Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Kyle Hill" channel.

  1. The families can visit the grave sites, it's just that the bodies are buried around 18' down in lead-lined caskets surrounded by and covered with cement. The bodies are apparently so radioactive that opening the casket would give you a lethal dose of radiation. I believe at least one of them is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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  2.  @travcollier  Although for at least one of the families the funeral service lasted at most 5 minutes because of the potential for receiving a lethal dose of radiation. Scary stuff.
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  3.  @silviakunaballero8610  I cannot remember if they recovered the ambulance that carried McKinley away from the site. He died enroute to hospital so they drove the ambulance out into the desert before abandoning it. I suspect they did, since they later recovered McKinley's body for burial.
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  4. Negatives: The biggest problem with nuclear power is that when something goes wrong, the after effects spread out over a large area and last for such a long time. Areas contaminated as a result of nuclear accidents have to be closed off to access for decades, centuries or millennia. Also, there is the problem of dealing with radioactive waste that can remain lethal for millions of years. This needs to be worked out before people start using nuclear power on a large scale. Positives: One issue is that used Uranium-based reactors start runaway reactions when the coolant is lost. It is still theoretical, but Thorium-based reactors should actually shut down when coolant is lost, preventing the runaway reactions that have resulted in most nuclear accidents to date. Its downside is that at least one of the byproducts (protactinium) is extremely radioactive, so methods for handling these would also need to be developed. Nuclear power will reduce, but won't eliminate, CO2 release (as long as you use concrete, you produce a LOT of CO2).
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  5. It is amazing that this architect had no concept of basic physics! And has no knowledge of history, the semi-mythological Archimedes death ray.
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