nice project, and it's well explained on how to obtain a neutron source. i started to build a linear neutron synchrotron on my basement made with about 150 CRT screens magnets and copper tubes with vacuum. as a part of my studies on how these particles interact with the space-time. because of the small budget, the collision detector is a couple of sony A900 tethered to an old silicon graphics runing gentoo. if i discover something i'll make a video !
Uranium 233 would be bread from thorium, not plutonium, that's the point of thorium reactors - circumvention of any steps yielding "easily" weaponizable material. I get this is for laughs, but a man's gotta draw the line somewhere. ;)
All this is it's a bunch of HYPE!!!......So he got some VERY mild radioactive stuff.....in theory he would have to millions of clocks and torch bags....don't forget the 5000 giant centrifuges to concentrate radioactive material. I'm surprised the vid did not mention the naturaly occuring radioactive RADON gas that's in most basements in the USA.
@kdc43 maybe you should read the actual story on this boy scout then.... because authorities were able to detect the radiation from several houses down when they found out what the kid was doing.
@jpitcher332 I have and what you wrote doesn't counter what I posted. With SENSITIVE instruments, of course they would be able to detect the radiation...just like they can detect the radon radiation in your house NOW.......even though you do not work with any radioactive materials.
I read about this guy. How he got found out is a cop pulled him over for some bogus thing. Started searching his car. The cop was going to open a metal tool box and the kid told him "Don't do that, you'll get radiated." The cop had enough brains to call for a Geiger counter. When it was shown that there was radiation in the tool box they looked in his shed. He went to court but there is no law against building an atomic pile so the judge talked him into jining the Navy.
Wow, I'm going to go smoke some banana peels and jump off the side of a tall building and land on a canopy which will break my fall just before I build my own personal reactor out of Pepsi cans! XD
I can pretty much confirm this video. A buddy of mine from high school was building a reactor pretty much exactly as the video described. This was 15 years ago before youtube existed.
@Bradjet63 Natural Uranium is 99.28% U238+ 0,72 U235, Enriched Uranium = more then 0.72 U235 , usualy 1.5 - 2,5%. In a reactor, becouse of irradiating U238 with fast Neutrons and alfa radiation from U235, 2 protons are added to U238 nucleus rezulting Pu239. U235 is more fisionable then U238,starts a nuclear chain reaction. This is why Uranium must be enriched. Fortunately there are Heavy Whater Reactors wich work with natural U.
So if I'm following correctly, they're talking about using alpha rays from americium and radium to produce neutrons, then using those neutrons to breed fissionable U-233 from natural thorium. I'm no nuclear physicist, but that sounds farfetched to me. The part about producing plutonium just sounds ridiculous. How do you get plutonium out of that? Tiny amounts of uranium maybe, but plutonium?!
You are right. The Faraday suit refers to my other clip, "400,000 volts". So many hazardous actuvities going on round here, one tends to get confused. Fatally so at times.
Holy crap. I thought this was just an urban legend. Wow. You can *actually* do this for reals. And without a fortune, just lots of time, storage, patience, and scavenging or scrounging. Guess there was some truth to the "sell nuclear bomb home kits" line in ICP's song "what?".
Home built X-Rays. Home built lasers. Home built nuclear reactors. Home built rail cannons. Home built ionic blasters. Though I doubt if any of this is "a threat to national security" as the excuse goes.
@Xezlec Your point? I figure, good at least for a moment of pause if nothing else. It isn't like this is exactly confirmed (best I can tell YET), though I'm getting kind of curious now about the video referenced.
@CrudeDude I didn't say the story of a kid collecting a bunch of stuff and trying to build a breeder reactor was an urban legend. In fact, it's happened more than once. But none of these kids successfully built anything that achieved critical mass, to my knowledge (or even any significant amount of fissionable material at all), and I don't think it is possible to do so in this way.
Of course, in fact is known that thorium can be used in specialy designed heavy whater reactors such as CANDU, and Th can be obtained from Uranium decay in nuclear reactors, but unfortunable without having uranium reactors, is ilogical for a country to make Th reactors instead of Uranium unless it have large deposits of Th, as India and Australia.
This cannot work! You can not control the neutons and Thorium irradiaton to make Uranium, and even you can make some uranium, it will be verry little amounds. What makes a reactor work is U235, an isotope that fision and iradiate U238 to make Plutonium and generate energy. In fact this experiment is about makeing electrical energy form ANY radioactive materials. Any student in phisics learn about that and discover more power is produced with a small windmill.
@filipiliescu It is obviously fake dude, there isn not enough energy in that flame to make those reactions and those reactions will not happen uless they are under immense pressure.
@Detoyato but it can produce electricity. In fact any radioactive source can produce a VERRY small amound of electricity into a verry simple device(not a reactor).
@filipiliescu I think what he was aiming for was a breeder sort of thing, making Uranium (233 If Im not wrong) but that needs Neutron radiation doesnt it?.
