K-19: The Widowmaker - Nuclear Engineer Reacts
I react to K-19: The Widowmaker about the nuclear accident on the Soviet boat of the same name. It stars Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson and is a personal favorite of mine. There's lots of good nuclear stuff that I have knowledge about in this movie, like coolant leaks, reactor heat, meltdowns, and radiation, so I really enjoyed making this one and hope you like it.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:08 K-19 has pressurized water reactors (PWR)
01:38 Primary coolant loop pressurizer
02:08 Description of PWRs loops
03:19 Cha cha
03:24 Does alcohol help radiation poisoning?
04:44 Cherenkov radiation (blue glow)
05:21 Primary loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA)
07:52 Control rods are dropping
09:15 Do control rods need coolant?
10:37 Reactors are not nuclear bombs
13:44 Reactor explosion won't set off nukes
14:20 Radiation suits likely wouldn't have helped
16:30 Lead glass
17:36 Wrong use of Cherenkov glow (but it's fine)
17:52 Onset of radiation sickness
18:51 Will wet rags stop radiation?
19:30 Radiation is spreading through the boat
20:02 The food is contaminated
20:36 Reading a Geiger counter
21:11 Would the reactor workers irradiate the crew?
22:34 Sponge bath to decontaminate
22:55 Estimating the K-19 sailors' doses
24:34 Outro
Sources:
[1] About Time to Onset of Vomiting, https://remm.hhs.gov/aboutvomiting.htm
[2] Radiation Dosage Chart, https://www.informationisbeautiful.ne...