What’s Behind the World’s Heaviest Door?

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  • Unlike a giant vault or blast door, the world's heaviest door was built to protect the outside world...from what was behind it...
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  • @kylehill
    @kylehill  Pƙed 2 lety +4432

    *Thanks for watching.* I know there’s a lot going on in the world right now, but maybe we can take a moment, a deep breath, and learn about
    T H I C C D O O R.

    • @duckmehh546
      @duckmehh546 Pƙed 2 lety +84

      nice rubber balls

    • @lazytommy0
      @lazytommy0 Pƙed 2 lety +31

      Thicc door was entertaining, thanks (:
      Thats one door i would love to see slammed shut just once lol

    • @crimsonraen
      @crimsonraen Pƙed 2 lety +10

      Yeah there is. Thanks for keeping us entertained, and our minds elsewhere! :D

    • @TantalumPolytope
      @TantalumPolytope Pƙed 2 lety +12

      can you make a video about the portal gun from portal? and what might happen when a moving portal 'touches' a static object? oh and also, you have beautiful balls

    • @figo3554
      @figo3554 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Nice door

  • @WackoMcGoose
    @WackoMcGoose Pƙed 2 lety +2537

    "Now _that_ is a big door." I can see why they used that door in both of the Tron movies, considering _the world's largest source of neutron radiation_ and _a laser that can convert matter into data and back again_ would probably require similar levels of containment.

    • @gerarddip
      @gerarddip Pƙed 2 lety +46

      I was just gonna comment that quote lmao

    • @B00s3
      @B00s3 Pƙed 2 lety +29

      😆 I knew someone had to have beaten me to quoting this... but I couldn't help myself and did so anyway.

    • @whtutlknabtwlls4266
      @whtutlknabtwlls4266 Pƙed 2 lety +44

      How did the MCP allow this to be posted?

    • @your_name_here_1
      @your_name_here_1 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      Welp guess I got my question answered here 😂

    • @BensBrickDesigns
      @BensBrickDesigns Pƙed 2 lety +22

      I've found my people.

  • @Kikabopom
    @Kikabopom Pƙed 2 lety +1342

    "this absurdly large and complicated security measure isn't to keep people or things out, it's to keep _something_ in" will never fail to be the most terrifying and intriguing concept in the world

    • @Shattered_Universe
      @Shattered_Universe Pƙed rokem +28

      I mean, that’s *kinda* like the Vaults in the Borderlands series; most of them just imprison intergalactic eldritch monstrosities

      Huh
Someone probably should make sure that people are aware that this particular door doesn’t contain treasure or something


    • @TimeFadesMemoryLasts
      @TimeFadesMemoryLasts Pƙed rokem +19

      @@Shattered_Universe Yeeeah, that's what someone hiding treasures would say.... nice try, I'll open that door anyways \s

    • @-libertyprimev1-902
      @-libertyprimev1-902 Pƙed rokem +16

      Even scarier would be "-it WAS to keep something in."

    • @MegaBrokenstar
      @MegaBrokenstar Pƙed 11 měsĂ­ci +9

      Fiction writers tend to agree with you; it’s a nigh-exhausted trope at this point, especially in fantasy and sci-fi. The Pandorica (Dr Who), The Thousand-Year Door (Paper Mario), Dashi’s PuzzleBox (Xiaolin Showdown), the Millennium Items and Puzzle in particular (Yu-Gi-Oh), the Amber in Bubblegum’s Castle (Adventure Time), Tanen Gard (Bone), etc etc etc. It’s everywhere.
      It’s not a bad trope, and it can be executed in different ways for different emotional effects (for example, it’s different if the protags think the evil force is a treasure and try to hunt it vs if they know it’s a prison and try to protect it from outside malicious actors), but it’s VERY common at this point.

    • @sethaie
      @sethaie Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +9

      That would make great slogan for a pair of boxers

  • @Kimmaline
    @Kimmaline Pƙed 2 lety +279

    One of my best friends growing up, his dad was a scientist at LLL during the 70s and 80s. You wouldn't believe the stories he had about the stuff they took into the lab to blow up and look at under microscopes and things. Let's just say they took measurements I doubt made it into any papers.

    • @marcusviniciusdoprado7508
      @marcusviniciusdoprado7508 Pƙed 11 měsĂ­ci +7

      Come on, Kim! Give us something. It would dope to hear One

    • @joellenrhodes456
      @joellenrhodes456 Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci +2

      Yes, yes I would. I worked at LLNL.

    • @Shorjok
      @Shorjok Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci +1

      You can't tell us nothing

    • @devonwilliams2423
      @devonwilliams2423 Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci +1

      Most likely animals if y’all are curious lol in fact I’m certain as it’s essential to prepare for such event

    • @sylvrwolflol
      @sylvrwolflol Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci +12

      @@devonwilliams2423Knowing research scientists, honestly probably Twinkies and other dumb things when they had spare time with it and no pressing deadlines. They're all grad students at heart, they're going to play with the giant toys and be goofy nerds once the time to be serious is past.

  • @alexmcd378
    @alexmcd378 Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci +21

    "If your head were in the path of that beam, you'd be dead "
    Anatoli Bugorski: hold my vodka

  • @icecreep109
    @icecreep109 Pƙed 2 lety +974

    I finally have something related to share: I work at the Center for Plasma Material Interaction, the foremost lab studying the use of liquid lithium in nuclear fusion. Under a strong magnetic field and heat gradient - such as you would find in a fission device - liquid lithium will flow along the walls, and even upside down. With this, the steel reactor walls are protected both from radiation, and physical damage from flare ups in the plasma. Additionally, the lithium helps to absorb any contaminants that make their way into the plasma.

    • @IndianaTony
      @IndianaTony Pƙed 2 lety +48

      Very cool addendum! As Kyle was describing all the shortcomings of the containment materials I kept thinking it doesn't seem like solid materials alone are the answer; a liquid barrier--if it could be shaped properly--could act as a self-healing barrier. It's awesome that you guys are working on that.

    • @thedyingtitan1247
      @thedyingtitan1247 Pƙed 2 lety +39

      @@IndianaTony And another thing about using a liquid metal is its pump able, use it in a heat exchanger to a steam system, Pump in bottom, the liquid flows to top while getting heated, also lithium under neutron bombardment can produce Tritium and Deuterium-Tritium fusion reactions are what produce mountains of neutrons. You get cooling, fuel production, and heat transfer all in one.

    • @kidwajagstang
      @kidwajagstang Pƙed 2 lety +12

      That is extremely fascinating and exciting work! I always excelled in the sciences in school, but didn’t qualify for any scholarships because I wasn’t “well-rounded” by playing sports and refused to put myself into massive debt from student loans. Never was given any direction or instructions on what I needed to do in order to become a scientist that gets to perform the experiments that are on the cutting edge of science. I was never given a clear plan on how to get from point A to point B. I’ve always wanted to be able to work in the areas that perform experiments that delve into the areas of our reality that are still unknown to us or are misunderstood (and it’s known to be misunderstood) because they are just altogether avoided (for many ridiculous reasons) or we only have a small fraction of the answers needed to be able to fully understand whatever it might be that I’d be studying..

