Deep Inside Chernobyl's Radioactive Ruins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 เม.ย. 2021
- RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service correspondent Yevhen Solonyna ventured inside Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus for a rare and risky glimpse at the stricken power plant's radioactive ruins.
35 years and still radiation is so high that there are white dots in the footage.
@Prince Harambe no 34,870 years but long after we are gone yes
it takes around 80,000 years for all the radation to go away
that was dust particles i saw floating
@@derekwall200 no it’s radiation affecting the video, but yes there is dust too
@@derekwall200 then you clearly dont know how ionizing radiation affects cameras.
Thanks to all the liquidators who sacrifice their life to protect the world.
I’ve been hooked on chernobyl videos since the show on HBO came out. First time seeing the inside of the reactor. It would be nice to actually be able to take a look in the control room of reactor #4
I think it is only half a control room now. It was walled off and the instruments were salvaged.
This is not the actual reactor floor. This is the adjoining turbine hall (i.e. where the steam from the reactor is sent to produce electricity). The actual reactor floor is not safe safe to enter, even for brief periods. There is a video on TH-cam of a couple guys who probably shouldn't be there which shows the remnants of the reactor floor if you're still interested.
There are many videos on youtube shows what you want.
John Q Public what’s the video name?
@@thebeastracer1 "Pripyat. Inside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's shelter/sarcophagus."
2:32 look at the gamma particles hitting the camera its highly radioactive
kinda,i think you are today "just" getting like 1-2 sv/h.
gamma radiation does not consist of particles
@@pilotvlog Yes,but they will also i think disturb the sensors
@@pilotvlog photons from the gamma radiation hit the camera sensor and overload that spot causes the white dots
You notice those momentary "spots" that show up near the end of the video, the ones that make it look like its an old VHS film? That is neutron radiation hitting the lens, you are literally seeing the radiation in a sense, it takes a LOT of neutrons to hit the lens for it to be captured like that. That means that area is still incredibly lethal, probably lethal if you were to stay in there just a few hours.
No no you got it wrong it's not neutrons, it's gamma radiation, camera sensors cannot process waves of such length and it appears as white spots
1:46 omg all that lethal dust
Thats radiation making dust like images in the camera i believe
@@majed2488 you have no clue
I'll buy a vial, would be a very good test source for a HPGe detector. Especially when soild sampling for nuclear contamination, a good reference finger print
@@jamesluck2969 how much would you be willing to pay
@@jamesluck2969 if you can pay for my plane ticket plus an incentive for hazard I have no problem going and collecting
When they enter the highly radioactive room at 2:35, you see the white dots appear on the recording, almost like static.
I think this might be caused by gamma radiation emiting from this room but I am not sure.
Can someone do an estimation on how high the radiation level in that room is current day?
Also, I can't seem to figure out how close this turbine 7 is to the reactor core itself. Is someone able to provide a decent map that shows this?
What you're seeing is ionizing radiation throwing protons aggressively at the CMOS sensor inside the camera.
3.6 roentgen
@@SonicWizards Not great, not terrible
if u slow it down u can see it hit different pixels, sometimes the little dot is red, sometimes green
I've watched so many videos, now i can say if the radiation is over 1 rontgen of 1,000,000 micro rontgens dots will start appearing, 1 rontgen is very high!
Fun fact, if you notice that the camera quality is decreasing and start to see white specs on the screen it's because of the radiation. Those white specs are the radiation.
Best example: 2:32
Yes thats true the white specs are where the paricles hit the sensor. But I dont think the overall quality would be impacted by the radiation
@@chagi4334 Even if the camera was old, the most famous photo taken of the elephant's foot below Chernobyl was visibly grainy compared to other photos taken at that time in general. That graininess was caused by the radiation emitted.
What is the relationship between camera and radiation pls explain
@@Cricket_fan4 Sunlight is an example of radiation.
Camera works by capturing the light.
So...
@@Cricket_fan4 The radioactive gamma particles are hitting the sensor of the camera and since they have such high 'power' they are exciting said sensor, just like how normal light would when it hits the sensor but they are causing so much more power to hit the sensor that it 'maxes' it out and causes it to display the white dots
It’s crazy that we know how lethal it is and our curiosity gets the best of us. Me knowing that it can kill me I still want to visit.
