The Science Of Nukes

Not really fitting to drop my BPC 157 comment with this video. You know what, i'll Do it anyways. You know what will give you healingpowers like a radioactive mutant? Thats right. It's BPC 157.

very cool explanation thank you for your time.

You should do an episode about the separation of different lanthinides and actininides since they're so chemically similar, Ive always wondered how they were purified

I thought the conventional explosive was RDX. Chordite makes more sense for the time period

Actually centrifuge is much more energy efficient. Gaseous diffussion plant Georges Besse required four CPX reactors to supply it with electricity (nearly 4GW). After switching to centrifuges energy requirement dropped down to 50MW

Could you please also tell about thorium project.

Uh...
Uranium go boom because of plutonium.
Just a lot of decaying.

Bro, is on a watchlist

How much does the size of a UF6 molecule vary, and if the holes are much smaller than a typical molecule, then how do any of them get through?

YES TO THE HYDRGEN BOMB VIDEO!!!!! and maybe some thing about the neutron bomb.... or something rarer like a video about why they did so many tests of bombs... people dont realize that they werent all just different sizes.... the were testing different core material makeups and different core designs, different reflectors and neutron generators etc etc.... thatd be a cool video

why music while talking? and this eary shit too? interesting topic, shitty choice of ambience.
All the larger channels that do this type of content all cut the music when they start talking, because that's what we are here for.
I came here to hear you talk, not listen to music.

I certainly learned much 😊

interesting

Hey thank you, I rolled my eyes at first, but glad I persisted. Well done. An analogy I have heard used before is that chemical reactions are something has a reaction which turns into something fast. Nuclear is almost like gutting an atom (nothing is converting) crude and not entirely true, I know, but it gives the picture that they totally different to what ppl think of what is happening in the explosion. Arm chair general here, that was cool, thank you mate!

Video is well put together, script sounds like a 4th graders book report

Beautiful, the best I've seen. By far

This is the first in many, many clips I’ve seen on the methods of uranium enrichment that actually explains it to a very understandable level. Excellent work.

Excellent presentation! I especially enjoyed the physics and particularly the chemistry of isotopic separation. I've always thought I understood the basic process, but your video is qualitatively the difference between being shown how to cut a cake and how to bake a cake. It's amazing the way some of this methodology was derived by people who had no help from modern computing devices. Anyway, my compliments.

Can you make 2,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde?

make one with thermo nuclear

I can’t find half of my isotopes. I got plenty uranium 234 tho

Nukes don't exist

That subtle 'Demon Core reference' really made my day!
Sharp low key wit, perfectly executed just makes me look forward to the next one. Thanks for the great video!

I barely understood high school chemistry, so there was no way in hell I understood any of this but it was bloody interesting all the same!!!

While not Nukes.... I would love for you to do a breakdown of Hyperbaric Bombs! And something one might even be able to demonstrate depending on how tolerant your neighbours are 😆

I like your style. I would definitely watch your presentation on H bombs.

Yes to hydrogen bombs.

Plutonium can be formed in kilonovae -- neutron star collisions. Recently some fresh, extraterrestrial plutonium was found ocean floor deposits, deposited there less than 10 million years ago.

I think there are 4 ways you get plutonium on Earth:

1) anthropogenic plutonium

2) plutonium produced in rare nuclear reactions in the Earth's crust

3) primordial plutonium left over from the formation of the earth (which hasn't decayed yet, incredibly tiny amount)

4) space plutonium sprinkles -- from a relatively recent neutron star collision in our galactic neighborhood

Unless I'm mistaken

There's even some highly speculative speculation that much heavier elements way up in the theoretical "island of stability" might be produced in neutron star collisions. Definitely you don't want to get between 2 neutron stars heading for each other, if you can avoid it.

I think I need to watch this a few thousand more times Till I understand it😮

I'd like to see the chemistry of converting nuclear waste into more useful things than the public misperception of scary barrels that will irradiate you. Plenty of actinides and other rare-ish materials in there all bottled up in glass. There are potentially loads of uses for spent nuclear fuel.

When oppenhiemer made his statement he looked like he had been on a 4 day mission of twisting the old bulb back and forth

Japan surrendered because the USSR invaded not because of the 2nd nuke.

Please consider discussing helium...how its produced, whether the US Strategic Helium reserve is at healthy levels or if MRIs will become so expensive that only chill Jeff Bezos can get a loan to pay for one. If I'm managing to regurgitate this information accurately, Helium isn't exactly naturally abundant, as it's mainly a byproduct of nuclear decay; and it's so light, that tens of thousands of metric cubic tons...I mean a lot...and the physical chemistry that produces helium.
(please remember that I am uneducated/ignorant)

For some reason, I thought this was going to be simple 😂

That was fascinating! I barely passed chem in high school so most of that part went over my head but otherwise a very cool vid. Thanks!

I loved you in the how it's made series lol sound just like dood😂

What I found interesting is the amount of compression for the Pu is necessary to initiate - it is half the volume, a metall compressed so much, I did'nt know that was possible.

😂Hopefully that's never happened before... Almost didn't catch the demon core reference.....

Can we talk more about the urchin? Not enough people have videos about it

NUKES ARE FAKE!

Ima make one now 😤

This is honestly possibly my favorite video of yours. Super dense in information. Thanks

It's kind of misleading to call gas centrifuges "garbage", seeing as how they are both more effective and more efficient than any other means of isotopic separation and have almost entirely replaced them. It's more accurate to say that the technology just wasn't sufficiently mature yet at the time of the Manhattan Project and wouldn't be for another decade or so.