Chernobyl Nuclear Fallout Is Still In Our Food
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Why blaming Chernobyl? Isn't Cesium-137 everywhere?
@MarianLuca-rz5kk no and yes
No, because it never existed before Trinity and yes because nuclear tests around the world made it go everywhere
@@MarianLuca-rz5kkjapans still keaking but thyr just not showing it. New zealand got their crap from wind streams
@@MarianLuca-rz5kktheres also tritium all over the twin tiwers site. Formed frim neuclear breakdown.
@@MarianLuca-rz5kk Chernobyl made an awful lot of it. Before Chernobyl, the quantities would have been smaller, and before the start of nuclear testing, the quantities would have been very small. And now Fukushima made still more of it, although with the mitigating factor of less of it going into the atmosphere (but still going into the ocean as well as the soil and ground water immediately around there) -- the extended fire at Chernobyl really made sure it would get spread widely.
6:21: “So these are really cool to have around.”
A radiation detector, not a capsule of Caesium, that is.
That's what I thought when he said it lol
I like having a random capsule of cesium 137 around.
LOL, I did a wtf? too.
A capsule of Cesium is still pretty cool to have around (assuming its Cs-133)
It Depends on 😂
Ironic that a nuclear explosion, full of radiation, produces a mushroom cloud.
Any explosion of enough power will create a mushroom cloud
lol
Yah, that's how Rayleigh-Taylor instability works
It could that be used to power electronic devices?
The cloud is actually half of a torus
I was travelling with my dad by train close Moscow a couple of weeks after the plant blew up. I remember the train made a 15 minute stop or something, and we went out to get some air. Some people were selling vegetables near the station and an old lady was selling mushrooms. And the mushrooms looked great. I used to pick wild mushrooms as a kid, so I knew good mushrooms when I saw them. Then a couple of gov't agents showed up -- not cops but they had some kind of government ID and had authority. They confiscated her mushrooms. And she was crying -- she'd spent all morning collecting them. I was just a kid so all of this flew over my head. Of course, when I grew up I learned that mushrooms had soaked up and concentrated the dilute fallout that reached Moscow. And also, that the mushrooms looked so good because the radiation had killed off the parasites.
I hope you never get cancer. When I lived in Germany you couldn't eat the wild boar because they ate the radioactive mushrooms. Interesting analog to tuna and mercury concentration. Or the Roman empire and lead. Our civilizations do make progress, but at a large social cost
@@jamesyoungquist6923 It could have been that my thyroid suffered a bit, because now I have to take tablets for it. But I have no idea if that's really the cause. If anything else got messed up, hopefully it fully healed by now...
Feel sad that you didn't get the chance to eat them😢
@@hamzarafiq9347 Pass. You can have them.
Mushroom literally parasite bro
Mushrooms are great bio-accumulators of not even just Cesium-137, but multiple different kinds of elements; Pleurotus ostreatus, for example, is capable of concentrating cadmium within it's basidiocarps. On the topic of Cesium-137, however, Gomphidius glutinosus is probably one of, if not the best bio-accumulator of Cesium-137, capable of concentrating it up to 10,000x over normal background levels within their basidiocarp. On the topic of radioactivity, there are also the radiotrophic molds that exist and thrive within the environment of Chernobyl. Fungi are hella cool.
radio...trophic!? you can't eat radiation. How is that possible.
@@sylv256fungi: hold my spores and watch this
@@sylv256 Current studies have found that increased melanin content in these fungi correlates with enhanced growth, so we hypothesize that the melanin in radiotrophic fungi helps support an important metabolic reaction of some kind involving radiation, although more evidence is needed to fully prove that it is melanin which is responsible for the perceived radiotrophic abilities. At the very least, we know that melanin in radiotrophic fungi is very much most likely what helps shield them from radiation's damaging effects as melanins are known to be able to absorb electromagnetic radiation due to their dark colors and high molecular weights. The process is called radiosynthesis and doesn't have a lot of study done on it (for obvious reasons), but even if it's not purely radiosynthesis (incorporating other methods of energy generation) or not radiosynthesis at all, these fungi are still very resistant to radiation when compared to most organisms on the planet.
Neeeeeerd (compliment)
@@sylv256 They put the fun in fungi. No seriously, Fungi can do insane things - like for example eating plastic.
I can’t help but notice the lack of radiation testing for the Cook Unity foods… XD
Missed opportunity!
I would hardly call Chernobyl’s radiation leak small.
North of Sweden, has mushrooms, berries and wild boar high content of caesium.
yummy☢️
Yet wildlife thrives.
