Dark 5 youtube channel - interesting failed nukes
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Smoking palm trees at 4:48 ... cool. So a little story about a test team at the company I work for. They were somewhere in Nevada doing a remote test for the company, and a military nuclear test occurred up wind from them. The team was supposed to have been given notice to evacuate the area before the test occurred, but there were not notified and all were exposed to radiation. Years later they all developed some kind of cancer and passed away.
Monkeys shouldn't be playing with nuclear devices. 
Interesting subject.
The details on Castle Bravo and why the yield was unexpectedly high is an interesting story. If I remember correctly, there was some stuff they thought wouldn't be involved in the reaction, but due to the nuclear reaction of the explosion (nuclear synthesis?), it got converted to "fuel" and gave them more bang than they expected.
Tsar Bomba was a big, big Russian nuke.
The US almost nuked North Carolina in 1961.
There's some amazing stories involving nuclear power and bombs.
You might find this interesting. From 1945-1998 there were this many nuclear tests.
USA 1032
USSR/Russia 715
France 210
China 45
UK 45
India 4
Pakistan 2
An interesting but disturbing video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
Scott
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Operation Upshot Knothole also is known for the radiation effects on the cast and crew of the movie The Conqueror, starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward. A significant portion of those people developed cancer and died as a result.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)
Originally Posted By: CT8
Has any one ever wondered if the spike in cancers is from the Nuke tests?
Originally Posted By: CT8
Has any one ever wondered if the spike in cancers is from the Nuke tests?
Radioactive tamale wrappers? Aw schucks
Saw a PBS program demystifying the famous cattle mutilations in the US SW as testing exposure when someone had the bright idea of fracking a geological formation to release natural gas, and it did, seeping, useless, radioactive natural gas out of the ground. Tissue samples for exposure effects. Project Gasbuggy.
Beef - it's what's for dinner!
My wife was living in Norway downwind of Chernobyl when it melted down. The government had to relax their food purity standards for radiation levels in staples like reindeer meat & chicken when that happened.
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An interesting but disturbing video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
Scott
Originally Posted By: PimTac
Operation Upshot Knothole also is known for the radiation effects on the cast and crew of the movie The Conqueror, starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward. A significant portion of those people developed cancer and died as a result.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)
“John Wayne smoked filterless cigarettes like a chimney for decades as well, it wasn't uncommon among the age group on that movie set.“
That’s correct and a reason why I mentioned in a follow up post albeit vaguely that trying to blame the cancer on any one particular thing is hard to do. Mesothelioma is directly related to asbestos exposure but that’s not cancer of course. The most common item is the thyroid gland. Smoking was fashionable in that era. The point after all was said and done is that the cancer rate among the movie crew was well above the average.
If 60-70% of the people living in your block got cancer I would be thinking that something is amiss. I think that is what the article was trying to convey but it’s still inconclusive.
After the great Tohoku Earthquake and triple catastrophe of 2011, it was forecasted by some that cancers might spike due to all the different radioactive particles and exposure. It might be too soon yet to see the effect but the fear alarmists quieted down very quickly afterwards.
There's a big difference between recieving doses of radiation, and ingesting radioactive particles, that lodge and cause disaster.
Taiwan, some buildings were built with steel that had received Co60 contamination, and the health outcomes for the residents were better than average...it was their background radiation, not a lodged particle.
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Interesting subject.
The details on Castle Bravo and why the yield was unexpectedly high is an interesting story. If I remember correctly, there was some stuff they thought wouldn't be involved in the reaction, but due to the nuclear reaction of the explosion (nuclear synthesis?), it got converted to "fuel" and gave them more bang than they expected.
Tsar Bomba was a big, big Russian nuke.
The US almost nuked North Carolina in 1961.
There's some amazing stories involving nuclear power and bombs.
My dad watched 7 nukes in the pacific as navy on landing ship. After a blast they would load up marines and land on the islands. He was on deck with dark glasses to watch the nuke. But he never drove the landing ships to the island or did decontamination. He was a gunner and later a electrician mate. No cancer, he did develop Parkinson Lewey Body Dementia. Probably not related but who knows. He did very well until 80.
Miss you Dad
Rod
Around the 3:00 mark in the video, they stated that a "boosted" nuke is a fission reaction that is triggered by an initial fusion trigger. They got it backwards. The fusion reaction is triggered by an initial fission "primer".
On Google Earth, look up "Sedan Crater". Zoom out and pan south. Crazy amount of craters!
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There's a big difference between recieving doses of radiation, and ingesting radioactive particles, that lodge and cause disaster.
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