I wonder if they will have health issues in a few years
the radiation is not that dangerous if you just stick to the designated route and time schedules.
@@SaucyNetworkEntertainment yea, once or twice..
but if you work there and get exposure for short periods at a time, for a very long time it adds up.
i dont think their skin would melt off in a months time. but they might get cancer in a few years..
If you look closely, you can actually see tiny white spots appearing because of the radiation at 2:34
imagine going to chernobyl and taking less than 2 minutes of footage of the plant.
You can actually see the radiation, that's crazy.
Even if the Accident occurred more than Four Decades already, you can still see radiation through those same green flickering light specks; all recorded on advanced camera equipment- unlike in the Original Video Tape Film Version- where Chernobyl Radiation is at its highest release…
4 decades? What are u talking about? It's only 36 years!
@@IronKurone 3.6?
@@smudgecat5941 not great, not terrible.
Didn't expect a virtual stroll through (probably) the most dangerous building in the world but here we are... I feel my skin peeling off just watching this! 😄🏴❤🇺🇦
I was not even a full year old when this happened. Its insane to me to think that the danger and radiation is still very present in Chernobyl even after all this time.
Even more insane to think that some of the isotopes released during the explosion will stay active and dangerous thousands of years from now.
it was over 2 they said they'd been waiting nearly 3 years to run the test. and I read the fuel was nearing replacement so could be lot worse.
i wasnt even planned back then
@@sly2792004 With more experienced people, the test could not cause the disaster. We cannot know it now, but probably jes. The team who should do the test during the day was ready in the afternoon, and the power of the reactor was lowered for that. But another nuclear central was not producing energy so the test was moved to the night, when less energy was needed. Anyway this caused (at least):
1. a different team did the test, not trained and ready for that
2. the reactor, after so many hours (since afternoon) on low-power became more unstable and dangerous because of production of steam and xeno.
same 🙂👍
I would love to visit but the thought of that much radiation is terrifying
its not too bad you can actually stand on top of reactor 4 for a small amount of time without any big risks
@@LubckeEnjoyer sure you can stand ontop of reactor 4 if you wish to lower your life expectancy significantly.
@@willenova i doubt it would lower your life expectency more than 30%
@@LubckeEnjoyer yeah even so, not commenting on your expert calculation, that is a notable life reduction and not to mention expenses for health care and the work for health care providers. Quite unecessary to visit such places with such high radiation when there are high probabilities you will get cancers etc earlier than you should.
@@willenova you can go INSIDE the blown up reactor hall, people already did that. take some iodine and don't stay too long and you are completly fine.
I would really like to visit the ruins, check out the most interesting places such as the turbine hall, other reactor halls, the roof and reactor 4 hall aswell, though health risks are a little discouraging.
you can . takes plenty of money, around $250 NZ a day trip with lunch to see city building and damage, but not the control rooms that will cost a lot more, do a 2 day trip as it felt rushed just to see what we did. remember expect to pay
Health risks really shouldn't be too bad, to the best of my awareness the minimum received dose at which there's a clear observable increase in cancer rates is ~100 Millisieverts. They won't let you absorb that much, supposedly a flight from the USA to Ukraine might well give you a larger dose of radiation than a tour around Chernobyl. But that only applies if you're visiting Pripyat and not the station itself.
At the station itself you likely will take quite a dose of radiation, still well, well below that 100 Msv figure, but yeah. They won't let you into Reactor Hall 4, and they won't let you into those turbine halls, or the control room. However, you probably can visit the unit 2 control room, reactor hall, and turbine hall. That would, however, be VERY expensive, still arguably worth it if you're into such things, but it won't be cheap.
These ruins now are right between the Ukrainian capital and the Russian troops' buildup in Belorussia.
You were right to be concerned about that :(
I trust russian troops more than ukrainian troops to maintain chernobyl
@@ihabhatim5825 Ukrainian soldiers put the dome over it, what did Russian troops do other then hold the workers hostage and cut them off from the power grid?
Here from the future- you were right to be concerned.
You can see the radioactive particles popping up on the screen as they enter the turbine hall
I can remember it vaguely, and the way the curtain was slowly lifted about the disaster in the West, is what was most strange. That and the thing with cows and other livestock no longer being sent out to graze.
