Cobalt-60 Rods: Totally Silent. Totally Deadly.

Those fines are utterly insulting to everybody who lived in the area. Smells like corruption in the courts, and corrupt political involvement to me.

You don’t need to cut to quotes of your own statements. Your face is a lot better than superfluous cuts.

"designed to last for life" - the life of the thing.. which basically means nothing and is advertising bs.. which means they dont care about you, so why would they want to put quality into their products.

Get ready for 25 munutes of ads

I used to do a shit ton of shady scrapwork in my younger days. This scares the hell outta me! But im american so id more than likely know what the symbol was...and something that heavy and that small couldnt be normal. Id be thinking it was a battery of some sort (which i also wouldnt fuck with and open) let alone something with a radio-active symbol on it!!

Low brown blood cells.

Remember: the radioactive trefoil symbol is always with one point down, representing the instability of the nuclear material.

Sponsorship ruins your videos.

You're all over the place, Simon. You said 99-100% chance of death even with medical intervention. then there is some unit called "grays" that tells you a difference percent. 99-100% of people exposed did not die. What are you even talking about?

Though I thoroughly understand many of the simplifications here for times' sake, but one thing I think is worth pointing out is that white blood cells being "dangerously low" may not entirely do it justice. When you get that large of a dose of radiation regardless of source, your immune system is gone. Like entirely decimated with little chance of recovery type gone. If such a thing would happen to you, regardless of other injuries, your immune system can not protect you from a slow cascade of issues caused by irreparable cell death, cell inactivation, and infections, which will almost certainly lead to organ failure and sepsis regardless of medical intervention. The important note though is that the speed of intervention and precise intensity and location of dose matter here far beyond what I think I can describe without going past what I actually know, but once you are talking in terms of Grays, you're already in for a long and painful ride at best, and a ridiculously painful death at worst. A sort of tragic fact of radiation sickness is that it's sorta like weathering a storm. Most people who've gotten that roughly 6 Gray dose feel ill, get briefly better, then are blasted by the resulting problems from the radiation for months. If your white blood cells can recover, you've likely weathered the storm, but if not, there is a very high chance that you are already dead, so simply living long enough that your immune system in particular can begin to recover is the only way out of the hospital without a casket.

When is rectal bleeding not considered severe? Is there a medically acceptable level of rectal bleeding? That cant be the case lol

God I can't stand the way Simon narrates his videos

This stuff being handled by incompetent and greedy people is really really scary :/

Duuuuude how many channels do you have?
Really annoying.

I have Kobalt drill bits that I bought from Lowes, should I be concerned about radiation in my toolbox?

Maybe don’t steal stuff lol ..

Cobalt 60 is a common byproduct found in primary coolant crud from valve action in some pressurized water reactors.

they made a recovery ...

I figured the lead aprons were better than nothing, until i heard it slowed their movement and prolonged exposure. Then I realized its not better than nothing.

I think Simon gunning for dramatic effect missed the mark. If you look up other incidents like the therac ones.. the dose these machines can emit is far beyond what a nuclear bomb gives off by density. It was so bad it instantly burned the victims. No thermal radiation, just pure gamma that instantly burns skin. Some of them said it felt like getting punched.. Remember Almost pure gamma no thermals.

I found some in my aunt’s goldfish

How can a ring 'keep up with a busy lifestyle'?

I'm sorry, I'm just a little disappointed by the "ingenious" use of other ISO standard symbols. That "new" radioactive warning sign to me says, "Nuclear, warm poison, exit." I'm just saying that's the exit man and the poison skull and cross bones. The wavy arrows also could mean "windy road behind you and over there and there and there and there." I get the goal is supposed to make the sign as fool proof as possible, but I feel like they missed the test of taking cynical a*sholes and having them play the fool. They'd probably point out things that could easily be misconstrued by people. "Moon with 3 shields blocks man as he walks from death." "Beyblade wobbles between pirate and crosswalk." "There is no circle of life." I'm just saying.

