For those who don’t know. The elephants foot is a giant blob of radioactive material in Chernobyl that was caused by the reactor fuel or substance that basically solidified. Anyone is welcome to correct me (if I’m wrong)
that is from Beta particles which can damage electronics. Gamma can cause flicker and it can kill cells, reproductive organs, and it can kill anyone exposed two years after contact. Alpha particles can cause burns but they and Theta particles are absorbed and can not do harm.
Richard Kane in this kind of situation and this kind of environment …… FUCK stylish! I’d rather be protected and safe than “ stylish “ if this was me ! And by the way ………… no ‘ you’re right ! It’s not like Halloween every day ………………… it’s worse !
@@ellengorey7643 It is ridiculously safe. The radiation levels are barely above background for most places. Your granite counter tops kick off more gamma than most every place in the station and Prophet. The lab coat and facemask are only to prevent you from doing something dumb and touristy and brushing carelessly against something inside the station, and frankly it is not out of line with what you might find in most stations for tours in areas with potential for contamination (not with, with potential)
Guys come on COVID-19 is real, it’s killed millions of people, wearing masks is good for everyone’s health, it’s ok to be worried about your own health and you shouldn’t be called a sheeple for doing it, come on guys this is simple stuff.
yea he deserves the memorial, he was as much a hero as his fellow coworkers, he was believed to have died immediately as a result of the explosion. It is horrifying to think that his family didn't have a body to bury , as a form of closier.
well it was also human error that caused the explosion in the first place considering the reactor 4 wasnt ready and had already had past accidents that werent fixed and then the ignorance of the control room pushing for a reactor test when there was already a problem. if there was more care into the reactor and its design and the people on duty it never wouldve exploded in the first place
The tour guides know exactly what they're doing. They have to dramatise things a bit as a marketing exercise. Otherwise they'd have no customers. 5:39 - 10 µ Sieverts. That is a very very low reading indeed and is no cause for concern whatsoever.
@@mikesacco8457Wildlife is thriving because man's retreated over thirty years ago. The natural ecosystem has established itself again. As you say - they've gotta make it look impressive in order to attract tourists. There is nothing remarkable about it at all. Wishing you and your family a very happy and safe New year.
paulanderson79 I agree with you 100% My goal was to never go there but to visit my friend. And I’d never pay a tourist company. People are something else. So much death and destruction and people care of profit only. You and your family have a Safe and Happy New Years.
@@paulanderson79 They have a very strict limits of radiation they can get. But these limits are not only in Chernobyl. And it's not more than in the airplane.
@@LS_Customs. No they don't need 90 seconds to clean the floor, what you're saying is the floor is radioactive as the roof back in 1986, about 10 thousand roentgen.
The Chernobyl series took a lot of artistic liberties with the facts. (It exaggerated a lot of Dyatlov's villainy and had events occurring out of order, etc.) But the point was to tell a story. Dyatlov didn't just represent a real life person, but the self-serving Soviet system in which safety was ignored by officials for the sake of status and profit. The real Dyatlov might not have literally seen graphite out of a window, but the series portraying him doing just that and then having him deny it later just shows how deluded the Soviet officials were in refusing to face the problem.
As entertaining as a villain as Anatoly Dyatlov was, he bore little resemblance to the real Anatoly Dyatlov. In the end, the series did very little to condemn the Soviet system other than maybe the KGB and some sprinkles here and there, otherwise it pretty much towed the line by scapegoating Bryuchanov, Fomin and especially Dyatlov. Ironically enough, if it wasn't for this childish portrayal of the man, I wouldn't have started looking deeper into this. Basically the portrayal stole a bunch of beats from a bunch of other documentaries portraying him as harsh and humourless but then stripping him of all redeemable features.
I agree. But if the series wanted to show the disfunction of soviet system (and I know a little bit about that, I'm Czech, born in 1977), they should have changed his name. Dyatlov was the last link in the chain of disaster.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 Dyatlov and friends were just a product of the Soviet system, and the show never shied away from calling out that system Like the scene with Maester Luwin telling them to cut the phone lines
That's just one possibility. Another possibility is that we find a way to fully process nuclear material tomorrow and the site disappears within a decade. Then there is the possibility that is the current likelihood and projection and that is that the entire site will be gone in 40 years, having been dismantled over four decades and placed into concrete-lined barrels for storage.
You can still get a similar tour in Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania, but without radiation :)) The power plant is currently being disassembeld... It was the biggest nuclear power plant in the world by year 1991. Similar design to Chernobyl but more blocks.
And more powerful blocks, IIRC. Chernobyl's were rated at 3000MW thermal, while Ignalina's were rated at 4800MW. Electric generation was 1000MW per reactor in Chernobyl and 1500MW in Ignalina.
@@claytong2018 Because the EU told them so (and compensated them for it). After the Chernobyl accident, the EU mandated all RBMK Reactors in member states and those aspiring to become member states be closed. Russia, being a non-member, is the only country to still operate RBMK reactors, with some of the power plants having been granted operating extensions well into 2040.
Ignalina did not have more blocks, it had fewer. Two operating and two under construction, compared to Chernobyl's four operating and two under construction.
Chris Smith Actually it was around 30 after the immediate disaster at the plant. Some say as high as 60. Nobody knows for sure, because Russia. And the estimates of deaths from fighting the fire and disposing of waste range from 4000 to 50,000. But we’ll never know for sure.
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Lol. No way either. I don’t know why I’m gonna tell you all of this but: I’m a fairly big dude, 6’4” 240lbs. I’ll fight anyone in the bar or go sky diving and whatever macho guy bullshit. But I am terrified of the dark. When I was little, I saw a lot of apparitions in the old Victorian house I grew up in, and have been scared of the dark ever since. I have friends who do paranormal investigations and I tagged along to see if I could get over my fear, but ended up being frozen in terror with tears running down my face. You can’t fight what you can’t see. I ain’t proud. Lololol.
"Perevozchenko looks down on the enormous steel lid of the reactor, and sees the impossible. The control rod and fuel channel caps which each weigh 350 kilograms are jumping up and down." My blood froze when I saw that. And I don't get scared easily
As a major in Nuclear Technology: Operations, this is one tour I’d love to take some time. I’m also kind of a history nerd so learning about the history of the event, as well as the actual technical details has me interested. For all of those who don’t know much about nuclear reactors nowadays, they are MUCH safer than what this design was.. It also didn’t help that the people at Chernobyl that night disabled their safety related equipment...
@Adrian Shephard first, that isn't even me in my pfp. Those are two big ass TH-camrs with millions of subs. One would think, that even someone with an IQ as low as yours could see that; but I guess not. Second, yes my mother loves me, why is that an insult lmao???
The new safe confinement building (large stainless arch in film) is equipped with remote cranes and demolition tools. The idea is to disassemble the old sarcophagus and remnants of the reactor and place them in a more stable storage location. A lot of the highly reactive fission products have decayed away since the disaster so the remaining reactor isnt quite as "hot" as it was during the disaster and shortly after.
There are probably a couple of people who have died or remained tremendously deformed due to being exposed to the LETHALLY radioactive material behind some reactors.
@survival pete May the light of the Monolith shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will. Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith. Bring death to those who spurned the holy power of the Monolith. All hail the Monolith.
