ANTARCTIC NUCLEAR REACTOR AT McMURDO STATION 26042

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    This fascinating film was made by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Navy in 1962. In that year the U.S. Navy delivered a nuclear reactor to Antarctica to power the McMurdo Station. The plant, like the nearby Scott's Discovery Hut, was prefabricated in modules. Engineers designed the components to weigh no more than 30,000 pounds (13,608 kg) each and to measure no more than 8 ft 8 inches by 8 ft 8 inches by thirty feet. A single core no larger than an oil drum served as the heart of the nuclear reactor. These size and weight restrictions were intended to allow the reactor to be delivered in an LC-130 Hercules aircraft. However, the components were actually delivered by ship.
    The reactor generated 1.8 MW of electrical power and reportedly replaced the need for 1,500 US gallons (5,700 L) of oil daily. Engineers applied the reactor's power, for instance, in producing steam for the salt water distillation plant. The reactor, designated PM-3A, was designed and built by the Martin Company. There were problems with the plant from the beginning. It underperformed to expectations and frequently fell victim to power failures. It also raised concerns in New Zealand, where U.S. Navy ships transporting the fuel and waste under Operation Deep Freeze would dock for a few days while in transit.
    As a result of the multiple malfunctions of the PM-3A as well as it's clean up activities, there have been concerns that the health of personnel involved with the reactor may have been adversely affected. Although members of the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Unit were continuously monitored for radiation, many of the military support crew were not. As such, a study was undertaken by the Department of Defense to estimate an upper bound on radiation exposure for these individuals based on the worst cases of the available data from McMurdo. Levels of radioactivity in the water were monitored once the PM-3A was used in the production of drinking water. During the first few years of fresh water production (between 1967 and 1969) there were several instances of abnormally high amounts of tritium in the drinking water. In addition, there was a case of abnormally high amounts of long-lived beta activity in the drinking water in 1969.
    In addition to problems with the drinking water and environmental contamination, there were several recorded instances of crew radiation exposure, some resulting in injury. During the plant operation, 223 reports of abnormal levels of radiation were recorded. Of these cases, 14 resulted in injury and 123 resulted in exposure in the amount of 0.350 rem over a period of 7 days. This is a substantial amount of radiation when it is estimated that, one average, a typical yearly dose from background sources is 0.240 rem. The remaining 86 instances were abnormal radiation levels detected within the plant and its immediate surroundings.
    All of these factors led to PM-3A existing on very shaky ground almost from the day it began operating. The coup de grace, however, came in 1972 when a leak in the reactor's pressure vessel was discovered during a routine inspection. A closer look uncovered cracks throughout the reactor, caused by failures in some of the welds, and the decision was made to close and dismantle PM-3A. Disposal presented other headaches. Decommissioned nuclear plants are usually entombed in concrete, but provisions in the Antarctic Treaty made this impossible, so the dismantled plant, along with some of the contaminated ground surrounding it, was shipped to a disposal site in California.
    The nuclear reactor installed at McMurdo Station was the first and only to operate on the Antarctic continent. It operated for 10 years and greatly reduced the need for fossil fuels in the Antarctic. Although it was initially thought to be a cost saving device, its unreliability, large operational crew, and large clean up proved it to be an expensive experiment. As a memorial, a plaque now stands at the site of the nuclear power station in McMurdo commemorating the people and services of the PM-3A.
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Komentáře • 517

  • @horsebee1
    @horsebee1 Před 4 lety +119

    In the 1970's I worked on the site of the reactor helping to repair the RO line. We were never told that there had been problems or that it leaked. We were unknowingly exposed to what ever junk was left behind. We only found out through the media years latter,

  • @cheryldahl9192
    @cheryldahl9192 Před rokem +3

    I ate ice cream while watching this in the middle of winter.
    I'm so cold.

  • @townsendmedia
    @townsendmedia Před 3 lety +68

    After 10 years of operation, the PM-3A was permanently shut down in 1972, achieving only half of the expected design life of 20 years. [1] The next step was clean up of the reactor site. The PM-3A and generated radioactive waste could not remain at McMurdo due to the internationally agreed upon Antarctic Treaty which prevents both nuclear weapons testing as well as nuclear waste dumping in the Antarctic. [7] As such, a large-scale effort was undertaken to remove the reactor components, buildings, and contaminated soil for a total of 365 metric tons of radioactive waste to the continental United States. [7] It was later determined that there were indeed cracks in the containment vessel which leaked coolant water into the crushed gravel that had been used as the reactor shield which is what resulted in such a large area of contamination. [4] As such, more than 9000 cubic meters of contaminated soil was relocated to the continental US. [1] In total, seven enriched uranium fuel cores were shipped to McMurdo, three of which had yet to be used as the plant was expected to operate for several more years. [7] The reactor cores, components, and highly radioactive gravel that was used to shield the reactor were shipped to the Department of Energy Savannah River Plant in South Carolina. [1] The remaining low-level contaminated soil was shipped to the Naval base at Port Hueneme, California. [1] The clean up operation lasted until 1979 as work on the site could be performed only during the austral summer. [7]

    • @13orrax
      @13orrax Před 2 lety

      what about the murderous winds?

