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Entering a Nuclear Power Plant (Patreon)

Published:
2025-07-13 14:15:25
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2026-06

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This video is an amazing look in to what Nuclear Plant Workers need to learn to enter a Nuclear Power Plant. I didn't know about Alpha, Beta, and Thank you very much for everyone who supports on Patreon! I'm incredibly excited about this series, and I'm grateful for your support!

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Matti Loimaranta

Finally we get this episode! I have been waiting for this ever since you hinted at a series about nuclear power!

Ocie Mitchell

On the small thumbnail, I thought it was Homer Simpson 😊 can't wait to watch this one.

Robert W. Conklin

Dear Destin, pre-911 I adored visiting & touring TVA dams, locks & hydro-power plants. Especially when they were conducting heavy maintenance. Big infrastructure systems are so fascinating! The prospect of seeing some day-to-day nuts & bolts of nuclear power plant ops has me super excited. Thank you for all your hard work in creating this content! Cheers! Rob Conklin Huntspatch AL

Bernard B

I worked at a nuclear power plant for 40 years and spent plenty of time inside the RCA. You’ve done an excellent job of showing what and how nuclear workers learn and are continually coached and monitored to keep the dose they receive as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA). There are indeed risks working in areas with radiation sources, but training, station procedures and Rad Protection oversight make it as safe as possible. Nuclear power is a very clean and safe way to produce electricity and we need more of it around the world. I look forward to the next installment of your series.👍

Emma S

So cool! I really appreciate your approach towards explaining concepts. I work on the transmission side of the power industry and am fascinated by how things work on the generation side.

Fariborz Soroush

Cannot love this series more. I have a background in ME where I had quite a few courses on gas turbines and power plants design and analysis. Universe changed my direction to work on Ionizing Radiation damage and sepsis for my PhD. While everything about a wild radiation is scary, the safety of power plants (and also the fuel prep supply chain) are incredibly crazy high. I wish everyone could appreciate the safety and power of the nuclear power plants. Thanks a lot Destin. PS: I guess all of us would love to work with you one day but this series made me crave it even more 😅😅😅

JW-934

I can't wait until the next video! I'd love to see the equipment the clean up crews have and how they use it.

makr1million

This is amazing, Destin. This is precisely why I support your channel, fascinating content, can't wait for the next. I was fortunate enough to visit the Chernobyl Power Plant in 2019, another fascinating place.

David Plunkett

Lots of good information there. Thanks. Because I am in a clinical trial for one of the medications I take for metastatic prostate cancer, I get CT scans and bone scans quarterly. So my yearly radiation exposure is comparatively high. In six years, it hasn't given me any trouble, and I am confident I am likely to die of other causes long before radiation exposure becomes a problem. From the reports in my patient portal, I found these dosage details: * CT scan dose: ~15.4 mSv (about the same as 5.1 years of normal background radiation) * Bone scan dose: 26.2 mCi (which I am given to understand is a hefty dose for the 24 to 36 hours it takes to leave the body in urine. Patients are encouraged to drink a lot of water, to help with that process.) I have found it interesting to observe the safety procedures the technicians use (personal dosimeters - I assume it is a DLR, shielding of the loaded syringe, minimizing exposure time) every time I go in for my scans. If you ever look into nuclear medicine and radiopharmaceuticals, here are some possible starting points: Imaging: Tc-99m - gamma emitter - scintigraphy - (specific for bones) PET scans - positron emission tomography: Gallium-68 Fluorine-18 Carbon-11 Radiotherapeutics: Ra-223 alpha emitter (specific for bones) Lu-177-PSMA beta emitter Ac-225-PSMA alpha emitter Cu-67-PSMA beta emitter

Don Rude

Destin, this is great! The musical tension you added for the entry sequence was definitely a good addition. It *is* dramatic to be taken into an RCA even if it is quite safe given the rules and training. ❤️

smartereveryday

Thank you very much Mark! Yeah, sometimes I go into a video thinking it might not perform as well... but then I move forward with it because I fell strongly that it's a video that needs to exist, and I know that I have the backing of awesome people like you! Thank you so much for that encouragement!

Clifton Ballad

I cant wait to see the rest of this series. There is a slim to fair chance that parts I made might exist in some of these plants. You might not see them because they were all for filtering and cleaning, so they would get used and then get buried in concrete never to be seen again...

