the highly radioactive Chernobyl graphite crane claw and hot particles

this temporal contaminated vehicle storage site is located just to the southwest of Pripyat. most of the vehicles have been transferred to proper radioactive waste storage years ago, but some objects still remain - including pieces of the reactor's inventory, Chernobyl's nuclear fuel & graphite hot particles.

[@doz3r943]

Its radioactive....let's get closer!

[@yalijin3020]

Better yet man! Pick up that part of machinery that actually lifted lethal radioactive graphite and still covered in hot dirt, and ignore that silly counter that screams "GTFO from here, stalker!".

[@doz3r943]

@@yalijin3020 they just happen to inhale one hot particle its over

[@ukaszw6623]

Its not that radioactive as You think, apart from that her dosimeter is cheap charlie shit its not that high. Her dosimeter is in micro siverts which is 10^-6 and you get 1 micro sivert radiation just for eating banana so if its not much. 100 micro siverts for chest xray, 5800 micro siverts for tomography of chest. So yes, she can get closer and even touch IT because You absorb more radiation just by flying from LA to NY than she did.

[@InfidelAtWork]

@@ukaszw6623 widzę, że przeglądało się wikipedię ;)

[@ukaszw6623]

@@InfidelAtWork ano

[@187SicknesS]

Even your watch was like, "whoa, comrade"

[@Lordosvk]

Not Great, Not terrible :D

[@nocalsteve]

Of course it’s saying that, it doesn’t know we’re running a test.

[@elizabethfigueroa6159]

Omg 😂

[@hailicwot7402]

Comrade, but Illegal

[@EinkOLED]

She visits that place every few years. Look at her videos.

[@OneManArmy1973]

« All those scattered objects are highly contaminated » … immediately starts picking them up by hand.

[@unhappyattendantughh2469]

She’s fine. It’s only a few months worth of background radiation. She prob got about the same if she took a plane there

[@timothyjamessacay9897]

Russians...

[@unhappyattendantughh2469]

Napoleon Bonaparte NO

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

Unhappy Attendant Ughh unless you pick up dust and put your hand to your face. Alpha radiation will harm you from inside 🙈

[@ryanhampson673]

Alpha is the weakest unless you breath or ingest any, then it is the most destructive.

[@leokrupp4442]

Touch *E V E R Y T H I N G ! ! ! ! ! !*

[@alancoker1459]

Yea. Really😒

[@ElectrofizzStudiosCo]

@Superpureeliteful iodine tablets are to my understanding only useful for a short period after the disaster, not useful today in the zone

[@doomsdoor]

@Superpureeliteful iodine 131 has a half life of 8 days, so the pills would be almost useless here after decades of decay

[@MsDragonfire1992]

@Superpureeliteful iodine tablets only work for ionized radiation in the air which you breath in so only during the time of the disaster

[@MsDragonfire1992]

@@ElectrofizzStudiosCo yes they only work for ionized radiation that's in the air not a contaminated object you may touch.

[@robseven4517]

I feel contaminated just watching it.

[@daveg5520]

Hilarious... thanks

[@jameshoyt75]

I am

[@TheBetito123]

Can you imagine if radiation were to contaminate you through the sound waves patterns that the radmeter makes?

[@SupraMsR]

yeah! O.o

[@baddadan22]

Me too

[@bravemusic5090]

2:37 About 3000 times the normal background radiation. Not great, not terrible..

[@samuellicea7152]

BraveMusic 😂😂bro that had me dead

[@sarveshsingh3592]

Yaa it's just three thousand bananas eaten at a time..

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

BraveMusic just another chest X-ray 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@aussiegod4269]

The screaming Geiger counter would say otherwise

[@paperfox5292]

woof...

[@blumenthal7528]

find a graphite piece on the ground. "ohoho. what's this?" then pick it up and sniff it. "smells like metal." dies.

[@MsDragonfire1992]

That's not graphite. Graphite is black and looks more like stone.

[@markperacullo7541]

Burn his hand and then DIES

[@indridcold8433]

We all have to die someday. You might as well get it out of the way.

[@BozonCechowania]

they really act foolish...

[@indridcold8433]

@@BozonCechowania Perhaps they have lost the desire to live much longer. There are many that have lost that desire after the many years of lies, oppression, dispare, and sadness. Many of us, indeed, have lost the desire to live.

[@daviddickey9832]

>Detector whites out from an high energy gamma radiation source >Goes in to touch it I too like to live dangerously.

[@istvanpeterporkolab7918]

Anyone on planet Earth: nobody's that brave to dig in Chernobyl Her: hold my dosimeter

[@justanothertroll9205]

You mean : nobody is stupid enough...

