chernobyl 2012 II: the radioactive cemetery of vehicles, burjakivka (Бурякiвка)

[@ScienceShed1]

The yellow robot that was highly contaminated was called the "Joker" after much trouble getting it on the roof of the reactor, the radiation killed its circuits.

[@kevinyang5926]

+Science Shed Can radiation fry the circuts?

[@ScienceShed1]

+Chen Kevin yep

[@Chefmajor234]

+Science Shed That's insane.. How are these people not sick?

[@ScienceShed1]

+Seth Major Well after 30 years the radiation has gone down quite a bit, due to rain, wind, and human activities. But the radiation is still a prominent danger and if they stayed there long enough you would most certainly start to feel the affects of radiation sickness. All the clothes they wear are decontaminated because if you get a particle of radioactive dust on your hand, then in your mouth YOU WILL DIE. this is also why they put a bag over the pancake probe because any radioactive dust on that and you will get false readings. hope this answers your question?

[@Chefmajor234]

yes it did thank you!

[@Bikewithlove]

I keep thinking how interesting it would be if there was a special camera that could 'see' radiation as light - to see these contaminated pieces of equipment giving off light like a light bulb.

[@hjembrentkent6181]

They use this in astronomy

[@gerardcollins6621]

Aww that would be amazing

[@andrewbozhozr]

... that's a good weed you got there man.... ;)

[@illiah6383]

Actually there is video showing radiation inside Chernobyl shelter. Try to search 'Inside the Chernobyl shelter'

[@toaderspanache8571]

you mean the hubble telescope and such?

[@jbear4910]

The fire fighters that were at ground zero lived 3 weeks and they had massive doses. They are true heroes.

[@dingbat19]

Most of them survived out of 85, 28 died.

[@TheGLaDOSvideoCore]

@@dingbat19 thats still a big ass number. o7

[@dingbat19]

@@TheGLaDOSvideoCore of course even more died of radiation related illness later.

[@mr.k1611]

They cannot be hero's if they did not know what dangers lay await. Stop throwing that word around easily.

[@comradeevan4539]

@@mr.k1611You’re wrong.

[@Haddley333]

Something about the chernobyl vehicle graveyard is fascinating. Haunting, and intrigues me.

[@mihajlogligorijevic2943]

all of that call of duty 4...

[@Haddley333]

@@mihajlogligorijevic2943 i think you're right lol.

[@rovat6285]

All that stalker

[@technophant]

This area is empty now

[@leandroabela8649]

Its like you got back in time

[@0error.389]

The yellow robot called Joker got stuck on a 120 Sv/Hr graphite fragment, surprised it isn't much more radioactive

[@hjembrentkent6181]

All of the short lived isotopes have decayed, it's mainly Cs-137 that's left of the contamination, half of it has decayed and much of it have been washed away probably

[@lioncross1849]

Could you make out how much radiation was coming off it now? In sieverts

[@MrGman6897]

Lion Cross The last reading before she walked away was 800 micro sieverts per hour. I reckon if she stayed there a bit it would be 5 to 10 milla sieverts per hour. A yearly dose of background is about 3.5 milla sieverts per hour.

[@Nnneemo]

It was washeb by pressurised sand mixed with water to cut down most active layers of paint.

[@BarrySmoother]

After watching the series these videos are so much better then they were

[@bobsimpson3661]

Have you noticed that just about all the vehicles have been stripped of their engines, transmissions, etc. Probably you will see a glowing truck driving around Kyiv at night. You will know where he bought his engine from.

[@OhNoYouDidnt]

lol

[@jetstreamsam8112]

Good joke

[@marcocabal]

jajajaj si, de luces azules!

[@kylev.1163]

It is really cool to see the "Joker" robot there. You would think it would be preserved if it were possible. That bot was stranded on the roof of the plant when it was used in hopes of clearing the graphite and debris off the roof.

[@MoniqueFromPlymouth]

I am guessing "Joker" was not radioactive enough to a level that it required to be buried deep into the ground... but knowing how close it was to the destroyed reactor core, you would think it would be.

[@freefall0483]

Why the hell would you want to preserve it? The thing needs to be buried so that it can't contaminate anyone.

