in the way you thought you were
czcams.com/video/avFP67EIYvo/video.html
Its a test.
Reporter : It's UMM Thrusday...
*"Astronomia sound intensifies"*
Reminds me of living in the Midwest and hearing the tornado sirens test on Wednesdays also
That's so cool that they can see the steam coming from the plant
every dutch person: oh yeah we have that on monday
and midwesterners: oh yeah we have that on every first tuesday (to test tornado sirens)
That’s a smart a** joke
scared the shit out of me when this siren went off while walking dogs in the netherlands i thought i was dying
We have this in France every first Wednesday too. Not sure why tbh. I lived on an island before however and I know they’re testing the Tsunami/earthquake/Eruption sirens
Dont attack me
They test tornado/alert sirens on the first wendsday of every month.
bmw3880 duhhh
In Michigan it's Saturday
@@joeywirt7953 yeah scared the fuck out of me when I first moved to Michigan
@@joeywirt7953 What asshole thought that was a good idea? "Hey instead of testing this while the majority of people are at home, work, or school, and are already most likely awake and alert, how about we run this shit on their day off and tryna sleep in or chill?"
Up in north Dakota we have this alarm every Wednesday at 6pm for the test but we use it for tornadoe warnings
I used to live near Broadmore Hospital in the U.K.
They also had sirens in and around the area, in most of the towns surrounding the Hospital.
Towards the end of the sirens working lives they would sometimes fail and activate, especially in stormy weather.
Which made for some very tense nights of shitting yourself every time you heard something move in the garden!!
"YOU DIDN'T SEE GRAPHITE ON THE GROUND BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE!!"
Why graphite?
@@felipefarias1315 watch Chernobyl to understand this reference
Graphite cooling rods are used as part of a heat transfer system designed to help the cooling process... the incident at Chernobyl is one that had it... the joke is deeper than that though because officially Russia denied it happened... and even to this day downplays the incident