chernobyl 2012: finding a fragment of chernobyl's nuclear reactor fuel (in nature)

this is the hottest piece of radioactive material i have ever handled
- a fragment of chernobyl's very nuclear fuel!
the readings on my gamma scout are far off, because the geiger-mueller tube is overflowing - thus, showing a false-low reading. the dose rate for skin contact is in the multiple sieverts per hour range.
the shown object is actually a fuel fragment that has been first discovered by a great fellow, Carl Willis - so props to him for locating it! here's his video: • Collecting a spent nuc...

[@PrestigeNumismatics]

"it's a fuel fragment from the Chernobyl power plant". I'll just pick it up with my hand.

[@MrNicoCardinale]

Truth Seeker 🙄

[@MrNicoCardinale]

Federal Bureau Of Investigations She takes the fragment to her home!!!

[@davidreece6193]

That’s what I thought as well.

[@davidreece6193]

Nicolas Mariano Cardinale Truly shocking why anyone would do that is beyond me.

[@FabioBattipanniviolentoGavioli]

Cancer in 3...2...1

[@johaniswara5086]

Next, hugging Chernobyl's "elephant foot"

[@Masterninja-bh9tb]

Then getting a spoon and eating part of it is

[@OGLocHOMIEXD]

Then building sand castle

[@kabob0077]

Master ninja 9507 I'm sure Steve1989's stomach could take it.

[@kabob0077]

Tiger H1 Heavy tank _Nice._

[@theVakhovske]

@@kabob0077 mmkay

[@peralis7152]

I can count how many times I've visited Chernobyl on one hand, 7 times now.

[@turty7323]

Peralis lmao! i bet no one gets the joke but i sure did xd

[@Tristan_h60]

That’s great

[@captainlovemaker7095]

Waaiit😂

[@NaturalReese09]

🤣🤣🤣

[@RoBoVader]

Such an underated comment! Hilarious

[@unclelester9701]

Next video: taste test graphite from reactor 4

[@kylecrafton4489]

the graphite, it doesn't exist you're in shock

[@DaRudeMonkie]

Kyle Crafton delusional, take this man to infirmary

[@GrantE90]

I really wanna make a pencil from reactor 4's graphite. I wonder what the dose rate per page would be.

[@siberianTiger639]

She could make a soup. Or a sandwich.

[@keiko909]

You didn't see any graphite. YOU DIDN'T!!!....

[@coleccionoperfumes]

"Next video i will jump into a volcano to see if it's hot"

[@MK12082]

LMAO

[@ukrolus8439]

Oof

[@schoolofgreatness4285]

Lmao

[@shjoinerysh]

Actually lold at this comment

[@joemama-mk4zz]

and next month ill be doing who can survive besided the elephants foot the longest with out dieing

[@rokk2672]

If you whisper the radiation cant get to ya.

[@garfor9636]

Hahhahahahaha I was thinking the exact same

[@hoodwinkedfool]

So many unnecessary deaths 😞

[@garfor9636]

@@hoodwinkedfool way too bring the thread down...

[@kylesi2nr]

She was whispering incase the KGB had bugs in the room she was in

[@abitoffblacksmithing9985]

Imao!!

[@leokimvideo]

If this video was on Netflix, they would have turned it into a 10 episode drawn out mega drama

[@douglaspantz]

it also would have been shit

[@ID-pw8zb]

Don’t forget the obligatory close up of a tape recorder in the opening credits

[@joker_storm2232]

And then cancelled it once people start liking it

[@iammclovin]

Turned out HBO did it

[@carlmodelo854]

"I found a fuel fragment, it's a fuel fragment from the chernobyl nuclear powerplant." "She's delusional, take her to the infirmary."

[@Bruh..669]

The grass is mildly contaminated she will be fine ive seen worse

[@assassinno95]

@@Bruh..669 I don't think so. She hasn't uploaded any video for 2 years...

[@jara419]

lord poo it seems that you don’t understand that 1 sievert is 100 roentgens, you can die from that!!!, 100 roentgens are a lot, and that thing has 17 sieverts 1822.145 roentgens!!!, that’s lethal!!!!! If you don’t die right away you get a horrible cancer with a painfully death!!!!!

[@zbychulatara]

@@jara419 if you hold it for an hour. Then maybe.

[@BLACKMONGOOSE13]

It the equivalent of a chest x-ray.

[@Dandan-vf9kr]

Next Video "Finding out if Reactor 4 is still contaminated by going into reactor"

[@SnipG]

No, touching it. To see is it will warm! And try to cool it down by pissing on it.

[@1MjT]

Man I haven’t seen Marshall in a very long time

[@alexandru7727]

r/whooosh

[@cullent5170]

Next video... “Taste Test of Chernobyl Graphite”

[@GerVlad]

@@cullent5170 THERE IS NO GRAPHITE! you're delusional, take him to the infirmary

[@retrocny5625]

3.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible.

[@porchmonkeyhunter6956]

Not great,not terrible.

[@kyleatherton1317]

Its not 3.6......its 15000 😱😱😱

[@meteoroloji8952]

Don't worry it is equal to one chest x-ray.

[@retrocny5625]

@@kyleatherton1317 We're gonna need a bigger geiger counter.

[@VolitantBucky]

This man is in shock, take him to the infirmary.

[@Jessergdl]

you should taste the fragment as well just to be sure.

[@captainopvious7498]

+Jesser Gdl Hahahahaha

[@mic7able]

Perhaps it tastes like chicken.

[@DrYeet2704]

Jesser Videos that would be stupid. Your brain would receive some big doses of radiation. Probably alpha, but still, possibly a little beta radiation.

