chernobyl 2012 II: radioactive secrets of the zone - the plutonium laboratory

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this is the last video of the "return to chernobyl" series - but i still have a few surprises for you folks! for once, in this video... but also in the next video, which will be spectroscopy... but not only gamma spectroscopy this time! further on, after all words are said and all stories are told, i'll also have a more hands-on surprise for you guys...!

[@bionerd23]

we had to leave in a hurry, and i was stupid enough not to think of packing a few grains of sand. believe it or not. i still get angry at myself for forgetting that. or maybe it's just destiny, the zone's way to say "you must come visit me again! and again! and again!"... the zone never gives everything at once...

[@conzmoleman]

is that the boron sand mix they poured from the helicopters?

[@ultrasometimes8908]

More videos!

[@claudiocalise3940]

Vogliamo notizie su di te

[@mason9644]

@@conzmolemanI believe so

[@mesutbasturk99]

5 yıl içerisinde kanserden öleceksiniz bunun nekadar aptalca yaptıgınızın farkında degilsiniz tam korumalı degilsiniz üzerinizde kursun koruyucu yok

[@willkettle3959]

I was listening for a faint "cheeki breeki" in the distance the whole time.

[@ihaveadeadtrim916]

?

[@engineermole2688]

+dark_chaotics A joke from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R Games, the bandts in that game shout cheeki breeki when they flank you.

[@solfilium2379]

GET OUT OF HERE STALKER!!!

[@user-cg4kk5xb9t]

Nobody remembers PAPALI PAPALI CYKE!!!!

[@victorbag3260]

hi bitch,this is russian boy

[@bionerd23]

as a side note... it's so good i did not give everything away in the video, e.g. explain every chemical. just look at all these wonderful comments of people speculating or even looking the stuff they have seen in the video up! it's a delight to see people use their brain as they're given the right food. hooray!

[@SmokeyPyro]

Thats the bad part.. I would looove to take a look around there what's to be found, i have a morbid curiousity for those old chemicals... Love the video, although i havent seen it through yet!

[@Rain-oq7vh]

​@SmokeyPyro I think she is missing 😢 she has been gone for literally 5 6 7 years. I tried contacting some of her friends which confirmed it hopefully I just didn't keep up and she was found. Have you talked to her?

[@isdamanjeff]

I feel digging in the sand was pointless and extremely careless.

[@jamesluck2969]

although many will see it as pointless in science many times you or other may become careless in the search for the unknown. Bio nerd has proven over and over her curiosity/search for the unknown is careless.

[@user-sq8mj1co9t]

respirator filters are too small and cannot protect against nano dust

[@bramcoteelectrical1088]

Crazy she got exposed to 900msv in the sand stuff

[@lex1945]

a cone beam CT scan gives you 100-250 microsievert, ask your dentist.

[@waifuracer6516]

@@Produkt_R They are ukrainians :D They dont care

[@callanerd3104]

New netflix series ending soon: Cancer Hunter

[@PeterPeterPumpkinEater83]

Hahahah that's fuckin funny

[@flyblu80]

Call a Nerd I'm looking for someone on youtube who sleeps inside the chernobyl reactor but nothing is healthy and effervescent. maybe a couple of rooms overlooking the core

[@PeterPeterPumpkinEater83]

@@flyblu80 no one sleeps in the building

[@manletopia4801]

your a moron change the channel your not a health physicists

[@bionerd23]

the soil samples in the shelves were all from that time, after the chernobyl incident, and has Cs-137 activity readings, yes. the one sample i showed on video was from 1992.

[@valmonta3647]

We miss you, please tell us you are safe and sound ...

[@ElectricityTaster]

@@valmonta3647 Some say she reached the wish granter and became radioactivity itself.

[@valmonta3647]

@@ElectricityTaster Cool

[@bandza1]

6:41 "Тётка попалась нам короче пиздец" xD

[@axizepp]

translation for a bionerd23 : Occasionally we met that girl,that will get us to troubles. (in a rude russian words)

[@ekkorkka]

напылила конечно песком она знатно... нехватает в конце этой фразы слова 'ипанутая', без ковычек ессесно

[@stercorariuspomarinus7513]

Ору!!!))))))

