Nuclear Physicist Reacts to Kyle Hill I Got Access to Chernobyl’s Deadliest Area
Nuclear Physicist Reacts to Kyle Hill I Got Access to Chernobyl’s Deadliest Area
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Thanks for the review Elina. I hope it shows that I do my homework, and do my best to present an unbiased view of the world's most infamous location.
hey kyle, i just wanted to say thank you for your videos, you're amazing
I always suggest your nuclear videos to everyone that would be interested
Thanks for the comment Kyle! You did a really great job. It's awesome to have people like you out in the world educating the public, especially about a location that is important but not properly represented. Keep up the great work! 👩🏽🔬☢
@@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist I just discovered both of your channels recently. It is awesome how KZheadrs like this respect each other and actually review each other and sometimes collaborate. Even when they don't agree (LTT and Louis Rossman for example), they agree to meet, discuss, resolve, learn and end up friends that have let the science decide who is correct, incorrect or (more importantly) come up with more questions to answer. This is how people should act. Mainstream media, take notes, this is why your biased, greedy selves are losing ratings. Same thing goes for people as individuals. As I type this I am reviewing my behaviors and interactions with people.... Sorry for the therapy session I just gave myself...
@@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love this exchange so much. Y'all are both great, but you've each got your specialties, and when they overlap its great that you can appreciate the differences of opinion or depth of understanding. 🥂 Cheers, Στην υγειά σας(?), to you both!
Kyle Hill's series on nuclear safety and nuclear history has been absolutely amazing, and given his usual slap-stick, humorous approach to science, the somber, serious tone with which he's calmly but deftly handled the realities of it are a HUGE change of character, and exactly what this topic needs. His videos are a wonderful gift to the world as a whole, educating on multiple areas of science in a way that's both real, mathematical, and entertaining which few can achieve. His nuclear series is yet another wonderful gift to the internet community at large! It's so great to hear other professionals in the field saying he's done a good job on this. Science demands we review each other's work to make sure we're consistently accurate, reliable, and didn't miss anything. Thank you Elina for taking up this important, but often thankless job.
Agreed! Kyle’s Demon Core video is the best I have seen on the subject
I actually told my dad in january this year (2022) that i wanted to visit Chernobyl this year. Sadly those plans were cancelled shortly after
Are you like me and spent years learning Russian thinking you could use it when you got to Ukraine? 😅
@@jefforymitchell5697 Hey at least that'll open up a few job opportunities
Thanks for watching! Let me know how you liked this reaction video and if you’d consider visiting Chernobyl yourself. Be sure to check out Kyle Hill’s full video, the link is in the description. ☢️👩🏽🔬
I would love to visit, but probably, I won't . Love the reaction ❤🤙
Are you here now?
I loved the video Elina.
@Elina Charatsidou Could you talk about the subject of LFTReactors? I've spent many hours on the subject but it would be fun to hear an unbiased but still knowledgable opinion on the subject. For me it seems like the future we missed 60 years ago and really should develop. Similar to how batteries were 10-20 years ago.
The folks who were allowed to only work for seconds or a minute were the "liquidators' who were doing the really crazy stuff such as shoveling the moderator graphic blocks and other radioactive debree from the roof of what was left of the raactor building back into the crater where the reactor core used to be. The folks were using what looks like military NBC protective gear with medical X-ray protective wear plus improvsed extra protection. Human liquidators were being used because available technology did fail due to the massive radiation. Eventually the some machinery to assist the cleanup efforts based on the Soviet Union's Lunokhod lunar exploration robots was being devised by the Lunokhod developers which were recalled from retirement. That worked because the Lunokhod was designed to work in presence of the cosmic radiation on the moon's surface. The construction workers for the sarcophagus were permitted to work well longer than the liquidators. All sorts of improvised radiation shielding was being used for example massive steel plates welded to the cabin of construction machines to make this safer. Yes, the camera sensors indeed do glitch due to gamma radiation. It's a known problem with image sensors in space. Th problem is quire pronounced on some older space imagery or of the elephant foot.