[@gweekgalaxy6064]

Charlie... the guy was kidding

[@jxstbuild9066]

Charlie Nixon he was saying that to be sarcastic because she was handling it constantly with her bare hands

[@sandman2257]

“Oh look a piece of a nuclear reactor let’s touch it!” Rad Counter *Autistic Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!*

[@maloo1984]

SJC Reeeeeeeeeee

[@samcad-ho3ze]

You are a fucking piece of shit. 🖕

[@matebanks7447]

The legendary McConell REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@autoworld100]

samcad2013 who cares

[@sandman2257]

@@Miraak0Konahrik I shit in his cornflakes and his kettle apparently

[@schoolofgreatness4285]

She; No gloves? No problem Radioactive particle; am i joke to you?

[@massimolettuce]

apparently it is

[@PolyraclureDeVinyle]

not that gloves would be useful.

[@tobi-b]

@@PolyraclureDeVinyle It would help a bit.

[@damnsonwheredyoufindthis.3830]

As if a glove is radiation proof.

[@PolyraclureDeVinyle]

It would stop only alpha radiation, maybe a bit of Beta, surely not gamma rays that will liquefy your insides in high doses.

[@TheChadsnyder40]

Lets just take the tiny uranium fuel fragment home and whisper at it.

[@aberroa1955]

@Frank Heuvelman This isn't just some good ol' U238, this is enriched and partially depleted piece of fuel rod, full of different isotopes with different half life, from 10 years to billions years. If it'd stuck under her nail, she'll probably get acute radiation poisoning of hand and probably it would be amputated. It probably won't make much considering it's size if she'd use gloves and shovel and all that basic safety measures, it's somewhat safe to pick it by hand (in gloves). But it's absolutely unsafe to handle it like she did it, because this tiny piece could shatter by even tinier pieces, which still would be quite dangerous and could stick to skin for long enough time to give a burn.

[@aberroa1955]

@Frank Heuvelman I think that about all.

[@robogen1331]

Because radiation is stupid. It can’t hurt you if it doesn’t hear you

[@petercollin5670]

It's like panning for gold in hell.

[@stubbystudios9811]

What ever thats supposed to mean

[@edg6779]

the fun kind

[@EmmaSpAce111]

that is the best description I've heard

[@redbaronrefining5322]

Where if you win, you die.

[@corettaha7855]

🥇

[@deni8814]

Luckly HBO has made millions of people experts in this field

[@deni8814]

@@srt-fw8nh show was so real we got millions of ppl that can quite easily operate a reactor.

[@IsomerSoma]

@@deni8814 just as good as the ones at Chernobyl!

[@punjabitranslator8641]

@@IsomerSoma correctly said

[@nathanking6670]

Boris taught me all I need to know about how nuclear power plants work

[@IsomerSoma]

@Christian Schön joke*

[@sinister_sushi]

Digging up highly radioactive material by hand and then wiping your nose immediately after...amazing...

[@dextertreehorn]

UMI🐉 Maybe she is just stupid ..

[@orangejoe204]

The former Soviet States produced a cultural attitude of ignorance and risk-taking towards atomic danger. It's inculcated in their entire societal attitude towards it. The US regulatory agencies would blanch in horror at the shit they get away with there.

[@sergystraystar9135]

Alex Tocqueville No risk no real progress :^)

[@wellmakeitworth1316]

I know this is two years ago but I think you guys forgot about Marie Curie, if I'm actually correct

[@3davidszabo]

@@orangejoe204 She is German.

[@hai.1820]

she's the mother of 4 x-men now

[@0waffel0]

Lmao 😂

[@DoctressCalibrator]

No. She's dead.

[@bluemjd]

xD

[@raphaelamorimguimaraes9045]

Hahahahahahhaahahahah

[@matteoclementi]

@@DoctressCalibrator for real?

[@Strike_Raid]

It's a reactor seed. Plant it and grow one at home.

[@zxzzxz5791]

she should have mailed it to the kremlin so they can take care of it, i am sure it would not cause a security alert.

[@jonathantan2469]

Energy corporations hate this woman. Learn her secret to off-grid independence today!

[@dited358]

LMAO

[@solana1036]

Finds hot-spot in the grass Proceeds to kneel down and start picnic

[@drozdziak1]

you get contaminated with Chernobyl power plant fuel ASMR

[@ren7a8ero]

You are clearly delusional, go to ASMR infirmary.

[@daddy-rito]

Comrade Dyatlov tells you the readings say 3.6 roentgen ASMR

[@avensurha]

@@daddy-rito Not great, not terrible...

[@avensurha]

@@ren7a8ero Drink some feedwater

[@arianasandru648]

out buddy diatlov doing some radiation

[@mircea5013]

I feel contaminated just by looking at this video

[@Kratos-005]

The chance the device you're using to watch this is emitting some sort of radiation is pretty high.

[@DrYeet2704]

God of War well it is. You are exposed to radiation all the time ya know, whether it is ionising or non-ionising radiation.

[@scott.m.karkoskythefamilym2863]

Bananna's are radioactive just thought I'd let you know

[@hannes0000]

@@scott.m.karkoskythefamilym2863 Background radiation is everywhere ,it just depends how long you are exposed and what dosage.Pilots who fly long distances 8-10h can't become organ donors or blood donors after 10 years because they are contaminated.

[@Invisible757]

@@hannes0000 why did u think that the pilots is contaminated? i already heard this affirmation 2-3 times but i can't explain myself why...?

[@janjankovicjahoda]

Welcome to my laboratory, where safety is number one priority :-)

[@AryLand1975]

Taras!

[@ZeRoBjoern]

Lmao

[@drsta804]

Velcum to muh lavatory ve savty nuvmba one pyohighty

[@mrkiky]

*puts on sunglasses* Ok now radiation can't get me.

