chernobyl 2012 II: the radioactive cemetery of vehicles, burjakivka (Бурякiвка) 

The yellow robot that was highly contaminated was called the "Joker" after much trouble getting it on the roof of the reactor, the radiation killed its circuits.

The fire fighters that were at ground zero lived 3 weeks and they had massive doses. They are true heroes.

I keep thinking how interesting it would be if there was a special camera that could 'see' radiation as light - to see these contaminated pieces of equipment giving off light like a light bulb.

Something about the chernobyl vehicle graveyard is fascinating. Haunting, and intrigues me.

The yellow robot called Joker got stuck on a 120 Sv/Hr graphite fragment, surprised it isn't much more radioactive

Have you noticed that just about all the vehicles have been stripped of their engines, transmissions, etc. Probably you will see a glowing truck driving around Kyiv at night. You will know where he bought his engine from.

rip headphone users

if you notice most vehicles are missing engines my guess hot motors running around lol

Look mum, I’m glowing in the dark

It is really cool to see the "Joker" robot there. You would think it would be preserved if it were possible. That bot was stranded on the roof of the plant when it was used in hopes of clearing the graphite and debris off the roof.

After watching the series these videos are so much better then they were

the sad thing is every bonnet is open, no engines inside. I've seen a documentary about people around the exclusion zone stealing parts vom that radioactive scrap yard...

That German robot is the same one that ended up getting stuck on the roof on a pile of graphite rods I think. If it had worked, the "bio robots" would not have been needed in such numbers.

I would not recommend to anyone to come near the vehicle graveyards of Chernobyl.

For all the people saying that she is in danger etc. The radiation she is experiencing is not dangerous in short intervals, she is experiencing 400-500 micro Sv per hour, not mini or siever

These are beautiful vehicles. So sad that they had to be abandoned.

It's interesting to notice that all of the pine-needles above and around the robot "Joker" are dead; then just a meter back on the same branch the needles are green and alive.

The people that were directly exposed to the initial radio active blast lived 3 or more weeks. these people were in extreme close proximity. Even if you walked directly into reactor #4 right now, stood there for 5 minutes, it could take weeks months or even years for the side effects to appear.

I´m the only one freaking out with you for going so close ???

We need a new Firefighting Truck. _No take this old T-34_

for everyone coming to see the "joker" robot it's at 2:18

2:55 Rip Headphone users

something about this absolutely terrifies me, it gives me a looming sense of dread knowing this could repeat in many places on the impulsivity of an unstable leader

Amazing how Some of the truck tyres still holding pressure after all the years

Very obvious people responding to the meters beeping have no ideas how they work. You can put them on different settings and different warning levels.

Could i possibly get a rear bumper off of a 1973 Chevelle there? No? Damn.

But why are all the truck’s engines missing? They were « breathing » the highly contaminated air during the incident and you may see they are all missing now.

Awesome video as usual, quick question, after the measuring the relatively high levels of radiation, will your detectors need recalibrating/decontaminating? Thank you again for the videos, I am very glad I subscribed.

Yellow vehicle is the joker, displayed in HBO miniserie ?

all the lorrys with missing parts, must be alot of radioactive parts beng used in various wagons across the country

a cotton mask does not protect you from radiation at all, though. you could have no reading at all, entirely normal dose rates, but alpha (e.g. polonium-210) dust in the air that severely harms you when inhaled. it's not reasonable to wear a cotton mask just because you encounter a specific dose rate. it's more about what you think may be airborne.

I can't understand, you stand for so long at These high level radiation point. I was in Tschernobyl too, last year. I hope you not gonna sick in later times of your life... But thank you for this good video. We had a private tour, but our guide don't want to go to this place. Best regards From Germany

2:18 the aluminium chassis on top of the first little tracked vehicle is interesting, it looks almost like a lunar rover, especially the wheels, and the fact that its all aluminium and it looks a bit more specialised than the other more industrial looking ones. I think I read somewhere that they used robots based on the Lunokhod rovers, could that be a bit of the soviet space program there?

that beeping means get out of that area...

what for? i am not touching the stuff, plus the contamination on most vehicles is minor and the remaining contamination does not easily come off, anyway.

probably both, seeing they were used in an environment were neutron radiation is not unexpected. with most of it blown up into the air, the remaining reactor by far was not critical, but there may have been a sufficient neutron flux to turn things radioactive. i'm not sure, though. otherwise, chemical reactions for binding may be the explanation for the persistent contamination; same as H2O (water) makes Fe (iron) form Fe2O3 (rust), similar reactions may have bond the caesium to the metal frame.

sure i have seen the sarcophagus, but i've not been inside it. however, there are plenty of videos from the inside, where you can see dose rates of a few Sv/h messing with the camera (flashes) same as on those fukushima videos. i've not been inside to assess radiation levels inside the sarcophagus, though, mind you. but what you mention sounds like the typical scaremonger rumor trying to scare the public. we can get dose rate and becquerel / kg readings, and that's what really matters.

