chernobyl 2013: radioactive ant bites & 115 mSv/h of pure gamma radiation

obtaining superpowers and a peanut sized reactor fuel fragment outshines everything we've seen so far!
finding uranium in nature at its worst - and i'm still waiting for my transformation into superwoman...
thanks to the many comments i previously received, i took a streak test this time... and a gamma spectrum as well, of course.

[@leokimvideo]

I love her, the more dangerous the fragment, the more excited she gets

[@cv507]

you cänt büy anti G33 -.- ?xD

[@ElectricityTaster]

Those poor ants. They where using that piece of radioactive graphite to snuggle up to on cold winter nights.

[@Ujwal5555]

You are delusional

[@timaahhh]

@@Ujwal5555 It's the feed water, take him to the infirmary

[@mhvdm]

@@Ujwal5555 Take him to the infirmary!

[@Vara91391]

ants, cockroaches etc more resistant to radiation than us

[@dasdilly2981]

Electricity taster Rad-ants

[@marius4iasi]

Ant-woman: the origin story

[@noraschoots3167]

holy shit yes

[@discordant8543]

GG

[@kadalijo2806]

😂😂😂

[@Andizu1]

Was looking for this comment. Not disappointed :)

[@PeterPeterPumpkinEater83]

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT THAT

[@ss4456]

150 years later - Giant Ants overun Pripyat

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

2172: "Earth Defense Force founded by the UN"

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

0:34 "glove time, even for me" ... the moment you know you really need to be afraid ;-)

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Matthijs van Duin When bionerd23 puts on gloves you know some bad shit is coming up

[@krisztianfekete3277]

i think it was for the ants

[@syobsyotsec2919]

IN HER PREVIOUS VIDEOS, SHE WAS DIGGING FUEL FRAGMENTS WITH HER BARE HANDS AND SNIFFING IT, BUT SHE RECEIVED THOUSANDS OF BAD COMMENTS, SO SHE DOES NOT WANT PEOPLE TO START UNSUBSCRIBING, SO SHE NOW STARTED USING THE GLOVES TO PLEASE HER AUDIENCE. ;)

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

@@krisztianfekete3277 I think it's because when you handle hot particles, really hot particles, there is a fear of contaminating the skin on your hand with dust and whatnot. It's just not a good idea to have bare skin because it can be hard to scrub off.

[@krisztianfekete3277]

Lobster Johnson yeah I know, but this one doesn’t really follows the health and safety guidelines

[@MuonRay]

I, for one, welcome our new radioactive insect overlords...

[@Megadextrious]

hhaaaaaaahhhhaaahhhhhhhhhh simpsons lmao brilliant

[@thanksforthemessdick]

You are just sycoph.....ant.

[@WadcaWymiaru]

Bug God real life story...

[@bionerd23]

no, i (still) didnt read my youtube mails recently, sorry. i wanted to at least take the time and reply to comments to my latest two videos while this uploads, but nope - despite linking my profile with google+, i can no longer reply to any comments older than two weeks. WTF google, and apologies to everybody who will never receive a reply now, as i cannot send a private message for every comment i previously received. i'm sorry, but for once, this isnt even my fault...

[@Nam3Iess]

Yeah, google fucked it up big time now :( Today even the video processing is slow as hell.

[@Anti-proton]

I hear you!!! I have not been able to reliably reply to comments on my channel for days now, due to this google+ crap.

[@matas91]

Bionerd more vids i watch more i love u and your videos. You are awesome, TY for it. I love it

[@Allenb1977]

It's ok :) Just keep making cool videos and we will keep watching no matter of the inefficiency of Google+

[@privatear2001]

Eventually something better will come along and people will leave this self-serving bunch of morons behind in the dust. How unfortunate that Google ever got their hands on KZbin!

[@arthurvin2937]

so the the most radiation comes from the cs-137, and considering that it's on its halfway decay path, imagine how much it was radioactive in the beginning.

[@anonymousaubergine4455]

probably was in the 0.2-0.6Sv zone which is 200 000 to 600 000uSv, compared to normal background radiation of 0.1 to 0.25uSv, that thing was HOT!!

[@pR1mal.]

The rate of decay of a particular isotope remains constant, and the decay energy produced by a particular isotope remains constant, "until the last drop" of that isotope. They remain constant until transmutation occurs in the decay chain.That's why radio carbon dating works.

[@stanleytolle416]

@@pR1mal. depend on what you mean constant. It's a constant of what is left. So for each half life it starts out at 100% at 0 time, 50% first half life, 25% second half life and so on. By 10 half lives almost nothing will be left. Though it never completely goes away.

[@kuckian]

"i am still waiting for my superpowers" i love you and i love your channel 😂 thank you for bringing us the best radioactive content on KZbin!!!