The German’s had a documentary on people who return live around Chernobyl. One old guy was a botanist who talked about the plants and animals that could be eaten as they didn’t absorb the radioactive particles or didn’t eat the plants that did. Had a little farm not far from the abandoned city and seemed happy to live in an almost deserted area.
"According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, the main organization of liquidators, "25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled", which makes a total of 60,000 dead (10% of the 600,000 liquidators) and 165,000 disabled" - We should never forget to include this human cost in any overview about the Chernobyl incident. And don't forget the non-recorded, long-term human costs that we will never be able to truly record.
11:36 high energy photons triggering the CCD's "pixels" is actually pretty well known. Video from the ISS or other orbital operations using them, you see the same effect (though not as often!) - and cameras that have been up there for a long duration often develop more dead or hot pixels (stuck fully on or fully off) faster than in normal conditions. I think also, you can find some video footage of inspection of the Elephant's Foot by way of a robot. I'm unsure if the camera was digital or not, but if I remember correctly the amount of visible noise in the recording spikes as soon as there is an open line-of-site to the material.
It is very well known. Radiation damage to very sensitive low light astronomical cameras over time is a real problem, even in normal background radiation environments. A cosmic ray nails your camera, and now you have permanent dead pixels or hot pixels.
i like that you always make an effort to add on to what video creators talk about in their original pieces. even if your knowledge areas overlap, you're always adding background information, expanding on the point, or reflecting on whether you've encountered an idea before. i think it is the best way to do reaction content :)
Thank you for noticing and for your kind words 👩🏽🔬☢️
@@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist as most credible people do. Top job! earned a sub
12:58 cleanly filtered air from inside the dome is constantly blown out creating the pressure difference. There is never equilibrium except when there's sudden massive damage.
8:30 Being from America, I'm used to experts sequestering their information behind massive pay walls like colleges. Because of that, I have major respect for this man. He takes his responsibility so seriously that he freely discusses it with others. While we certainly hope to never need this kind of knowledge anywhere else, having that knowledge available worldwide is a great comfort; in the unfortunate event of something like this happening again, the right people will be able to take the right steps far quicker.
Such a wonderfully genuine and bright smile through your personality and poise. Thank you for this wonderful production!
I really enjoyed this video, and I've been following Kyle Hill for years, so it was fun to see his video here. I hope Kyle Hill himself sees this, I'm sure he would love it. :) The two of you should consider doing a collab on something
Glad you enjoyed it! Would love to do a collab in the future 👩🏽🔬☢️
This has to be one of my all time favorite channels! Elina is the best!!! I just love the way you talk. Not just the accent but how you present information… love it !!!
breath of fresh air to see reviews like yours in an over-saturated youtube. thanks for the review and of congratz to kyle huge fan of his already.
Great value-added reaction video, thank you very much for this!
I took the trip into the exclusion zone in 2014. Very cool tour! I was stationed in Germany during the accident so it was great to see the area. Part of the tour Was at the construction site of the arch and then the city of Pripyat where the workers lived. We carried dosimeters and there were areas that were off limits from the tour. When we drove through the red forest every dosimeter on our bus started alarming all at once. Scary to experience!
Thank you Elina! It is a pleasure to see more people such as yourself and Kyle explaining that radiation isn't the monster that the media portrays!! Have a great day!
I don’t understand the perspective that a disaster that happened almost 40 years ago, that 4,000 people are still managing to this day, that there is no permanent solution for in sight for could lead to the conclusion that nuclear energy is a lot safer than people think it is?
@@judelarkin2883 The design for the RBMK was flawed. There is no comparison of that, to the next gen reactors of today.
@@randyhavener1851 There was also a lot of incompetence involved on many levels. From the planning, construction, up to the operation of the plant.
@@randyhavener1851 Your logic is flawed too.
@@BTW... please explain what you mean? Why is my logic flawed?
Thank you, Elina for a great review of Kyle's video.