[@yalijin3020]

Pizdez koncenaia.

[@jindou6756]

@John Doe Я удивился, почему она не залезла на эти ящики и не начала сняв костюм дрочить себе сапогом.

[@KarinaMilne]

Wow so much has changed since this was filmed in 2012! That area is flooded a lot more now and has been looted badly

[@krashd]

You can still catch plenty of fish in Chernobyl, just chase them in to a room with one exit.

[@bionerd23]

some levels inside are so high, they can give you a fatal dose within ~30 minutes. you can find many areas with readings of Sv/h in the sarcophagus. however, outside of the reactor, it's quite save to be, maximum mSv/h readings, you can be there for a while with no trouble.

[@bionerd23]

i had an official permit to enter the zone and buildings, so it was approved. :)

[@beepIL]

"still trying to find more shit in that area" i love her...

[@bionerd23]

erm... that's exactly what respirators are for. but spain, and sand castles? hell yeah! the black sand here is dry so not good to build sand castles, but next summer, i am going to palomares, spain... building myself plutonium sand castles. yay, gonna be so much fun!

[@bionerd23]

of course, i'd love to see the inside of the chernobyl sarcophagus! i'd refuse to go in without radiation detectors, but with them, i'll be able to see and hear dose levels, so i'd consider it safe, as i'd know what i am doing. going without radiation detectors would be like crossing a busy eight-lane road while being deaf and blind, though, so that'd be highly risky due to areas with a dozen Sv/h to be expected in there.

[@ElectricityTaster]

did you die of the crabs?

[@pauleskra6061]

So much respect for you all and a big thank you for allowing us this inside look

[@bionerd23]

the protective suit only protects from too much dust etc. contaminating you, and the mask prevents you from inhaling / ingesting dust particles. it does not at all protect from external gamma radiation. near the elephant's foot, if staying too long, i'd still die due to the intense gamma radiation dose, as my protective gear is not at all a radiation shield. as a sidenote, i dont think its possible to wear enough lead shielding to survive near the elephant's foot for a long time (too heavy).

[@dirty9358]

I guess you could get yourself a Suit for Extra Vehicular Activity because it is build for the massive amount of radiation in space. But even with that i wouldnt stay there longer than 2 minutes

[@bionerd23]

ps: thank fuck they didnt make french the language of science.

[@RapidStream]

bionerd23 Are you okay!!?? You haven't uploaded for a year! I really hope your okay!!

[@dynamictelevision8470]

Last upload was 1 month ago

[@Slasher99]

@@dynamictelevision8470 and right now she is dead probably.

[@okGDJ]

@@Slasher99 I have been wondering the same thing tbh. She probably is honestly which is sad. All the radiation she has been exposed too you never know.. Hopefully we hear from her soon, If not... Then....

[@ElRixSape]

1 year

[@bionerd23]

yeah, i was there this time, too. video will follow within the next weeks, it's part of my current chernobyl series (this video here is from last year).

[@DrewpyAnimations]

This video is giving me radiation poisoning.

[@maciumaciu9145]

Drewpy Animations ju

[@davidstolts8499]

It might be possible !!!😱😳🤣

[@manletopia4801]

its not even a msv stfu

[@bionerd23]

nope, i dont have a working neutron detector device yet. :( hopefully will have one in the future... my total body dose as by my certified civil defense tactical dosimeter, which i was wearing on my belt at all times, showed a mere 0,3 mSv. dont underestimate the inverse square law! but yeah, i bet my hands received MUCH more than that, haha.

[@Yung_Goudaa]

PC-3 is prostate cancer cell lines used for prostate cancer research. Also B2O (boron oxide) is used as a catalyst in the conversion and synthesis of organic compounds. Seems like they were doing cancer research before the explosion, then in the days after the explosion they used the building for testing radioactive samples.

