Nuclear Physicist Reacts to SHOCKING TikToks about NUCLEAR Physics

Nuclear Physicist Reacts to SHOCKING TikToks about NUCLEAR Physics

In this video, I react to SHOCKING TikToks about NUCLEAR Physics from the perspective of a nuclear physicist. I go through the SHOCKING TikToks about NUCLEAR Physics and look through what is accurate information on TikTok about nuclear power plants, radioactivity, and nuclear Physics and react to it.

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[YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist]

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[pallando]

Surely you just need to find a lead lined fridge to survive a nuclear explosion

[JetDom]

I think people thanks to a lot of cartoons and misinformation incorrectly think that spent nuclear fuel or reactors in operation are green, when Cherenkov Radiation is blue. Honestly your channel is so interesting!

[sombhakat]

Mam, i think u should make videos more often as Nuclear Energy is a area full of misinformation and myths and your simple way of explaining things (with smile in ur face 😅😅)definitely helps in eliminating those false information and it kinds of creates an awareness 😃😃🙏🙏.

[lmrstudioproductions]

I So Glad able To see Nuclear Reactor Starting up In Action 8:38

[douglasbell]

Thanks for your presentation.
As a young engineer, I put an upgraded control system in to the Hifar reactor at Lucas Heights in the early 80s.
It was a very small reactor used for research and medical isotopes.
I took the project over just before installation was meant to commence and had to tell my boss that the system we were delivering wouldn't work.
I had to redesign and get some specially calibrated analogue devices (analogue computers) to calculate the cooling water flows and the project was a loss but we completed it and the service arm of the business maintained it for many years until the reactor was replaced.
I had a good relationship with the Doctor in charge for the AAEC. One young technician working on the project with me, one day brought his girlfriend onto site under a blanket in his car. Poor Doc Jones almost collapsed when we found them. We had to carefully smuggle her back out under the blanket past the "sleepy" Federal Police on the gate. Hopefully security has been considerably upgraded since then. I also caused some anx while calibrating a differential pressure transducer, one hose came off under pressure and blew the mercury in the manometer all over the plantroom and we had to get a clean-up crew in. Fortunately it didn't get sucked into the cooling circuit and so did not have to shut one of the 3 systems down. I had a small steel sight glass with a charged gold leaf to detect if I received radiation exposure but I don't remember anyone ever checking it.
We also put process control systems in at Ranger Uranium Mine and projects on several coal fired power stations, like the coal loading conveyors at Vales Point and a system at Bayswater.
I had tremendous experiences back in those days and worked in a small group of young hard working controls engineers on wide range of systems all over Australia. We still catch up at Christmas for a lunch.

[petersmythe]

Regarding taking off your clothes, that's not a great idea until after the fallout is done falling out or you're inside.

[JohnSchley]

OMG, I absolutely love you and your style. Funny, informative, and overall amazing, always puts a smile on my face. Keep up the amazingness.

[catfishcave]

I’m so happy that someone with your education is taking the time to enlighten us science lovers on nuclear energy and the science behind it. And the reaction/pop culture videos are great too. Especially loving the Chernobyl videos, more-so with the recent Russian soldiers incursion into The Chernobyl exclusion zone and media hype about it.

[BerishStarr]

Discovered you earlier tonight, and have now seen all your videos. Very good and interesting. So good I decided to sub. Thank you for awesome content, and greetings from Sweden <3

[chrism]

Hi, I'm a big post-apocalyptic movie fan and I'd love an answer/video to address these two related questions (didn't see them mentioned in the myths video):

Q1. If there was an apocalypse where the staff of a nuclear power plant were caught by surprise and died/were killed, what would happen to the nuclear power plant in the short and long term?

Q2. If there was an apocalypse where the staff of a nuclear power plant had the time to make a nuclear power plant "safe" but died after, what would happen to the nuclear power plant in the short and long term?

Basically, I've seen/read a few stories where nuclear power plants go wrong because no-one's looking after them and I'd like to know how accurate that is.