Cameras used on the international space station experience the same phenomenon. Because the gamma photons have such high energy, they can permanently damage camera sensors, and any camera that's been in space for any length of time tends to have permanent grainy artefacts from dead pixels on its sensor.
I loved your reaction ! I like the idea of one day exploring Pripyat and the Reactor Area but I don t think I will. I hope you make it there instead as soon as it becomes possible and safe.
I was also supposed to have gone visit the Exclusion Zone in April this year but... yeah... I was a child when all this happened and it scared me so much. So, I want to go to confront it in a way
Great video, awesome explanation. Thanks
Thank you for the content Elina. Hoping that by the time the 100 year anniversary roles around we have made more progress into ways to clean this site up.
I love your content and look forward to your next video. I would love see your take on the famous nuclear physicists of the past like Teller, Fermi, Ulam, Sakharov and of course Oppenheimer. Thank you and take care.
Thank you for this hard work, history in the making.
Love your assessments, Elina. I've subscribed, and I'll keep watching and listening to your future posts.
Another great video Elina, thank you for making these.
Glad you enjoyed it!👩🏽🔬☢️
Kyle Hill has done some interesting and thought-provoking videos.
Thanks again!
Wow! Brains and beauty! You have it all Elina. Great video.
Thank you for the explanation of the difference between confinement and containment.
Great video to you and Kyle 💪
Thanks for introducing me to Elina, Kyle Hill!!! I smashed that subscribe button!
The crossover we never knew we needed but always did!
This was fascinating 😮
The gamma radiation pixel artifacts remind me of what I got when I sent my phone recording a video in slowmo mode thru an airport X-ray machine
That green colored paint is a government and institutional thing that is ubiquitous across Russia and the Former Soviet Union. It's either that pale green or a light blue paint inside the buildings, utilities (local steam plants etc...) the buildings are usually painted some horrible shade of ocher whereas the physical infrastructure (piping etc...) are usually painted gray. The Russians also paint all of the tree trunks in their major cities white. Great video!
Your video's are very interesting. Learning lots. Thank you!
Good Day and thank You for your excellent commentary. Very interesting and educational. Best Regards.
Thanks for bringing this content from Kyle into your audience. Your well spoken and value-added commentary is the kind of reflection we need to get more nuclear energy into the world. Keep being awesome!
Most interesting information. 👍 Thanks Elina!❤️☕️☕️☕️🐾🐿🇨🇦
Elina, you are the best thank you for making all this so understandable. The Kyle Hill presentation was very good. As far as "Would I consider visiting Chernobyl?" No, I am close enough but thanks. Love your shows, Danny
I saw a documentry about them working for 1 min at a time, it was unbeliveable. They tried wearing as much lead pieces too - so they carried so much wieght too.
This video got me to subscribe nice work
Nice reaction, congratz!
A former CEO of the utility I work at went through containment on a tour and didn't put on the shoe booties. When leaving containment a particle was detected on one of his super-expensive Italian shoes that had to be temporarily taken away from him.
I think what they need is a Chernobyl visitor center where they can sell Chernobyl merchandise such as Chernobyl the T-shirt, Chernobyl the Coloring Book, Chernobyl the Lunch box, Chernobyl the Breakfast Cereal, Chernobyl the Flame Thrower. The kids will love that one.
for now there is the chernobyl vodka only
I really dream about visiting this area as well as Pripyat. It’s obviously part of a tragic history moment but soooooo fascinating! Hope one day you will make a video on that or who knows, dreaming is allowed, meet you there and visiting this with you 😅😍 Thanks again for your content! Keep going! 👌
Throughout October and November I worked in the local powerplant (the Krško Nuclear Power Plant). Due to the obvious high security no one can approach closer than 500m of the facility. That's why scale was never a thing I really knew before I actually stood under the building. I remember coming in for the first time and just staring because I'd never really been close to a 50+m tall building. And when some people climbed on top to clean the cupola they were so tiny...
Very interesting. A fascinating insight into what's been going on there.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it👩🏽🔬☢️
Elina and Kyle in the same video, hell yea!!