    • @BabyMakR
      @BabyMakR Pƙed 2 lety +10

      Wouldn't the Neutron bombardment start turning some of the Lithium into Tritium and Helium? Could be a way to make tritium to fuel the reactor I guess.

    • @thedyingtitan1247
      @thedyingtitan1247 Pƙed 2 lety +11

      @@BabyMakR I already mentioned that, but exactly, It would be cooling, Fuel Production, and neutron shielding for the reactor walls all in one, plus since its molten lithium it can be pumped and used in a heat exchanger to power steam turbines to produce power.

  • @Musicguy208
    @Musicguy208 Pƙed 2 lety +610

    I can feel the excitement Kyle had after finding that paper about nuclear attenuation! Love it!

    • @captainmarino99
      @captainmarino99 Pƙed 2 lety +10

      I'm a medical physicist and papers like that are used in our field to design the shielding around linacs and other radiation sources used for cancer treatment...
      Speaking of which, any thoughts on rad therapy episodes, Kyle? There are a lot of different ways to talk about it and its history. Just a thought. Great video!

  • @Streamstresss
    @Streamstresss Pƙed 2 lety +65

    The fact that no one is mentioning him stumbling at 4:50 and actively chose to leave it in upsets me. It's moments like those that I love in videos like these

    • @royalbavarian2040
      @royalbavarian2040 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +6

      I was looking for this comment 😂

    • @bedeckt
      @bedeckt Pƙed měsĂ­cem +1

      Saw this comment and was waiting to see a green screen image of him tripping while making the video. He still stumbled, but not the way i expected.

  • @Burgher1605
    @Burgher1605 Pƙed 2 lety +104

    Behold... My Balls. 3:25

  • @Fizzlefuse
    @Fizzlefuse Pƙed 2 lety +589

    I also think its fascinating that the way the door was designed it allowed for one person to open/close it. That's a impressive feat of engineering.

  • @W00KYs
    @W00KYs Pƙed rokem +13

    "behold....my BALLS" not what I expected to hear in this video...
    "I live Agaaaaiiiiine" was also a very great line. Not only very educational but also a joy to view! Kudos to you/r writer!

  • @Pinefoxo
    @Pinefoxo Pƙed 2 lety +125

    I love that door. It's so ominous and monolithic, almost like something you'd see in the SCP universe. I've always loved visuals/renders of imposing, cold, monolithic structures and monuments, and this is a real-world example of precisely that.

    • @altosack
      @altosack Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Umm, OK, but it’s too heavy to have vibes.

    • @KarmatheCorgi
      @KarmatheCorgi Pƙed rokem +6

      Now you make me wonder if the unkillable lizard SCP would be able to withstand a good ole blast of radiation like this... then again... knowing him he'd probably become radioactive and well... that isn't good for us!

    • @keiyakins
      @keiyakins Pƙed rokem +5

      ​@@KarmatheCorgiHe'd adapt in some way that let him survive it, I'm sure. That damn lizard always does.

    • @noobartz0890
      @noobartz0890 Pƙed 11 měsĂ­ci

      owo

    • @frtzkng
      @frtzkng Pƙed 11 měsĂ­ci +1

      If you want architecture in this style, look for Brutalism

  • @Mrmder
    @Mrmder Pƙed 2 lety +528

    I laughed and I learned. Perfect blend. Thanks Kyle, you're awesome.

  • @Scoots1994
    @Scoots1994 Pƙed 2 lety +377

    The first nuclear power plant in the US was the Shippingport plant in western PA. It was decommissioned in the late 80s. I got to go though the huge heavy door in to the core, and the engineering of the door was amazing considering it had been closed in the 50s and opened in the 80s how well it worked.

    • @AK-gg5nh
      @AK-gg5nh Pƙed 2 lety +9

      Drive past it everyday
it’s a huge plant

    • @Scoots1994
      @Scoots1994 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@AK-gg5nh the original one, last I saw, looked like a park but with tall fences around it

    • @FEAR_Actual
      @FEAR_Actual Pƙed 2 lety +16

      The containment doors do get opened from time to time at nuclear power plants especially for usual maintenance procedures, so I'd hope they worked after 30+ years lol

    • @Scoots1994
      @Scoots1994 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@FEAR_Actual well that changes the story a bit :) ... Still an amazing door

    • @AsbestosMuffins
      @AsbestosMuffins Pƙed 2 lety +7

      @@Scoots1994 ya I was also gonna say they have to open the doors to do maintenance and refueling. Also a funny fact about that particular reactor was it was delivered by steam engine, there's a great picture of it out there

  • @absolutekold
    @absolutekold Pƙed 2 lety +29

    Kyle, as someone who works at the NBSR (a CP-5 variant), and what I guess could be called the cranky older cousin to the RTNS-II (their neutrons were ~14MeV ours get down to

  • @MichaelJOneill333
    @MichaelJOneill333 Pƙed 2 lety +21

    Kyle, thank you for so many years of fun, witty and super informative videos. Addicted to your channel and I learn so much!

  • @HypeIke
    @HypeIke Pƙed 2 lety +466

    There's a story I remember my dissertation supervisor told me: A steel used or to be used (don't quite recall) in a reactor housing but would become brittle and nobody knew why. It was found that the Silicone used the steel to increase its strength had been transformed into Aluminium due to the radiation

    • @johnpekkala6941
      @johnpekkala6941 Pƙed 2 lety +52

      Indeed alchemy is actually possible in that way. U just need a particle accelerator or some other source of radiation, something that however did not exist when they tried transform lead into gold in the middle ages. Instead they tried using piss, EEEWW! Not sure if u can transform lead into gold with an accelerator either but logically it should be possible. The issue is the cost of the energy required to run the accelerator will be many times the value of the produced gold. Its same as with antimatter production and so its infeasible for anything but research purposes.

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 Pƙed 2 lety +18

      @@johnpekkala6941 There is probably a decay chain from some isotope of lead to some isotope of gold but I don't recall any.

    • @josephvanas6352
      @josephvanas6352 Pƙed 2 lety +32

      @@Soken50 There probably is, there is also a radioactive platinum isotope that decays to stable gold. The issue would be from a lead isotope to a stable isotope of gold. What use is radioactive gold if it all decays to thallium or something.

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 Pƙed 2 lety +27

      @@josephvanas6352 stable was implied, I should have been explicit.
      Since I became curious, I dived a bit deeper and there exists at least one decay chain leading from radioactive lead to stable gold :
      _{82}^{197}Pb -> _{81}^{197}Tl -> _{80}^{197}Hg -> _{79}^{197}Au
      Edit : formatting

    • @stevenscott2136
      @stevenscott2136 Pƙed 2 lety +18

      @@josephvanas6352 As a kid, I thought that was the plan in "Goldfinger" -- nuke the gold so it turns into something worthless. Took me most of the movie to realize that people just wouldn't WANT radioactive gold, so no value.

