I'd wear a filtration mask going into ANY ex-Soviet power plant. The reason being, you just have no idea what you're be walking into. About 25 years ago I was shown around a (gas-fired thermal) power plant in St Petersburg to find absolutely everything coated in a snow of asbestos. Their method of removing the heavy asbestos cladding around all the turbines and steam pipes was to drag it off in chunks and pile it into wooden carts. The place was a death trap without being a place of nuclear disaster. The situation has not improved much. Asbestos in Russia is simply ignored as a problem. The scale of lung cancer this causes and will continue to cause may be judged from the situation in the UK, where even now 2,500 people die of mesothelioma every year (decades after legislation largely stopped its use). Russian health and safety = oxymoron.
jon doe Not really. Just a hit to your health as this amount of radiation at Once can equil 1-2 lifetimes of radiation for a single person. No worse than working on a nuclear submarine. Course think about all the people who are still there as they could not move away.
Damn it’s like you wish you could turn down that high-pitched beeping noise in the background, but then you realize, that’s the sound of their radiation sensors, going off the whole time.
Yeah it's definitely one sound you don't want to mute or turn down because it's there to warn you of deadly doses of radiation , not being able to hear the audio warning is a death sentence for you if you're not paying attention to the isotope meter.
Radiation can penetrate most things, that plastic is going nothing for them, unless their is some kind of like lead outlining or something along those lines
Keith Gray yep. Lots of respect to her. She's got the same cool, collected personality as a cosmonaut the whole time. Great documentation. You could not pay me to go someplace with that many Geiger counters/dosimeters chattering away like that. Way to go.
I hate commenting on such an old comment but you realize that there is almost no risk in going there. There are a few exceptions at chernobyl but those areas are off limits to the public and in many cases very tightly controlled even for workers. The average yearly dose to a pack a day smoker is more than what is legally allowed for a radiation worker in the US for occupational dose.
@@josephvanas6352 and I guess I'm replying to your old comment replying to an old comment, but... Yes, this is true, but this woman isn't following the rules... That only applies if you're following the procedures and not going where you're not supposed to go. :p
Cristian RM and this part is not under it. It’s the turbine hall which was completely undamaged in the explosion and only had a fire in 1991 that they spoke about. Sarcophagus is constructed over the reactor building 4, not turbine halls.
You couldn't pay me enough to walk in there, even with every piece of protective equipment. This dude is just in here with a helmet like nothing is wrong
Meanwhile an actual reactor technician would point and say: "If you'll look over yonder, next to the red square thing, we can safely observe the reactors Cherenkov effect!"
oh my god the gatekeeping in this thread this thread what fucking cringe See how these dudes get all mad because of the gap between that one guy's accent and his vocab to elevate himself (likely cuz he's embarrassed by his background)? That's called fundamental attribution error - that how he talks in a segment of a 5 minute video is his entire outlook on life. Like how dare some random guy study a field and try to be smart after growing up in some shitty backwater place. Oh and since he's in a video and is near something super dangerous and is acting kinda casual, there's some hostile attribution bias going on - which is when people think someone's being an asshole when they're being chill because of some external shit. Then you get this one guy who's all No true Scottsman saying what reactor operators or technicians can and can't do based on his exacting specifications what a cope Hoes mad they can't set foot in Chernobyl. No 3.6 Roentgen for you guys lmao
Damn those meters are going off like crazy! I get they're not touching anything(except for that one time) but isn't the dust in the air they're breathing or coming in contact with harmful too?
Yeah, in fact the dust can be much more dangerous than gamma radiation. Once it gets inside of your body, it will stay there for a very long time, and will poison you from the inside. I really don't know why they are not wearing raspirator or something.
The dust could contain radioactive particles that once inhaled, would emit radiation continuously inside the body. The type of radiation emitted by the particles would be one major factor in how damaging that would be to the lungs. Gamma radiation escapes the body and very little is absorbed, but all alpha and beta emissions would be contained and absorbed by the body. Much worse in the long term. Obviously inhaling radioactive particles is bad and all steps should be taken to avoid unnecessary exposure. Radiation exposure is cumulative across your entire lifespan.
Thank you for the footage but next time we proper PPE... Holy moly it sounded like 1000+ CPM on someone's meter in this video and then someone sneezes and I'm sure it's not dryer lint they were breathing in to make them sneeze... Be careful people.
All of these fools are literally dead because they picked up and took home a piece of carbon... You were exactly right about the 1000 +, quite a few times I heard a solid tone. People in the comments were literally trying to say that they just got the equivalent of a couple chest x-rays... Dumb AF...
@Vitez od Vozdovca Are you okay bro? I have been fascinated by Chernobyl my whole life since I am from East Europe, and I am glad that through this miniseries the world acknowledges what we have been through Stop being a punk
@@ripudamankatoch4647 Because Americans (a lot of Americans at least) pronounce turbine as "turban". Like the guy talking in this video. A turban is what a sikh would wear on his head. (And there are lots of turbans in India.) To those who speak the Queen's English, pronouncing turbine as "turban" grates on the ears like finger nails on a chalk board. It's pronounced Tur-BINE, not turban.
Bionerd great to see your OK, I was worried about you with you not uploading any new videos! I would like to go visit Chernobyl and the woodpecker next year. I really enjoy your videos and have watched all of them. I hope you are well, much love and respect for your dedication to making great videos! Tom from North Yorkshire, UK
+Ljiljana Krstic Filipovic They've put up a new one, with yellow stripes. Apparently, even now all reactors are shut down, that big chimney is still needed in order for the ventilation systems to work properly.