    • @townsendmedia
      @townsendmedia Před 2 lety +2

      @@13orrax Perhaps on Ross Island there are murderous winds, but in Antarctica we may never know. "THEY" Lie Lie Lie! p.s. were there murderous winds in The Garden of Eden?

    • @horsebee1
      @horsebee1 Před rokem +10

      Repeated from the official play book but as I was there summer of 1979 there was no work going on at the site other that the repair of the RO intake line which over the winter had frozen due to the failure of the heat taper. That was what I worked on. Make no mistake the area was and still is hot. Removing the ground underneath the reactor is a major undertaking as it is frozen permafrost made up of volcanic gravel. You cant just move it with a doser or excavator as you normally would. It has to be drilled and blasted first then the lose material removed before it refreezes. The point I was making was that we were never informed of the risks that we were taking working on the site nor were we told of the problems that they had had with the reactor.

    • @townsendmedia
      @townsendmedia Před rokem

      @Evan Hodge Probably so. Things have been going down hill ever since and Lazy Government employees and management have been milking the public funds while doing no work to maintain equipment and providing basic services. The Ants are not happy! Neither are the Bees!

    • @PatHaskell
      @PatHaskell Před rokem

      @Evan Hodge Austral has nothing to do with ants🙄

  • @Ailuk
    @Ailuk Před 2 lety +25

    This comment section is filled with
    A: People who worked at the reactor
    B: People who think the reactor was a disaster
    C: Conspiracy Theorists
    D: People who are just interested in Mc Murdo station and Antarctica

    • @ricardobautista-garcia8492
      @ricardobautista-garcia8492 Před 2 lety +1

      D.

    • @epicguy228
      @epicguy228 Před 2 lety +1

      I've seen far too many people deny the existence of radiation on here. Not just nuclear power, radiation as a whole.

    • @TrapperAaron
      @TrapperAaron Před rokem +5

      It's amazing the number of people who worked on this 1 obscure reactor at bottom of the earth

  • @dennistedder3384
    @dennistedder3384 Před 6 lety +50

    He has that funky 1950s narration voice.

    • @miltonhollis703
      @miltonhollis703 Před 3 lety

      Dennis what do you want them to do? Do a voice over and have Arnold Schwarzenegger to be the Narrator of the story or Tom Cruse 🤔

    • @firewater9465
      @firewater9465 Před 2 lety +2

      A whiskey drinking heavy smoker got the call to sober up or the fruits of his vocal labour will be taken away from him, no true whiskey drinker will endure that what will kill a man, Isle number seven.

    • @ma.muller6528
      @ma.muller6528 Před 3 měsíci

      That was the common 40 cigarette voice of the time 🤠

    • @WR3ND
      @WR3ND Před 8 dny

      Ah, yes, English and testosterone - a very rare combination these days.

  • @rafaelmelendez1854
    @rafaelmelendez1854 Před 4 lety +46

    I remember seeing the nuclear power in 1962 when I was on the Ice with naval squadron VX-6 providing the logistical support for the science research.

    • @angelaschnelly
      @angelaschnelly Před 4 lety +4

      Wow sounds like that would've been an incredible experience.

    • @patrickbateman7453
      @patrickbateman7453 Před 3 lety +1

      So why do we have that there again?

    • @patrickbateman7453
      @patrickbateman7453 Před 3 lety +1

      czcams.com/video/jxoN9n3vf1Q/video.html start at 48:00

    • @angelaschnelly
      @angelaschnelly Před 3 lety +2

      @@patrickbateman7453 with more volcanoes than any other continent there has to be ice free areas and melted fresh waters. And how about that beard contest...

    • @brandashusband
      @brandashusband Před 3 lety +4

      @ Rafael Melendez ... I was with VXE-6 from 1983-86. I was a PR1 on their ParaRescue Team. Loved every minute of it. :-)

  • @mastertek383
    @mastertek383 Před 3 lety +17

    One important rule for Antarctic stations is to never allow stray dogs into camp, especially dogs being chased and shot at by men in Norwiegian helicopters

    • @thezombiechicken9406
      @thezombiechicken9406 Před 3 lety +4

      Childs Mac wants the flamethrower!

    • @mastertek383
      @mastertek383 Před 3 lety +2

      @@thezombiechicken9406 Mac wants the what??

    • @lizardking3770
      @lizardking3770 Před rokem +3

      No more dogs in Antarctica, back in 96 a new provision of the Antarctica Treaty went into effect stating any wild life introduced to Antarctica must be removed. All the dogs were shipped out in specially built refrigerated tri-wall containers. They said if you bring these dogs anywhere near the equator they'll drop dead from heat exhaustion. These dogs were so interbred with one another they basically constituted a new breed of sled dog. They were so use to the cold they slept outside most of the time. It didn't bother them one bit !!! I worked in Antarctica for almost 13 months straight, they were very hardy strong animals. I heard they were auctioned off and used for breeding in Alaska, Canada, Russia and the US.

    • @cile_youtube
      @cile_youtube Před měsícem +1

      @@lizardking3770 Why would anyone mind dogs in Antarctica? You say that they were used to pulling sleds and that the
      cold did not bother them! So what's the problem with them staying and living there with people???

    • @lizardking3770
      @lizardking3770 Před měsícem +1

      @cile_youtube The Antarctic treaty signed by every major power states ALL wildlife not native to Antarctica must be removed by a certain date which was something like 1996. Also, when I was down there you were not allowed to bring any plants or seeds of any kind, including trail mixes.