[@indridcold8433]

What is The worse that can happen? It is not as if you are not going to die anyway. You might as well take your only true destiny into your hands. I have a great exit out of here planned. The preparation are almost complete. When the preparations are complete, all I have to do is wait for the timing. You only die once. You might as well have full control of your death. Why rot away on a hospital bed, lining a corrupt doctor's pockets? I will be checking out of my own accord, when I want to. Maybe the woman feels the same way. Take your own death into your own hands. It is your death. Do not die the way others want you do die. Die they way you want.

[@rot_studios]

@@indridcold8433 Except.. radiation poisoning is exactly that... rotting away on an hospital bed. Oops. Not to mention cancer and leukemia aren't much better. But that being said, the radiation is -probably- (?) not high enough to cause that much damage in such a short period.

[@indridcold8433]

@@rot_studiosIt is a grotesque death indeed. But it is her life to do with what she pleases. At least a lethal dose of radiation will not take months, or years, to finish you like a geriatric related cause.

[@jadem694]

@@justanothertroll9205 she knows what she's doing. Most of particles she's dealing with would have to ingested to cause harm.

[@everythingiskaos14]

HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE CLAW. Proceeds to put hand next to it without protection

[@oskich]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWm1pmywgJmdgNE

[@thekiddler26]

Oskar Strandman HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@petchard]

As a former Naval Nuclear Engineer I just have one question. Why for Gods sake are you not wearing protective gloves, and why would you touch a source that hot, with bare hands?

[@architsharma2877]

Russians ☺

[@haku2795]

shes german

[@Landie_Man]

petchard it's amazing place to visit but take care and precautions. I didn't dig around here like this but if she wants to then she does I suppose.

[@osmarbatalha6831]

petchard exactly, very irresponsible for her part.

[@snoozinghipo]

We need to be thankful she didn't lick the claw or something!

[@MrtHazza]

You didn’t see graphite on the ground. You didn’t! It’s not there. The core is fine.

[@herkiee1]

Stfu already

[@onefastslimjim]

@Heno he's delusional, GET HIM TO THE INFIRMARY

[@indridcold8433]

You will go outside and look into the reactor and tell me what you see.

[@bboy1613]

lmao

[@coupa10]

Ya Boi Slim I love how you answered him with exact thing he was angry at, like it’s best way to show him that you simply don’t give a flying fuck 😂

[@kimjongun9915]

The sound from those sievert (Sv) gadgets would kill me before the radiation does.

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

Of course Mr. Un.

[@rhaellatargaryen5654]

I like the sound the Geiger counters make. I know that's very strange but the clicking of it relaxes me. If only I could find a 10 hour long KZbin video of that sound, I might actually sleep better at night

[@MicroageHD]

Geiger Müller Zählrohr!

[@defies4626]

Well, yes, that's the idea.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

@@rhaellatargaryen5654 Me too. The phenomenon is actually called ASMR, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Lots of videos exist just to trigger this feeling of relaxation and/or tingles along the scalp and neck. I find the clicking to be very relaxing. You might like the "hospital basement" videos of people using counters, as well. Those are my favorite.

[@divyanshkaundal5634]

Comrade Bionerd next video exploring elephant's foot

[@bentos117]

yup, elephant foot needs a hug

[@mehanikal5639]

I wouldn't be suprised if she touches it.

[@killaproject844]

she took home a elephant toenail

[@joemama-mk4zz]

last to get of the elephant foot wins a extra arm

[@L3go_Man87]

@@joemama-mk4zz 😂😂😂

[@insaneplanespotting6919]

Nobody: This person: It’s radioactive, let’s touch it

[@TURBOWILEY]

I'll take a pass on this hobby.

[@Landie_Man]

TURBOWILEY Pripyat is an amazing place just spend a short time there and don't dig around like this (if you needn't)

[@Mateyhv1]

LOOOOOOOL!!!

[@Mineav]

Racist against radiation, huh? I bet you hate all Muslims, too. People like you make me sick. OPEN THE BORDERS!

[@liztaylor3825]

Mineav Does your house have locks on the doors?

[@kirilbellic3602]

@@Mineav oy vey

[@thenasiudk1337]

It's radioactive... Let's touch it!

[@oskich]

...or get inside, like this Swedish TV host: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWm1pmywgJmdgNE

[@JasuTheSnipe]

My ears...

[@tally9542]

JasuTheSnipe Ah tinnitus, we meet again.

[@erikjohnson8971]

JasuTheSnipe My ears and my speakers. I had to mute it and turn on the captions on and then the captions weren't always translating the right thing and were coming out with something completely different on some words.