@@erikziak1249 Thrives and thrives... it's about the same as it's always been. It seems you think of the thriving wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone that benefits from the lack of humans but magnusz4566 was talking about northern Sweden (I read between the lines that he didn't mean north of but northern, north of makes no sense).
@@erikziak1249 The wildlife thrives, but the animals have a higher cancer rate.
@@RCAvhstape interestingly the dogs in the exclusion zone seem to do fine. But their life expectancy is lower than the time for the increased cancer risk to cause issues.
I've been monitoring background radiation levels since the Chernobyl accident, and I still learned something new. I had no idea the phone camera could be used to detect high-energy particles, so thank you for that. I'm going to try it with an Americium pellet from a smoke detector.
My homie got me some _seriously nuclear_ mushrooms last summer.
I could see the atomic structures in everything.
I can _Appreciate_ that statement
in fact,
I'm pritty sure the shrooms in my Life were _Key_ to my majoring in Physics
What is going on
@@p3achyyp8p16 lol sweet summer child.
@@grekygrek oh could you please explain?
@@p3achyyp8p16 Psilocybin mushrooms
Im from Poland, I pick wild mushrooms since i was a child. Im pretty sure i eat about 10kg to 15kg of various mushrooms a year, and it is propably the same for the rest of my family, so far there has been no traces af any radiation related medical conditions in my family. Which should be obvious since radiation levels from these mushrooms are insignificant.
It's a case of you might see an increased number of cases of cancer in a population. Your family is too small a sample size to tell anything at all. So let's say a person without exposure has a risk of getting cancer in their lifetime of 20%, you may have a risk of 21% (number taken out of my ass, but you get the point). You will never be able to tell what the cause is, but it may show up in statistics. It has also only been 40 years, not even half a lifetime has passed since chernobyl.
The level of increased exposition is well below the stochastic limit.
There are people living all their life in regions with way more natural radiation all year long, than a few mushrooms and with no statistically significant diff with the average death rate. (Indian plateau, french britain, polynesian islands etc)
I remember that as a kid in Sweden i wasn't allowed to play in the sandbox for a while due to this. There also was / is radiation in our forests here.
Mushroom picking is very popular in Czechia, Slovakia and Poland - despite that, life expectancy has been steadily rising in all of these countries and is comparable to developed countries that weren't as exposed to Chernobyl's fallout and where mushroom picking isn't nearly as popular.
I'm from Slovakia and what you say is true. He didn't show distribution of Cesium for Slovakia but I expect it to be something between Ukrainian an Austrian. So quite low.
But there are other factors affecting expectancy. For instance we eat much less junk food than US and have less obesity. So despite more radiation and worse healthcare life expectancy is pretty good.
Nah. That totaled to 97.1% what he showed and since germany has 1.1% then slovakia has less than that or the same.
Not sure if i would call Chernobyl a "small radiation leak" but point taken 😄
Ok, could you go through, harvesting the mushrooms and thereby depleting the soil of the radioactive cesium? how much effort would that take to show a benefit?
I love uranium 235
Is that what you used to kill those who miss their lessons? *Please let my Family live*
Then buy shares of the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust.
With mint frosting.
@@lewisevans4580i5s not the real duolingo
So quirky and funny
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stay safe ❤
This is so cool. I love this channel, very consistent quality!
Awesome. I'm making porcini mushroom risotto tonight. Maybe I'll glow write along with the northern lights tonight.
You might 😅😅
Where I live, most mushrooms is farmed. They are safe to eat.
Is this why a nuclear explosion shaped like a mushroom?
that's exactly why
☠
Do you understand the difference between a nuclear bomb explosion, and a fire in a nuclear power station?
@@neuralwarp do you even lift?
"These Mushrooms are Radioactive"
> Proceeds to then show off a sponser that serves food from AROUND THE WORLD
I once ate a banana that had so much bananesium, it made me bananed for a week.
Interestingly, as I mentioned to James potassium also sometimes decays into argon-40 via positron emission however it would best do it with decent shielding and with a decent amount of potassium like hundreds of grams to kilograms of it if you want to detect the 511 keV annihilation photons.
The Thought Emporium has detected antimatter in one of his videos so you can check out his TH-cam channel to see what I’m talking about! :)
Uncontrolled power surge? The guy running the safety was forced by his superior to run a test on the backup coolant system by shutting off the primary cooling. Secondary failed, primary failed to reinitiate, melt down.
