Hanford B Reactor: Making plutonium for nuclear weapons

This is by far the best documentary on this subject/ B reactor I have seen and I live in that area.

Tours are available.

Theory will only take you so far… 🚬

Love from DPRK 🇰🇵

That is a lot of Science and hard work put into killing people

The reactor at Chernobyl was predicated on the same principle as this reactor except that it ran at much higher temperatures and pressures and produced 20 times as much power. Even at 250 MW this was a real beast. Crazy to think the first operational breeder was run at 1/4 gigawatt thermal.

When ants go intelligent, they'll never make nuclear weapons. All this is just too big for them, and you can't scale it down, only up.

That was a totally awesome video. Thankfully, I've done my study and prerequisite learning of nuclear process so everything made sense and I knew what he was talking about. While I find it all totally fascinating, I hate the end product. I wish the method of fission and fussion for use in weapons was never devised.
Im all for using nuclear to boil water and produce power , we need this for our future. I dispise, hate nuclear weapons and the threat of using such , we need to disassemble them, so there will be a future. The more nations that have them , greatly increases the chance of an accident and that someone will just start pushing buttons. There will be no winning a nuclear war, only the end of us all.

Thank you for posting this. I found it very fascinating. 👍✌️

Too damn much noise in the audio.

Every human being needs to visit Hanford.

Us terrorists

The outside looks like chernobyl

Interesting but crappy sound and music way too loud.

Excellent presentation. Thanks for sharing. Good questions too.

BAN PLUTONIUM 40 YEARS AGO!
*EINSTEIN*

Bombs area waste of fissile material. The energy we could harness in a power reactor is unbelievable.

So that’s why the cost of lead went up. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Lol. People made money from some lead and now they’re scared of nuclear war. 😂

The tour guide should be "Dr. No"!!!

More plutonium for bombs

Say I got a cup of uranium-238 attached to a string, how long would I have to spin it around until I got enough uranium-235 to make a 20-30kt bomb. I have a problem neighbor I really want to be rid of and building my own little boy is reallly the only sensible answer. I’m not very good at “maths” so a fat man esc implosion device is out the question but I’m pretty sure I could whip up a gun type trigger

Its ALUMINIUM, aluminum does not exist!!!!

" McGRAW DESIGN and ENGINEERING "

Boron should never be called a poison, EVER.

so how is SENTINEL and its new thermal mitigation and would i dare say the 2020's version of a Pershing II's early MIRVs or PGM type things. no way its just a new take on the Carbon Carbon MIRVs. No I think this new tech will have wild decoys that can survive reentry along with God knows what, hell they could just shoot a cloud of ball bearing on a decaying orbit and they would act as Mach 22 bullets. Cheep, easy to launch no IP to steal, could add to non related sats but they spend so much money in AK its amazing. Gold rush for sure

best of all no real space junk around earth. most every thing would fall back to earth.

Why cant americans say "aluminium"?

The word is "aluminium" not "aluminum" it ends with "ium" like many elements

Also the word for solder is "solder", not "sodder"

I am english, so you can trust me to speak english properly

And how US got to the moon with feet and inches and pounds and yards i dont know

Its 50 years since the rest of the world adopted the SI system

Catch up

Plutonium is the very devil himself. In addition to the dangerous radioactivity and heavy metal toxicity, it is a difficult material to work because of all the allotropes it occurs as.

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It is very similar to a CANDU.....

video description is wrong it was not an isolated place, it became one after the government bought the the locals out rather forcibly

thanks

Humans are crazy!

At the time they were doing this complex cerebral work, nobody took thought on how to safely store the waste... So they just filled barrels with it an placed it in an S.E.P. Containment Field and didn't tell the workers what it was (security reasons) so the next group of Caretakers had no idea what was happening until Handlfird and Rocky Flats are more contaminated than Chernobyl.
(S.E.P. = Somebody Else's Problem) (Doug Adams)

Awesome video

Plutonium is an evil metal. Created to do an evil thing. Science is science, but it doesn't make it any less evil, like VX toxin.

This is where Homer Simpson worked!

You could probably scavenge some plutonium from the absolutely NUCLEAR shit i just took after taco bell

I feel like I am 2km down a salt dome in an Aperture Science lab watching this.

With a slide rule and hard work, those things were made by hand.

Thank you for sharing this tour, very educational!

This was peak human technology almost 100 years ago it’s crazy to think. This was state of the art technology

I bet they did not sleep on the clock there.

All these box sharpangled dark concrete and barbed wire. Looks about as inviting as Soviet apartment complex.

Basically, that wall is what was under the floor covers in the big halls of the RBMK reactors in Tchernobyl.

That shit belongs in Hell