[@D4rthDuck]

@@MoniqueFromPlymouth it's buried now

[@MoniqueFromPlymouth]

@@D4rthDuck | The latest article I found via Google states its NOT buried... comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/05/31/chernobyl-hbo-episode-4-joker-robot-/

[@davidnichols7485]

if you notice most vehicles are missing engines my guess hot motors running around lol

[@florincrisu4158]

Never trust a Russian, he can sell you for a bottle of votka.!

[@jasonmurawski126]

No the engines were buried because they had been sucking in radioactive air and were highly contaminated

[@cokeforever]

David Nichols also possible, that taking this thought into account, theu have burried all the expensive stuff under layers of soil

[@cokeforever]

Florin Crisu you mean to say Ukrainian

[@whozaskin3639]

Hot rod....

[@codysego6496]

rip headphone users

[@LunaStar1v1er]

:)

[@uborkakovaszos3880]

rip them who went there

[@kazzam5]

Uborka Kovászos nothing happened to her..

[@HarvesterForwarderMore]

the sad thing is every bonnet is open, no engines inside. I've seen a documentary about people around the exclusion zone stealing parts vom that radioactive scrap yard...

[@jdod64]

im sure they do steal, but most of the engines have been buried due to them being highly radioactive since they were running and breathing in radioactive dust in the air.

[@cheebandfc]

Someone took the time to neatly remove and bury the engines? Would this not be more dangerous than simply leaving them there?

[@agentepolaris4914]

cheebandfc I think the same

[@Radbot776]

cheebandfc a lot of the engines were reused in same trucks and cars in the 30 km range of Chernobyl reactor zone after the accident. Ukraine broke ass government has been slowly salvaging the place out because of there war that lot pretty much doesn't exist anymore most of its vehicles have been scrapped

[@MrWolfSnack]

The engines were not and never were removed and buried. That just makes the radiation worse. The vehicles were parked there, and people have, and still are, stealing parts from these vehicles. These vehicles are very rare and for people that have similar models of their own, they don't give a shit about radiation and need the parts for their vehicles.

[@Cosmoline]

That German robot is the same one that ended up getting stuck on the roof on a pile of graphite rods I think. If it had worked, the "bio robots" would not have been needed in such numbers.

[@scudb5509]

The moon landers performed just fine. The Yellow one, nicknamed “Joker” got burned by the radiation. According to HBO documentary, the Germans were told of lower levels of radiation then there actually were, so they thought the robot would do fine.

[@toaderspanache8571]

yea, lets base facts on an hbo documentary not the reality...smart americans :))))

[@scudb5509]

Toader Spanache A. Not an American B. I specifically said “according to”. Meaning it’s according to them and not me. C. The previous points I mentioned were facts. So what are you winging at?

[@igor_pavlovich]

@@scudb5509 its not documentary, its historical drama which is art but not a documentary! they made up alot of things especially to make Soviet look even worse that in reality

[@scudb5509]

Julius I am half Russia and based on what I saw and what my family members told me. I found it quite nice. I didn’t see any bias. I mean if you’ll provide examples, it’ll be nice to know what you didn’t like.

[@robthenice8117]

Look mum, I’m glowing in the dark

[@TeunisD]

I would not recommend to anyone to come near the vehicle graveyards of Chernobyl.

[@Bramb0]

Why is that?! Let me guess... You watched "Chernobyl" and now you're an expert on the topic? xD

[@Bleckyyyy]

@@Bramb0 Lol, theres a reason why people had to evacuate. Fucking braindead morons everywhere with your 3.6 roentgen shit.

[@dennissmith9577]

The vehicle graveyard no longer exists. Everything was cut up for scrap and removed in 2013.

[@lioncross1849]

Dennis Smith even the yellow robot :( that is history right there

[@thornie123]

Lion Cross history that’ll make your kids waterheads. I’m just glad she was able to document all this for everyone to see before it was gone

[@foreignfoamer3592]

These are beautiful vehicles. So sad that they had to be abandoned.