[@erikjohnson8971]

I also remember watching some picture slide show of user name "Kid of Speed". It was about a woman that would take her Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, riding through all the ghost towns and up to the reactor site and documenting the habitat and the decay of the buildings and interviewing towns people who had generations of families who still live in the area who are refusing to leave. There was another video of the children of Chernobyl that grew up to have kids of their own and their children were sadly and grossly disfigured. Of all the break through with all the science, I truly wish humans could come up with a way to solve a nuclear wasteland disaster like this. They weren't the greatest of people to trust at the time with the Cold War, but they didn't deserve to go through an experience of that nature. No one does. My thoughts and prayers for everyone over there from back then to now and to the future generations to endure the mistakes from the catstrophe.

[@fluffyluke9174]

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...... bep bebebebeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..

[@indridcold8433]

Her hands!

[@connorharkness4687]

RIP headphone users :D

[@350ZEASZE]

huh what did you say

[@mindless6639]

😇😇😇😁😁😳😳

[@wrongwayup.]

I've literally watched all of the videos on your channel. It's incredibly interesting. Not only the radiation aspect, but also the exploration part. Keep it up!

[@MrZhampi]

"That beeping is my watch, that's warning me of high level radiation" *Stays there, without protection* Omg

[@ukaszw6623]

Her dosimeter is in micro siverts You get 0,10 micro sivert radiation just for eating banana or sleeping next to other person. Its not that actually high, those hot places are nothing comparing to 30 yr ago, it is very low now and not dangerous. 40 micro siverts You get during flight from LA to NY.

[@MrZhampi]

@@ukaszw6623 I know, I watched the Veritasium video too 😁 I just find it funny considering everything else that she's touching and examining with her bare hands and in some case even clearing her nose right after that 😆

[@ukaszw6623]

@@MrZhampi yea that is quite stupid also touching objects with Geiger meter is not smart because You contaminate it and later on you get wrong figures

[@Ziaurelijus]

but she said its 7000+ and few times mentioning 3000background radiotion im not smart but its in thousands more then daily or im wrong?

[@jorgepeterbarton]

@@ukaszw6623 the main worry would be ingesting something i guess... Can alpha not be more damaging in this way, no?

[@BaSiC47]

I wouldn't want to shake your hand

[@MrJD2you]

BaSiC47 id tap that ass though!!

[@GauravSanjeevkumarBhardwaj1220]

@@MrJD2you for fucks sake

[@GigaNiga7]

That radiation meter device sound still haunts me after seeing Chernobyl series

[@corettaha7855]

HollowBoy yeah, the beeps weren’t that fast in the series and everybody died. I guess she’s decided to martyr herself for science like madame curie, so it’s ok. But still. She’s not really blazing a new trail, just following behind others killing herself all over the place. Of course it’s also possible we have been misled about the comic books like effects of high radiation. Maybe it’s no big deal.

[@chamonix4658]

@@corettaha7855 shes not getting a deadly dose

[@avenged06x]

Absolutely love your videos Bionerd! Please keep up the good work.

[@bionerd23]

+TelclivoGaming HD i just drove over that when going into pripyat. it's nothing special nowadays... just a bridge where you can see the reactor from in the distance. it's located in the most contaminated grounds around the red forest, but none of those are dangerous today, especially not for short durations (hours), though it'd not be advisable to live there for good.

[@grettagrids]

+bionerd23 so if a person were to have " routine" xrays and CT scans to monitor a degenrative conditon.. is there a good chance they'd get cancer? I've had dyes that would set off a geiger counter.

[@grettagrids]

+grettagrids pretty scary when one of those dyes ( for a heart test and thyroid) was brought to me carried in a vessel to contain its radiaton... rally I should prob have refused right then and there. What I have cant be cured anyhow. interestingly enough.. I was sweating sweat that looked like antifreeze and told NOT to handle small children or a chronically ill person.. I believe they used Techmium ( SP?)

[@extracoolboy]

+grettagrids She made video about technecium before and also had thyroid scanned. Go check it out.

[@Xezlec]

+grettagrids A lot of things are shielded because of the risk of long-term exposure, not short-term exposure. Think about it: if you worked near something unshielded for a few years, that could be 100,000 times the exposure you'd get from one second. That's why they store radioactive things in a special vessel. As for whether there's a good chance you'll get cancer, do you really think a doctor would deliberately do something that would have a good chance of giving you cancer? Wikipedia says a barium meal (was that what you got?) gives you 0.002 to 0.007 Sv of exposure. That's a lot compared to normal background radiation, but keep it in perspective: 1 Sv is only enough to give you about a 5% cancer risk, and a barium meal is only a tiny fraction of that.