How much radiation did the control group samples show? You did test non-Chernobyl mushrooms and berries, didn't you?
he wouldnt need to the radiation came only from the cesium in the mushrooms if he were to get some mushrooms from america as a control group it would have cesium and there would be no point
I went to Chernobyl in 2014. The guide told us the same truth for moss. We put our Geiger counters up to the moss and they spiked. Fun fact - the exit points of the Chernobyl area was a mandatory "beep down" of your clothes/bags. If they detected radioactive particles you'd have to ditch them. The guide joked that the guards used fake detectors to make "hot chicks take their pants off". We all laughed "sort of" but that's messed up!
I watch a lot of videos on YT, but this was one of the best in recent years. I live in Eastern Europe (Hungary). Thank you very much, you have helped me a lot! Respect!
A big contributer to the contamination was that the RBMK reactors are graphite moderated, this caught fire. And burned for a few days. Like a giant coal fire around the nuclear fuel. The water/zirkonium reaction into hydrogen, and subsequent explosions happened in Fukushima too, but not nearly as big of an area was contaminated.
Yes nothing like a massive charcoal fire, that burns hot enough to melt most materials into glass, to spread debris around.
Fukushima had hydrogen explosions on the escape valve where the hydrogen was being released, not inside the chamber, that was VERY different.
Also there was tree levels of containment.
Chernobyl was basically an open pot.
@@monad_tcp Yes, explosion happened outside the reactor vessel. The hydrogen came from the water vapor reacting with the zirconium, right?
Thank you for another great video. Very interesting.
Yep, in Sweden when buying land, you still have to (well, SHOULD) consider radiation in arable soil and lakes in some parts of Sweden. It's much less of a hassle now but still a nagging thought.
Always love you videos!
I'm not sure that I needed more reasons to be paranoid about travel.
Awesome episode 👍😀
Radioactive wild boars are a real thing where I live in southern Switzerland (also known as Fallout 5 😅) and that's because they eat a lot of mushrooms assimilating a lot of Chernobyl radioactive material
I love my Radiacode 103! Cool viddy!
Thanks for linking to that detector, still a little expensive for me to play around with, but still good to know, I really was interested in what that software told, so the detector actually can differentiate between different energy of gamma rays? That's actually pretty nuts when you think about it. That said, I don't think those detections from your camera are loops like a cloud chamber, you'd need to have a fairly strong magnetic field to get those from any high energy charged particle, plus photons don't make loops.
In 1975 I was an EE student and night janitor at Monsanto in Seattle. They had a spectrograph and it was big.
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@@toseltreps1101 I am a grandpa, my IQ decay is being monitored, and I am taking meds for it.
@@tnekkcbro actually is on meds
1:03 shown correctly cs-137more accuratelly a dougter of a fission product and not of the u-235 but that is a really fine technical detail. As for Chernobyl I heard it is still not clear wheter it was a steam or a hydrogen explosion, or even both. Also, again very fine detail Ba-137m1 decays to it's ground state via 661.66 keV gamma.
Now that summer is here it would be cool to see how hot an object can get if left outside in a vacuum!
That mobile trick is seriously cool!
great vids!
Great video! Congratulations!
Please, what's the full name and make of the cosmic ray detection app? Or its link? I tried to find it but couldn't. Thanks!
I like these radiation experiment videos
An idea for a video would be growing plants in fiestaware red bowls to see the effects of radiation on plants (or maybe make a terrarium with insects and plants to show the effects on a small scale ecosystem)
very informative
interesting topic
It's amazing how the quality of content in this channel changed in a couple of years
Kind of cool how yesterday, I was watching a brew video of Cesium 137 and now the action lab.
Where did you buy the mushrooms? I am looking for some to use as a cheap calibration source for my radiacode.
Buy WT-20 tungsten electrodes instead.
So is Fukushima. It's in our oceans and seafood right now. Nobody seems to talk much about Fukushima today. That disaster is still there and current. The storage tanks have passed their use by dates are are breaking down.
"It's in our oceans and seafood right now."
Cause it is irrelevant. Even right at the plant the radiation is minimal, then there was only a very small amount released into the oceans.
If you would really care about that then you would mention that China has, for the past decades, released more radiation into the ocean every single WEEK than Fukushima has in its entire livetime (including the meltdown and all the released material there).
Fukushima had a containment vessel. The only remnant outside of the vessel is the cooling water which is stored. The amount of stored water relative to the amount of seawater even 5 miles from the plant is miniscule. Seawater contains radiation naturally. It's not worth talking about. Quit spreading fear.
@@ABaumstumpf don't be racist, leave chinese people alone
@@ABaumstumpf Ummmm. You need to do more research champion. The seafood caught in the US has radiation from Fukushima. "a very small amount". Incorrect I'm afraid. Right now the radioactive waste is leaching into the sub spring under the plant and has been for years. See, it's people like you who are clueless about what's' really going on that think there's nOtHinG tO wORrY aBoUt.