  • @WarlandWriter
    @WarlandWriter Pƙed 2 lety +403

    Don't worry Kyle, it's not about the size of your door, it's about how you use it.

    • @kingnekogon
      @kingnekogon Pƙed 2 lety +8

      There. It's now at the appropriate like count.

    • @cmelton6796
      @cmelton6796 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      Don't forget how well it swings

    • @hughcaldwell1034
      @hughcaldwell1034 Pƙed 2 lety +23

      @@cmelton6796 My door swings both ways.

    • @wojtek4p4
      @wojtek4p4 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      To be honest, it's hard to top the door to _the most powerful death ray in the world_
      I'd be envious too

    • @SangheiliSpecOp
      @SangheiliSpecOp Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@kingnekogon 6 9

  • @JamesJohnson-ok1hn
    @JamesJohnson-ok1hn Pƙed rokem +9

    DOE announced today they succeeded in a fusion process. Coming sooner than we expected..

  • @winstonwong3326
    @winstonwong3326 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +1

    Thank you for the memories 
 as a young designer the late 1970’s I got to design parts of the “rotating target assembly “. My office was in the building right across the street. Fun times. The door is actually cantilevered. The person in the thumbnail can actually push and open it by hand. The Lab was a wonderful playground of minds of the most talented people in the world. 😊😊😊😊😊

  • @CostMusic
    @CostMusic Pƙed 2 lety +188

    I like how Thor can be in action movies and teach me stuff I never knew at the same time

    • @Neo0311
      @Neo0311 Pƙed 2 lety +9

      Kyle is more handsome.

    • @bn-tc2tk
      @bn-tc2tk Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@Neo0311 definitely better hair, that flow is luxurious

  • @Liquid278
    @Liquid278 Pƙed 2 lety +1494

    “Behold, my balls”
    Oh Kyle, don’t tease
    Also the door that Kyle is talking about was probably used for filming after it was done being used for science things

    • @breakfast-burrito
      @breakfast-burrito Pƙed 2 lety +23

      4:11 - he continues the tease 😅

    • @dodgehemi5045
      @dodgehemi5045 Pƙed 2 lety +5

      Epstein vault

    • @TheMaelstrom
      @TheMaelstrom Pƙed 2 lety +48

      It was featured in "Tron" while it was still in service.

    • @MAGGOT_VOMIT
      @MAGGOT_VOMIT Pƙed 2 lety +4

      Kyle has been running around the whole vid with pube dander on his shirt. {0.o}
      đŸ˜†đŸ˜‚đŸ€Ł

    • @wayneharrison6621
      @wayneharrison6621 Pƙed 2 lety +12

      @@TheMaelstrom That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw it.

  • @jackvandongen7983
    @jackvandongen7983 Pƙed 2 lety +6

    4:13 im not even gonna talk about that

  • @jklappenbach
    @jklappenbach Pƙed 4 dny +1

    Nuclear research was just a ruse. The interior surface of the door is covered with runes and the incantation:
    "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
    It's the only thing keeping the ancient ones from passing into our dimension after the rift occurred.

  • @victoriaevelyn3953
    @victoriaevelyn3953 Pƙed 2 lety +169

    I think its mad how something as high tech as a nuclear reactor still has roots back to the industrial age with steam power

    • @klutzspecter3470
      @klutzspecter3470 Pƙed 2 lety +36

      Nothing like boiling water.

    • @zelashizzz1278
      @zelashizzz1278 Pƙed 2 lety +43

      All that engineering, labor, and technology just to boil some water.

    • @JesperVille
      @JesperVille Pƙed rokem +8

      @@zelashizzz1278 WITH EFFICIENCY!*insert mad scientist*

    • @xanmontes8715
      @xanmontes8715 Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci +4

      I've been asking scientists about that actually.
      Long story short, water is an amazing liquid. It boils easily, it condenses easily, it absorbs neutrons like nobody's business and nuclear power plants have a 33% efficiency rating which is double that of a car engine, for example.
      It's pretty much THE most efficient method while at the same time being extremely (hopefully, cause accidents do happen) safe.

    • @delor3an12
      @delor3an12 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +1

      Most power plants have water as the working fluid. Works well for storing heat because the specific heat is one of the highest out of any other substance.

  • @scyberclops
    @scyberclops Pƙed 2 lety +506

    Your two balls reminded me of the battery bounce test.
    Get an iron skillet, 1 dead AA and 1 live AA battery. Hold each sideways about 8” above the skillet. As you drop each, a charged battery will land with a thunk and a dead battery will bounce.
    So if you have a pile of batteries in your kitchen junk drawer that need testing, that’s a simple one.

    • @Thros1
      @Thros1 Pƙed 2 lety +50

      You can do this on practically any surface

    • @nikopack7571
      @nikopack7571 Pƙed 2 lety +47

      why an iron skillet? a kitchen countertop or even a wooden coffee table will work fine

    • @datyeen
      @datyeen Pƙed 2 lety +18

      Dude just use your kitchen counter.

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 Pƙed 2 lety +58

      @@nikopack7571 The iron skillet won't take dents or chips like a counter surface or wooden table might?
      Also, should a battery break and leak, it's easier to fully clean a pan than your whole kitchen.

    • @capness1228
      @capness1228 Pƙed 2 lety +56

      @@MonkeyJedi99 what kind of double A's you got that ruin an entire kitchen?

  • @ElegantJames
    @ElegantJames Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci +1

    Allegedly we just recently figured out Nuclear Fusion. It's not a dream anymore, I just read something about scientists being able to replicate fusion for the first time in history

  • @SkullpunkArt
    @SkullpunkArt Pƙed 2 lety +3

    4:50
    I feel this personally

  • @Athenor
    @Athenor Pƙed 2 lety +76

    Just starting, but as a fan of the Tron franchise, I always love any time this door comes up!

    • @Athenor
      @Athenor Pƙed 2 lety +1

      YES! You talked about it! I was hoping you would! The DVD collector's edition talks about it a bit.

    • @ianloreen7817
      @ianloreen7817 Pƙed 2 lety

      Oh, good. I thought I was going crazy.

    • @clayp4420
      @clayp4420 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Yes doesn't Kyle know that this is the door that keeps Kevin Flynn away from the MCP. Such timing I just watched Tron again on Wednesday.

    • @erice.3468
      @erice.3468 Pƙed 2 lety

      Thank you!

    • @groundzer0s
      @groundzer0s Pƙed 2 lety +1

      To quote Flynn himself: Now THAT is a big door!

