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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 29. 07. 2018
- At Reed College in Portland, Oregon, there's a TRIGA nuclear reactor, used for research. You can stand next to it and watch the blue glow from the bottom of a deep swimming pool. I had to visit.
More about the reactor and about Reed College: reactor.reed.edu/
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Operating a nuclear reactor with a fishing rod and a bucket on a string is kind of a perfect metaphor for college
that's college in a nutshell
It's still a nuclear reactor though. Even if it is a smaller scale one. Cos that tiny bit of particle is enough to radiate that much. Now, imagine a real one, just scaled up. Redo your calculations. The principles do not change. That small reactor, may just control like 2gm of the radioactive substance, and it could give off that much light. Imagine how powerful it would be, if the weight is a lot larger ? You can do the maths.
@@MeiinUK you clearly know nothing about nuclear reactors theres a bigger test reactor you can find on youtube and its basicaly the same set up people litrelly lean over the water to watch the glow
â@@MeiinUK it joke1
So is dropping a cell phone into a reactor pool.
I'm from Portland and this is my favorite way to freak out people who are afraid of nuclear power. "yeah there's a reactor like 3 miles away ran by students at Reed."
"There is a reactor near here that is run exclusively by people who couldn't even finish their university degree..."
I do the same with the research reactor at my undergrad uni. It was run by the profs though because the computer system hasn't been replaced since it was built in the 70s and they don't want students breaking the vacuum tubes.
And it has run for the past 50 years!!
My favorite part was in all the recruiting materials I ever got from Reed, they emphasized this rubber duck they always kept on top of the reactor XD
I'm down at OSU and I do the same thing. My old apartment complex was about a quarter of a mile from our reactor, which freaked my family out. I walked by it twice a day on my way to class for 2 years without worry though.
Iâm an undergrad currently, and at my university we have a microwave in our common room weâre allowed to operate. Basically the same thing.
I sure hope you aren't serious. Nuclear radiation and electromagnetic radiation are two entirely different things.
whoosh
extreme whoosh
Steven Emert r/whoosh
Steven Emert r/whoosh
Haha... from the Wiki article on TRIGA reactors: "The TRIGA was developed to be a reactor that, in the words of Edward Teller, 'could be given to a bunch of high school children to play with without any fear that they would get hurt.'"
wow this sucker's prompt critical?
Mansaku Nabi boi
Thatâs quite a bold statement. High schoolers can do unexpected things
Being "idiot proof" always finds a worse idiot.
@@awildfilingcabinet6239 However in this case it is actually valid.
Apart form draining the pool, practically nothing can go wrong as the TRIGA design has so large a negative thermal reactivity constant that even when (yes when) they go prompt critical, they shutdown passively and only make a 'boing' noise and a few ripples in the pool (but a huge blue glow, you can find several youtube videos showing it).
During such an experiment, TRIGA reactors have had power outputs as high as 22 GW (although only for a few ms).
So even if you yank out all the control rods as fast as you can, it will not melt down or even be damaged except if the water in the pool is allowed to evaporate over time (the heat released by the reactor will start to evaporate the water eventually if the cooling system is switched off for too long)
âWith a umm... fishing rodâ
It's a fission rod.
Myles Adams O M G . Big if true
It's how Kerbals make their plutonium RTG's.
Whoosh
Very professional for people running a nuclear reactor
"And then we get it out with a (slightest pause) fishing rod" If it's stupid but it works!
TheMan83554 itâs not stupid if it works
I love the part about retrieving stuff, students dropped in there.
if it's stupid but it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky
Yeah, I sensed embarrassment but want her to know it's a perfect hack, low cost, near ubiquitous replacement available in case of catastrophic failure.
I would have probably called it a Test Article Retrieving Rod and then had the camera pan to the fishing rod.
"A nuclear reactor run by undergrads"
"when someone drops their phone in there"
Not even if
Just.. When
Ah self awareness
Its even worse, they're not just any undergrads, they're liberal arts undergrads.
I had a couple of technical problems with the audio and video on this, but this was such a spectacular thing to see that I didn't want that to stop you from seeing the video. There are, as always, subtitles available!