@@ABaumstumpf And even then, it STILL DOES NOTHING!!!!
you are the best!!!!
Very good teacher
Did anyone see the title change when clicked on the video
Yes I saw it
Thank you for this detailed insight into the Chernobyl syndrome. As I understand you've effectively said the radiation is "still" there though much reduced. You haven't stated if this is really good or bad. So I hv to do something more to derive a conclusion for myself.
In my country, Czechia, gamekeepers used to check the meat of slain hogs (wild pigs) with a geiger counter, because the forest animals eat lots of mushrooms and the radioactive elements may concentrate in their bodies above the safe levels.
Geiger counter is not suitable, gamma spectrometer should be used instead.
2:00 that isnt much higher than background, those mushrooms (assuming theyre edibles, idk how to id them), so they'd still be totally fine to eat
Wow. I always wonder about the chemical properties of radioactive substances and how they affect our bodies if ingested or inhaled.
I have a question I am hoping you'll answer. When I boil water in a pot on the stove, I hear noise as the water warms, but before any bubbles are apparent. Where does that noise come from? One pot I have has a very non-flat bottom, and the pot sometimes jiggles/rocks when the noise occurs, but well before I can see any bubbles forming in the water. What gives here?
expanding air between the pot and the plate?
@@HappyBeezerStudios Thanks!! that's probably it.
So, let me get this straight... If I eat enough Porcini mushrooms, I'll turn into Mushroom Man? 🤔I'm sold! Love those things. 💪
No, you have to get bitten by one.
6:29 Oh wild, I was expecting you to say his brakes failed and he died in a tragic car accident.
I suppose that it is a little off-topic, which is why he didn't mention it, but Potassium-40 can decay into Argon-40 in two ways: usually with an electron capture with an emission of a neutrino and a gamma ray, but also with "beta plus decay": an emission of a neutrino and a positron. That means bananas (and you, if you've eaten bananas recently) are a very small-scale antimatter factory!
I once knew a guy from Poland who was a child when the Chernobyl disaster happened, and he remembers his father taking him foraging for mushrooms in the forest at night because they glowed in the dark. !!
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Nice content boss 🙌🏻
yes, the farmers market in my neighborhood is selling bean pods the size of your wrist exclusively from Chernobyl farm lands....and the radishes are the size of soft balls.
Yup, I remember learning that wild mushrooms are radioactive and shouldn't be eaten. The radiation level is still high enough that collected mushrooms go over the allowed limit for sold food.
as a member of the mycological society of Munich i would like to point out that different species of mushrooms will have massively different levels of radiation - as in across several orders of magnitude.
also yeah, wild boar carcasses, which have to be inspected by law anyway bc of trichines, are also assessed for their levels of radiation and if those are too high (heard of cases of threefold the commonly accepted upper limit) they aren't cleared for human consumption.
What spectrogram application are you using on your phone?
Me pregunto dónde conseguiste los hongos radioactivos. No creo que los envíen... Como las tentadoras comidas...
Wow, thanks for this test. I live in Greece and need to be careful about the origins of mushrooms
Will be good to compare mushrooms radiation activity from the other clear region.
Chemistry can obviously be super dangerous. It's pretty crazy when you think about just how far mankind has come from discovering how to "make fire". Simultaneously, they've essentially poisoned the air, water, soil, etc., and thus... themselves.
Where we can find the cosmic ray ap and what kinda intransparent foil I should put at my smartphone cam for you 7:20 Experiment? 6:22 Good thing he report authoritys, we learn from that we shall never hide it if we fins something radioactive.
Mushrooms infused with cesium 137 make me hungry too!
Are you suggesting Chernobyl was a small radiation leak?
Where was that suggested?
At the end, did you say a small radiation leak... like at Chernobyl?
I would've sworn this video had a different title when I started watching than when I finished it. it was something like "why is there [radioactive subsance] in my mushrooms"
that RadiaCode thing is basically an engineering tricorder from Star Trek
Brazil nuts are radioactive, but for a completely different reason -- they concentrate _natural_ radioactive nucleotides from the soil... not artificial radioactive nucleotides synthesized by humans.
I'm Brazilian, can confirm my nuts are radioactive
Nuclear reactions of uranium do occur naturally. Google Oklo.
Fear leads to stress, which is a far bigger health risk. Yes Cesium137 is bad, but compared to daily exposure to exhaust fumes it is negligible.
Everything about mushrooms is fascinating.
Disgusting, they should not be considered food, just concentrated mold.
0:24 "uncontrolled" power surge, sure
Next video he'll bring out a Full Empty and explain what Artifacts from the Zone are.
Very interesting.
i don't think cesium is the most dangerous element in the mix, but it is abundant and relatively easy to sample
I think in this sense he's measuring danger by the number of people impacted Cannon lake some snakes are far more venomous than others that are considered more dangerous simply because they attack more people every year
Radon is far more insidious, because it is easy to have concentrated in an enclosed space with ground contact, and it decays right inside your lungs.
It’s a beta particle and gamma particle producer. These are less dangerous than alpha particles if ingested. But they can cause cancer and other health problems.
Here in Brazil we play with Caesium 137
Cool tech, it costs a fortune though at $495 (AUD) .. There are other monitors with inbuild screen that are about 5 times less.
Excellent video, very interesting. You still sound like Roger off American Dad though 🙂
"a small radiation leak, like the one around Chernobyl"... Small?! 😳
Can you do comparable research into food from Fukushima?
Primary fuel was never oxidized and released. Unlike Chernobyl where fuel burned a trillion times more curies were released there.
Only pico curies in Japan .
Lab guy: Forbidden(radioactive) food making me hungry
Is the shot at 0:41-50 real? Or CGI? If real, surely that’s not Chernobyl right? Where is this clip from; the image resolution is great.
It is not CGI, but it is not Chernobyl. It is a real fire that happened at a refinery in Israel in 2016. But the audio is the real announcement after the accident at Chernobyl warning residents to evacuate.
I blame Avogadro's number. it's just so big. One Mole per Earth is about 1,000,000 particles per square inch, 1 every 30 microns.
Witch detector are you using?? I am interested in buying one haha
Are you aware there's a description for each TH-cam video? Read the description. He even said in the video that he _would_ indeed give out the info
The irony in the think pot of mankind is we never try or take the interest of our scientist and science. If so, then global starvation, medical treatment,, global warming we can manage well. I really respect this channel.... regards 😊
Place a radiation meter on a granite bench in the park, and you'll be surprised 😂
The are AFAIK some interesting things about mushrooms and other food from Belarus. The thing is that there is a quite a big zone around Chernobyl which is closed for people in Ukraine, however the same part in Belarus is not closed, like at all. I've seen a couple of videos where Belarus journalists tried to investigate why it wasn't closed and they came to conclusion that it was forced by the regime to believe that these parts of Belarus are safe from radiation. Apparently they are not - and the confirmation we see in this video. I am just wondering how much of a contamination is expected in mushrooms in other parts of the world - I mean how actually safe it is to collect them and if it is essential to check all of them as an (arguably?) paranoid person with a Geiger counter...
Eh, other than the main site of the reactor, its still safe
@@normalchannel2185 oh I see, thanks
Belarus took 33% of cesium and there is no Poland on the chart? What are the numbers for Poland?
I knew Belarus took whole a lot of radiation and im also surprised theres no Poland mentioned in the chart
@@18wind08great point. You are very observant.
Беларусь загрязнена на юго-востоке, а Польша находится к западу от Беларуси, т.е. с другой стороны, поэтому там чисто
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Is it true objects can instantly go from one place to another by controlling the atomic vibration as a whole. As you move any object around the atomic vibration changes. Even when stationary the vibration is constantly changing because the earth is rotating and moving through space. As you walk and move around your atomic vibration changes according to where you are in space and time . If you can control the atomic vibration as a whole, you can make any craft or object go anywhere instantly. You would need something beyond a super computer to make the calculation needed.
correction, the initial explosion was a steam explosion, not a hydrogen explosion
The fallout was not uniform. Czechoslovakia got much less fallout than Austria. Foraging mushrooms in Czechia and Slovakia is very popular and the only risk to your health is if you pick poisonous mushrooms. Also game meat is safe. Some regions in Austria have Cs-137 levels much higher and the wildlife feasting on the mushrooms really is radioactive. But the levels are still very low. Radioactivity can be detected at very tiny levels. To have any statistical risk of consuming "Austrian radioactive mushrooms", you wold need to eat kilograms of them every day for at least 10 years.
The clouds moved across most of Europe but the radiation only came down where it rained. So some regions got lucky and others now have random spots of radiation based on how much it rained back then. I think what scared people so much isn't the average radiation but how unevenly it was distributed and not knowing how much is in your food.
Yeah, he showed the distribution on the screen. Interesting though that Slovakia could have less than Austria, I didn't expect that.
Nuclear power is extremely safe. Humans on the other hand can make anything dangerous.