[@MicraHakkinen]

5:06 That SPECTRA is just begging to be modded into a Pip-Boy :)

[@ooze9808]

wow, that was literally my first thought, it reminded me of the pip-boy

[@FuckitnFightit]

Oh wow, what are you thinking!!! *lighting up my second cigarette while watching this video*

[@TheNickleChick]

Love it.

[@Spartan536]

So more than 1.5 packs per day... nice radiation dose ya got there... I wonder how many people that smoke never realize they are irradiating the shit out of themselves over time?

[@Bevity]

Spartan0536 I tell them but they aren't interested...

[@Spartan536]

@@DG-wr6cl It has been scientifically proven that if you smoke 1.5 packs of cigaretts a day for 1 year you end up irradiating yourself by around 36 mSv (Millisieverts), US radiation workers are allowed a MAXIMUM of 50 mSv per year. Just from smoking you can irradiate yourself that much. If you smoke 3 packs per day it's twice that and that puts you right at the line of where scientists have found that just by radiation you have an increased chance of cancer in your life. The average person that does not smoke or deal with radioactive isotopes is about 4 mSv (4 millisieverts) PER YEAR and your body easily deals with that. Not only with the carcinogens in cigarettes kill you, or the smoke inhalation cause respiratory issues, but the extra radiation also can cause cancer. Here is a link to an actual radiation dosage chart: informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

@@DG-wr6cl Cigarettes has a bit of Polonium in them. Which makes them radioactive.

[@damnsonwheredyoufindthis.3830]

Those ants were hired by Dyatlov so nobody would find that piece of radioactive waste.

[@SovLestlandia]

Youre delusional, go to the infirmary

[@btcool08]

@@SovLestlandia correct, but please use less mean wording.

[@digitalradiohacker]

It's not waste. It's just the sand, it's mildly contaminated, she'll be fine, I've seen worse.

[@mwayne9109]

We have now created radioactive ants. Communist radioactive ants. Did we learn nothing from the great sci fi movies of the 1950s?

[@corettaha7855]

Night of the giant shrews

[@thanksforthemessdick]

Those are Americans spy ants shhhhhhhhh

[@concise707]

THEM

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

The Beast of Yucca Flats

[@josephstalin7995]

I can't wait...

[@VoidHalo]

I wonder if the ants were attracted to this fragment and that's why they built their colony there. Like how they're attracted to the EMF from electronics. Maybe there's something similar going on. Maybe we could even use this to train ants to find radioactive materials. Imagine a world where we have radiation seeking ants, just like drug seeking dogs and truffle seeking pigs.

[@Aussie50]

Fantastic find!, Radioactive super powers need to happen soon :D

[@hr1100]

And this is how Antwoman was created.

[@sirspookyface1532]

hr1100 Glad someone finally made this joke.

[@esper4605]

If you don't need a greek letter to write out a rate of radiation, you should probably not stand there too incredibly long.

[@samblack1934]

lol

[@AndreasDelleske]

I wonder what cancer treatment will cost humanity in 30 years..

[@TheXnocf]

@@AndreasDelleske Considering how many ppl there are to overpopulate this globe, even if all of the patients would die, it would not be enough to make the needed change.

[@mrkiky]

@@AndreasDelleske That question was better asked 33 years ago.

[@Iahusha777Iahuah]

@@TheXnocf the idiot city folk and government lies.. the great wilderness and rural expanse is still considerable

[@sherri99516]

Thank you for your field work & posting your video results "Chernobyl 2013: radioactive ant bites & 115 mSv/h of pure gamma radiation". I really appreciated your showing the many different types of equipment needed to really assess what is being radiated, and where exactly is a high dose of radioactivity coming from. And what kind of radioactive elements are possible. Great info & advice!

[@Exluto]

That's not graphite, it's not possible. Probably just burned concrete contaminated from the feed water.

[@lawt231]

It's only 3.6 roentgen. Not great, not terrible.

[@bighangers]

Awesome videos as per usual bionerd, can't wait to see what super powers you end up with !

[@bionerd23]

youtube just told ME, the fucking CHANNEL OWNER, that i cannot reply to a post from +antiprotons. i'll post it here and hereby also STOP ANSWERING to any comments. sorry for the inconvenience, but i'm no longer taking this fucking bullshit. seems like i cannot answer to posts older than 15 hours, haha. this is ridiculous! i'm writing a complaint to google instead. if you dont ever hear from me again, it's because google didnt change it and i refused to set an alarm clock for every 3 hours, even at night, to be able to reply to comments. seriously, i took all the bullshit, the new channel designs, etc. without much whining, but THIS makes me want to fucking quit youtube! anyway, antiprotons, your reply: well, if its over 100 mSv/h, then acute radiation sickness begins after ~2 hours (noticable reduced blood cell count from 200 mSv acute dose onward, though you'd only FEEL sick after another 3 or 4 hours). but yeah, as the inverse square law applies, there's nothing to fear with this particle. and yep, the spectrum was done by a HPGe, as usual. :)

[@bionerd23]

ps: yeah of course i did check that it's not an "unhandled exception" e.g. because i used a square bracket and whatnot... that i can indeed post the comment above, exactly like i've tried to post it before, proves it's not my fault. google, you fucked up big time this once.