[@flowerofash4439]

Only the real ones gets the reference

[@Mrsaba1000]

Comments before may 2019: lol cool stuff After: 3.6 roentgens, not great not terrible

[@vinre356]

bastards laughing at a joke more than they should be

[@andylowe6638]

the 3.6 roentgens comments are about as original as your 2 lines with colons comment

[@frenchguitarguy1091]

Andy Lowe the words you used weren’t original, get out of this place

[@EspenOmar]

I am addicted to these kind of videos after watching Chernobyl on HBO

[@ionut.rindasu]

Same dude

[@angloengland559]

Superb series, although we watch it on Sky

[@raoras1104]

Sameeee

[@rubikaliyaqat]

Lol same

[@NaturalReese09]

Same!!!

[@mariolooney70]

After watching Chernobyl I became obsessed with Chernobyl and so did KZbin algorithms

[@danielkarlsson8534]

Mario Looney same

[@Jake951716]

Nonstop fucking chernobyl recommendations

[@user-yj2ep9qq2o]

I'm so f*cking obsessed, too :/

[@brzoza5m]

Me too

[@ekologicznepomidorkiowocow3069]

Same.

[@RHR1991]

I'm no nuclear expert, but isn't it one of those things you are supposed NOT to touch?

[@MHCSS1]

It's perfectly safe Probably

[@Jazzinthedark84]

Yes Whispers are key. If you watch hbo chernobyl you'll notice they were all yelling. Now they're all dead. Coincidence?

[@SithDarthGendo]

Not just touch but be nearby also.

[@waynestar100]

Uranium its self, is radioactive, but has a half life of a billion years so its not that dangerous by itself, its mainly the iodine 131 that is dangerous which has a half life of 8 days, so by now its all gone.

[@kriszack8374]

She needs to be around it for 1 hour to get the same effect as doing Computed Tomography (CT)-Abdomen and Pelvis once, that is the same as living in normal area for seven years and receiving its background radiation.

[@jkayrouz]

“This is the most spectacular thing I have ever seen. 17000 mcs per hour. I want to eat it.” Grinds it into black pepper and seasons meal

[@TheRealLimerock]

I bet its real spicy ;9

[@Rsmith600]

Laughs in Dyatlov....

[@jameswilkes451]

@@TheRealLimerock Spicy ground

[@DanSlotea]

And this, people, is how natural selection occurs.

[@stratts_636]

Dan Slotea lmao

[@JasonJason210]

Hillarious!

[@Novozymandiaz]

But she didn't die from it or get cancer. And I'm not sure if she had children, as children are the main argument of natural selection.

[@DanSlotea]

@@Novozymandiaz no, it's not about children, it's about the smaryest/strongest passing the genes. If a limping antilope is getting killed by a lion, it won't get to reproduce. If a young woman gets cancer she won't get to reproduce. Weak/idiot parent removed, natural selection is successful.

[@KiLleRaBo0oG]

@@DanSlotea you do know that she is a nuclear engineer, right?

[@matthewballe4634]

"It's a fuel fragment." ... "Can you make that a complete sentence?"

[@gravydude1875]

Ima go dig it up

[@jonatanmunk8022]

Sounds like my german teacher

[@davidbain701]

17000 mico sieverts per hour Thats the kind of hobby you can get sick of

[@arushatwot4525]

17000 microSv, not great, not terrible

[@stalinistischefront752]

Arushat WOT I hear it's the equivalent of a chest xray.

[@arushatwot4525]

@@stalinistischefront752 Sitnikov's chest xray.

[@Tobo226]

Arushat WOT *Slams fist* it’s not one chest xray but 400!

[@tesseract2144]

@@Tobo226 No Maybe two at most. Still, two chest x-rays per hour is not very good I think

[@rdvgrd6]

It’s ok she doesn’t have much hair to care for anymore anyways

[@amedicabg]

Christian Tupamahu Bruh

[@pinkymoneybay6435]

@@Cccc-zd7gn what does feminism have to do with this

[@tartagliathewigsplitter3880]

some german women have these hairstyles

[@Cccc-zd7gn]

Andreea Pinkyy well most of the feminist I met have the same ugly haircut like her, and they happen to act and think like a retard person too,

[@pinkymoneybay6435]

@@Cccc-zd7gn that s just stupid generalisation. also, be sure to make the difference between feminism and feminazi

[@GerVlad]

There's is no graphite because this Atomic Goth Lady took it all home.

[@adahop7663]

There's no graphite, because it doesnt exist.

[@1abesli1]

The atomic goth lady... you made my day sir

[@simplyimpulse1070]

LMAOOO

[@birdfriday]

Why is she a goth? Because she doesn’t bother with hair? I highly recommend buzzing your head, you have no idea what women spend on haircare in a year. Excuse us for existing without slavishly contorting ourselves to fit your expectations, Kevin.

[@theschmedaparadox1018]

@@birdfriday Stop talking

[@MrGreglego]

*Finds nuclear fuel* What if we used 100% of the brain *Picks it up with bare hands*

[@HKIHNDKNSI]

lmao

[@hans8130]

"It's probably a fragment of the reactor fuel." Touches with bare hand. Natural selection: "Hello there!"

[@BoldOne8760]

General Evolution

[@djmeowth]

Scientist: *does something in Chernobyl* HBO Viewer: Hello there! I'm an expert.

[@TheFreshTrumpet]

DJ Meowth fucking thank you lol people so shocked that the woman may actually know what tf she’s doing

[@IsomerSoma]

@@TheFreshTrumpet To touch radioactive material bare handed and after that tubing your nose and sniffing is maybe not ... great, but not terrible? No srsly she may know what she's doing but she also may be a bit careless about her own health don't you think so?

[@SuperAhmed1337]

@@IsomerSoma She knows what she's doing, and you don't, so who are you to judge? Geez.

[@idx001]

"touches radioactive material with her bare hands and then '*snifffff !!!*' she inhale her fingers" she has to win an award in 'Safety handling of radioactive materials'.

