The First Nuclear Related Fatality & Accident In America - Emergency Response - Documentary Video

[baileys60]

this wasnt the first nuclear related fatality in america. there was a guy who on died on the manhatten project

[Mikuruification]

Why the fuck did they have to touch it? If anything Wrong went down while I was experimenting with NUCLEAR material I would proceed to shit myself, and run out of the room....

[MerleOberon]

I remember when ambulances were Cadillacs, at least you could die in style...

[YeOldClipper]

Would it be wrong to say that nuclear energy is in itself the doomsday device, and that breeder reactors are tools of mass destruction as well as weapons, themselves? I cannot give an answer to that question. But I would not want to live next door to one.

[starlight2009xxx]

this isn't the first nuclear related fatality in america

[maxxasvideo]

this was a baby compared to the giant fukushima.....crazy stuff!

[sneakers55]

@wardenphil I would suspect the dead also had undergone radiolysis.

[knackerFacker]

Hah, lying bastards, search for the "demon core" here on youtobe, the damn thing caused two deaths durign the 40's

[mdma4life]

@knackerFacker

He was talking about nuclear REACTOR safety.

The incidents with the demon core happened during EARLY EXPERIMENTS, it has nothing to do with nuclear reactors

[z0nt21]

Epic rapid response, if portrayal is correct. 9 Roentgen dose is 90 mSv - not too bad. ;)

[MrTimothytim]

haahah the soldier purpousley readiated in the 60's not included

[illlite]

Fucking scary shit

[ChristopherSaindon]

Magnificent..this is priceless..

[docicenogle]

Well you can still learn a lot.

[FatBlackFrancis]

"They found the third man lodged in the ceiling. Also dead." Is it morbid of me to admit that I found that line hilarious?

[DandDskeeto]

@FatBlackFrancis no not at all because if you're morbid so am I

[yuppyguitar1]

The demon core was 1945.

[liquidgee13]

Yeah, the three guys that died in this accident were buried in lead caskets due to the radiation they recieved and were thus giving off. And yet the people who enter the facility for the "clean up" scrubbed themselves vigorously ... uh huh, like that did the trick.

[wardenphil]

@liquidgee13 The dead could not be decontaminated because the explosion peppered their bodies with radioactive schrapnel, which could not be extracted. The rescuers were not subject to that hazard.

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[kerimil]

I always wondered what we haven't been told ? well if they had known back then that radiation was dangerous then they must have learned that somehow.... I wonder if the army had their own version of unit 731 to test stuff out? what do you think ?

[altofokc]

altofokc  I was one of the actors in this video. In the first 24 hours after the incident, I

wired a control panel for the IBM 402 Accounting Machine to print the report that you

see in the video and also wired a control panel for the IBM 101 Statistical Sorter to

identify radiation exposures above safe levels. You don't see me in the video, but

I operated both the printer and sorter in the video.

[animalhouse28146]

After we finished taking our comp exam at Naval Nuclear Power School, we had to watch this video awaitng the results of our exams to be posted. It was soooo boring it was hard to stay awake. Then I go spend 6 months in I.F. and passed by this site every day. I swear the area glowed in the dark at night. In fact, so do I. And you should see my children!

[HuntHawaii808]

We drove throught the Idaho national lab around dusk and it is really eerie. Its just a flat plain dotted with light from the reactors, You can visit EBR-1 During certain months, they also have the worlds first (and only) nuclear powered aircraft engine

[paradigmproject1]

well why you think so many cases of cancer and increasing in time, also why you think the US doesnt really comrecialize much of its fruits and vegetables producs till today's ... The US has had not one but a few more nuclear accidents in its lands.

Think about the wind spreading radiation ..including the big disasters as chernobyl. ..how many times radiation has circled around falling on people and landing on soil

[WyllowMorrigan]

This is a great video, thanks for uploading. I love watching these old documentaries, because they are so telling of the era they portray

[rosaryfilms]

WyllowMorrigan, thank you very much for your comments!

[theproplady]

Wow. The serene music gives this film an unnerving, surreal quality. (They're talking about a guy getting launched into the ceiling by a nuclear explosion, after all.) You had to be pretty brave to work with this technology while it was in its infancy...

[699acid]

This was not a nuclear explosion, theproplady. Just the water in the vessel flashing to steam due to the rapid increase in temperature. Much like if you were to uncap the radiator under the hood of your car while it was hot. A lot of steam would rush out to relieve pressure. Not making light of this event, just don't want people to be mis-informed.

[theproplady]

nuclear-RELATED explosion is probably what I meant to say. A real nuclear explosion would have done a lot more than damage a single building.