[@zenthrosrion9147]

Chernobyl never exploded, it DID in fact melt down, but it was a graphite moderated reactor and thus couldn’t explode. Graphite reactors melt down while pressurized water reactors explode (though the explosion is not nuclear as some propaganda films would show it, just the water pressure getting too high from boiling too much, as a result of too much heat)

[@Iffy350]

Scorch mark What about the containment building?

[@zenthrosrion9147]

The containment building of a nuclear reactor is specifically designed to withstand reactor water based explosions. It is meant to withstand far worse in fact, in the eighties the US did testing where they sent a 200 mph jet on a track towards a solid block of the concrete used to contain the reactors. The plane vaporized on impact and only the wing tips survived as the wingspan was too large for the block. Funnily enough, although reactor containment buildings have been designed and tested for pwr’s since the beginning, reactor sites like Fukushima happened to not use them, on multiple reactors, during a test that the crew failed to do proper procedure, with a power generator system open to breach by a convienent tsunami. It’s almost as if they wanted Fukushima to happen, but of course that is conspiracy theory territory.

[@jamesluck2969]

After rewatching and being more focused on what's around I'd say they where studying the effects of radiation and cancer to become from exposure. Well before the incident happened.

[@luked.48]

Scorch mark the reactor was built poorly and unstable at low power. The graphite tipped control rods allowed the fission reaction to spiral out of control, and the hydrogen gas build up was so strong that it blew the top off. And hydrogen gas being extremely explosive, it cause the second explosion only a few seconds later which sealed the fate of chernobyl.

[@bionerd23]

haha, well. i was actually scared of rabid animals hiding down there, or anywhere else. i think i have lyssophobia, abnormal fear of rabies...

[@iracingrookie3301]

You didn't see black sand! You didn't! Because it's not there!!

[@mikeu.s.n.9099]

Your delusional. Take him to the infirmary.

[@Nords555]

@@mikeu.s.n.9099 its a Chernobyl joke

[@tomglima]

@@Nords555 "Your delusional. Take him to the infirmary." is a Chernobyl joke

[@scottmacdowall8075]

@@tomglima he's in shock, get him out of here

[@jacobreid7077]

Not great jokes, but not terrible ones either

[@jformaldehydem]

The only chemicals I could make out in the video were Potassium Chromate, EDTA, and Barium Oxide. Not sure what the Barium Oxide would be used for. Potassium Chromate could be used as an indicator for chlorides (perhaps they use chlorides in the preparation process and need to eliminate them, I think I saw some silver compounds there which are part of the Chloride test). I think more likely though is that it's used to precipitate out heavy elements from solutions that they make so as to filter them out from the rest of the solution that would contain certain impurities, or it could be used as an oxidising agent in either the preparation of solutions. It can oxidise metals, perhaps the preparation process involved oxidising something in solution, or it could be used in preparing organic ligands. I know that when you're purifying plutonium one of the steps involves making an organic solution of plutonium that can be filtered out from the aqueous phase. The EDTA is almost certainly used as a chelating agent, assisting in getting the metals into solution in the first place. In short, the chemicals were all used to purify the metals. I'm guessing in the absence of enrichment equipment they were either content with mere chemical separation, or they knew that the compounds once extracted would be isotopically pure. As you said in the description, it's probably a plutonium lab, and the chemicals were most likely used in the extraction and purification of plutonium.

[@daveeyes]

jformaldehydem I like your idea. When a fuel rod is pulled, chemistry run on it can show the efficiency of the reactor. The Pu-239/240 ratios are pretty important in plutonium production. I know the US keeps records of the ratios of the ratios that various reactors make, literally, "This looks like the September 1968 run in Savannah River Reactor #2." -- Dave

[@EscapeMCP]

Didn't I see Nitric Acid as well? I could see HNO, but couldn't make out the number.

[@th3d3wd3r]

That was massively entertaining, thank you. It's nice experiencing it vicariously but some day in the not too distant future I will have to do it for myself. These videos are an excellent guide for anyone who is thinking of going.