  • @MDMoore6
    @MDMoore6 Pƙed 2 lety +190

    “I don’t have door envy
”
    Narrator (probably Morgan Freeman): “But he did, in fact, have crippling door envy
”

    • @WingManFang1
      @WingManFang1 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Legend

    • @matthewcotterill7155
      @matthewcotterill7155 Pƙed 2 lety +5

      Or zefrank.

    • @aethlred7380
      @aethlred7380 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      Has there ever been a narrator that isn't Morgan Freeman? They might go by different names but it's probably just Morgan Freeman under an alias.

  • @th3ranger
    @th3ranger Pƙed 2 lety +5

    I’ve been curious how neutron embrittlement would be dealt with in fusion plants, and as far as I know there is no solution.
    With a fission plant they simply build heavy and thick, but with more specialized materials like superconductors being involved with fusion
 I have no idea how that gets accommodated.

  • @motherlessgoat72
    @motherlessgoat72 Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci

    I love how in nearly every video that I watch of yours, I eventually come to a point where I'm demanding you tell me how I would die.

  • @cpeabody85
    @cpeabody85 Pƙed 2 lety +3422

    Kyle, I hope that the people and scientists you met with in Ukraine are OK, seriously! And to anyone who watches shows like Kyle's to escape the harshness of the world I apologize to you, this is the only way I could communicate my best wishes to Kyle and the people he met, this was the only form of social media I use that I share with kyle

    • @ArtisticlyAlexis
      @ArtisticlyAlexis Pƙed 2 lety +163

      I'm thankful you wrote this. I didn't even think about how Kyle was recently there, & those poor scientists who are currently being held against their will, trying to keep the world safe while their own safety is under threat! It's a tragedy & my heart goes out to them!

    • @thalastianjorus
      @thalastianjorus Pƙed 2 lety +90

      I know a couple of bladesmiths in Ukraine, one who lives in Sumy (where much fighting recently was, and still is.). They've all said their families are all at the homes of their relatives outside the cities, and are doing okay so far. Seems many have left the cities for the countryside.
      The worry isn't the occupation, initially... it is what will happen to the Ukrainians _after_ Russia has control. They were... less than kind to the people of Ukraine, Belarus, etc during the Soviet era. Yes, about 30% of the population are Russian descendant... the rest are not, and the Russian government treats them... _differently..._ as well.

    • @commander31able60
      @commander31able60 Pƙed 2 lety +22

      @@joshuagop5909 should be we suspend our regular lives because people elsewhere are suffering? if we did that, we wouldn't have time to live at all.

    • @aaronjaggard8287
      @aaronjaggard8287 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      Pat yourselves on the back

    • @skepticalbadger
      @skepticalbadger Pƙed 2 lety +14

      @@joshuagop5909 Congratulations, you're a collossal tool.

  • @shingshongshamalama
    @shingshongshamalama Pƙed 2 lety +229

    I love the thought that Kyle just saw a photo on pinterest, went "what's that?" and then ended up making a twenty minute video about it.
    That's the scientific spirit alright.

    • @pererau
      @pererau Pƙed 2 lety +11

      I'm no math major, but I'm pretty sure rounding 11 up to 20 is a bit of a stretch!😂😂😂

    • @stevenscott2136
      @stevenscott2136 Pƙed 2 lety +4

      @@pererau Well, ARIA cut out the nine minutes Kyle spent brushing his hair and handling his balls. 😁

    • @pererau
      @pererau Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@stevenscott2136 I'm sure a lot of people want to see Kyle playing with his balls and hair. I'm more interested in the science.

    • @daleolson3506
      @daleolson3506 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      To show off his gross hair

    • @NotJohnnyTamale
      @NotJohnnyTamale Pƙed rokem

      What the actual f*ck did I just read?

  • @zolf3141
    @zolf3141 Pƙed rokem +1

    Years ago I worked for the local municipality and whenever we would be doing any kind of maintenance or landscaping within ~100yards of LLNL their security detail would arrive. Blacked out SUV’s full tactical kit and they’d monitor everything we were doing as well as their perimeter security cameras tracking our movements.

  • @kirkbolas4985
    @kirkbolas4985 Pƙed 2 lety +4

    Kyle 
how did the folks at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory create such a high energy neutron beam and how did they manage it in terms of aiming it and modulating its output?

  • @calliarcale
    @calliarcale Pƙed 2 lety +66

    "Now that is a big door!"
    Seriously, that's actually the door that Flynn breaks into in "Tron", because they filmed the Enron manufacturing/lab floor scenes at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Pƙed 2 lety +10

      You mean “Encom”. 😄

    • @mickeymorgan4672
      @mickeymorgan4672 Pƙed 2 lety +7

      The blue laser assembly in Tron was the Shiva laser in building 391 at Lawrence Livermore. It was later removed and replaced with the Nova Laser that nearly doubled the size of the building. Nova proved to be way too small and this led to the National Ignition Facility being built.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      @@mickeymorgan4672 Wow. That laser used to be the largest of its kind in the world. Imagine having to work with a device like that!

    • @carlsaganlives6086
      @carlsaganlives6086 Pƙed rokem

      @@melissawickersham9912 Lotta bad press after that Great White club fire, though. Maybe that was pre-9/11 so less security regarding renting it out over the weekend, and toned down light shows at smaller, indoor venues, I suppose.

    • @Rutgerman95
      @Rutgerman95 Pƙed rokem +1

      Honestly kinda disapointed Kyle didn't mention it's starring role in TRON

  • @JMUDoc
    @JMUDoc Pƙed 2 lety +38

    The moment I saw the thumbnail, I thought "is that the _TRON_ door...?"
    Kyle did not let me down😁.

  • @ManoharOfficial
    @ManoharOfficial Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci +1

    Those swords in the background need to either both point upwards or downwards, that asymmetry is an ocd magnet 😅

  • @johnpaul8938
    @johnpaul8938 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Kyle’s so brave he’s standing inside that reactor!

  • @MistahBryan
    @MistahBryan Pƙed 2 lety +39

    If THAT was the "Door" what was the rest of the room made of?

  • @Kghammond852
    @Kghammond852 Pƙed rokem +1

    Little did he know we have solved one of the first steps to fusion a year later by finally producing a positive output even if it was only a few MW.

  • @davecool42
    @davecool42 Pƙed 2 lety

    Kept waiting and finally got the Tron reference I so desperately needed.