[@SUZERO-qe6ni]

are you died

[@conorohare1573]

Bare hands and right beside a high radioactive objects been nice knowing u m8

[@jeanswinter679]

2:39 I don't really understand how the tool works.. but I'm pretty sure if the beeping sound sounds like that it means "get tf outta here man, don't touch anything, just go" But hey, you touch everything, now u gotta throw away your whole hands now, can't bring them home.

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

Correct, you don't really understand how the tool works :-)

[@Iffy350]

To quote Paris Hilton, “That’s hot!”

[@indridcold8433]

Is that the guy that eloped with Helen the Queen of Sparta, causing the Trojan war, and later killing Achilles? That guy only thought of himself.

[@tlg-]

yesssssssss comment WIN

[@lepeejon2955]

Meanwhile the geiger counter is trying to tell you to get the hell out.

[@Tmp866]

They probably have it set on the lowest setting for drama. If anything Uranium doesn't emit gamma radiation. And all the beta radiation is long gone. All they are picking up is alpha particle which with a gas mask you should be fine because alpha particles can't penetrate skin

[@WineScrounger]

It’s given up warning them, by now it’s just screaming for its own sake.

[@jery14]

"CANCER SEEKERS" What is wrong with this people? There is a good reason why the place and all the equipment used has been abandoned.

[@douvers89]

I'll bet you that her hands glows in the dark

[@i556xx4]

Can't believe your getting that close, you could be causing dna dmg that takes years to manifest .

[@ukaszw6623]

I guess You have no idea idea about the scale, IT is micro siverts 10^-6 which actually 1 sivert is dangerous to humans, those hot places are actually nothing, less then roentgen xray

[@i556xx4]

@@ukaszw6623 no need for extra x-ray, it may not cause dmg right away, but your cells will def be excited, it's more about the compound affect of so many diff radiations and limiting any unnecessary radiation.

[@ukaszw6623]

@@i556xx4 anyway it doesnt matter, you absorb more radiation during flight from LA to NY, You get 5800 micro siverts during tomography, 1 micro sivert just for eating banana. Its pretty normal, not harmful apart of that she Has some cheap charlie dosimeter and Has no idea how to use it in proper way.

[@i556xx4]

@@ukaszw6623 true, where I live the cancer rate is 62% higher then the state avg, which is higher then the national avg depending on what type, so I try to minimize my exposure.

[@corettaha7855]

i556 if it takes like 100 years to manifest it’s fine right?

[@313matze]

2:19 I think when your Geiger counter turns to a sine wave generator, you should consider to get the hell away from that object :D

[@goldnopportunity]

*gets cancer in 5 years* Her: hmMmM I wonDEr HoW ThiS HApPenEd

[@zaphodbeeblebrox2981]

Must be from the one cigarette I smoked as a child 😱

[@octaviani5397]

Yeah she is dumb af. Exclusion zone is called like that for a reason BuT HeY IT MuSt bE pRoPaGaNdA

[@goldnopportunity]

Octavian I it’s not even the fact she’s in the exclusion zone, you can tour there for a specific amount of time. It’s the fact that her dumbass kept touching everything with her hand

[@aliciag9874]

Alpha radiation (what she picked up) can’t penetrate skin like gamma radiation. She’s fine. I bet she’s not much more irradiated than nuclear plant employees.

[@alexmichaels1633]

I love this channel it's amazing how you have gone nowhere anyone else can and my God my ears sometimes with that Geiger counter

[@goldnopportunity]

It’s just the feedwater, mild contamination. The cores fine

[@qbasic16]

There is no core!

[@goldnopportunity]

qbasic16 he’s delusional get him out of here

[@pawnstar365]

​@@goldnopportunity toptanov take him!

[@georgewood00]

I genuinely can’t tell when she says “not bad” whether she’s sort of impressed at how radioactive it is or if it’s because it’s safe... terrifying

[@Coolkeys2009]

To think one tiny microscopic particle can emit so much radiation and you have many tons of fuel inside an an large nuclear reactor.

[@GoddardsJournal]

Gives an idea how being close to tons of fuel can be lethal.

[@Coolkeys2009]

GoddardsJournal Being close to tons of fuel would probably result in you bursting into to flames or melting into a pile of goop. But it's the thought of the havoc just one of those microscopic particles could do if it got inside your body that's scary to me.

[@mrbeast85]

Coolkeys2009 Nothing so dramatic or merciful as immolation or melting I'm afraid. Acute radiation poisoning is a drawn out, miserable death, as your body gradually shuts down, your organs start to fail and necrosis begins to take effect. The two apprentice technicians that where sent down to inspect the state of the core at Chernobyl, just minutes after the explosion inadvertantly wound up looking directly into the still glowing exposed heart of the shattered reactor, with its tons of fuel rods and irradiated graphite. The levels of radiation were that high in the reactor hall, that if you were to stand there for literally a couple of seconds you would receive multiple times the lethal dose of radiation. The two chaps died several days later.