[@BlackMidalia]

I've been watching as many of your videos as I can! I want to thank you for going out of your way to teach people about Chernobyl and the radiation within the zone. I hope someday I may be able to see it for myself!

[@pichelguy346]

If you ever go, go in the basement next to a clump of concrete and stay there for 5 minutes

[@manletopia4801]

@@pichelguy346 corium tastes good in your cereal

[@bionerd23]

smoke detectors sometimes show the same "burns" inside, yes - however, please see the next video in the series. i did alpha spectroscopy of these samples, and they're clearly alpha source discs for laboratory standards and / or to analyze substances. they're NOT the smoke detector discs that oppose the sources. i found mixed isotopes of plutonium, including weapon's grade Pu-239, in those discs. that's NOT a smoke detector source at all.

[@bionerd23]

in that case, any flight attendant would only have a lifespan of 1-2 years after starting to work. the radiation dose a typical tourist (who doesnt do the crazy stuff seen in this video) receives during a day in chernobyl is about the same as a flight from e.g. spain to kiev.

[@tampakirby]

Those planchets or discs probably contain a dried eluate from an ion-exchange column (IEC) for separating the different actinides in small amounts, such as uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, etc., IF I had to guess. I'll need to look at the next video of what the spectrometer can analyze. Awesome video! Thank you, bionerd23!

[@cortana2007]

19:11 that is a grafiteblock from a RBMK reactor core. The same type was used in the Chernobyl reactor but this block was never in a reactor else it would be much more radioactive.

[@mwising]

You have shown us something truly amazing! Thanks bionerd!

[@DraculTV]

Wow!!! Einfach nur wow!! Hab dich grade entdeckt! So tolle videos. Radioaktivität und Chernobyl interessieren mich schon seit meiner Kindheit

[@ukchris64]

What the fuck? I am here watching this video wondering how someone can go to Chernobyl and dig around in radioactive dirt, and people here are worried about swearing, dear god. Great video by the way, for sure I don't understand most of it, but interesting as hell.

[@cbschriks]

Good and interesting video, madame Curie!!

[@lonnijohnston6339]

Girl, you are a rockstar! Thanks for all the vids

[@nieblaboliashkia7409]

тётка нам попалась кароче пиздец хддддддддддддддддд

[@pawpw1]

The object at 19:05 is a block of graphite from an RBMK reactor, beyond doubt. A different question is, if this particular block was ever a part of active zone of a reactor, or just a laboratory sample. But in either case - wow. BTW., loved that remark about being curie-ous ;-))

[@lostmymarbles9151]

It was not in the reactor. it was used for testing isotopes. that is why its shaped that way.

[@DanyDM_98]

With only 0.7 μSv/h that thing never was inside a nuclear reactor.

[@cezarcatalin1406]

DanyDM You didn't see graphite on the ground because it's not there !

[@RurouniHeero]

I've seen a video recently where a group of people with a guide went there, and were told this sand was actually from reactor 4. So it's either spent plutonium (highly unlikely) or actually contaminated sand and lead from the reactor. The guide didn't let them manipulate any of the sand, and used a small shovel to show it, and told them to get out after 3 minutes maximum.

[@dshiznit12a]

You got a link to the video I'd like to watch it

[@RurouniHeero]

@@dshiznit12a Here you go. Mind you they are french "tourists/journalists" so you might need some subtitles. They go to the "plutonium laboratory" (which is an old soviet military complex) at around 52:00. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e32Zf2lqaradbdk

[@tomglima]

@@RurouniHeero They are digging through the exact same sand box and you can see the shoe as well except the video has very "dramatic" music in the background which I guess makes it more dangerous despite getting the same readings of around 250 microsieverts per hour.

[@RurouniHeero]

@@tomglima I didn't really like the over dramatic music. If you stay there for just a few minutes, it's alright. As you as you don't get contaminated by particles going inside your body.

[@bionerd23]

yes i did. video will be part of my current video series on chernobyl (this video here is old, from 2012; i was back to chernobyl just a few weeks ago now).