@Detoyato No, in fact all he is done is mixing some radioactive materials to have a larger radioactive source. Uranium usualy is mined from the ground U238 99,3% and U235 0,7%. Can use U235 in a special reactor to transform U238 in Plutonium.
@filipiliescu In this past days Ive been reading up on these thigns. And It IS possible to Breed Readily Fissile Uranium-233 From Thorium-232. It would take about a month for it to happen and he needs a Neutron Source (which is probably why the Americium and Aluminum is in there). Tho It is impossible to make Plutonium from that.
Now U-233 is about as Fissile as Pu-239. So had his Experiment lasted long enough, he might have achieved Fission.
@Detoyato theoreticaly is possible. But why you want to do this? To make Uranium from Thorium you will need not ONLY neutrons but a alpha radiation source. Just look at Mendeleev table Thorium is element number 90, Uranium is 92, so to the Th nucleus you must add 2 protons(alpha radiation) to make U. This can not be made "at home". There are a number of countries that reserch thorium reactors for electricity and i think India made one. Why to make Uranium from Thorium?
@filipiliescu Why make Uranium from Thorium?... But isnt that the way the Thorium Cycle works. Since Th-232 in itself isnt Fissile, they sort of turn it into Uranium first to do it.
@Detoyato ok... I do not know exactly all about Thorium reactors and how it works. I know largely how a U reactors work. As I understood Pu is needed to make U233 from Th232. You know Heavy Whater reactors can be designed to work with a mixture of PU and natural U. That meen that Pu from bombs can be put to work and produce energy. Also HW reactors can use used fuel from reactors who use enriched U.
@filipiliescu All would be needed are Thermal Neutrons from any sort of Fission, either from U or PU. Not even the need for Alpha particles. A neutron would turn Th-232 into
Th-233 which beta decays into Pa-233 which in turn beta decays into U-233. Thus breeding a Fissile Uranium Isotope from Fertile Thorium.
The LFTR concept is quite interesting since it uses Fuel in a Molten State disolved in Salts. Its impossible to have a meltdown if your fuel is already liquid and is at Ambient pressure.
@Detoyato My friend, i do not want to argue with you. Wikipedia is not turning people into scientists. Beta decay mean that from nucleus is emited an antiproton(an electron). You cannot take something from the nucleus and make it larger. Why you need neutrons? A neutron collides with a nucleus, this nucleus emits other neutrons and/or alpha particle. Those alpha particles(2 protons) are added to other nucleus and those became larger.
@filipiliescu What people do not undestand is that from 1Kg of Th bombarded with neutrons you will obtain 1Kg of Th with 0.5% U233, extremly fisionable and enough to start a nuclear chain reaction from Th.
@filipiliescu Whos Arguing?... Were merely discussing some information. If anyone who else who reads our discussion thinks were arguing... then thats their problem. And what makes you mention Wikipedia?
Once you start Fission of U233 within Th. Properly moderated then it would breed more U233 from the Th.
@filipiliescu And once again, theres no Alpha Particles related in any way with the Transmutation through decay of Thorium into Uranium. Those 2 Extra protons your talking about used to be Neutrons... who has turned into Protons. And Alpha Particles are electronless Helium Nucleus instead of just two protons as you say. (Tho I think you know this already, but since you mentioned something I already know then theres no harm done with me doing the same)
Kid did this in the '60's. Hey- kid probably couldn't afford used reactors from New Mexico. Now this is a step up.Boy Scout Kid was prolly bored t from the shclock in the Anarchist's Cookbook. Ventursome youths. They should be doped up c/ amphetamines for ADD. An ounce of prevention.
i would just like to point out, hopefully not for the first time, you cannot make bomb grade plutonium from thorium, what you do get, in tiny quantities, is Pu228 which is not fissile.
@mediumpimpn depending on the type of radiation, gloves really do help. I think its alpha radiation that cant penetrate skin. but if you have a cut, the radiation can really fuck some sells up.
4) Now I see why the United States Marine Corps Drill Instructors, and Drill Instructor of the Armed Forces have to Yell so Loud at you people, because your stupid as Fuck.
Just go to Acme.com and order a nuclear reactor. They have different sizes for different uses. I installed one in my car three years ago for under $300.00 and installing one in our house to run it w/o outside electricity. Next project is a nuclear powered jet to travel around the world for under $500.00. We love it!
@Jupiterironman I have a design from the 8th grade covering a TV remote control with a .22 pistol built in and a tazer. I lost my design model, but I got an A :-D ...but I think some of your design overlaps some of mine, if only I had patented it! Though my design didn't try too hard to hide the gun and tazer :P It's for inside the home, it needs to look kick-ass ;P lol
@Merecir 4)The disconnect I think is going on here is simply this, the viewers of this video are projecting their own mediocrity and ignorance onto this person.
They think because they can't do it, no one else can.
