SL-1: America's First Nuclear Disaster

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1. The next in my [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] series. Enjoy our deepest dive yet. Thanks for watching.

2. Officially bodies were released to the families for burial in public or private cemeteries. One of the bodies is in Arlington. There's a standing Command order specifically stating that grave is not be disturbed due to radioactive contamination of the remains.
   Is there another source I should look at?
   ETA: And I just noticed I made this comment or a substantially similar one a year ago. Perhaps in another year I'll find myself watching and wondering again. Perhaps eventually we'll figure out which source to look at. I checked the description but there didn't seem to be citations, sources or any recommended reading.
   So we have some conflicting information, questions lingering for about a year , that still have not been resolved. All the while this partially factual video rakes in views and money.

3. the rules of safety are written in blood

4. it is so interesting. Chernobyl, Fukushima, Windscale, Three Mile Island, and the Demon Core. it is very interesting. There are many other incidents. Can someone refer me to some? it's intriguing. I read that Anatoly Dyatlov's son died from leukemia and possibly from Anatoly's exposure to radiation from another incident. It was a sub. Could that be possible?

5. Shame about the two other casualties, but I'd do the same rather than let a woman steal half your pay.

6. Tschernobyl, Harrisburg, Sellafield, Hiroshima, Tschernobyl, Harrisburg, Sellafield, Hiroshima (Kraftwerk)

7. CONTROL RODS DON'T HAVE FUEL IN THEM, SO YOU'RE WRONG THERE.

8. After the lid was expelled by the explosion, didn't the reactor continued to "operate", now without the control rods that had been blown away?

9. On the 20th Century ALL Energy Options were accompanied by Pollution today (Fossil) .. or in the future (Nuclear Waste).
   Hydro was limited by available Sites to meet the galloping Energy Demands, specially after WW-II… as limited resources of other fuels started "raising its head" too..

   The 21st Century using Abundant, Sustainable, Safe Pollution & Cost Free Solar Energy can EASILY MEET MANKINDS ENERGY NEEDS… with ZERO POLLUTION..
   Zero Pollution Energy Sources are becoming the basic requirement of ANY Energy Source this Century…
   It is time for the 20th Century Polluting Fuels join the trash can if Uneeded Products & Technologies like the Pyramids…
   With respect to Nuclear Energy.. the faster the better, so as to REDUCE the Nuclear Waste Liability, mankind today, is leaving behind for the next 1000+ Generations or 100,000+ years..

10. I live in Twin Falls, only a few hours away. Good to know.

11. writing in late January 2023 I have just seen that the NRC has approved a new small community reactor design for local power generation but they all have to run some in some test areas to look out for problems like this. Like many have said corrosion due to chemical reactions there’s a serious issue. But if it can be made to work and people be protected in case of an eventual accident which will probably Happen as with any industrial device then we might be able to make practical use of the idea. Only time will tell. Could be some good job opportunities if something like this could be made to work. I am a first responder myself.

12. Do they have their own Elephants foot in ther basement?

13. What's up with night shifts??? SL-1, 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl – all night shift nuclear accidents!

14. For the tiny amount of energy that the nuclear plants produce it's a waste of government funds the risk of life. All governments involved in the researching of nuclear physics always use their knowledge for weapons of war and destruction. ABHORRENT

15. Incredible video 🔥

16. 😀 LMAO
    You say "Prostitute Filled Parties" like its a bad thing to experience or do 😀 LOL.

    Also ill never understand american system & why he had to split his paycheck with his wife who wanted a divorce
    That should only happen if
    1- Him being married to her got him that job as in it was a requirement of employment to be married.
    2- She was NOT guilty of cheating on him.
    3- Or he WAS guilty of cheating on her.

    Otherwise i dont see how she deserves anything, Why doesnt he get half her paycheck as she chose to leave him therefor the one braking the contract of marriage.

17. I grew up right across the river down wind from Dresden Nuclear power plant. 2nd one ever built in the USA, 1970. There was a radiation siren at the end of my street. On a foggy night i snuck out on my bicycle when i was about 13 (13 years ago) because the siren was blaring. Dumb idea. Probably radiation in the air that went unchecked. Idk.The Siren stopped after about 20 minutes. I can only hope it was a malfunction or test of the siren… but why at 1am?

18. The thought of a nuclear jet is down right terrifying! That's all we need is something this dangerous malfunctioning in the sky traveling at 600mph right over our heads!

