A Brief History of: The Sarov Criticality (Documentary)

He's delusional, send him to the infirmary

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Man, that blue light be a killer 😳

It's morbidly terrifying that back in the day the world more or less tested the limits of nuclear energy by slapping two pieces of radioactive materials together until someone could taste the color blue and melted into goop.

"Balls"...

Stop calling people by their last names. Call them by their first names.

Radiation exposure has to be up there with one of the worst ways to go...

I know this is irrelevant but I'd like to thank Dillon the Villon Mulvanie!!! Boss man just gave me a shit load of beer he can't sell!😂

I don't understand the point of the experiment. Wtf was he trying to learn or demonstrate? I don't know much about nuclear cores other than they're basically invisible death rocks.

In these kinds of accidents, you could say the victims die the moment the incursion occurs.

Whose teenage son is responsible for the stupid word balloons?

Who needs a fancy hydraulic stand when you have a good 'ol trusty screwdriver!

If you want something screwed up, give it to Russians (along with a case of Vodka)

Shouldnt there be a T shaped post that the top half should have to go through or something? Why is it just a ball in a ball? Why cant we have a safe option that makes it never fully closed? Idk weld some thick cord or something to segments so even if it does fall, it wont clap you with blue flavored death. Someone please explain because there probably is a reason.

Balls

Yeah, the russians have robots that complicated in 1997. Naw, they sent ol' Vlad in to fix it or die. He actually succeeded at both.

...can result in a criticality event, which, you know. is not great....

Bro, it don't look good! Love the dark humor!

Why weren't the objects made to approach each other horizontally?
Nothing could have slipped.
Why wasn't this basic danger avoided. A similar thing had happened before.

The USSR and the USA always developed parallel technologies.

It seems only fitting that the Russian Federation would follow suit by having their own demon core.

Russians say "blyat" not "balls" 😉

Rule #1 for a nuclear scientist: don't get cocky! Rule #2: see rule #1.

What was the dose?? It is not clear from the narrative.

Amazed by the repeated incompetence of the demon core technicians. They knew the consequences of
Misadventure, yet took zero backup precautions. Maybe because of secrecy, they each did not know of similar events that had happened around the world. Crazy ignorance!!

This one was pretty crazy and predictable. As soon as they gave the instructions on how to assemble it, I was like, “well what if you drop the top hemisphere, will it go prompt critic…Oh that’s what I’m about to watch.”

Can’t believe they didn’t think of a safer way to assemble the device.

When the fuck will humans learn to stop doing this?

Bruh. ...
If it were me...
Id just say give me morphine till i die.

I guess in all regards, he did "successfully" recreate the experiment...

You’d think it wouldn’t be hard to install a collar that forces a gap between the shell halves if the top half falls, and only remove it as the last step before leaving the room…

There is a word in Russian “avos’”. It cannot be translated properly, but the meaning is sort of “maybe it will somehow resolve itself”.
Basically can describe Russia as a whole and situations like that for sure.

If you work at a nuclear facility a thunderstorm is a scary time.

What a terrible way to go, I can't imagine how awful dying of radiation sickness is.

You'd think, knowing that dropping the top hemisphere means certain death, one of these smart guys would have thought to put a handle on the damn thing.

I am going to go out on a limb here and state that no supervisor would have prevented that.

How very American of them
Taking something that could be done with a screwdriver and adding complexity for no reason😅

I watched this expecting a second, Russian demon core, and I was not disappointed

If I ever worked on such experiments I would go to work armed. In case I need to avoid experiencing being dissolved on a hospital bed.

Almost fool proof but a fool found a way.

balls

aw lads not again

Mom I want more demon core!

Mom Babushka: Vee have demon core at home

😅🤣😂

Hello Mr. Plainly Difficult. I only have one request. Would you please standardize the radiation units that you use? Often I hear Severts, gray, rem, and many others. On your videos could you please add a unit of your choosing and either add that on screen or speak it?

I know over here on my side of the pond that we use funny measurements, but maybe that's the reason I have confusion.

Obviously, the apparatus was badly designed. A good design would have made it impossible for one hemispherical reflector to fall onto the lower one.

Fair play to the Russians for having a whole assembly, with multiple layers of safety, rather that just winging it in a shed like they did in the Los Alamos criticality experiments.