[@Baldur1975]

We need a new Firefighting Truck. _No take this old T-34_

[@plenex]

T34 was excelent in killing germans, so they thought it can kill radiation too

[@admiralfloofz658]

Its also a T54 chassi not T34

[@Baldur1975]

@@admiralfloofz658 Herrgott , das war ein witz

[@ThePridesalter]

For all the people saying that she is in danger etc. The radiation she is experiencing is not dangerous in short intervals, she is experiencing 400-500 micro Sv per hour, not mini or siever

[@RaulDukeKnife]

Dodo PUBG Well it's not great but it's not terrifying.

[@SR71ABCD]

Joker and the other cleaning robots had high levels of Radiation since they were cleaning the rubble off the roof into the core that was exposed.

[@Galatea20]

I´m the only one freaking out with you for going so close ???

[@kariibou1]

that is called high stupidity !!! she doesn't wear any protection !!!

[@kosztihunor6439]

3 mSv is 0.32 Roentgen.. 500 Roentgen is lethal dose.

[@plantaznik266]

@@kosztihunor6439 Yes, but even 3 mSv can make you chance for cancer higer.

[@kosztihunor6439]

@@plantaznik266 if u leave your house there is a bigger chance to die, thats the incrase getting cancer at this amount of dose.

[@plantaznik266]

@@kosztihunor6439 That is true, I know that 3 mSv is not much if we are talking about deterministic effects of radiation. But then there are stochastic effects - even small doses can higher your cancer chance. And I am not even talking about risk of inhaling radioactive dust.

[@matterhaz2980]

This channel is amazing. I love all these videos so much. I've seen hundreds of Chernobyl videos over the years but these are the best raw videos before things were way too complicate. The war. Tourists. Trespassing. Looters. Yes it was abandon for years here but still so much better content. Thank you for this all. Truly captivating history.

[@Mp3zerGames]

2:55 Rip Headphone users

[@hylacinerea970]

something about this absolutely terrifies me, it gives me a looming sense of dread knowing this could repeat in many places on the impulsivity of an unstable leader

[@graham2424]

for everyone coming to see the "joker" robot it's at 2:18

[@ennex2609]

Thanks

[@ljubomirkostic3959]

Thanks

[@User0000000000000004]

I love listening to you talk. Such a soothing and deadpan tone while walking around all that intense stuff.

[@sixstonks9385]

Stick to enbs

[@RAMMSTEIN4HIMMER]

It's interesting to notice that all of the pine-needles above and around the robot "Joker" are dead; then just a meter back on the same branch the needles are green and alive.

[@HorstEwald]

That tree is dead. Trees are rarely doing well when they're lying on their side.

[@RAMMSTEIN4HIMMER]

@@HorstEwald Looked pretty upright to me bud.

[@HorstEwald]

@@RAMMSTEIN4HIMMER 2:18 The stem. It's horizontal.

[@RAMMSTEIN4HIMMER]

@@HorstEwald Good eye good sir. In that case my mistake, thanks for pointing that out, failed to notice that.

[@zudemaster]

Could i possibly get a rear bumper off of a 1973 Chevelle there? No? Damn.

[@fishingsquadtheshire6653]

+zudemaster Nice try tho

[@anton.j.]

+Zudemaster Your comment reminded me about this publication about american cars in Soviet union. freedomcars.ru/retro/oldamcar.shtml

[@b3j8]

Sure Comrade! I make you deal of lifetime. There ees just one small problem...

[@ModsnRods]

I need one for a 79 Malibu!!

[@martinsuper4545]

I have a 73 Chevelle brother!

[@jbear4910]

The people that were directly exposed to the initial radio active blast lived 3 or more weeks. these people were in extreme close proximity. Even if you walked directly into reactor #4 right now, stood there for 5 minutes, it could take weeks months or even years for the side effects to appear.

[@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! :)

[@arjanwilbie2511]

i want to visit chernobyl and the vehicle graveyards. i always loved to see what time does to man made objects. i have deep respect for the people who battled the aftermath.

[@rmason4358]

Arjan Wilbie Gone

[@scudb5509]

Too late.

[@SuperVolkan12]

this vehicles are removed.ı looked this place in google eart ,.this place empty since 2012 but ı didn't find any video about emptying this graveyard

[@rmason4358]

Volkan demirel I don't think you will. (Check your new car and tinned food with a geiger counter before handing money over).

