chernobyl 2012 II: the deja vu series (now in HD)

[@bionerd23]

*seems like youtube is still processing the video, hence its not yet available in HD. ill check back later to see if that fixes it.

[@bionerd23]

apparently, uploading the video in HD failed. i guess i sent nearly 500 MB to youtube just to have a shitty 360p video? well, working on this to fix it somehow, hold your horses.

[@leokimvideo]

Curious to see that check in point. These days it looks like an entry to Disneyland. Bionerd was there before Russia turned it into a tourist destination

[@DJZOFFICIAL]

"50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town" Captain Mc Millan

[@coolvids1011]

Lol I know right

[@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! :)

[@campaspe810]

Can't see your name there

[@pattyramos1520]

Quem veio pelo vc sabia explode o like

[@YUNA-qo1fb]

Quem mais veio pelo Canal VOCÊ SABIA?

[@gulopesthelink9577]

Euu

[@SraLoba.]

Eu 🙋

[@lariis241]

Eu

[@laizloka6130]

Eai

[@lilialourenco7613]

Eu

[@Minx5892]

Is it a coincidence that the thumbnail is her pretending to drift in a bumper car and the title has deja vu in it. *Initial D Intensifys*

[@MaximumEfficiency]

yes

[@bionerd23]

well, after a half has disappeared, a half of the remaining half will disappear within one more half life. so, after +8 days, you have 1/2 of the initial iodine... and half of 1/2 is 1/4, so after 16 days, you have 1/4 of the original activity, and after 8 more days, you will have 1/8 of the original activity, and so on... At=A0*e^-(ln2/T1/2)*t where At= current activity (TBD!), A0= initial activity, e= euler constant, ln = natural logarithm, T1/2 = half life of the nuclide, t = passed time.

[@bionerd23]

yeah, well, it's a warning threshold level that is exceeded. i can freely set my alarm threshold levels on my devices, though, so i guess it does not mean anything unless YOU know what YOU set and for WHAT REASON. for example, i could even set the alarm to go off at entirely normal background radiation.

[@olhaochat9137]

QUE triste uma cidade tão bonita ser contaminada por radiação 😢

[@bionerd23]

there's a link on my channel page, on the right side. :) let me know if there's an issue with the links?

[@bionerd23]

oh yeah, park with bumper cars = pripyat = inner zone, a few km from chernobyl npp. the border of the "outer zone" right south of the town of chornobyl is roughly 30km from the nuclear power plant as far as i know. i'll look it up some day.

[@bionerd23]

well, good thing we were in the non-tourist places later on; in the future videos that do not belong to the currently upcoming deja-vu series, i will not have to worry about tourists at all, very handy. =)

[@bionerd23]

we wanted to, but it didnt work out with getting access. the zone never gives up its secrets easily; it teases you with more each time. and though i got to access a lot of other great places instead, this means but one thing: i will have to go back to the zone soon.

[@bionerd23]

yep, it was just build very recently (two years? i'm not sure). must have to do with the new sarcophagus; an additional chimney. i have no further information on the exact purpose though.

[@darcisantos9600]

Eu vim pelo canal você sabia

[@Anti-proton]

At 1:11, the device to the right (white) I believe was built for use on the moon but quickly used for Chernobyl. It was, I think, part of the Luna experiment.

[@bionerd23]

well, they are building the new sarcophagus just next to the old reactor - you cannot film to that direction from this "tourist spot" in front of the reactor, militia is watching, and you will be shot in the back for turning your camera around to there. :P no idea why, as half of europe is building there (i even spoke to a german crane driver!), but yeah. building in progress, so lots of noise. though, even in pripyat, you can hear the distant hum of transformers, very interesting...

[@bionerd23]

well, it's risky. the zone gives, the zone takes. know what you're doing and always be alert, and you may just get away with it. to me, the zone recognized me as a friend, apparently - it gave, it only gave, and so much, i nearly cried tears of joy in front of the gamma spectrometer...

[@bionerd23]

i didnt use gps, but one other person in our group did. however, i have a rough map of the locations we've been to in my head, so i'm 100% sure i could locate and track them in google maps satelite view. please send me a private message to remind me about this, maybe it'd be fun to do that for all of my viewers when i have time.

[@mn2233]

Thanks for the tour. Looking forward to the next videos in this series. Loving the new HD footage also.

