Is A Little Radiation Good for Us? A Trip to the World's Deepest Clean Room (SNOLAB)

Nuclear radiation is everywhere. Avoiding it requires an incredible amount of effort and expense. We head two kilometers deep inside a nickel mine to see about a tiny lead box, home to one of Earth’s lowest-radiation environments. The experiment going on inside the box has the potential to transform how we see nuclear radiation, more specifically, how that radiation impacts life on the planet. A scientific debate has been raging for decades over the impacts of low doses of radiation. The dominant model says that all doses are hazardous to living cells, but there are reasons to believe that is not true. The REPAIR experiment we visit in this video has the potential to prove that low doses are either not harmful, or perhaps even beneficial, to the health of living cells. If the experiment’s hypothesis proves correct it could free up massive amounts of resources and human concern that we currently dedicate to preventing small doses of radiation. The REPAIR experiment is being carried out by researchers from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and is hosted by the SNOLAB (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Lab). CHAPTERS 0:00 Everything is Radioactive 0:56 Sordid History of High-Dose Radiation Experiments 2:00 Quick Rundown of Scientific Disagreement on Threat Posed by Low Doses 3:30 Descent Deep Underground into the SNOLAB 5:13 Striking Early Results from REPAIR Experiment 6:34 The Curious Case of Ramsar, Iran 7:16 The Curious Case of the Fukushima Water Dump 9:30 The Arduous Task of Creating a Low Radiation Environment 11:19 Yeast in Space SHOW NOTES SNOLAB: REPAIR Experiment https://www.snolab.ca/experiment/repair/ NASA: Eyes on the Solar System Interactive Map (BioSentinel tracker) https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syst... Intro to Dose Responses: Threshold vs. No Threshold Models    • What is dose response, and what's a dose r...   Is Everything Radioactive? https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate... BBC on Linear No Threshold vs Hormesis http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/na... BBC Horizon Episode Review https://paulseaman.eu/2010/04/brillia... Study on Ramsar Iran Radiation and Population Health https://journals.lww.com/health-physi... IAEA Fukushima Water Discharge Review https://www.iaea.org/topics/response/... Nature: Scientists OK Fukushima Water Discharge https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... Review of Tritium Radioactivity https://theconversation.com/fukushima... Preliminary Scientific Publications from the REPAIR Team https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://academic.oup.com/rpd/article/... https://bioone.org/journals/radiation... JESSE’S FILMING EQUIPMENT Camera: Sony a7s3 Lenses: Sony 20mm f1.8, Tamron 28-75mm f2.8, Sony 55mm f1.8, Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 Shotgun/Studio Mic: Sennheiser MKE 600 Wireless Lav Mics: Sennheiser EW1 Gimbal: DJI RSC2 ---- Support Decouple on Patreon:   / decouple   Decouple Media: https://www.decouplemedia.org