[@Coolkeys2009]

mrbeast85 I wasn't that serious but I actually meant standing a few centimetres away from the core of an operating reactor if it were possible. Seeing as the purpose of those reactors is to generate a huge amount of heat(electricity generation) you would definitely burn. Anyway I was going to ask a question about the levels of radiation at the core of a large reactor and the effect it would have on a human body, but that's a horrible thing to even think about.

[@bionerd23]

Coolkeys2009 while you could stand next to a FRESH reactor core with all its uranium fuel, you'd pretty much instantaneously die if you were to stand next to ONE SINGLE spent fuel channel. in a nuclear reactor, the long-lived uranium is split into very short-lived, highly radioactive fission products which would deliver a fatal radiation dose within seconds. a spent fuel rod is SO radioactive, the decay heat can quickly melt the entire fuel rod for years to come, hence why it has to be stored underwater in a spent fuel pool, where you will see it glowing blue from Cerenkov radiation - the radiation that is produced when INSANELY HUGE amounts of particles (beta radiation) travel through water (at speeds greater than the phase velocity of light). it's pretty much SO radioactive, you can see it glow, even without an active nuclear reaction (self sustaining fission reaction) going on inside it. so yeah, you can juggle with balls of pure fresh reactor fuel and walk away unharmed (in theory - but those will be heavy as fuck, about 5 kilograms for a tennis-ball sized uranium piece), but a spent fuel rod from up close would be the last thing you'd see in your life.

[@KevinRenfrow]

Another great video from your travels in 'the zone.' =)

[@FilippoSolari]

For those of you worried being so close to the claw without protection, it should be noticed that the dose is way under 70 uSv/h and reaches 360 uSv/h only in direct contact with the inside. The threshold of risk is 100 mSv, that means you should stay on the inside of the claw for 11 days to collect a dose that reaches the minimum risk. When you walk away from the claw, the radiation go down to normal levels too, you're not contaminated unless you lick the claw itself.

[@lboyadgiev8820]

I know this a year old comment but: Radiation exposure tests have shown that Cancer risks alone increase at 20-50 mSv. Not to menthion Hashimoto or other thyroid conditions. And Alpha radiation can be inhaled and stick into your body. And 100 mSv is the limit for recomended workers for 5 years. And she stuck her head into the Claw (4:56) there's no way in hell or anyother place that she didn't breath in at least a *bit* of the Alpha radiation. Not to mention this dosimeter probobly mainly detecects Gamma, rather then Alpha radiation. Which is considerably more dangerious. As Gamma is just a bullet it passes through and you don't have to worry so long as you limit exposure rates. While if you breath in Alpha or injest it you are gonna be facing down at least like 50 micros for the rest of your life in your lungs. Even at 5 Micros per hour in your lungs or other places: You have 43829.06385 Micros per year. Keep in mind: Anual radiation limit for any organ is 500000 micros per year by Stanford University. Now for members of the public (by Stanford university) the limit is a mere 1000 micros per year. You are facing that by 43.82906385 times that. Not to mention that is a absurd low ball as she is traveling almost daily to Chernobyl and this is assuming the just got a small sniff of the radiation and got only 5 micros she is still facing down 43 times the annual radiation limit. I know this is a old comment but the information here dosen't take into account Alpha or other factors. Realistically speaking she more then lickly got a whiff of anywere from 40-300 micros from the Claw alone. Now strech it over here other adventures in the exclusion zone where she had no protection and it's reasonable to say she has ingested at least 500 micros per hour in her lungs alone. (4382906.385 micros per year or 4382.9 mSv or a whopping 4 sieverts per year) So no. This not safe at any level. Nor is responsible to be digging through it with your bare hands. Not to mention if she touched her face at all (woulden't be suprised if she scrached her face or did something to her face like even just getting her hand near her face and contaminated her face with it) TLDR: She isen't bein responsible nor is this safe. She is putting her own health and life in danger. Sure the Claw ain't beaming 50 sieverts now. But Alpha radiation and leng term health problems are not something I would be playing with. If you go to Chernobyl wear a mask to cover your nose and don't touch your face untill you wash your hands.

[@kutzbill]

It's a real sad place to me. So many good people died saving others.

[@P4n3K]

so many lied people died there ... all those who came at first, firefighters, soldiers, at the beggining they had no idea about situation. And like allways Russia is saying ,,no, it was not our foult" ... they even didn't alert other countries ... like allways.. even if you cauht their hand making dirty things they would look into your eyes and say ,,it is not our hand"

[@gladitsnotme]

Dammmmnn this chick must take an entire bottle of Vitamin E every day

[@GHound420]

She didn’t even get a yearly dose you dumbass

[@TehGuard]

@Roland Waites where did u see lethal dose? 100 microsievert/h?