I didn't learn this when I was in the United States Marine Corps, I learned this on my own.
@Merecir 2) Amounts of Pu-239 originate in the following fashion: On occasions, U-238 undergoes spontaneous fission, and in the process, the nucleus emits one or two free neutrons with some kinetic energy. When one of these neutrons strikes the nucleus of another U-238 atom, it is absorbed by the atom, which becomes U-239.
In layman's terms, if he decided to make a hydrogen bomb, this type of a bomb would be a force multiplier for the small amount of plutonium that he made acquisition of.
@Jupiterironman Do you know how many of those smoke detectors and lights he would need to actually have enough to make a real power producing reactor that could also produce any significant amount of plutonium? Yeah, I guess he would have an infinite supply, but it would take a very long time to produce that supply form the raw materials in this video. Plus even they would have to deal with the radiation and waste before cheering on about having created plutonium. So I laughed at the video :)
@epockismet 2) There seems to be some serious gaps in your education.
A Japanese researcher a few years ago transformed mercury into gold, hence this type of technology can transform mercury or just about any heavy metals into plutonium,
In this video the kid had an emitter capable of doing just that.
@epockismet 3) You also are assuming that the information that was released by the press on this kid is complete.
You assume wrongly, that the press is giving you all the information on this kid.
The information the press gave on me, was that I invented a Blackberry that fires two .22 rounds, I never use .22 rounds, 9mm or .357 Magnum is what I use, they fail to put this in the newspapers as well.
@epockismet 4) Now I see why the United States Marine Corps Drill Instructors, and Drill Instructor of the Armed Forces have to Yell so Loud at these people, because their stupid as Fuck.
@Jupiterironman If you have some information that other people lack, share it. You're not doing a very good job backing up your argument for someone like me. I haven't heard of any of this before in the media, this short clip is the first thing I've seen. You make a lot of assumptions, but if you have information that shows that this kid could safely collect weapons grade materials, be my guest. I love new science.
@Jupiterironman All I know is, with today's tech, it is hard to get weapons grade nuclear material separated from the other isotopes, and even harder to collect the plutonium. I think it would be easier to make a microwave beam weapon than try to create plutonium in any other fashion than the old method of wait till it forms in the uranium rods. Creating plutonium is possible, but in large quantities and to be able to collect it to weaponize it, I don't know.
The truth of the matter is most teenagers are too fucking stupid ignorant or too busy watching a Rihanna or a Britney Spears video to be able to pull this off.
The truth of the matter is most teenagers don't have any fucking discipline, patience or intelligence to know what the fuck their looking at.
Dude, radioactive smoke detectors are forbidden here in France (and in the rest of Western Europe I suppose). So I can not build my home made reactor :(
@cammobox Yeah, this technique is real and it does work.
Yes its safe to put it on YouTube.
The truth of the matter is most teenagers are too fucking stupid ignorant or too busy watching a Rihanna or a Britney Spears video to be able to pull this off.
The truth of the matter is most teenagers don't have any fucking discipline, patience or intelligence to know what the fuck their looking at.
Why is this on YouTube!?!?!?!
Joshesjtagmods 4 hours ago
hehe
next episode we'll learn how to set off deuterium from water without a fissile device. enjoy : )
DanFrederiksen 16 hours ago
nice project, and it's well explained on how to obtain a neutron source. i started to build a linear neutron synchrotron on my basement made with about 150 CRT screens magnets and copper tubes with vacuum. as a part of my studies on how these particles interact with the space-time. because of the small budget, the collision detector is a couple of sony A900 tethered to an old silicon graphics runing gentoo. if i discover something i'll make a video !
patachu666 20 hours ago
He has horrible puns.
glory122 1 day ago
He says "it's used in nuclear bombs!" so casually.
glory122 1 day ago
I'm gonna go and make one in my yard. After that I'll declare my house property to be a socialist state
MesserHai 2 days ago
This....wont work. Anyone that thinks it will needs to research nuclear physics a bit more.
mitsuman007 2 days ago
Good god!!
Jemeni99 3 days ago
this realy needs a DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME sign or something
mikathe1andonly 5 days ago
i tried this
NomtheZombieSplayer 6 days ago
no thanks,very interesting though .something are better kept secret
topdogmic 1 week ago
and why are you telling me this
h36564 1 week ago
too bad it's not so simple to get your hands on Thorium anymore =/ would really like to make a Thor's hammer out of it^^
Lighthammer18 1 week ago
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lmichaelhuang3 1 week ago
if the reactor works, you can now have cancer <_<
TheSadandalone 1 week ago
nuclear boy scout don't give a shit
TheMisfitable 1 week ago
manhattan project.... it all started from youtube, thats why sopa tried to block youtube so soviets didnt watch it...
MrGunnaras 1 week ago
"David made an environmental disaster! Here's how:..."
