The Dumbest thing ever said about Nuclear Power!

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you know what it is about radioactivity that makes people crazy it's invisible you can't see it you can't feel it you can't smell it but it can get you anyway in this sense it is the boogeyman further almost no one knows anything about radiation and so quite understandably people fill in those blanks of what you don't know can kill you by playing it safe and overestimating the hazard from the radiation and this already distorted image of the hazards of radioactivity is fanned by the paranoid ramblings of crazies and especially of the paranoia merchants trying to whip up this fear to make people really scared such that they can capitalize on that fear fluoride shield survival shield and all the products and Infowars live-dot-com grew out of my quest to try to find the very best compounds from God's cornucopia to protect myself and my family and from our research I believe we are bringing you the best highest quality products and you have that commitment from Alex Jones and the entire Infowars crew Wow a personal promise from Alex Jones based on the best research from both him and the entire Infowars crew and of course the small print just reinforces how much confidence they have in their research claims right actually no this statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration this product is not intended to diagnose treat cure or prevent any disease and from our research I believe we are bringing you the best highest quality products and you have that commitment from Alex Jones and the entire Infowars crew meanwhile let's take a look at the worst disaster in nuclear history Chernobyl as you can see from space the radiation level is so high that there is no plant life for hundreds of miles around the reactor well actually no indeed it turns out that the radiation levels recorded directly outside the plant where this disaster happened can be so low that they are comparable to those that you would get cruising on a commercial jet and the last measurement I can personally vouch for so measured it myself and for many folks their principal fear of nuclear power is that this is going to happen even though this is absolutely impossible more on that later but the paranoia merchants still feast on people's insecurities about radiation and this can lead to really quite quite crazy folks getting quite large audiences i average around 600 people on a stream all of these people show up on my stream each noise is amazing it truly is and because you're not here to play games you're not here for nonsense and they will tell their audiences the most stupid things ever California is a wasteland period how can it not be a wasteland when you had MOX fuel the number three reactor is two million times worse that dad went straight up to the jet stream at a hundred miles per hour well actually no California is not a wasteland well not already active wasteland anyway but he's not done telling people things to the diametrically orthogonal to reality with that stealing hide absolute certainty that can only come with years of marinating one's brain in paranoia juice saying iodine-131 only has a half-life of eight days is the craziest thing you can imagine coming out of somebody's supposed to have an education suppose have some morals and ethics well actually in reality there is kind of this scientific consensus on the half-life of iodine-131 yeah it does actually look like a pretty good eight days to me but he's just getting warmed up what you're about to witness is simply the move stupid statement ever made about radioactivity I'm arming you with knowledge that's invaluable I've researched this all extensively over many years now in order to really wrap your mind around all of that I think that Dixie cup says it all a Dixie cup full of dis yellow cake from that forty royal pit you put that in the restaurant you'll kill everybody dear within an hour for the next four billion years like I said earlier just keep filling that restaurant up if I had a cup of 238 here I would die before I finished that sentence I can put that cup of 238 in the restaurant it'll kill everybody in the restaurant inside of an hour even if she just walked in and left they would die an hour later and that would go on for 4.5 billion years times 10 because the way it decays right let's start with a bloody obvious stuff what do you think this uranium all comes from yet dear out of the ground where it's been for almost the entire history of the earth indeed it's a significant reason why the middle of the earth is still so hot so if you have a little speck of uranium 238 you're supposed to dig up six inches of topsoil 900 feet around it and put a fence around it well Universal signs on it so we are goodness this guy almost the entire of America should be classified as a radioactive wasteland admittedly when the earth formed some for an hour billion years ago there was about twice as much radiation from uranium as there is now but somehow life still managed to muddle through well anyway scroll the clock forward about four and a half billion years man comes along and digs this radioactive shit out of the ground and find something useful to do with it initially it's refined as yellowcake guess what color that is it was initially produced in huge quantities when it was mined in an effort to get rid IAM which is basically radioactive stuff that glows in the dark stuff that makes this clock radioactive watch your fire it'll bury the needle however there really weren't that many uses for this element uranium but curiously while refining tons of this material that they're dug out of the ground they make this stunning observation that almost everyone who merely touched this yellowcake didn't die instantly if I had a cop of 2:38 here I would die before a finished SN if I had they might have been able to think of some military use for this instant yellow death powder in World War 2 for that I've actually got to confess I've actually handled yellowcake this is this uranium oxide in exactly the fashion stated here yes there any nitrate you're yella a Dixie cup full of dis yellow cake from that foodie royal pit you put that in a restaurant you'll kill everybody Gary within an hour if I had a cup of 238 here there any Knights right I would die before I finish that sentence I've been studying uranium 238 because of Wars for almost eight years straight I've