I've been there. There's no corridor there like that. The closest corridor he could use is the golden corridor. Its closest open part with windows is between block 2 and 3. And it is much lower. Only 9 meters above the ground. He could not get so high as filmed and there's no place with a view like that.
This was filmed in Ignalina NPP, there is a hall like that, the main entrance of the chernobyl power plant in the HBO show is the real entrance of Ignalina
@@Researchers-cz No there is a corridor like that but a highly doubt they would let you near it as it had high radiation exposure. Here is a video of it before they put up the lead shield. th-cam.com/video/BalmaO5WO6Q/w-d-xo.html
This is really nice, but I'm convinced this is a golden corridor. The level is the same. It was decontaminated, because it connects all four units. Now you can pass through without hurrying up :)
I absolutely am obsessed with Chernobyl like so many of us have been past and present (especially present, since 'Chernobyl' on HBO, and reading the excellent 'Midnight in Chernobyl'). I've fantasied about being there, being in the Exclusion Zone, being in Pripyat, being at the actual plant, in the catacombs....being there--truly being there. Something about this video scooped me back into reality; I really wouldn't want to be there. It's a tomb. It's dangerous. It's death. It's scary. It's sad, and awful and depressing. I'd be regretting it from the second I set foot in that golden corridor. It would take my breath away.
I’m a fine scale modeler and I’m amazed at how clever and detailed that model is. Of course there are better photos of it that you should look at if you’re interested but that model is a first-class reproduction that would take the prize in any show. The only thing I’ve seen that compares with it is the 3-D diorama of the gravesite of the Edmund Fitzgerald which is another astounding work.
8:28 If the explosion was able to lift 2000 tons of rods and make a hole in the ceiling it's more than likely that pieces of graphite would be scattered all over the place. So theoretically he could've seen them. Though this scene is more than likely for dramatic effect.
He was also on a corridor "outside", possibly outside the main block building. It so happens that the scene has him looking at what looks like a small roof below a window outside reactor 3, next to the turbine hall. I'm not 100% sure.
dyatlov wasnt actually evil. HBO just potrayed him like it. he actually went with perevozchenko and some other to attempt to rescue khodemchuck. he also told akimov and toptunov to go home. and the reason in HBO's series he said "RBMK reactor do not explode",was because he was also a victim of propaganda lying about safety.
I remember when this disaster happened, I was eight years old and even at that young age the gravity of the news reports grabbed me. The world was standing still, waiting on every news report, jaws hanging open with disbelief. I will never forget.
So, when I took the tour I had my own calibrated thermo scientific combination meter. The levels were incredibly low, and the annoying garbage yellow meters were 1) not very accurate, and 2) set ridiculously low for alarm rates. The protective clothing was to protect from dust. The highest rates I picked up were from the 3 pumps on the north side, which was 623 urem/h. I also work in the industry, so I am very aware that the dose rates in the station were less than the average granite counter top in general, and the peak rate was about equivalent to living in Denver Co. If you doubt that I was there, anyone who took a tour with this woman (in the video) would know that "in this very place ..... " and "This very key ..." are common. I am sure for an average person who is taught to fear even small amounts of radiation from the media this is terrifying, however ..... in reality the dose rates in the station, Pripyat and the surrounding area were all quite low. I took more dose from my flight to Frankfurt from Borispol than the entire time I was in the restricted zone, and we stayed overnight in Chernobyl Oblast. Lastly U3 stayed in commercial operations until 2000 when it was shut down. 14 years after the U4 event took place. and this summer past (2019) there were still many people working in the plant when I visited.
I too have Thermo Scientific equipment, and I am sure the tours set their hire meters really low to go off and add to the "experience".......it is a dangerous place, but not if you treat it with respect.....you would have to be doing something pretty radical to cause any risk to yourself.......the protective gear is only worn to stop any possible transport of hot particles out with you...... good to see some common sense feedback Kris............bloody place is like disneyland now.....tourists are killing the place.....they will soon stop entry to the place do to litigation no doubt.......I broke my heal on a cracked footpath stuff.
@@paulward4417 1/2 and 4/5 usv/h are background in many places. Not too useful when you have a device alarm that low. Unless you are trying to prove some point
@Mona Lott My son and I did a 2 day private tour, just the 2 of us for 2 days with the in station tour added on. We stayed overnight in Chernobyl Oblast, in a tiny hotel (if you have seen Chernobyl cafe, thats the place). The tour cost about 2k CAD for us. you can do several tours options that are not that much (chernobylwel.com was the company we used and they were fantastic. Chernobyl Tours had the same prices and gave me a bit of a run around when I tried to book.) When we were in Kyiv, we stayed at hotel turist, which is right at Livoberezhna station on the red line of the metro. Inexpensive. Not the ritz, but a place to sleep was all we wanted. There are many awesome places to see, if you are into nuclear stuff there is a missile base museum at Pervomayask, or there is a large outdoor aviation museum at the Zhuliany airport. Lastly, you must eat at Pervak, near Leo Tolstoy square, and also take a night to visit Varinichnya Katyusha near the Bessarabsky market and any of the Drunk Cherry Bars
It's mind blowing to think that I'm only born roughly 130 miles away from the Chernobyl disaster and that my city faced moderate effects from the fallout.
Great video, thanks. Saw angles and corridors never seen before, at least by me. Massive respect to all the people that stayed behind to help clean up the mess. And what a great tour guide! Respect
I visited Chernobyl earlier this year. @ 3:00 where it shows 56.5, you can actually get higher readings in the woods still in quite a few places. The highest I saw in the woods was near 70.
I think it changes, so you could randomly have high levels and low. Also, with the war and Russian tanks going through Chernobyl, radioactive dust has lifted into the air and raised the levels a little.
@@mushroomsrcool1449 I still can't believe those idiots dug trenches there, but at least Ukraine didn't need to shoot the Russians that gave themselves radiation sickness, saved us some bullets.
Amazing that we have come so far that it is possible to even get close to this location. The amount of human sacrifice involved is extensive. Remember also that the current radiation might not be so dangerous for the guest, but the guides are here again and again.
No Monolith soldiers on every corner with gauss rifles and no stupid ghost voice who repeats the same sentence over and over again ? 0/10 Would not visit ...
About as much as a transatlantic flight, commercial airplane pilots are probably exposed to way more radiation in their lives than she will ever experience during those tours...
@Sunny-dayz so even if there are 5 guides, they are exposed to gigantic level of radiation every day! Even if they dont do guidings every day, do you think they live 1000miles away? 😂
Basically no radiation. It is not dangerous in there at all, hence why people still work there. The reactors 1 2 and 3 were still operating all the way up to 2000, 14 years after the accident. That area is not dangerous at all, as someone else said in this thread, there is less radiation there than on an airplane.
@@lizandraclayres They never get the full dose, so if it does at all, you'll notice some strange things in a few generations. Our dna is quite good a dealing with this kind of bullshit. So, as Rihanna once said :"Shine bright like a diamond"
I mean if I had a gun and a terminal illness, this would be one amazing place to quickly visit before you had to take yourself out due to the burns and vomiting.
