chernobyl 2012 II: strolling through the zone with high levels of radiation

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

She seems sad when she's in the less radioactive spots.

[@CyberspacedLoner]

She is the Atomic Woman

[@AC-nq6os]

Lol. Wtf, eh?

[@bionerd23]

i cannot measure lethal levels with my tools. it'd be far outside of the range of my devices. lethal dose is about 3 Sv = 3000 mSv = 3000000 microsievert, and my device shows readings in microsievert per hour. it's showing readings of maximum 100 microsievert, and it'd have to display 3 million microsievert in order for it to threaten my life if i just stay there long enough. you cannot find such readings anywhere in pripyat, only in the reactor's sarcophagus.

[@RuruFIN]

I think I'll install again all the STALKER games now

[@deltaw7363]

5:35

[@CyberspacedLoner]

don't forget the Fallout and Metro series

[@true-dark-mind9681]

I assume you have had them installed already huh?

[@bionerd23]

concrete: washing, soil: removing top layer of soil, and finally, putting new soil and concrete on top of everything to provide shielding and inhibit surface contamination.

[@bionerd23]

the new sarcophagus, to cover up the reactor and old sarcophagus, as it's nearly collapsing... it has rotted away. they're also guarding the area against illegal entry.

[@bionerd23]

as i received quite a lot of emails / comments regarding my trips to chernobyl, you can now find info on these "special" trips to the zone at the forum i am a member of: forum.pripyat.de i believe that's much better than repeating everything for each single request... so if you're interested, see you at the forum! :)

[@mikey03691]

I wouldn't mind visiting... call her brave all you want but that's a beautiful place and I'd really love to visit before I kick the bucket...

[@RedneckVibe150]

Same here

[@stpet291]

mikey03691 from 5 years ago......lets go il drive

[@anodezinc9667]

stpet291 from 5 months ago he,s probably dead by the sound of it 😂😂

[@chriscraven9335]

I'd dig it.

[@toocoolforu]

10:20 - Literally nobody. - Germans : a piece of art.

[@Camroc37]

You don't want to breathe in radioactive particles. That is what a gas mask is for, not the actual radiation. You don't want the source touching cells inside your body. You only need one in confined areas and near the reactor itself. (i'm no expert, but I think that is correct)

[@851995STARGATE]

"I'm no expert" no shit

[@DokterRoetker]

The highest reading was 80 microsieverts per hour (uSv/h). That is the same as 0.08 millisievert per hour (mSv/h). That means that if she were to stand on that sport for an hour, she would absorb 0.08 mSv. A chest X-ray gives around 0.1 mSv. A CT-scan is 2-10 mSv. So yeah, just walking there for an hour is less than a chest X-ray. However it would not recommend living there, that would be dangerous. But these short visits are not that harmful.

[@steveallen5344]

If I ever get a terminal diagnosis I’m going to spend some significant time there just enjoying it

[@ketufo]

Honestly fair enough. Should try and hop into the plant

[@bionerd23]

nope. i didnt encounter anything in the multiple sieverts/hour range.

[@bionerd23]

large GM, and it's just a hack, the gamma scout still works with the inbuilt tube, but the mod allows him to connect other tubes to the power supply and get a reading from them. while equivalent dose of course will be far off, he can use the cps setting just perfectly fine.

[@brandoncrawford7197]

This is random but I wonder if that fluffy stuff on the pipes was asbestos.

[@jothain]

Almost 100% sure that it is it. Though it's usually in more dense form. Almost like chalk with bound together with net. But considering era they're build, I'm almost 100 sure as mentioned.

[@ExplorewithSvetlin]

jothain it is.

[@blakebundy1583]

Clearly the least of anyone's worries in the exclusion zone 😂

[@bionerd23]

even if the pavement was 100% clean, the radiation still comes from under it and to the sides. if the entire soil ground was a huge light platform, then you'd not walk in darkness on the concrete, but you'd still have light shining in from the sides, right? well, that's exactly how gamma radiation behaves, too.