MultiNoobBoob 1 week ago
@MultiNoobBoob LOLOLOL
TrueEspadaUlquiorra 1 week ago
hahahahaha, this video is frikkin hilarious! i love duct tape!
iammiahblaze 1 week ago
that scares me...
crazydave303 2 weeks ago
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Uranium 233 would be bread from thorium, not plutonium, that's the point of thorium reactors - circumvention of any steps yielding "easily" weaponizable material. I get this is for laughs, but a man's gotta draw the line somewhere. ;)
U235hexafluoridedude 2 weeks ago
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U235hexafluoridedude 2 weeks ago
is that safe to be touching with bare hands????
gman2268 2 weeks ago
@gman2268 all but the radium
mcwario13 2 weeks ago
All this is it's a bunch of HYPE!!!......So he got some VERY mild radioactive stuff.....in theory he would have to millions of clocks and torch bags....don't forget the 5000 giant centrifuges to concentrate radioactive material. I'm surprised the vid did not mention the naturaly occuring radioactive RADON gas that's in most basements in the USA.
kdc43 3 weeks ago
@kdc43 maybe you should read the actual story on this boy scout then.... because authorities were able to detect the radiation from several houses down when they found out what the kid was doing.
jpitcher332 2 weeks ago
@jpitcher332 I have and what you wrote doesn't counter what I posted. With SENSITIVE instruments, of course they would be able to detect the radiation...just like they can detect the radon radiation in your house NOW.......even though you do not work with any radioactive materials.
kdc43 2 weeks ago
is this a good school project?.....
MrmentorTV1 3 weeks ago
I feel after watching this, I've been tagged by the government...
mooduck996 3 weeks ago
SEEMS LEGIT!!!!!!!
Ilovelazers 3 weeks ago
LOL BULLSHIT
wargarkaz 3 weeks ago
I read about this guy. How he got found out is a cop pulled him over for some bogus thing. Started searching his car. The cop was going to open a metal tool box and the kid told him "Don't do that, you'll get radiated." The cop had enough brains to call for a Geiger counter. When it was shown that there was radiation in the tool box they looked in his shed. He went to court but there is no law against building an atomic pile so the judge talked him into jining the Navy.
sanity599 3 weeks ago
something tells me the authorities should take this video down.
MrDrift9000 3 weeks ago
I think I'm gonna go and build a Vault...
Yfr28 3 weeks ago
I'm totally gonna try this
Electriix1 3 weeks ago
yeah right.I have 100 smoke detectors at home haha
TheUnidentified777 4 weeks ago
Wow, I'm going to go smoke some banana peels and jump off the side of a tall building and land on a canopy which will break my fall just before I build my own personal reactor out of Pepsi cans! XD
rockerteen8300 4 weeks ago
mama get very angry to me dont play with nukleer no more!!!
souljarico21 4 weeks ago
what the fuck...
BMAFastback 1 month ago
cool
dagreinspider 1 month ago
u's a sick brother
LOPEZdJUNGLIST 1 month ago
I can pretty much confirm this video. A buddy of mine from high school was building a reactor pretty much exactly as the video described. This was 15 years ago before youtube existed.
mNag 1 month ago
This is kinda reminds me Fallout,and a nuka-cola ad...
NeutralNegotiator 1 month ago 2
now any moran can watch this! uh ooo!
daytonamon40 1 month ago
And he handles the materials without gloves...
bobbyvader 1 month ago
wow me likey reactor
Bexmegs 1 month ago
Very irresponsible. You would need U-235, which means you would need to enrich U-238 and a Calcitron. NO PU.
Bradjet63 1 month ago
@Bradjet63 Not "calcitron". It's Calutron, named after UC Berkely where the technology was developed..
CrudeDude 1 month ago
@Bradjet63 Natural Uranium is 99.28% U238+ 0,72 U235, Enriched Uranium = more then 0.72 U235 , usualy 1.5 - 2,5%. In a reactor, becouse of irradiating U238 with fast Neutrons and alfa radiation from U235, 2 protons are added to U238 nucleus rezulting Pu239. U235 is more fisionable then U238,starts a nuclear chain reaction. This is why Uranium must be enriched. Fortunately there are Heavy Whater Reactors wich work with natural U.
filipiliescu 2 weeks ago
So if I'm following correctly, they're talking about using alpha rays from americium and radium to produce neutrons, then using those neutrons to breed fissionable U-233 from natural thorium. I'm no nuclear physicist, but that sounds farfetched to me. The part about producing plutonium just sounds ridiculous. How do you get plutonium out of that? Tiny amounts of uranium maybe, but plutonium?!