[@hilmust6278]

The Helicopter that chrashed at the reactor is also wburried there

[@MrSpacelyy]

The yellow robot is called Joker, It was stuck on the roof. 3 people tried to save it. It was standing on top of a block of graphite (Wich was highly radioactive) that is why the readings are so high... I gues they removed the tracks because they were in direct contact. (maybe buried in concrete somehwere)

[@saxtelHR]

which was his performance?

[@saxtelHR]

to be used?

[@STS908]

It was a german police robot and all the other robots failed, which meant they had to launch the joker directly on the roof, thus leading to its demise

[@KerrPwnz]

***** There were some german and japanese robots that can work even under water but even they turned useless in highly radioactive places. I saw a video somewhere on which one of the robots just get out of control and fell off the roof like in some suicide jump.

[@KerrPwnz]

Mauricio Henriquez I saw it on tv and can't find it for years. That was a radio controlled soviet moonwalker, equipped with special shovel, its RC was simply blocked by overwhelming radiation level. They used only wired robots then. I guess only documented facts about such accidents can be found in the internet now.

[@reaganjatello8482]

Amazing how Some of the truck tyres still holding pressure after all the years

[@osiantownsendjones2833]

Bloody hell! Step away from the German yellow robot!!!

[@PS3TEKKENLORD]

the NOISE that those GEIGER-COUNTERS give off is more deadly that the RADIATION its measuring!!!

[@indridcold8433]

Ashes to ashes Dust to dust Wood decays And metal rusts. Streets crumble Buildings fall Eons pass As halflives crawl.

[@johnmoller9222]

mwuana

[@Hanz_Goober]

Humans arnt meant to handle U-238 but here we are.

[@indridcold8433]

@@Hanz_Goober Uranium 238 is readily available in nature and is not fissile. You were probably thinking of Uranium 235.

[@vlogmaster9568]

Its kinda sad that joker will be chopped up. It shloud be decontaminated and put in a museum.

[@chrisphillips7282]

love your videos to much my gamma scout is always to quiet but the zone makes it scream and I'm so jealuse you got to see the grave yard before it was all hidden or buried love your videos keep up the great work

[@TheSomeonedotcom1]

Awesome video as usual, quick question, after the measuring the relatively high levels of radiation, will your detectors need recalibrating/decontaminating? Thank you again for the videos, I am very glad I subscribed.

[@-yeme-]

2:18 the aluminium chassis on top of the first little tracked vehicle is interesting, it looks almost like a lunar rover, especially the wheels, and the fact that its all aluminium and it looks a bit more specialised than the other more industrial looking ones. I think I read somewhere that they used robots based on the Lunokhod rovers, could that be a bit of the soviet space program there?

[@rawtorque]

One of the Chernobyl histories mentioned a diver had to go into that water in the bubbler area, to figure out how much water needed to be pumped out. I suspect he's dead now, no name of his was given.

[@karlmortentamm2046]

There were 3 engineers who went there to close the valves ,2 of them were there to hold a light and 1 who knew the locations of the valves... All of them died around 3 days after.

[@-yeme-]

the story of the 3 has been overtold. they are Ananenko, Baranov and Bezpalov. first they wore diving suits for protection and breathing but the water they entered was not deep to swim, less than one metre. and they did not die in the water or in days later. Baranov dies in his 60 years many years after, Bezpalov is alive an old man retired and Ananenko is work today in the nuclear industry

[@sixstringedthing]

Thank you yeme for that clarification. Those men were true heroes. If the burning core had melted its way down to the coolant pool area before it was pumped out, the resulting superheated steam explosion could have blown the entire reactor building apart and launched the whole poisonous mess into the atmosphere. The consequences would have been utterly devastating. True heroes, along with all those other first responders. I'm sure that they don't think of themselves in this way, they were "just doing their jobs". But there is some justice in the fact that these men escaped with their lives, as so many others did not, and they can be with their families and live their lives as they deserve.