Tom Scott Soobtitlays?
Was no problem for me, seemed fine! :D
Nillie Eh, good enough tho ;)
I didn't really notice any problems watching it. I think a content producer is always their own worst critic. I got the feeling the students weren't really used to giving tours, though that's not really unexpected.
Tom Scott Everyone told me you died of Ligma?!?!?
I think it makes perfect sense to have students operate nuclear reactors. They're not very expensive, and they're sort of disposable.
Reactors can be safely managed by anyone with proper training. They are really just sophisticated water heaters.
@@SOIBand both
The students or reactors lmao?
Ah sorry! Unintentionally rewrote a previously said comment!
studensts are absolutely disposable
Tom: A nuclear reactor run by undergrads at a liberal arts college sounds like a...
Me: The beggining of a great joke.
so dose this qualify as Nuke School ??
It's okay there's an Asian guy there.
a really really bad idea?
Could also be the beginninng of a zombie apocalypse. Your call.
to me it sounds like a chernobyl incident
Me: Google, show me the pinnacle of misplaced optimism.
Google: Here's a light switch labeled "Fission/Fusion."
Me: Perfection.
i wonder what happens when you switch it
@@giists5197 The fishing rod comes out
@@BierBart12itâs just the word âFishingâ misspelled
She's talking like someone's definitely dropped their phone in there and it had to be fished out.. I wonder if it was still working when it came out. That would be one hell of an advertisement statement by the manufacturer if it did.
im convinced that my nokia 3310 would have crushed that reactor
d b The nokia 3310 would crush anything except another nokia 3310, like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.
d b The Nokia would crush the reactor.
My understanding is that things get dropped in fairly often near the edge of the pool, where the radiation is much less. If they remove the object quickly, no damage is done. I remember that they had a small wrench which had been dropped onto the reactor itself, and had to be kept in a lead box.
Just dont drop a note 7
Our teacher took us there on a field trip in 9th grade. The "blue" light it makes can't be shown accurately on screens or paper; it's so unlike any light you've seen elsewhere, almost it's own color.
I was wondering if you could mix a paint colour called "Cherenkov" and maybe made it luminous for extra effect!
My monitor generates 1,073,741,824 distinct colours, and you claim none of them are close?
@@BatCaveOz You'd be surprised what DOESN'T get captured in those
@@BatCaveOz ooo look at you with your fancy 10 bit display
â@@unicodefoxlooking at an awful bitrate 1080p 8 bit video
"If someone drops their phone in, we NORMALLY....." how often does it need to happen befpre someone says. " guys seriously, either keep hold of your phone or don't take it in there."
The reactor at WSU I toured had a no phones policy for exactly that reason, and that was 14 years ago!
At my school's reactor, there wasn't a no phones policy, there was a "you're going in to get whatever you drop" policy.
Nothing has ever been dropped into the reactor.
Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation is one of the coolest things you can observe, and I had only ever seen pictures of it. I clicked on the video hoping to see some, and you delivered. Long Live Tom Scott ! :D
There are several youtube-videos available if you search for Cherenkov
Can happen with minimal radiation
Had the pleasure of seeing it in person. It sent shivers up my side.
@@m2heavyindustries378 totally normal phenomenon
The stupid thing is that Reed doesn't have a nuclear engineering program. Some say that the only reason they have the reactor still is because it's too expensive to dispose of.
how long does those rod last?
+Liou David as they said in the video, at the current rate of use, about 100 years left
nuclear fuel is expensive and hard to manage but it last a really long time
Some reactors burn through rods in 5 years, others can take up to 30
+Samantha Dansjin when utilised close to 100% of the time, yeah, you get "just" few years up to few decades out of them
meanwhile, in the middle of winter, I need to go put coal into the furnace every hour to keep the house warm
Wait what? A university bought a nuclear reactor for the sole purpose of education and doesn't have a degree to match?
The âFusionâ / âFissionâ switch.... đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł itâs fun to see a little bit of student humour in a reactor hall! You should do a video about âthe blue glowâ - itâs fascinating!