[@Burntrice747]

If you whisper, the particles can’t hurt you

[@lonemaus562]

Gabe Bowden hehe

[@logix8969]

If you inhale it, it will stay inside your lungs and give you cancer and radiation poisoning, and whatever other ill effects there are from having a chunk of uranium inside your body. If you exhale on it you risk blowing it across the room and losing it. That kind of uranium is not the kind of thing you would want to have lying around, even if it is unrefined and only giving out a few thousand micro Sv an hour.

[@mikewizz1895]

@@logix8969 Even something that's the same size as my pp like that?

[@shroomze]

Will she eat it? Stay tuned for another jaw dropping episode of "Oh No she didn't" -Ryan Seacrest as the host-

[@vrananikola]

I’m dying of laughter from this comment! XD hope she’s okay tho

[@thevolcano8193]

In Mother Russia we add Uranium to our Vodka.

[@siberianTiger639]

She sure does. ... She sure does...

[@nlo0980]

Смешной рофл...

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Shawn Melton You add uranium to Ukraine and rest of the Europe too.

[@Jakaj99]

And plutonium to the tea, yeah?

[@jeremyterwisscha6534]

No in mother russia we add vodka to our uranium

[@ROrneli]

I flinched a bit when she put her digging hand near her nose and inhaled. If that tiny fragment had been in her hands or finger tips by accident and she had inhaled it, she could had given her a death sentence immediately and permanently. This is why you do not handle these materials if you do not know what you are doing

[@Airforceproud95]

This may be an obvious answer to some....but I'm wondering is a "hot" particle such as this fuel fragment actually hot temperature-wise, or does "hot" just refer to it's radioactive nature? Also, did these fragments end up there from the initial explosion itself? Very interesting video.

[@MarkRose1337]

Just its radioactive nature for the most part. Some alpha emitters are used for their heat in radioisotope thermometric generators.

[@chudite]

@@MarkRose1337 Haha you had a bit of a late response

[@MarkRose1337]

@@chudite Little bit! I remember when she uploaded this. I was showing it to some friends and this was an easy question to answer.

[@chudite]

@@MarkRose1337 An answer is still an answer, your response was useful :^)

[@hourz]

holy crap someone was wondering what I was wondering today 10 years ago@@MarkRose1337

[@mcmuffen4654]

hey don't touch that radioactive dirt, you don't know if a squire came by and peed on it...

[@GetUpTheMountains]

Don't worry, squire haven't been to the reactor site in years.

[@jessicasvane7585]

klesh he/she was making a joke.’radioactive dirt’ peed on’?? Nope? Okay..

[@MrHogzor]

A knight most likley. doubt it would be a squire xD

[@iforce2d]

wow, she still has most of her hair

[@v3253]

iforce2d what? After 17000 she’ll have all what she had before. Thats safety

[@Cobalt985]

What Templar Crusader said, plus the fact that the treatment is what makes your hair fall out, not cancer.

[@RockabillyRambler]

Xenon treatment by nuking tumors....

[@patrioticconstitutionalist735]

@383 chevy ain't no shit.......chick looks like she grows her herb in the soil she collects.

[@mik3pif782]

@@Cobalt985 Yes but radiation causes both cancer and hair loss.

[@Sphere723]

For those who care, she was reading about 1.7 roentgen/hour from the fuel fragment.

[@Fearstreet]

Not great, but not terrible

[@realashb1915]

Thankyou been looking for ages for a decent converter to figer it out 👍

[@Madmax0620]

There are no fuel fragments. Your clearly delusional. Take him to the infermary.

[@-kattya-]

Sphere723 and how dangerous is this in comparison with chest rays maybe?

[@Sphere723]

@@-kattya- Less dangerous than a hobo with a pike. More dangerous than a Cambodian with a flotation device.

[@rrezoncurraj3326]

Who is here after watching chernobyl -HBO

[@85juno66]

Sky Atlantic here in the UK but yes, me too

[@divyanshkaundal5634]

Mee 👍, it's so good .

[@Mr3erpole]

Here 👌

[@bobhope4395]

Yep. Here

[@samurboi8007]

Yea

[@AA0FY]

Crush it and snort it!!

[@XRayCam]

you want in your cheerios. ???

[@sovietelectioncollidingtro6231]

I bet cocaine is nothing against that shit.

[@maxhacks2942]

it's like sitting in the reactor full of water at the meltdown it doesn't need to kill you,as soon as you come as near as 10 meters you will literally immediately fall unconcious and after 10 seconds,your skin will start to smoke up and start tearing itself apart this can literally kill you in less than a second!!

[@kamikazee8803]

And shout "Wubba lubba dub dub!"

[@deonisp]

@Ojciec Rydzyk she would blow it off the paper with her breath otherwise

[@timmyd.7665]

I dunno if anyone else posted this but the allowable limit for exposure to extremities annually is 50,000mrem or 0.5Sv. So if she was fully exposed to that fragment for 10 whole minutes at 17mSv/hr, she’d have accumulated 2.83mSv. So she’s still well under her allowable recommended annual limit. Full disclaimer, I’m not knowledgeable on radiation, just working with the numbers is all. Completely open for critique

[@jper75]

I guess the big problem would be if a fragment like that is accidentally inhaled or consumed. Long term exposure. Btw I have read the max dose limit for life is 0,5Sv to 1Sv. So being near that thing for a full day will get you to that max limit .

[@tobiastrust4232]

As you have pointed out she'd have accumulated 2.83mSv. This is equivalent to 1-2 CT-Scans. So it is not rly horrible but it is also not good or neutral. Your doctor always tries to keep the number of CT-Scans down as much as possible. On the other hand this radiation was focused on her hands who are verry resistant against radiation damage (skin, bone and muscle no inside organs). So overall it is not a huge issue to touch it for 10 minutes. I am a physicist and I would have not touched it without gloves but I understand her view.