Xezlec 1 month ago
WTF!!!!!!!
blacksheep933 1 month ago
wow..........sad, but true
irondmax 1 month ago
Which is use in nuclear bombs........*lightbulb*
fatcat1285 1 month ago
they need a: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME :D
mikathe1andonly 1 month ago
@roberte207 Faraday suits protect against electricity, not radiation.
watson457 1 month ago
@watson457
You are right. The Faraday suit refers to my other clip, "400,000 volts". So many hazardous actuvities going on round here, one tends to get confused. Fatally so at times.
roberte207 1 month ago
Anyone tried this at home? ;p
PureSoulEaterCY 1 month ago
it would not hurt u to put on some RAD gloves or just some rubber gloves!!!!
jaggernutox 1 month ago
LOL XDDDDDDDD
TeamSweden99 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
i was expecting Rick Ashleigh
itsmeqwe1 1 month ago
great idea but you would probably die from radiation poisoning
mastergogo3 1 month ago
بفضل إخوانه! :)
www9311 1 month ago
@www9311 OH NO AAAAAH
frostedlambs 1 month ago
wait wut? i think ill pass.
GTHaroFITBMX 1 month ago
Cheers!
sincerely, Kim Jong-un
beno2367 1 month ago 45
@beno2367
Mahmoud Ahmadinijad is also thankful for this video
JenMichel100 1 month ago
wtf isnt that shit radioactive
unthergunthermunther 1 month ago
che schifo.... c'è gente che muore a causa delle centrali nucleari...vergogna
ghislo98 1 month ago
Is it dangerous?
legendary9898 1 month ago 2
I would love to watch a more in-depth documentary on his story.
tostrong4you 1 month ago
Holy crap. I thought this was just an urban legend. Wow. You can *actually* do this for reals. And without a fortune, just lots of time, storage, patience, and scavenging or scrounging. Guess there was some truth to the "sell nuclear bomb home kits" line in ICP's song "what?".
Home built X-Rays. Home built lasers. Home built nuclear reactors. Home built rail cannons. Home built ionic blasters. Though I doubt if any of this is "a threat to national security" as the excuse goes.
GTA2SWcity 1 month ago
@GTA2SWcity Wow. So you thought it was just an urban legend, but now you saw a youtube video about it. Well then, I guess that settles it. (Really?!)
Xezlec 1 month ago
@Xezlec Your point? I figure, good at least for a moment of pause if nothing else. It isn't like this is exactly confirmed (best I can tell YET), though I'm getting kind of curious now about the video referenced.
GTA2SWcity 1 month ago
@Xezlec The complete original story was in Harper's Magazine. Go to dangerous laboratories to see it.
Urban legend? Not hardley!
CrudeDude 1 month ago
@CrudeDude I didn't say the story of a kid collecting a bunch of stuff and trying to build a breeder reactor was an urban legend. In fact, it's happened more than once. But none of these kids successfully built anything that achieved critical mass, to my knowledge (or even any significant amount of fissionable material at all), and I don't think it is possible to do so in this way.
Xezlec 4 weeks ago
@theryaner the elements used only shoot out alpha particles which are blocked by skin. just dont eat them. that would kill you.
SoVeryFly0 1 month ago
i dont see the poin, appart from getting radioactive particles in your hands
MonTicheDansTaMere 2 months ago
Of course, in fact is known that thorium can be used in specialy designed heavy whater reactors such as CANDU, and Th can be obtained from Uranium decay in nuclear reactors, but unfortunable without having uranium reactors, is ilogical for a country to make Th reactors instead of Uranium unless it have large deposits of Th, as India and Australia.
filipiliescu 2 months ago
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lolzipop4 2 weeks ago
@roberte207 Lead is better
NEETchannel 2 months ago
Why didn't terrorist used this?
likemusicz 2 months ago
This cannot work! You can not control the neutons and Thorium irradiaton to make Uranium, and even you can make some uranium, it will be verry little amounds. What makes a reactor work is U235, an isotope that fision and iradiate U238 to make Plutonium and generate energy. In fact this experiment is about makeing electrical energy form ANY radioactive materials. Any student in phisics learn about that and discover more power is produced with a small windmill.
filipiliescu 2 months ago
@filipiliescu It is obviously fake dude, there isn not enough energy in that flame to make those reactions and those reactions will not happen uless they are under immense pressure.
T3HBL4CK4BY55 2 months ago
@filipiliescu Or you oculd use a thorium reactor, mcuh like what India is currently building.
TehOrkyMan 2 months ago
@filipiliescu At no point did it say that it was meant to produce any form of electricity.
Detoyato 3 weeks ago
@Detoyato but it can produce electricity. In fact any radioactive source can produce a VERRY small amound of electricity into a verry simple device(not a reactor).
filipiliescu 3 weeks ago
@filipiliescu I think what he was aiming for was a breeder sort of thing, making Uranium (233 If Im not wrong) but that needs Neutron radiation doesnt it?.
Detoyato 3 weeks ago
@Detoyato No, in fact all he is done is mixing some radioactive materials to have a larger radioactive source. Uranium usualy is mined from the ground U238 99,3% and U235 0,7%. Can use U235 in a special reactor to transform U238 in Plutonium.
filipiliescu 3 weeks ago
@filipiliescu In this past days Ive been reading up on these thigns. And It IS possible to Breed Readily Fissile Uranium-233 From Thorium-232. It would take about a month for it to happen and he needs a Neutron Source (which is probably why the Americium and Aluminum is in there). Tho It is impossible to make Plutonium from that.