[@trailkeeper]

(continued), and for others who read comments: I read that the iodine in salt is mainly a essential nutrient - often need for normal thyroid hormone production, and other things. Basically it's found in sea-food, and we just don't get enough - especially if you live inland and the price of seafood is high. The low amount of iodine in salt is usually not enough for radiation protection.

[@bionerd23]

haha, i found a couple actually. one was stuck to the chains of a tank, another was... no, i'll keep that for the future videos. :P

[@Anti-proton]

It looks beautiful in HD! You must manually select it.

[@MarkRose1337]

The tower on the right, the red and white one, is an exhaust chimney for reactors 1 and 2. Bionerd23 was standing to the right of the location where most pictures are taken, where the other tower is hidden behind the grey one. If you look at a picture of Chernobyl from Pripyat you'll see it clearly.

[@trailkeeper]

Were both right.I read the "radioactive iodine" intake can be prevented by taking safe iodine since it will essentially block any more intake of iodine material including "radioactive iodine".I read, that theres all kinds of other radiation from Chernobyl type exposions, so I guess no one will be protected from Iodine safety pills alone.Need to keep distant, have shielding, and keep time in radiation area to a minimum, according to Wikipedia article.Iodine is often put in salt (if you use salt)

[@ScoutCrafter]

Wow! That camera rocks! Great shots Bionerd! Love the clock zoom!

[@ivantanev1661]

Hah, nice catfish joke. In bulgarian too. I've watched all yours videos, bionerd and I f..in love them. The science passion is unstoppable.

[@bionerd23]

usually? you find a few MICROGRAMS (1/1000 gram) in a whole box of salt (which would cause severe health issues when ingested at once). OTC products with iodine supplements are in the micrograms range (10-50 micrograms). you need 50 miligrams 1/20 gram) or more for a thyroid protection dose of iodine! if you take, say, 1000 micrograms, you may cause your thyroid to malfunction AND you will not be protected, either! hence why i did a video on the dangers of iodine: watch?v=Silk2g8fS8Y

[@thomasembleton1467]

The 8 wheeled armoured vehicle is a btr60 the 4 wheeled vehicle is a brdm 2 which would not have been a bad vehicle to be in due to its NBC system

[@bionerd23]

just look up "radiation sickness" on wikipedia or so; you'll see that very high doses are required to make one sick in an instant / quick, so i am very far from that.

[@LtShifty]

Depending on the server cluster the video was sent to it can take up to an hour to process 1080p videos. However, 500MB of footage shouldn't take more than twenty to thirty minutes :) Great video too.

[@ScaleCarModels]

Great vid nice footage really interested in this place. BTW how big where those cat fish?

[@markbundles2]

If they went several days after the explosion, yeah. Since it's been years, people can walk around there for maybe, let's say 45 minutes, without any effects, then after that, things will happen.

[@stefaan10111992]

The guys guarding the zone were probably like: "Oh boy, there's that bionerd again..." Great job, as usual :)

[@AScannerClearly]

Very awesome camera & sights to record with it! Those catfish are pretty cool, though you're right they're not mutated, as catfish big enough to swallow people exist in the Amazon river, far from any unusual radioactivity. I wonder if you guys found another fuel fragment at that one real hot spot?

[@privatear2001]

What was the noise in the background at 6:00? Some sort of ambient machinery noise, like a cooling system? How long will you be there or have you already returned? Wouldn't it be great to have one of those scintillator "Identifinders"? I'd like to be rich enough one of these days to buy one of those things. Though, if I'd have kept up with electronics, I feel like I should be able to BUILD one by now. Very excited to see new footage, btw. Keep it coming, "Dr. Livingston"! :) Don't get lost!

[@HDSerbianGaming]

bionerd23 amazing videos you have and a truly amazing and interesting thing that happend in Pripyat. I would love to go there and visit. Does it cost to get a tour guide?

[@heathermason1500]

Of course it costs something. About 300 to 400 dollars.

[@marcop1492.]

you normally play with radiation. it's insane!

[@Anti-proton]

At 5:22... you need a hand held isotope detector!

[@camiavakin9143]

Vim pelo {Você sábia?}

[@filmesyt6560]

E eu

[@AntalopeAUT]

Did that catfish really grin that radiant or is that just my imagination ^^ Anyways, awesome videos, keep on trucking and stay safe :)

[@Raizzor18]

0:34 On the Bus: "Experience the most beatiful places of Europe!". Sure...