  • @Reman1975
    @Reman1975 Pƙed 2 lety +159

    The enormous scale of what the field of nuclear physics encompasses never crossed my mind until a few yeas ago. My naive thought process kind of assumed all the big theories of "This much of this stuff all together gets hot, and this much in one place vaporizes several city blocks" had already been published, and the majority of what was being done now was just fiddling with small details around the edges.......... Then I found myself on a 3 hour plane trip sitting next to a really interesting Swedish bloke who happened to teach the subject in a university. We'd been chatting and laughing for a while before the subject of work came up, and when he smiled and said "Well, I'm actually a Professor of theoretical nuclear physics at XXXX university" I instantly started asking about it. He seemed slightly surprised that this admission hadn't killed the topic of work dead, but he was a typical considerate Swede and dumbed the subject right down to answer my questions. After a while he realised from my follow up questions that I understood slightly more than he was expecting (though still not a huge amount more), so the answers got a bit more complex.
    The reason this all springs to mind was that he said that there's loads of REALLY counterintuitive stuff that goes on in even a normal fission reactor (I think the phrase "There's some really CRAZY weird sh*t that happens" was one of the ways he excitedly described it....... You've gotta love Swedes. :D), so I asked for some examples, and one of them was how stainless steel can eventually get ridiculously brittle if exposed for long enough to a high level of radiation, to the extent that it'll almost shatter like glass when tapped with a hammer. That concept felt particularly weird to me (A engineering machinist by training) so I asked for details. He spent the remaining 45 minutes of the flight trying to dumb this down far enough for me to understand. The explanations that confused me got down to the level of descriptions involving tennis, golf and Velcro covered ping pong balls colliding, and some of them vanishing, while others stuck together in unexpected ways. In the end the closest we got was that the outcome was similar to the microscopic lattice of fractures you might get in cast iron from giving it several abrupt heating and quenching cycles, but the actual molecular process that was occurring in that example was entirely wrong and in no way even analogous to what was going on in radiation blasted stainless steel. :D
    He actually tried to apologise to me at one point for not being able to explain the process well enough for me, someone who didn't even take physics at school, to understand ! The poor guy usually taught people who'd been through advanced maths and physics at school, then often did more of the same at college, so they had a solid foundation in the basics before he even saw them. This poor guy wasn't used to explaining stuff that then needed the explanation explaining, then parts of that explaining [repeat ad infinitum]. I told him it was OK, and the problem was that, without even a baseline of high school physics in my past for him to work up from, it was akin to expecting a dog to understand commands in a different language to the one it was trained in. My understanding of how the universe works is predominantly on the everyday, or macroscopic level, so skipping microscopic to get right down to atomic was probably far too much of a jump for me.
    I've thought about that guy a few times since then (Usually at those times when I've tried to add to what I thought was my reasonable grasp of some subject, only to quickly realising that all the understanding I'd accumulated so far didn't even come close to scratching the surface of the subject as a whole !). He must be one hell of a good teacher. He managed to answer about 90% of the questions I put to him in a way that my idiotic head could understand. You can't do that just by parroting stuff you were taught. You have to be able to visualise and feel the entire subject on a really fundamental level to be able to do that. On top of that he was a really nice guy too. :)

    • @BoyProdigyX
      @BoyProdigyX Pƙed 2 lety +9

      This reminds me of those "Quantum Physicist Explains String Theory in 5 Levels of Difficulty" videos haha

    • @Rachel-fi4sc
      @Rachel-fi4sc Pƙed 2 lety +12

      This is an amazing comment. What a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om Pƙed rokem

      His name wasn't Max Tegmark was it? If it was, I'd pay money to be on a flight with him, and the longer the better. (His book, This Mathematical Universe, is brilliant)

    • @Reman1975
      @Reman1975 Pƙed rokem +6

      @@Chris-hx3om That name didn't ring any bells, so I Googled "Max Tegmark". I found a photo, but I still couldn't really tell. đŸ€”
      I put his name in CZcams, and for the last half hour or so I've been watching of one of his lectures (Called "WSU Master Class: History and Mysteries of The Universe with Max Tegmark"), and it's taken me that long to be about 99% sure that the guy I was chatting with wasn't him, but this Max does appear to be a really interesting lecturer, and has a very similar kind of enthusiasm for his subject as the guy on the flight, so I've now got to keep on watching the rest. 😁

    • @emdash2997
      @emdash2997 Pƙed rokem

      What a cool story, thanks for sharing. 😊

  • @duhmonke
    @duhmonke Pƙed 2 lety +45

    Math and science both have always been something I’ve been so interested in but could never properly pay attention to it in school. You instruct and explain it really well. Thank you for showing me how much I really actually love to learn.

    • @davidsuda6110
      @davidsuda6110 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Problem with school is it doesn't teach science per se but what we have learned from science. At least that was my experience.
      A good example is when Kyle discusses science papers. A single study says little of value yet most people I know are ignorant of that.
      Also given that his videos are 15 minutes and school lasts 7 hours or so I can see why school doesn't work for most people.

  • @BorealNeva
    @BorealNeva Pƙed 2 lety +3

    I'd like to know how far research has come when utilizing this mechanism and what it could mean for the future

  • @xARMM4G3D0Nx
    @xARMM4G3D0Nx Pƙed rokem +2

    The current fusion achievements make these results more important then ever before.

  • @GeneralSic66
    @GeneralSic66 Pƙed 2 lety +178

    Love this format! Brings me back to Because Science days. Hope you guys make more videos like this! You're too good at it, Mr. Hair

    • @SuperShanko
      @SuperShanko Pƙed 2 lety +20

      Because
. Science, what is is alternate universe you speak of? Hoho Hoho! **mind wipe**

    • @brockoala2994
      @brockoala2994 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Me too love this! Totally not because of that *cough* balls *cough* part anyways.

    • @joangalt6270
      @joangalt6270 Pƙed 2 lety

      It would be even better if he had an actual science DEGREE or PhD or something, anything, to make him more legit. For me, he's just another guy on YT reading science facts off a set of notes. Period

    • @GeneralSic66
      @GeneralSic66 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      If you would do your research, he has a Bachelors in science with engineering and a masters in science communication

    • @Kimmaline
      @Kimmaline Pƙed 2 lety

      @@joangalt6270 first off, Kyle has two degrees....Im not certain where you got your extremely inaccurate information. Secondly, your condescension smacks of intense privilege and a lack of taking into account that not everyone has the same access to higher education. Not everyone in this country and around the world has the financial access to advanced degrees that you see as admission to the Respect Room. Gatekeeping who we see as worthy of listening to by limiting it to only those who gained degrees--a process which is so widely varied as to be unrecognizable across the spectrum--isn't only insulting to the untold brilliant and highly informed, expert, lived experience educators out in the world, we are cutting everyone else off from their information, research, and expertise.
      Beyond that, not everyone is neurotypical, and from bottom to top our educational system has largely remained steadfast in its refusal to look past its rigid methods of teaching which have been proven time and again to only be ideal for a fraction of children. For autistic people like Kyle, navigating the halls of academia can be difficult at best.
      I also want to challenge the idea that higher education is the magic bullet you deem it to be. I've known people with masters degrees who could barely tie their own shoes, and some of the best historical experts I've known had three semesters at community College and a lifetime of tracking down primary document sources. There are a lot of wonderful people out there with amazing amounts of knowledge and insight in their heads and they want to connect and share that with other people.
      All of those reasons aside, as compelling as I believe them to be, mainly I'd change your way of thinking because you sound like an elitist asshole. These creators are passionate about science and want other people to be excited about it too. So long as they don't take credit for work that is not their own, why decry teaching? Do you think every college professor is teaching only their own work?
      Have a good day.