  • @themadhatter196
    @themadhatter196 Před 2 lety +29

    "Nothing bigger than a bug"..
    *bird seen flying

    • @thetonybones
      @thetonybones Před rokem +1

      lol timestamp?

    • @Nikko-zi3ti
      @Nikko-zi3ti Před rokem +3

      i thought the exact same thing 😂😂😂

    • @Nikko-zi3ti
      @Nikko-zi3ti Před rokem +1

      @@thetonybones about 30 seconds after the guy said nothing bigger than a bug.

    • @brandonduarte6757
      @brandonduarte6757 Před rokem +3

      He also said no trees or plant life, but not according to admiral Byrd

    • @brandonduarte6757
      @brandonduarte6757 Před rokem +2

      There are also penguins

  • @jeffstowe4860
    @jeffstowe4860 Před 3 lety +10

    I love the Periscope Films!!!

  • @nickhoagland6568
    @nickhoagland6568 Před 5 lety +51

    This reminds me of something we would have watched on the film projector in 6th grade on a day when the teacher didn’t feel like teaching.
    With that said - Very enjoyable to watch. Thank you so much for posting it

    • @russwentz3957
      @russwentz3957 Před 3 lety +6

      Yes, I remember those days. "Yay, we get to watch a film!" I loved those films and actually payed attention to them.

    • @rowanmoormann9532
      @rowanmoormann9532 Před 2 lety +2

      I absolutely agree 💟

  • @kevinmichaelcallihansr5053
    @kevinmichaelcallihansr5053 Před 2 lety +18

    I watch a lot of films/movies and was glad when seeing this film was saved, so gratitude for CZcams! And those who post/share, reasonable films based on matters some of us read or learned about via life experiences.

  • @dellawrence4323
    @dellawrence4323 Před 5 lety +23

    "The most Magnificent and Awesome creature on the Earth" so they killed it.

    • @jeffmattsson7038
      @jeffmattsson7038 Před 4 lety +5

      yes. Killed by "the most Vile and Dangerous creature on Earth"

    • @BarnBear
      @BarnBear Před 4 lety +6

      Jeff Mattsson bankers killed it?

    • @ashleylaw
      @ashleylaw Před 4 lety +1

      @@BarnBear Ultimately....yes.

    • @IronCypher
      @IronCypher Před 4 lety +1

      I know that was phucked up

    • @thatdude3977
      @thatdude3977 Před 2 lety +2

      @@jeffmattsson7038 white people

  • @jollyroger3993
    @jollyroger3993 Před 5 lety +23

    Crash landed on William's Field aboard a C-130 (The City of Christchurch) VX-6, in the 63/64 summer season. The nose gear refused to come down parallel to the ice but come down vertically. We tore off the nose gear and spun around a so many times I couldn't how many. Walk off the ship, got drunk and fell out of my top bunk and needed 37 stitches to close my head. Thought I had lucked out and be sent back to Chi-chi. The ladies there were great there. I was sent to Byrd Station as part of aviation ground support.

    • @robertfaught5174
      @robertfaught5174 Před 5 lety +4

      I was there in 80-81 W/O 82 S/S 83/84 W/O heard about that crash, Was you flying with Cadillac Jack.
      Seen the hole they dug out from the old reactor. They said they made a parking lot out of it back at Port Huneme CA. I got smart after that and went to Alaska.

    • @seanbassett9389
      @seanbassett9389 Před 4 lety

      jollyroger3993 were you an AS?

    • @miltonhollis703
      @miltonhollis703 Před 3 lety +1

      Mercy this a interesting story about your adventure" this comment is more interesting than the video I finished watching.
      You should've the narrator instead of the other Guy......

    • @daverobinson6110
      @daverobinson6110 Před 2 lety

      Gotta love the sea stories. No sh#t, this really happened 😀

    • @BrodyLuv2
      @BrodyLuv2 Před měsícem

      ​@@daverobinson6110
      🤣

  • @imfloridano5448
    @imfloridano5448 Před 7 lety +16

    I watched this to see if my Grandfather Benjamin F Smith would possibility be shown in the film. He was their in 1963 he told he was doing research on the upper layers of the atmosphere, ozone layer I believe.

    • @aidenfowler6691
      @aidenfowler6691 Před 6 lety +2

      My Grandfather was there then as well, Edward (ed) Fowler. He was there with Martin Mareta, working on the nuclear plant.

    • @thegloriousmoodman2152
      @thegloriousmoodman2152 Před 4 lety

      How is that hole in the ozone layer, anyway?

  • @grandaddyjesus
    @grandaddyjesus Před rokem +6

    2:55 Can't believe they mention melting all of the planets ice just by happenstance and its general implications.

    • @joeblow-tp6gz
      @joeblow-tp6gz Před rokem

      It was this ice chunk being pulled off the continent into the ocean by gravitational pull, that caused the great flood. around 12,000 13,000 years ago.

    • @sgtbrown4273
      @sgtbrown4273 Před rokem +1

      @@joeblow-tp6gz there is absolutely no evidence of that.

    • @joeblow-tp6gz
      @joeblow-tp6gz Před rokem

      @@sgtbrown4273 Lot of rain??