[@privatear2001]

Its great to see the entrance to the area as well. When you were driving with all the other traffic up to that first gate, how far were you from the park with the bumper cars? or from the reactor? Can you send me a kmz file sometime from google earth if you trace your path ("export" option is enabled if you put down a thumbtack on a point). Don't suppose you had a GPS on you, did you? Or are they illegal to carry in there for some reason? Man, I gotta do this place with a GPS sometime.

[@trailkeeper]

ok, that is the main formula for remaining levels or values, and (ln 2) is a constant of course. basically people would need a scientific calculator to solve these formulas. I have a similar one, you probably know, it just looks more friendly but still, scientific calculator is also needed (unless people like doing it by hand): At = Ao (0.50)^(t/T) t=time elapsed, T=period of half-life I might be wrong, so if I am, then let me know, I am trying to write an article about it.

[@bionerd23]

i did a video on this. if you're interested, please review. watch?v=Silk2g8fS8Y iodine only makes sense if you're very close to a reactor who only just blew up (hours ago). otherwise, the potentially deadly (!!) effect of non-radioactive (stable) iodine far outweigh the benefits. please see my video for more details. ps: the potential dose of radio-iodine to the thyroid at close range to a nuclear reactor disaster can be ablative, meaning it can fully or at least largely destroy the organ.

[@cmeeks1717]

awesome to see you back!! eagerly waiting for more:)

[@jackhackslack]

i don't think they should have people living there ever again, leave it unhabited, in builds the eerieness of the whole place. If people moved back it would be as intresting

[@cool3929]

jackhackslack I doubt it will be in our time. Id say maybe our grandkids grandkids, if they are still here...

[@mnsirens]

Nicole M 20,000 Years. That's 200 Generations

[@DuchessandHammer]

Did you get a chance to go to the hospital? I hear in the basement there is lots of original firefighter clothing of those who were on the reactor. Very dangerous stuff but worth a look with a gauger counter.

[@privatear2001]

Yep, you should definitely map it out for us. I think you could even recreate the path that you took in Google Earth, overlay it, and send it as some kind of kmz file (GE's proprietary file). or just a screenshot in a video. If you had a GPS, there should be GPS linking software that would allow you to overlay it in GE, as well. Then you could save a detailed map of where you've been, and use it later to decide what you want to see next. :)

[@OnTourWithGerrit]

Great Video. It is crazy to see you at 5:00 standing at excactly the same place, where I have measured about the same. Keep on the good work!

[@bionerd23]

ha, hell yeah! any company representatives here? canberra? wanna sponsor me one of those nifty handheld HPGe things that dont even require LN2 to cool? i'll go back to everything i'll show and use your beautiful device, promise! =) ...and it's not just the old expected Cs-137, trust me. i'll show that in future videos.

[@mundocorderosa7458]

Quem veio pelo(você sabia?) Da like

[@AbhijeetKumarThakur1729]

0:10 Your windshield has a weird kink line. Perks of HD video.

[@TopGearrules]

4:55 the two tone noise... is that to warn that radiation levels are too high??

[@oliverjamescarr]

Buildings? I thought that you're not allowed to go in them any more because apparently a building collapsed on top of a tour party not that long ago?

[@SeeThroughMeDK]

Chernobyl is the most incradible abandoned place on this planet

[@exet]

I think you mean Detroit.

[@SeeThroughMeDK]

detroit??.....mmm...send me a video of this....

[@karlaterrazas2107]

Dimitris Koufopoulos I agree with U

[@fredswetnam3682]

I think you meant the pussies of prostitutes from the area... ^^

[@nFiveTech]

haha

[@MiaMaven]

That fish was hypnotising

[@williamradford9631]

Yeah, in 1986, the town of Pripyat was abandoned after the worst nuclear explosion, and melt down of reactor 4. Mutant oversized catfish in the cooling ponds

[@Getoverhere666]

Fish isn't oversized. I've seen much bigger.

[@wickedwalshe121]

Q1) do you know when tourists were first allowed into the exclusion zone I'd really like to go but not with tourists I'd like to visit the fairground and blocs Q2) did you know that they carried on using the 3 remaining reactors until from what I can remember the late 80's early 90's!

[@woohoomike]

I don't understand how you can be so close to the radioactive material and not be sick. Please explain.

[@jodelboy]

Underground labs.. where are the underground labs..?? :D Can't wait that you upload these videos!

[@williamradford9631]

The derelict buildings, left to fall down over time, what would Pripyat look like in another 20 to 30 years time.

[@guslimons1]

wow i can't whait for the rest of the videos, this is awesome !