[@HOVREDDY]

Tim Doucette Well, we can say that this exposure is not good, but not terrible.

[@Karolcreepers]

At 2Sv one suffers from radiation sickness, lethality rates remain low however

[@whereisthehook]

This chick's problem is deeper than this one exposure. She posts videos all the time like this and pretends that radiation doesn't impact her. She pretends to be marie curie as far as I can tell.

[@diabl2master]

*rubs nose and inhales*

[@Winergy2012]

😂😂😂

[@royhsieh4307]

ahhhh, what a trip

[@forrestblunt6613]

Yeah she's not brave, that's just dumb...

[@Ghostrider78927]

@@forrestblunt6613this video is 8 years old and she is still happily allive

[@BakersTaste]

@@Ghostrider78927 Does she still post content anywhere..? I miss her videos

[@zsh6986]

i just want to know how is she doing 7 years later after I watched HBO’s Chernobyl in which a firefighter picked a huge chunk of graphite with bare hands and died soon after

[@arc46789]

A lot of the fuel had greatly decayed since then.

[@HKgunner]

The readings she was getting was significantly less than what someone on the night of the disaster would have faced, but still extremely hot. In an HOUR that tiny fragment was putting out more than 4x the average background radiation a person receives in a YEAR. 6 hours of receiving that dose could cause cancer. I hope she stored it somewhere safe after finding it. (Sources based on her reading of 17mSv/h compared against the values listed on xkcd.com/radiation)

[@3davidszabo]

@@HKgunner At the end she says she cannot take it out of zone so she left it somwhere in the dirt... But still I wouldn´t touch that with my bare hands.

[@Fred13Mr]

HKgunner the way she handled it and don’t wanna put it back, probably under her pillow so nobody can take it.

[@BuGBurnout]

There's difference in dose output between a big chunk of graphite and a pinhead sized fuel particle. I think you can look at it as the difference between drinking a whole barrel of wine vs a bottle a vodka.

[@GretchentheAlligator]

I love how your touching something extremely radioactive with your bare fingers

[@zelenilum290]

@@msdadsfsx It's not about stoping the radiation but varanting that no radioactive microparticles get stuck on you. They may not harm you by touching them for a few minutes, but having them on your body for hours or even days can be pretty harmful.

[@Marc98338]

Its not extremely radioactive, HBO expertt....

[@alejandro.g.6448]

@@msdadsfsx it's funny how intelligent you think you are when it's a fact gloves can protect you from radiation, those were gamma rays, so just some simple lead gloves could protect you.

[@joozemane9894]

@@msdadsfsx If you're a physicist, then i'm a Astronaut lol.... No educated person, writes "u r", only ignorant teenagers.

[@Gomlmon99]

mihir shah seems like you are the one who doesn’t know much about radiation

[@retrocny5625]

You didn't see that fragment of nuclear fuel. YOU DIDN'T...because it's not there!

[@AmericanoR6]

Imagine dropping that in your room and losing it

[@MajoradeMayhem]

oh lord, I do not want to imagine the contents of her vacuum cleaner

[@archaeologistify]

Normal human: "Radiation on this spot is so high. I better not stay here for long. Let's go away." Woman in the video: "Radiation on this spot is so high. There must be something in there! (dig, dig, dig)"

[@NetRolller3D]

Coming soon to Android or iOS devices: S.T.A.L.K.E.R GO

[@username306]

Combustion Man cheeki breeki

[@WORLDBESTWWEUploadv2]

NetRolller3D stalker clear sky

[@aeroangrymoose]

Very very cool video!! Strange fetish though.

[@viktorhauk]

+aeroangrymoose somebody said once "you can do what you want but you cannot want what you want"

[@aeroangrymoose]

Sounds cryptic.

[@I_am16]

Sounds thirsty HE NEEDS SOME MILK!

[@crunchwrapsupreme9372]

*touches particle* *touches face* Bruh

[@draco107]

Something about geocaching spent nuclear fuel doesn't sound right.

[@01-uy3of]

Except in this small fragmented state, "spent" is a very vague term. The fuel gets depleted when it is in high quantity to result in a chain reaction. This small fuel fragment by itself can't spend itself, at least not as fast as if it was in the reactor. So we don't know how "spent" it is. It could be highly radioactive and still deadly.

[@a_roof_korean_9618]

I loved the Nuclear ASMR at the end.

[@johnacosta4988]

"It's a fuel fragment" .. Picks up a piece of animal scat

[@mrkiky]

if the elephant's foot is radioactive, why wouldn't elephant dung be?

[@timothybaptista2697]

dead

[@SuperEpicdouche]

Legend has it she is still whispering to this day.

[@Rogan_Dorn]

That's not fuel. You're mistaken comrade.

[@subzeroheataow3542]

NPC#920208764020 it’s stable caesium 137, which in fact was uranium 235 but is a fission fragment from the splitting of uranium. It most definitely was uranium 235 but it’s a biproduct and it was most definitely a part in the subsequent explosion of Chernobyl reactor 4.

[@1stgradevernacular925]

@@subzeroheataow3542 You are mistaken comrade. It is the avowed policy of the state that a nuclear accident cannot occur, therefore a nuclear accident DID NOT occur. If you think that this is a part of RBK reactor 4, please explain to me how an RBK reactor could explode?

[@subzeroheataow3542]

Kmekr it’s an rbmk 1000 reactor. And it did explode. The graphite control rods have boron at the tips. The boron at the tips was the problem. This boron. When lowered into the reactor core actually caused a power surge, which unltimately maxed out the reactor, which caused it to explode. This was a design flaw in the Rbmk reactors which caused them to explode, however the KGB deemed this knowledge a state secret and removed it from all reports on Russian nuclear reactors, so there, that is how an rbmk 1000 reactor explodes.