  • @KazenoniKakuremi
    @KazenoniKakuremi Před 3 lety +26

    We had a lot of incidents at this reactor including a leak and lost radioactive material due to terrible flight conditions
    We also dumped a lot of the nuclear waste back home at one of air bases

  • @horsebee1
    @horsebee1 Před 6 lety +28

    And when we had to work on the site where the reactor was we were only told that it had been removed due to international pressure. We were not told about the problems and leaks that had plagued the plant from day one or the ship loads of rubble that had to be removed or the increased background radiation that still plagues the area.

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 Před 5 lety +15

      @Fred C. Scroll
      You do realize that the combustion gases and fly ash of fossil fuel power plants release more radiation from long buried radioactive heavy elements than do all the nuclear power plants, INCLUDING Chernobyl and Fukushima. I eagerly await high temperature, fast breeder reactors that can split the trans-uranic elements and actinides and result in waste that only needs to be stored for 300 years rather than 10,000.

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 Před 5 lety +4

      @Fred C. Scroll
      I am not a big advocate of sodium used in direct conjunction with a steam cycle, it is a recipe for disaster. I am an advocate of helium or lead-bismuth cooled fast reactors. You still haven't addressed that fossil fuel combustion releases more radiation than nuclear power plants, including the Chernobyl and Fukushima.

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 Před 5 lety +1

      @Fred C. Scroll
      What does Kirk Sorenson say about PWRs? My chief criticisms of them are a wasteful fuel cycle, poor thermal efficiency of their low temperature, saturated steam cycle, and lack of online refueling, not so much safety.

    • @cymbala6208
      @cymbala6208 Před 4 lety +2

      @@gregorymalchuk272 1. The isotopes released from nuclear accidents impose a much higher threat to humans esp. children (iodine, plutonium) than natural occurring isotopes from uranium/thorium decay because they often accumulate in vulnerable organs.
      2. We should not only refer to radioactivity that has been released from nuclear power stations but we should also remember the amounts of radioactive waste that might be released and will be a risk for 20000 years.

    • @skywayminicabs6292
      @skywayminicabs6292 Před 4 lety +1

      that might have been why the international pressure to remove it , do you think ?

  • @davidgrisez
    @davidgrisez Před rokem +5

    This is an interesting video that covered some of the activity at McMurdo around 1961 and 1962, and covered the activity of bringing in and installing a small nuclear power plant to provide electricity to McMurdo Station. As we know from history this nuclear power plant had its problems and was decommissioned 10 years later in 1972. It was the only Nuclear Power Plant ever used in Antarctica. Since then electricity has been generated by diesel powered generators.

    • @lilblackduc7312
      @lilblackduc7312 Před rokem

      ..Diesel powered generators are only O.K. if the 'scientists' use it.

    • @TheCrossroads533
      @TheCrossroads533 Před 8 měsíci

      Ditch nuclear power source and go for a big carbon footprint. Duh, that's intelligent.

  • @felixthecat2470
    @felixthecat2470 Před 3 lety +4

    At 15:50 notice the scientist clothing. Not that cold in that part.

  • @elmoredneal5382
    @elmoredneal5382 Před rokem +8

    Very cool! 😍👌
    These old films are an interesting snapshot into the past. I love the look and style of that old equipment ♥
    I know it's just industrial / military equipment, but all those switches, gauges, and indicator lights are very classy 😎

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      @seeharvester Před rokem

      @@PeriscopeFilm
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      There must be a better way to do that.

  • @sliph73
    @sliph73 Před 3 lety +2

    thank you for uploading all these video awesome channel

  • @dragonflygrandma
    @dragonflygrandma Před 6 lety +2

    Thanks for sharing

  • @rowanmoormann9532
    @rowanmoormann9532 Před 2 lety +1

    Right on, thanks for the good video.

  • @ravenwear
    @ravenwear Před 4 lety +17

    Quite a few deepfreeze "Easter Eggs" in this documentary.

  • @elitestockpicks8212
    @elitestockpicks8212 Před 3 lety +5

    There is a freemason lodge there

  • @ChemEDan
    @ChemEDan Před rokem +1

    1:48 "Melt the ice"
    Humanity: And I took that personally

  • @l-vbordercolliesbryanbaque6237

    Are those penguins bug sized?

    • @IvanDmitriev1
      @IvanDmitriev1 Před rokem

      Haven't you heard of the giant Antarctic ice bugs?
      If so - good!

  • @BeryJensen
    @BeryJensen Před 4 lety +5

    Martin company later become Weyland industries... ;)

  • @Mark_Ocain
    @Mark_Ocain Před 8 lety +23

    Nuclear only lasted 10 years down there before the reactor began to deveolp enough issues that it had to be decommissioned. the weather was to harsh and the build to frail.

    • @fourfortyroadrunner6701
      @fourfortyroadrunner6701 Před 7 lety +10

      Someone who had been there told me it was one of the "leakiest" and possibly most dangerous reactor he knew of.

    • @robcallejo6679
      @robcallejo6679 Před 6 lety +1

      Mark O'Cain is this true what you say? I'm curious if there is truth or is this a bhai hoax

    • @robcallejo6679
      @robcallejo6679 Před 6 lety +1

      Mark O'Cain what's true/real and what's not?