Now U-233 is about as Fissile as Pu-239. So had his Experiment lasted long enough, he might have achieved Fission.
Detoyato 1 week ago
@Detoyato theoreticaly is possible. But why you want to do this? To make Uranium from Thorium you will need not ONLY neutrons but a alpha radiation source. Just look at Mendeleev table Thorium is element number 90, Uranium is 92, so to the Th nucleus you must add 2 protons(alpha radiation) to make U. This can not be made "at home". There are a number of countries that reserch thorium reactors for electricity and i think India made one. Why to make Uranium from Thorium?
filipiliescu 1 week ago
@filipiliescu Why make Uranium from Thorium?... But isnt that the way the Thorium Cycle works. Since Th-232 in itself isnt Fissile, they sort of turn it into Uranium first to do it.
Detoyato 1 week ago
@Detoyato ok... I do not know exactly all about Thorium reactors and how it works. I know largely how a U reactors work. As I understood Pu is needed to make U233 from Th232. You know Heavy Whater reactors can be designed to work with a mixture of PU and natural U. That meen that Pu from bombs can be put to work and produce energy. Also HW reactors can use used fuel from reactors who use enriched U.
filipiliescu 1 week ago
@filipiliescu All would be needed are Thermal Neutrons from any sort of Fission, either from U or PU. Not even the need for Alpha particles. A neutron would turn Th-232 into
Th-233 which beta decays into Pa-233 which in turn beta decays into U-233. Thus breeding a Fissile Uranium Isotope from Fertile Thorium.
The LFTR concept is quite interesting since it uses Fuel in a Molten State disolved in Salts. Its impossible to have a meltdown if your fuel is already liquid and is at Ambient pressure.
Detoyato 1 week ago
@Detoyato My friend, i do not want to argue with you. Wikipedia is not turning people into scientists. Beta decay mean that from nucleus is emited an antiproton(an electron). You cannot take something from the nucleus and make it larger. Why you need neutrons? A neutron collides with a nucleus, this nucleus emits other neutrons and/or alpha particle. Those alpha particles(2 protons) are added to other nucleus and those became larger.
filipiliescu 1 week ago
@filipiliescu What people do not undestand is that from 1Kg of Th bombarded with neutrons you will obtain 1Kg of Th with 0.5% U233, extremly fisionable and enough to start a nuclear chain reaction from Th.
filipiliescu 1 week ago
@filipiliescu And I do know what Beta Decay is thank you very much. If I didnt... then I wouldnt be discussing it with you now would I?
Detoyato 1 week ago
@filipiliescu Whos Arguing?... Were merely discussing some information. If anyone who else who reads our discussion thinks were arguing... then thats their problem. And what makes you mention Wikipedia?
Once you start Fission of U233 within Th. Properly moderated then it would breed more U233 from the Th.
Detoyato 1 week ago
@filipiliescu And once again, theres no Alpha Particles related in any way with the Transmutation through decay of Thorium into Uranium. Those 2 Extra protons your talking about used to be Neutrons... who has turned into Protons. And Alpha Particles are electronless Helium Nucleus instead of just two protons as you say. (Tho I think you know this already, but since you mentioned something I already know then theres no harm done with me doing the same)
Detoyato 1 week ago
I'm gonna go and order some Smoke detectors and a few Lanterns from eBay.I need to blow my school up.
Mega80smetal 2 months ago
i might actully try this and make a nukey bomb hehe
steviexR14 2 months ago 19
@steviexR14
If you succeed, say it to the USA. And do whatever you want unharmed, except throwing that very nuke.
MrStaxxy 1 month ago
@steviexR14 It doesn't work that way. Nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs are two completely different things.
Tbone155817 3 weeks ago
@steviexR14 I guess we'll hear from you in the news in a few months
Multibjarne 2 weeks ago
@steviexR14 DHS at your front door in 3... 2... 1...
jpitcher332 2 weeks ago
@steviexR14 Your a dumb ass for even thinking that.
Bready55 2 weeks ago
This video should read.... DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!!!!
AllanLoveJr 2 months ago
at :59 from this point I put it in my lip like chewing tobacco and I'm good for days. %)
dferver 2 months ago
Kid did this in the '60's. Hey- kid probably couldn't afford used reactors from New Mexico. Now this is a step up.Boy Scout Kid was prolly bored t from the shclock in the Anarchist's Cookbook. Ventursome youths. They should be doped up c/ amphetamines for ADD. An ounce of prevention.
foucault1020 2 months ago
I used to build nuclear reactors, then I took a neutron to the knee.
lovesthecity3 2 months ago
scusate ma potete pubblicare altri esperimenti di david
thematte444 2 months ago
@thematte444 qua sono tutti non-italiani. il documentario è Nuclear Boy Scout e te lo devi comprare XD
Kaius1995 2 months ago
Cool. Now I can make a nuclear shotgun.