Stephen Herbein

I'm so incredibly excited for this series. I used to work at Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Labs. In the various trainings I heard ALARA a lot, but never used it in practice since they (wisely) don't put the programmers near radiation sources. I had to wear a dosimeter for several years and thankfully it never turned up any dosage (although I think the office workers weren't given very sensitive ones). Either way, cool to see what all the rad workers at my former employers must have gone through to stay ALARA. Can't wait to see the reactor core. Thanks for hard work on these incredible videos Destin!

Brad Keener

Fun fact, Destin. Lead aprons actually aren't recommended in dental offices anymore. We still have quite a few patients push back on this, but the research shows that it is trapping more scatter X rays inside the body that it is blocking.

Liam S. Crouch

Thanks for another great video Destin, looking forward to the next one in the series

Andy Connelly

Destin - I see you and your smooth edit when the contaminated water spilled from the pipe.... I see you, my friend. Also, props for getting real dog poo. That's dedication.

Justin King

Great video! My job takes me in to a Uranium Conversion plant that is under the umbrella of the NRC fairly often. I'm surprised at the difference in communication, training and cleanliness shown a the plant in this video versus the plant that I'm used to.

Andrew K

Thanks for the great video Destin, I’m loving this series so far. It would be cool to see if there’s been any studies done on the career radiation exposure of various jobs compared to workers in nuclear power.

Tiaan Kruger

Hey Destin! Terrific episode! Always going the extra mile to help really bring the information home is always appreciated. Couple of things: * Thanks for covering nuclear plants and power in detail, it's been long overdue with so much fear out there that needs to be reduced. * The boards and walkthroughs are super effective! * I hope you will do follow up videos that cover what happened at 3 mile island and Chernobyl and how it relates to what you have taught / we have learned. * Another interesting series could be how clean different sources of energy really is - from coal, nuclear, crude, gasoline, natural gas and litium ion batteries when you look at the full cycle from mining, refinement, manufacturing and operating it. * In the video, you indicate that a leak that can cause contamination appeared to be water - this is something I found surprising reading “Making the atomic bomb” - water itself cannot become radio active, it can contain particles that can be radioactive, but the H2O itself cannot become radioactive. It probably gets too nuanced, but I did think that was pretty critical as I was always wondering if and how water can become radio active, especially when it’s used to cool the core/transport heat to the water/steam that is used to drive the turbines.

John Cox

What do you think about filming in 3D for VR? Scale is difficult to convey in 2D footage, even with 4k and HDR. I doubt that many people in your audience have VR headsets, but I do (an older one, but it works), and even in my older headset's lower resolution, I can feel the sense of scale that I don't get in regular film. Looking forward to the next entry

Fred S

Excellent video Destin. The non-electronic graphs and models prove that much of modern presentation technology is just bells, whistles and added gingerbread. Your “low-tech” presentations were simple, clear and easy to understand. I would have liked more exposure comparisons to dental x-rays and chest X-rays, CAT scans etc. Looking forward to the next video.

Tiaan Kruger

I have done a movie in 3D before, after investing in the equipment, it still adds major production overhead which makes it prohibitive. But I do love the idea if some 3D footage can be on the 2 channel maybe :)

Barron B

Actually it’s due to MODERN machines and their ability to focus the energy specifically on the area of exposure. If you’re using an older machine the effective exposure is higher and the beam is not narrowed to the exposure area. Additionally with the lower power and digital receivers the second exposure due to the lead obstructing the sensor if things shift is a larger impact to the patient than if they hadn’t had lead in the first place. https://www.ada.org/about/press-releases/ada-releases-updated-recommendations-to-enhance-radiography-safety-in-dentistry Note the crux to all of this is a modern machine with a much lower dose rate, more sensitive imager, and better beam control. I’ve found no papers or info on “trapped” scatter being a risk.

Marten

Ive misted ya Destin... Welcome back :P

William Spalding

Love the episode, I've always had a little less panic about nuclear power the than many of my generation. In the early 70's I had the great pleasure of having Mrs Barns as a freshman physical science teacher at CDO high school in Tucson Az. She had worked on the manhattan project at Oak Ridge and had a very mater of fact approach to all things nuclear. Much like the instructors here. Know the hazards, plan for them, and work safely.