Watching from Guyana 🇬🇾. I was in primary school at the time when this catastrophe had happened. I heard the news over the radio but didn't understand the gravity of it until a few years later when I was in high school. Then I read and re-read some articles in the 1992/1993 Popular Science magazine. That wasn't enough. My quest to learn more about Chernobyl didn't stop there until now...the grown man I am. Sometimes, like how I just saw this video I would retire to bed and my mind just wandering about the incident that should have never happened @01:23 am that fateful morning. Sometimes, I am lead to believe that it was all well intended because from the chain of events that occurred and the 'junior' staff on that shift 'conducting' such an 'experiment' in the wee hours of the morning is something...
I don`t get the current fetish for trips to Chernobyl. Go, then , to say you have been. As for me, living 1400 miles away from the plant is close enough - even 34 years after.
I live at a distance of 1112 miles (1790 km). I remember the day the radioactive cloud was moving in our direction, while our government had forbidden the media to warn about it in order to prevent a panic. That was not a joke.
I wouldn't say it's a fetish, but it's part of history, and I can understand why someone might want to visit if they have the opportunity. Pripyat in particular is like a time machine, it is a completely intact Soviet town from 1986 (though falling apart and being overtaken by nature now). I can't afford to really take a trip there right now, but if the opportunity ever presents itself being able to see it in person would be interesting.
But it is important to visit places like Chernobyl, Auschwitz, Pearl Harbor, the Berlin Wall, etc... to learn from the mistakes that past generations made and not repeat history ever again. Also as an act of respect for the people that suffered and sacrificed there. Besides, it's completely safe to visit Pripyat and Chernobyl nowadays, unless you do something really stupid like taking contaminated objects with you or messing with the militaries, you'll be safe.
Hi, Wilbert. Some people may have to visit such places to learn about the past. I don`t - and would ask those that do why they have to visit Chernobyl, for example, to learn about it. In visiting such a place you might well be `visiting the past` whilst shortening ones future. As I`ve pointed out Chernobyl is 1400 miles away from where I live, which is close enough. "Completely safe," in Pripyat ? Chernobyl has increased the background radiation of the entire planet, my friend, forever. There is no `completely safe` from Chernobyl anywhere in the world let alone in a town 5 miles away from it.
If you haven't already done so, a good book to read is "Midnight in Chernobyl" by Adam Higginbotham. He talks to all of the key players at Chernobyl at the time of the disaster, the various officials in Moscow, Kyiv and most importantly Pripyat. Great book. Detail is immense.
What a monumental tragedy. So many needless deaths in following years from cancer. Children, teenagers, diagnosed with myriad of "unexplained" illnesses too.
Talk about a Dirty Job... Just imagine the poor lady going in and out into a nuclear disaster over and over again to show off someone's stupid mistake... A tour guide's worst nightmare...
The people who are mistaken are not stupid. They just dont know how to operate the control system and they shall follow the order because an order is an order think before u post idiot
Cedrick Gelicame Actually the whole thing was a complete farce. There were many stupid mistakes involved. I still can’t believe the Russian government tried to cover it all up when it happened.
Tom W Why can’t you believe the Soviet government would try to cover up the worlds worst nuclear disaster after they covered up the worlds worst genocide of 50 million deaths. Off to gulag with you.
The most incredible thing about the poor dude whose body was not found, is that probably his body is still well preserved due to absurd levels of radiation that keep bacteria, molds and other decomposers away.
Radiation does not preserve water from evaporation, he would become mummy, if radiation was such high. Also, radiation is not good at preserving things. Colors fade after long exposure to sunlight, plastics become fragile, and that’s only UV.
@@strtngfrsh Now as an alternative energy source. People back then used it for destruction. That was the first reason of use but then people realized the potential disasters nuclear energy could've actually brought to our world.
That radiation level is not dangerous at all. The only dangerous place is the basement of where reactor nr 4 was that contains the molten cores and is called the elephants foot because of the shape. That place is not accessible to visitors and they still have to find out how to get rid of that deadly mass. And the second dangerous place is a small piece of forest west of the complex called the Red Pines that was directly in the path of the accident in 1986. Pripyat and the Duga1 radar are totally save. It's just a tourist attraction so that people visit Ukraine but it has much more to offer and the people of Ukraine are nice and deserve a better future
Liked because there are nice good people all over and have wanted to visit chernobyl for 20 years. Hope one day I get to spend some of my limited tourist budget there!
not only that the gamma is so dangerous that no human can go in there only robots and drones. If any male goes in there it means fried penis and testicle and prostate cancer. If any female goes in there it will fry their breast and vaginas leading to breast cancer, ovary cancer, uterus cancer,and cervical cancer and both will be unable to have sex or have children and not only that two years after fallout they will all be dead. This is why we need to completely destroy the plant and remove everything radioactive and send it to Czech Republic where it will be buried in a salt mine and it will never harm civilians again. Russia and the rest of the world lost a generation because of Chernobyl because 30 years ago the first and second generation of workers who went in for the hasty cleanup all of them are dead so are their husbands, wives, and children. We don't want to repeat that mistake that the Russians made we must destroy Chernobyl and we need to do it now or in 50 years the world will be destroyed by a mushroom cloud.
2:54 'What is the level?' "4.4uSv" That is LOW. Those geiger counters start alarming at a few times higher than background level. You get somewhere around 2 to 3uSv/hr sitting on a plane at 40,000 feet. The area near the reactor is actually quite low dose as it was so thoroughly cleaned up because people had to work close to it. There are much much higher reading hotspots around the zone if you know where to look.
There are thick concerete walls, that's why the dose is low. Here's a video from the reactor hall (in Russian) th-cam.com/video/zP-EbZL7040/w-d-xo.html
Nuclear plants have _very_ strict regulations. Under normal operating conditions, someone working inside of a nuclear plant will receive less radiation than a person working outside.
Watching from Guyana 🇬🇾. I was in primary school at the time when this catastrophe had happened. I heard the news over the radio(since at that time Guyana still didn't have TV, ) but didn't understand the gravity of it until a few years later when I was in high school. Then I read and re-read some articles in the 1992/1993 Popular Science magazine. That wasn't enough. My quest to learn more about Chernobyl didn't stop there until now...the grown man I am. Sometimes, like how I just saw this video I would retire to bed and my mind just wandering about the incident that should have never happened @01:23 am that fateful morning. Sometimes, I am lead to believe that it was all well intended because from the chain of events that occurred and the 'junior' staff on that shift 'conducting' such an 'experiment' in the wee hours of the morning is something...
Reactor 4, is not dead, its alive for the next 50, 000 years, its immortal, still living and breathing. I did a private Chernobyl tour July 2019 (watch my video) Guides limited to 3 days a week, 15 hours maximum in the zone. Chernobyl workers living and working there can do 15 days per month, but only doing 5 hours active work outside per day, all other time has to be in the safe accommodation provided, unless in Cherbobyl Town (40 KM Zone) from the reactor. Its possible to visit deep inside, but only for a few minutes maximum, keep levels low as a 9 hour trans Atlantic flight USA to Ukraine.
Always great to see a new video on this with new views perspective and insight. It's like the imitation game and then you visit Bletchley Park where the guides giving the talks start off with how many have seen the movie knowing that that's what got most of them there. And then they give a much more real story's and different parts they played and real character traits. Plus as tour guides they are there to talk at the get togethers with people who worked there in all the different more regular roles, and pass them little titbits onto the visitors. I hope all this interest generated leads onto more people wanting to know more and learning and visiting to get to the guts of the issue without know stereotypes of drinking vodka after everyshift. But now I think of it if I was sent on a job shitting myself I'm likely gonna die why shouldn't they get some booze doing that dangerous job into the depths of the unknown. They really should have been celebrating there last possible days...