Had to look for someone else who noticed this, kudos đ
Tom scott is a good contender on the "best at being interested in things" contest.
Laura I usually think of him as the winner in that category. Do you know any other contenders on CZcams? If so, I wanna subscribe to them, too!
(Edited to fix a grammar error.)
AbigailR84 - Steve Mould would be my choice.
CruxCapacitor Oh yeah, he's another good one!
@@AbigailPoirier smarter every day is awesome too
When I was at Uni, we couldn't even run a projector without supervision... Not fair, life! not.fair.
Nillie No, but why would I need a year of training plus a technical exam to run a projector, tho?
Ratlee94
In india we are still stuck in chalk age
Ratlee94 you had a projector?! not fair, life! not. fair.
It's not 100% run by students.
at sixth form
i got to run a lathe and mill without direct supervision
does that count?
The microwave at my University was removed because someone accidentally put metal in it and it started a fire.
In fairness, you don't have to take several tests and receive training to use a communal microwave.
@@noesunyoutuber7680 and also not monitored every second you are in the facility.
When I was an undergrad, we had a light switch in our room that anyone could access. It's basically the same thing!
They don't even let us use a microwave
You know what is basically the same thing? Your comment and the top one
"cutting edge technology" "been here for 50 years"
beanhead159 Well, it was cutting edge 50 years ago
I mean it's not like they leave it sitting around and don't do any work on it. I'm sure it has been improved somewhat.
Everything was cutting edge at some date !
beanhead159 advancements in established technologies can be accurately described as cutting edge; ya beanhead
Knives are centuries old technology, yet they are still a cutting edge technology
All of these students are way cooler than I ever was in college, this is awesome.
I had the pleasure of working summers at Reed when the reactor was installed and activated. As a student and a model builder, I was paid one summer to build a scale model of what the reactor would look like, used for educating the public about the reactor's function and safety. Thanks for the report which brought back old memories.
Wow, it's so weird when my typical life and the internet collide. I'm starting at Reed this fall, have toured the reactor, and will be doing the operator training!
Ella Chadwick That's really cool!
So how did that reactor thing go?
So Did you finally operate it ?
So radiation is watchmen blue instead of simpsons green?
So... You're saying The Simpsons isn't real?
blindleader42 are you insinuating watchmen is?
MOOD,
If the radiation is blue, it must be, right?
I've never read or watched Watchmen.
Cherenkov radiation (which is the kind you're seeing here) is blue, at the very least.
Well, at the very least it *looks* blue to humans. It's actually a lot brighter in the UV portion of the spectrum.
Itâs not an actual fishing rod, the end of it has a special attachment that connects to a special tube that we put in the core with samples in it. (We donât pick up dropped things with it, if that happens we use a bucket on a stick)
I visited a TRIGA Mark 3 reactor in Main, Germany once. It was very cool, because they can pulse the reactor, which means letting it go super critical on purpose by shooting out one control rod with high pressure air, producing a lot of Cerenkov radiation at once. So i can say of myself that i was standing on a nuclear reactor going super critical at one point in my life.
The reason you can do it is, because the TRIGA reactors use a zircon matrix for the uranium fuel. Zircon absorbs more neutrons when it heats up, which shuts done any reaction above a certain temperature because the reactor goes sup critical. Only after the zircon has cooled down does the chain reaction starts anew.
In fact the reset time of the reactor was only 10 minutes. While i was on tour through the reactor hall it got pulsed three times, allowing us to see the radiation directly and indirectly. It really has a special kind of blue color.
Oh neat. I knew a lot about reactors, but not this.
Love the fission/fusion switch! If only it were that simple...
A very highly rated small liberal arts college located in Portland, Oregon- Reed College has a well deserved reputation for high standards. As a father of multiple young adults to went to university, I remember being very impressed with Reed College when they were deciding on where to apply. Thanks Tom, for showing a positive story about higher education. It is far too fashionable nowdays to attack uni's for political reasons. I will step off my soapbox now. BTW- one notable alumus of Reed College- Steve Jobs.
dr. demento is from reed
Jobs didn't graduate, he dropped out of Reed
Heyy, I've seen you comment on secular talk videos
Alumni are former members, not necessarily graduates. Though the vast majority of the time people conflate them for some fairly obvious reasons.