[@bionerd23]

it cannot make an explosion, it's not critical - but the building is very fragile by now, it has not been maintained. if the reactor building collapses, a lot (!) of radioactive dust will be released into the environment again. this is what they're looking to prevent with the new sarcophagus.

[@-yeme-]

5:37 nice

[@andyg3]

so many experts in the comments.

[@mrblack888]

You have no idea what you're talking about, so be quiet.

[@Andrew-vt2wq]

dude we played fallout, we know what we talking about

[@BarrySmoother]

Judy G. Haha we get it, you watched the new series and now you know everything.

[@timewave02012]

Take iodine and decontaminate or discard your clothes and you'll be fine. If you're really worried, wear a dust mask.

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

@Judy G. you have no idea what's going on . Be honest with yourself.

[@bionerd23]

just about a week so far. cant wait to go back...

[@cheesyham9]

11:12 Rad-X.

[@shakalpb1164]

TheActualKid haha XD

[@theresad3931]

Lol Also some Rad away

[@claudiocarbone2225]

AHAHAHAHAHA

[@sporknife123]

all this radiation and shit and i cringe when i see the asbestos

[@bionerd23]

one is a gamma scout, which comes at a price of 450 euros. the other is an automess 6150 ad6, which comes at a price of 1600 euros.

[@SortaProfessional89]

2000 euro in radiation detection instruments is ALOT!! why do you spend so much on this. Wouldnt just having one very good and reliable one be better

[@altaqiyya6348]

that looks like a crunched up roof panel that was ejected during the exp10sion

[@geos297]

Thank you for the experience but please take care of yourselves.

[@EvanBoyar]

Yeah, you're definitely more a Tarkovsky than a Spielberg!

[@bionerd23]

akutdosis? ab ca. 3 Sv = 3000 mSv = 3000000 microsievert (das ist die einheit, die das messgeraet bei mir anzeigt, uSv/h, microsievert pro stunde).

[@MrEddieG420]

Radioactive Shrooms, What a trip, damn Im dead.

[@lambda3701]

EddieG I shouldn’t have taken those shrooms dude, not only am I seeing things I’m vomiting because of the radiation broooo!

[@manletopia4801]

@@lambda3701 its low get off these vids

[@CyberspacedLoner]

There were 192 tonnes of uranium fuel in Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl NPP, 5-30 % of it was blown out of the Reactor when it exploded, a maximum of 57 tonnes of uranium. ?!

[@Weegeeman3]

I want the hunger games to be done here

[@AllAroundBang]

How were you able to go off the toursist grounds? From services I've seen, you should be strictly kept on-path and kept from touching anything. I also heard the vehicle graveyard is off limits since '08. Simply put... how did you do it? ^_^

[@cokeforever]

oh, cmon, it is ex-USSR, just throw money at your goal and it shall be accomplished

[@emborg3145]

The part where you threw the bolt into the anomaly made me laugh.

[@bionerd23]

moss concentrates cs-137 as moss takes up potassium. some plants take up more potassium than others. caesium is in the same group in the periodic table and thus, behaves chemically similar. anything that'll uptake potassium will uptake radiocaesium.

[@MarkRose1337]

Well, you need to start getting whole body dose of about 1 sievert for things to start getting fatal (not counting cancer). If she spent an hour in the high radiation area at 20 μSv/hr, she got about 0.00002% of a fatal dose, or a few dental x-rays worth of radiation. To put it in another perspective, the natural background radiation of Ramsar, Iran is 73 μSv/h. The local population in Ramsar is genetically adapted to the radiation.

[@manletopia4801]

1 Sv is minor radiation poisoning most people wont even notice it vomiting and nausa at the most

[@suc6795]

u should go to megaton

[@chriscraven9335]

Oh, and this lady should do ASMR vids, her voice sounds perfect for it

[@foolyskooly4867]

that adventure is great 09:48 its like different planet

[@JOEM747]

Yeah and in fact one of the reactors even provided power until 2000 when it was officially shut down.