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT Pƙed 2 lety +195

    I love that the giant door was in Tron - theoretically to protect the employees in the "Laser research facility" from the laser.
    Then they just run their experiment standing a couple meters from the laser.

    • @aarongreenfield9038
      @aarongreenfield9038 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      I'm pretty sure it was more to protect the outside world, (Not that they gave the slightest crap) but from Liability, should someone have their molecules turned into dark matter, And sent to an alternate dimension to detonate. â˜ąâ˜ąâ˜ąđŸ’„

    • @bestaround3323
      @bestaround3323 Pƙed rokem

      I think being near that thing will kill you lol.

    • @DamonCzanik
      @DamonCzanik Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci +1

      That door will always be the Tron door to me. They even showed it in Tron Legacy.
      End of Line.

  • @ronhutcherson9845
    @ronhutcherson9845 Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci

    I have to say it

    “Now _that_ is a big door!”
    You made so many fans happy just showing that door.😊

  • @4thechivostreamsarchive586

    The was a real treat. Thank you, Kyle!

  • @elementalturnip
    @elementalturnip Pƙed 2 lety +20

    As both Kevin and Sam Flynn said, "now that is a big door."

  • @shauntoochaos235
    @shauntoochaos235 Pƙed 2 lety +14

    You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The heaviest hinged door.

  • @OfficialTubeYou
    @OfficialTubeYou Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Kyle’s first line. đŸ‘ŒđŸ»*mwah* Lol love you bro. “Yeah we’re brothers now, get over it”

  • @warwolf6359
    @warwolf6359 Pƙed rokem +1

    Thanks! I always wondered where they got that door in Tron.

  • @vcdrny
    @vcdrny Pƙed 2 lety +27

    Glad Kyle did the Chernobyl trip when he did.

    • @ArenaDestroyer
      @ArenaDestroyer Pƙed 2 lety

      Actually I expect him to do it again in the future.

    • @C0LDHeartedPerson
      @C0LDHeartedPerson Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@ArenaDestroyer That depends on how the situation in Ukraine ends. After this war a new Cold War might start and Russia might just restrict border flow.

    • @DrYeet2704
      @DrYeet2704 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@C0LDHeartedPerson who knows, what with how it is. But for the moment, I do not believe that any fingers will hover above a red button with a trefoil symbol on it.
      My reasoning? Too much at stake. Putin wants Ukraine as it would expand his “alliance” that has Belarus and Armenia in it, both being previous USSR states. If he had Ukraine, he could pressure NATO a lot more. Ukraine is a neutral zone at the moment, arms tied with rope to both NATO and the CSTO (Putin’s version of NATO). If NATO took Ukraine, well, Putin would not be happy, to put it that way. NATO would have much more area to pressure the CSTO and Belarus would not be in a good place. The country would have NATO forces on 3 flanks, which would not be good. Kinda like the situation now with Russian forces on 3 flanks of Ukraine.
      My source was RealLifeLore’s video on what’s happening with the Russia-Ukraine war.

    • @C0LDHeartedPerson
      @C0LDHeartedPerson Pƙed 2 lety

      @@DrYeet2704 Well, I meant more that now Putin is branded, by almost the whole world, as war criminal. And with somehow complicated political situation after this war, Russia might not be so open to anyone from west side.

    • @onelessthing
      @onelessthing Pƙed 2 lety

      Is it just me, or did he post the Pripyat video only to take it down or unlist it shortly after launching it?

  • @strider2175
    @strider2175 Pƙed 2 lety +33

    The way that changes in material that has been irradiated is measured, is through a measurement called the reference transition temperature. This measures the temperature at which any given material will transition from state to state (ie solid to liquid, liquid to gas, etc), and then that is compared to that same material after it has been exposed to a certain amount of radiation (be it alpha, beta, or gamma). Fun fact for the day.

    • @mordorson
      @mordorson Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Not quite. It measures at what temperature a material is more likely to fail in a ductile manner vs brittle fracture, not when it transitions from one state to another, so it's the temperature at which a material transitions between ductile failure and brittle fracture. For example for a given material, above its reference transition temperature (RTT) it's more likely to fail in a ductile way, while below its RTT it's more likely to brittle fracture

  • @BDChupacabra
    @BDChupacabra Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci

    I love this channel. I come across these channels and I binge the hell out of em haha

  • @omaralvaro9170
    @omaralvaro9170 Pƙed 2 lety +6

    4:06 mY BAlLS

    • @Trainboyz1.
      @Trainboyz1. Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci +1

      Why did he have to take them

  • @GarryDumblowski
    @GarryDumblowski Pƙed 2 lety +47

    So, personally, this reminds me of how chlorine trifluoride can be safely stored in a steel drum despite being a strong enough oxidizer to corrode the metal making up the drum, because the metal inside the drum is "passivated" by the reaction into inert metal fluorides. Is it possible that a material could be chosen that gets "passivated" under neutron radiation, such that even if its interior structure gets destroyed, the resulting damage is still able to shield neutrons from the outside, and the activation of the atoms doesn't produce any super radioactive isotopes?

    • @matthewcox7985
      @matthewcox7985 Pƙed rokem +2

      That was the whole idea behind that project!

    • @GarryDumblowski
      @GarryDumblowski Pƙed rokem +1

      @@matthewcox7985 As in, the whole idea was to find a material that "passivates" under heavy neutron radiation? I figure that's what you mean but I gotta ask to make sure anyway

    • @alexrogers777
      @alexrogers777 Pƙed rokem +3

      @@GarryDumblowski Thats a cool idea but ultimately no, neutron radiation isn't going to passivate anything (or least anything that we know of or can even imagine)

  • @LDSG_A_Team
    @LDSG_A_Team Pƙed 2 lety +20

    Thank you, Kyle. I have a ton of respect for you.

  • @lennartweber2228
    @lennartweber2228 Pƙed 2 lety

    The whole video i was thinkin:
    YOOO THATS THE TRON DOOR!
    and then finally... in the end of the video, he actually mentions it.
    Kyle, you are my spirit animal!

  • @jessdubscomics1698
    @jessdubscomics1698 Pƙed rokem

    how did becoming particles feel? LOL learned a lot from this kyle, thanks! this has been one of my recent hyperfixations and im very happy that i can now learn about it!

  • @TheMaelstrom
    @TheMaelstrom Pƙed 2 lety +12

    Did you know they used the National Ignition Facility target chamber at Lawrence Livermore as the warp core set in Star Trek: Into Darkness?