[Zoomer30]

I just watched the 3 Mile Island thing on here, thanks but no thanks, I would rather not glow in the dark.

[Winky395]

then sit in the dark

[Darkwizzrobe]

Your position appears to be that, regardless of the low probability of an event, the statement of the hazard is enough to justify stopping the process. This has been a historic argument against nuclear power by the anti-nuclear groups.

[Zoomer30]

Nine oh One oh Clock? People talked weired back in the 50s, must have been from all those "harmless" nukes they tested out in the open air.

[rufousme]

And if it was up to the like's of winky395 they still would be doing "Harmless" nuke tests in the atmosphere.

[Spazzer]

O'Clock comes from "of the clock", meaning it could have been used for any time.

[rubenpetran]

This video is really good.

How did you put 40 min video on youtube?

[rosaryfilms]

rubenpetran, thank you! My account is an old account -- no longer available to new users -- sorry!

[a01087483]

@rosaryfilms lucky bastard :p

x3.. thanks for this vid its really awesome :D

[pillsauve]

The music at 17:30 cracks me up....

[mpwelk]

Personally, I think every city should have one of these. Imagine the jobs it would create. Larger cities can have large reactors.  This is perfect for a city of 10-20,000. Small cities will have steam networks and abundant electricity. Charge your electric car if that's your thing.

[mnestic]

This film was really interesting. Thank you for posting it!

[rosaryfilms]

mnestic, you are welcome!

[Richey2009]

Thanks for the upload! Coast to Coast AM is doing a show on this tonight, great reference material.

[rosaryfilms]

Richey2009, thank you for your comments!

[crashbomba]

haha this brings back so many memories of naval nuclear power school. rumor was that the person that pulled the rod was committing suicide when he found out that another of the three was banging his wife.

this reactor was a prototype for the us army for remote location usage such as the antartic and alaska.

[forrestfox14]

the people on earth desage with you

[teemuautio]

ty for upload!

[rosaryfilms]

teemuautio, you are welcome!

[4angele1]

awesome video thx for posting!

[rosaryfilms]

4angele1, you are welcome!

[ronnem40]

Outstanding historical value. Thank you for posting this!

[rosaryfilms]

ronnem40, you are welcome!

[CaptainFudges]

Superb video!

[rosaryfilms]

CaptainFudges, thank you!

[gonzalonuevo2]

Thanks for the video, i read once that the central (and widesth) control rod of this type of reactor was designed to be pulled out completely to achieve autodestruction in case of war. I don`t know if that is true. That`s the probable cause of this accident that many said it was due to homicide-suicide of one of the operators.

[rosaryfilms]

gonzalonuevo2, you are welcome!

[meltdownman1]

Rumor was that one of the Army's Operators was cheating with the other Army Operator's wife. He committed suicide by manually pulling one of the control rods by hand. It subsequently caused a "prompt criticality" which meant instantly caused power to increase dramatically. It then instantly turned the water to steam and hence the reactor vessel exploded, impaling the operator pulling the rod to the ceiling. They used a forklift with a gurney to shake him free of the ceiling

The Meltdownman

[IExposeMormonism]

@meltdownman1 It does say he was lodged in the ceiling. I wonder if he had a reservation for lodging or if he was just hanging around. "They" say in Japan now, "Everything is OK" And why would it be otherwise? At 23:50 min they say they made preparations for removing the one lodging.That would be an interesting picture. I also like the music, it's soothing and spring like

[DamirBev]

@meltdownman1 and there we're ninjas on a fuckin' lawn tryin to kill us :)

[CDRphoenix]

This is what happens when you mix the Army and nuclear power...

[liquidgee13]

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

[pepeledog]

I found this film to be absolutely riveting. I wasn't going to watch it as it was so old. The start of the film was so intriguing I could not stop watching. So much more because it was real and not a fictional account.

[rosaryfilms]

pepeledog, thank you for your comments.

[contrapezist]

Thanks for loading as one video. This was offically designated a criticality excursion by the AEC. Not so much a meltdown it was at cold shutdown at the time. Meltdown is core melting damage usually caused by decay heat from fission byproducts. The core was heavily damaged by the force of the explosion as if it was loaded with 3-10 pounds of TNT

[rosaryfilms]

contrapezist, thank you for your comments!

[Ultimadruid]

this will help with my class project cheers :)

[rosaryfilms]

Ultimadruid, thank you for watching!

[floydianworld]

Very interesting video.

[rosaryfilms]

floydianworld, thank you for watching!

[JPPT1974]

Very interesting. Really that could happen!