I vaguely remember them having to slaughter some of the livestock as stuff was showing up in the milk?
@@neodonkey Yeah, in the worst hit areas I think they had to do that
its crazy that its been decades and yet you still see white dots on the camera from how high the radiation
2:42 you can see the static on the camera caused by radiation daaaamn
you can see the radiation striking the camera, which kind of tells how dangerous it actually is down there...
Man, the white flickering at the turbine room… it’s terrifying
I was going to say this guy was ahead of his time with the mask, then I remembered it's been past 2 years.
As someone who stands 1 meter away from the microwave while it's running, I find this video deeply disturbing.
Holy fuck the white dots of death.
3 or 4 block of reactor?
You can see the radiation via static on the cameras.
@1:25 "We are the in the turbine hall where the explosion occurred in 1986" the explosion was the reactor itself not the turbine room
This video is straight up misinformation where is the real translation of what they are saying
The explosion wasnt exactly the reactor though,it was basically built up steam due to the xenon reacting to the graphite on the tips of the control rods...so ti wasnt exactly the reactor
@@claudiakoleci7887 that is completely wrong, literally everything that you said is wrong
To think that Chernobyl became a battleground for a few weeks is wild
Imagine shooting and sending rockets around a fucking exposed nuclear reactor that had both a meltdown and an explosion
also russians dug foxholes into the ground that is heavily radiated and probably they arent going to live too long after getting exposed like that.. only the top layer is "safe" but if you start digging, you are in for some serious life threatening radiation poisoning.
Is the structure shown at 1:45 the Reactor Lid Elena?
No, that is what's left of the steam turbine. It appears that its attached generator has been removed, as has most the housing. Those "fins" you see should be enclosed in a housing. Given how....pristine.... the turbine blades look, it appears that someone removed the housing.
Where are the "generators" the turbines were connected with. and is there any mechanical evidence of overspeeding disintegration!
2:40 you can see the radiation noise on the camera image
Awesome!! I want to see more please give us more videos!!! Let someone inside I'd go myself I swear!!!!!
I'm going to write the 100th comment about white dots on the video from high radiation and you should too to keep up this cool trend on this youtube video.
How is it possible to walk inside
1:46 You breath in one tiny particle of the dust and you can give your life a kiss and good bye
And were is the Crash sight of thats soviet MI-8 Helicopter
I hear the voice of Monolith "Come to me,i see your desire"
Oh God what from? Stalker or Stalkerz
That gear doesn't look so protective.
i mean.. what is your recommendation then?
Well, they wear white because it's easier to check for fallout dust contamination, and the masks have activated filters that prevent radioactive dust from getting in your lungs. They can also scrub you and hose you down to "wash" excess radiation your body hasn't absorbed off of you so only the water is irradiated, not necessarily the person anymore.
music?
Who is the reporter here?
Breathe some of that dust that can be seen in the turbine shot.
when they get to turbine you can see radiation on camera, those green dots are indicator of it, thats shit is high af there to cause that
I hope humans survive long enough to apologize for this. (I don’t think they will though)
Apologize to who?
where is the Wish granter??????
i feel like ive been lied to
U can't pay me enough to go in there
you can send me in there for fucking free
Most of us couldn't give a damn about the new safety confinement building. We are interested in the old building. The one that contains reactor number 4. Not all of us, but some are interested in the new confinement building. However, most of us are interested in everything that was there when the accident happened.
The fact that anyone can walk in areas at all in that place is testament to how safe nuclear power is even when we fuck it up.
And if all the hype, politics and the no sayers got out of the fucken way, the doers would be able to clean that place up in no time
Looks like they need radaway.
Is this really a good idea?