    • @ypsilantiaz
      @ypsilantiaz Před 5 lety +4

      I was stationed at McMurdo Station and wintered over in 1970. The sea off of Observation Hill was where the Reactor cooling water was released into the bay. There was always liquid water mixed with the ice year round.

    • @howiseeit5129
      @howiseeit5129 Před 4 lety

      Its still in use

  • @ibear5594
    @ibear5594 Před 3 lety +7

    Desert as desolate as the moon. So now we know where the moon landing was filmed. Brilliant

    • @dueymoar7767
      @dueymoar7767 Před 3 lety +1

      Greenland and Area51, actually.
      Possibly on the moon as well.

    • @epicguy228
      @epicguy228 Před 3 lety +1

      @@dueymoar7767 Possibly.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem

      Right. That explains all the penguins wobbling in the background on TV broadcasts of the Apollo astronauts.

    • @thetonybones
      @thetonybones Před rokem

      and mars too I bet

  • @HamabaJuJu
    @HamabaJuJu Před 3 lety +12

    2:24 "No land creature bigger than a bug" !!!! ??? What? So I guess from this "movie" we have to conclude that the Penguins in south pool moved there sometime after 1962 !!! Incidentally, I have not heard of any bug in South pool!!!

  • @kylefenrick9168
    @kylefenrick9168 Před rokem +3

    Saying awesome and magnificent creature, while showing them being killed, is an oxymoron

  • @marystrope1345
    @marystrope1345 Před 2 lety +4

    This reminds me of the "films" that we used to watch in school... nostalgic 😊

    • @marystrope1345
      @marystrope1345 Před rokem

      @Evan Hodge you mean WHERE are you running to? I'm not running.. people run when they're scared.. I'm scared of nothing , some people have feel that they need to reply sarcastically to every comment that they read showing the desire to display their own ignorance and you've shown it right here and now, how would it have hurt you to simply read my comment without the toxicity of your personality showing..? Did it bring you happiness or some kind of joy or pleasure? I feel very sorry for you.. you must be an extremely miserable person.

    • @thetonybones
      @thetonybones Před rokem

      The comfortable warm feeling of nostalgia while watching this is so welcome in today’s wacky world

  • @LastAvailableAlias
    @LastAvailableAlias Před rokem +1

    "The last unspoiled place on earth. We can fix that."

  • @gheart8278
    @gheart8278 Před rokem +1

    Great video! Thank you

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  • @thatdude3977
    @thatdude3977 Před 2 lety +3

    Maybe this is why it’s melting

  • @64curarine
    @64curarine Před 6 lety +11

    At 20:27, the narrator says ".... Arneb escorted by the Atka and Eastwind...." However, what is pictured is the Arneb KA-56 being towed by the Glacier GB-4 and followed by a Wind-class icebreaker (I cannot see the hull number clearly). I believe this is stock footage from January of 1957 when the Arneb was damaged by a large chunk of ice and had to be towed to Knox Coast by the Glacier.

    • @heru-deshet359
      @heru-deshet359 Před 5 lety

      Until the nuclear plant was installed, all they could use was stock footage. :P

  • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
    @paulmichaelfreedman8334 Před měsícem

    1:38 "You're going to launch a Spaceman????!!!"
    German Scientist: "Speh-see-men"
    Only those who have seen "The right Stuff" know the reference

  • @mikejh4353
    @mikejh4353 Před 4 lety +5

    So...... We had a nuke leak on the Antarctic continent?? I'm surprised we haven't seen some 7 ft penguins yet..... Sounds like a good story line for a movie

    • @davidhollenshead4892
      @davidhollenshead4892 Před 4 lety +2

      Not a bi deal as radiation isn't that dangerous or all our jet Pilots & Astronauts would be dead...

    • @epicguy228
      @epicguy228 Před 3 lety +1

      Peinguinzilla

  • @norahjaneeast5450
    @norahjaneeast5450 Před 4 lety +21

    aren’t there Penguins as well as some seals down there

    • @user-bw3fl7fj9w
      @user-bw3fl7fj9w Před 4 lety +7

      Yes, exactly what I thought

    • @satanofficial3902
      @satanofficial3902 Před 4 lety +1

      Penguins are thick as fleas at the North Pole.

    • @RohrAtom
      @RohrAtom Před 4 lety +2

      @Jeremy Kirkpatrick You didn't watch the film, did you?

    • @RohrAtom
      @RohrAtom Před 4 lety

      @Jeremy Kirkpatrick fak

    • @YeaDatDrill
      @YeaDatDrill Před 4 lety +3

      At 11:40 penguins only live in the Anartic (South Pole) and Polar Bears only in the Arctic (North Pole) they wouldn’t survive there in the south!

  • @jasonferguson1167
    @jasonferguson1167 Před 5 lety +3

    Okay ...thumbs up Colonel.

  • @el6237
    @el6237 Před 4 lety +3

    It leaked contaminating the pristine water of Antarctica 🇦🇶🙏🏻

  • @robertr.hasspacher7731
    @robertr.hasspacher7731 Před 2 lety +3

    What an excellent documentary with a world class musical score.