A turbine failure I guess kills the reactor leaving her charred remains to rot and decompose in her containment the new ventilation stack is to help keep the smell of dead reactor corpse
Thank you. I was curious what happened to that tower when the safe confinement dome went overhead, but couldn't find anything about it with searches online. Now I know, you rock!
brilliant video, I love seeing all the dismantled part laying about its like the locomotives work shops I work in, but without hot spots, great to see you posting again really enjoy the channel
Holmesy87 I know that Americans pronounces things differently than the British, but my god! Nothing is more annoying than miss pronouncing the words aluminium and turbine.
Cosmic D. British (Britain) is made up of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales who all pronounce things differently to us English who speak English,. It gets a bit boring when Americans try telling us English how to speak English.
Lol. Well put. I'll bet it was because it was a "nuculer" power plant. I can accept middle eastern headwear could generate power, at least it's a word.
There are weak activity spots, but there are, and alot of dust all around. After all it is a semiabandoned workshop. Why not use at least some ffp2 mask or even better some respirator not to inhale it?
The worst nuclear disaster in history, man. The heart still aches for the victims of the most infamous catastrophe in peaceful use of nuclear energy, and the mind still electrified by all that has happened there. I will go before my time is up.
Beau Remington I agree, for the ACTUAL victims though. The people that stayed behind or went back deserve NOTHING in life. They made their bed by being the inbred vermin they are to stay there and be low lifes and murderers for having children in a contamination zone SO do NOT call the people that stayed or went back victims, they are a waste of life and vermin on the ground. PRAYERS FOR THE ACTUAL VICTIMS.
rjy8960 Sorry you feel that way dear mate. Am i Christian? No. Am i void of thinking that the people FORCED "for a temporary" time are not victims? No. Clearly you just wanted to jump on someone before you read the post. I AM russian and YOU obviously are a sad individual who wants to do nothing but start an aefument because the THRUTH hurts and is scary and makes you feel vulnerable. I am sorry that you took what i said the wrong way. As far as my THRUTHFUL comment about the VERMIN, yes, that is what they are. YES, i live in a flooding and tornado are, i have been forced with not being able to grab a single thing BUT the clothes on your back. Again, apologies you can't deal with the thruth about this terrible day. THE VICTIMS are those that were Hereos that fought to protect this area and those that were forced away from home and had to leave their whole life behind. The people that stayed or went back? Nothing but ignorant and wastes of human air. That is irrefutable. END OF CONVERSATION.
Your view and mine are totally opposed. You seem to be so full of bile regarding people returning to their homes and I can understand it. You claim to be Russian but seem to have a loathing for people who want their homes back. Sorry, that doesn't work or sit well with me. Whatever - Have a happy life.
1:21 miss Currie 2016 is now more like Kanye 2016 LOL awesome! Great cinematography and editing once again too. Love the seamlessness of the informative cut shots
Pripyat? nah. i heard of plans to set up solar panels inside the exclusion zone, though, because it's a huge area of "unused land". that's true, i guess - however, it's pretty much a national park with precious wild life by now, so it'd be sad to destroy it by any means, even though there are no plans to tear down the buildings of Pripyat afaik.
bionerd23 I see, well i hope they leave it like it is because it would be a shame for it to be destroyed, it just feels wrong. Anyways thanks for answering and take care!
bionerd23 how radioactive are, by average, the buildings in the town? I guess they wouldn't make for a treat even in case some of them collapse and create a cloud of dust from the debris, right?
Okay so, can this be a Cod: zombies map? I would love to run around that turbine room and the golden hall that she mentioned in the beginning while radioactive zombies are chasing me. Then of course, I turn around with my "gammanizer", (made up wonder weapon that shoots a gamma ray of ionizing radiation directed towards my target).
That was costly someone turning the wrong switch :-( Did the other reactor meltdown as well due to the loss of cooling, or just severely damaged I don't remember hearing about it at the time, or was it just too expensive for new pumps and a generator?
Coolkeys2009 reactor 4 was damaged. Surprisingly reactor 3 kept working years after the meltdown, even though there were extremely high levels of radiation.
The other reactors were undamaged by the meltdown of unit 4, and continued to operate for quite a few years after. Unit 3 (the reactor that shared this turbine hall) operated up till the turbine fire in 1991.
And this is the part where the roof collapsed and there was a huge fire... nice to know they got a grip on safety after the worst nuclear disaster ever.
Dear bionerd23, I've been very interested of lately in the chelyabinsk area in the eastern ural. I've watched all documentaries about that place and watched all roads accessing city 40 and all cooling ponds from google earth. Also its fun to go on small roads with google maps streetview and watch the huge factories in the area. City 40 also has allot of high pressure steam pipes going to lots of different factories. My question to you is: Do you have any interest in city 40 (chelyabinsk) and will you ever visit this place? or make a video about it. For example the accident that caused the EURT (eastern ural radio active trace) has never been explained for silly youtube viewers in a way that sheds light into the procedures that caused it. It would be super awesome if you would shed some light on this. As for me now Chernobyls cleanup has been dealt with for somewhat Chelyabinsk seems like the most interesting radio active area that there still is. I lived close to hanford site for a year and ever since i've been really impressed by this nuclear desolate spaces that remind us of coldwar and the beginning of nuclear science. I know that there is no public acces and that most russian nuclear material still is processed at chelyabinsk but its so interesting. Its where Chernobyl came from you know! its just as insane but just less exploded as chernobyl. Also I like the mysteries behind it. Strange underground city stories although I doubt they have anything to do with truth very interesting!
hell yeah, i'd love to ride my bike across the concrete parts of lake karachay. but as you say, getting access is not always as easy. guess i am too much of a mad scientist even by russia's standards. ;)
haha awesome! Lake karachay! haha well! check google maps you can get so close! there is a few spots where you can really look the distance into the exclusion zone! would be cool to hike or take a vacation there! Lake karachay i bet you already researched everything about that place. Chelyabinsk - 40 and 65 are about as significant to nuclear research as the Alamo and Hanford they should have problems like sellafields radioactive baths full zirconium alloy reactor fillings and baths full of strontium slowly heating up the radioactive molasses
SpenserRoger tnx! I'm so curious whether the POW working conditions in Chelyabinsk were true the internet is a crazy place full of fictionous stories but Chelyabinsk is just so incredibly illusive still.