I would love to visit this place but I understand just how destroying and violent nuclear contamination is and that's enough to make me content with watching others do it on TH-cam while I'm nice and warm and safe in bed.
It’s all a tour until someone says “Do you taste metal?”
Then you find out he’s wearing braces
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He could’ve at least gone and kissed the elephants foot
@@bradleyx123 that spells death
For those who don’t know. The elephants foot is a giant blob of radioactive material in Chernobyl that was caused by the reactor fuel or substance that basically solidified. Anyone is welcome to correct me (if I’m wrong)
everybody gangsta until the dosimeters start screaming
I mean it’s fine right. It’s not good but not terrible either, it’s 3,6 roentgen.
(Chernobyl the series reference)
@@erikhjortsater5461 you must be hallucinating! Go to infirmary!
@@erikhjortsater5461 You are the last of the 3800 men.
Coy Leigh
You need to up your daily intake of memes.
@Coy Leigh No need to call me an idiot... =_=
The flickering cathode light tubes give it that extra creepiness 🙄
When I saw that I was sure to use that clip :)
that is from Beta particles which can damage electronics. Gamma can cause flicker and it can kill cells, reproductive organs, and it can kill anyone exposed two years after contact. Alpha particles can cause burns but they and Theta particles are absorbed and can not do harm.
I imagine no one would want to stand in that hallway long enough to replace a ballast and bulbs.
those look like led tubes to me, whenever it flicked the time it took to achieve full brightness was zero
Yes
“Here we have the metal door to death” *dude casually walks in and closes the door*
Lmao
Lol
I would do that too
@@Daniel.1279 yess i wat to lick the foot, not the elephant's it's too ugly
That's the employee lunch room
I'm just fine with taking the Chernobyl tours from a TH-cam video in my home, thank you!
everybody gangsta until youtube starts charging 5 dollars for chernobyl tour video
Timothy Simpson - Exactly! There’s nothing Stylish about a face mask. I mean, it’s not like it’s Halloween every day right!?
Timothy Simpson that “ ridiculous bard” as you so delicately put it is what protects people in the situations and in such environments!
Richard Kane in this kind of situation and this kind of environment …… FUCK stylish! I’d rather be protected and safe than “ stylish “ if this was me ! And by the way ………… no ‘ you’re right ! It’s not like Halloween every day ………………… it’s worse !
@@ellengorey7643 It is ridiculously safe. The radiation levels are barely above background for most places. Your granite counter tops kick off more gamma than most every place in the station and Prophet. The lab coat and facemask are only to prevent you from doing something dumb and touristy and brushing carelessly against something inside the station, and frankly it is not out of line with what you might find in most stations for tours in areas with potential for contamination (not with, with potential)
Respirators must be sealed, followed by a dude just vibing without a mask
Guys come on COVID-19 is real, it’s killed millions of people, wearing masks is good for everyone’s health, it’s ok to be worried about your own health and you shouldn’t be called a sheeple for doing it, come on guys this is simple stuff.
@@nolanpugh3229
The “get Trump flu “ 🤣😂😅
@@rapid9496
I just got a shower. Cmon man 😂🤣😅
@@nolanpugh3229 covid 19 only kills the weakest of the weak. Shut the fuck up
@@ivba9354 never said the virus was fake I ment the media fuels it making it out to be worse than it is to keep idiots scared
It's crazy how alike "lethal dose" and "little dose" sound with a eastern european accent lol
Same thing right? Not great, not terrible
You mean Czech accent?
They aren’t Russian lol
Wouldn't that be a Ukrainian accent?
LOL
Yeah, that’s a big nyet from me.
Bless babble for letting me understand this lol
Нет
@@av28379 wtf is a "ga"?
*Niet
@@av28379 hahahahahaah i speak russian you fucking Morron and a "g" is definitely not a "d" 🤣🤣🤣
Everybody gangsta until the floors in Chernobyl are cleaner than in public restrooms
Lmao 😂
It's sterilyzed by radiation
The legends says comrade dyatlov is still in Chernobyl's toilet
Hahaha...good one
Yeah... Nobody flushed him out yet.
Stolen comment.
Pranita Prabhanshu 😂😂😂
I will go to chernobyl NPP and will check the toilet if dyatlov is doing ok in there
This whole video is absurd - everyone knows an RBMK reactor can't explode.
Not great, not terrible
Nah, its just 3.6 roentgen
Snavee i‘ve been told it‘s the equivalent of a chest x-Ray
Do you think this is fucking funny?!
@@user-xu8fe7fd7j they got HBO's Chernobyl series vibes dude,chill...
"Valery Khodemchuck Memorial"
I'm happy that there is something, that reminds of him.
Poor man.. R.i.p 😢
yea he deserves the memorial, he was as much a hero as his fellow coworkers, he was believed to have died immediately as a result of the explosion. It is horrifying to think that his family didn't have a body to bury , as a form of closier.
@@heatherwheeler8330 I hope, that he was immediately dead from the explosion/exposure. Otherwise he had a very painful death :(
That weird metal casting on the grave tho is that from him?
@@justsomedumbassontheintern6987 No chance, they never found his body most likey buried somewhere under the debris in the pump room.
1:24
westeners: oh no, this is radioactive, we need to quarantine it and no-one will enter!
russians: just walk a little faster
If you’re scared of everything radioactive, stop touching stuff alltoghether. That includes air.
those gosh darn westerners am i rite slav?
Ukrainians*
@@konggrenski1162 jokes on me - I have OCD, and my biggest obsession is radiation. I literally can’t leave the house some days 🥲
Russians 🤦♀️educate yourself
The people who sacrificed their lives did not die in vain. They died heroes, and saved so, so many lives.
so true yet no1 gives a fuck .. humans are trash shit ...
well it was also human error that caused the explosion in the first place considering the reactor 4 wasnt ready and had already had past accidents that werent fixed and then the ignorance of the control room pushing for a reactor test when there was already a problem. if there was more care into the reactor and its design and the people on duty it never wouldve exploded in the first place
They died for Bella delphine
@@kaffeice7 but not all humans and then realize you’re a human 🗿🗿🗿
@@muzoriichi yea we are shit lol
this is my 10th tour in Chernobyl from the comfort and safety of my home.
This is my First !!
Why, it’s just 3.6
K man, Didn't they tell you it was just a chest x ray.
I’m gonna guess here.
The tour guides there don’t stay at that job long. Hope they have health coverage
The tour guides know exactly what they're doing. They have to dramatise things a bit as a marketing exercise. Otherwise they'd have no customers. 5:39 - 10 µ Sieverts. That is a very very low reading indeed and is no cause for concern whatsoever.
@@mikesacco8457Wildlife is thriving because man's retreated over thirty years ago. The natural ecosystem has established itself again. As you say - they've gotta make it look impressive in order to attract tourists. There is nothing remarkable about it at all. Wishing you and your family a very happy and safe New year.
paulanderson79
I agree with you 100%
My goal was to never go there but to visit my friend. And I’d never pay a tourist company.
People are something else.
So much death and destruction and people care of profit only.
You and your family have a Safe and Happy New Years.