19. This isn't the first. First was Santa Susana Field Lab in 1959. Sad how it's forgotten history.

20. Typical a woman is the cause just like Troy so many died!

21. Although not as dramatic, I think it most likely that the center rod was stuck again and Byrnes had to jerk on it to get it to move, inadvertently raising it too much. I don't like the attempts to blame him by assuming he did it deliberately and trashing his personal life. (I feel so sorry for these men's parents and other loved ones.) It was a poor reactor design which should have never required such manual maintenance procedures and with known problems. The Army knew the rods were frequently getting stuck. Very tragic accident; three young soldiers/sailor just trying to do their jobs. The accusations against them at that time are shameful imo.
    This was the first reactor accident I ever read about, years ago in the book Idaho Falls by William McKeown.

22. A rod that can start a reactor and shut it down just with one should be called the god rod because it determines if you live or die

23. imo the idea of a murder-suicide because of a love triangle was popular not only because it's a titillating, scandalous story to tell, but also because it still leaves at least one of the victims with agency. it's easier to think that a human made the direct decision to cause this than to accept that it was simply a horrific accident caused by neglicence

24. How long AFTER a nuclear incident (bomb for example). Can you drink cows milk???

25. Thanks Kyle – subscribed.

26. 1961, a banner year for discovering that we shouldn't do that.

27. Fear frenzies are the cash cow for corporate media .

28. Is there a sane person who would have left three young men in charge of a nuclear reactor ? Only a mad army commander would do this . What about 3 mile island !

29. Another video said he removed it the way he did cuz it was stuck. They never said anything about suicide or divorce

30. Sounds like a job for Homer simpson.

31. Not a melt down. These cores were designed in a way to prevent a melt down if at all possible. I do not know what safety measure tripped to stop this reactor, but most likely something in the chamber itself flooded the core with something able to absorb all of the neutrons from the fuel, and there isn't any kind of water that does that. This was an explosion, so let me describe a melt down. The smothering solution and control rods are not next to the fuel Uranium-235, so the fission reactions continue to generate insane amounts of heat, until all of the metals around the core have liquified. Then, it keeps getting hotter, melting the soil, rock, clay, and everything else below it. If you hit a water pocket it might disperse, but until the fuel is dispersed apart far enough, it burns its way down until it hits magma, irradiating everything along the way, like water tables. To date, we have never suffered a complete melt down. A couple of partial meltdowns, where the heat grew hot enough to damage the plant (3 mile island) or explode hard enough to disperse the fuel (Chernobyl). With a bit of luck and no idiot engineers though, hopefully we never will. I would hope by now we keep enough Neutron poisons near fission reactors, so that we could smother any such event where a meltdown begins. We got lucky in Japan, as the only reason the reactor was near the ocean was due to how cheap it is to get a supply of cold water when near an ocean. Great video though!! We used to call this the "First American Steam Powered Bomb." 🙂 Never again was a US reactor built that involved manual control rods, and when the controller for the rods fails, it is like unplugging a pump; the rod just slips to the bottom, shutting down the reactor aka scram.

32. Some serious technical problems here. When you fission Uranium-235 (fuel), you get radiation particles and radioactive energy, as well as the neutron. The energy is what you are after, heating the water, and then using exchangers to transfer heat from radioactive water to clean water. If you start getting voids in your water, it will NOT slow down the reaction, it will heat the water left even faster if you are lucky, but it usually insulates the core, forcing the water and fuel in the reactor to skyrocket. The control rods are made of something like Lithium, which can absorb a LOT of Neutrons, effectively snuffing out the nuclear fire. So the event here, yanking the rod up that far, let nearly all of the fuel "see" the rest of the fuel, creating so much fission and heat radiation, the water flash boiled and sheared the control rod caps off the top of the reactor, making an even bigger boom, as if it mattered at that point.

33. Pictures of this accident were still being shown as of the 1990s, and probably are still shown today at the start of Nuclear Power school. It is an example of what happens the moment you fail to always follow every maintenance protocol involving the reactors. As for what happened, the betrayed lover scenario and the previous fights do not follow military culture at that level. Half of the military would be dead if the events of these men's personal lives would inspire suicide. In truth, the guy stuck to the ceiling was a hothead, pissed off, and most likely threw his rage at the stuck rod to this sad ending. This did end the Army program, with the Navy being the last Nuclear power program in the military.

34. Don't you just love how in almost all nuclear reactors peoples first reaction to their detectors going off is "Oops its broken" instead of the truth its funny

35. Nuclear power can bring great fortune, or great suffering.

    RIP the poor souls of those three men.

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