[@dominator167able]

some stalkers left the bolts there

[@true-dark-mind9681]

Those bolts for anomalies mr. expert

[@bionerd23]

maybe 50 meters to the sarcophagus.

[@cheebandfc]

I believe those square/rectangular patches are where more contaminated materials and equipment are buried. I love your passion for exploration and junk hunting. Do you have any vids involving railroads or power line equipment?

[@Balnazzardi]

or could be contaminted soil as well...they did that atleast much of the Red Forest area anyway, where they cut down the dead/contaminted trees and buried them and I would imagine that they did that with some of the soil as well. But ye they definitely did bury something in those areas.

[@Deathwatch31]

love your voice, idk what it is i just cant get enough lol :P

[@mxmarie3700]

i think the random machinary was to get rid of the rubble when the power plant exploded.

Have you calculated how much of a dose you got there? And where does your personal contaminated belongings go? To the low level waste disposal?

[@GerVlad]

she knows a lot about radiation. that's why she isn't reluctant to take risks. just like dyatlov.

[@wabbitpoop]

When she gets back. "Not great, not terrible. "

[@smittenthekitteninmittens2679]

oh dear my hands are melting

[@tickedoffsheikh8587]

Bionerds you have the nerves to do this kind of a video. It unfolds like a Hitchcock movie. Double Thumbs up to you from Guyana.

[@matthewmoran7596]

what a great voice

[@MichaelSmith-lx2dt]

Matthew Moran that’s why I’m watching 😂

[@williamradford8817]

Pripyat's derelict remains of what was a super market, now trashed

[@MoherPower92]

Great video :) 12:06 - Podkład ftalowy Nobikor Nobiles - Polish phthalic primer for metal surfaces "Nobikor" produced by "Nobiles" Włocławek - the Kuyavian Paints and Lacquers Factory. Small polish accent in Chernobyl :)

[@hans3531]

+MoherPower92 Ciekawe skąd tam się wziął ? Nie wygląda, na to żeby leżakowała ta puszka od 86 r.

[@MoherPower92]

+hans3531 Ciekawe, zielonego pojęcia nie mam. A może leżakuje tak długo?

[@bionerd23]

nothing mutated. just growing without humans chopping them into shape... and animals, yeah, snakes, birds, horses. didnt see them from up close nor did i study them, but nothing looked unusual or different than to where i live.

[@AlexxAXe]

Most likely not for cooling but for heating. They are covered with thermal insulation in order not to lose heat. This is probably part of town heating system - pipes used to transport heat from station to houses.

[@josephastier7421]

Scary to think this place will be radioactive for tens of thousands of years.

[@-flutterby7026]

15:00 I think she meant shallow grave instead of low level burial site.

[@acquiesce022]

Depending on where you live, for a walk through radioactivity memory lane; Bikin-Atol has been thriving for years.... but I don't recommend eating ANYTHING (yes, especially the cocoa nuts!).

[@iloveadele21]

This woman wears her overies on the out side...she is brave id don't know if I would explore that ghost town

[@eddiehjalmarsson5966]

I wonder how dangerous it would be to try to forge with scrap metal that has been contaminated with radiation, that is lower levels of microsieverts

[@joek0617]

I know a guy who is an engineer for the company that's making the work platform for the NSC

[@bionerd23]

just type "1 euro to us dollars" in google.

[@transistor754]

Where are you now? Are you ok? I work in the radiation industry and loved your work. I hope the goons left you alone.

[@Bentsful]

i hear you can get away with a lot just by bribing could that be used in this instance? for instance a guard isnt supposed to let you in there but you give him some money and he will look the other way ?

[@blairlohnes8103]

Your voice! You're bravery! You are in the running for the coolest woman ever.