  • @Skval2254
    @Skval2254 Před 3 lety +5

    Lets say that there was a problem with an overheating of some Nuclear powerplant of other construction and that this started the melting ice caps. In Tjernobyl they could not cool down the reactor anymore and that caused the explosion and fire. But in the Ice caps of Greenland , the North- and Southpole the ice would prevent this fast proces . But wenn that ice is still cooling down that overheated device it will melt in a high tempo. And for militairy reasons a ice free shippinglane would be a chance for a full time militairy naval base . Oil and gas would be cheaper to mine and international shipping can take short routes around the south and north pole.

    • @Ailuk
      @Ailuk Před 2 lety

      Or we could not mine more oil and gas and instead use wind power?

    • @Michael-rg7mx
      @Michael-rg7mx Před rokem

      The Russian design will melt down when water is lost. The American design needs the water for the reactor. Drain the water and it just shuts down.

  • @yunassaxer7119
    @yunassaxer7119 Před 3 lety

    great!

  • @ballisticdan
    @ballisticdan Před 8 lety +3

    Awesome. Thanks

  • @Dragonslayer-xn1qg
    @Dragonslayer-xn1qg Před 10 měsíci

    I was in McMurdo in 1977/78 during the Summer season. I remember hearing about this failed nuclear power plant.

  • @luish19779
    @luish19779 Před 4 lety +5

    Minute 2:53---- is so clearly a Bird 🐦...

  • @tommywhare493
    @tommywhare493 Před 2 lety +2

    The home of the blue whale the most magnificient and awesome creature on the earth:
    Proceeds to kill it🙄

  • @kc4cvh
    @kc4cvh Před rokem +1

    3:04 We've been working on that for quite some time, but at an increasing pace since World War II.

  • @SPA926
    @SPA926 Před 2 lety +1

    Holy moly

  • @liberator48
    @liberator48 Před 3 lety +4

    Boy howdy it sure is swell that Uncle Sam decided to give us penguins all this nuclear power, huh Billy?

    • @peterparker9286
      @peterparker9286 Před rokem

      Billy Madison also Madison Wisconsin nuke powered flying V.

  • @PaulWLint
    @PaulWLint Před 4 lety +5

    So suddenly all of you who have never been there are experts on Nuclear power and the Antarctic? Give me a break!

    • @berto2174
      @berto2174 Před 3 lety +1

      Lol shut up grandma 👵

  • @mikeyzero2439
    @mikeyzero2439 Před 4 lety +9

    "Lifeless, empty desert" - except for all the animals and people.

  • @kestaskuliukas5296
    @kestaskuliukas5296 Před rokem

    Im half way through and we’re still looking at penguins moving to orchestra music .. Im not complaining but this is more about Antarctica than nuclear reactors

  • @speculawyer
    @speculawyer Před 2 lety +3

    125 degrees below zero?
    No.

  • @waywardgeologist2520
    @waywardgeologist2520 Před 13 dny

    Inside of learning from this and improving the technology, they decided to stop it.
    The reactor should have had a secondary containment.

  • @qtig9490
    @qtig9490 Před 4 lety +8

    Lol "no animal lives here" "nothing bigger than a bug" ... um at 2:58 I think those are birds flying around. I wish Mystery Science Theater would have spoofed this one :)

    • @davidthelander1299
      @davidthelander1299 Před 3 lety +1

      He is talking about inland critters. Not things that live on floating sea ice

    • @johncarper2816
      @johncarper2816 Před 3 lety

      @@davidthelander1299 Precisely. Having been lucky enough to visit McMurdo my first thought was, "What about the seals and penguins?" But then quickly you realize that the narration specifically says "land animal", it's clear that they and the skuas are of the sea or air, not "land" per se.
      So no, I don't personally see this one as MST3k 'bot fodder at all.

  • @demo3456
    @demo3456 Před rokem +1

    in the first 130 of this video I knew it was poppycock

  • @seanedwards8406
    @seanedwards8406 Před 3 lety +3

    Designed built and delivered in a year.....Now it takes 20..

  • @jonmyers8046
    @jonmyers8046 Před 2 lety +1

    Well at least people wouldn't get lost in the long dark winters when they were glowing. 😉 Wow that's something else.

  • @joeconrad9147
    @joeconrad9147 Před 4 lety +2

    You should tell the nice people Mcmerdo is on Ross Island

  • @Naturenerd1000
    @Naturenerd1000 Před 5 lety +12

    And the wight of the ice pushes Antarctica down 700 feet!? That's crazy to think a continent could be pushed down 700 feet.

    • @zapfanzapfan
      @zapfanzapfan Před 5 lety +3

      Sweden has bounced back 100 meters or so since the ice age, maybe even more in the north.

    • @redshop1234
      @redshop1234 Před 4 lety +1

      Not to mention the fact that ice floats in water, which is why they have to use ice breakers to break up the ice.

    • @BarnBear
      @BarnBear Před 4 lety

      Naturenerd1000 It is crazy to think that, yes.

    • @keithlovelock8225
      @keithlovelock8225 Před 4 lety +3

      ...yes indeed...it's called isostatic rebound👍

    • @BarnBear
      @BarnBear Před 4 lety +3

      Keith Lovelock sounds crazy to me.

  • @l-vbordercolliesbryanbaque6237

    I wonder if that's the sam kinda weather balloon they found in Roswell?