*Me, an idiot* : I wish I could take a walk inside the ruins, what could possibly gone wrong? *Plutonium-241* : Ehm... Hi comrade! Wanna be friends?
watch the most irradiated man in history. That will kill your appetite for sure
@@jonash5320 You probably talking about that japanese worker... 😢 I cant even imagine the suffering that man went through
Deep inside? No. This was a tour to the outside of the old (1986 build) shelter
kind of Black Mesa :)
just without a crystal from space, aliens and 7 hours war
People are saying at they were testing the refilling system in reactor for which caused it to heat up and explode killing everyone that was near it
It has been well documented why the reactor exploded. They were running a safety test and brought the reactor down to low levels. When they brought it back up (which they shouldn't have done) it went out of control and they pressed the emergency shutdown button. This lowered all of the control rods into the core with the intent to stall it. However, they had a fatal flaw. The tips of the control rods were made of graphite, which would not decrease but increase the reactivity. Then the reactor went boom
@@supernenechi not great, not terrible
@@petertomsic8082 good callback, yeah it was a shitshow that very well could’ve been prevented
Everybody gangsta till you touch the elephant’s foot
Given the chance. Would you go into the contaminated area today , if you could ?????
tourists still go inside where the reactors 1,2,3, and 4 are at.
I had an abdominal and pelvic CT and 8 chest x-rays over the course of 6 months, of which 6 x-rays and one in the last 3 months, what is the risk for my body? the total is 9
0% risk, a body absorbs more radiation from transoceanic air travel than from X-rays
Chest X-rays is about 10mrem, pelvic 70mrem nothing to worry about, the important thing is that the medical problem that requested him has been resolved
@@ernestocastellotti722 Совершенно любая дополнительная доза радиации, может повлиять на здоровье любого живого организма...
Holy shit you can see the radiation causing white dots in the video
You can tell some of it is fake bc the reactor is far more destroyed and that bridge it’s broken in half an dangling
aint no way bro thinks this is fake 💀
2:02 Im not getting it, why are pipes curved like this, going in one direction and then back again?
No it’s just a reflection in the metallic ceiling
@@hamoudi_d He was telling you the truth, the pipe is not going back, it is just a reflection...
@@krashd yes, I made it bigger, it's true! Thank you!
"deep inside the ruins" going in the last few seconds, take one picture....
Why they don't have co2 expelling masks?
What will Co2 masks do against radiation from the reactor?
@@AlphaGametauriok let me clarify that, I mean a mask with a exhaust valve.
@@knightrider1545 The radioactive dust is literally that: dust. Dust doesn't go into those masks they're wearing
God Don't Make This Happen Again!
Although I m not expert isn't the video should have white spots while recording the video because of radiation , can anyone clarify?
Correct.
Imagine if the Kremlin wasn't corrupted lmao
I love watching reactors
To better explain for people who don't know much about radiation, 1 sievert is the most a person can have without having too many problems. 3 sieverts can cause death within months. 1 roentgen is 144.02 sieverts... this place has around 3.6 roentgens, so that's 518.472 sieverts... that's some radioactive shit right there
what do you mean bruh 1 roentgen is approx 0.01 sieverts, ARS starts at about 0.7 Sv. even if this place was 100 roentgens it would still be okay to look at it from distance for a couple of seconds because 100 roentgens is only about 1 Sv and radiation greatly decreases with distance. also where did you get 144 sieverts ans 3.6 roentgens from.
bruh where tf did you get that information? the local drunk guy???? 1 roentgen is not 100 sieverts, 1 sievert is 100 roentgen, that place most definetly doesnt have 3.6 roentgen either, to me it sounds like you got all your information off the HBO series
@@warcrimemenace6292 we all are now nuclear experts because of the show.
Radioactive level is high enough to burn your skin and make it red whey these people doesn't use radioactive protection for their faces?
that is not true, that is not how radiation works
@@warcrimemenace6292 thank to teach me a new thing i should burn my 4 year of physic education certificate and learn it again
@@mahor6287 not saying you dont know how radiation works, or physics in general, im saying that just becuase they are exposed to a radiactive source doesnt mean their skin will burn or turn red, you would need a relatively big exposure time to a radiactive enough source
@@mahor6287 there is no way you have 4 years in IN PHYSICS and you ask that question.
@@MisterChernobyl ok professor
After this video he was sterile and his head fell out
Please tell me the white spots are dust 😭😭
n-no.. 👉👈
It is dust
The white spots are very high levels of radiation and if stayed in there for a few hours you will result in death.
@@MikeGoesBadaBoom high levels of radiation, not dust, radiation.
Why anyone would go visit that site if they didn't absolutely have to be there is anyone's guess.
Those construction is not a Protection it stil comes through
it is a protection to stop most of the radiation going out into the sky.