Weird flex, but OK.
I think MIT also has a student run Nuclear reactor too
But thatâs cuz itâs MIT. This is some liberal arts college that no one knows about
yeah that's MIT, a lot of MIT Graduates go on to become astronauts or scientists or working for NASA, this is a liberal arts college that is....odd that it has one, but its been there for 5 decades
There are over 200 such reactors.
Yes, there are quite a few of these reactors at various technical schools. It isn't that surprising that a school that's training physicists and even nuclear scientists would have a nuclear reactor on hand for the students to practice with. It's that this is liberal arts school that isn't training engineers/physicists/nuclear scientists that makes it having a nuclear reactor (let alone a student run reactor) unusual.
MIT students actually know what theyâre doing so they have a real reactor, in comparison the reactor in this video is like a kids toy so the liberal arts kids canât accidentally ruin Oregon while theyâre checking twitter
I point out that Reed College is hardly the only university with a nuclear reactor. Both of the universities that I attended (the Ohio State University and Iowa State University) had nuclear reactors when I attended them, but I understand that ISU's has been decommissioned and demolished since then.
Only one almost entirely staffed and operated by undergrads though. If I remember right there's one supervisor on staff, the rest are students or recent alums.
This is basically one of the coolest reactors ever in multiple ways
No, it isn't. It is very simple.
I didn't say it was complex, only that it was really cool.
Yeah, so whats cool about it? There are dozens exactly like it.
It's like saying a Honda civic is cool. Sure, but when compared to a R10....
My chemistry professor used to work there when he was an undergraduate, he recalls being audited once with their paperwork nowhere near up to scratch, since then he has been the biggest stickler for detailing, thanks Dr Hanley
Meaning the paperwork was incomplete or data was falsified?
Our reactor at the university had a thermal power output of 10w.
so 1 milligram of uranium?
In my Alma Mater there is also one. The only problem is that the psychology department did an experiment with cockroaches. Some of them escaped. Now the easiest way to find a cockroach in that building is using a Geiger counter
Holy crap this was interesting, Tom. Can you point me to a video that can elaborate on that "visual sonicboom" effect?
I don't have a video for you, but the blue light is from particles that are traveling close to the (vacuum) speed of light entering a medium where light can't travel as fast, like water. Since they're now traveling faster than the (in-medium) speed of light, they have to slow down and lose energy. They do that by giving off light, which is the glow you see when the lights are turned off.
If you search for Cherenkov radiation you should find some great explanations for it. The effect is caused by electrons that are released by the fission reaction and are traveling faster than the speed of light in water(which is only 3/4 the speed of light in a vacuum).
1997CWR thanks!
doublej1076 awesome explanation. I appreciate you taking the time to elaborate on it for me. Thank you!
So, that means those particles do travel faster than the speed of light, even if for a moment?
As soon as I read the thumbnail I knew it was Reed. I wasnât involved in the reactor when I was a student there ~10 years ago, but some of my classmates were. Reed is a great school. Top-notch professors, and everyone is passionate about learning.
I remember going on a field trip as a kid to a research reactor. Still one of the coolest things I saw
Saw the title, immediately though "I wonder if he's in my town?" Yes, yes he is! Hey, Tom, if you're still in Portland, I'll buy you a beverage of your choice.
My university, the technical university of Vienna, has a research reactor too, and I've gotten to tour it! They actually just dump the warm water it generates into the Danube, which created a spot lots of fish like to hangout. Oh and it's the only nuclear reactor in operation in Austria
Some fish needed to be added in that pond
They've already got a bigger fish to fry!
Purdue University also has a research reactor you can see. When I got a tour, it was actually shut down for maintenance, but students can get tours even while it's running.
It's things like this that make me miss physics changing to an engineering discipline was possibly the biggest regret of my academic career.
I went back to school in my mid 30s for nuclear engineering. Never to late if you really want it! Well, unless life gets in the way.