[@r-saint]

@@-yeme-"Having been exposed to lethal doses of radiation 15 Sv (15,000 roentgen), all suffered acute radiation syndrome. Ananenko and Bezpalov died shortly after. There are no known reports concerning Baranov - though he is no longer alive…"

[@Exekutioncro]

However, research by Andrew Leatherbarrow, author of the 2016 book Chernobyl 01:23:40, determined that the frequently recounted story is a gross exaggeration. Alexei Ananenko continues to work in the nuclear energy industry, and rebuffs the growth of the Chernobyl media sensationalism surrounding him. While Valeri Bezpalov was found to still be alive by Leatherbarrow, the 65-year-old Baranov had lived until 2005 and had died of heart failure.

[@benshepherd2944]

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

[@spreadeagled5654]

If they’re still radioactive, why do people want to go there to see rusted and derelict junk? 😲

[@Matty112uk]

The Yellow truck was a police vehicle called the 'Joker', obtained by the Soviets from West Germany. Apparently its build quality made it good to work in radiation affected areas. Problem was, the Soviet government failed to tell the West Germans that the radiation levels on the roof that this robot was going to work on were about 400-500 times what the robot could actually stand. Shortly after 'Joker' was landed on the roof by helicopter, the extremely high radiation emitted by the large amounts of radioactive debris literally destroyed Joker's circuits, rendering her inoperable and completely useless. After this it was decided that the only way to the clean the roof was to use 3,000 Soviet soldiers. This soldiers, nicknamed 'bio-robots', went up to the roof in small groups, spending no more than 90 seconds cleaning debris off the roof using shovels, straight into the destroyed reactor.

[@mikehathaway2842]

They were not generally soldiers, they were people who were "conscripted" which sounds a lot like drafted. There is a great podcast call Chernobyl that goes with each episode. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chernobyl-podcast/id1459712981 While it is a docu drama they are very true to the materials and in the podcast you are told where they took liberties.

[@sergeontheloose]

Who are you kidding? There is no vehicle or robot today that can withstand 15 000 roentgens per hour. The radiation simply would fry all its sophisticated electronics. Even the Moon rovers didn't help and they were designed for space vacuum and solar radiation in space!

[@Matty112uk]

@@sergeontheloose The Soviet government didn't tell the West Germans that the radiation on the roof was between 10,000 - 15,000 roentgens per hour though. They said it was 'only' 2,000 - about 17,000 microsievert's (µSv). I say only, because 17,000 (µSv) is a hell of a lot of radiation still. Enough to kill robots and humans alike.

[@sergeontheloose]

@@Matty112uk Even if they did. Look, I respect the German engineering but even today they wouldn't construct anything closer to being able to operate for days and months in the 15 000 roentgens per hour, and "Masha" (the roof) was hotter up to 20 000 roentgens per hour.

[@Akenaton2223]

This helicopter hit a steel cable from a crane, the collision video is here on you tube!

[@krishadula8949]

Can you share the link!!!

[@badchefi]

I doubt it to be the chopper that crashed into the crane - you see several upper parts of the helicopters they used but all the bottom sections of the cabins are missing - I assume the radiation on the bottoms where too high (result of flying over the burning reactor) and they chopped them off to be buried. The top parts don’t seem to show crash damage.

[@bionerd23]

what for? i am not touching the stuff, plus the contamination on most vehicles is minor and the remaining contamination does not easily come off, anyway.

[@rdpeach]

Very obvious people responding to the meters beeping have no ideas how they work. You can put them on different settings and different warning levels.

[@tanatelabscience6341]

Why don't protect your hand??? Survey meter show the value of gamma ray but it can't detect beta and alpha particles. It easily for contamination. The dust radiation from alpha and beta will contaminate to your hand.

[@Emmepi37]

Yellow vehicle is the joker, displayed in HBO miniserie ?

[@alessvadlenka1474]

yes

[@sgtalash]

aja. this woman life is reduced to less 50%

[@bionerd23]

a cotton mask does not protect you from radiation at all, though. you could have no reading at all, entirely normal dose rates, but alpha (e.g. polonium-210) dust in the air that severely harms you when inhaled. it's not reasonable to wear a cotton mask just because you encounter a specific dose rate. it's more about what you think may be airborne.

[@fimbles1015]

I think the yellow robot you find at 2.28 is called joker. You can see him in use in this video : kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJenkmuqh5doms0 at 11.54. He was used on the roof of reactor 4 i think. The most contaminated area. Love the videos :)

[@ankit1819]

Imagine the effort and sacrifice people made to neutralize it.. You will not be able to see that in today's world

[@jonathanpainter3407]

2.18 it is the STR-1 rover made by the team who made the Lunokhod moon rovers headed by Alexander Kemurdzhian .