[Biga]

When I was in High school I had the opportunity to tour the reactor at Penn State and they performed a pulse of the reactor while we were there. It was pretty incredible to see.

[haakoflo]

Getting into a car is probably bad because the car has fuel in the tanks and glass that can cut you up when the blast wave hits.

The "poisonous rain" refers to a phenomena where cooling and particles from the "mushroom" causes water in the air to condense and form "black rain". This can have a high consentration of fallout. To make things worse, a few hours after the blast, people with no access to stored water may start drinking this water, as it is the only one available. This rain caused a significant fraction of the casualties at Hiroshima.

[LFTRnow]

I liked your reactions but @2:14 this section seems to suggest you can avoid the radiation and heat blast by lying down or getting in a structure. This is good advice but not for that reason. First, you know of the nuclear explosion because you see the flash (probably in the distance somewhere) As soon as you see the flash, the gamma rays have already gone through you from the initial blast, as has the thermal radiation, as they both move at the speed of light. The alpha particles are slower (and more easily stopped) but still move 20, 000, 000 km/s so you won't be ducking them and betas are faster than that (at nearly light speed). Getting on the ground deals with the shock wave, and the second blast of heat that comes with the shock wave.

It is worthwhile to watch the old nuclear test videos, such as the clip where they test detonations and see a house destroyed. There is a flash, and simultaneously the house instantly catches fire (if close enough in the test), later, there's a huge wind (shockwave) that tends to put the fire out, and rips the house apart, after that, the cooler air is drawn back toward the blast, causing a wind in the opposite direction, further destroying the house. Here's a good link that shows each one further than the last from a 29 kT blast. watch?v=ztJXZjIp8OA

Basically, if you are a few km away or more, AND have a fast reaction time when you see a bright flash and everything catching fire at once (most likely if inside it will be the blinds or curtains) then you have a few seconds to fall to the floor and cover your ears before the shockwave hits.

[djkeags]

Can you react the the Chernobyl HBO series and explain and react and say how accurate is the series is to the Chernobyl meltdown? But I love your channel keep it up!

[mikefochtman]

I like your videos and all, and the information you put out is certainly valid. But one thing the tiktoker missed about 'surviving a nuclear blast'. If you saw the bomb go off, you ALREADY are hit by the radiation. The burst of gamma/ x-rays is just as fast as the visible light. You don't 'see' the bomb and then have time to hide from the radiation given off. Now it is true that if you saw the detonation in the distance, you might have enough time to hide/ shelter from the blast wave (which travels much slower than the speed of light). But you've already received the gamma burst.

[bjs]

I'd be fascinated to see reactions to old science texts. As a young child I became fascinated by nature, and read how atomic reactors and fission/fusion devices worked at around age 6 or 7, about 1962 or so. Although I didn't follow my childhood dreams, I got in the habit of looking back at old science books and magazines as a young adult, and spent a lifetime marveling at how much of what we think we know turns out to be wrong, how much of what is now fundamental was once just interesting new ideas, and how far off we were on many predictions. I know you learned the old materials in your own education, but there is just something special about reading old materials presented in the present tense.

[joecrazy]

I recommend checking out video covering the Fallout series. It would be interesting to see your take on it.

[Mr.Nichan]

The problem with the "You are mostly empty space!" claim is that, in quantum physics, there either isn't really such a thing as empty space or there isn't really such a thing as non-empty space. All of space-time is filled with quantum fields, which have, among other things, different "probabilities" of having different theoretical point-like particles at different points in space-time, with the probabilities varying continuously (as a field in space-time). That's why electron orbitals are said to actually "look like" clouds, or a cloud, since the "cloud" is a representation of the field of "probability" of an electron being at each point. (There are also probabilities about the velocity/momentum, spin, and phase of the electrons, but that happens at each point, but that rapidly becomes to draw or understand.)

[ThomasPelk]

I really thought these "ignition videos" were fake.

Good to know, they're not.