[@Rogan_Dorn]

@@subzeroheataow3542 You're obviously delirious comrade. Take him outside.

[@1stgradevernacular925]

@@subzeroheataow3542 You need to learn to recognize sarcasm!

[@CaedeCithara]

Putting this in someone's coffee would be the perfect murder

[@hr1100]

Russians actually did that to some reporters that didn't like Putin

[@HJWhitehall]

www.bbc.com/news/uk-19647226 Alexander Litinenko.

[@corettaha7855]

Remember that time the kgb poked a radioactive pellet into a dude’s leg with an umbrella?

[@miatafan]

Grind it up and put it inside a sugar packet

[@trickortripslao8607]

@@hr1100 I hope,it's only a joke..😨

[@69mrsteveo]

Why are we whispering?

[@ratedasmr7811]

Because this is ASMR

[@JRCW892]

Because that's a very secret discovery

[@lh2738]

Radioactive ASMR

[@folkvantol5423]

I read this as whispering

[@Travelinmatt1976]

I don't know why you're whispering, but I lost my voice asking my boss for a raise.

[@GreysUniverse]

“Russian accent” In soviet Russia, touch highly radioactive metal, become super villain

[@vladimirnoskov3130]

Richard Brown ukraine

[@bionerd23]

that's a very good idea actually. thanks for the request. there's a large grey-zone of unknown-effects, but the actual "radiation poisoning" (acute radiation sickness) threshold is quite well known, so i could do a video about that - and put it in perspective with every-day exposure (eating bananas, flying, having an x-ray of your lungs done, a CT scan, a nuclear medicine exam, going to brazil, going to chernobyl...).

[@laki9893]

Is she worshiping the almighty power of Atom? Fallout reference for those who don't know....

[@mrkiky]

Hopefully she bears the gift, or else she's in trouble. Atom's Glow will test her.

[@210nitrous]

She probably plays this game with her mutant friends

[@williamwilde141]

Keeping oncologists Employed 1 highly enriched uranium fragment at a time.

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

the RBMK reactor didn't used enriched uranium

[@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731]

👍🏽 Let's not forget the ancillary staff such as my self. Lab techs,phlebotomists etc. It's the gift that keeps on giving🤦🏾‍♂️

[@seanbush5313]

@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 not to many reactors even use highly enriched uranium

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

@@seanbush5313 i don't know for the other type of reactor but there was for sure some type of reactor like the famous ( for bad reasons ) experimental SL-1 from Usa who used 93% of U-235 !

[@seanbush5313]

@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 yes experimental reactors and those used for research use highly enriched U. But most of if not all other reactors for domestic power generation are gonna use less enriched stuff, it's cheaper and safer

[@sged92]

"It's another faulty meter..you're wasting our time"

[@35057]

Wow.. That really is amazing.. I don't know much about radiation but I've become so fascinated with the Chernobyl disaster in the past year.

[@GOLTURBO555]

Disaster? SABOTAGE.

[@Stubbies2003]

@@GOLTURBO555 More like a bad reactor design and overconfident operators.

[@GOLTURBO555]

@@Stubbies2003 RBMK1000 stil in use, no problem at all, even in small countries. Just do a simple search, about who was the responsible in that day.

[@arturasnesakysiu1684]

@@Stubbies2003 no idiot superior made a test on reactor, failed made caboom. It was his foult.

[@StromtrooperV2]

Whats there to be so much fascinated about? It was a nuclear catastrophe in which hundreds of people lost their lives in worst imaginable pains. And thousands as well because of nuclear waste spreading in the air.

[@JensAndree]

bionerd23 Thank you for excellent videos and great explanations for us who are not educated in the subject. As a kid in the 80's the downfall from Chernobyl hit northern Sweden on 31'st of April - a very important bonfire night here - so we all were out in the rain that very evening and it hit us quite hard, especially our reindeer who ingested from food a lot of radioactivity and quickly became unsuitable for consumption... (well, I didn't stop eating it but 99.99% of everyone else did) There are still some who still don't eat mushroom e.g but since we never did any measurements prior to the Chernobyl accident we don't know what they were prior to that. Perhaps they always were that high? Who knows... Nuclear bomb tests in the 80's must've generated shit-loads of radioactive spillage outside the "safe" zones but unless you check you never know. As an engineer I fully understand what it must've felt like finding that tiny piece of reactor fuel and myself might have not left it behind... At least you were able to document it and thus "keeping it" forever ;)

[@bionerd23]

Jens Andree well, in regard to e.g. Cs-137 (but also other isotopes), multiple times the amount of Chernobyl were released during all above-ground nuclear weapon's tests. That spread quite well globally as the explosion takes the radioactive particles to very high altitudes. Chernobyl's "cloud" was only some 3 kilometers up if i am not mistaken; thus, the spread was much more locally concentrated (e.g. Scandinavia, southern Germany). but yeah, you can find Cs-137 everywhere on the globe since the atomic age... thanks, humanity. i still can't believe men are smart enough for this absolutely marvelous, genius piece of engineering - the nuclear bomb - and then be so fucking stupid to actually want to put it to use. but that's another story...

[@JensAndree]

bionerd23 Such is mankind - evolve and make wonderful inventions, and then blow shit up... I hope the future generations are better but looking at the current news-flow I'm not so sure... I saw your "eating a radioactive apple" video which touched base on the amount of Becquerel in different food-sources and I guess your wild bore in Bavaria is comparable to the reindeer of Sweden. Today nobody is talking about Bq when it comes to reindeer meat so I guess people have forgotten about it, or simply accepted that it isn't as dangerous as they were initially led to believe? I for one think that the levels were already high even before Chernobyl but there is no way to prove that for sure. Anyhow, keep up the good work! Any views on our current affairs on "safely" storing spent nuclear fuel? Could be a future topic here perhaps? I'd find your views and explanation on the subject interesting since I often think we're abusing our planet way harder than it can take...