@@paulanderson79 They have a very strict limits of radiation they can get. But these limits are not only in Chernobyl. And it's not more than in the airplane.
Here they get free Radiation Therapy for those stubborn tumors.
Someone:walks in without a hazmat suit
Their third arm: helo
😂😂
helo
*insert James May*
@@user-sy9jn2zf8m lmao i thought the exact same thing
More likely “their genome integrity: Understandable, have a nice day”
Somebody is doing a great job keeping the floors in the radioactive area amazingly clean
I imagine it's to make it safer. The biggest risk is probably contaminated dust and debris, as opposed to radiation.
Yea considering that theg onlh have 90 secs
@@LS_Customs. No they don't need 90 seconds to clean the floor, what you're saying is the floor is radioactive as the roof back in 1986, about 10 thousand roentgen.
@@k1Llas it was a joke
@@k1Llas ooooh guess we got a scientist on our hands here, don’t cry soppy bollocks just cuz someone doesn’t know the ins and outs o chernobyl
"You didn't see graphite on the ground because it's not there! "
It's not 3 roentgen it's 15000 ☢️
Do you taste metel
Mace Windu Misha, the valves!
You will be begging for that bullet...
Are you suggesting...what? That the reactor blew up?
Please tell me, how exactly does an RBMK reactor explode? Are you stupid?
The Chernobyl series took a lot of artistic liberties with the facts. (It exaggerated a lot of Dyatlov's villainy and had events occurring out of order, etc.) But the point was to tell a story. Dyatlov didn't just represent a real life person, but the self-serving Soviet system in which safety was ignored by officials for the sake of status and profit. The real Dyatlov might not have literally seen graphite out of a window, but the series portraying him doing just that and then having him deny it later just shows how deluded the Soviet officials were in refusing to face the problem.
As entertaining as a villain as Anatoly Dyatlov was, he bore little resemblance to the real Anatoly Dyatlov. In the end, the series did very little to condemn the Soviet system other than maybe the KGB and some sprinkles here and there, otherwise it pretty much towed the line by scapegoating Bryuchanov, Fomin and especially Dyatlov.
Ironically enough, if it wasn't for this childish portrayal of the man, I wouldn't have started looking deeper into this. Basically the portrayal stole a bunch of beats from a bunch of other documentaries portraying him as harsh and humourless but then stripping him of all redeemable features.
Abraham Edelstein
Did you actually watch the whole series or stop before the end
@@FP194 It was only 5 episodes
I agree. But if the series wanted to show the disfunction of soviet system (and I know a little bit about that, I'm Czech, born in 1977), they should have changed his name. Dyatlov was the last link in the chain of disaster.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 Dyatlov and friends were just a product of the Soviet system, and the show never shied away from calling out that system
Like the scene with Maester Luwin telling them to cut the phone lines
humans: *hmm big nuclear reactor which caused a ton of damage in the past? Lets turn it into disney land.*
The Disney ride that can give you cancer
Honestly i would go to this than an actual Disney land
I think this ride involves a lot more paperwork than a payment receipt at the entrance
An exaggerated comment with no sense.
@@Dogetheun truly a unique ride that not even Disney dares to have
I give the cameraman a great big Chernobyl Three-Thumbs-Up...
LOL great one
Hold up-
It’s the ability to see something like this without going there that I appreciate this platform for.
Another thing that’s scary, is that this will be around affecting the environment LONG after we are gone.
That's just one possibility. Another possibility is that we find a way to fully process nuclear material tomorrow and the site disappears within a decade. Then there is the possibility that is the current likelihood and projection and that is that the entire site will be gone in 40 years, having been dismantled over four decades and placed into concrete-lined barrels for storage.
i believe that mankind won't be around in 24.000 years any more. we will have become extinct by then
0:21 Respirators *must* be sealed
0:26 This dude: Y’all hear somethin?
You can still get a similar tour in Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania, but without radiation :)) The power plant is currently being disassembeld... It was the biggest nuclear power plant in the world by year 1991. Similar design to Chernobyl but more blocks.
And more powerful blocks, IIRC. Chernobyl's were rated at 3000MW thermal, while Ignalina's were rated at 4800MW. Electric generation was 1000MW per reactor in Chernobyl and 1500MW in Ignalina.
Not quite so interesting to people without a nuclear disaster.
Why would they shut it down if they improved it after Chernobyl?
@@claytong2018 Because the EU told them so (and compensated them for it). After the Chernobyl accident, the EU mandated all RBMK Reactors in member states and those aspiring to become member states be closed. Russia, being a non-member, is the only country to still operate RBMK reactors, with some of the power plants having been granted operating extensions well into 2040.
Ignalina did not have more blocks, it had fewer. Two operating and two under construction, compared to Chernobyl's four operating and two under construction.
1:10 That is one creepy hallway. Dark with flickering lights, and knowing how many people died at the plant, I would not want to be there alone.
You know only like 3 ppl died there, right?
Chris Smith Actually it was around 30 after the immediate disaster at the plant. Some say as high as 60. Nobody knows for sure, because Russia. And the estimates of deaths from fighting the fire and disposing of waste range from 4000 to 50,000. But we’ll never know for sure.
don’t worry, valerij’s ghost is there to keep you company
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Lol. No way either. I don’t know why I’m gonna tell you all of this but: I’m a fairly big dude, 6’4” 240lbs. I’ll fight anyone in the bar or go sky diving and whatever macho guy bullshit. But I am terrified of the dark. When I was little, I saw a lot of apparitions in the old Victorian house I grew up in, and have been scared of the dark ever since. I have friends who do paranormal investigations and I tagged along to see if I could get over my fear, but ended up being frozen in terror with tears running down my face. You can’t fight what you can’t see.
I ain’t proud. Lololol.
Too
This HBO Chernobyl Series Stuck in my mind
@Elizabeth Fitzpatrick yeah ... Have you seen stranger things
Too
It's kinda a mix between Stalker and HBO's Chernobyl series that's made me addicted to Chernobyl's history.
Same. Even though I watched it 1,000 times
@@Nightmare-tf7zk same here.
*now get out of here, stalker!*
"Perevozchenko looks down on the enormous steel lid of the reactor, and sees the impossible. The control rod and fuel channel caps which each weigh 350 kilograms are jumping up and down."
My blood froze when I saw that. And I don't get scared easily
Luckily it never happened anyway. Perevozchenko was in the control room at the time and the fuel channel caps only weigh 50 kg.
@Underground Drift This information literally comes from the RBMK's manual, shitbird
@@MinSredMash Right next to "RBMK's don't explode?" lol
Tomas Balciunas yeah that image in my mind imagining what that would look like and the feeling of dread freaks me out as well.
@@MinSredMash It did happen as it is in the official accounts.
Guys if I was there and that meter went "weeeee-oooh" I was gone.
why? you catch the same on a airplane. And there you maybe sit around for 12h.....
As a major in Nuclear Technology: Operations, this is one tour I’d love to take some time. I’m also kind of a history nerd so learning about the history of the event, as well as the actual technical details has me interested.
For all of those who don’t know much about nuclear reactors nowadays, they are MUCH safer than what this design was.. It also didn’t help that the people at Chernobyl that night disabled their safety related equipment...
Jared Stieferman I heard western reactors at the time were designed so that when it gets real hot the reaction will slow down?
Nurse: have you been to Africa in the past 6 months
me: No but ive been to Chernobyl
Nurse: oh....
