Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Plainly Difficult 'A Brief History of the SL-1 Reactor Accident'

Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Plainly Difficult "A Brief History of the SL-1 Reactor Accident"

[swokatsamsiyu]

Yes, yes, yes! He's finally started on the Plainly Difficult videos. These are very well done. They are a pleasure to watch because of the delivery with his dry British humour. You really want to do his series about the Chernobyl accident as well. They're quite long (especially the last 2 out of the 3), but very well researched and done. I'm sure you'll appreciate them. TMI is another you may want to watch from him.

[protosoph]

I love PlainlyDifficult. One of the few channels that ive watched every video.

[CMDRSweeper]

Plainly Difficult's nuclear videos and orphan sources ones are great.
He even has one that very few have covered, where the source got melted down and mixed with the steel, then sold as rebar.
How did we find out about it? A truck carrying the rebar took a wrong turn and used a nuclear facility as a turn around spot, making their radiation detectors go haywire when the truck drove through.

[JeeTinator]

0:43 Yes please Tyler! I would love to see you go through all of them actually. I find your reactions and opinions very informative and I would LOVE to get the reaction of someone who works in the field.

[Alberto-mcyk]

You picked the right one to start on. I love this channel. Hes thorough and pretty funny when appropriate.

[DudokX]

Yeah giving so much control to just 1 control rod is just asking for problems

Plainly Difficult is one of my favourite channels about various kinds of industrial, transport, nuclear or construction accidents.

[exidy-yt]

Good choice to tackle the 'plainly difficult' series, Taylor! These are all very well done and full of facts that can be elaborated on, although there is a fair bit of overlap with topics you've already covered like orphaned sources. I'll be watching as you go!

[thunderatigervideo]

SL-1 is actually about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls in an area known now as the Idaho National Laboratory (known then as the National Reactor Testing Station). It was definitely not IN Idaho Falls. All of Idaho would probably be considered deserted by most urbanites (I grew up in Idaho Falls and have multiple family members that worked as engineers out at the site in the desert) but Idaho Falls itself is home to about 70, 000 people. All the experimental stuff is done far away from them.

[clytle]

Thank you for educating the public on nuclear stuff. Sadly I had heard the term prompt neutron a while ago and it was hard for me to get an answer to. As someone who likes to learn about most all things, nuclear is one of the more frustrating subjects due to the wide range of misconceptions and downright ignorance of people on the subject.

[TheIrishTexan]

I'd absolutely love to see you react to more of this series, it's on par with Kyle Hill's Half Life Histories. I binge watched a lot of it a while back.

[trinalgalaxy]

one thing to note about SL-1s design is that the control rod was designed to be operated using a crane in the roof of the building. the problem was that during maintenance, the control rod was disconnected from the crane hence the restart procedure required lifting the control rod 10cm with their own hands to reconnect the rod to the crane. add in the stickyness of the rods, the surprising thing is that it took that long before something happened.

[PsychoDiesel]

Kyle Hill has an incredible video on this one as well. I haven't seen this one so it'll be interesting to note any differences in delivery and stuff ;)

[tobiasnivalis]

I was looking forward to seeing you react to Plainly Difficult. If I could make a few suggestions for ones that might be interesting: The sodium reactor experiment (nuclear material and alkaline metals, what could go wrong?), SNAPTRAP Reactor (blowing up reactors, for science!), The Kosmos 954 (a reactor falling out of the sky. Where's 007 when you need him?). Regardless, I look forward to the interesting insights that you provide on whatever you cover next.

[tristinnelson]

I would also react to Kyle Hill he goes a little bit more in depth of what happened and the people who were killed which has caused a lot of speculation

[rottsandspots]

Thanks for covering this. For me, Plainly Difficult is the original and the best for radioactive ☢️ videos. I'm British so particularly enjoy the humour.

[streaky]

The first one on his playlist, Windscale, gotta be worth a look - the first really major nuclear reactor accident.
Also, yeah, subs run on small modular reactors - that's Rolls-Royce's strategy with theirs, essentially a marine reactor with extra bells and whistles.

[Ben_Kimber]

Richard’s fate was like something out of a _Final Destination_ movie.

Glad to see you covering this guy’s content. He’s done a lot of videos on reactor accidents and orphan source (if I’m using the terminology correctly) incidents.

[stevenN]

I love plainly difficult. I start every day with watching a video of his but Kyle Hills video on SL-1 was incredible. Especially that part about finally finding the body of Richard Legg impaled to the ceiling.

[jonakers]

Throughout this video you keep mentioning that today a lot of these things would not be possible (manual movement of control rods, excessive control rod speed, a single fully extracted rod not being capable of causing criticality, etc.) All of those safety items can probably be directly attributed to the lessons learned in this accident.

[nextalcupfan]

I have been hoping you would react to something from Plainly Difficult.