Nuclear Engineer Reacts to 'I Produced So Much Nuclear Waste the World is Ruined Forever'

In Satisfactory. Not in real life!

Nuclear Engineer Reacts to "I Produced So Much Nuclear Waste the World is Ruined Forever"

[YveltalExtreme]

Josh is the sort of guy that would build an uranium enrichment center, a nuclear reactor and an orphanage on top of each other, normal logic doesn't apply to him

[bobd]

"This is like what if nuclear power was run the literal opposite way.." NOW you're getting how Josh works!

[steelplasma]

This game prioritizes gameplay over realism. The entire story is that its the far future and you are sent out by a company that doesn't care much about your safety to extract all the resources from a planet. The main focus of the game is building and optimizing factories, Josh made this video a month or two after they added nuclear power.

[chalkopirate]

I think the stereotypical yellow barrels come from the asse Endlager, an old salt mine in germany where they put nuclear waste in the 60s. It was a bad idea because now there is groundwater flowing into the mine and also the waste is in familliarly yellow steel barrels which started leaking due to careless handling of them. I think that's where this idea of the leaking yellow barrel came from

[kittycatcaoimhe]

"Interesting, I wonder if he did it on purpose."

You do not know Josh from Let's Game it Out.

[Othilion]

Probably one of the least expected cross-over episodes. Thanks for your insights as always Mr. Folse!

[catagamas]

Just for your information, after this video Josh realized that he needed to get rid of the nuclear waste, and the way he found was very interesting. He thought he could throw the waste outside of the map into the void, but the game simply doesn't let you throw items there. So, to bypass this, he tamed dogs, filled them with nuclear waste, and then made the dogs throw themselves into the void for him :)

really interesting method that I think could be explored in real life, I recommend you researching something about this

[kstricl]

Power generation in Satisfactory (at the time this video was made) would be more akin to a redox flow battery. Plants essentially hold a charge like a capacitor until demand hits, then discharge with zero ramp up, while pushing supplies through, or just straight up consumption.
I love how Tyler got into the theme of things by 2/3rds through and started making suggestions about how to maximize contamination lol.

[Merennulli]

The glowing green goo leaking out isn't a thing, but the 200L yellow drums are. They're used for low level and intermediate level waste. If you're curious how they got in the public consciousness, look up the Asse II mine in Germany where they improperly stored a lot of them.

[godofwisdom]

"I wonder if he did it on purpose?" Oh, my sweet summer child...

[Xnoob]

If "a swift 3 hours later" made you laugh, I think one of his videos included something like "16 hours later"

[CasualSnake_D]

You're right that raw uranium ore wont harm you, but consider that any dust that you might stir up from digging the ore could be radioactive, and you could breathe that in. Also, the tailings after you refine the ore can be radioactive as well, and can even spread contamination, like in Church Rock NM in 79.

[Loxly]

There is a follow up with what he had to do with the waste called:

I Used Drones to Make a Nightmare Factory Even Worse - Satisfactory

It is two episodes later in the series.

[wessltov]

Seeing this in my subscription box made this terrible day much more manageable!

If you're worried about how this video from LetsGameItOut portrayed the nuclear industry, don't worry! He turns over a new leaf when he realized that he needed to stay alive inside his base to keep playing the game, so he started looking into ways to safely dispose of the nuclear waste!

[rpengler]

This is classic josh.

Step 1: Explain the plan
Step 2: Walk through the construction of one build
Step 3: Take the build to absurdity
Step 4: Push it even further to absurdity

[Sirinxbella]

The waste processing in this game is quite a bit more interesting then Josh showed. You turn your waste into plutonium fuel, either to create more power and waste. Or to shred it in the giant shredder. Uses particle accelerators too.

[ancapftw]

Technically there was a design of control rods which did rotate. They were Beryllium oxide coated with a reflector on one side. To control the reactor you rotated the rods to expose more or less beryllium to the neutrons.

They were used in nuclear rocket engines to control the rection rate.

[TopiasSalakka]

They actually changed it from MWh to MW in the power graph in a later version, the game version that Josh is playing here is really old since it has the old power poles and no fluid pipes.
Also, in the game, uranium and everything you make from it used to be non-deletable, meaning you'd have to figure out mass storage for spent fuel rods.

But, in version 4, they actually introduced fuel reprocessing, and there you have a choice.
You can make plutonium fuel rods out of it, and use those for power, but you'll have to store those spent fuel rods too.
Or, you can dump the plutonium rods into something called AWESOME sink, which will give you coupons to purchase things like decor, like materials for foundations and walls, and all kinds of shapes to build your base out of.

[Maukustus]

one thing ive definitely learned from watching tyler's videos: do NOT eat or digest uranium

[Logic]

6:24 I think they mean electromagnetically actuated control rods, but that's still a fuckin insane concept. Imagine the GIANT ASS ELECTROMAGNET YOU'D NEED TO PULL THAT UP.