That might be smart though. Engineers have more stable and higher paying jobs than physicists generally. Plus, u can always go into nuclear engineering
I started out in Engineering, changed to Ecology. Now I make maps. Doesn't seem fair.
I really enjoyed the fission-fusion switch. Maybe we should install those at some of our power reactors :-)
I never knew that nuclear reactors are actually glowing :o that is really intriguing, now I want to know more about it!
That is called Cherenkov radiation, it's not radioactive, as you might think from the name, it's just light. The way it works is analogous to a sonic boom. It occurs when particles move faster than light in the water, now you might read that and see an obvious problem, but remember that light slows down when it goes through a medium, in case of water it goes at around 75% of the speed of light, so particles in the water can go faster than that. When that happens, it creates an electromagnetic wavefront than forms an expanding cone of very bright, high-frequency light. The really high-frequency stuff that is harmful gets absorbed handily by the water and what you're left with is blue light.
NotaWalrus That is really cool, now that you explained it I think I remember having heard about it quite some time ago, but my memory of it is really fuzzy, so thank you :D
Yep, and it was predicted as a byproduct of Relativity before it was ever seen.
Note that the Cherenkov radiation doesn't produce only blue light, that's just the interaction between the frequencies that are absorbed by the water and those the human eye is most sensitive to There's a lot more ultraviolet and violet light than blue, but our eyes don't detect purple as well as blue, and because Cherenkov radiation emits light in a smooth distribution across the frequencies, our eyes see the blue better.
I loved that fission, fusion switch. Gold!
i wish i had one to play with. that negative temp coefficient makes them utterly foolproof.
It's important to note that even though it's called "liberal arts" that actually often includes all of the natural sciences and stuff like that. It's named to contrast against "fine arts". I'll be worried when fine arts students run a nuclear reactor xD
We got some of those in EU as well. I visited one and I can confirm it's one of the most memorable experiences in my life. Especially witnessing Cherenkov radiation.
(Also: I can't believe I experienced something before Tom did! :O )
"In today's class, we're running an experiment on the nuclear reactor we have in our backyard. Kids, be on your best behavior."
".......................................... what?"
Wow lived there a while & never knew they had one! When I went to OSU in Corvallis, I visited the reactor there. I remember the crazy angled hallways designed to keep any radiation back into the building.
Tom, you should have mentioned the (slightly) interesting story behind the acronym SCRAM.
"get it out **contemplates her entire life and existence** a fishing rod."
this is fr how okuu (utsuho) from touhou turned into a living nuclear reactor more powerful than the sun
Awesome stuff, being an ex submariner from the RN I used to sleep next to a nuclear reactor and several nuclear missiles, that was quite a weird environment! :D
I live in Portland, not far from Reed. I wish I would have gotten to meet Tom haha
SECONDQUEST this was me when he talked about the kilogram they have at NPL
New too
Yay TRIGA! There's one at the university where I live, they do tours for elementary students and drop hairdryers in it.
Toured this during my sophomore year, fantastic tour and cool facility. We got to go up quite one to the edge of the pool.
For anyone interested, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario has a reactor run by graduate students that uses neutrons to image jet turbine blades and create radioactive medical supplies for the nearby hospital
So that's where the next young adult superhero will be born.
Fission fusion switch is on point
Up here in canada we have a reactor thats a little bigger at McMaster University in Ontario. Its a 5MW reactor but also a pool type reactor and is used as a research reactor. As well as also producing isotopes for sale likeiodine-125 and molybdenum-99. Really cool stuff even if the arts kids on campus freak out about it when they know we have a reactor.
Penn State has a student run reactor as well, and it is the oldest still active nuclear reactor in the world.
Sees reactor glow: âIs that Cherenkov radiation? Itâs basically a sonic boom for light instead of sound.â Three minutes later, Tom chimes in. I feel such great satisfaction right now.
I'm screaming. What are the chances that Tom does a video on the tiny college I'm starting at next year?