I have been watching your fantastic videos for a long time and thanks for your latest Chernobyl updates. I remembered when the disaster first occured but little news was available until the advent of youtube. Its fascinating to look at the toxic paradise of Prypiat and the exclusion zone which is now a magnificent habitat for wildlife, hope it stays untouched for years to come. Great videos!
So one person tries the counter on a spot, then another person tries their counter on the same spot expecting a different result... Radiation be like "Two for one, oh yeah"
ive been told its about the equivalent of a chest x-ray so.. btw. theyre not exposed to much radiaton as the radioactive parts are the things around them and fheir shoes otherwise youd see static on the cam
How were they supposed to keep the rest of the turbine hall working into the 90s if there was contaminated water on the floor and loose surface contamination?
Hi, can you give me an answer? I saw videos made by Sergey Koshelev, two years after the disaster, inside the plant, precisely inside the reactor number 4 and near the famous elephant's foot. It is said that this place is the most radioactive place in the world, how is it possible that some people could have gone there? they should be dead almost instantly. thanks for reply
Because you've been lead to believe so by sensationalist pop-sci articles and videos. That video was from 1988, the present year is 2021. Almost all of the dangerous fission products have long since decayed. Carl Willis, featured in this video, is trying to get legal permission to film the "Elephants' Foot" in the basement level of the damaged reactor.
I wonder whether Chernobyl will begin to fade from public memory now that the enclosure is in place. I do hope that Chernobyl is preserved along with Pripyat as it has been and still is such an important part of human history. A national park with a museum-like setup might be ideal, maybe?
GFBDev Nuclear is a great source of energy, Uranium is in abundance, has a enormous energy density, and it is emits no carbon emissions. Yes accidents do happen but look at how much damage fossil fuels are doing. With better technology and more safeguards nuclear power plants have unlimited possibilities.
Tour guide: ok so this is a pump Dosimeter:YOU ARE DYING THIS VERY SECOND EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY Tour guide: That wall is green Lady: how interesting Dosimeter:DO YOU NOT HEAR ME??? YOU JUST TOOK 30 YEARS OFF YOUR LIFESPAN!!!
Correct me if im wrong but should you not have a tritium respirator with particulate attachment on due to the potential tritium and airborne contamination?
If I was a cameraman and they told me my next assignment was to go film Chernobyl or even Fukushima for a month I would turn in my f-you letter the next day and look for a new job.
Two minutes maximum is all you should take in the turbine Hall with a minimum of 2 months of a return. There isn't too much to see in there apart from a lot of wreckage..
@@bangthehankers1985 exactly. There's radiation sources all around us all the time. If everyone carried a dosimeter around all the time and set it to the most sensitive scale it would be screaming constantly.
lauriL90 I’m not saying I’m smarter then them I’m just saying they should’ve worn masks as a safety precaution as dust that might have built up over the tech might be irradiated
deine videos sind einfach klasse . . . endlich geht es mal weiter nach so langer zeit ;-) das ihr in diesen bereich herein gekommen seit . . . unglaublich ;-)
well i wouldnt walk there without respiratory protection cause it looks like there are a lot of dust and when you walk obviously you get that dust mixed with the air you breath. how radioactive this hall was and im interested in just a simple ground not metal objects you were testing :) oh and how you got access to that place?
I'm sure your not allowed near the second most reactive thing that also happened to cause the most destructive nuclear incident in history, let alone in side of it. Or unless you can find someone who doesn't mind suicide. Thinking about it, the camera might fail. After the accident the used a robot to get close to the reactor. The robots systems got messed up and it started to over hear and exploded. It wasn't a sliver robot, but a German one. Which was, at the time, a pretty advanced machine.
Im feeling so sad at the moment to hear that the iconic chimeny has been dismantled and stored away. would have loved to see it in its original space on the roof. I plan on going to chernobyl in 2017 but I guess now that the new sarcophagus is finished and the chimney has been dismantled the sight will be nowhere as impressive as it would have been before but still it will be an experience I will never forget I think! Thank you for your interesting videos!
Geiger Counters. You want that going off in irradiated zones/possible irradiated areas. Or else, you'd be dead, or severely sick with permenant health problems
I very much doubt the hydrogen they used was liquid. Hydrogen, as a coolant gas, is used because it has a really good heat capacity so it's good at cooling things down. The downside is that it's flammable and it damages iron and steel so it's hard to work with.
I'd wear a filtration mask going into ANY ex-Soviet power plant. The reason being, you just have no idea what you're be walking into. About 25 years ago I was shown around a (gas-fired thermal) power plant in St Petersburg to find absolutely everything coated in a snow of asbestos. Their method of removing the heavy asbestos cladding around all the turbines and steam pipes was to drag it off in chunks and pile it into wooden carts. The place was a death trap without being a place of nuclear disaster.
The situation has not improved much. Asbestos in Russia is simply ignored as a problem. The scale of lung cancer this causes and will continue to cause may be judged from the situation in the UK, where even now 2,500 people die of mesothelioma every year (decades after legislation largely stopped its use).
Russian health and safety = oxymoron.
Tonight on Cancer hunters...