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I used to be a Manager at a Co-60 irradiator company and taught required radiation safety to employees. There is one story that is far more horrifying than any other - in the 1960s in Norway, a line level worker at a grain irradiation facility who was alone inthe facility in the middle of the night inexplicably decided to lay on the in-feed conveyor system that pulled grain into an area that past within a few inches of a million curie Co-60 source and ride inside. There may have been some kind of blockage that he meant to try and resolve. The pictures of this dude alone put the fear of god (and sins of disobeying radiation safety rules and laws) into them in a way that is quite permanent I found

With a half life of 5.27 years, the relative activity of this Co-60 was around 7.5% of when new

I want this guy to read the eulogy at my funeral. At the end, I want him to say,
“Oh, btw, there’s a rod of Cobalt-60 hidden somewhere in her body. Run… run for your goddamn lives.”

Absolutely wild story. Super interesting, please keep these up!

O k, please lose the "swooping in to close-up" effect. It's making me motion sick, and it's unspeakably cheesy. 😖

Every time I thought I was done clenching up in horror at how they were handling that cobalt-60 device, I was wrong.

why do you look like the legal eagle if he was bald and had a longer head

Two sale pitches in one vid full of ads.. Noice

This is awesome story

Radiation exposure is an excellent way to loose weight= Fact….and people say there are no such thing as dumb facts 😂

Take a drink every time you hear "junkyard".

Ah yes, SIEMENS in BANGCOK. They knew what they were doing when they named those two

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Uncanny similarities to the Goiania incident 😬

Ads galore here... Not feeling informed on sh*t from this used car salesman

heard a story think it was in east Europe / Russia. poor family out looking scrap metal come across abandoned military base or storage area. the area where they discovered site middle forest was no signs on fence they found a way in and after a look around they found a bunker with those radioactive battery looking rods plus other stuff they had no idea what they were and one put rod in pocket they collected as much they could carry but. the one who had it on them got ill very fast died but was a bit longer till till found out it was radiation, another family member got rushed to hospital and that is when they discovered it was radiation, but due to what they were doing is theft they kept quite to start with . think they all died, even the family dog, was one first to go as the dog slept on jacket the rod was in. government searched house found the rod, finally got answers from family and they say site has now been made more secure but who knows, radioactive materiel whats is un guarded don't sound a good idea

The ISO wants $70 us dollars or CHS 61 to download the ISO-21482 symbol. It should be free. Just enough money that some cheapass manufacturers bean counters to not include it on a deadly device.

dude this video is AMAZING

So, am I the only one unable to find the link to the book???

Of course, the people who "fully recovered" did not, in fact, fully recover, since they still have drastically increased risk of developing all kinds of cancers. There are few things more terrifying than the thought of being exposed to something that one is entirely unable to sense, and that will continue to wreak devastation even after it is removed.

Maybe an answered question but why are the containers not…. LOCKED?!
A skeleton key held by appropriate staff wouldn’t be feasible as a single missing one and you’d have to change every canister in the world including the orphans.
So how about, since it’s already at 230 of lead and steel- have an engineering contest on how to make containers which can ONLY be opened by performing a sequence of movements statistically impossible to “just do”.
Like a Nuclear Cryptex - (known to most from “DaVinci code” as a puzzle cylinder which released acid to delete the secret written within if the wrong pass phrase was used) bonus points if you make it , instead of releasing vinaigrette, actuating a deadlock after 3 erroneous attempts to open it. EG titanium pins that fall down to stop torsion and vertical |———| titanium rods which would extend outwards from the centre thereby stopping vertical or separation opening of the unit.

Also- more of a side idea but it’s 2023, can we make them so they create a shrieking piezo alarm and a chip speaks “fatal! Drop and Run!” Cycling through the dominant languages of the countries in which they are used. Or even starting with shriek and “radioactive! Radioactive! Radioactive!” It may be parochial but I assume that due to common linguistic roots this word may be understood by other languages- ie it would be understandable by most French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian, etc speakers as being very similar to their word. While is becoming a second language to many across the word- this wouldn’t apply to more rural
areas hence having it in the languages of the countries to which it’s exported.

Could be a fascinating and lifesaving contest if ANY millionaires cared about anything other than hoarding money to die with.