Unsanctioned safety exercise (Chernobyl), manual rod travel exercise (SL-1), Lights that go off when a signal has been sent to shut a valve (not when it actually shuts - 3 mile island), Reckless ignorance of Wigner energy (Windscale), Tsunami in an earthquake zone (Fukashima), Being the location of a world war ( Zaporizhzhia) ... How may of these things were properly safety assessed when the reactor was built .. None .. That's the problem with above ground nuclear reactors.
As a KZhead channel it is cool topic to cover and to hear directly from a nuclear physicist is just very cool. Thanks
lol i love the disappointed tone about their interior decoration and paint tastes
Idk if and how you can verify the gamma ray pixels, but it's a known phenomenon from videos taken in space. fascinating indeed to see it on Earth. super interesting to see this video with your commentary.
Just subscribed! I'd love to see a comparison of waste hazard per unit volume for different methods of power production. Like, if we were to concentrate other plants' emissions and residuals until they were as hazardous as nuke, which would produce more waste to have to manage? In the case of everything non-nuclear, of course, we are just spewing most or all of it into the atmosphere, and it's out of sight, out of mind. Still, I'll bet that nuclear would easily win. When Chernobyl happened I was in high school and had a number of pen pals who were swept by the cloud of raidation. The very next year I would be studying nuclear power plants in the military. I loved that school! Having friends so close to an accident drove home the point of safety and knowing everything about everything regarding my job. It's absolutely incredible when things are going well, which is almost all of the time, but during the rare times when something goes wrong everyone needs to be clear headed and know their stuff. I'm still absolutely in favor of nuclear, and an very excited about the new designs.
The channel Dive Talk had some reactions to some videos of people diving with totally inadequate equipment in some buildings they claimed to be in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Maybe that would be interesting for you to have a look at too.
I can confirm the artifacting in the video in regards to the pixels being over developed essentially. I spent 9 years working in radioactive fields, and we used the effect as training aid to show to new members in our organization.
Elina can you please make a video on different kinds of thorium reactors and their advantages and disadvantages and what's preventing us from building a lot of thorium reactors already
You create the negative pressure by constantly pumping air out of the space. Typically this is done to prevent odours escaping from processes or or dust contamination as here. The air you pump out is then filtered to remove the material of concern before releasing it into the environment. (In the case of odours you typically use a thermal combustor to destroy the odour, but for dust, you use various types of filter.)
Negative pressure is also used for asbestos removal.
Other photography have shown the same white gamma particles so it's very likely this is the cause. Super interesting video and surprisingly inspirational.
Stuff like Chernobyl is so fascinating to me because I actually live in close proximity to two separate nuclear power plants, one of which, being the infamous Three Mile Island, and despite the fear the world likes to portray, I've always felt so safe around them. Going to school, we could look out in the distance and see the steam rising from the closest plant and admire it. I very specifically remember, due to the proximity to these plants, the lessons they taught us in school about what to do if ever there were an emergency with them. It's something I always like to be conscious of, but never fear. And I love learning about them. So thank you so much for your content!
What is fascinating about the three mile island incident is that there was a study done that estimated approximately 0.5 additional cancer cases due to the radiation. Not 0.5% additional cases but literally 1 or fewer expected cases.
When you are close to something that indeed has a risk, be it as small as bad nuclear accident in today's NPPs, safety and personal protection measures should indeed be taught to local populations.. One for NPP specifically is very simple: Stay inside, and airtight everything until further information or evacuation. Funny enough, i don't think communities downstream of dams have any idea how to deal with a collapse.... And remember, the deadliest energy related disaster was a dam collapsing.. 250000 people died.
Thank you for correcting the name right off the bat.
Great video!
There has been some research into using CMOS CCDs in smart phones as radiation detectors. Dosage levels require minutes of exposure to be read, but they do work, apparently. There are even apps available for iOS and Android.
kyle is an awesome youtube science explainer
Thanks Elina for a fascinating video! The bit about the camera is intriguing... One could put the lens cap on your camera and record some video in a place with relatively low background radiation, then do the same thing holding a calibration source very close to the camera and see if the white specs appear. Once you have established that the white specs are in fact from ionizing radiation, if you recorded video inside the sarcophagus with the lens cap on for a few seconds and if white specs were present, then it would be logical to assume it was from ionizing radiation. I've actually tried this experiment with the video camera in my smart phone, and a radiation source that sets off my Geiger counter, but could not reproduce the effect, so who knows? Maybe my calibration source was not sufficient or maybe it depends on the type of video sensor, the composition and thickness of lens, material surrounding the video sensor, or any number of other factors? Or maybe the white specs on his video were from something else entirely? Anyway, it's interesting!
The visibility of those sparkles also depends on the type of radiation. Alpha radiation (helium nuclei) won't make it through the lenses or the camera body since it is easily stopped by a sheet of paper. Beta radiation (electrons and positrons) are easily stopped by a thin sheet of metal, but I'm not sure how well glass and plastic stop beta rays. Gamma radiation, being photons, are able to travel further into materials. If your radiation source was an alpha emitter then the phone's will have stopped the radiation from hitting the sensor. Beta radiation has a better chance of making it to the sensor, and gamma radiation will definitely hit the sensor.
The detector you saw on Kyle Hills chest is called the Ecotest terra p + it's a detector that tells you the radiation levels it does not tell you what your accumulated dose is when you get into the Chernobyl exclusion zone they give you those to see the levels there
Elina, In the future if you are able to go please consider a few stops on your journey through Pripyat. 1. Zavodska Street Firehouse (This firehouse not too far from the Yupiter Bldg is where the first engines responding to the fire came from. The flats alongside the firehouse are where Lyudmilla and Vasily Ignatenko along with many other firemen lived. Their living block was attached to the firehouse. Yaniv Rail Station is where Lyudmilla caught the train to Moscow. This walk took her closer to the power plant and she waited at the train station for a few hours before getting a ride to Moscow for Hospital No 6. Would be interested to know if there are radiation readings after the accident at these two locations and the levels. Please be careful and consider a dust mask as during the recent war troops dug holes into the ground allowing these long buried materials to again be caught in the wind. Stay safe.
Hi Elina! new subscriber here. I always liked nuclear physics. I worked at the University of Buenos Aires for 23 years, mostly in teaching physics labs. You channel is very good!
Thank you so much and best of luck. ☢️👩🏽🔬
@@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist I'd like to get in touch, maybe chat some time! I'll drop you a line via the form on your website. You do great work :-)
Can I suggest you do similar commentary to Kyle Hill's "Half-life stories" videos? I've learned a lot from those and I find very interesting.
@Elina Charatsidou Could you talk about the subject of LFTReactors? I've spent many hours on the subject but it would be fun to hear an unbiased but still knowledgable opinion on the subject. For me it seems like the future we missed 60 years ago and really should develop. Similar to how batteries were 10-20 years ago.
If you check out Rolf-Dieter Klein's channel, the "10 Sievert per Hour Radiation - tested with the RadioactivityCounter App at the Buchler device" video, you see an extreme example of the artifacts caused by gamma radiation hitting the image sensor. And in a lot of footage from Chernobyl at the time of the accident, you see artifacts from the high radiation environment on photographic film, such as it becoming very grainy or darkened/lightened), as well as flashes.
3:40 "Train rails" was LOL
you should look at the thunderfoot video where he placed a camera to record in a testing machine at a nuclear powerplant and record some digital footage while radiation is present. it messes with the image like crasy . pixels/sparks on the footage
Probably a video on zaprosia plant situation and precaution people can take if something goes wrong might be great.
Zaporizhzhia? The Russians won't destroy it, they'd lose a strategic advantage. Ukraine wants NATO's help and thinks they would if something BIG happened, and also know if anything happened the western media would blame Russia. It's a dangerous situation and as things get more desperate you never know what might happen...... Basically GTFO
4:43 - I got major "Ara Ara..."-vibes from that.
I’ve worked on imaging sensors and can confirm that radiation is visible as white pixels. It are not necessarily photons but electronic interactions. More specific charges. These also affect other electronic circuits and chips. For applications in radioactive regions (space, medical ) or critical circuits radiation hard designs are required. Typically shielding, more robust electronic circuits and redundancy.
Very interesting! I find nuclear videos fascinating and particularly like the post mortem videos by “Plainly Difficult”.
KZhead recommendations brought me here (probably because I’m one of Kyle’s subscribers). After watching this video, I just subscribed to you as well, Elina.
Thank you ☢️👩🏽🔬
The negative pressure is the same as in a furnace from a power plant. It's just a few millibar below atmospheric pressure.
I always associate that shade of green with early computing so it's somewhat jarring to see a "modern control center" with that color :D
Any possibility you could do a reaction to the movie Threads? Everyone talks about how scary it is, but it would be interesting to get a scientific reaction.
Thanks for the suggestion! Will look into it!☢️👩🏽🔬
Train rails... It's a tough one for me sometimes too. Nice video though. Well done.
Love your content! Love your accent! 🤩good show!
What occurred to me about the dome is that they did something that could be repeated if in the 100 years no better ideas come along. The construction of it means you could build another one either bigger or smaller and slide it into place.
old school camera Film is also effected by radiation. Thank you for this 'reacts' video. it is great to hear you thoughts and ideas!
With film you can actually do something interesting, basically you build a pinhole camera (Out of lead!) and put a thin light excluder over the pinhole, place it where radioactive objects may be present, then after about a week briefly remove the light excluder and develop it. The result is a photograph with anything radioactive highlighted.
There's a video uploaded by a channel called "Crazycars81" that's various footage from inside the sarcophagus, it shows these "artifacts" in a much more intense fashion, also showing less depending on location within the sarcophagus.
Thank you for the video! Did you do some research on Chernobyl, or did you just know it? Anyhow, really appreciate the additional commentary :) The only thing i'm left wondering about is how the guy talking at 13:04 sounds almost exactly like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho haha
The first time I watched it on Kyle’s channel, I was wondering why they painted the walls a similar shade of green to the crystalline parts of uranium ore that I had found in Wyoming.
Can you do a presentation on strengths and weaknesses of Thorium Liquid Salt Reactor technology?
I forgot what year it was but when she hit the scene on her motorcycle and would ride into the radiation zone. Her online name was like racer girl or something but her website gained a lot of followers back in the day.
As a fan of Kyle's work who had just discovered your channel a couple of days ago, I was disappointed that you had no reaction to this a video. I thought that maybe I should leave a comment suggesting that you watch this series of videos. Thanks for the pleasant surprise, I am disappointed no more! The final comment you made had me nodding in agreement.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it! Let me know if there are more videos of his you’d like me to react to ☢️👩🏽🔬
How about having a go at one of the Kirk Sorensen videos about Thorium Molten Salt Reactors? Just wondering are they scientifically sound or is it more of a sales pitch
Some say this was not a reactor but a interdimensional doorway that they forced closed to keep it from coming through
There was a 5 ton 16 inch thick steel blast door that was found over a quarter mile from where it was attached in the facility, after the explosion
Fascinating
My dad worked at an oil refinery and they were required to have containment levees around their storage tanks. That would prevent the condense of the tank from entering the environment should the tank be breached.
I love your videos, You are so cool. I was curious about the rods they put into the reactor to stop the chain reaction. say if this was all underwater would you be able to put those rods in to make it safer? Like is there a way to fix it with another chemical reaction?
A steam explosion blew the reactor vessel apart and the nuclear fuel overheated and melted into a lump and burned to the bottom of the reactor building. It is still fissioning to this day. There is nothing left to put rods into. The reactor is gone. The only thing that will make this safe is time.
@@stargazer7644 Ah... well bummer.
@@MichaelJones-us9ty This a Kyle Hill video on the infamous Elephants Foot which is some the nastiest stuff from the reactor that melted and burnt its way though the base the reactor before solidifying in a lower room. kzhead.info/sun/m62QpZyqmYmCeqc/bejne.html