[@danield1915]

Any theories on what the black sand is? I have seen identical metal boxes of identical black heavy sand in multiple locations ( Jupiter Factory basement, and hospital basement.).

[@lucky88shp]

Holy shit! These videos are amazing, scary, creepy, entertaining all at once! Man the zone really is hell on Earth!!!

[@benshepherd2944]

WOW, I've watched your other uploads, you're like the Indiana Jones of Radiation 

[@ericcabral5745]

What exactly are you looking for??? Seems to me like an early grave.

[@Sergeant1990]

Obsessed by radiation, so also walked to the graphite crane that took all the graphite off the roof! That crane was on a remote place so it couldnt hurt anybody and she stands near it!!!

[@dynamictelevision8470]

eric cabral if you’re wearing the right clothing you should be fine but she’s been inside the basement. She hasn’t uploaded within 1 year you could be right

[@CyberspacedLoner]

BioNerd23 is a modern day Marie Curie

[@pokiparkassistent]

Its all about how long you are exposed to radioactivity. Also the Iod should be decayed by now. And the caesium is also half timed now

[@bionerd23]

no, not really uranium ore. why? gamma spectrum. i'll show that in my next video, which i'll hopefully manage to complete and upload on the weekend.

[@daviddickey9832]

870 microsieverts per hour. So if you stay there for a little over an hour you've basically reached your recommended limit for the year. Still not as bad as smoking.

[@serotoninless2565]

who recommands this?

[@PhoenixT1953]

I'm really into Chernobyl thanks for showing us and me this great footage

[@HackerMultiful]

wow, I found programmer of a program at 15:25 he is Egon Janos Szondi from Budapest University of Technology

[@bionerd23]

radiation shielding lining? so, what would you suggest, then? as you can see, we're getting readings mainly from Cs-137, which means gamma energies of 662 keV. what would be a good idea to shield this in terms of a full body hazmat suit? i'm curious about your suggestions!

[@nostrapaulus]

No words can express my admiration for you bionerd23. Your videos are fascinating and enriching but also have become a source of subconscious anxiety for your welfare, Thank you, take care and good luck. I am now subscribed.

[@bionerd23]

yeah. in theory, it'd be best if i spoke mandarin (chinese), as there are more people in the world who speak mandarin than those who speak english. however, most people who speak mandarin probably cant see this video because of damn censorship :(, so i'll stick with the most widely understood and spoken language of the internet, and the language of science - english.

[@azwris]

I don't know if you still check the comments but I bet you do! I only wanted to say that the language of sciences is Greek and not English, as almost all of the scientific English words are actually Greek. Just mentioning. Thanks for all of this research of yours. I was checking some videos of yours back then but I am revisiting your channel once again. There are still so many things to see and once again you are a small hero for doing this. Be well and safe!

[@AdboxEleven]

I think its not black sand but radioactive graphite but not in compresed form

[@wrayday7149]

AdboX EleveN How can you see what isn’t there?

[@SmeurkeDeKat]

Not graphite. She's saying it feels pretty heavy for it to be regular sand. Let alone graphite.

[@OnTheRiver66]

Zircon sand. Mined from beach sand, used to make ceramics (refractories), but in this case probably for shielding. Zirconium silicate. Heavy.

[@privatear2001]

Thanks for that explanation! Often wondered how it worked and why they needed a radioactive source in the first place. So they must have a counter in there somewhere with a threshold alarm that goes off when it senses the output has changed. Pretty cool.

[@glasstronic]

Fascinating as always. Thanks for posting.

[@BoxBuilderIdaho]

U are bad ass. I love the comments.. ignorance of some of the people about this topic is unbelievable.. keep up the good work. Love your work in the pbs show "twisting the tail of the Dragon".

