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

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that's what you get when walking outside of the tourist paths... the true readings of non-decontaminated grounds, and a nice view on the reactor.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

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

[@CyberspacedLoner]

She is the Atomic Woman

[@AC-nq6os]

Lol. Wtf, eh?

[@bionerd23]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@RuruFIN]

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

[@deltaw7363]

5:35

[@CyberspacedLoner]

don't forget the Fallout and Metro series

[@true-dark-mind9681]

I assume you have had them installed already huh?

[@steveallen5344]

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

[@ketufo]

Honestly fair enough. Should try and hop into the plant

[@DokterRoetker]

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

[@toocoolforu]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@mikey03691]

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

[@Vibratorypie150]

Same here

[@stpet291]

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

[@anodezinc9667]

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

[@chriscraven9335]

I'd dig it.

[@bionerd23]

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

[@brandoncrawford7197]

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

[@jothain]

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

[@ExplorewithSvetlin]

jothain it is.

[@blakebundy1583]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@Camroc37]

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

[@851995STARGATE]

"I'm no expert" no shit

[@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! :)

[@bionerd23]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@SortaProfessional89]

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

[@geos297]

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

[@altaqiyya6348]

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

[@andyg3]

so many experts in the comments.

[@mrblack888]

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

[@Andrew-vt2wq]

dude we played fallout, we know what we talking about

[@BarrySmoother]

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

[@timewave02012]

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

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

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

[@emborg3145]

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

[@Deathwatch31]

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

[@Weegeeman3]

I want the hunger games to be done here

[@-yeme-]

5:37 nice

[@EvanBoyar]

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

[@CyberspacedLoner]

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

[@jodelboy]

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

[@sporknife123]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@MrEddieG420]

Radioactive Shrooms, What a trip, damn Im dead.

[@lambda3701]

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

[@manletopia4801]

@@lambda3701 its low get off these vids

[@cheesyham9]

11:12 Rad-X.

[@shakalpb1164]

TheActualKid haha XD

[@theresad3931]

Lol Also some Rad away

[@claudiocarbone2225]

AHAHAHAHAHA

[@bionerd23]

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

[@tickedoffsheikh8587]

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

[@dominator167able]

some stalkers left the bolts there

[@true-dark-mind9681]

Those bolts for anomalies mr. expert

[@kittie_sugar]

You are so awesome:) and so brave! Loce your vids

[@chriscraven9335]

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

[@craigellenwood3809]

I love your sense of humor

[@AlexxAXe]

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

[@AllAroundBang]

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

[@cokeforever]

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

[@shawnslater9568]

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

[@mxmarie3700]

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

[@bionerd23]

maybe 50 meters to the sarcophagus.

[@suc6795]

u should go to megaton

[@Kenny722]

i love these vids:) i subbed and ill always be subbed keep up the good work:D

[@Ilicpro]

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

[@eddiehjalmarsson5966]

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

[@cheebandfc]

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

[@Balnazzardi]

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

[@iloveadele21]

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

[@MarkRose1337]

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

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

[@GerVlad]

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

[@wabbitpoop]

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

[@smittenthekitteninmittens2679]

oh dear my hands are melting

[@r3seto]

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

[@privatear2001]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@MarkRose1337]

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

[@manletopia4801]

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

[@JOEM747]

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

[@matthewmoran7596]

what a great voice

[@MichaelSmith-lx2dt]

Matthew Moran that’s why I’m watching 😂

[@affatmatt08]

I commented on one of your earlier video's but it must not have gone through, Basically I was curious as to what a lethal dose of radiation would be using your measuring tool that you have, and why does the moss maintain a higher level of radiation than the other surroundings. Also, can you pretty much go anywhere in the city or are there still come parts that are still to contaminated to go to?

[@MaxmaxOFF81]

How did you got there?

[@rebeccadonoghue8993]

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

[@sm1thers]

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

[@MoherPower92]

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

[@hans3531]

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

[@MoherPower92]

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

[@williamradford8817]

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

[@toserveman1496]

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

[@josephastier7421]

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

[@-flutterby7026]

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

[@acquiesce022]

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

[@bionerd23]

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

[@michaelexman5474]

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

[@Multi18only]

How long do you think it will take before it is possible to repopulate Pripyat and it's surroundings? Because it seems that only the area around the reactor is actually dangerous.

[@Ilicpro]

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

[@oudotcom]

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

[@AKAtheA]

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

[@sidj7276]

I gt a question bionerd23. Can you get Cancer just by being there in a hour (or some more)? Or by touching Uranium, as you did in another vid. (or being close to it).

[@monolit15]

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

[@AScannerClearly]

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

[@privatear2001]

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

[@CorbinBlanchardDesign]

What were the effects on your bodies after leaving Chernobyl? Any sickness or radiation poisoning?

[@airsoftommy]

What are the affects of minor radiation poisoning and did you get suck after this?

[@mypyro2]

are u going in that plutonium labarotory agen ?? as u cal it cant wait to see what was in that container realy love your videos :D subscriber BTW

[@husqvarnastyler]

hast du eigentlich keine angst durch die häufige und starkeSstrahlenbelastung krank zu werden ? bin kein Strahlen experte darum die frage :) danke für die vielen coolen Videos sie sind einfach der hammer :)

[@foolyskooly4867]

that adventure is great 09:48 its like different planet

[@dm1968r]

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

[@llanederyn]

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

[@Bentsful]

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

[@88manta88]

Are there handheld units which can show an Energy/Amplitude graph available ? Any infos on that is much appreciated

[@cytrynowy_melon6604]

Not decontaminated? So it was the other part of the forest that was cut down and planted again?

[@pandorasangel2747]

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

[@blairlohnes8103]

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

[@nickidodson7148]

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

[@LodewijkVrije]

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

[@sakire112]

The place with high contamination, was that in the infamous red forest? Or is that place highly contaminated, too much for people to 'stroll' around?

[@ElWrinklo7000]

What kind of geiger counter do you use, and how much was it?

[@transistor754]

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

[@privatear2001]

Okay... discussing this again, but is the pavement contaminated with fine fallout dust OR has it been irradiated in some way that it, in itself, is now radioactive? Trying to get my head around the mechanisms of contamination, that's all. Thanks. :)

[@guardffire]

seeing as how much time you spend in that place, shouldn't you be careful about getting too high doses of radiation? especially the feet as they are so close to the contaminated ground you are walking on? next to that very cool videos very fascinating place to look at!

[@88pablo18]

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

[@sudfwheroiuwqhegprui]

What a freaky tourist trip :) Is there some video, that someone measures micro sylvers... with I phone?

[@Brekstahkid]

Why are only certain areas more contaminated than others?

[@chrystals3464]

thanks for all the great videos :) i hope to do studys like this one day. did you notice the random blue static stuff at like 5.37?im not sure if thats just the camera...just thought id point it out.

[@ketufo]

Its an effect lol

[@affatmatt08]

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

[@tigerxuexue832]

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