Licmycat 2 months ago
umm if you live in tustin evacuate immedialtly haha
metalsim45 2 months ago
i would just like to point out, hopefully not for the first time, you cannot make bomb grade plutonium from thorium, what you do get, in tiny quantities, is Pu228 which is not fissile.
gluonjack 2 months ago
um, shouldn't this dude be wearing gloves and other protective gear? lol
theryaner 2 months ago
@theryaner Gloves...to protect you from radiation?? yea...
mediumpimpn 1 month ago 6
@mediumpimpn depending on the type of radiation, gloves really do help. I think its alpha radiation that cant penetrate skin. but if you have a cut, the radiation can really fuck some sells up.
AshMargrove 1 month ago
@mediumpimpn sure they do. everything you wear protects you to some degree. would be better if they where lead gloves though
Reintjuh100 1 week ago
neutron out from the aluminum must be slowered for example with heavy water!
rachm06 2 months ago
gay
zAdrenalizedGamingz 3 months ago
@zAdrenalizedGamingz Like the amount of intelligence you used posting your non-constructive negative comment,that is completely off topic.
TheSpectorDeflector 2 months ago
@TheSpectorDeflector what? your mom died?
Oh I thought something bad happened
zAdrenalizedGamingz 2 months ago
Dr Steel approves!
TankdozerCavalry 3 months ago
oookay...uh...why ?
OrderoftheHammer 3 months ago
I can't believe the gov doesn't take this down lol
aGruntNamedYayap 3 months ago
David Hahn is my role model....Really. Not many people are glad to hear it but it's true.
sciencechemistrygirl 3 months ago
wtf!! haha
LuckyUnited 3 months ago
it worked!
i made plutonium
probably just a peice of metal because there wasnt any radiation i could pick up
McDanny420 3 months ago
this shit uranium is 500 times more common than gold, u need the rare isotope of uranium with three less nuetrons u-235
mackexr 3 months ago
@Merecir in short its not enriched!
maxxbad17 3 months ago
im a boyscout
brandon14872 3 months ago
@brandon14872 im a turtle
HaX0rZ1000 3 months ago
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4) Now I see why the United States Marine Corps Drill Instructors, and Drill Instructor of the Armed Forces have to Yell so Loud at you people, because your stupid as Fuck.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
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Jupiterironman 3 months ago
how do i collect the energy though and convert it into electricity?
TzarNicholas2 3 months ago
nuclear baaaaamb
energyscience 3 months ago
That is the funniest How-To I have ever seen, priceless :)
epockismet 3 months ago
Just go to Acme.com and order a nuclear reactor. They have different sizes for different uses. I installed one in my car three years ago for under $300.00 and installing one in our house to run it w/o outside electricity. Next project is a nuclear powered jet to travel around the world for under $500.00. We love it!
SkeeterMcClusky2012 3 months ago
why does the guy doens't wear a radiation suit... that isnt background ray anymore
Stormhawkk 3 months ago
no thanks, i have offsprings to worry about.
icetouch77 3 months ago
This man is not wearing any gloves.
UAEchemist2 3 months ago
@Merecir
Not only that, but making it is also very difficult.
UAEchemist2 3 months ago
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Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@Jupiterironman I have a design from the 8th grade covering a TV remote control with a .22 pistol built in and a tazer. I lost my design model, but I got an A :-D ...but I think some of your design overlaps some of mine, if only I had patented it! Though my design didn't try too hard to hide the gun and tazer :P It's for inside the home, it needs to look kick-ass ;P lol
epockismet 3 months ago
@epockismet First of all, I doubt very much that my design overlapped yours, because my device is a dedicated 9mm firing or .357 firing gun.
It fires with just the push of a button, no trigger, totally electrical.
Second I would never use a .22 bullet or tazer, in the real world if you hit some people with a .22 or at tazer you would just Pissed them off!!!
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@Jupiterironman Yeah, I was kidding, I thought it was funny personally. Sorry for any offense.
epockismet 3 months ago
@epockismet Secondly, I created my device in 1992, one year before it got the front page of the New York Daily News, when did you create your device?
If you created your device after 1992, if there is any overlap it is you who overlap my info.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
After I invented this device, I just wanted to move on, to improve it and turn it into a phaser.
Do you understand M.A.S.E.R. technology?
M.A.S.E.R. stands for mass amplification through stimulated emission of radiation.
I wanted to accelerate the bullet/projectile to near the speed of light.
The upside, greater accuracy and greater range, the downside higher power requirements.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@Merecir 4)The disconnect I think is going on here is simply this, the viewers of this video are projecting their own mediocrity and ignorance onto this person.
They think because they can't do it, no one else can.