[@Caseytheradioguy]

+Mr BBI Box Builder Amps (BBi amps) looked up the show thanks to your comment :D

[@nickhahn5412]

lucas Miller what is that about ??? I may watch it

[@RapidStream]

What do you mean ignorance!? She's endangering her own life and is probably going to have a short life because of it that's why alot of people aren't supporting this, *in fact your comment is ignorant if anything, in fact slowly Killing yourself doesn't make you a badass i honestly hope this whoman is okay, but the fact that she hasn't uploaded for a year isn't a good sign.. *

[@cokeforever]

RapidStream 8676 she knows what she's doing and the ignorance of people on the subject of how radioactivity works comes from dumbass propaganda films (instilled by both western and soviet media)... Like cell mutations happening in same generation ))) or total misconception of what acute radiation dose is... Those people are just propaganda zombies... Mindless robots

[@davidkruse4030]

@@cokeforever Propaganda!? This is support by medical science. The amount of radiation she is exposing herself is foolish. We can debate low level radiation but lets set aside this she knows what she is doing nonsense.

[@MoparAdventure]

Maybe they were trying to figure out what effectively blocks radiation. I bet that was lead powder.

[@MoparAdventure]

@@mesutbasturk99 awesome elements to have airborne.

[@FlintF]

Love the flashes. The younger kids that visited after ran like hell, you guys stayed as if you were walking around in a museum.

[@bionerd23]

you're correct. :) it's a very typical spectroscopy lab. the filters, the dish i picked up from below, and many of the chemicals and beakers are used in the process of refining a sample for alpha spectroscopy, which is then deposited (usually by electrolysis) on a disc of metal (varying types of metals may be used, it depends on what you're looking for, and how - for some methods, it's even necessary to use platinum).

[@bionerd23]

yeah, seen those. quite amazing. i'd love to go INTO the actual sarcophagus some day...

[@CatsMeowPaw]

I really enjoy your videos, bionerd23. I was very concerned to see you digging in that radioactive sand, and the amount of contamination left on the respirator. I visited the zone in September 2016 and found it to be fascinating. My tour guide kept telling us to stay quiet inside Pripyat buildings, as entry is officially forbidden. Yet, there are many modern videos from inside buildings. We visited the reactor 5/6 building and I was concerned by the lack of respirators for the group. It did not appear to be dusty, but you never know. My group climbed the DUGA one day after entry to it was forbidden, and we did get caught. Tour guide was angry with us for not climbing fast enough. There were lots of phone calls made (in Ukrainian) and eventually we left the DUGA accompanied by a smiling tour guide and guard. I suspect a bribe was paid somewhere along the line...

[@Pingaheimer]

i really like ur voice, it has a nice calming, soothing effect to it.

[@squishvr174]

when even bionerd23 wears hazmat, you know its dangerous.

[@Tiza123m]

I`m curious, are you a sientist? Do you have some official goverment aproval to do this? I`m not critisizing, I`m Impressed! That was very informative and interesting. I hope your health is o.k. I`m from russia myself and I remember 1986 very well. I don`t live there now but it`s a part of my childhood. Good for you. I will watch more of your videos now.

[@rondamato6415]

Over 500,000 Russian soldiers, miners, and reservists passed through Chernobyl during the clean-up phase. Many received dosages over 3,000 Roentgens (an outdated unit of measure). Natural "background" radiation worldwide is *91 millionths of ONE Roentgen*. For comparison, one chest X-ray is approximately 0.002281 Roentgen! Nearly all of the people receiving that huge of a dose have long since passed away due to either direct exposure to ionizing radiation (within days/weeks) or of cancer (within a few years). They paid a huge price to save Russia (and the entire European continent) from exposure to massive doses of radiation due to the imminent secondary explosion which was, very luckily, *just barely* averted thanks to these brave and patriotic young men. People fail to understand how close mankind came to global catastrophe in the days following the Chernobyl explosion. It has affected the entire world's cancer rate--and the Chernobyl site will continue to be deadly for what basically amounts to eternity. The scariest part? The concrete tomb that encases all of that deadly radiation is falling apart and Ukraine/Belarus have no money with which to repair it. It's designed life is but 30 years and, well, you do the math...