  • @devaraiuzuchiha1982
    @devaraiuzuchiha1982 Pƙed 2 lety +7

    Behold, my balls already is the funniest statement of the year. I'm suprised Kyle had the dedication to get castrated just for us.

  • @DanBowkley
    @DanBowkley Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Given that neutrons aren't really keen on going around corners, why didn't they just build a zigzagged corridor leading to the accelerator instead of having a door at all? Seems like that would've been vastly simpler and cheaper.

  • @viper1757
    @viper1757 Pƙed 6 dny +1

    We all know that the real largest door is the one under Aperture Science, that leads to a tiny door.

  • @Ashurion-Neonix
    @Ashurion-Neonix Pƙed 2 lety +7

    "Now that is a big door."
    But in all seriousness, Tron was how I first discovered this.

  • @Le_Codex
    @Le_Codex Pƙed 2 lety +16

    This door looks awfully similar to the one in Tron, around the start of the movie. Which also had a laboratory dealing with a lot of very high power stuff

  • @PJL7095
    @PJL7095 Pƙed 2 lety

    Glad he told us what’s behind the door right up front. Saved me 10 minutes

  • @rush1er
    @rush1er Pƙed 2 lety

    😁Bruh! That shiz made me laugh so hard bcuz until about @4:50 I had only been listening until I looked up and saw how you played that off.... and I REALLY needed that Mom joke right now! Bad day for me but you just made me đŸ˜‚đŸ€Ł

  • @Winn_Or_Lose
    @Winn_Or_Lose Pƙed 2 lety +19

    We all know the heaviest doors in the world are the ones at the entrance of Kyle’s facility

  • @HungerGamesFan88
    @HungerGamesFan88 Pƙed 2 lety +5

    that vault in the first shot immediately made me think of "aw fuck everything's supposed to have been turned to glass back there man don't go in"

  • @rikdicosoejdosjehxiox
    @rikdicosoejdosjehxiox Pƙed 2 lety

    Door envy 😂😂😂 I'm dead. Love all your vids!

  • @ogconut
    @ogconut Pƙed 7 dny

    0:40 damn whoever was pushing that door open got super powers

  • @rd76pag
    @rd76pag Pƙed 2 lety +7

    I have learn something new about this door from this informative video. Thanks for making it. The thumbnail got me wanting to watch this particular video because I remember seeing this door in the original Tron. I always thought that the door was fascinating and wonder why that door exist in the first place. Now I know.

  • @MrQuantumInc
    @MrQuantumInc Pƙed 2 lety +14

    "Activation" is really worrying since one of the main selling points of Nuclear Fusion is that it does not produce radioactive waste. So not only will someone have to go in there are remove all of the panels from the inside of a fusion reactor regularly but disposing of it will have some of the same problems as waste from fission.

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 Pƙed 2 lety +7

      Well, it does create radioactive waste. But the amount and dangerous lifetime are on a much lower scale than uranium fission reactors.
      Not perfect, but much better.

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Yup. The safety concerns with fusion are pretty comparable to fission actually.

    • @etiennedud
      @etiennedud Pƙed 2 lety +1

      And the removal process for fusion seems more difficult that for fission

    • @grandsome1
      @grandsome1 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      The safety of fusion is that if humans disappear it will turn off pretty quickly and not have a runaway chain reaction like fission.

    • @Deilwynna
      @Deilwynna Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@danieljensen2626 fusion meltdowns isnt possible on the scales of the fusion reactors we are building right now, so thats not a concern unlike the fission ones. once you turn off a fusion reactor, its only residual radioactivity left in the reactor itself.
      with fission reactors you have the fuel and the reactor core being very radioactive even after you shutdown the reactor, hence you need to keep running coolant through a fission reactor core even after you turn it off, not to mention the concern of meltdowns if things go wrong, like damaged control rods, malfunctioning cooling systems, etc

  • @Rich-yj4ub
    @Rich-yj4ub Pƙed rokem +1

    Thank you Kyle, very informative 👍 👏 😊

  • @zechariahdymond4358
    @zechariahdymond4358 Pƙed 2 lety

    When it comes to these nuclear matters you speak of on this youtube, there's two great author's one of them being you. I have to say often enough I have to watch both tubers videos to get a " good perspective" that an under educated person can. I'm happy to say you surely nailed this one on your own great job.

  • @explodingwolfgaming8024
    @explodingwolfgaming8024 Pƙed 2 lety +7

    0:32 lmao is that not the door from the original Tron?

    • @fikriifi1671
      @fikriifi1671 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Yep, I was thinking the same

    • @Liquid278
      @Liquid278 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Probably because they used that door for filming?
      I’m not that into filmography, so I don’t know for sure

    • @ZacabebOTG
      @ZacabebOTG Pƙed 2 lety +3

      It is indeed. Much of the "real world" footage was shot at Lawrence Livermore.

  • @dascandy
    @dascandy Pƙed 2 lety +15

    Did you consider the inputs we have from Sellafield/Windscale in the UK, where the reactor core was known to store energy in its deformed crystal structure (see also Wigner release)?

    • @JeffreySJonas
      @JeffreySJonas Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Thanks for posting that first. There are several very scary CZcams videos documenting the Windscale reactor fire, with interviews of the people who were there. Scarier than the intentional irradiating of the surrounding area with the air-cooled reactors was the government's cover-up :-(

    • @JCarey1988
      @JCarey1988 Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci

      That's very obscure outside the UK, although f*cking terrifying to read about. The book "Atomic Accidents" has a very hair-curling account of the disaster there.

  • @seltzerbot8730
    @seltzerbot8730 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci

    2:55 and "I live once mooOOREEEe!" was great.

  • @nathanchapin8445
    @nathanchapin8445 Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci

    These videos always felt like something that would be on Cartoon Network at like 5am

  • @rafaellima6383
    @rafaellima6383 Pƙed 2 lety +3

    Id love to hear more about this activation issue with fusion reactors and how it kills fusion power, you should do a video on it!

  • @JariakaBroekie888
    @JariakaBroekie888 Pƙed 2 lety +5

    Love your content Kyle keep up the work

  • @bluskatola8489
    @bluskatola8489 Pƙed rokem

    1. That scared me
    2. Kyle’s “I live once morrrre” made the scare feel okay c: Haha

  • @kassandrasolon1633
    @kassandrasolon1633 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    I've never felt seen the way I did when Kyle called us "nuclear weirdos"

  • @pjbth
    @pjbth Pƙed 2 lety +5

    2:31 you better get out of that reactor quick. It's already taken your right foot!