been studying uranium 238 because the wars for almost eight years straight maybe this instant death is a bit of a delay on it because I've completed a little more than one sentence before dying indeed it's now over ten years since I handle this uranium oxide like this I'm still not instantly dead see it turns out that this yellow powder that didn't cause instant death was kind of colorful and so they started using this chemical in glazes for plates in the searchlight you see while uranium is actually radioactive it too weak alpha emitter alphas have a lousy penetrating power which means you can handle things like this with clubs with essentially no ill effect what I mean by uranium is a weak Alfre meta / nucleus is it doesn't give off much radiation that quickly that it's got a half-life of about five billion years that means in the entire history of the earth only about half of the original uranium that was here has decayed and now just compare that to the same amount of same iodine-131 which would release about the same amount of radiation in eight days so maybe the most famous alpha emitter is polonium 210 because it was used to murder a critic of the Russian government you see outside of the body alpha emitters are almost harmless more which is why this assassin could have carried around this fatal dose of this material in a solution in a glass file in his pocket with essentially no ill effects however if you eat it it's an entirely different story you see alphas went on travel that far but when they do they do a lot of damage so if you get these alpha emitters dissolved in your body they can be really quite so comparable amounts of uranium it turns out release the same number of alpha particles in five billion years as polonium-210 releases in about half a year that is polonium is about a billion times more radioactive than uranium now a fatal dose of loaning to ten is about 50 nano grams that is 50 billions of a gram so scaling this up you find out that you would have to eat 50 grams of uranium to get a fatal radiation dose about the same mass as a chocolate bar however it turns out that uranium is a heavy metal toxin comparable to lead that is there is a chemical toxicity to eating uranium that is the chemical toxicity of eating uranium is comparable to eating lead unless eating lead not eating lead although as it turns out in both cases the fatal dose is about the same few grams or so so it's one of those interesting ones that while the uranium is actually radioactive if you manage to eat it uranium would be kind of like eating lead well firstly of course most of it wouldn't dissolve you'd have to dissolve the metal and then drink the solution but if you did that chemically it will poison you to death along before you die of the radiation sickness anyways I digress then came World War two and folk started realizing that in uranium nuclei had some rather specific properties you see uranium mostly naturally occurs as two isotopes uranium-235 and uranium-238 the natural occurrence is about 99% of the to 3/8 isotope and about 1% of the 235 isotope and just so you know the 235 isotope has a half-life of about a billion years this is 5 or so billion for 238 so an absolutely colossal sum of money went into separating these isotopes with the u-235 being used to make the little boy bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima I know has someone complaining about radioactive fallout anyway so give or take this means that for every ton of uranium-235 that you make you create about 100 tons of uranium-238 anyway years went by and it turned out the plutonium was much better for making bombs than uranium the bummer was though that plutonium didn't exist well not naturally anyway however as luck would have it turns out you can make plutonium from uranium-238 if you have a nuclear reactor now to run a reactor on uranium doesn't require anywhere near as much of this expensive enrichment as making bomb material and this is a couple of advantages and I really can't stress this enough with all nuclear power reactors it is impossible to get a nuclear explosion from them and this is almost pervasively the fear of nuclear power as shown in this 1980s video dancing with tears in our eyes so why can they never explode well in order to get a nuclear explosion you basically need all of those nuclei to release their energy in a shorter period as possible and such chain reaction is typically all over in less than a millisecond so in order to get that to happen you need very high enrichment of uranium 235 otherwise it doesn't go boom it just sort of gets very hot and melt in a fizzle so for reactors you don't want things to go boom you want the uranium to get hot enough to boil water and then to use that to run electricity generating turbines for an extended period of time to do that you only need a mild enrichment of uranium and need most power reactors run on only a few percent enrichment of uranium and this just cannot sustain these critical geometric chain reactions that are required for a nuclear explosion they're just to dilute that is it is utterly utterly impossible to get a nuclear explosion from them the nearest analogy would be gunpowder which really works quite well when it's pure but if you dilute that gunpowder with sand water or oil it won't explode it can't explode that is fireworks stored in a lake are about as much of an explosive hazard as a nuclear reactor presents of this hazard of a nuclear explosion the best of worse depending on how you look at it you can get out of a power reactor is the core gets up to a few thousand degrees Celsius at which point everything melts and then it just melts everything it touches and as it does so it gets more dilute which attenuates its power generating capability and lowers its temperature until the thing really quite quickly cools down till it's this barely solid glowing mass so currently most of the nuclear economy is built around here rhenium 235 and for every tonne of uranium-235 you get about a hundred tons of uranium 238 that is uranium-238 it's pretty much a byproduct of the nukes industry its main property is that it's very dense so what can you do with a very dense metal but for that I'm afraid you have to wait for the next video in this series you

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Length: 15min 52sec (952 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 06 2014

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