Not at all. She's doing so much of this to help convey to people just how safe it can be (while also scientifically fascinating) if done properly.
jon doe Not really. Just a hit to your health as this amount of radiation at Once can equil 1-2 lifetimes of radiation for a single person. No worse than working on a nuclear submarine. Course think about all the people who are still there as they could not move away.
This episode
Jake Paul fans
jon doe - no more than you are in an airplane.
Some say they got cancer
When your dosimeter puts out a solid tone, you know it's time to go home 😅
When you hear a solid tone that’s your heart monitor flatlining!
Don't worry comrade, it is as much as a simple chest x-ray
Dustin just watched that episode lol
@@dustin872 Not too good, not too bad.
you are delusional , it is only 3.6 Roentgen
Damn it’s like you wish you could turn down that high-pitched beeping noise in the background, but then you realize, that’s the sound of their radiation sensors, going off the whole time.
Yeah it's definitely one sound you don't want to mute or turn down because it's there to warn you of deadly doses of radiation , not being able to hear the audio warning is a death sentence for you if you're not paying attention to the isotope meter.
Covered dosimeter with plastic bag, and touch everything with bare hand.
That just shows how little you know about radioactivity
Radiation can penetrate most things, that plastic is going nothing for them, unless their is some kind of like lead outlining or something along those lines
You don’t want dust, especially radioactive dust, to contaminate your instrument. Hands are easy to wash.
@@OnTheRiver66 ye, but also. There is a lot of radioctive rust, u dont want accidently get that rust into ur bloodstream.
HANDES CAN BE SWASESM BTR THE DOEMETER NEEDS TO BE WASHED WITH TURMENTINES.
I can taste metal from watching this
Are at Chernobyl too, it’s more accessible then I thought!,
We all die from watch this
Radiation does not taste of metal
@@av28379 incorrect mate radiation does not taste of metal
@@av28379 no it doesn't this is totally false, it's so fucking obvious that you only watched the show and have no idea what you're talking about
I respect you for documenting this, it is needed and historically important and I appreciate the risks you take to do it!
Keith Gray yep. Lots of respect to her. She's got the same cool, collected personality as a cosmonaut the whole time. Great documentation. You could not pay me to go someplace with that many Geiger counters/dosimeters chattering away like that. Way to go.
I hate commenting on such an old comment but you realize that there is almost no risk in going there. There are a few exceptions at chernobyl but those areas are off limits to the public and in many cases very tightly controlled even for workers. The average yearly dose to a pack a day smoker is more than what is legally allowed for a radiation worker in the US for occupational dose.
LOL
Nice Facebook comment.
@@josephvanas6352 and I guess I'm replying to your old comment replying to an old comment, but... Yes, this is true, but this woman isn't following the rules... That only applies if you're following the procedures and not going where you're not supposed to go. :p
Tell me comrade ... how does an RBMK reactor explode?
It needs alot of vodka to function unfortunately they did not have enough
with lies.
Lies
So sorry...
it cant
“Cough”
Light laughing “God bless you”
“It’s dusty”
"do you taste metal or is it just me?"
light laughing turns into nervous laughing
CODMASTA wait what does the taste of metal mean
@@marcuspage2026 radiation symptoms
iG You’re delusional, to the infirmary with you!
It’s just 3.6 don’t worry it’s just a chest x Ray
Aamaud Rutherford not great but not terrible...
You're delusional,
TAKE HIM TO THE INFIRMARY!
Jack Byrne LMAO
Aamaud Rutherford you get more radiation when you go to a dental office😄😄😄😄😄
More like 3000
it's not inside the sarcophagus... it's the part not damaged by the explosion
oetteo76 shut up nerd.
ZA_Survivalist nerd? I m only not blind
@@oetteo76 ok
The Sarchopagus cover all of the Reactor 4 not only the damaged zone
Cristian RM and this part is not under it. It’s the turbine hall which was completely undamaged in the explosion and only had a fire in 1991 that they spoke about. Sarcophagus is constructed over the reactor building 4, not turbine halls.
Ah, you are so lucky to bask in Atom's holy glow
Peter Johnson All glory to the Atom.
Damn cultist don't make me pull a far harbor again
?¿THAT SOUND?¿WHAT IS IT?!
You couldn't pay me enough to walk in there, even with every piece of protective equipment. This dude is just in here with a helmet like nothing is wrong
Chernobyl is actually pretty safe to visit. When you live in central europe you will get more radiation on the flight to kiev than on a day in pripyat
BadIdeas101
I’m told it’s the equivalent of a chest x ray
Well yeah, there's no protective equipment that actually helps. That's how radiation works.
@@teranyan false
I'll do it for a dollar
this guy trying to sound smarter "if we rotate to our east"
I noticed his cocky way of speaking immediately, too.
The way he pronounces “turbine” makes me want to walk right into reactor 4
Meanwhile an actual reactor technician would point and say: "If you'll look over yonder, next to the red square thing, we can safely observe the reactors Cherenkov effect!"
@@sampsonlll1825 And that you should wear some sort of Mask so that you wouldn't breath all this yummi dust.
oh my god the gatekeeping in this thread this thread what fucking cringe
See how these dudes get all mad because of the gap between that one guy's accent and his vocab to elevate himself (likely cuz he's embarrassed by his background)? That's called fundamental attribution error - that how he talks in a segment of a 5 minute video is his entire outlook on life. Like how dare some random guy study a field and try to be smart after growing up in some shitty backwater place.
Oh and since he's in a video and is near something super dangerous and is acting kinda casual, there's some hostile attribution bias going on - which is when people think someone's being an asshole when they're being chill because of some external shit.