[@CRTukkerr]

That used to be catfish which got mutated by radiation and now have legs and hair....... Ofcourse that are horses, never seen one in rl?

[@bionerd23]

haha, yeah. i filmed that for a while on the road as well, as it was kind of cynical even in my book!

[@AveWalrus]

Wonder what happens if you just so happen to drop in the catfish river..

[@Kudo716]

I think Prypiat is beautiful, it's rural areas are actually Gorgeous because of how little human life is affecting it.

[@alessiopaganelli]

Ciao,sto seguendo i tuoi video,sei di berlino? Ingegnere nucleare o appassionata di radioattivita?

[@danewson]

Just looking at the photos and video from when this place was habitable just makes me hella sad

[@oliverjamescarr]

It's in 1080p now, should automatically process to that so long as the video you're uploading is 1080p.

[@profil4e]

i don't get it isn't this dangerous with all that radiation and all????

[@Freakofnature829]

"Hey, wanna see my holiday photos!? Don't worry the radation from them want hurt you! " Sure...

[@idontneedaname85]

Fantastic camera!!! great vid we want more.

[@privatear2001]

Honestly, you could be shot for filming that??? Wow! I sailed past the Naval Fleet in Norfolk one time and they had signs out saying "No Pictures. Cameras will be seized." It was hard sailing past building-sized propellers and the like out on dry-dock and not taking a picture. So, were you actually on a tourist bus OR did you have individual passage into the zone with some characters who had access some way? :) And you stayed at that Chernobyl hotel again?

[@orionpseudo8360]

Soviet Russia certainly had some beautiful architecture, that's for sure!

[@Getoverhere666]

Brutalist architecture, I believe...

[@nixrate]

Hey Bionerd. I went to Chernobyl not long ago and found it pretty amazing but unfortunately had to go with a tour group. I am curious how you are allowed in without one?

[@strando1234]

+nixrate im guessing she is a scientist or something?

[@aym8799]

bionerd 23 :) trying to alert the inspector much more more sensitive and efficient than the gamma scout ;)

[@TheSangello]

50,000 people used to live here... Now its a ghost town

[@NYCTMTA]

Love your vids and u nice camcorder

[@jacplac97]

I heard that it's something about $200-250

[@bobl78]

whould you be allowed to go inside the reactor or even below it to he corium ? Would you do so if you´d get the permission ?

[@cenasux222]

It is WAYYYYYYYYYYY to deadly to go in. There is white hot radioactive magma sitting in there that will kill you in minutes

[@bobl78]

+cenasux222check out other Videos... the corium is solid and not glowing.... it is regularly monitored..they work on it because it is disintegrating, creating a radioactove dust which is a Problem..... they cover it with special Silicone... it is still very radioactive but you can go near it for a very short time, at least russian scientists do it in These Videos...

[@richardgrace4500]

@@bobl78 do you not notice how much protection those scientists are wearing and they dont stay for more than a minute or two... any longer than that and is lethal

[@tylerwalker2]

what would happen if you went within say 200m of the cooling towers? i know its not exactly possible but im curious as to what would happen... :P would you grow a third arm? lmao

[@STOPnukesNOW]

Do fish 'suffer' when they are too contaminated?

[@sklodowska226]

nice tension buildup :D

[@Feliday]

please do not forget me bionerd. enjoy the zone (again).

[@davidm1911]

You was on Pripyat attractions park right?

[@mtsarto7848]

she probably has problems in the cerebral cortex

[@Inkymon1]

You have been to the zone twice, please tell me, how much does it cost to go there, and how to you go there anyways?

[@O2TG]

Such a cool place

[@artes.impias]

Awesome videos! I envy you for that trip!

[@SpedInfotv]

That's very weir why they say that but the movie Chernobyl diaries have cause so many rumors about what goes on there there's a wildlife preservation

[@NYCTMTA]

Love your vids and u nice camcorde

[@anne123480]

very intresting video also i noticed their seems to be a lot of art on the buildings some soviet propaganda stuff too

[@viciokas1993]

I have full 1080p. Works just fine, except loading a bit slowly. Awesome quality though!

[@beonin3]

How can u go there, are there any tours? i would love to take one...

[@lysetuber2426]

Hello teacher. I AM Brazilian. My name is Leticia Lyse. And the you? Não sei falar bem a sua língua. You ficou conhecida no mundo inteiro. I love seu canal!

[@tommyr1066]

Take me there

[@hongk0ngfu3y]

what boils my piss is when people treat it like an interactive museum ffs.