[@Anti-proton]

bionerd23 I hate google+ Hell, I'm a computer scientist and have been a programmer for about 15 years... and I still can't use it worth a damn. It's horrible!!! I contacted google and they (politely) told me to go jump. Screw Google.

[@brainiac75]

bionerd23 I have the same problem on some of my videos... The comment activity and interaction with viewers has just dropped dramatically since they changed to G+ (except for the endless spam). Not happy... Anyway, very nice video! Hope to see more crazy videos from you in the future although Google is trying its best to annoy you and all other great content creators ;)

[@onceinawhilemarcus]

bionerd23 your video was very interesting. I wish you would not have used such vulgar language to describe your displeasure.

[@bluecollarcanuck]

onceinawhilemarcus It's a necessary evil. Not that the bloated corporate bellends at GooTube listen anyway.

[@DanielBowne]

"Hmm, 3.6 Roentgen-not great, not terrible."

[@liktbukl]

:)

[@willcass4969]

Actually yes! 3.6 roentgen is 36mS/h which when approximating her body dose is about right. Not too terrible.

[@aggelos931]

I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest X-ray

[@reinermiteibidde1009]

hes in shock, get him out of here!

[@aggelos931]

She didn't see graphite!

[@PsycoFlipside]

As always, amazing footage! Keep going, we love you!

[@kittie_sugar]

Good gosh lady that fragment is huuuge! Exciting for you!! Very interesting to watch as always :) stay safe! I love learning from your videos :)

[@OpenGL4ever]

Also sobald du etwas ausgräbst und dabei jede Menge Staub aufwirbelst, würde ich dir empfehlen, eine Atemschutzmaske zu tragen. Das gilt insbesondere deswegen, weil feinste Staubaufwirbelungen mit bloßem Auge gar nicht sichtbar sind und man daher diese winzigen Staubpartikel einatmen kann, obwohl man selbst gar nicht so richtig bemerkt, dass da Staub aufgewirbelt wird.

[@btcool08]

“Speak English” -Random Karen

[@OpenGL4ever]

@@btcool08 She understands German.

[@IIIAnchani]

@@btcool08 nothing wrong with speaking the native language of the channel owner to them, no? You could even call it being educated.

[@ncc74656m]

You are either crazy awesome or awesomely crazy. :D I absolutely love watching your videos. I wish I could join you on your adventures.

[@ryanmcgowan3061]

To put it in perspective, being exposed to 115 msv for 8 hours would increase your risk of cancer about 5% in your lifetime. A few minutes would be negligible. I wouldn't personally want to handle it for more than a minute or two, unless it was my only exposure in a year. If she regularly handles fragments like that, there definitely is risk. You only get about 1.5 msv in an xray. About the same as 45 seconds with this fragment.

[@mrKozmoz]

Fascinating, I am quite glad I have subscribed to your channel, provides an interesting insight that most would either glance over or not even bother due to safety

[@russojap1864]

She puts on gloves to dig in the dirt, but touches her face with the dirty glove.🤔Am I wrong thinking that's unsafe?

[@matman7546]

russo jap the glove is inside out.

[@markg999]

Good thing you have your latex gloves...now your safe.

[@Rob77997]

Realy enjoy the vids thanks for the upload and hope ur trip was as exciting as it seemed :-)

[@Bill-Sama-Gates-Laden]

So fun to watch, I love your videos keep them coming and thanks.

[@alexburnside7838]

Hey I see you’re wearing a Polimaster dosimeter watch! I’ve had mine for a few weeks and love it! The highest reading I’ve gotten was 4.3 milli sieverts on the Polimaster at work while NDT did a quick X-ray of one of our airplanes. I’m sure yours has seen far higher haha

[@RandomDudeOne]

"It's maxing out the meter" "YEAH!"

[@HarbardWild]

Finally some new videos :) Been waiting!

[@knotgood9077]

I heart your channel, TY for all your hard work.

[@silverssonyoutube8438]

is this woman still alive and healthy ?

[@yves3560]

Why wouldn't she ? There's radiation and RADIATION, get it ? Good. (you're american)

[@scapegoat113]

It's just a question. SNOB!

[@elektrosmokes1911]

Berke Beenhouwer I read that in Borat’s voice.

[@nopamineLevel100]

Lol well I recon the Russian authorities don't mind giving her permission to Chernobyl because they know her DNA is on a slow, but steady path to mutation-ville. Even with Geiger Counters and measuring your allowed radiation doses, many people still die quite early from cancers; it's hard to tell though whether it's the radiation or just genetic chance???

[@kubeek]

Why would Russians care about her, when she is visitng Chernobyl, which is in Ukraine?

[@travischung2800]

Now I understand what they mean by "curiosity kill"

[@godlewski47]

my head hurts just from watching that ;p I wish you good health, I think you allready have super powers - extraordinary scientist!

[@Cromie45]

How cool! Loved being able to see the radiation through the camera! Maybe someday i'll be able to go and visit the lower-radiation parts or maybe the empty swimming-pool and Ferris wheel!

[@aggelos931]

*Ant gets on index finger* Ah! It's beautiful.

[@JRCW892]

This girl is so masochist ! The more she is exposed to radioactivity, the happier she is.

[@antoinevince1]

pathetic

[@Litepaw]

That's something even a nuclear scientist rarely sees or gets to handle in the wild. 115msv/h of pure gamma radiation from a part of the reactor that caused the worst nuclear accident in the world. I would be excited too but wouldn't stay there for longer than a minute.

[@MRSludgedude]

I think she is banned from KZbin .

[@Yarltza19]

Exactly… As she ages, I wonder if she’ll ever regret these moments because radiation is cumulative and every exposure counts…

[@bobsucks9647]

*puts on gloves to avoid ant bites* *removes glove to handle radioactive fuel fragments*

[@davey3765]

This is awesome! I love your channel

[@alx7311]

i have no words, i cant make my mind if its awesome or just suicidal

[@lose9596]

Don't mind me, just hand-digging up some Uranium with plastic gloves

[@syobsyotsec2919]

THIS IS STILL MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT SHE DID IN ONE OF HER PREVIOUS VIDEOS - DIGGING IT WITHOUT GLOVES AND SNIFFING IT!. ;) HAHAH

[@zenosxr]

Awesome. I loved this video as I do all of your video's. Living near the US's nuclear weapons plants has had me interested in radioactivity since I was a child, and of course most people in the area either work at the plants or are related to someone that is.

[@Disciple0fMetal]

This is great! Love your videos!

[@mrkiky]

Hey look 100mSv/h !! 4:44 casually scratches nose with radioactive particle

[@krautmaster7922]

Thought exactly the same!!! How careless can one be??? I lost my thyroid to cancer and seeing someone wasting his health like this makes me almost cry!!!

[@mrkiky]

@@krautmaster7922 In all fairness what she's doing is THAT dangerous. But for sure people don't need an increased chance of getting cancer, however small it may be. You can always do with _less_ radiation.

[@SphexGamingInc]

In that exact moment a guy says "Let me take a picture of you. That will be the last one of you being alive" and they begin laughing. Pretty ironical

[@privatear2001]

So did you remove the particle and do a reading on the streaks you left on the block of marble? I wonder would the radioactivity have been the same as from the particle itself? Would the ants themselves have been in any way radioactive being in such proximity to the particle? And what was the aftermath of the bite? What kind of probe was the white one? and what did it go to? Take care and all the best! :)

[@kenpowilliamson]

Great video, I really enjoyed it and learned from it. Just subscribed.

[@blindworship2281]

If there was pure gamma on the ground your cellular structures would've started breaking down

[@j_m_b_1914]

Normal background radiation is usually around .25 microservants per hour. To put this into perspective, she's receiving a WEEK's worth of normal background radiation each SECOND she is there. That's over a year's worth of normal background radiation for each minute she was knelt down next to it. This is extremely high radiation and will increase one's risk of cancer over a lifetime. If a Geiger counter showed 1 milliservant/hour, you would want to evacuate the area and figure out what was going on. 150 mS/h is insane to hang around playing with ants.

[@cokeforever]

that's not full body dose, but tiny local source...

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

Is a milliservant a polyped butler?

[@GuyRWood]

Has it not occurred to all the doubters and haters that this girl knows what she's doing?! She's clearly got clearance to wander around unescorted and she has tens of thousands of dollars of equipment and knows exactly how to use it so I'd guess she is 'in the industry' somehow. Oh, and she's got lovely hands...

[@cekiert]

Guy Wood possibly, but streak testing seems counter intuitive. if you have radioactive material. streak testing makes dust particles that can be breathed in. plus digging in unknown radioactive soil, could have led quickly to high levels or radioactive exposure if a powdered lead ore exists over it. you can read about at least one occasion where some of the worlds top nuclear physis at los Alamos exposed several people to high levels of radiation by accident that left them all dead in a month. the lack of even a simple dust mask and knowingly spreading radioactive materials. I wouldn't be surprised if that piece sits in a lead box someday till a unknown heir, or curator tosses it out cause they don't know what it is, then ends up in a land fill in 60 years. I understand this probably wasn't expected to the people in the video and excitement must have been unbearable. luckily exposure probably only left them sick for a for hours at most. Notice that one person standing a safer 30ft away during the recovery...

[@corettaha7855]

Guy Wood if someone looks like they know what they’re doing then they must!

[@Okie-00-Spool]

@@cekiert it seems she's aware of the danger associated with the streak test, as she states towards the end of the video. I don't think you're allowed to remove particles from the exclusion Zone. They scan you before and after. In other videos, Bionerd states that she returns the particles she examines to their original location, with the exception of tiny smears. At any rate, that shit looks pretty scary to me, a total layman when it comes to these things. Was that particle in this video hot enough to cause sickness, accounting for size and exposure time?

[@LuisMan123]

And still, she is completly gone from all social Media

[@arturasnesakysiu1684]

nope she doesnt have any clearance, whey come where in secret. If goverment catch them they would arrest and make example litteraly. If they see cars they hide. basically you cant enter any building, or go where she goes. For tourist where is like legal routes, but you wont see a lot so they go illegal routes with guides like her

[@BenHelweg]

That CCD part at the end was super cool. I don't know if you've ever seen them before but older video cameras in the 80s and earlier used pickup tubes to derive images (I have some footage on my channel). I wonder how one of these would react to hot material. Some of the video documentary footage shot with the liquidators and robots on the roof would have been shot with those cameras I believe (the non-16mm film footage).

[@MattMajcan]

wow thats crazy. i just found your channel, and its awesome.

[@pepecohetes492]

Amazing how those little ants thrive in such high levels of gamma. Initially the radiation spewed from the accident was so high it killed trees, insects, birds, nearly everything. Now its all coming back and even thriving. I love your investigative vids and scientific way you approach your "tours" :). As a former nuclear medicine technologist, I really enjoy these. Cheers and be safe, bionerd!

[@smokeyjayshouse]

+pepe cohetes actually that's bullshit most of those trees where there before the accident. this mass die off crap is just bullshit propaganda

[@pepecohetes492]

+smokeyjayshouse idiot; the radiation was so severe it even killed trees and plants. 25 years of growth and some decrease in background radiation have allowed repopulation of flora and fauna...

[@smokeyjayshouse]

+pepe cohetes do your research only trees and plant life that died was within a few hundred yards of the reactor and not from the radiation but from the hydrogen explosion that burnt some of it and then the subsiquent efforts to contain and clean up the area. hundreds of tones of soil was dug up and bagged you don't think they took the plants and trees with it?? how much of a fool are you?? just because we can't live in a highly radiated area don't mean other animals and plants can't deal with it. the area in the hot zone is as radiated today as it was 2 weeks after the meltdown yet life is flourishing like mad. it's kinda like a sunburn it heals and your skin adapts. sometimes with darker pigment sometimes with cancer. same shit here. some weak die off most survive. look at the wolves or bison or other live if the radiation is as bad today as it was then why are they not all dead by now?

[@ewandougie]

+smokeyjayshouse Ever hear of the Red Forest? (A bit of woodland downwind of the power plant, it turned red and died a couple of days after the explosion). The horses were released artificially in the late 90s.

[@panzerwolf494]

+ewandougie This pretty much, except the forest was right next to the plant (between Pripyat and the NPP) and took the heaviest radiation. The rest pretty much went unscathed because it got less of a dose of fallout

[@FerretWranglerMan]

What a great video! It would be really cool if you could share your findings and contribute data to RadMon, a radiation monitoring site. Also do you think that the removal operation at Reactor 4 spent fuel cooling pond at Fukushima is as dangerous as is reported, or is it just anti-nuclear propaganda?

[@Rodderslithgow]

Yey.. I love your videos. It's my ambition to visit reactor 4 one day. You are a legend

[@absolutekold]

I would love it to see what the area looks like with the new "radiation camera" being developed at the University of Michigan. Bet it would make isolating fuel fragments easier. Keep up the good work!!

[@modalmixture]

I think your videos really help to demystify radiation and help people understand the true risks - thank you! One thing I still don't understand though is the effect of time. If ~150 mSv of full body equivalent dose is enough to increase your cancer risk, does it matter whether you receive that dose in one minute vs one day? And when you say the dose rate will "make you sick", are you talking about an increased lifetime cancer risk, or a more acute symptom?

[@bionerd23]

150 mSv acute dose would produce mild radiation sickness (acute); only visible in a small loss of blood cells, and likely no notable effects like e.g. recurrent infections (colds), but still - it's something one can measure. everything else is unknown at the moment, but there are different claims. i'm sure most people will agree out of intuition that i could smoke exactly one cigarette for every birthday without increasing my cancer risk. but how much could i smoke? one cigarette a month, even? or one cigarette a week? the exact threshold is unknown, and immune system and genes seem to matter more than the actual amount, anyway (hence why some people can smoke vigorously for 70 years and still not have cancer). but everybody agrees on e.g. a pack a day increasing your cancer risk for sure, even though it does not acutely "make you sick" in acute terms, e.g. if you did it just once in one day of your life. i assume the same for radiation. there may be even a beneficial dose (same as is e.g. assumed for alcohol), the term for that is hormesis - but i'm sure there's a certain threshold dose. and maybe for people with compromised immune systems, e.g. in HIV / AIDS or organ transplanted people, there's NO safe threshold.

[@gonzogb8778]

Doesn't matter if you received 115msv over the space of 5 minutes or 5 days, it's the same amount in the end.

[@downwithpotatoes6845]

@@gonzogb8778 If you got 2 sV of radiation in 10 seconds you'd die but over a lifetime it wouldn't be as bad because it had time to decay

[@rkan2]

Where did the fragment end up? Was it disposed in a "spent fuel" or "fission reaction by-products" recycle bin? :D

[@clovenbeast5183]

It was manufactured into a judge's throne

[@neilfrith7864]

Wow i love your channel! Very educational an interesting! Careful out there god bless.

[@ChumpyChicken2]

Dearest Bio nerd, thank you for you brave and interesting video's. Please be careful in the future so we can enjoy more from you.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

I'm glad these videos exist so that I can point people to them and say "Seeeeeee? If you actually understand how this stuff works, you needn't be super-afraid. Just don't eat it. And don't rub it on yourself."

[@kurtiskaskowski5386]

How far away from the actual reactor were you when you found these hot particles? I'm curious to see just how far they flew out of #4.

[@goldengooch1867]

Intersection shown at 5:04 is just under 1.5km from the reactor.

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

However, bionerd23 remarked in another comment thread further down: "the explosion was massive; however, the amount of soil moved (e.g. on the wheels of vehicles) was massive as well, so it's not certain that this particle was brought to its location by the initial reactor core explosion"

[@gammondog]

The techniques used to find the field particle are similar to what metal detector hunters use to find their sources. So you might find the tools they use to be useful in digging out field particles. A good hand spade will put more distance between you and the radiation source.

[@-yeme-]

Ive watched this vid a few times but never made the connection before. that discarded glove embedded in the antpile must mean someone found this hot spot in the past, likely put that glove on to poke around in the soil even though its a completely unsuitable type, and left it there afterwards because it was contaminated

[@Gbelske]

I'm guessing you gonna see a spike thanks to HBO. A lot of people are learning of one of the worst human fuck ups in history for the first time. I love your content very interesting.

[@infantjones]

A lot of people are learning completely false information about the worst nuclear disaster in history at that, like the claims that it could have made Europe uninhabitable, the "bridge of death" myth, or the "billions of bullets" nonsense. Funnily enough on the list of worst man-made disasters, Chernobyl is pretty low, though it would make the list as a pretty severe man-made disaster. Events like the Bhopal disaster were immensely worse, for example, but people have a hugely disproportionate fear of radiation that doesn't align with reality, and as such Chernobyl gets all the media attention.

[@manletopia4801]

@@infantjones yeah they are anoyying

[@GG-hk1fv]

@@infantjones At the time of the accident there was 190 tons of fuel with a total activity of up to ten billion curies in the reactor, if all this fuel had been released and distributed evenly over the entire surface of the globe, you could have contaminated 15 planets like planet earth at a level of one curie per square kilometer, and there were four such reactors, so yes Chernobyl could easily turn the entire Europe into a radioactive wasteland and not only it, so this is not a myth and not an exaggeration. Plus I would like to add that the so-called red forest in the first seconds after the explosion of the reactor absorbed most of the radioactive elements and received an incredible dose of radiation, thereby he saved people who were in Pripyat and all the surrounding settlements, if not this forest, all people who were under this cloud within a few minutes to a few hours or days inevitably would have died, and the exclusion zone would not be 30 km and several hundred...

[@teresashinkansen9402]

I hate it! also the idiots popularizing radiological accidents like the plainly difficult or Kyle Hill channels, Now is so hard to find good technical information about such things, its all the shit and misinformation parroted by those idiots.

[@adrienperie6119]

At first i thought the ring of dead grass around the anthill was caused by the radiation and started to do research on the kind of doses of gamma that would kill grass and the results were that you were completely insane and that your camera had a lead glass lens and lead shielding, then i came back to the video and saw the flipped tire... Also, how far from the reactor was this filmed ? It would be interesting if you could give an approximation of the distance to the reactor when you find a fuel fragment because you seem to find them "quite frequently" over a large area ? Thanks for the videos, its real nice to have them plus we get to have a women presenting it instead of you know, a bald bearded old men with (lead glass ?) glasses wearing a dirty shirt with a pen stuck in it and keeps repeating the same things :D

[@bionerd23]

i see youtube still hasnt implemented a function to view the recording location? damn, wonder why i keep geotagging the stuff. anyway, this particle is from the red forest. the explosion was massive; however, the amount of soil moved (e.g. on the wheels of vehicles) was massive as well, so it's not certain that this particle was brought to its location by the initial reactor core explosion.

[@ImJeff1965]

bionerd23 Thank for this post, i was wondering about that...

[@adrienperie6119]

bionerd23 Well it would be awesome if you could keep on geotagging the videos when you find one or even if it gives them to you the GPS coordinates as an annotation on the video, it would be fun to pin them on google earth. Again thanks for the video and good luck surviving the staggering amount of radiation you are exposed to, at least that's what some people in the comment seem to believe...

[@MrMCLXXV]

I have reviewed so many video series, I was so terribly interested in the research wali that I decided to subscribe to your channel. Immediately I express my gratitude for the work done. I would gladly take part in your expedition. At me the question arises, and unless at you sufficient protection from the received dose, it seems to me that there is a certain risk? It turns out that a piece of uranium, judging by the color, or maybe a piece of graphite masonry, was in an anthill? Alexander, Kiliya, Ukraine

[@LGascco]

Awesome...thank you so much for sharing!!! You rock!

[@Gyrxiur]

So, you are going to be Antwoman? With superpowers?

[@abartestate]

so where are you these days?

[@bobdefalco]

You already have superpowers - you are an awesome, badass girl!!

[@sark76]

If it is graphite, do you think it could have been tossed that far in the explosion (Pripyat sign area) or do you think it's more likely to have traveled there by means of something like the treads of a military vehicle?

[@spencerchilvers7756]

I am a total newbie to this... So this particle you found; is actually a fragment of reactor fuel? How did it end up here? Wind? The blast of the explosion? Is it actually from the core itself? Or Is it a bi-product formed after the incident?

[@szymon5438]

This is actual piece to The core. Explosion was so powerful that it blew up some fragments so high in to sky that they were found even in Poland I think.

[@bijeliput1]

Woman you are the best! Can you tell me what geiger counter is this black one that you have in your hand? I want the exact name and model. An this GAMMA-SCOUT. what model is that?

[@bionerd23]

bijeliput1 automess 6150 ad-6, gamma scout online

[@hjembrentkent6181]

+bionerd23 Yeah why do you have the AD-6? AD-5 has much bigger range

[@halesworth01]

Even so your posts are very interesting...going places others would not even dare!!!

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said radiation levels were over 1,000 millisieverts per hour at Reactor No. 2 and evacuated workers from the turbine building there. Japan’s nuclear safety agency has said that as emergency workers, they are allowed to be exposed to 250 millisieverts per year.

[@dalejones107]

That girl is crazy, I would run away from that stuff.

[@yves3560]

Why my dear american ?

[@CodGeronimo]

Berke Beenhouwer It would seem you really hate americans lmao

[@mangajo]

@@CodGeronimo he's projecting

[@chocomalk9801]

Madame Chernobyl.

[@mikesnitro]

Fun vid! Thanks again. Enjoy your work.

[@alegse]

This was probably already mentioned in the comments but I just wanted to say that I doubt that was a Na22 peak since it is a B+ emitter and you would see a bigger annihilation peak at 511 keV. Very nice spectra :D

[@GoldenTV3]

Those ants are in shock, they're delusional

[@adalgisounoqualunque9033]

get those ants to the infirmary

[@stereodreamer23]

Pretty, tech-savvy, smart, AND totally sterile. She's a real "dream girl"...

[@stevenking2980]

Good video. I have a cdv700 from the 70's. Works great but only goes up to 30,000 counts per minute. Would it work on that piece of graphite ? That's probably what it is, the fuel rods were tipped in graphite, and they caused the power surge that caused the lid to blow off ultimately...

[@jazzerbyte]

I wonder if the ants were attracted to the radiation in some way, just as the Raspberry Crazy Ants are attracted to electrical boxes in the US? Or did they simply prefer the soil type or the tire's shelter?

[@auzzierocks]

most radioactive thing ever, and you're not wearing suits. good luck with the poisoning

[@Flacksh0t]

these aren't strong maybe max is 60 minutes then you'll need to leave

[@auzzierocks]

Oh, that's OK then, what about alpha and beta?

[@benshin9871]

Mitchell Theobald alpha and beta radiation do not matter unless the alpha or beta emitter is ingested or inhaled. This is why she is only scared of gamma rays.

[@auzzierocks]

wow, they didn't teach me that in high school chemistry!

[@tomwilson3163]

Mitchell Theobald Its true, beta is mostly harmless but alpha can de-ionize the electrons inside your body, but cannot penetrate the skin. So is only dangerous when inhaled.

[@londones3]

No one: 1986: Chernobyl evacuated due to cancerous and deadly radioactivity. 2013: 3:42

[@Anti-proton]

Don't you hate vinyl gloves? Watching you fight with that glove reminds me why I hate vinyl. Also, I would suspect it would take more like about 10 hours of fully body exposure to make you sick. Likely, you got a long CT scan sort of dose. What sort of detector did you use for your spectrum? The resolution was really good. Portiere HPGe?

[@soviet_genetics]

this woman has balls. awesome videos, cool comments, nice pieace of equipment, much respect . give us moar ! :)

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

If she had balls she wouldnt be a woman bro

[@tswion]

SPOILER ALERT!! :: Researcher becomes Ant Woman in "Chernobyl 2014: Rise Of Gamma Ants"

[@alanfalleur6550]

Ant Woman saves Chernobyl! ᕦ( ◕‿◕)ᕤ ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

[@charlesneely]

lol

[@LCdrDerrick]

I've seen lots and lots of people hurting themselves, drinking to much alcohol, tortureing their bodies with Iron Man contests or just eating so much, that they end up as human balloons. I've also seen those, whose self-damaging behaviour is more obvious, brandings, piercings, implantings or just scars all over their arms due to cutting themselves. But your hobby is by far the most exotic and exclusive, the rarest kind of self-destruction i've seen so far. Ok, that guy who rummaged around in the dusty first day firemen gear without any respiratory protection was even weirder. You can find their boots and gear in the Pripyat hospitals basement (as a tip ;) ). A visit to the Mi26s turbines in Рассоха could also be very healthy and exhilarant excursion!

[@LCdrDerrick]

And don't instruct me that there is no harm. Everybody knows, that this fuel was from an RBMK. Isotopes like Leninium or the even worser Stalinium245 were breeded there. Just one single Molotowium isotopes decay emits three Gamma photons, each between 2,5 and 3,8 MeV. And don't complain about beeing untouched ants there. These are communists as everybody knows, the radiation avoids them. (And no, I'm not a Yank. I even hate that sort of Murika who provoked the former Soviets disgustingly and bombs itself around the world since that days. I love the eastern nations soul and culture lot)

[@chsxtian]

LCdrDerrick stalinium, leninium and molotowium. You've been reading too many cold war era science fiction novels.

[@LCdrDerrick]

***** Holy... Be careful Dude! Under cetain circumstances Obamamium decays to Wolfowitzium as Bushium decays to Rumsfeldium. May God have mercy on you, if this happens!

[@keegangidley2071]

The good thing is that she enjoys doing this

[@0error.389]

LCdrDerrick ok I'm pretty sure this is a joke, but none of the isotopes you listed are on the periodic table. Also, Stalinium? Really? The isotopes there are most likely Cesium-137, Strontium-90, uranium-235/238, and Europium, as well as small amounts of other isotopes. If it is a joke, thanks for the laugh. If not, do your research before making these stupid comments.

[@KeepCalmAndFap]

R.I.P. bionerd23 You're video's are awesome, and if have learned alot!

[@ProEnterTeam]

wait she death?

[@magicstix0r]

***** Hit by a bus. Ironic, isn't it, given how everyone on KZbin said she'd die of cancer and glow in the dark?

[@pinkflod768]

This is really kick ass stuff, Keep it up.

[@STriderFIN77]

Its been year, do you have your super power now?

[@mottefriedamann2293]

Wonder if she is alive anymore

[@Bakanelli]

Does anyone know what is with her as of May 2019?

[@KirkHermary]

Some people think touching a small piece of radioactive material or eating apples down the road from Chernobyl will instantly kill you. My guess is she's just fine doing radioactive experiments in a lab. Who knows, maybe she's not posting anything for a bit to mess with the sheeple.

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

As of Nov 2020 she is "Taking a break from online stalkers" according to Carl Willis

[@michaelexman5474]

As an alternative could you use a strip of the good old 3M scotch table; lift of a layer of graphene and check to see if the neutron absorbing material has been impregnated by the nuclear fuel.

[@XxtamedabeastXx]

This is because they are digging up soil that is about 1-5 meters deep - this soil was most likely closer to the surface or even the surface soil decades ago when the reactor blew up.