Then you get this one guy who's all No true Scottsman saying what reactor operators or technicians can and can't do based on his exacting specifications what a cope
Hoes mad they can't set foot in Chernobyl. No 3.6 Roentgen for you guys lmao
Today I learned, stay away from stains in the Chernobyl sarcophagus
DRACO or plutonium stains
If Sheldon was a Chernobyl tour guide.
Fuck you and Fuck sheldon
This isint a fuckin joke this ia serious ahit right here so shut up
@@hystarpro2470 Deep breaths, kid.
@@hystarpro2470 holy fuck bro, chill out
Hahaha lol 😂😂😂
*Watch’s HBOs Chernobyl*
TH-cam Algorithm: “Hold my uranium”
I don't know what is creepier, being there when it's dead silent, or being there with your Geiger counter blazing
Blazing geiger, maybe sudden radiation leak
If blok 4 was in operation youd go deaf in the turbine halls
Corona: I'm a very deadly virus
Radiation: Cyka please. Hold my graphite.
you are like small childs .. just going with dozimeter and who´s device will beep more loudly will win...
I do not believe that they let anyone this close, they are probably some sort of scientists and know what they are doing.
Bio knows her shit.
I got the same impression. I do wonder just how sensitive their devices are calibrated(?). May pick up on a bad enough sunburn...
Exatly!!! Total idiots.....
They are! Typical Western kids bored of playing alone at home because their parents got tired of them.
Damn those meters are going off like crazy! I get they're not touching anything(except for that one time) but isn't the dust in the air they're breathing or coming in contact with harmful too?
Yeah, in fact the dust can be much more dangerous than gamma radiation. Once it gets inside of your body, it will stay there for a very long time, and will poison you from the inside. I really don't know why they are not wearing raspirator or something.
Hackerman in Russia radiation doesn't kill you, you kill radiation.
No way I'd go into the turbine floor without gloves and a breather mask.
@@spongebitchbobface wtf,😅😂,I thought,it counts only for all who are born and grown up in Russia 😂😂
The dust could contain radioactive particles that once inhaled, would emit radiation continuously inside the body. The type of radiation emitted by the particles would be one major factor in how damaging that would be to the lungs. Gamma radiation escapes the body and very little is absorbed, but all alpha and beta emissions would be contained and absorbed by the body. Much worse in the long term.
Obviously inhaling radioactive particles is bad and all steps should be taken to avoid unnecessary exposure.
Radiation exposure is cumulative across your entire lifespan.
Thank you for the footage but next time we proper PPE... Holy moly it sounded like 1000+ CPM on someone's meter in this video and then someone sneezes and I'm sure it's not dryer lint they were breathing in to make them sneeze... Be careful people.
All of these fools are literally dead because they picked up and took home a piece of carbon... You were exactly right about the 1000 +, quite a few times I heard a solid tone. People in the comments were literally trying to say that they just got the equivalent of a couple chest x-rays... Dumb AF...
People shouldn't be too worried about the possible radiation. It's no more than a chest x-ray.
who are you,the USSR?
(i know its a joke,dont kill me)
I heard it's just 3.6 roentgens
@@FredKaczynski Not great, not terrible
It was just a water tank explosion
@Vitez od Vozdovca Are you okay bro?
I have been fascinated by Chernobyl my whole life since I am from East Europe, and I am glad that through this miniseries the world acknowledges what we have been through
Stop being a punk
Good to see those dangerous turbans are now sealed & protected. India will be happy.
Too soon.
KP I gave you a thumbs up simply because of your Ricky Gervais show , Karl Pilkington avatar . Love it !
@@scottbravo3 Great show. And Idiot Abroad & Moaning Of Life. I just watched 2 episodes of Sick Of It and I'm sick of it.
I dont get it
@@ripudamankatoch4647 Because Americans (a lot of Americans at least) pronounce turbine as "turban". Like the guy talking in this video. A turban is what a sikh would wear on his head. (And there are lots of turbans in India.) To those who speak the Queen's English, pronouncing turbine as "turban" grates on the ears like finger nails on a chalk board. It's pronounced Tur-BINE, not turban.
Bionerd great to see your OK, I was worried about you with you not uploading any new videos! I would like to go visit Chernobyl and the woodpecker next year. I really enjoy your videos and have watched all of them. I hope you are well, much love and respect for your dedication to making great videos! Tom from North Yorkshire, UK
i am so glad you started posting videos again - i find them all very interesting, thank you for posting
Goodbye chimney! I will always love you!😢😢
+Ljiljana Krstic Filipovic They've put up a new one, with yellow stripes. Apparently, even now all reactors are shut down, that big chimney is still needed in order for the ventilation systems to work properly.
A turbine failure I guess kills the reactor leaving her charred remains to rot and decompose in her containment the new ventilation stack is to help keep the smell of dead reactor corpse
Chimnobyl
Chim chimeree
Ya good chimney
I'm sorry but if I heard the detectors screaming like that I'm running as fast AF the other direction.
Holy crap you're alive. It's great to see an upload from you!
@1:00 "...the damaged unit."
Understatement of the century. Well, two centuries, at least.
Thank you. I was curious what happened to that tower when the safe confinement dome went overhead, but couldn't find anything about it with searches online. Now I know, you rock!
brilliant video, I love seeing all the dismantled part laying about its like the locomotives work shops I work in, but without hot spots, great to see you posting again really enjoy the channel
4:07 Radioactive dust.... that sneezing. Should be using filtered masks. Makes no sense not to use them.... wtf.
Seems downright careless.
You didn't see any radioactive dust comrade. Cleary you are delusional, bRiNg HiM tO tHe InFiRmArY!
If these worked you’d be wearing them
i actually prefer the old geiger counters that made the scary ticking noises than these modern ones that make harmless beeps.
Absolutely Love your videos! Everytime I see a new one I can't help myself but to watch it immediately! Thanks for your effort. Amazing content.
