Sellafield - Visiting Thorp

[bevy123]

Anyone tempted to move to this area because of the current job market....don't. Simulate for as long as you can by watching deliverance on loop, never going out and damaging your DNA with a UV lamp. Civilisation is an hour away and by civilisation I mean Carlisle or Barrow! :S

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[HeyMarkedOne8]

I can't understand why did they built this facility even there is so high levels of radiation even there is no ,God thanks, disaster!

[dwarfer777]

yes.. if that noise stops you DO have a problem lol my dad words in a place like this... you can see this guy's uncomfortable with that question lol!

[mia543210]

Why would anyone go work there?

[Pholl61]

i) The nuclear industry is experiencing an evolution - prosperous growth owing to the green energy incentive.

ii) New and legacy waste haunts all aspects of nuclear power. Reducing it, and reprocessing it to make more (MOX) fuel helps reduce the volume of waste ultimately stored in repositories.

iii) Heavy regulation = very safe environment. Dose rates in THORP are lower than that in Cornwall (Radium in rocks -> Radon gas)

On the down side, it rains a lot in the Lake District.

[moviemad13]

@mia543210 coz people get paid a shit load to do so, simple as that really

[zebra4593]

This damn place pumps TONS of radioactive crap into the sea and air every year. Has caused the Irish sea to be radioactive.This is a fact. You can do your own research and you'll find out I'm not wrong.

[bevy123]

Anyone tempted to move to this area because of the current job market....don't. Simulate for as long as you can by watching deliverance on loop, never going out and damaging your DNA with a UV lamp. Civilisation is an hour away and by civilisation I mean Carlisle or Barrow! :S

[ceskarybna]

jaja, es macht tick tack

[Duirward]

that alarm is fucking creepy.

[Pholl61]

Agreed, but better than no alarm at all!

It takes 5 minutes to get used to, after that it's rhythmic.

[Jourei91]

What's the tic tac for?

[AlexDH92]

It's an alarm that constantly sounds when everything is fine. When something goes wrong, the alarm stops.

[radioheadguy]

You are almost right. It is to tell you that the criticality (neutron) detectors are functioning correctly. All plants with fissile material will have them.

Looks like they took the tourist route round the flask facility and the storage ponds. Not sure where the last place was. I don't think it was the Vitrification plant. Not sure.

[Pholl61]

Vitrification plant, the cells are for welding the stainless steel containers etc.

[Alejandrito945]

3:19 Nuclear waste? :S

TIC, TAC, TIC, TAC

[StevenJay369]

sellafields great init!

[gitmo0117hellmindrap]

All that just to boil water.

[TSALN]

If people thought "all that TV energy consuption just for a stupid show", we wouldn't be in this position. In my oppinion, the best "renewable" energy is education.

[TSALN]

Awsome video! Forgot to mention...

[TSALN]

Does anyone know how many mrem/year does a worker there get?

[woopa900]

prob less than  an airline pilot

[StevenJay369]

my dad works in thorp but he wont tell me how much he earns lol but al put it this way, we dont have a shortage of money

[radioheadguy]

Not sure about mrem's, old unit. Can't remember the derivation.

[jw1701]

god the 'normal' alarm must get annoying pretty quickly, surely they could just play some nice music to indicate the system is working :)

[KohtaChan]

A zombie movie soundtrack?

[STWProductions2008]

lol near that fataly radioactive pool is a life ring

[Pholl61]

@STWProductions2008

If someone fell in the cooling pool, the worst fate they would suffer would be drowning.

Those waste containers are obviously shielding, else it would be difficult to transfer them..

[matt100877]

listen this cunt ray131262 who is he calling fucking geeky, click on this twat, abba tribute band, never mind shutting sellafield just shut your fucking trap

[lainey500]

been out of the industry for 4 years now,the training i got just to work in the controlled areas is the best around, and some of the best feats of engineering ever seen yet, funny all the small minded people outside the fence "oh whens it gonna blow" attitude ,dont get me wrong when i first started in c1/2 areas i used to at first open doors and stuff with my elbows lol but when you move into higher graded areas it all fits in place perfectly but safety first ALWAYS

[ray131262]

Fucking techie geeky nerds -sad industry with sadder people in it!

[10mintwo]

imbecile

[KohtaChan]

These 'sad' people earn more in a week than you would do in a year

[MnemiCaRo]

I go down on my knees... Thanks so much for this vid!

[Realitaetsroboter]

love it

[SickPIanet]

I have visited Drigg beach north to Seascale and Sellafield. It' a wonderfull beach and landscape a fascinating place with a nice view on Sellafield Towers.

[GAZA118118]

Sellafield is a goldmine for atomic bomb material. I dont like the fact that its in our country and how everyone else dumps their country's waste in it.

[radioheadguy]

Again incorrect. the only use for that material is for more reactor fuel. Its no good for anything else.

[radioheadguy]

They give us their spent fuel to reprocess. When it is done, we send them back their fuel along with the vitrified wastes.

[636dude]

Its good to see that only the misinformed or the environmentally brainwashed feel the need to comment on such a crap video. To the nuclear 'technician', I very much doubt you have set foot anywhere near the site. Some of us do on a regular basis and know that particular plant inside out. The recent problems were down to a leak, a contained leak that normally wouldnt have to be reported. No chernobyl, no deathtrap just niaeve internet warriors. Live in your ignorance gentlemen.

[ap327145]

it is contained and no threat to the environment but as much of a nuclear enthusiast as i am the olympic sized swimming pool full of highly irradiated liquids is a death traps to workers which is why cleanup has been postponed for so long besides the huge expense and materials needed to keep humans safe during cleanup

[danielnez1]

I've visited Thorp in 2006 and this video doesn't do it justice, it truly is a fascinating place.

[DrewNUFC]

in everyones opinions do you think if it doesent get sorted out could we have another chernobyl stlye problem?

[jtlowrey]

lol idiot

[hans1066]

no we can't. Chernobyl was mainly caused by the total lack of any safety culture in the Soviet Union and has nothing to do with modern western NPP. And i know what i am talking about

[BAW1049]

Accidents stil happens. Almost did in Forsmark in Sweden which is not a country i look as as especially "lacking of safety culture". There can also be terrorist attacks, fires and many more risks. Nuclear energy, at least with the current energy source, wil never be completely safe.

[podsol99]

Yeah... we've seen that at Calder Hall *lol*

[Pholl61]

@hans1066

Chernobyl was caused by ill-trained operatives. Core instability was known below certain power levels due the inherent positive feedback of a graphite moderated and water cooled system, and operators were forbidden from operating at low power levels.

In contrast, modern reactors all exhibit negative feedback and are will shut down/trip automatically, given almost any situation.

[mastodon2806]

@Pholl61 how do you explain the disaster at fukishima

[Kenzofeis]

That crappy place is leaking a lot of shit into the north sea and it's coming all the way over to Norway, been asked for years and years to clean up their shit but they don't want to do they. Assholes.

[megaman2000]

im sorry. get your facts right. having worked as a reactor technitian at sellafield its not that he wont its just that the UK government wont pay for the money to repare it. the place is a deathtrap

[Pholl61]

@megaman2000 Which employees at Sellafield are qualified and yet can't spell technician?

Lies, I suspect.

[radioheadguy]

You are talking out of your arse. The North Sea is the other side of the UK. And no, it is not leaking "a lot of shit" into the sea. Go away Greenpeace, comment when qualified.

[Benjamin666face]

sellafield is so evil.

[IdiotPlanet]

great

[supertod]

scary!