How's it been :)
I love the way that the one student is like:"I don't know what an atom is, but I think it's cool so I did it" what a vibe
There was a small nuclear pile near where I live. It was used by Shell Research to test the effects of radiation on lubrication oils.
Cherenkov radiation is caused by particles going faster than the speed of light in the medium that they're traveling through. How is a much more complex question that I am equally unqualified to answer, but the wikipedia article on it is fairly detailed (but not guaranteed to be accurate, of course)
Anyone reading that "Faster than the speed of light" thing and getting confused, remember light is slower than c - the speed of light in a vacuum - when in other media. Air slows it down a bit. Water slows it down quite a lot. If the reactor were in a vacuum and not in the bottom of a pool, it wouldn't be glowing blue. And yeah, Einstein's speed limit holds; we've yet to find anything going faster than c (with the possible exception of information transmitted from one quantum entangled particle to its partner)
I've always wondered if light actually doesn't slow down, but bounces around and gets absorbed/reemitted in denser mediums, causing it to be "slower." too lazy to look up tho
That seems like a logical explanation from a particle perspective. I have to admit, the whole wave/particle duality thing that light does throws me; I don't expect light to do anything logical at that level. Give me a nice optics diagram and leave me to my nice, normal, macro life :P
You mean all those sci fi shows with glowing blue auras around a toroidal core got it wrong? I'm going to have to totally reconsider my whole life now.
The speed of light varies for different mediums. The particles being thrown off by the reactor are flung at full C, but then they get bounced around by interfering matter.
As pointed out by Terry Pratchett, monarchy travels faster than c - no matter where the successor is on the globe, they become king or queen instantaneously upon the death of the current incumbent. This actually happened with Queen Elizabeth II, who was on safari in Africa when her father died in the UK.
There is Braille on the SCRAM 'button'!! Do they have any visually impaired staff, or is it purely for the sake of accessibility?
It's more than likely that it was built and installed with accessibility in mind, since it's possible that in the next hundred and fifty years or so they might have visually impaired staff.
Haiku Metzger I don't disagree, but it seems like it was an afterthought. It looks like it was stuck to it rather than being there to begin with. I see what youre saying tho.
Nillie true.
Also the Braille would help you find if due to an accident or smoke you lost your vision in an emergency.
On face value, scary idea, but in practice it looks really cool and surprisingly safe. Being able to use it to identify materials is something even I'd love to do and being able to see the blue glow in real life (safely) would be borderline inspirational for me. My inner kid is lose its mind!!! I love science.
Thanks for the subtitles!
This is what is known as a pool reactor. They are awesome, very safe. No pumps to worry about or pipe breaks or anything that many middle aged powered reactors have to worry about. The fuel rods are also a metalic/uranium mix which means the conduct heat very well and the reactor itself is very volumentrically small, so the heat density is not all the great. This means even if all the water leaked out, the fuel rods can cool themselves in the air. Normal ceramic fuel rods will continue to heat even after a reactor shut down to the point they melt down because they have more heat in them because ceramic is a poor conductor of heat. The outside of the fuel rod might be 300c while the internal heat is something like 2300c.
This is why a reactor like this is totally safe to be near populations and run by relatively novice reactor operators. It is a great place to cut your teeth and get ready for the big time reactors! Even then, we are developing new reactors with different materials or designs to make powered reactors as safe as these ones. But we need to keep doing the research which these days is harder money to come by.
AND THEY USE WINDOWS VISTA đ±
Looks like Windows 7 to me.
And, hopefully, it's not connected to anything outside, so I doubt it'll be a problem.
AlphaCore why do you think windows 7 is that unsafe
Memer_Rick because old windows versions have know exploits that have yet to be fixed.
Windows 7 Extended Support lasts until 2020. It's still getting security updates.
It's definitely Windows 7; Vista had a taskbar that looked more like XP, and the round start menu button stuck up out of the taskbar a bit. And as ThetaReactor noted, Windows 7 will be supported for a few more years.
There appears to be a standard forming for small form reactors to serve reduced power and populations, modular units that don't demand the footprint and scale of security that modern power plants require.
This reactor would never output more than it takes to run it. It's purely scientific and for research.