  • @georgepp98
    @georgepp98 Před 4 lety +7

    world was much more beautiful back then. people were dedicated on learning and discovering.

    • @Temporal_Phoenix
      @Temporal_Phoenix Před rokem

      It will be again, just in a different way from what people thought!

  • @user-je1xu3kf8y
    @user-je1xu3kf8y Před rokem +1

    They need to revisit this idea with regards to the current world energy crisis, something that can withstand the climate, surely it can be done with 21st century technology…

  • @RaccoonNation
    @RaccoonNation Před 5 lety +3

    Sam from ATYPICAL would be in heaven 😎

  • @stevenlmendeziialphaone3975

    Day one we have purposed you more important but still have more to perfect in this fallen state of being so I ask for your mercy your understanding and your help for these things

  • @7eye7
    @7eye7 Před 2 lety +1

    CZcams algorithm been showing me these videos as of late. Hmmm

  • @Suckmyjagon
    @Suckmyjagon Před 4 lety +5

    I’m calling bologna.
    If there were any valuables down there some one would have broken the treaty.
    I think they were told that they were not going to ruin that piece and someone told them to stay away .
    The people living under the ice sheet .

  • @danieljones1981
    @danieljones1981 Před 3 lety +1

    Home of the blue wail.. boom!

  • @cyberGEK
    @cyberGEK Před rokem

    20:57 All in one year! Couldn’t do the paperwork in one year nowadays. (Not that I’m complaining for when it comes to reactor design, I prefer it be done under strict regulation!)

  • @user-mt9tn1ni4g
    @user-mt9tn1ni4g Před 4 lety +1

    I'm like 8 minutes into this video and who would believe with all this exploration and all these country exploring Antarctica it took them 70 years to realize there was a live active molten lava poured in Antarctica there's actually more than one but yeah research that

  • @wmcbarker4155
    @wmcbarker4155 Před 4 lety +4

    see the pyramid ? @ 7:02 & @ 26:00

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 Před 5 lety +28

    There was an awful lot of filler in this film, as if the filmmakers want to bore the audience shitless, before the bring in the “Nuclear” bits...

    • @josef7ark
      @josef7ark Před 4 lety +2

      Using penguins to distract from the main story.

    • @ashleylaw
      @ashleylaw Před 4 lety +2

      It was a GE Webber University designed SMR exactly the same as just blew up in White Sea in August this year....

    • @frenchie6189
      @frenchie6189 Před 4 lety

      I agree, I saw one in this format about a year ago that was all about
      the shipping, installation & bringing the unit online. True to Title unlike this junk.

    • @muonneutrino2909
      @muonneutrino2909 Před 3 lety +2

      The background information isn’t filler. This film is an explainer and a justification for Martin to sell more nuclear reactors to the U.S. government. Martin answered why the highest tech the world has ever seen at the time, early-1960s, needed to be deployed to the most remote location on the planet. Since the reactors were deployed to Antarctica, the film was successful at its intended purpose. And that’s all one can ask of any media.

    • @peterparker9286
      @peterparker9286 Před rokem

      @@muonneutrino2909 Lockheed/Martin Jimmy New Tron

  • @MrPomada
    @MrPomada Před 3 lety +1

    Continente de Tapaderas paraíso de las Élite. Muy pocos sus "Dueños"

  • @ArthurDentZaphodBeeb
    @ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Před 2 lety +6

    Designed and built in a year - and worked just as reliably as you'd expect. Shut down 10 years early due huge number of malfunctions and leaks. Cleanup took nearly a decade. Idiotic disaster.

    • @augustlandmesser1520
      @augustlandmesser1520 Před 2 lety

      Cracks on nuclear reactors is a well known and still unsolved problem in nuclear technology. Industry's best solution is to double the approved number in order to fulfil requests for elongated operational time of their power plants :D

    • @jonnydanger7181
      @jonnydanger7181 Před 2 lety

      @@augustlandmesser1520 makes no sense what they tell us theyre doing on a big rock of ice.

  • @decam5329
    @decam5329 Před 3 lety +6

    Remember: In war and peace, the ATOM is your friend!

  • @WR3ND
    @WR3ND Před 8 dny

    There are six continents, North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, and Antarctica.

  • @thereall.og0226
    @thereall.og0226 Před 2 lety

    I like how he pronounced oil

  • @patrickhooker5697
    @patrickhooker5697 Před rokem +1

    Bird flying at 2min 24 seconds

  • @Omnihil777
    @Omnihil777 Před 2 lety +3

    Decomissioned in 1972 after only 10 years, half of the minimal expectancy, and leaving behind 9000m³ contaminated earth, caused by a leaky reactor vessel, all had to be brought back into the US, but the site is still radioactive, all in all: great idea. Pfff.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem +1

      In those days, the universal motto about safety of nuclear power was "Don't Ask."

    • @thetonybones
      @thetonybones Před rokem

      Is it safe to go back to document or is it like the moon, best left to way back times?

    • @Aboard_and_Abroad
      @Aboard_and_Abroad Před rokem

      gotta remember Byrd found 'unlmited coal' in antarctica in 1946

  • @killgates8519
    @killgates8519 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Why don't we know nothing about Antarctica now ?

  • @NavyVet4955
    @NavyVet4955 Před 3 lety +4

    Don’t let the flat earth guys see this. Talking about a round world triggers them.