[@kenziealex04]

Chernoybl is in Ukraine and the disaster barely affected Russia only the south-west Smartass

[@garethjones3042]

got money for war tho

[@rondamato6415]

Chernoybyl mostly affected Belarusian terririrory which WAS part of the USSR at the time...

[@TheBlackhero871]

Nice try being a smartass Gaminglad ;) but like Ron already told you, the Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union so everything he said was right. Little help from me for you, if you are trying to be a dick and correct other people on history, you kinda should have some basic knowledge about the stuff you are talking about.

[@v3253]

Ron Damato Soviet *

[@MrEdogjohnson]

Gosh these videos are fascinating, the radiation and secrecy is just, amazing.

[@scottporter4544]

Great video! Very informing, thank you very much from Florida USA.

[@xxprogamerzyt4186]

You did not see graphite because it wasn’t there

[@earthworkr2]

omg, do you have a death wish! I still wonder what was in that box, but im glad you didnt find it, for your own good.

[@Kotstulle81]

You Guys are the real life Stalkers. Great Vids!

[@bionerd23]

wow, now that's really interesting. only makes me more interested in this laboratory. curious if they indeed had mice for experiments there... it seemed more like a mere isotope laboratory to me.

[@XshakeninjaX]

Look out for the rad scorpions and the deathclaws. Here....you can borrow my fat boy lol

[@JeSsSe66]

Damn i was gonna crack a fallout joke but you beat me to it

[@stevenbarry2844]

witch fall out

[@kainhall]

stalker > fallout love them both....but my post nuke gamess rank sstalker, metro 2033, fallout

[@MisfitManiacJoe]

Would be cool to see a before and after (or now) pictures of this place

[@DanyDM_98]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6eykp2Da6eWgpo Apparently, now is flooded to half the knee height.

[@builttoresist225]

@@DanyDM_98 pretty sure he meant how it looked before the catastrophe.

[@bionerd23]

which browser are you using? try another one, maybe firefox and / or chrome. also, make sure you skip the ad before clicking 1080p, so you only set that in the actual video.

[@wesoykostek7895]

Your vids are amazing! Wish i could go there with someone like you. This year i'm going to visit Zona. I'ts about 600 miles away from a place where i live (POLAND). One more time: AMAZING WIDEO!

[@TV-mw8xt]

У меня один вопрос! Вы себя хорошо чувствуете?

[@cristianchisbora8289]

Wow...you actually seen a true graphite moderator block from an rbmk reactor....I guess they brought it there for radiation measurements. The disks...are so called "targets" you would place a few drops of your sample on them, ignite them and send them for counting....eerie and intresting.

[@petermeuller7355]

At which moment you can see the moderator block? O.o

[@cristianchisbora8289]

at 19.04 :)

[@petermeuller7355]

+Cristian Chisbora wow you're right, that's so awesome

[@askjdhagyouqgw]

You didn't see graphite on the floor YOU DIDN'T

[@kuli1111]

Best documentary ever about Chernobyl. Respect! I think that those samples containing plutonium ;)

[@bionerd23]

yeah, that's possible i guess. thanks for the info - quite a few helpful comments about the sand here! wish i had taken a sample, oh well, i'll go back and get one some day soon.

[@user-cw1wy1ek7i]

Интересно эти дебилизор которые в ящиках копались живые ещё? И те пацаны которые их сопровождали,они же там пипец какой столп пыли подняли

[@diversantvlg7099]

И что, они же, не ели эту пыль...

[@diversantvlg7099]

@@stimert623 внимательнее по интересуйся, как влияет радиация на человека, только потом, пытайся умничать, а лучше в игрушки играй и не лезь, в серьёзные темы

[@diversantvlg7099]

@@stimert623 ещё раз говорю, узнавай, как и какие виды излучения, влияют на организм, в сети полно видео, на эту тему

[@stormdrain23]

Your series on Chernobyl has been amazing and eye opening for me. It's been 30 years, yet there continues to be this kind of radiation in the area. I had known it was bad, but never really understood the impact before watching this and your 2015 series. It looks like at one point in the video the radiation even causes a strobing effect. Crazy. Out of curiosity, do you happen to know if anyone goes near the Elephant's Foot? I can imagine it would still, to this day, be too dangerous even for workers in protective gear to be around it for more than a couple minutes.