I didn't learn this when I was in the United States Marine Corps, I learned this on my own.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@Merecir 3) It is also possible for quantities of plutonium to be produced by the natural bombardment of uranium ores with cosmic rays.
Also in layman's terms, this Boy Scout has shown the ability to create as much plutonium as he requires at will.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@Merecir 2) Amounts of Pu-239 originate in the following fashion: On occasions, U-238 undergoes spontaneous fission, and in the process, the nucleus emits one or two free neutrons with some kinetic energy. When one of these neutrons strikes the nucleus of another U-238 atom, it is absorbed by the atom, which becomes U-239.
In layman's terms, if he decided to make a hydrogen bomb, this type of a bomb would be a force multiplier for the small amount of plutonium that he made acquisition of.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@Merecir 1) What's up with the strong reaction?
I don't think you people understand what the hell you're looking at here.
If this person got pissed off enough, he wouldn't settle for taking out the World Trade Center buildings, he would take out New York City.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@Jupiterironman Do you know how many of those smoke detectors and lights he would need to actually have enough to make a real power producing reactor that could also produce any significant amount of plutonium? Yeah, I guess he would have an infinite supply, but it would take a very long time to produce that supply form the raw materials in this video. Plus even they would have to deal with the radiation and waste before cheering on about having created plutonium. So I laughed at the video :)
epockismet 3 months ago
@epockismet 1) Your question is, do I know how many of those smoke detectors this kid would need to actually have enough plutonium to run a reactor.
My answer to you is, how big of a match do you need to burn down an entire forest?
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@epockismet 2) There seems to be some serious gaps in your education.
A Japanese researcher a few years ago transformed mercury into gold, hence this type of technology can transform mercury or just about any heavy metals into plutonium,
In this video the kid had an emitter capable of doing just that.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@epockismet 3) You also are assuming that the information that was released by the press on this kid is complete.
You assume wrongly, that the press is giving you all the information on this kid.
The information the press gave on me, was that I invented a Blackberry that fires two .22 rounds, I never use .22 rounds, 9mm or .357 Magnum is what I use, they fail to put this in the newspapers as well.
You people don't have a Fucking Clue.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
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@epockismet 4) Now I see why the United States Marine Corps Drill Instructors, and Drill Instructor of the Armed Forces have to Yell so Loud at these people, because their stupid as Fuck.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
@Jupiterironman If you have some information that other people lack, share it. You're not doing a very good job backing up your argument for someone like me. I haven't heard of any of this before in the media, this short clip is the first thing I've seen. You make a lot of assumptions, but if you have information that shows that this kid could safely collect weapons grade materials, be my guest. I love new science.
epockismet 3 months ago
@Jupiterironman All I know is, with today's tech, it is hard to get weapons grade nuclear material separated from the other isotopes, and even harder to collect the plutonium. I think it would be easier to make a microwave beam weapon than try to create plutonium in any other fashion than the old method of wait till it forms in the uranium rods. Creating plutonium is possible, but in large quantities and to be able to collect it to weaponize it, I don't know.
epockismet 3 months ago
this is insane!!!!!!! O.0
567goth 3 months ago
Yeah, this technique is real and it does work.
Yes its safe to put it on YouTube.
The truth of the matter is most teenagers are too fucking stupid ignorant or too busy watching a Rihanna or a Britney Spears video to be able to pull this off.
The truth of the matter is most teenagers don't have any fucking discipline, patience or intelligence to know what the fuck their looking at.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
i kinda wish we were still hunter gatherers
volcom2572 3 months ago
Dude, radioactive smoke detectors are forbidden here in France (and in the rest of Western Europe I suppose). So I can not build my home made reactor :(
SuperBunkerbuster 3 months ago
@SuperBunkerbuster You can import them from Hongkong!
deurkl 3 months ago
I LOVE IT!!! I'll get a link to our alternative energies page...
SciCoSal 3 months ago
But the real question is, will it blend?
MrPockany 3 months ago 26
why would you put this on youtube for people to see, lol good thing it is illegal in iraq and afganistan>>>>>:)
vtogvblog 3 months ago
if it was really that easy then how come nukes don't go off in every other teenager's backyard?
cammobox 3 months ago
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@cammobox Yeah, this technique is real and it does work.
Yes its safe to put it on YouTube.
The truth of the matter is most teenagers are too fucking stupid ignorant or too busy watching a Rihanna or a Britney Spears video to be able to pull this off.
The truth of the matter is most teenagers don't have any fucking discipline, patience or intelligence to know what the fuck their looking at.
Jupiterironman 3 months ago
duck tape - if they had it in Chernobyl NPP, the Chernobyl disaster never would have happened.
Archy11102 3 months ago 6
This movie makes fun of idiots and Iranians.
Only Idiots and Iranians believe this reactor recipe is for real. In fact, they may even attempt to replicate it.
monsterzeroJr 3 months ago