Breazeale Nuclear Reactor Start up, 500kW, 1MW, and Shut Down
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GoPro footage of the Penn State research reactor. The sound is pretty annoying during the sped up section of the video. Recommend just turning sound off.
Many questions are answered in detail in the comments.
If this continues to get interest I would be happy to make more videos of the reactor and radiation in general. I enjoy teaching people about nuclear power and other technologies.
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you're pretty good at holding your breath
This is undoubtedly the best video I have seen thus far. Thanks for sharing it.
Alex Laurence Thanks! Maybe I will take some more video of the reactor soon.
NOW I FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW IT ALL WORKS. THANK YOU :)
no need for school
+Moris Doehmann Day be called Cherenkov Radiation. You see The electrons are moving faster than light thru a medium causing a shock wave.(NOT FASTER THAN C OR PHOTONIC VELOCITY IN A VACUME AS NOTHING IS FASTER THAN C)
Great footage, so rare to be able to see something like this, many thanks for sharing it!
You're welcome!
Alex Landress I can tell you're an engineer, English isn't your forte. *you're welcome*.
Lol at the Grammar Nazi. I bet you're super fun at parties 😀
My two cents, in this particular case, I don't think he was really being a grammar Nazi. As a self-admitted grammar Nazi who happens to know many, and be the offspring of, engineers, they do tend to suck at spelling. I saw my dad spell Jurassic "Jurasek" one time. I LOL'd!
Dat nuclear reactor ambient sound at 500kw. Like im in a starship engineering section or something.
That what I was thinking! Looks and sounds so sci-fi. Amazing video.
Nemo Reem i think what you hear is cooking water.
Florian Jaklitsch or boiling water.
Go listen to Elite: Dangerous engine sound clips.
Beautiful vantage point on the core, and I love how the GoPro camera sensor picks up some occasional direct radiation signals (sparkles), particularly at 1 MW.
In the zoomed in portion at 1MW you can see quite a few of them. It actually took me awhile to recognize it.
Cherenkov radiation is hauntingly beautiful.
"If this continues to get interest I would be happy to make more videos of the reactor and radiation in general. I enjoy teaching people and changing minds about nuclear power and other technologies."
Yes, please do that, and explain it in the vid!
The fact that this only has 733 views is a terrible injustice.
More people are watching!
what are the radiation levels?
45k views? 741 upvotes? ;p
AxelPLasg Not bad for a video I didnt even intend on making public
almost 70k
We got to see this reactor being fired up in 1992 with our advanced physics class trip. It was the neatest thing, and I still tell people about it. We got to see the wd-40 thread test film and had access to the neutron howitzer to do particle counts. A lot of people are surprised when I tell them there is a nuclear reactor right in State College. That's a cool job you have there.
Arnold's Design cool
Thank you for filming it! I've always wanted to see what happens near the reactor core.
Amazing to see that. It is just like a giant kettle. You can even spot the control rods being raised and lowered to control the output. Many thanks for sharing.
Yo, someone call Thor. We've found the Tesseract
This should be a live stream! I think I would not get tired of watching this.... Ever!
Magnificent. it's so beautiful to see how power of atom tamed in such simple and elegant form. Triumph of human mind, but still so much left to achive.
็Thanks for the footage! Please do take more videos like this. Very educational. Such a rare opportunity to get to see how this thing works. I'd been spending time reading all the top comments and your clarification.
In certain way, this video makes me remember my childhood when I was playing Half-Life, in the Lambda Complex chapter
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen, thank you for posting!
Amazing video! You can actually see the control rods going in to shut down the reactor. Thanks for the post, Alex!
I love this! Please make more videos of the inner workings of a reactor. I have always been curious.
you can see the radiation as little white dots appearing during the 1MW portion :D
Cropped, it would make a great screensaver for any device.
The sound.... perfect "white noise" for sleeping.
The Cherenkov radiation is so beautiful. I like this video and hope to see more of it.
It's interesting, eerie and sort of frightening all at the same time. I've finished watching and still feel somewhat freaked.
That thats even a thing is crazy. This video and a friend explaining it answered a lot of questions. Awesome blue glow
Alex, thank you for showing this, and for all the explanations. Highly educational!
Although science and technology are (and need to be) purely rational things, there are always moments of amazement... Once had the opportunity to stand next to the spent fuel pit of a commercial nuclear power plant and will never forget the blue glow of the Cherenkov radiation I saw down there.
Please keep up your outstanding contributions, and best wishes for your career!
Beautiful! This Cherenkov blue light is so hypnotic.
If you skip from 3:40 to 6:50 you can see that rods have moved, are these control rods?
