Bizarre conspiracy behind America's first nuclear meltdown

The grisly details of America's deadly first nuclear disaster, SL-1.

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[AndrewCavaletto]

It is incredible to me that the Army still had a policy of "exercising" their control rods when they stuck. I've had to explain this event to dozens of tourists, and ultimately, it falls on the higher-ups who refused to change policies on reactor operation. The rumor that there was some kind of sordid love triangle is a total fabrication: an author was invited to the site of the accident shortly after it happened to gather information for a book, but did very little due diligence before he left Idaho Falls and wrote his book on the matter. It is likely that he was directly fed that rumor to help shield those truly responsible from consequences. Ugh.

[muddrudder]

Didn't they look for the 3rd guy but didn't find him because he was lodged in the ceiling beams?

[bearlogg]

Clean up guy 1: ”Sir, someone wrote gullible on the ceeling”
Clean up guy 2: ”i hate you”

[ChrisFredriksson]

I've already seen this video, such a long time ago.. But I almost feel like rewatching it as it was so good. All the facts, the calm of your voice. Love these kind of videos! ❤

[Flesh_Wizard]

So they accidentally gave the reactor an aneurysm

[baroncalamityplus]

I don't believe its suicide but the one guy's mental state was most likely a factor in this happening.

[spaceuncharted]

"The SL1..."

Ah yes, more dark souls content

[Apoc_Bone_Daddy]

Nuclear Power is goated and shoulda been the future

[Gaston-Melchiori]

The serious tone you take when talking about this is very respectful.

[ThatJay]

i didn't even know the us even had more than 1 unintentional nuclear meltdown. ig the meltdown numbers were for non-research reactors, since this reactor would've been very early on in nuclear research.

[justinmyers]

The Oppenheimer sequel no one knew we needed.

[omgitzthunderlol]

I swear you don’t hear anything about Idaho unless its like a zombie apocalypse or nuclear meltdown

[rEDiNFMY]

Why are all the world's problems
caused by a unreliable rod

[Dinoenthusiastguy]

Everybody gangsta until a YouTuber starts describing everyone’s exact position 💀

[Will-dndq]

Pinned to the ceiling. Yeah military has to blame an affair or relationship of someone can't be the men in charge are at fault.

[lukaaaa]

This is a really good way to hook someone into the full video with a short, good work dude

[marshallmcdonald]

This was a very interesting episode.
Thanks for what you do, Kyle.

[arnoldpalmer]

Not really a "bizarre conspiracy theory"... More of a very valid theory based on facts of those involved

[critter]

Does the Navy still use the raw video of the aftermath as their "Red Asphalt" to show young Nuke wannabees what being careless around nuclear power can do?

[miken]

To anyone curious, the control rods are made from material that absorbs neutrons, so that when they are inserted, the nuclear fission reaction slows down, because instead of the neutrons hitting other atoms, which would split those atoms, and their neutrons would smash into other atoms splitting them and hitting other atoms, which is a nuclear reaction, aka fission, which is what powers bombs and nuclear energy plants(except with power plants you need to control the amount of these happening hence the control rods, ) the rods absorb these atoms preventing them from this chain reaction happening too fast. Likewise, raising these rods allows these neutrons to bounce around, speeding up the reaction and creating more energy. So the guy was supposed to raise it only a few inches to speed up the reactor, but instead, he raised it so far, almost pulling it out altogether, that there wasn’t anything from preventing this chain reaction from happening, and the core went supercritical, which means that there were more of these reactions happening than could dissipate, creating a tremendous amount of energy, basically a small nuclear bomb that killed all of them and released a large dose of radiation. So the reason suicide or murder-suicide is suspected, is because he knew exactly what would happen if he raised it too much, and it’s not like he dropped it, because if he dropped it it would just slow down or even stop the generator. And obviously it’s not like something falls up, so why would this happen if not intentional. Either that or maybe he was drunk or something and forgot what he was doing? Who knows