[@nickidodson7148]

Guata 08 until (god forbid) she dies from cancer because she wanted to play with her camera in high radiation.

[@LodewijkVrije]

​@@nickidodson7148 Radiation levels in Chernobyl are pretty low, you would have to spend days standing outside to receive what is considered a 50% lethal dosis. a 50% lethal dosis is considered 3-5 Sievert accumulated in a very short period of time, meanwhile the radiation levels in Chernobyl are measured in Micro Sievert. with the Average being around 500 micro Sievert i believe, that means you would have to absorb 3.000.000-5.000.000 Micro Sievert before it is considered a 50% lethal dosis. by comparison in 1945 some doctor on the Manhattan project got accidental injected with plutonium. over the next 21 years he would accumulate 64 Sievert worth of radiation. so about 63.999.500 Micro Sievert more then average radiation in the Zone. the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Average is about 59 times higher then background Radiation, that seems like allot. but it isnt. as example, the Radiation levels in Chernobyl zone are only about 18 times higher then normal Radiation levels in the rocky mountains. and only 60% higher then sand found on some Brazilian beaches.

[@bionerd23]

ja, aber drumherum ist alles sauber, da arbeiten ja auch viele leute... wurde also ordentlich dekontaminiert. in ca. 50 meter zum sarkophag waren es maximal 15 uSv/h.

[@r3seto]

You must be a brave woman, god bless you all your life!!! I really love your videos and all the walks through Tschernobyl! Covering up a bad history of the human race... A LOT OF RESPECT! Regards and Greetings, Oliver from Germany (PS: I'm also using the RadioactivityApp for my Smartphone, quite interesting^^)

[@shawnslater9568]

very good work,very interesting,and i never thought english could soud so beautiful,until i herd that accent behinde it,love it

[@monolit15]

i see some "smart" people in the coments.... any way if u want you coud last in the zone for 3 weeks whidout any healt problems (by that i dont mean places like red forest areas around the NPP and some parts of pripyat)

[@motorcrossfreak24]

This kinda reminds me of that level in COD 4

[@toserveman1496]

I don't think that was a piece of art out in the middle of nowhere. I think it was a piece of the roof that blew off, because there's no foliage around it. get back to me please let me know what the best brand of Geiger counter to buy is

[@jodelboy]

Very nice video, I like the desert landscapes which you showed, they remind me of Nevada Test Site etc.

[@oudotcom]

Wie nah seid ihr denn an den Reaktor rangegangen ? Ward ihr mal am Sarkophark ?

[@privatear2001]

How would the radiation get under it? I thought I'd heard the topsoil was quite contaminated and taking several inches off would kind of decontaminate the area. But I guess rainwater would take a lot of contamination into and under the pavement, as well. I have a good idea, based on observation, that people working in an area with equipment sounds rarely notice anything going on outside their environment; which is good for someone sneaking around. :) Must be cooling pipes for "something", eh?

[@Sanzaru123]

@5:30 easy there Stalker

[@Ilicpro]

Da, ja sam iz Srbije :) Only place where people live in the exclusion zone is small town called Chornobyl, located 15km away from the power plant. Around 400 people live there at the moment, mostly old that don't want to leave their home. My previous comment was regarding the radiation levels around the city of Pripyat, because most of the radiation is concentrated in the ground. Some people throw away shoes after visit. Tourist are not even allowed to eat and drink outside the special canteen.

[@Ilicpro]

When you leave Pripyat you go through the radiation checks to see if you are contaminated, therefore you cannot bring anything from Pripyat with you because it is radioactive.

[@Drexfam2023]

5:35 Uhhh whatever, im not fuckin steven spielberg LMAO, my new favorite bio geek.

[@AJRvlog]

1. mute this video 2. open new youtube tab 3. /watch?v=K6HufzVYCg0, turn up volume 4. Return to this video, start playing :)

[@sm1thers]

as i understand its more a case of if/when the existing one collapses it will kick up a dust cloud full of radioactive material, it wouldnt be an explosion as such AFAIK.

