Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Veritasium 'The Most Radioactive Places on Earth'

Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Veritasium "The Most Radioactive Places on Earth"

[pootoobaby]

I laughed out loud when smokers were revealed as number one. I thought my uranium glass collection would be the thing I got trace amounts of radiation from, turns out it was my camels the entire time! Adding this to my mental notes when I get the urge to pick up a cigarette again.

[eypandabear]

Hank Green explained once how they reduce collateral tissue damage in radiation therapy: they split the total dose into multiple beams from different directions. So only the intersection (where the tumour is) will receive the full dose.

Only slightly related but I found that a neat fact.

[joncrow]

If the entire video was an anti-smoking PSA, I can only applaud his efforts.

[LogjammerDbaggagecling-qrds]

The highest recorded dose was Cecil Kelly. He was leaning over a tank of uranyl nitrate and it went critical for a reason that I can't remember. They either added too much to the tank, or he turned on the stirring and it created a bad geometry. He immediately felt symptoms, running outside and screaming "Im on fire". They actually put him in the emergency shower at first, because they thought he spilled acid on himself due to his reaction. He died within 35 hours. His dose was like 36 grays or something insane like that.

[Juke-Fox]

20:23 I think the most fascinating part here is that the radiation is so high it starts interfering with the microphone.

[picax]

derek has one of the most interesting channels on youtube with all the different science topics he covers

[elverman]

I was smoking a cigarette when the punchline arrived 😂 Honestly would like to see someone take a geiger counter to a warehouse full of bananas and tobacco products.

[aidenpearce]

Hey, have you reacted to "Why the universe is hostile to computers" by any chance?

[MrDevintcoleman]

If no one else says it, this is all from the PBS documentary that he made called “Uranium: Twisting the Dragon’s Tail.”

It has an extremely chilling scene showing how a nuclear launch would have happened, from inside the bunker with the 2 guys who could have ended the world, if the order had been given.

[jakobd]

9:18 For example the black forest in Germany. In certain places there you can find radioactive minerals like uranocircite lying around in the gravel sometimes.

[DianaDeLuna]

Henceforth, a unit of 93 nanoSieverts will equal one 'nanaSievert. 🍌 😁

[FalcoGer]

2:24 A counter can also be calibrated for specific materials, like uranium. Then it takes the measurements, knows what types of radiation emitted and in what proportions, then takes what is detected and then calculates the total radiation that is emitted from those numbers.
Say it can only detect beta particles and gamma rays. Then it just assumes that those are all from the calibration source and adds the beta and alpha particles that were not counted due to the construction of the counter. Then that's the total assumed output of the material in question.

[Isurusish]

I read the comments and saw that smokers were number one...
And when i got to that point in the video, my jaw still dropped.
Damn. Tyler and veritasium may finally be the ones that make me quit for good.
Like my dad says, everyone quits eventually. One way or the other

[asicdathens]

From the mine they extracted pitchblende . Apart from Uranium Curie managed to extract Radium and Polonium and discover these elements. The discovered elements where in minute quantities (from 4 tons of ore they extracted 1 mg of Radium)

[Armpitfan]

Check out, "cleaning up my uranium waste" by NileBlue, a chemist that shows how he deals with radioactive waste.
Would love your insight and I think it could be really informational!

[moonbrooke]

Thanks for doing all these videos and adding to them all!

[Metametheus]

Was going to say phosphorous/phosphate mines will probably have quite a high radioactive area considering most are sources of radon and Radium.

[trevorjrooney]

I'm not sure it's really in the wheelhouse of this channel, but Wendigoon did a great video about a criticality accident which resulted in the most irradiated man in history, poor Hisachi Uchi. Really grim story, a bit dark for what I've seen in terms of reactions on this channel.

[Metametheus]

Sounds more like his is a Dosimeter and not a Geiger Counter. My GQ GmC-500+ sounds very similar to his and displays in CPM with a MicroSievert converter.

[quantumrobingaming]

Love the videos so far. Binge watching as fast as you post 😊. Have you considered reacting to Chernobyl Stalker videos such as Kreosan English? I don't advocate the idea of illegal access to places like chernobyl but they do some crazy/dumb stuff in radioactive sites, getting your reaction would be very interesting.