  • @animallover4955
    @animallover4955 Před 3 lety +1

    Yeah they signed a treaty together because there’s someone or something that they can’t fight.

    • @Ailuk
      @Ailuk Před 2 lety +1

      :o is it the ice nazis? with their 1940's understanding of aquaculture and nuclear physics? If little nazi ice gremlins lived in antarctica we'd just fly 2 A-10's over their heads and watch them worship us as gods.

    • @peterparker9286
      @peterparker9286 Před rokem +1

      @@Ailuk Just to let Ya Know there is Germans there. Where do U think America got its Anti gravity tech from... Byrd got hammered by the Die Glocke or the Hanabu

    • @Ailuk
      @Ailuk Před rokem +1

      @@peterparker9286 I really can’t tell if you’re trolling or genuinely believe that.

    • @peterparker9286
      @peterparker9286 Před rokem

      @@Ailuk Andromeda was the secret Natzi project after ww2. Byrd went to Ant Artic 3 times supposedly. I have seen flying t angles up close. Astra or TR3B

    • @Ailuk
      @Ailuk Před rokem

      @@peterparker9286 still can’t tell man. Give me a better hint in the next one that you’re not crazy

  • @louvarricchio780
    @louvarricchio780 Před 4 lety

    I don't understand: So this is not public domain? Is that why the overprint of Periscope Films?

    • @GrunOne
      @GrunOne Před 3 lety +1

      They may have restored and cut the film from its original if sound or visual problems occur. They also were probably the ones to do all the work bringing to a digital format and put the overprint for posterity or cataloguing. Just a guess.

  • @jamesbugbee6812
    @jamesbugbee6812 Před rokem

    So the Ilyushin 18 was secretly a Martin product?

  • @johncholmes643
    @johncholmes643 Před rokem

    Very close to Minnesota and their personalities

  • @robertwest3093
    @robertwest3093 Před rokem

    Nuclear power leaves too much waste behind. It's a shame because it's so long lasting and would have been perfect for Antarctica.

  • @user-mt9tn1ni4g
    @user-mt9tn1ni4g Před 4 lety +4

    Yeah everybody needs to sign that ""treaty""

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem

    Is that Peter Graves (aka Captain Clarence Ouver) narrating?

  • @Nikko-zi3ti
    @Nikko-zi3ti Před rokem

    nothin mg bigger than a bug. 20 seconds later a seagull is flying around lmao

  • @pbjandahighfive
    @pbjandahighfive Před rokem +1

    I know it was a different time and different cultures have different values, but I can't help but feel like those people hunting that Blue Whale all kind of really suck. I'm not a vegetarian by any means, but Blue Whales and many other whale species as well are incredibly intelligent. It just seems horrible to do that to such a smart and gentle creature.

    • @mayipleaseask1183
      @mayipleaseask1183 Před rokem

      PJB if you're Not Vegan then by default you are an ANIMAL ABUSER!
      No Different to Whalers 🐋 OR those who love eating Dogs 🐶
      Time to Choose
      Compassion over Cruelty

    • @pbjandahighfive
      @pbjandahighfive Před rokem

      @@mayipleaseask1183 Cope and seethe.

  • @IronCypher
    @IronCypher Před 4 lety +6

    If you stand right in the center of the South pole you spin like a top 😁

  • @povnw8985
    @povnw8985 Před 5 lety +6

    I would love to be the one guy left out there to run the place. I could go searching for the mountains of madness in my spare time, and maybe release our dark lord and destroyer Cthulhu 🐙

  • @josephpizzano5953
    @josephpizzano5953 Před 4 lety +4

    Check the book "weird scenes inside the canyon" to understand psyop. This movie was made at lookout mountain studios in the same town that Jim Morrison and the doors were created.

  • @GalacticGaming360
    @GalacticGaming360 Před 3 lety +1

    "As desolate as the moon."
    🤔

  • @edition-deluxe
    @edition-deluxe Před 2 lety

    I thought for sure Whaling had been illegal by the 1960s?!!

  • @scottbrady7499
    @scottbrady7499 Před 6 lety +2

    no nukes, any more then? wonder what was done with the Martin industries item, once it had failed and become garbage. was it packed up, and sent somewhere folliwing being decommisioned?

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  Před 6 lety +3

      Decommissioned. However there are ongoing concerns with global warming that the nuclear waste in the ice is going to be exposed. Google it --

    • @scottbrady7499
      @scottbrady7499 Před 4 lety

      @spikedpsycho thanx for the reply, i never thought about the infrastructure down there until i began checking out the posts about mcmurdow. no matter how they accomplish what must be done: i'm guessing it takes a few kilowatt hours and british thermal units to keep all that stuff going every year..

    • @scottbrady7499
      @scottbrady7499 Před 4 lety

      @spikedpsycho it's really amazing, and these folks should be proud to be working in such adverse conditions, so far from what they all consider to be "home." really intriguing to find that so many individuals wind up spending some of their life doing the best for their compadres in such an inhospitable portion of our home planet. it really seems exciting, to me. real devotion to duty, is all i can say about that. thanx for the reply, good buddy

  • @ADDMEONPSN
    @ADDMEONPSN Před 2 lety +2

    That's a lie Antarctica has green land.