Lost Place new level.
why the heck do they have any exposed skin at all inside of the sarcophagus? Shouldn't the reporters have been wearing hazmat suits?
The dangerous thing is the dust, which you can probably wash of in a shower. They'll know better than we do. A hazmat suit protects from the dust yes, but in terms of radiation shielding they might as well be butt naked in there, as a hazmat suit shield absolutely nothing
tldr it dont do shit against radiation
there is no suit that can stop radiation, it will go through hazmats no problem.. maybe if you have full lead suit, but its going to weight 100000 kilos and you die from lead poisoning.
Bro that paper mask 💀
for me, this is the single most mysterious and enticing catastrophe that ever happened.
For one, radiation on it's own is hard to grasp due to being invisible and it's damage happening slowly and steadily. But you get creepy indicators like geiger counters freaking out, metal taste in your mouth, discolored leaves, mutations etc.
Also it is an unprecedented accident, happening in an extinct regime that tried to cover it up, giving it all a political secret service spin.
The science behind it is fascinating.
The human factor is fascinating, paired with the social impact a communist regime has on leaders and people led by them.
The places and remnants are fascinating. The turbine hall, the control room, the water systems underneath. Prypjat and other vacant places, almost untouched since then. Although the more tourism happens, the more this allure will fade away. I bet soon you'll find graffiti, litter and other traces of modern life there.
It is something that happened a long time ago, but still just before I was born, so it is kind of an indicator for me personally how much time has passed since I was born. People talk about this like it was ancient history. Which makes me ancient in that way.
And so much more. Of course it's first and foremost a tragedy that could have been avoided. So there's also a lot of sadness and anger. This is something I will never forget and which will always be a part of me.
Exploring such a radioactive place with no proper mask on? Cameraman stuff
شي حلو واحد يزور هذا المكان
i live in there
Your kidding me right
Oh...
Well just gonna say if its Heavily contaminated then where is that mans hazmat suit at?
Hazmat suits will protect against the dust, but so will a suit and a mask like they wore as well as a shower afterward. So they might help a bit for that. To shield against radiation though, hazmat suits are useless.
The disaster cost 2 billion. How long will they get their money back from tours?
2022
These guys wear protective gear Sues from @Kreosan doesn’t need anything
Paper masks and thin suits ?..
yeah they shouldve worn meter thick lead suits duh
That is mainly there to protect against dust. Alpha particles do not penetrate the dead layer of skin, Beta particles do penetrate deeply, but only a thick level of gear will protect you. That thick gear is very heavy and will slow down movement. Gamma radiation penetrates everything. You need dozens of feet of concrete, lead, or water to protect you.
the best protection against radiation is to limit your exposure time, and prevent the inhalation of dust with alpha and beta particles (hence the masks).
1986
litteraly i want to see elephants foot now
its just sooo intresting
Yeah well you cant. Given its been decades and the elephants foot has lost alot of radiation, its still one of the most radioactive things ever to exist.
Find valery khodemchuk body
Тот момент, когда английские субтитры понимаешь лучше, чем "мову"
You wanna really see Chernobyl? Go to shiey’s TH-cam.
I still think the hype is overrated as to the actual reality of how bad this outcome has been.
Its not as bad as it is portrayed.
But people like drama i guess
Why Ukraine Words Are Like Poland Words?
its similiar, i went there for few months and it took only 1 month to start speaking poland language a bit
Such holy shitting brave!!
Are they going to suffer from cancer?
Doubtful, they never even entered the reactor hall
YOU CAN SEE THE WHITE SPOTS COMING FROM THE RADIATION
Looks like there will be no more new materials from Chernobyl...thanks to russia..
Guess those guys must not care about having babies anymore
Fact Chernobyl will be 100% safe in the year 2065
not really some people are saying that it will be safe after 20.000 years
I hear thousands of years. Please tell us why 2065 is the year it will be safe?
@@supernenechi The land outside of the plant will be safe since by 2065 all of the alpha-emitting isotopes will have decayed, the reactor and the building will be dangerous for 10,000 years however. Though by 2100 the building and the reactor will have been chopped up into small pieces and sealed in concrete caskets to be stored underground. That is why the New Safe Confinement was built in 2017, inside the new dome they are dismantling the reactor and the buildings using robots.
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