NOTE: IN THE PORTION WHERE I EXPLAIN NUCLEAR FISSION, I MIX UP NUCLEI AND NEUTRON! I realised this post editing but I think it generally makes sense, but when I explain how the nuclei is hit, I say it releases a nuclei, it actually releases a neutron, the neutron then hits the next nuclei and releases more neutrons, that is what forms the chain reaction. Tha ... Show More
Mar 10
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Coughing Cheating Scandal
Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be covering the so called coughing scandal, where Charles and Dianna Ingram were convicted of cheating when winning one million pounds on the TV game show, w ... Show More
47m 38s
Feb 24
Shackleton and the Endurance - Escape from Antarctica - Part 2
*UPLOADED WITH PART 2! Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing Ernest Shackleton and his dramatic expedition to the Antarctic where he would be stranded along with his 27 crew members ... Show More
45m 10s
Feb 17
Shackleton and the Endurance - Escape from Antarctica - Part 1
Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing Ernest Shackleton and his dramatic expedition to the Antarctic where he would be stranded along with his 27 crew members deep in the Weddell Se ... Show More
44m 55s
Jun 2024
Episode 353 - Chernobyl: The Power Station That Ended a Nation
The world’s most infamous nuclear disaster officially killed just thirty-one people, but in reality it’s death toll is incalculable. Raining radioactive debris over a city, and melting the skin off the on-site workers, the explosion and subsequent meltdown at Chernobyl reactor 4 ... Show More
1h 14m
Sep 2022
NBN Classic: Kate Brown, "Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" (Norton, 2019)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
We cannot learn from disasters we do not yet understand. That conviction motivated historian Kate Brown to conduct groundbreaking research into nuclear energy’s ... Show More
47m 27s