You should thank her for getting cancer for your enjoyment.
Those screaming Geiger counters are extremely unnerving!! I would not get within two hundred miles of that place!
Why did they use turban generators? Surely they'd want turbines.
Holmesy87 I know that Americans pronounces things differently than the British, but my god!
Nothing is more annoying than miss pronouncing the words aluminium and turbine.
A light-hearted comment on pronunciations turns into a hate fueled mess.
TH-cam makes me sad sometimes -.-
Cosmic D. British (Britain) is made up of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales who all pronounce things differently to us English who speak English,. It gets a bit boring when Americans try telling us English how to speak English.
Turbine - tUr-BYNe
Aluminum - ah-LOO-mi-NUM
Lol. Well put. I'll bet it was because it was a "nuculer" power plant. I can accept middle eastern headwear could generate power, at least it's a word.
There are weak activity spots, but there are, and alot of dust all around.
After all it is a semiabandoned workshop.
Why not use at least some ffp2 mask or even better some respirator not to inhale it?
The worst nuclear disaster in history, man. The heart still aches for the victims of the most infamous catastrophe in peaceful use of nuclear energy, and the mind still electrified by all that has happened there. I will go before my time is up.
Beau Remington We will meet that victims and hero firefighters. Don't worry. See you in heaven.
Beau Remington I agree, for the ACTUAL victims though. The people that stayed behind or went back deserve NOTHING in life. They made their bed by being the inbred vermin they are to stay there and be low lifes and murderers for having children in a contamination zone SO do NOT call the people that stayed or went back victims, they are a waste of life and vermin on the ground. PRAYERS FOR THE ACTUAL VICTIMS.
rjy8960 Sorry you feel that way dear mate. Am i Christian? No. Am i void of thinking that the people FORCED "for a temporary" time are not victims? No. Clearly you just wanted to jump on someone before you read the post. I AM russian and YOU obviously are a sad individual who wants to do nothing but start an aefument because the THRUTH hurts and is scary and makes you feel vulnerable. I am sorry that you took what i said the wrong way. As far as my THRUTHFUL comment about the VERMIN, yes, that is what they are. YES, i live in a flooding and tornado are, i have been forced with not being able to grab a single thing BUT the clothes on your back.
Again, apologies you can't deal with the thruth about this terrible day. THE VICTIMS are those that were Hereos that fought to protect this area and those that were forced away from home and had to leave their whole life behind.
The people that stayed or went back? Nothing but ignorant and wastes of human air. That is irrefutable. END OF CONVERSATION.
Your view and mine are totally opposed.
You seem to be so full of bile regarding people returning to their homes and I can understand it. You claim to be Russian but seem to have a loathing for people who want their homes back. Sorry, that doesn't work or sit well with me.
Whatever - Have a happy life.
Tadgh ÓCéirín and what's the first?
Man: its safe
Geiger counter: prprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprprpripipipipipipipipiipteceteceteceteceteceteticitcitictictictprprprprp
Ah yes, safety
0:07 seconds into the video and you already touched something
So? Wash your hands and be off with it
@@M12Howitzer is this sarcastic because if it isn’t that’s not how radiation works
So not only did unit 4 explode, but unit 2 coolant pumps caught fire.
*keeps unit 1 and 3 working for 9 more years*
So that's why that one engineer ran into the control room saying there's a fire in the turbine hall lol
Cameraman "how come its snowing on screen ?"
Tick tick tickety means “run your ass out of there, and pop some rad-away for good measure”
1:21 miss Currie 2016 is now more like Kanye 2016 LOL awesome!
Great cinematography and editing once again too. Love the seamlessness of the informative cut shots
Every tourist: Let's find the most dangerous radioactive piece of metal we can find and touch it!! Person with the most fingers on their newborn wins.
R.I.P. chimney. Iconic chimney.😢
Tourists: can you taste radiation?
Tour guide: well here we have the turbine hall for the reactors.
What is big as a house, makes a lot of noise, consumes 20L of Diesel per hour and cuts an apple into 3 pieces?
A Soviet machine meant to cut an apple into 4 pieces!
Your mom, making me lunch.
@@RonaldMcPaul 😂😂😂
How can you be sure you’re not breathing in dust???
Is it true that Pripyat is going to be turned into a solar farm?
Pripyat? nah. i heard of plans to set up solar panels inside the exclusion zone, though, because it's a huge area of "unused land". that's true, i guess - however, it's pretty much a national park with precious wild life by now, so it'd be sad to destroy it by any means, even though there are no plans to tear down the buildings of Pripyat afaik.
bionerd23 I see, well i hope they leave it like it is because it would be a shame for it to be destroyed, it just feels wrong. Anyways thanks for answering and take care!
+bionerd23 hopefully it lasts for at least 6 more years, I'm only 12 and it's always been my dream to go there
bionerd23 how radioactive are, by average, the buildings in the town? I guess they wouldn't make for a treat even in case some of them collapse and create a cloud of dust from the debris, right?
0 Error. Yeah bro t when you do go watch out for bandits
Okay so, can this be a Cod: zombies map? I would love to run around that turbine room and the golden hall that she mentioned in the beginning while radioactive zombies are chasing me. Then of course, I turn around with my "gammanizer", (made up wonder weapon that shoots a gamma ray of ionizing radiation directed towards my target).
That was costly someone turning the wrong switch :-( Did the other reactor meltdown as well due to the loss of cooling, or just severely damaged I don't remember hearing about it at the time, or was it just too expensive for new pumps and a generator?
Coolkeys2009 reactor 4 was damaged. Surprisingly reactor 3 kept working years after the meltdown, even though there were extremely high levels of radiation.