Way, way cool!. I got a tour about 30 years ago when I was student. Only thing missing is a video of a prompt critical event. I was told it looked like a flashbulb going off at the bottom of the pool.
Well done on the video, and THANK YOU to the folks who allowed you to post it on CZcams.
i wish i could meet you one day cause i love your content. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
just been reading your reactions to comments, you get my subscription just for being a nice, interesting guy.
p.s if you do more of these videos, annotation or a voice over of the stages would be interesting. I'm interested but really i don't know what i'm looking at here
Amazing video. Thank you. For those like me who do not really understand what is happening, please do another video explaining soon!
I love that you can see the radiation effecting the sensors in the camera, the little dots that suddenly pepper the image.
this is amazing I can't believe I am watching something like this. it's a privilege. thank you for sharing with us.
This is really awesome! Thank you so much for sharing.
Wow, such an awesome footage of Cherenkov radiation. I was able to see one in person, in a Polish "Maria" reactor in Świerk (you can google it), but this footage is just freaking awesome. Thanks for the upload, mate.
Never seen anything like this thx for the upload 👍👍
Thanks for posting this. It's fascinating to see a reactor actually operating. Now just to do some research on the differences between your research reactor, the one at NC State University, and the one just up the road from me (Shearon Harris). Thanks again!
Never knew (and still have it hard believing) that a reactor lights up a pretty, but eerie, cosmic blue! I really enjoyed watching this.
This is pretty cool, and certainly unique. Please post more. Some with narration or captions would be great.
Stunning to see this! Thanks!
Holy crap I was not expecting that blue glow! Would I seriously be able to see that with my naked eye!? It looks so incredible it seems fake, really amazing stuff!
This video brings back memories of when I was a student and had labs in this building. I remember the first time walking in the building and the astonishment I felt that this reactor is just in a big open pool with no pressure vessel. Awesome video! any chance you'll post video of a reactor pulse?
I live 16 miles away from one of these and always wondered, thanks.
Wow, I've wanted to see something like this for decades, nice video!
Thanks!
I would like to see a tour of all of what's up top near the end. Including the rest of the systems for that matter. Very nice vid!
I worked with reactors in the US Navy, went through training on a submarine prototype that started out in shipyard and made it to another major overhaul in shipyard on an aircraft carrier. Even then, I did not see this level of detail and beauty of a fission reaction. Thanks for the rare treat to see this. BTW, I see some lines that go down towards the core in between the control rods, what are the purpose of those? Also, are you limited to short runs or is there a way to reject heat that I cannot see here?
I was also in the nuclear Navy, submarines though.
The other tubes going down to the reactor are tubes that we can drop experiments down in to, and also some conduit going to temperature detectors in the core.
We can run for long periods of time. There is a cooling system for the pool (not shown). If running at full power, the pool reaches an equilibrium temperature of about 26C.
Insane Footage, Thanks for Sharing!
Thank you for showing this!! Very interesting! Greetings from Perú
Actually seeing the Cherenkov radiation glow is amazing. I have never seen a picture of it much less a video. It's like something out of a Science fiction story but real life.
I have watched this many times recently and am still shocked each time I watch it as to how amazing this truly is and how small it is producing this much power (yes I know it's just a demo)
action at 1:40 and 5:10
Thanks for adding some time stamps. I didn't really expect many people to watch this video, just needed to get the raw footage up for some people to see. Maybe I will actually edit a video with this footage...
YES! please do, this is awesome, and the comment section is as interesting as the video!
something similar to a gamma ray flash at any moment?
Freaking awesome, I bet that GoPro is glowing now...
Small and cute one. Good work you did.
The blue glow is due to the charged particles traveling faster then the phase velocity of light in that particular liquid. You can actually see the huge amount of particles glowing as they are escaping into the surrounding liquid. Awesome.
Wow, this was amazing.
Thanks for the video (Best regards from Arad/Romania)
This is an awesome video, thank you.
Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely mesmerizing!
Great video please post more!
Thx for sharing this, quite interesting.
Thank you for sharing. Probably best knowledge sharing footage on youtube than those animated version of reactor.
it's always so impressive to be able to actually see the radiation picked up by the sensor (or film in the old days) in the darker areas!
I like how you can see the sparkles on the video as the reactor is running, radiation hitting the image sensor :)
Wow! I just stumbled on this vid, and found it fascinating. I actually read all the comments! My question for you is - since this is a research reactor not generating electricity, what is the nature of the research you are doing? If you can share that. Thanks for posting this vid. Great stuff!!
Thank you very much for showing. I've driven by the "Nuclear Boobies" (San Onofre) hundreds of times and was always curious about the inside of a reactor. My buddy works for a RO water company and its amazing to see the water so crystal clear.
getting to see this helps provide context for our imagination. very cool
congrats on hitting 1MW, best I can get from mine was 981kw - adding a few more fuel rods when I get home from school tomorrow. I have to work quickly though, this assignment has to be turned by the end of next week.