[@bionerd23]

probably both, seeing they were used in an environment were neutron radiation is not unexpected. with most of it blown up into the air, the remaining reactor by far was not critical, but there may have been a sufficient neutron flux to turn things radioactive. i'm not sure, though. otherwise, chemical reactions for binding may be the explanation for the persistent contamination; same as H2O (water) makes Fe (iron) form Fe2O3 (rust), similar reactions may have bond the caesium to the metal frame.

[@ukmud6218]

all the lorrys with missing parts, must be alot of radioactive parts beng used in various wagons across the country

[@johnsondelvetto4387]

So thats the wreckage of the helicopter crash

[@bionerd23]

sure i have seen the sarcophagus, but i've not been inside it. however, there are plenty of videos from the inside, where you can see dose rates of a few Sv/h messing with the camera (flashes) same as on those fukushima videos. i've not been inside to assess radiation levels inside the sarcophagus, though, mind you. but what you mention sounds like the typical scaremonger rumor trying to scare the public. we can get dose rate and becquerel / kg readings, and that's what really matters.

[@shawlewis6492]

The zil fire trucks are still in service not the ones at Chernobyl but the type

[@SteriCraft]

The german robot would give you an annual radiation dose in three days if you stayed next to it.

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

SteriCraft and what’s more scary is that some parts of the engine etc. got appearently removed, propably because it’s valuable high tech stuff you can sell. If you look closely at all the vehicles you can see that many parts are missing 😬

[@mildly_miffed_man1414]

@@mathildewesendonck7225 Its not high tech it's just old and rare as fuck.

[@RaulDukeKnife]

Well it's not great but it's not terrible.

[@prithviraj4203]

The girl looks very happy finding high reading in her dosimeters ..

[@tiamat2009yt]

that beeping means get out of that area...

[@Diddds79]

No it just means radioactivity is rising, as long as you know how to read the device & know the safe limit to yourself/ourselves your/were fine , the only reason she has 1 is because its known that the area is dangerously radioactive to which continued exposure will eventually kill you / its more for research and a safety precaution than anything else.

[@andisi4404]

I can't understand, you stand for so long at These high level radiation point. I was in Tschernobyl too, last year. I hope you not gonna sick in later times of your life... But thank you for this good video. We had a private tour, but our guide don't want to go to this place. Best regards From Germany

[@Diddds79]

I would call it anything but awesome , its a crying shame

[@shredder_mang3211]

kurt selvester awesome- something that leaves the person experiencing it in awe, awesome doesn’t mean she’s enjoying the tragedy

[@Consol45]

But why are all the truck’s engines missing? They were « breathing » the highly contaminated air during the incident and you may see they are all missing now.

[@PYHN12t-bar]

Who’s watching 2021?

[@donnierobitson7221]

2024

[@stefanegger]

When it beeps I'm like "go away, are you dumb?" - stays even longer for "measurement". All the hoods open and parts stolen. Very nice if you buy a new engine and it's from Chernobyl.

[@DjJDtech]

wow can't believe the joker is just dumped there rusting away. Amazing! I guess its not as if they can just put it on display in a museum. Maybe one day......

[@snyper942]

Ya what not ....after all skin/blood Cancer is very normal

[@flippert0]

"It's not 3 Roentgen, it's 15000!"

[@cypher8855]

I absolutely love your Chernobyl videos. Did you by chance watch the HBO docuseries??

[@Sept1973]

Fantastic archival footage.

[@bionerd23]

they were emptied, but traces of course remain, and formed rust etc. on the inside. empty a pot of water into the sink, and you'll see it's not dry inside. there's always traces remaining.

[@Numitronic]

Furthermore, this phrase intrigues me: ''Nuclear energy is a disaster in human hands.'' Since we're talking about human harnessing a natural phenomenon, so is electricity, the sea, fire... Basically a key element differentiating us from feral animals. Is that what you are talking about when you say ''roll the clock back''? I don't want to use rhetorics, but that's a bit conspicuous in your comment.