[@suzannel8926]

bionerd23 James Chadwick who discovered the neutron said when he realised nuclear weapons were possible he had to take sleeping tablets.

[@cutthecrap9694]

Learn about dose rates

[@williamsmith-ob6kv]

All this fancy expensive equipment and couldn't afford a shovel.

[@obisvanainobis9950]

The idiot thought it was a good idea to touch it I doubt she would think of a shovel

[@marcuslml3264]

Next video: "How to live with 4 hands and 3 eyes"

[@jtreign9097]

as much as i want to visit Chernobyl i would never touch a fuel fragment that blew out of the reactor.. unless you had a terminal disease and this was on your bucket list of to do things

[@miguelfreitas3816]

jtreign9097 it's completely safe to touch that fragment, it's only alpha radiation witch can't go through the skin

[@indigogrimm6100]

Alpha particles can penetrate the skin if a) the radiation is strong enough and b) the person is close enough to it. That might just be strong enough to penetrate the skin of whoever decided to handle it.

[@JHL1994]

no dude. that geigercounter only measures gamma.

[@brycecarlson3395]

Why? You can hold it for over a day and still not exceed your yearly limit. To clarify, the power plant was deadly because thousands or these particles were everywhere and in the dust/smoke if the fire. Touching one doesn’t just outright kill you. That’s now how radiation works

[@Bialy_1]

​@@JHL1994 "A Geiger counter is an instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation" and that is why someone made that part that she showed in the video... it is used in smoke detector exactly for that, for ionisation...

[@bogwopit666]

I'm a retired health Physics surveyor and my advice to, you is you shouldn't be using your bare hands to look for highly radioactive reactor debris. Your firstly risk contaminating your fingers/hand but you'll also risk getting a high contact dose to your fingers.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

Well, everybody realized that already except the author of this vid apparantly.

[@arrow2589]

You gotta love the part where they wipe their nose with their fingers and sniff after digging up the radioactive part

[@thecatdragon589]

we dont need a degree to know “big radiation kills you, do not touch”

[@guesstimanimational1175]

just hearing her sniffle .. KNOWING that she inevitably wipe her nose just made me anxious watching this. my physics teacher was always nonplussed by radioactivity.. he felt people were too afraid of it. He said the biggest thing that people would need to do for most exposures is to dispose of their clothing. Oh yes.. the one thing he emphasized... the worst thing is breathing in radioactive particles. THAT is what kills you! So to see the young woman hands & knees in the dirt.. literally trying to get her hands on one of those particles.. pushing the meter up against it... wiping her nose.. God knows what's in the dirt all over shoes and clothes.. and then handling that speck cavalierly in the hotel. I hope I'm just being a fanatic worry wort but I hope nothing went wrong in her travels doing that kind of stuff.

[@Daniel-nl4bj]

she is whispering to not scare this little thing

[@Fugalism]

"Can you make a complete sentence?" What the fuck kind of question was that

[@themartian3213]

Calm down everyone, I’m told it’s the equivalent of a chest X-ray.

[@handidrinkingfountain2630]

Probably not, that one fragment was emitting around 17 mSv per hour Wich is more like a CT scan every hour if you where close to it.

[@themartian3213]

Handi Drinking fountain it was a joke. r/woooooosh

[@jannisares]

Please wear protective gloves when you're handling radioactive materials.

[@jannisares]

After her fingers call off?

[@henieks9117]

Why She takes fingers to nose in 5:35 , after She touch the fragments of radioactive soil? I think its more dangerous then working without gloves. Gloves+mask its the minimum.

[@CarbonComp]

☭_DRINK_CCCP_420_☭ Finally, someone who FUCKING UNDERSTANDS RADIATION.

[@edg6779]

but gammas will eventualy stop and that could possibly be before it penetrates your skin cells

[@noreason2701]

@@edg6779 gamma rays go straight through your body with little damage... Beta and alpha are the dangerous ones.

[@conorhaddock3956]

the dankest bag of grass iv ever seen right there

[@renlentlesstourist7574]

Still fuck you up better than the finest grass though!!!!

[@TorbjrnViemNess]

Plot twist: the whispering from 7:35 is due to throat cancer after radiation... Seriously though, what is even safety? 🤔

[@TheAwesomoe]

I‘ve been told that it‘s 3.6 roentgen, the equivalent of a chest x-ray.

[@Maebbie]

not too great, not too terrible

[@theslavicharuspex]

it's a little over two chest x-rays every hour

[@Nooliy1]

In fact it is equivalent of 400 chest x-rays

[@runt0r]

lol this one is 1.7 actually

[@Nooliy1]

@@runt0r I've been told that it's equivalent of a half a chest x-ray

[@brodyluebke8503]

This bio robot must be defective

[@MidnightDragon7]

For those of you who are critical of her and her handling, it was 17.27 mSv per hour, the maximum dose a nuclear plant worker in the US is allowed is 50 mSv per year. So she would need 3 hours there to reach that amount. An astronaut in the international space station is allowed up to 500 mSv per year. So for her to receive that amount she would have to stand next to it, hold it, for 29 hours. She is well aware of the dangers.

[@TelgeProductions]

+Christopher Rivera I kinda agree to you but you forget that those 50 and 500 mSv are in a year which gives the body time to repair the damage, altough standing there for an hour is probably safe.

[@MidnightDragon7]

I agree, but I think the important thing to remember is that she is aware of the risk that she undertakes, and it takes a lot of bravery for her to really hammer that the place is still dangerous, and will pose a threat for generations to come.