"UFO" (Unidentified Floating Object(lol) at 06:40 from left to right mid screen.
Love this please make more
Really awesome, thanks so much!
Thanks for the video
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make more content on radioactivity & Nuclear Physics. I absolutely LOVE the bottom of the periodic table AKA "the Actinide Series." My favorite things include the beautiful blue Cherenkov glow. Well everything that either sheds Alphas to go down the tables scale or Bata that magically turns Stuff Like Neptunium into plutonium
Alex thank you for this vid man, i have a better understand of the operation!
That's cool seeing the control rod being inserted and slowing the reaction
Your comment about prompt critical is interesting (never heard of it before). A video about that would be awesome, just watched WSJ's video showing it but they don't explain much. I never knew the speed at which the rods were removed would cause a spike in power generation, I just figured the rods were just steady state energy producers.
Starting at around 7:00, you can see some white flashes, especially as they close in on a portion of the shot. Tiny little one or two pixel sized white flashes. Those are from the radiation hitting the cmos chip right?
It will be exactly that.
oxycontiin you can actually see them the whole time
this is incredible. I didn't realise you could use a camera film so close to an active nuclear reactor. fantastically interesting
Awesome video. I always wanted to see live footage of a reactor in activity. Thanks for sharing. Have you got any readings of radioactivity on your Go Pro after that? I have seen a few white sparks indicating ionizing radiation that hit the sensor of your camera.
that's an awesome video good job
Incredible video with excellent quality. Water is so pure it looks like it's not even there
Wow this is fantastic footage. If you notice the random white pixels of light that pop on and off are accentually stray electrons hitting the CCD of the camera and causing an overload on the sensor.
Alex is figuring it's a gamma ray from N16 wandering near the camera and then shedding. But I'm thinking the odds of a gamma ray hitting the sensor are low, whereas an electron has a pretty good chance of being intercepted by the sensor, I'm thinking almost 1 to 1. And flipping the bit to a maximum all white is exactly what we would expect an electron to do.
Would a gamma ray even trip that photonic sensor? If it did, that means a molecule spilled electrons and got damaged, didn't it? Is there damage now to the sensor? Spots maybe?
I like electrons a lot better.
The blue Cherenkov Radiation is beautiful. It never gets boring thinking that small cube radiates 1MW of power. Think ~500 kettles boiling at once. (2 kilowatt each)
I love that you can see the radiations effect on the GoPros sensor.
PSU is surely an amazing facility. Thank you for the footage!
Fantastic, thanks for sharing.
I was a reactor operator in the US Navy. This video is probably one of the best videos I have ever seen showing Cherenkov radiation. Really, really awesome video! By the way, I assume this is some test facility somewhere? I have no idea of any facility where you could drop a camera into a pool and film a reactor going critical to 1MW, particularly with it not being in a pressure vessel. This is just freaking awesome!
I was also a Navy reactor operator. This is the research reactor on the Penn State main campus. It's just used as a large neutron source for research and commercial testing.
This is interesting. A pretty antiquated technology as we move to natural fusion, but still cool (and intimidating).
worked with one in 1985-6
Amazing, Always wondering how look like close view to core in fusion reactor. I think that is first ever public close up footage of reactor.
This is easliy one of the coolest videos on the internet. Is that cherenkov radiation? It looks so surreal
thanks for this. I spent four years near a reactor. always looked boring to me.
Guau... Nunca había visto un video de un reactor en plena operación, desde esta perspectiva. Impresionante de verdad... Y la radiación Cherenkov es simplemente impactante...
Thanks for sharing!
+Alex Landress Thanks for the heads up about the volume. Wish more CZcamsrs would do that.
You're welcome. When I posted this video, I wasn't listening to the sound at all. I just wanted to get the footage up so some group members could see what we had to work with. After it uploaded, I listened to the audio for the first time and got quite a surprise. I didnt fix it because I had no idea this would become so popular.
Any subsequent video will have proper audio
I like how you can see little specks of white flash on the screen from the radioactive particles.
looks like the Tesseract from the Avengers :D
nice video.
Thanks! It's pretty cool to see the blue glow.
Ahh, so awesome. I love the pixel-sized crackles of visible radiation you can see every so often.
The Beautiful Cherenkov glow makes me want to swim down to it.
I stumbled on this by accident but it has given me an amazing lesson in nuclear power. Thank you. We Are PENNSTATE
I like the tiny light flashes of light as the radiation (presumably beta or gamma particles?) hits the CCD of the camera.
"The beautiful glow" "We need MORE"