@Adrian Shephard bruh that is the stupidest comment I've read in my entire life.
@Adrian Shephard yes and?
@Adrian Shephard first, that isn't even me in my pfp. Those are two big ass TH-camrs with millions of subs. One would think, that even someone with an IQ as low as yours could see that; but I guess not. Second, yes my mother loves me, why is that an insult lmao???
Adrian Shephard man said dweeb
@Adrian Shephard who hurt you man...
In 40 years when they have removed all the fuel I hope they find the lost guy behind the wall.
WAIT WHAT
@@johnduffy9088 my question exactly
More like 50,000?
The new safe confinement building (large stainless arch in film) is equipped with remote cranes and demolition tools. The idea is to disassemble the old sarcophagus and remnants of the reactor and place them in a more stable storage location. A lot of the highly reactive fission products have decayed away since the disaster so the remaining reactor isnt quite as "hot" as it was during the disaster and shortly after.
There are probably a couple of people who have died or remained tremendously deformed due to being exposed to the LETHALLY radioactive material behind some reactors.
0:35
"Pick up as little radiation as possible"
What radiation? You hallucinating! Take her to infirmary!
Exactly! I mean, it's only 3.6 Roentgens. And from what I've been told, it's about the equivalent of a chest X-ray.
@@akshaygowrishankar7440 what are you talking about? There's no radiation BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE!!
There is no radiation friend, only the light of the Monolith.
@survival pete monolith
@survival pete May the light of the Monolith shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will.
Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.
Bring death to those who spurned the holy power of the Monolith.
All hail the Monolith.
When Dyatlov saw the graphite he wasn't in the control room, he was in a hallway near the exterior of the power plant.
I've been there. There's no corridor there like that. The closest corridor he could use is the golden corridor. Its closest open part with windows is between block 2 and 3. And it is much lower. Only 9 meters above the ground. He could not get so high as filmed and there's no place with a view like that.
This was filmed in Ignalina NPP, there is a hall like that, the main entrance of the chernobyl power plant in the HBO show is the real entrance of Ignalina
I thought he was on the toilet. 😜
@@Researchers-cz No there is a corridor like that but a highly doubt they would let you near it as it had high radiation exposure. Here is a video of it before they put up the lead shield. th-cam.com/video/BalmaO5WO6Q/w-d-xo.html
This is really nice, but I'm convinced this is a golden corridor. The level is the same. It was decontaminated, because it connects all four units. Now you can pass through without hurrying up :)
Ask tour guide for elephant foot
might as well just ask the tour guide for the cemetery
Hope you were been funny.....Like that's gone to happen you be dead within a month ,
@@alanjohnstone4369 i think it was closer to 10 minutes, but sure.
@@NySiiS something like that if anything probably 5
@Walker Yes, It's not great but it is not terrible, I give the elephant dick a 3.6...
I absolutely am obsessed with Chernobyl like so many of us have been past and present (especially present, since 'Chernobyl' on HBO, and reading the excellent 'Midnight in Chernobyl'). I've fantasied about being there, being in the Exclusion Zone, being in Pripyat, being at the actual plant, in the catacombs....being there--truly being there. Something about this video scooped me back into reality; I really wouldn't want to be there. It's a tomb. It's dangerous. It's death. It's scary. It's sad, and awful and depressing. I'd be regretting it from the second I set foot in that golden corridor. It would take my breath away.
Radiation is a mysterious force.
I’m a fine scale modeler and I’m amazed at how clever and detailed that model is. Of course there are better photos of it that you should look at if you’re interested but that model is a first-class reproduction that would take the prize in any show. The only thing I’ve seen that compares with it is the 3-D diorama of the gravesite of the Edmund Fitzgerald which is another astounding work.
Please take a moment to appreciate this guy who literally risked his life to take this recording
8:28 If the explosion was able to lift 2000 tons of rods and make a hole in the ceiling it's more than likely that pieces of graphite would be scattered all over the place. So theoretically he could've seen them. Though this scene is more than likely for dramatic effect.
He was also on a corridor "outside", possibly outside the main block building. It so happens that the scene has him looking at what looks like a small roof below a window outside reactor 3, next to the turbine hall. I'm not 100% sure.
dyatlov wasnt actually evil. HBO just potrayed him like it. he actually went with perevozchenko and some other to attempt to rescue khodemchuck. he also told akimov and toptunov to go home. and the reason in HBO's series he said "RBMK reactor do not explode",was because he was also a victim of propaganda lying about safety.
I was there on a Tour. This was absolutely terrifying and fascinating at the same time.
those flashing lights at the beginning seem to be a nice touch
i feel my cells tingle just from watching this
How many times can the tour guides give a tour per year?
" I already know how a nuclear reactor works. .so I don't need you"
I remember when this disaster happened, I was eight years old and even at that young age the gravity of the news reports grabbed me. The world was standing still, waiting on every news report, jaws hanging open with disbelief.
I will never forget.
So, when I took the tour I had my own calibrated thermo scientific combination meter. The levels were incredibly low, and the annoying garbage yellow meters were 1) not very accurate, and 2) set ridiculously low for alarm rates. The protective clothing was to protect from dust. The highest rates I picked up were from the 3 pumps on the north side, which was 623 urem/h. I also work in the industry, so I am very aware that the dose rates in the station were less than the average granite counter top in general, and the peak rate was about equivalent to living in Denver Co. If you doubt that I was there, anyone who took a tour with this woman (in the video) would know that "in this very place ..... " and "This very key ..." are common. I am sure for an average person who is taught to fear even small amounts of radiation from the media this is terrifying, however ..... in reality the dose rates in the station, Pripyat and the surrounding area were all quite low. I took more dose from my flight to Frankfurt from Borispol than the entire time I was in the restricted zone, and we stayed overnight in Chernobyl Oblast. Lastly U3 stayed in commercial operations until 2000 when it was shut down. 14 years after the U4 event took place. and this summer past (2019) there were still many people working in the plant when I visited.
I too have Thermo Scientific equipment, and I am sure the tours set their hire meters really low to go off and add to the "experience".......it is a dangerous place, but not if you treat it with respect.....you would have to be doing something pretty radical to cause any risk to yourself.......the protective gear is only worn to stop any possible transport of hot particles out with you...... good to see some common sense feedback Kris............bloody place is like disneyland now.....tourists are killing the place.....they will soon stop entry to the place do to litigation no doubt.......I broke my heal on a cracked footpath stuff.
Kris Vdovich they serve there purpose by detecting an increase in radiation, when you go from 1/2 uSv, to 4/5.
@@paulward4417 1/2 and 4/5 usv/h are background in many places. Not too useful when you have a device alarm that low. Unless you are trying to prove some point
@Mona Lott My son and I did a 2 day private tour, just the 2 of us for 2 days with the in station tour added on. We stayed overnight in Chernobyl Oblast, in a tiny hotel (if you have seen Chernobyl cafe, thats the place). The tour cost about 2k CAD for us. you can do several tours options that are not that much (chernobylwel.com was the company we used and they were fantastic. Chernobyl Tours had the same prices and gave me a bit of a run around when I tried to book.) When we were in Kyiv, we stayed at hotel turist, which is right at Livoberezhna station on the red line of the metro. Inexpensive. Not the ritz, but a place to sleep was all we wanted. There are many awesome places to see, if you are into nuclear stuff there is a missile base museum at Pervomayask, or there is a large outdoor aviation museum at the Zhuliany airport. Lastly, you must eat at Pervak, near Leo Tolstoy square, and also take a night to visit Varinichnya Katyusha near the Bessarabsky market and any of the Drunk Cherry Bars
Finally someone with a real understanding. The "we have to move quickly" made me cringe so hard. Hardly anything to worry about.
