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Man of Honour
Another video from Mark Felton about something that happened in WW2 that I've never heard of. Excellent channel.
Background: The allies knew, from various intelligence sources, that the Nazis were developing something even worse than the V1. Resistance workers and the SOE had stolen and smuggled out some plans and even some parts. Enough to know it was a whole new type of thing, not enough to understand it properly. So Polish resistance stole one. An entire V2. They had no chance of getting it out to Britain, so Britain had to come to them to pick it up and take it back. The sheer nerve of it is remarkable.
Background: The allies knew, from various intelligence sources, that the Nazis were developing something even worse than the V1. Resistance workers and the SOE had stolen and smuggled out some plans and even some parts. Enough to know it was a whole new type of thing, not enough to understand it properly. So Polish resistance stole one. An entire V2. They had no chance of getting it out to Britain, so Britain had to come to them to pick it up and take it back. The sheer nerve of it is remarkable.
Soldato
Now that'd get your attention!. 
Soldato
Back when men were men and health and safety could **** off.
Man of Honour
And a lot of people, mostly men, were killed or crippled by their job as a result of inadequate (or non-existent) health and safety, many of them dying slow nasty deaths from medical problems caused by inadequate health and safety.
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Man of Honour
I'm finding this person's videos entertaining for some reason. He does ridiculous things in sim games, like making a zoo that's designed to kill as many customers as possible. This one's on Tropico 6 and the publishers sponsored him for it. So he created an...unusual...tourist archipelago.
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Man of Honour
Well, this is one way to design (badly) and run (very badly) a nuclear fission reactor and one way to dispose of radioactive sodium and other toxic and radioactive waste (chuck it in a big open air pit and set fire to it). Luckily they managed to completely ruin the reactor and render it inoperable before anything extremely bad happened. All the luckier because it didn't have a containment building around it.
Random example design issue: The coolant could deposit solid oxides. The coolant channels were made ~0.3mm wide. Unsurprisingly, some of them soon got blocked. Somehow, nobody realised this was going to happen.
Random example design issue: The coolant could deposit solid oxides. The coolant channels were made ~0.3mm wide. Unsurprisingly, some of them soon got blocked. Somehow, nobody realised this was going to happen.
Man of Honour
I posted a "this is not how to run a nuclear facility" history video a few posts above, but this one is in some ways even worse.
In your facility, you have two liquids that look the same. One contains a uranium isotope that has a critical mass. One does not.
You also have a container used in processing the latter which can easily hold enough of the former to go critical. Fill it with the right liquid and all is well. Fill it (or even partially fill it) with the wrong liquid and it will go critical, a runaway fission chain reaction throwing out horrendous amounts of radiation in milliseconds.
Would you store the two liquids in identical containers in the same location and differentiated only by loosely stuck on labels that often fell off and were stuck back on with rubber bands, maybe or maybe not on the right containers? Of course not! That's a silly question. No sane person would do that.
Yeah, they did that. And it was just the end point of a catalogue of what not to do.
In your facility, you have two liquids that look the same. One contains a uranium isotope that has a critical mass. One does not.
You also have a container used in processing the latter which can easily hold enough of the former to go critical. Fill it with the right liquid and all is well. Fill it (or even partially fill it) with the wrong liquid and it will go critical, a runaway fission chain reaction throwing out horrendous amounts of radiation in milliseconds.
Would you store the two liquids in identical containers in the same location and differentiated only by loosely stuck on labels that often fell off and were stuck back on with rubber bands, maybe or maybe not on the right containers? Of course not! That's a silly question. No sane person would do that.
Yeah, they did that. And it was just the end point of a catalogue of what not to do.
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Soldato
well its not something we will see this year ,year after? who knows
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