[@lewisjohnston8552]

17,000 msv per hour though. Not 17.27 msv. If she has direct contact with the material for 3+ hours, she'll receive a fatal dose. 1700 rem approx.

[@EscapeMCP]

No, 17000μSv/h. 17.27mSv. SI units are awesome "We need a symbol for micro".. "how about an m".. "naah, used that for milli already".... "well, why not a funny u, everyone likes an odd looking you"?

[@jettalady1985]

E

[@DarkWhiteCrow]

Video before: It is deadly Next video: I am gonna make lollipops from it

[@Microtonal_Cats]

He's actually whispering because he doesn't want to scare it and make it ignite.

[@Sultan-cf5wf]

8:04 "17 thousand microsieverts per hour" That's pretty hot.

[@renciks5610]

You dont say

[@massimolettuce]

*add will smith voice* ahhh that's hot. that's hot.

So, around 1.7 roentgen? I would probably expect a little more. Or am I wrong?

[@SourTheMouth]

@ 6-7 thousands is actually deadly)

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

FittaS Pleasure 6-7 thousand of what? Eating 6000 syanide capsuls is deadly.

[@GeoBlackPro]

17.000 μsieverts/hour=1,7 roentgen/hour not great, not terrible!!

[@Nooliy1]

I have been told it is an equivalent to a chest x-ray

[@Greybow864]

17.000 microsieverts = 1,7 sievert? How?

[@eden20111]

VexDex 33 yes but chest X-rays just last a few minutes and then you’re out. She was hovering over the fragment and touching it and even took it home with her. That’s like what 7 hours, most likely more if she kept it... so imagine if you were in that x-ray room for that long...

[@RedSkeletonGhost]

Wow! 180,000 counts per second! I'm gonna touch it with my bare hands!

[@SUFHolbek]

+Don't Mind Me, I have Issues. If she was out getting drunk the same night, the alcohol would have done more damage to her body than a speck of uranium would. As long as she's not using it as a toothbrush or something

[@viktorhauk]

+Don't Mind Me, I have Issues. and apparently no idea about ionizing radiation either... she measured 17k μSv, roughly equivalent to 17 millisievert (mSv). You'd get a dose of of 10-30 MSv from a _single_ full body CT scan.

[@kevinbutton4580]

ugh no 180,000 shes lucky she did not fall over dead a human body can only withstand 400 lol

[@bryanmengwasser3925]

+Kevin Button no....

[@lordkrishnastolemyheart5485]

Very beautiful find, thank you for the video. Also if the fuel fragment is uranium, humans have somewhat of a resistance to it. Uranium has been near humans ever since humans existed. Plutonium is a different story and the Jason Vorhees of nuclear substances. It was manmade, even a little can really mess you up.

[@PromptSupercritical]

Well, that's interesting and all, but that chick is nuts. Digging around for radioactive contamination with bare hands, AND THEN TOUCHING HER FACE? INSANE!

[@mrkiky]

IT IS THE MOST INTENSE THING I HAVE EVER S.... hmm... do you taste metal?

[@michaelobrien6439]

Hahahahahahahaha haha hilarious Vasily Ignatanko

[@eli34536]

oh there is a fuel fragment from an nuclear reactor lets touch it!

[@gamingbenchmarks9304]

EliJ ur honestly stupid as long as u wash ur body extremely well after u will be fine u people know nothing about this shit

[@richardgrace4500]

It's not a fuel fragment...she isnt anywhere near the nuclear plant #1 you can hear the constant traffic going by her.. #2 nothing registered that far outside the normal range where near the plant of you stuck that sucker too the ground like she did ot will get a constant reading of anywhere from 100× too 100,000 times more radiation than normal

[@user-gu3ie]

@@richardgrace4500 haha and yes ladies and gentlemen..another KZbin hero that thinks he knows what he's talking about 😂 KZbin gold right here

[@Stubbies2003]

She is the Steve Irwin of the nuclear field. :)

[@gowplayerfat555]

“Is the equivalent of a chest x ray” BoRiS

[@Ladco77]

One day I'll be able to watch a video about Chernobyl without the comments all coming directly from the HBO special. Unfortunately, the half-life of HBO commenters is over 10,000 years.

[@stevej8707]

Isn’t it dangerous just being close to that. No gloves even?

[@macdt95]

It gave off 1.7 Roentgens. Not safe but it wouldn’t threaten your life.

[@michaelobrien6439]

But don't trust the Russians they said 3.6:) roentgen was a chest x-ray not 1 but 3.6 roentgen would be 400 chest x-rays

[@rogerwilco2]

Maybe handling something like that with your bare hands is not the best idea? Several milliSievert is about your yearly dosis? So, let's put it next to your laptop?

[@fizzie1721]

Don’t forget to wash your hands with lead

[@takasmaka820]

With sperm

[@dirtypirate79]

Hmm this soil is contaminated...better dig through it with my bare hands, pardon me while while I touch my face.

[@Suphlacki]

Is this what Putin put in Viktor Yushchenko's clam chowder?

[@OhItsDared]

Just gave him a reminder of when he fucked up the chernobyl nuclear reactor in his spy life

[@RidlleForest]

He's still alive. But look like shit.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

It's not Polonium. But if you want to taste it just smoke a cigarette. Polonium is in it.

[@majkutisusernameom]

Wow! Such a small piece and still has so much radiation...

[@Lifewontwait29]

Lijevi Desni not very much

[@TR2000LT]

It's not "so much" that's why they are touching it without any protection.

[@Jedi2155]

@@Lifewontwait29 Not very much is still the equivalent of almost 5 years of background radiation every hour.

[@anderoo9260]

@@Lifewontwait29 This is lethal dose after a couple of days of exposure

[@efeerkac8059]

he speaks silently because KGB listen him.

[@kasparasluksa5199]

Guys, its not actually 3.6 roentgen. Dyatlov lied so please dont touch that