If I was tour guide there, I would definitely pull off the joke of the meter screeching 😂
Sameeeeeeee
Can anyone taste metal?
Imagine if a resident evil boss showed up at the end of the tour 💀
I've been twice, the second time was much like this tour and was never told not to take pictures.
Hey honey shall we try for kids. let’s go on a trip to Chernobyl first darling.
Yes
@@melisaalen2610 Yes
A Habsburg is born.
while returning from trip when you look at your Di*k
*There is another*
It's mind blowing to think that I'm only born roughly 130 miles away from the Chernobyl disaster and that my city faced moderate effects from the fallout.
start getting chest scans and MRI's now...
How many fingers you got?
I've had a scare already with my stomach, but I am on top of my health and do the best I can.
Last I checked, I think I have 4 fingers left. 🤔
@thenuclearmallard2703 that's better than none at all lol.
She said he was not found. He is still in here. That's wild.
Great video, thanks. Saw angles and corridors never seen before, at least by me. Massive respect to all the people that stayed behind to help clean up the mess. And what a great tour guide!
Respect
03:18 After for a while, those plastic flowers will mutate become live organic flowers.
Plot twist- The sarcophagus & arch wasn't built to keep radiation from getting out but were built to keep Valery Khodemchuk inside!
LMAO
I visited Chernobyl earlier this year. @ 3:00 where it shows 56.5, you can actually get higher readings in the woods still in quite a few places. The highest I saw in the woods was near 70.
I think it changes, so you could randomly have high levels and low. Also, with the war and Russian tanks going through Chernobyl, radioactive dust has lifted into the air and raised the levels a little.
@@mushroomsrcool1449 I still can't believe those idiots dug trenches there, but at least Ukraine didn't need to shoot the Russians that gave themselves radiation sickness, saved us some bullets.
Amazing that we have come so far that it is possible to even get close to this location. The amount of human sacrifice involved is extensive. Remember also that the current radiation might not be so dangerous for the guest, but the guides are here again and again.
No Monolith soldiers on every corner with gauss rifles and no stupid ghost voice who repeats the same sentence over and over again ? 0/10 Would not visit ...
Idi ko mne.
Cheeky breeki!
You can see the monolith soldiers and hear a voice telling you stuff if you go there without the tour group.
Get out of here Stalker
Damn
Imagine the level of radiation the guide woman gets every day😬😬
About as much as a transatlantic flight, commercial airplane pilots are probably exposed to way more radiation in their lives than she will ever experience during those tours...
@@Superciuppaful 5.65 - 9msv?
It's the same way they swapped out with the workers that helped built the curcofagus
@Sunny-dayz so even if there are 5 guides, they are exposed to gigantic level of radiation every day! Even if they dont do guidings every day, do you think they live 1000miles away? 😂
Basically no radiation. It is not dangerous in there at all, hence why people still work there. The reactors 1 2 and 3 were still operating all the way up to 2000, 14 years after the accident.
That area is not dangerous at all, as someone else said in this thread, there is less radiation there than on an airplane.
Don't care about the radiation. You only got one life, so shine to the fullest
🤣😂😅
and pass down genetic mutations to your descendants yay
@@lizandraclayres They never get the full dose, so if it does at all, you'll notice some strange things in a few generations.
Our dna is quite good a dealing with this kind of bullshit.
So, as Rihanna once said :"Shine bright like a diamond"
@@lizandraclayres bold of you to assume that i will have children
I mean if I had a gun and a terminal illness, this would be one amazing place to quickly visit before you had to take yourself out due to the burns and vomiting.
Watching from Guyana 🇬🇾. I was in primary school at the time when this catastrophe had happened. I heard the news over the radio but didn't understand the gravity of it until a few years later when I was in high school. Then I read and re-read some articles in the 1992/1993 Popular Science magazine. That wasn't enough. My quest to learn more about Chernobyl didn't stop there until now...the grown man I am. Sometimes, like how I just saw this video I would retire to bed and my mind just wandering about the incident that should have never happened @01:23 am that fateful morning.
Sometimes, I am lead to believe that it was all well intended because from the chain of events that occurred and the 'junior' staff on that shift 'conducting' such an 'experiment' in the wee hours of the morning is something...
This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!
I wish Bald and Bankrupt was the one taking us through. It's be interesting
Look at this amazing old Soviet pipeline. Look at this amazing soviet sarcophagus
when they turn this into some type of tourist attraction with guided tours inside the power plant it gets wrong on so many levels
It's for educational purposes not just to have anyone walking in and laughing.
@@shannalese ok, that make sense than.
The tour guide seem immune to radiation she does nt even wear a glove i think she did that hundred times
This was awesome! Thank you for showing us!!
I don`t get the current fetish for trips to Chernobyl. Go, then , to say you have been. As for me, living 1400 miles away from the plant is close enough - even 34 years after.
I live at a distance of 1112 miles (1790 km). I remember the day the radioactive cloud was moving in our direction, while our government had forbidden the media to warn about it in order to prevent a panic. That was not a joke.
I wouldn't say it's a fetish, but it's part of history, and I can understand why someone might want to visit if they have the opportunity. Pripyat in particular is like a time machine, it is a completely intact Soviet town from 1986 (though falling apart and being overtaken by nature now). I can't afford to really take a trip there right now, but if the opportunity ever presents itself being able to see it in person would be interesting.
But it is important to visit places like Chernobyl, Auschwitz, Pearl Harbor, the Berlin Wall, etc... to learn from the mistakes that past generations made and not repeat history ever again. Also as an act of respect for the people that suffered and sacrificed there. Besides, it's completely safe to visit Pripyat and Chernobyl nowadays, unless you do something really stupid like taking contaminated objects with you or messing with the militaries, you'll be safe.
Hi, Wilbert. Some people may have to visit such places to learn about the past. I don`t - and would ask those that do why they have to visit Chernobyl, for example, to learn about it.
In visiting such a place you might well be `visiting the past` whilst shortening ones future. As I`ve pointed out Chernobyl is 1400 miles away from where I live, which is close enough.
"Completely safe," in Pripyat ? Chernobyl has increased the background radiation of the entire planet, my friend, forever. There is no `completely safe` from Chernobyl anywhere in the world let alone in a town 5 miles away from it.
I live in England and I'm quite comfortable not going anywhere near the wretched reactor.
If you haven't already done so, a good book to read is "Midnight in Chernobyl" by Adam Higginbotham. He talks to all of the key players at Chernobyl at the time of the disaster, the various officials in Moscow, Kyiv and most importantly Pripyat. Great book. Detail is immense.
this is terryfing
this is no place for humans, and your device tells you every second
What a monumental tragedy. So many needless deaths in following years from cancer. Children, teenagers, diagnosed with myriad of "unexplained" illnesses too.
Talk about a Dirty Job...
Just imagine the poor lady going in and out into a nuclear disaster over and over again to show off someone's stupid mistake...