[@MakerInMotion]

@Roland Waites People still work and sleep in the exclusion zone on the long process of cleanup and de-commision of the plant and they're fine. She may get short spikes in exposure, but then she leaves.

[@jasonfuller2734]

Nah. No worries! She is just messing around near Chernobyl. Listen to these experts in just this thread. Right as rain she is.

[@sarveshsingh3592]

MakerInMotion 7

[@johnfineberg2112]

Another brilliant video thanks so much cheers J

[@bob1784free]

Can't believe she is touching this stuff with her hands

[@DehaMkc]

Go into the reaktor.4 to go for sure! And taste the radioactive uranium fuel rod as well!

[@REDPOWERable]

Suka Blyat is really the expression for this kind of situation.

[@Arnhemer]

Cyka blyat that is comrad.

[@bakabaka2061]

I would like to know what you were using as a source to calibrate from the ambient radiation. You could have the counter set at 1x MREM and still go off like mad at everything just for the show.

[@mclaine33]

Is this person crazy? That crane claw didn’t just “pick up debris” during the early days of the accident. It literally was used to pick up chunks of graphite that spewed out from the core. And why the hell did they touch that!!! The dosimeter was off the chart!!

[@snapyoco3600]

"The highly radioactive Chernobyl graphite crane claw and hot particules" that I'm touching just to check if they are really highly radioactive

[@mkorn3492]

01:45 She touches radioactive rocks with naked hands....TAKE HER TO THE INFIRMARY

[@johnchef1195]

Ειναι ηληθια θα ειναι νεκρη τωρα

[@dumitrudaniel93]

I realy admire your work and your courage! You are briliant!

[@melancholic95]

I bet you won't lick the crane claw.

[@GrnArrow092]

It's amazing that a little particle the size of a grain of sand can be so highly radioactive. It was amazing to see the gamma scout reach over 700 microseverts on that one little spot. Could this be another piece of nuclear fuel ejected from the reactor when it exploded in 1986?

[@bionerd23]

GrnArrow092 yeah, there's lots of those things around. i literally found dozens...kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJzKZamMjrCWb5I

[@tyler2k523]

it is most likely prices that are from the claw or cleanup, they were extremely sloppy with the cleanup and aftermath, leaving these machines and tools scattered everywhere in these towns

[@Aussie50]

that claw would make a nice garden ornament :D, the counter makes it sound more radioactive than it really is, but I would not want to be exposed to it for too long regardless.

[@chriscameron4618]

"The counter makes it sound more radioactive than it really is". You make it sound more trivial than it really is!! IT'S NOT A JOKE!!!

[@rickybobby6994]

LOL. It is a joke. 3,000 times normal background radiation is what you get in two days by holding the particle for one minute. That, and it's mostly alpha, which can't penetrate the outer skin. Ingesting or breathing the particle in is dangerous, as it's now emitting radiation inside the body. Google is your friend.

[@DeamonSlayer13]

Sitting in the claw is bad, around 5 mins of exposure leads to nausea and sickness.

[@bnferguson9827]

Your playing russian roulette not good my friend!

[@jasonfuller2734]

Don’t sweat it. Listen to nuclear physicist Ricky Bobby here. Lick that crane if you want. Just a couple of chest X-Rays is all.

[@alfaradiation]

I would really like to see you with a portable gamma spectrometer there, yes Strontium, Cesium and some other, but nonetheless. Oh and that experiment with the tissue was very interesting, good thinking.

[@carolineblakevernarelli6534]

Her: Super high levels or radiation? Let me touch it without proper safety gear

[@MrRobbieG88]

The word is she doesn't believe reactor RBMK-1000 disintegrated and her equipment is miscalibrated.

[@animejs7301]

Who is here after watching HBO serial

[@brenmc5103]

Agreed

[@CyberspacedLoner]

also watched Atomic Homefront from HBO

[@Em50Lloyd]

It is starting to be anoying. Shut up with that. You are sheep just like the milions of others.

[@mikeu.s.n.9099]

@@Em50Lloyd your delusional. Take him to the infirmary.

[@Em50Lloyd]

@@mikeu.s.n.9099 Okay, just repeat that line which i heard milion times, noob. Do you have small brain capacity to think about something new? Get lost.

[@sohamsen36]

Equivalent Of 4 Chest X-Rays 🙂 Nothing to worry

[@AkadeProductions]

If your late for a check up well...

[@qbasic16]

But can you taste the metal?

[@iamnotanuggetblackhart5103]

Not great but not bad....

[@dennisn1672]

hey girl. eat some of the grass. You'll be ok.

[@indridcold8433]

It depends, skunk is really nasty stuff. Buddah and Purple Passion is nice and smooth.

[@adamcheng2954]

Highly raidioactive... *touches with hand*

[@blackie126]

Damn, I didnt know watching an HBO show while sitting on your couch made you an even more experienced expert than a nuclear engineer! Oh wait...

[@janosnagy4483]

Does anyone know why did they left the claw on the site? They have burried basically everything but left the claw there. It seems very strange.

[@privatear2001]

Was that a homemade apparatus your friend was using (ie the tube and mounted detector) or off-the-shelf? Was the detector a scintillation crystal or a pancake GM tube? And what was the counter? In some places, it seemed the device he was using was much less sensitive than the GM (judging by the clicks). Was this because the GM was detecting α, β, and γ, while the other one was just detecting γ? Anyway, thanks for taking a surface sample of the crane dust and testing it. I wanted to see that last time. I always wondered if the radiation were just on the dust on the metal, adhered to the surface of the metal, or penetrated several millimetres thick into the metal surface. And what was the mechanism by which it accomplished this. Wouldn't it be interesting if you could merely clean a spot with a detergent of some kind, go back over it again with the detector and see a significant decrease in that spot's radioactivity.

[@bigglesmcg]

Geiger counter crackles away - flips bits away with bare hand.... 😑

[@TehGuard]

This whole video is a joke. 100 microsievert in an hour on "hot" claw? Safety limit is 20 mSv in most of the nuclear-related jobs, so you can sit next to that "hot" thing for 200 hours, and you'd reach the annual limit.

[@TehGuard]

edit okay highest I saw was 350 uSv/h, which makes it 60 hours. And ppl are flipping over 10 mins?

[@Radiozo]

Yeah. Most people skipped physics in school it seems. Its not dangerous at all at these lvls.

[@carlsworth]

TehGuard was the scale in mSv or uSv? I couldn’t tell. If it was uSv then yeah, 350 is about the same as a mammogram.

[@TehGuard]

@@carlsworth it is microsievert per hour (uSv/h) in the gamma meter

[@funshootin1]

fascinating stuff all that energy in such a tiny area.. I would like to see a explanation video for us laymen. .micro sieverts, rads , ect.. the radiation output /doseage nomenclature is a bit confusing .

[@gwiazdapioun2127]

According to our guide*, the claw was used to move and bury fragments of vehicles from the scrapyards, and it absorbed the contamination by rubbing off the surface layers from them (paint, metal etc.) *our trip was scheduled for November 12th 2016, and just before it we received an e-mail we won't visit the power plant itself because they were starting to move NSC towards reactor no. 4. Bummer.

[@camtv2732]

2:35 *ABOUT 3000 TIMES NORMAL RADIATION* not too bad comrade

[@laurentiu.panait2536]

Not great

[@HiwasseeRiver]

Ouch - that was painful to watch.

[@Fox8ball.]

Love these videos

[@cri24x36]

I would be jumping in the car... It's scary and dangerous out there... Great video as usual

[@samuelcuenca9183]

You dont have fear of radiation? I´m wathing the video, and I´m scared, you are brave. I like your videos so much, in one future I want go to Pripyat.

[@KentReynolds]

Fascinating but the maker of this video must be insane to be handling the stuff with her bare hands? !!!

[@pokiparkassistent]

Kent Reynolds why? It dosent matter. The Alpha radiation dont penetrate and the beta and gamma radiation go trough any Glove

[@TehGuard]

@@pokiparkassistent Beta doesn't go thru thick glove. But it doesn't matter, as mostly you should be concerned about gamma, and that's low there.

[@YummehPyroFlakes]

Cooles Video :) Ist das eigentlich dein Job? Wenn ja von wem wurdest du engagiert? , was ist deine Mission?

[@rika6514]

Das tut mir sehr leid aber i glaube, ihre Mission ist SelbstMord :(

[@Akeldama9]

I'm glad these ladies have mastered the art of sarcasm!

[@telclivo7945]

Have you ever planned or wanted to go to the "Bridge of Death"? This was the bridge which a lot of locals went to see the reactor spewing out a myriad of colored flames. Unfortunately for them the radiation levels spiked to deadly amounts and almost all of the people died there.Or is that still off limits?

[@gazmj1400]

Telclivo what the hell are you on about , bridge of death no such thing , the poor locals didn't even know what was going on , take your filthy lies and jog on 😠

[@cokeforever]

Telclivo that's bs propaganda... Most of those people lived to their natural death of age or are alive now. Governments are always interested to limit you by instilling fear in you.