[@ColapsMental]

in my opinion this is the best video that i saw untill now, especially because i just love the commentary that u make, GJ keep it up

[@renek243]

I wonder what they did with that radioactive water that was carried by those tank wagons, she jokingly suggested they dumped it in the river, what if they actually did...? There's so much we don't know about what has been going on there. It's hard to grasp the full consequences of what happened there and what is still going on, I mean think about it, the disaster area will have to be monitored and maintained for thousands of years. Imagine the ancient Romans had a similar nuclear accident, we would still be dealing with the mess.

[@cholericraven3434]

+Ygg Drassil The metal would have lost the majority of it's stored radiation within the first few hundred years. Much of chernobyl has gone down considerably in the pars few decades. Really the only truly dangerous parts would be the main reactors and the larger chunks of the graphite tubes and reactor fuel that would have been transported around the area during the initial explosion. everything else is rather inert by comparison to getting a dental x-ray

[@cokeforever]

Ygg Drassil you're overstressing: they've already built new solar energy segment near reactor 3 and another segment is going to be built soon on the drying bed of former cooler pond - for total of 1gW clean solar energy output - a joint Ukraine-France project

[@nexgaming6134]

This water was treated in facility, those tanks carried liquid radioactive waste from 4-th reactor.

[@ModsnRods]

How do you know this is true

[@krazokid19]

Notice how the tree is dead over the german "joker" robot at 4:12? That sucker was on the roof of the reactor when it died at roughly 10,000 roentgen! Not sure if the tree is dead because of that but it is cool to think about.

[@snowtijger933]

It may be a late reply But the tree isnt killed by the robot It just died and fell its not the radiation fault

[@1967DS21]

Guys and Gals, Have you noticed that ALL vehicles are without engines ?? Where did they go ? Removed ? Weren't they contaminated as well ?? Strange, isn't ?? Thieves ?

[@A.K.A._____John__]

90% of the vehicles are gone according to aerial photos taken in 2013. Some of the helicopters are now operational and are for sale on the internet.

[@1967DS21]

7kq201.1 Of course, the people, who had taken (or stolen) whole vehicles and/or engines , picked (selected) only the NON contaminated items and left behind the contaminated ones.... YEAH ... right !!!. I wish good luck and loooooooooooong lifespan to ALL unknown (current) owners. They need it (luck).

[@peterthekid]

People went in the depot and stole everything what they needet. They didn't knew or didn't care about the radio activity.

[@Кулибин-ф9ъ]

Это называется мародерство, цветной металл и черный металл, вся техника поступала туда целая, но после развала СССР, охрана территории ухудшилась, и толпа мародеров ринулась грабить зараженные радиацией машины так же и дома в Припяти, даже на данный момент город Припять грабят, вывозя трубы, батареи отопления, провода, как это не печально.

[@jimbojerry596]

I was about to say the same thing...where are the engines.? Those are probably bad a** engines and powerful maybe a little hard to get ahold of so they got some cool stuff:). But I wouldn't want my truck bein radioactive and me running it getting it hot lol. They probably sold the engine on eBay to another country lmao

[@RiflemanMoore]

1:09 I wonder if that's lead glass forming the driver's vision blocks, has a yellow tint to it...

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Rifleman Moore Yes, that's 73% lead oxide glass

[@rzerizrz]

what about fire trucks? they were first and closest there xD

[@anthrax_69]

buried in cement like the firefighters sadly

[@kutto5017]

USSR: 'thanks for the robot Germany. You can have it back now... ' Germany: 'Erm.... you can keep it....'

[@billmurray9485]

You gonna be apart of that scrap yard if you don't get some proper PPE on.

[@bionerd23]

i did not notice any contamination despite putting it on the floor. it does not yet need recalibration, as it just encountered high dose rates for a short amount of time. if left there for five weeks with mSv/h readings, i guess it'd be good practice to re-calibrate it.

[@BrunoMatiasIT]

I'm curious, what would happen if the metal was melted now?

[@rmason4358]

Bruno Matias The graveyard is empty.

[@toaderspanache8571]

it would make for a good aircraft carrier gift for the americans or they can make into the wall with mexico

[@venator5]

Now thats a good question It is depends on how radiation works. Maybe would do the trick since they did that with these vehicles in 2013.