[@bionerd23]

thanks for the useful info summary! i guess that makes sense...

[@lifepsycho123]

I work in nuclear medical imaging and the way you handled the sand made me almost jump out of my chair lol... careful please

[@stanislavkogan]

The guy in the background is saying: "It's just our luck to get a crazy girl like her"

[@Tuxo7]

No he says this crazy bitch gonna get us in trouble

[@saintetienne755]

Is it ok to have bare skin exposed? The wrists are uncovered

[@FLACK456]

Fuck the logic lol xD

[@saintetienne755]

. . . and die from radiation poisoning?

[@Nonderyon]

And no eyewear to protect the eyes from dust

[@vanquishedcanadian6424]

Yea fairly careless....

[@infantjones]

Yes it's actually fine. She'd have to spend hours rolling around in a hotspot to get a dose high enough to increase cancer risk. Radiation is dangerous, but nowhere near as dangerous as a lot of people have been led to believe. You'd probably be exposed to more radiation flying from the US to Ukraine than you'd receive spending a few hours touring Chernobyl.

[@andiyladdie3188]

Again, nice and interesting vid's ,nerd, you good. :P

[@MrDrop442]

I am so jealous of you. I would love to go to Chernobyl and prypiat. I've watched all of your videos from Chernobyl and it just makes me want to go there even more.

[@Spedeer2007]

did you finnally investigate what the powder is ?

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Spedeer2007 Lead powder

[@UliPotowsky]

17:04 H3NTA Nitrilotriacetic acid, complex anorganic acid...a paradise for chemical nerds ^^

[@mggailitis7231]

I love your sense of humour. I am not a scientist, and therefore I cringe when you enter these places, thinking What the fuck are you doing? But your sense of humour and obvious knowledge always puts me at ease and allows me to just sit back and watch without having a stroke. Keep safe!

[@daveeyes]

Consistently high quality, very interesting videos.

[@ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

I love how interested you are in this, you aren't just a collection of idiotic thrill seeker types you seem to know a lot about the technology and you're exploring through this in the same way I would explore through an abandoned network control room from the 80s or an old commodore or digital equipment corporation factory.

[@Mreque89]

Yeah why protect ur eyes..

[@bionerd23]

sounds like a good guess, it's my gas as well. rumors are it's not fuel for reactors but bomb cores they researched around there, or at least built the electronics for. however, it looks like they didnt only do chernobyl accident stuff there indeed... i'll explain more in the spectroscopy video.

[@bionerd23]

"clean up"? we just dump the protective gear in another contaminated area, preferably an old storage bin. yeah, it's littering in the zone, but it's still better than taking it out of the zone. at least i dont throw empty cans etc. around like other people do (who go there and consume beer etc.).

[@ngth9898]

How many pair of extra hands and eyes have you got by now? OMG!

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

But her children can be born with extra hands.

[@elpelux]

OK have someone played Outlast... It looks a little like that... Good video

[@rachellee5390]

I have :3

[@Sloxx701]

Girl you crazy and i love these videos

[@bionerd23]

i'm sure he'd wear respiratory protection if he was to dig around in that stuff, too. as for the fuel fragment, i handled that with bare hands, too, as there's no reason not to.

[@Orc-icide]

This stuff is so interesting

[@sorasarielcl]

The only abandoned place without graffiti.

[@mehmetinlaboratuvar7099]

BUT GRAPHITE

[@FalconryVids]

I thought the plumber that went under my house was brave.... WOW! You make good videos! More Please!

[@pumpkinpie1415]

People like you make me want to follow my dream and go into radiation studies in physics and science or even become a power plant control worker. I really want to and researching chernobyl and being in there would make me so happy! But I don't have the time, I'm holding up my family as it is.. I have 2 jobs during school and 4 during the summer. But one day, I will become something that pertains to radiation.. I promise! Just for you c: