Los Alamos Atomic Bomb Implosion Testing Area...Buried Radioactive Material

The site I explore in this video is in Bayo Canyon Los Alamos, New Mexico. At this site 254 implosion tests were done using radioactive material like uranium and lanthanum, which left the site a little contaminated. The site is part of a public hiking and biking trail in the area. I also visited the Manhattan Project National Park Site very quickly in the video. In the future I'll do a video showing off this location.

The radiation map made by the Radiacode 101 that I was wearing while exploring the site will be available on my Patreon.

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[braindecay]

That shape charge implosion footage in the beginning is impressive, I'd like some more (and with actual data or explanation)

[janblake]

My father was on the team that developed the implosion detonator so he would have been in Bayo Canyon (and was at Trinity). To his dying day in 1991, he would not talk about secrets.

[A.R.]

21:39 ~ Good light hearted quip. The men and woman that worked out there must have been very confident in their work. The fact we can go in there and explore the area in a park setting is pretty astounding.

[philipkephart]

Those ruts were made by pre-war settlers who lived on the plateau in the summers. They dragged supplies up and down the canyons on sledges. Where the "differential dragged, " that's from mountain bikes.

[geoffp.]

The markers appear to define the corners of an area along with direction and distance to the next marker, A through F and back to A again. So the burried material is within the area, not necessarily at those corners. Something to look forward to on your next visit. By the way, I wonder if the tree roots tap into radioactive material and if they can transport trace elements. Might also be interesting to check the trees or other plants in that area.

[rtqii]

Love this content. I did shit like enter uranium mines when I was young and invincible. The mine dirt is actually a problem if you fall into it or contact it by sitting down. It comes with you when you leave and you have to wash and scrub to get back down to background levels.

[shadow]

There are ruts like this along portions of the Santa Fe Trail from all the wagons that traveling the same path over the rocky areas.

[largent]

The history lesson of these areas is wonderful. I was born in the 60's so the histoey of these places was still active in our minds back then. And to see some of these sites now is amazing! Im surprised its not still hot! Good to know though!

[ericmcdonald]

i love your videos dude. i work as an RCT training for NRRPT and CHP and I was inspired partly by your videos to do some more radiological tourism

[Nuts-Bolts]

At 16:15 the groves are not from dragging the ‘differential’ but probably the waggons ‘King pin’. This is the large vertical pin that the waggon’s front axil turns around.

[untermench]

Back in the early 80's, I visited a restricted site in Nevada on official business. There was a small fenced area where some material from an accident was buried. One of my fellow enployees and I were inspecting the site when I heard a voice behind me say" please step away from the area." Looking behind me was a Caddilac Gage armored car wth some Air Force security snuffies pointing a loaded M-60 in my direction. We were apologized to later and told that the guards had been instructed that we had the appropriate clearances but they had not been notified in advance. If the fence says deadly force authorised, please take it seriously.

[spyderco]

This channel is awesome. Great work Drew

[Max_Marz]

Grats on finding that piece of radioactive material, thats so freakin satisfying. What an awesome thing.
PS: do you know anything about the mine shaft that is behind the lawrence berkeley national lab? Theres an Adit in the hillside behind building 58, I can send you a picture. The one person that told me anything said that beyond a certain point there are no controls in place to allow someone to go further. I'm suuuure they used it for materials storage.

[scottcol]

I really enjoy these vlogs! I would love to make it back out that way some time. I lived in the area back in the mid 90's when I was a kid. Keep up the great work!

[gomergomez]

The depth of those ruts look like they were formed from wagon wheels at least initially, not really wide enough for heavy cargo vehicles with dual wheels like 2.5 / 5 ton trucks.

[scenicroadwaysyt]

It’s a good day when a new Drew video drops and my Radiacode 102 arrives the same day.

[allanweseman]

I grew up in Lockport New York and was interested in nuclear power in my youth. I have lived in Florida now for 44 years and am 75 years old. Several places you may want to investigate in your quest for finding nuclear waste spills: 1. Go to the KOA campground on route 104 in Lewiston NY. Look North and you will see a smokestack and a Marine in a guard shack. Radon gas is coming out of the tower and the Marine is guarding where nuclear matieral for the Manhatten project is buried. 2. The University of Buffalo had a nuclear reactor on campus that I have toured. I believe it was decommissioned in 1972. 3. In Lockport is the former Simon's Saw and Steel plant. Uranium pellets were machined there for the Manhatten project and the turnings fell into the cracks in the floor. Several buildings there are 'hot' and unusable to this day. 4. There is no building allowed along the Niagara River in an area called NiWanda Park. Nuclear matieral waste had been dumped along the shore 5. The chemistry lab in Lockport Senior High School had a geiger counter in 1965 with a rather dangerous test sample of nuclear matieral for calibration that was in a glass vial. It was dropped and broken on the lab floor and the matieral went into the cracks in the floor. 6. South of Buffalo closer to the Pennsylvania border is a small town called West Valley. A nuclear fuels reprocising center was built there and reprocessed both Uranium and Plutonium. Leaks in the containment structures there made radioactive ducks in the nearby river.

[oldminer]

Thank you for the explore Drew, thank you for taking us along.

[curtisbunch]

Those rock ruts look like they are from wagon train on the northern part of the Santa Fe trail

We have a lot of the same looking ruts both on the California trail and the Oregon trail

[psynurse]

Awesome video. I went out there in 2017 but never made it to the did make it to the trinity test site on the day it was open to the public. Really enjoyed that! Same day drove to the radio telescopes for their open house. Thanks for letting me live through your adventures