A tour guide's worst nightmare...
Yeah, and how it’s perfectly fine to do so 🤷♂️
They are rotated between the different tours that have a lot of different tours of the area
The people who are mistaken are not stupid. They just dont know how to operate the control system and they shall follow the order because an order is an order think before u post idiot
Cedrick Gelicame Actually the whole thing was a complete farce. There were many stupid mistakes involved. I still can’t believe the Russian government tried to cover it all up when it happened.
Tom W Why can’t you believe the Soviet government would try to cover up the worlds worst nuclear disaster after they covered up the worlds worst genocide of 50 million deaths. Off to gulag with you.
I like to imagine that the engineer that was never found goes through something similar to Dr. Manhattan, maybe Dr. Chernobyl?
Great video. Chernobyl intrigues the hell outta me.
It's all a tour until someone says "Do you see that giant foot like object?"
The most incredible thing about the poor dude whose body was not found, is that probably his body is still well preserved due to absurd levels of radiation that keep bacteria, molds and other decomposers away.
Radiation does not preserve water from evaporation, he would become mummy, if radiation was such high. Also, radiation is not good at preserving things. Colors fade after long exposure to sunlight, plastics become fragile, and that’s only UV.
Nuclear energy is strong but I feel like it was discovered at the wrong time...
And used the wrong way..
What would have been the right time?
@@strtngfrsh welp-
A time where people fucking knew how unsafe it was
@@strtngfrsh Now as an alternative energy source. People back then used it for destruction. That was the first reason of use but then people realized the potential disasters nuclear energy could've actually brought to our world.
@@EnDSchultz1 they used it before they even knew if it was safe or not
Thats how chernobyl exploded
that dark hallway with the flickering lights scares the crap out of me lol
Amazing video. Thank you for the exclusive view.
That radiation level is not dangerous at all. The only dangerous place is the basement of where reactor nr 4 was that contains the molten cores and is called the elephants foot because of the shape. That place is not accessible to visitors and they still have to find out how to get rid of that deadly mass. And the second dangerous place is a small piece of forest west of the complex called the Red Pines that was directly in the path of the accident in 1986. Pripyat and the Duga1 radar are totally save. It's just a tourist attraction so that people visit Ukraine but it has much more to offer and the people of Ukraine are nice and deserve a better future
Liked because there are nice good people all over and have wanted to visit chernobyl for 20 years. Hope one day I get to spend some of my limited tourist budget there!
not only that the gamma is so dangerous that no human can go in there only robots and drones. If any male goes in there it means fried penis and testicle and prostate cancer. If any female goes in there it will fry their breast and vaginas leading to breast cancer, ovary cancer, uterus cancer,and cervical cancer and both will be unable to have sex or have children and not only that two years after fallout they will all be dead. This is why we need to completely destroy the plant and remove everything radioactive and send it to Czech Republic where it will be buried in a salt mine and it will never harm civilians again. Russia and the rest of the world lost a generation because of Chernobyl because 30 years ago the first and second generation of workers who went in for the hasty cleanup all of them are dead so are their husbands, wives, and children. We don't want to repeat that mistake that the Russians made we must destroy Chernobyl and we need to do it now or in 50 years the world will be destroyed by a mushroom cloud.
@@geomodelrailroader why send it to the Czech Republic? We don't want your mess. fuck that shit.
Maybe a good idea to put the Elephant's foot on the penis of Ayatollah Khamenei 😂😂😂
@@vilemmarakii9809 the eastern block repository is in a salt mine north of the capital on the border with Ukraine.
2:54 'What is the level?' "4.4uSv" That is LOW. Those geiger counters start alarming at a few times higher than background level. You get somewhere around 2 to 3uSv/hr sitting on a plane at 40,000 feet.
The area near the reactor is actually quite low dose as it was so thoroughly cleaned up because people had to work close to it. There are much much higher reading hotspots around the zone if you know where to look.
Perhaps they turn the alarm threshold down to make it more exciting for the tourists.
There are thick concerete walls, that's why the dose is low. Here's a video from the reactor hall (in Russian)
th-cam.com/video/zP-EbZL7040/w-d-xo.html
Nuclear plants have _very_ strict regulations. Under normal operating conditions, someone working inside of a nuclear plant will receive less radiation than a person working outside.
Everybody gangsta until the dosimeters start screaming.
Watching from Guyana 🇬🇾. I was in primary school at the time when this catastrophe had happened. I heard the news over the radio(since at that time Guyana still didn't have TV, ) but didn't understand the gravity of it until a few years later when I was in high school. Then I read and re-read some articles in the 1992/1993 Popular Science magazine. That wasn't enough. My quest to learn more about Chernobyl didn't stop there until now...the grown man I am. Sometimes, like how I just saw this video I would retire to bed and my mind just wandering about the incident that should have never happened @01:23 am that fateful morning.
Sometimes, I am lead to believe that it was all well intended because from the chain of events that occurred and the 'junior' staff on that shift 'conducting' such an 'experiment' in the wee hours of the morning is something...
Wow I wish I can see more of that 3D model pretty cool.🤔
Being a Chernobyl tour must be a sought after job.
Everyone gangsta till they start tasting metal
What about Dyatlov's toilet?
There's a memorial in the bathroom of him in the squatting position.
Who would win: highly intelligent scientist or
Some jumpy bois
lol
not funny
Reactor 4, is not dead, its alive for the next 50, 000 years, its immortal, still living and breathing. I did a private Chernobyl tour July 2019 (watch my video) Guides limited to 3 days a week, 15 hours maximum in the zone. Chernobyl workers living and working there can do 15 days per month, but only doing 5 hours active work outside per day, all other time has to be in the safe accommodation provided, unless in Cherbobyl Town (40 KM Zone) from the reactor. Its possible to visit deep inside, but only for a few minutes maximum, keep levels low as a 9 hour trans Atlantic flight USA to Ukraine.
this is an excellent video, thanks so much for sharing it.
The show got the important details right, ie the bureaucracy and the scale of casualties
Always great to see a new video on this with new views perspective and insight.
It's like the imitation game and then you visit Bletchley Park where the guides giving the talks start off with how many have seen the movie knowing that that's what got most of them there. And then they give a much more real story's and different parts they played and real character traits. Plus as tour guides they are there to talk at the get togethers with people who worked there in all the different more regular roles, and pass them little titbits onto the visitors.
I hope all this interest generated leads onto more people wanting to know more and learning and visiting to get to the guts of the issue without know stereotypes of drinking vodka after everyshift. But now I think of it if I was sent on a job shitting myself I'm likely gonna die why shouldn't they get some booze doing that dangerous job into the depths of the unknown. They really should have been celebrating there last possible days...
8:25 I dont think Dyatlov was in the control room at this scene. He was walking down a corridor I think
"that is the door to the destroyed reactor number 4"
> Man casually walks inside and closes the door
It's so scary to think that the scientist were running around the same area when that happened
Where is that toilet?? At the explosion time superior gone
I would love to visit this place but I understand just how destroying and violent nuclear contamination is and that's enough to make me content with watching others do it on TH-cam while I'm nice and warm and safe in bed.
I get this fascination, what it would look like to be staring into the destroyed core today.
Wow. This has me wanting to visit now. Always have held an interest in nuclear physics. Nope, not a scientist, but a student of sciences.