[@AScannerClearly]

I was hoping you'd get a chance to measure a Chernobylian mushroom! Quite cool! I wonder if they could be tried and treated with something to extract/concentrate out the atomic goodness...

[@craigellenwood3809]

I love your sense of humor

[@rebeccadonoghue8993]

18:16 if u can see on the bottom right there is a mini rusty radiation warning sign near the bigger sign

[@TectonnyOrg]

Terrible Radiation, you see is very brave, but it is a region where they can have problems due to the high activity Radioactive, do not touch anything and all clothing thrown away and even then I would not walk without a lead vest

[@ALARAiswise]

What a lovely area for a hormesis camping holiday. I would worry about dangerous animals at night though.

[@AKAtheA]

1600 euro for a geiger counter? Complete scintillation solutions cost less then that :P Even the pocket sized dosimeters/ratemeters that have both a scintillator and semiconductor detectors cost less than that...

[@MarkRose1337]

Yes, if you look overhead on Google Maps (51.389722,30.099167), it's clear they're steam pipes. I imagine they go underground nearer to Pripyat.

[@jepolch]

Exposure to 100 mSv a year is the lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident. A cumulative 1,000 mSv (1 sievert) would probably cause a fatal cancer many years later in five out of every 100 persons exposed to it. I really hope she's OK.

[@manletopia4801]

its way lower than that

[@pandorasangel2747]

it kinda nice seeing a mushroom there since there a decaying problem with the wild life

[@mty72]

nothing compared to a CT scan

[@88pablo18]

The thing she asked to be identified is the remains of a mobile crane.

[@AKAtheA]

Do you mean spectrum or something else? Also, what exactly do you still consider "handheld" ? :D

[@MarkRose1337]

Oooo.... fun! It was a little eerie when you shut the gamma scout off at first...

[@privatear2001]

I like your shadow there at 8:49. Reminds me of the movie Predator, where the alien has the shoulder mounted laser cannon... :) he doesn't carry a Gamma Scout, though. :( Interesting how moss, humans, etc readily take up radioisotopes when exposed to them; as for some reason the body cannot distinguish between radionuclides and proper vitamins/minerals. One would maybe think we'd have evolved some rejection mechanism... but guess we haven't been exposed to man-made radiation long enough yet..

[@michaelexman5474]

A strange metabolic process that accumulates vanadium. Any thoughts from the Bionerd23 :)

[@evvync]

5:35 That's an anomaly field. Stalker, get out of there!

[@affatmatt08]

I wonder if those pipes were used to draw water from a local stream or something for cooling?

[@exactmanrasta]

в поле пашет мирный трактор вдалеке горит реактор, даже тысячи рентген не сломают русский хрен))))

[@dm1968r]

mSv/hour ~= 100 mRoentgen/hour Sv - derived unit of equivalent radiation dose, effective dose, and committed dose roentgen - a unit of exposure dose radiation exposure of x-ray or gamma radiation, which is determined by their ionizing effect on dry air

[@BST-ri6gf]

Ahem you’re so cool that you walk through Chernobyl for your daily commute

[@britishreaction54]

The strange abandoned equipment was a crane.

[@llanederyn]

Whats the cheapest Digital Geiger Counter to buy in the U.K ??

[@tigerxuexue832]

Did you just say all the stuff appeared after the incident? Oh hell looks like we got a space anomalie in the area. And the white vegatation on the pipe at 4:43 looks like another anomaly: Burnt Fuzz.

[@vertoisful]

jw how do you not get effected by that for being in there so long

[@iaagg]

In the United States scrap metal is a big business. I know there are may tons of scrap metal in the Chernobyl area. Do you know of anybody going into the Chernobyl area and collecting metals to sell?

[@AidanJokes]

7:39.. Lead lined shed?