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

Most of the people who were around the Chernobyl disaster are now dead but that's just because they are Ukrainians. People in their 30s look at least 60.

[@cokeforever]

@@MilwaukeeF40C says who?))) have you seen a typical north-american at the age of 30?)) bald impedent alcoholic with an agenda)))

[@SunriseFestival]

From the feed water i assume

[@KroniklyStoned]

As legend has it, her left hand is now a glowing green lobster claw.

[@QuaabQueb]

Is all that exposure not bad for you? Also what is the model of your watch? Very interesting device

[@bionerd23]

Video Québec it's a POLIMASTER, you can easily find that on google, they have multiple watches. :)

[@chriscameron4618]

@Chargero Yes! It's like walking through a minefield wearing slippers! These people are freaking reckless!

[@BatAtTarkov]

Chris Cameron Well honestly, there are no shoes that can really help if you step on a mine. So slippers in a minefield aren't inherently stupid

[@KobeMonster007]

Thank you enjoyed watching.

[@matthewblalock4916]

Since you're into radioactive material and just radiation in general have you ever played fallout 4?

[@TheRealSkeletor]

Why 4 specifically? Almost all the Fallout games are fantastic.

[@Zeyervv]

@Bionerd23 will you visit inside of the ChNPP? And if you do will you post a video about it?

[@katedunno1230]

I have one question why are you handling this stuff with bare hands ??. Shouldn't you have some type of protection on??

[@frmol1]

i rather dig up mines then this..

[@richardfreeman724]

fr tho

[@PAhmad99]

Who's here after watching Chernobyl?

[@jimmydoin6594]

Yes

[@thetinfoiltricorn7797]

are they doing any experiments with nuclear spalliation or transmutation to effectively beam the activated particles out of waste materials?

[@de0ndre]

sheesh, I hope the guy that climbed in that thing is OK and decontaminated right after. That's nuts!

[@grrad76]

And why u removed the soil cover ??? Now can any wind carry these contaminated soil to other places 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ plz go play somewhere else but not here

[@Khorzho]

Gamma Scout alarms startle my co-workers ;-) I work around computers, and they start asking... "what's that noise?"... "do you hear that?" And that's with headphones on... 8D.

[@bionerd23]

Khorzho lmao sorry about that, i guess i should edit those audio tracks to -10dB or somebody will sue me for hearing loss at some point... o_O

[@Khorzho]

Oh... no... I didn't mean to convey dislike... don't edit a thing! It wouldn't be a bionerd23 video without the screams of your Gamma Scout. It commands an ominous respect for what you're working around. Even if the inverse-square law means its not all that scary. It gives your videos that "raw" feel that is so interesting.

[@lonw.7016]

You were checking out something with your gamma detector and the sunlight hit your hand. lol... said to myself for just a second... dang that girls hand is starting to glow!!

[@gpowerdragon9852]

wait a minute where the do you find a watch like that its counting from nuclear energy by the way I I sit in Holland maybe you got an idea for kind of web shop. I need to find

[@johngalaxy4290]

Bionerd23, I have to say I do enjoy watching your videos. However, you really shouldn't be picking up point radioactive particles with just your fingers! By doing so you are subjecting them to a very high dose, even if the sources aren't particularly strong. Please do invest in a pair of handling tongs, and make a point of using them! I was taught this as part of a Radiation Protection Course many years ago. It may have been a long time ago but the principles haven't changed. Inverse Square Law!

[@jblob5764]

But when it is something very weakly radioactive even at contact why be concerned? If she isn't doing this daily she isn't going to be exposed to enough to cause major harm

[@sethery7826]

You have a Geigercounter on your watch? Huh.

[@Mineav]

She moonlights as a female James Bond.

[@ponyslavestation2973]

Fancy

[@reddarrick3921]

Sethery Mine is in the shop

[@Unwanted.A7X]

you didn't have fear for your life when your "clock" advises you from high levels of radiation?

[@ToastyEggs]

Why would she touch the inside of the claw?! That’s the worst thing you could possibly do in Chernobyl!

[@jasonfuller2734]

What she is doing is perfectly safe. Just ask anyone who lives near Chernobyl.

[@Dooshanche]

Just ask anyone who died in Chernobyl.

[@octaviani5397]

Yeah lets ask that 2 headed bear that lives down the pripyat road

[@kyon-kyon-]

@@octaviani5397😭😭

[@blakesejarma]

I’m told no more than a simple chest x Ray

[@indridcold8433]

Which reminds me. Have you had your checkup recently.

[@yellowroseproductions363]

Did you hear? All of the vehicles in the massive radioactive vehicle scrapyard have been removed. Do you know what happened to them?

[@sdghdgjk]

Touching radioactive stuff..smart idea..