The other reactors were undamaged by the meltdown of unit 4, and continued to operate for quite a few years after. Unit 3 (the reactor that shared this turbine hall) operated up till the turbine fire in 1991.
unit TWO operated until the turbine fire in 1991. unit THREE, the one directly next to unit four, continued to operate until year 2000.
bionerd23 Thank you for clarifying that for me. Still interesting that they choose to keep the plant active.
Edifire I'm asking why unit 2 was scrapped, because of a generator fire and pump damage it must have cost 100 of millions to build?
And this is the part where the roof collapsed and there was a huge fire... nice to know they got a grip on safety after the worst nuclear disaster ever.
Hello bionerd23 from Houston Texas, I enjoy your videos, keep on going !
So when did these two guys die? Acute radiation syndrome huh? Or was that cancer?
Dear bionerd23, I've been very interested of lately in the chelyabinsk area in the eastern ural. I've watched all documentaries about that place and watched all roads accessing city 40 and all cooling ponds from google earth. Also its fun to go on small roads with google maps streetview and watch the huge factories in the area. City 40 also has allot of high pressure steam pipes going to lots of different factories.
My question to you is:
Do you have any interest in city 40 (chelyabinsk) and will you ever visit this place? or make a video about it.
For example the accident that caused the EURT (eastern ural radio active trace) has never been explained for silly youtube viewers in a way that sheds light into the procedures that caused it.
It would be super awesome if you would shed some light on this.
As for me now Chernobyls cleanup has been dealt with for somewhat Chelyabinsk seems like the most interesting radio active area that there still is.
I lived close to hanford site for a year and ever since i've been really impressed by this nuclear desolate spaces that remind us of coldwar and the beginning of nuclear science.
I know that there is no public acces and that most russian nuclear material still is processed at chelyabinsk but its so interesting. Its where Chernobyl came from you know! its just as insane but just less exploded as chernobyl. Also I like the mysteries behind it.
Strange underground city stories although I doubt they have anything to do with truth very interesting!
hell yeah, i'd love to ride my bike across the concrete parts of lake karachay. but as you say, getting access is not always as easy. guess i am too much of a mad scientist even by russia's standards. ;)
haha awesome! Lake karachay! haha well! check google maps you can get so close! there is a few spots where you can really look the distance into the exclusion zone! would be cool to hike or take a vacation there!
Lake karachay i bet you already researched everything about that place. Chelyabinsk - 40 and 65 are about as significant to nuclear research as the Alamo and Hanford they should have problems like sellafields radioactive baths full zirconium alloy reactor fillings and baths full of strontium slowly heating up the radioactive molasses
Job91 Great comment would love to know more as well!
SpenserRoger tnx! I'm so curious whether the POW working conditions in Chelyabinsk were true the internet is a crazy place full of fictionous stories but Chelyabinsk is just so incredibly illusive still.
Interesting information, now I have a new subject to research. Thanks. :)
I have been watching your fantastic videos for a long time and thanks for your latest Chernobyl updates. I remembered when the disaster first occured but little news was available until the advent of youtube. Its fascinating to look at the toxic paradise of Prypiat and the exclusion zone which is now a magnificent habitat for wildlife, hope it stays untouched for years to come. Great videos!
So one person tries the counter on a spot, then another person tries their counter on the same spot expecting a different result... Radiation be like "Two for one, oh yeah"
Long time no hear, hope you are ok
Wtf, no masks, no gloves?? Any abandoned places are so full of dust...
This place is not abandoned. 3 remaining reactors of Chernobyl worked until 2003... people work in this building to this day
Good to see they had plastic over the meters. Can’t be to careful
"imma let u finish"
Calm down now.
another educational yet entertaining video, thank you bionerd
ive been told its about the equivalent of a chest x-ray so..
btw. theyre not exposed to much radiaton as the radioactive parts are the things around them and fheir shoes otherwise youd see static on the cam
How were they supposed to keep the rest of the turbine hall working into the 90s if there was contaminated water on the floor and loose surface contamination?
I went on a school trip to Chernobyl, let's say it didn't end well
Why?
@@vitomamula8809 They evacuated the whole place.
Hi, can you give me an answer? I saw videos made by Sergey Koshelev, two years after the disaster, inside the plant, precisely inside the reactor number 4 and near the famous elephant's foot. It is said that this place is the most radioactive place in the world, how is it possible that some people could have gone there? they should be dead almost instantly.
thanks for reply
Because you've been lead to believe so by sensationalist pop-sci articles and videos. That video was from 1988, the present year is 2021. Almost all of the dangerous fission products have long since decayed. Carl Willis, featured in this video, is trying to get legal permission to film the "Elephants' Foot" in the basement level of the damaged reactor.
I wonder whether Chernobyl will begin to fade from public memory now that the enclosure is in place. I do hope that Chernobyl is preserved along with Pripyat as it has been and still is such an important part of human history. A national park with a museum-like setup might be ideal, maybe?
Preserved? it will remain radioactive for the next 100,000 years. I don't think that there is any more of a need to call for preservation.
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The sudden increase in Nuclear as a source of power shows that they have forgotten how badly things can go wrong.
GFBDev too true mate
GFBDev Nuclear is a great source of energy, Uranium is in abundance, has a enormous energy density, and it is emits no carbon emissions. Yes accidents do happen but look at how much damage fossil fuels are doing. With better technology and more safeguards nuclear power plants have unlimited possibilities.
Will you still upload videos from CHNPP, or this is end ?
This was an awesome insight into the turbine Hall! Sometime I haven't seen before. Very interesting
Tour guide: ok so this is a pump
Dosimeter:YOU ARE DYING THIS VERY SECOND EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY
Tour guide: That wall is green
Lady: how interesting
Dosimeter:DO YOU NOT HEAR ME??? YOU JUST TOOK 30 YEARS OFF YOUR LIFESPAN!!!