  • @calyodelphi124
    @calyodelphi124 Pƙed 2 lety +12

    This uh......... this actually kind of changes my perspective quite a lot about the difficulty of fusion energy. It's not _just_ achieving net energy. It's also solving the problem of _degradation and activation of the materials used to build the reactor_ due to the intense neutron flux of the reaction. It's _very_ possible that the nuclear waste from a fusion reactor could be _worse_ than from current uranium fission reactor designs, due to activation of the reactor vessel itself. :x

    • @Canucklug
      @Canucklug Pƙed 2 lety +2

      The goal for activated fusion walls is that after 100 years they can be buried 20 feet deep as low level radioactive material. However this may not be the case as it will be very difficult to find any material to survive well at all so that the activation profile might end up as a secondary consideration. It is likely that fusion activated material would be far less intense than the worst fission byproducts but I assume it would be in greater quantity than the comparable low level fission material
      The proposal for the ARC reactor is that the inner vacuum chamber would have to be replaced every 2 years at a cost of 100 million, half a billion per decade is definitely a problem for commercial prospects. It's usually said that commercial fusion requires a power gain of 20 over the fuel input energy while ARC is projected as a gain of 13. Which is really quite close, but maybe still far away
      There are alternative designs that have better engineering prospects but are less tested as far as physics - like Helion's Deuterium-He3 reactor that would recover the energy of charged fusion products directly in the electromagnet at high efficiency, and there's some liquid inner wall concepts like General Fusion's super giant 100 MW spherical piston design

    • @JCarey1988
      @JCarey1988 Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci

      Yep at the levels of radiation used in a fusion reactor you literally have to deal with it turning structural materials into Swiss Cheese. A containment structure that could have laughed at an artillery bombardment when brand new can be reduced to having the strength of a stale biscuit because it's been torn up at the atomic level; even transmuted into an entirely new element!

  • @IsopodHouse
    @IsopodHouse Pƙed měsĂ­cem

    I've seen one of these big doors, it was closed at the time as they were doing tests. I did go into the simulation fusion reactor though. This was a few years ago now. Was very cool seeing the ins and outs of a fusion plant.

  • @jimcat68
    @jimcat68 Pƙed 2 lety

    Two questions.
    1. The RTNS-II operated for about a decade behind that door. Is it still there now, only deactivated? Is the vault being used for something else?
    2. The RTNS-II was the world's most intense neutron source *at the time*. So what is the current most powerful neutron death ray?

  • @Leyllara
    @Leyllara Pƙed 2 lety +7

    3:18 DID YOU REALLY MADE THAT CURSED REFERENCE?

    • @seprex5695
      @seprex5695 Pƙed rokem +1

      what is it?

    • @Leyllara
      @Leyllara Pƙed rokem

      @@seprex5695 i don't remember lol been 5 months

    • @seprex5695
      @seprex5695 Pƙed rokem

      @@Leyllara my bad bro

    • @TylerTMG
      @TylerTMG Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci +1

      ​@@seprex5695one man one cup?

    • @TylerTMG
      @TylerTMG Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci

      ​@@Leyllarasee my reply

  • @Robbie-mw5uu
    @Robbie-mw5uu Pƙed rokem +5

    the amount of radiation you get standing outside that door is the same amount of radiation you would get standing next to Chernobyl's elephant's foot...

    • @ThatGirlMintz
      @ThatGirlMintz Pƙed rokem

      Why would they even make it then if you couldn’t get anywhere near it? Hoping they’ll figure it out by the time the half life dies down if it ever does?

    • @DrYeet2704
      @DrYeet2704 Pƙed rokem +1

      *when the elephant’s foot first formed.
      The Elephant’s Foot’s reactivity has dropped significantly since the accident as a lot of the elements inside it have decayed down to other, less radioactive elements.

  • @CrimsonCascade3101
    @CrimsonCascade3101 Pƙed 2 lety

    My brother came up to me whilst I was watching your video and asked in the most genuine tone "is that thor?" Lmao

  • @rexradar9297
    @rexradar9297 Pƙed 2 lety

    Neat door, also cool story. This may be the heavy personal door. But not much compared to the Panama locks doors. Each single hinge door ranges from 350 to 660 tons depending on location within the Panama canal system.

  • @dreariestcoma9254
    @dreariestcoma9254 Pƙed 2 lety +3

    The part that becomes so radioactive that it has to be replaced every year...could something like that be used as a power source (radioactive decay) for deep space probes?
    The Voyager probes used something similar, no?

    • @matthewcox7985
      @matthewcox7985 Pƙed rokem

      Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, or RTGs. (I'm even more surprised that my autocorrect got all those words right! đŸ€Ł) They need a heat source way hotter than irradiated junk; as I recall most of them used plutonium.
      The problem with radioactive waste is the stuff that's not emitting enough energy to be practical to use, but is still emitting enough to be dangerous - You can't cook on it, but it'll still burn you.

    • @JCarey1988
      @JCarey1988 Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci

      Thats actually a very good idea, but the problem is they don't store enough energy to be useful as batteries.

  • @TheEMTDad
    @TheEMTDad Pƙed 2 lety +9

    Kyle, with Russian and Ukrainian forces activly fighting in the exclusion zone, radiation levels surrounding the site have reportedly skyrocketed. Could you please do a video on what could be the result of the fighting in the exclusion zone if it continues to worsen over then next few weeks?

    • @SoranoGuardias
      @SoranoGuardias Pƙed 2 lety +3

      Radiation is probably being detected more because the settled dust is now being disturbed again. More radioactive particulates in the air not burried under wet nature.

    • @TheEMTDad
      @TheEMTDad Pƙed 2 lety

      @@SoranoGuardias Agreed, but according to reports from reliable intelligence, meters in the area are reaing exponentially higher then normal and its supposedly from a Russian artillery round striking a containment unit. I'll post a link to yesterdays intelligence briefing if anyones interested.

    • @SoranoGuardias
      @SoranoGuardias Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@TheEMTDad Radiation inside the containment unit is already higher because it is keeping more of the facility drier. As water acts like a moderator and absorbs neutrons, there is already more reactions being detectect. I don't think Russia would be so stupid as to land an artillery strike anywhere danger-close to the containment facility.

    • @sakaraist
      @sakaraist Pƙed 2 lety

      @@SoranoGuardias Russia already hit a radioactive waste repository with a shell yesterday unfortunately. I don't think i'd completely rule out the possibility.

    • @SoranoGuardias
      @SoranoGuardias Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@sakaraist Is there a verified report on that?

  • @cumformedaddy
    @cumformedaddy Pƙed 2 lety

    8:45 "but it will be the last mistake you ever make"
    Sounds good to me, at least I know I wont make any more mistakes

  • @ricaroanimar6695
    @ricaroanimar6695 Pƙed 24 dny

    Ok i absolutely need s full episode on Fusion power, the radiation it causes and if it is or isnt viable. That was such a brain teaser right there.

  • @mhervyrenzelgarcia3827
    @mhervyrenzelgarcia3827 Pƙed 2 lety +8

    cool stuff there dude, can't say I understood most of it, but I enjoyed it regardless.
    Quick request, can you make a video on the Martian Iron Rings from Warhammer 40k? They are like the demented lovechild of a space elevator and an orbital rings that act as a space dock yard.