[@hamletksquid2702]

It's almost all buried now. There's one little yard full of junk left, and security guards working right next door to chase stalkers away.

[@Ludal078]

3.6 roentgen,Not great,not terrible...

[@EricTD1995]

It's not 3 roentgen. It's 15,000.

[@bionerd23]

aktivierung (radioaktiv machen) durch MeV photonen (eigentlich nur linearbeschleuniger etc., nicht reaktor) und neutronen, klar, im reaktor gibt's ohne die ja keine kernspaltung. ansonsten kann auch zeugs an der oberflaeche haften, die oberflaeche ist ja nicht nanoglatt, deswegen kannste dir die haende auch blutig schrubben und da sind immernoch bakterien (viel riesiger als einzelne atome!!) dran. ansonsten chemische reaktion, aehnlich wie z.b. eisen + wasser (H2O) = eisen-3-oxid (rost).

[@nickkizich9539]

Whats the problem? It's only 3.6 roentgen

[@sebastianfs3825]

I understand that reference😐

[@battenburg6089]

Not great not terrible

[@isakjohansson7134]

Is that mad max 2?

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

What’s more scary is that appearently people removed parts of the vehicles, like the engines, to sell them. And other people install those parts in their cars and regularly touch them

[@HDVisionsMedia]

All those radioactive engines were sold lol

[@bionerd23]

the inverse square law still roughly applies, so my whole body dose is just a few uSv/h. look up the term. it's not very worrysome, and wearing e.g. gloves does not help at all, as i did not touch anything. they would not protect me from the emitted radiation.

[@Hehasgune]

@bionerd I would really liek to know if you have expierenced radiation sickness?

[@samuelmathieson249]

171 Sv/h is not enough to damage health

[@jonathanborduas]

Samuel Mathieson 171 uSv/h... the u is quite important.

[@marcocabal]

@@samuelmathieson249 es igual de temerario, pues unos cm a tu izquierda o derecha puede haber mayores niveles o partículas que se desprendan del cuelo u objetos, donde la respire o ingiera corre riesgo....yo al menos protegería los equipos para no tocarlos directamente...

[@jbear4910]

The exposure in 2 days is equivalent to getting an x-ray at the hospital.

[@YlmazDALKIRANscallion]

R.I.P. in Advance, Ms. Uploader.

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Yılmaz DALKIRAN She is still alive and healthy

[@new.handle]

What I like about all these vehicles is that they were all stripped apart, meaning that a lot of radioactive parts are distributed all over Ukraine and Russia...

[@gargofulakens]

Am i the only one surprised because she doesn't give a fuck about radiation?

[@tessabakker662]

Max Power She knows what she's doing, she never sticks around highly radioactive objects for longer than a few minutes. This limits the amount of radiation that can reach her, so she never gets a dangerously high dose.

[@cokeforever]

Max Power no there's quite a bunch of ignorant guys here who retell the myths of radiation to each other...

[@bionerd23]

it's mainly dirt, yeah, not so much neutron activation...

[@BackDaws]

Jesus you must be nuts, this was 2012 ? Anyone know if this girl is still alive or in one piece ?

[@MicroSBs]

shes likely fine, she would need to stand next to that Oil tanker for 12 hours just to receive the MAXIMUM yearly permitted dose for US radiation workers. To put it into perspective she would need to stand there for almost double that to receive the same dose Fukishima workers received in the plant and double that amount to receive a dose that can cause symptoms of radiation poisoning but at that point she would be standing there for 2 days.

[@txm100]

Of course she is you massive idiot.

[@jocking3]

That yellow robot at 2:25... It's Joker, from the movie. It was on the 12.000 rtg roof of the plant, of course it's highly radioactive.

[@kittie_sugar]

Amazing! What where those big rods used for?

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Emma Tolson Well... You know from where they came...

[@RaulDukeKnife]

Scaffolding to reach shit way later

[@shaunefinegan1499]

The brave people who drove them knowing that there life would not be the same again. Must of been terrifying brave brave people

[@nickhahn5412]

You are living my dream

[@cs512tr]

your videos are excellent and informative thankyou for your time posting these