Is there a button that will hide all the Chernobyl memes, so I can read normal & unrepeated comments for once?
Correct me if im wrong but should you not have a tritium respirator with particulate attachment on due to the potential tritium and airborne contamination?
Yeh we get the point, its radioactive, we dont want to see closeups of the meters, show us the building
Some of us do though.
Can't see the numbers clearly 03:56 looks like its
3:48 I guess snorting that stuff would be bad for your health?
Drunk Russian gopniks and a nuclear reactor were a bad combination.
If I was a cameraman and they told me my next assignment was to go film Chernobyl or even Fukushima for a month I would turn in my f-you letter the next day and look for a new job.
Wouldn't you rather educate yourself first and then make decision?
@@ns4529 Clearly not.
Weird Question: The Lid and whats left of the containment vessel of #4 reactor how radioactive is it now ?
waiting for the new flood of viewers because the Chernobyl tv show
Its a really good show
Present
Two minutes maximum is all you should take in the turbine Hall with a minimum of 2 months of a return. There isn't too much to see in there apart from a lot of wreckage..
What is causing the constant low buzzing sound ?
Probably old neon lights
Probably some transformer for the lights...
yup, power supply for lights etc. - not the turbogenerators, anyway. ;)
Thanks for those that responded. I'm a tad hungover, so that was my stupid question for the day ))
That transformer is doing a lot of work for those few lights that are on. I assume there is more machinery at work. Maybe heaters or pumps or so.
I love these videos. Also, its nice to see that the pros have as much trouble with the radiation detectors as I did.
that beep sounds not stop as long as they filmed it 😓
fourty four
Dosimeters can come in different scales. They may be going off constantly but they may only be reading microsieverts or nanosieverts.
@@bangthehankers1985 exactly. There's radiation sources all around us all the time. If everyone carried a dosimeter around all the time and set it to the most sensitive scale it would be screaming constantly.
Is this where reactor 4 is? or close only?
This guys have to be crazy to walk in there.. Even if the readings are low
Especially without wearing masks to prevent the dust from getting them sick
@@Nicole7073. lol you think you smarter than them? limited time there gives less radiation than flight from US to EU
lauriL90 I’m not saying I’m smarter then them I’m just saying they should’ve worn masks as a safety precaution as dust that might have built up over the tech might be irradiated
Yea sure it is totally safe to walk in there... 😂😂😂
Nicole7073 some people just don’t use their brain...
deine videos sind einfach klasse . . . endlich geht es mal weiter nach so langer zeit ;-)
das ihr in diesen bereich herein gekommen seit . . . unglaublich ;-)
4:46 "then I'll do it myself!"
Is it safe to be in there without protective equipment? Your devices beeping like crazy makes it seem like its highly radioactive.
You didn't see any graphite because there isn't any.
But comrade, this worker's face melted off.
@@dustin872 US fake news, no nuclear catastrophes in Soviet Union
@@dustin872 It's feed watet. He will be fine I have seen worse.
Grindstone so you based all of this.. from the colour of rocks?
Dustin He’s in shock, bring him to the infirmary
well i wouldnt walk there without respiratory protection cause it looks like there are a lot of dust and when you walk obviously you get that dust mixed with the air you breath. how radioactive this hall was and im interested in just a simple ground not metal objects you were testing :)
oh and how you got access to that place?
Sounds like someone needs to fix a faulty light ballast.
So is turbine hall the long relatively low building that goes along the facility to the south of the reactor halls?
Yes
more videos please. awesome work. any videos of inside number 4
Miguel it may be but would make a awesome video. 30 years of history.
There are videos from inside reactor number four, if you search for them.
Would be interesting if they could take a drone in there and film.
I'm sure your not allowed near the second most reactive thing that also happened to cause the most destructive nuclear incident in history, let alone in side of it. Or unless you can find someone who doesn't mind suicide.
Thinking about it, the camera might fail. After the accident the used a robot to get close to the reactor. The robots systems got messed up and it started to over hear and exploded. It wasn't a sliver robot, but a German one. Which was, at the time, a pretty advanced machine.
Carl Willis has been inside unit 4 before. I forget where to find this video.
Im feeling so sad at the moment to hear that the iconic chimeny has been dismantled and stored away. would have loved to see it in its original space on the roof. I plan on going to chernobyl in 2017 but I guess now that the new sarcophagus is finished and the chimney has been dismantled the sight will be nowhere as impressive as it would have been before but still it will be an experience I will never forget I think! Thank you for your interesting videos!
I was in nuclear power and radiation scares the bejebus out of me.
What's the background buzz? Lighting?
Geiger Counters. You want that going off in irradiated zones/possible irradiated areas. Or else, you'd be dead, or severely sick with permenant health problems
@@IgnarHusky I hear the geiger counters/dosimeters, I meant the buzzing in the background. Sounds like lighting ballast buzz
@@KyleMills1 Not sure, I just assume it's the counters due to the location and everythong
Woah they really use liquid hydrogen as coolant for the generators? 2:35
SpenserRoger Surprised? Why :D It's possible to use Hydrogen.
I very much doubt the hydrogen they used was liquid. Hydrogen, as a coolant gas, is used because it has a really good heat capacity so it's good at cooling things down. The downside is that it's flammable and it damages iron and steel so it's hard to work with.
Its pretty common in large power turbines. Its not just a nuclear thing either, a lot of plants have electrolysis plants on site to produce it
They use hydrogen as it has much less wind resistance in the fast spinning generators.
what they gonna do with TG-1? hope they will use it for monument after decontamination