This is the most underrated channel on CZcams. He should have 10M subs by now
The idea that nuclear should be scary is the biggest problem with the education system.
âLiberal Arts Collegeâ is a quite misleading term, most LACs do have math, science, computing degree programs(but no engineering). LACsâ defining characteristics are teaching and undergrad focus and have strong art, humanities and social science programs.
@@therealist3495 Your comparison is a bit ridiculous. It's more ridiculous than saying teaching economics indoctrinates students to love capitalism.
I live in Portland Oregon and I've toured this reactor a few years ago it's extremely cool and definitely worth a look if you ever get the chance.
That glow looks amazing, if I worked there I would have turned of the lights every time I go in there just to see that glow. Itâs stunning
so..... there is still no graphite on the ground
Uni mainz (germany) has something fairly similar, really cool
I think it's funny that Oregon has two nuclear reactors - both are university research reactors. No power plants. (The only nuclear power plant in Oregon closed about 20 years ago.) This one, and another one at Oregon State University (which is run by graduate Nuclear Engineering students, rather than undergraduate students seeking any random degree.)
Also of note: Not only is the Reed Research Reactor run by undergraduate students, none of the students are nuclear engineering students. Or any kind of engineering. Reed doesn't have any engineering degrees. It does have Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, which are the main users of the reactor.
I'm so glad this exists! The more people who understand the physics of nuclear fission and can operate a reactor, the less people will be scared of the technology. Nuclear power is so much safer and healthier than burning fossil fuels.
No. We have solar power, wind power and hydro power. Geothermal heating and cooling. "growing oranges in winter Russ Finch"
â@@markae0 Those are way less efficient, until we improve them, we should use nuclear power
Feels like subtitles lag midway behind the audio but idk if just me.
Just fixed that: looks like I uploaded an old version of the subtitle file by mistake.
Was it a good idea to have a reactor in an arts college : Whenever someone drops a phone in we fish it out with a bucket
The water is quite deep so the phone will probably get damaged, but for a short time the irradiation shouldn't be a problem.
Nah I'm just takin the piss out off the blase attitude they had
The phone could damage the reactor, so it must come out.
Zero One my point was they casually drop phones in ffs
The Fission/Fusion switch is awesome!
There used to be a nuclear reactor in Aalto University in Finland, but it was shut down in 2015 because it was too expensive to maintain (Around 400 000âŹ)
Also in University of Helsinki there is a particle accelerator that was built mostly by the staff/students in the 60's
Mitzi Zitler, what an epic name!
YES! This is the content! Nuclear is life!
Patchouli Colt Chernobyl is a LIE! Storing nuclear waste indefinitely is no problem AT ALL! Big Solar is one of the biggest threats of America! âąïžâąïžâąïž
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John Smith nice propaganda m8
Im all for nuclear, but big solar is fine as well.
John Smith don't worry, I knew you were joking đ
4:02 lmao I chuckled at that light switch
The "Fission / Fusion" switch had me laughing.
So they are not undergraduates anymore?
I read "Underground Students" and was confused...
Mole people!
On a campus a secret society are doing underground science at night.
Staring Adam Sandler
In high school my class went on trips to visit the local college's (ISU) nuclear reactor several times.
We have a similar one in Italy.
It's not operated by students themaself, rather it's at their disposal for the same purpose.
Fun fact, it was used to identify the chemical fingerprint of Parmisan and once saved a guy with a liver mainly lost to cancer
The only two nuclear reactors in Norway are research reactors.
Next Fallout game location after 76.
Fallout: Nuke U
They said it isn't big enough for a meltdown to happen.
Get your deathclaws ready, boys and girls.
it's a small reactor, it doesn't even produce electricity to run more than a few appliances, I highly doubt it would do much more than fizzle in a melt down situation, it's not that big, it's just to teach these kids how reactors work and how to operate them,
the way TRIGA reactors are built, they literally just cannot meltdown. that's just not physically something it's able to do
jimmy my keys fell in again
jimmy: *shighs* ill go get the fishingrood
imagine being able to tell your phone fell into a nuclear reactor and you fished it back up