One of the Chernobyl histories mentioned a diver had to go into that water in the bubbler area, to figure out how much water needed to be pumped out. I suspect he's dead now, no name of his was given.

This helicopter hit a steel cable from a crane, the collision video is here on you tube!

The yellow robot is called Joker, It was stuck on the roof. 3 people tried to save it. It was standing on top of a block of graphite (Wich was highly radioactive) that is why the readings are so high... I gues they removed the tracks because they were in direct contact. (maybe buried in concrete somehwere)

i want to visit chernobyl and the vehicle graveyards. i always loved to see what time does to man made objects. i have deep respect for the people who battled the aftermath.

Ashes to ashes Dust to dust Wood decays And metal rusts. Streets crumble Buildings fall Eons pass As halflives crawl.

The girl looks very happy finding high reading in her dosimeters ..

the NOISE that those GEIGER-COUNTERS give off is more deadly that the RADIATION its measuring!!!

WOW, I've watched your other uploads, you're like the Indiana Jones of Radiation 

3.6 roentgen,Not great,not terrible...

the inverse square law still roughly applies, so my whole body dose is just a few uSv/h. look up the term. it's not very worrysome, and wearing e.g. gloves does not help at all, as i did not touch anything. they would not protect me from the emitted radiation.

it's mainly dirt, yeah, not so much neutron activation...

Who’s watching 2021?

Whats the problem? It's only 3.6 roentgen

Joker and the other cleaning robots had high levels of Radiation since they were cleaning the rubble off the roof into the core that was exposed.

This channel is amazing. I love all these videos so much. I've seen hundreds of Chernobyl videos over the years but these are the best raw videos before things were way too complicate. The war. Tourists. Trespassing. Looters. Yes it was abandon for years here but still so much better content. Thank you for this all. Truly captivating history.

The german robot would give you an annual radiation dose in three days if you stayed next to it.

what about fire trucks? they were first and closest there xD

I love listening to you talk. Such a soothing and deadpan tone while walking around all that intense stuff.

The exposure in 2 days is equivalent to getting an x-ray at the hospital.

Jesus you must be nuts, this was 2012 ? Anyone know if this girl is still alive or in one piece ?

Fantastic archival footage.

1:09 I wonder if that's lead glass forming the driver's vision blocks, has a yellow tint to it...

The Yellow truck was a police vehicle called the 'Joker', obtained by the Soviets from West Germany. Apparently its build quality made it good to work in radiation affected areas. Problem was, the Soviet government failed to tell the West Germans that the radiation levels on the roof that this robot was going to work on were about 400-500 times what the robot could actually stand. Shortly after 'Joker' was landed on the roof by helicopter, the extremely high radiation emitted by the large amounts of radioactive debris literally destroyed Joker's circuits, rendering her inoperable and completely useless. After this it was decided that the only way to the clean the roof was to use 3,000 Soviet soldiers. This soldiers, nicknamed 'bio-robots', went up to the roof in small groups, spending no more than 90 seconds cleaning debris off the roof using shovels, straight into the destroyed reactor.

Why are they recording this video completely unprotected? I swear, I saw the counter go up to 500+

Has anyone that works there got sick?

aktivierung (radioaktiv machen) durch MeV photonen (eigentlich nur linearbeschleuniger etc., nicht reaktor) und neutronen, klar, im reaktor gibt's ohne die ja keine kernspaltung. ansonsten kann auch zeugs an der oberflaeche haften, die oberflaeche ist ja nicht nanoglatt, deswegen kannste dir die haende auch blutig schrubben und da sind immernoch bakterien (viel riesiger als einzelne atome!!) dran. ansonsten chemische reaktion, aehnlich wie z.b. eisen + wasser (H2O) = eisen-3-oxid (rost).

All those radioactive engines were sold lol

love your videos to much my gamma scout is always to quiet but the zone makes it scream and I'm so jealuse you got to see the grave yard before it was all hidden or buried love your videos keep up the great work

When it beeps I'm like "go away, are you dumb?" - stays even longer for "measurement". All the hoods open and parts stolen. Very nice if you buy a new engine and it's from Chernobyl.

i did not notice any contamination despite putting it on the floor. it does not yet need recalibration, as it just encountered high dose rates for a short amount of time. if left there for five weeks with mSv/h readings, i guess it'd be good practice to re-calibrate it.

I think the yellow robot you find at 2.28 is called joker. You can see him in use in this video : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FfDa8tR25dk.html at 11.54. He was used on the roof of reactor 4 i think. The most contaminated area. Love the videos :)

I wonder what they did with that radioactive water that was carried by those tank wagons, she jokingly suggested they dumped it in the river, what if they actually did...? There's so much we don't know about what has been going on there. It's hard to grasp the full consequences of what happened there and what is still going on, I mean think about it, the disaster area will have to be monitored and maintained for thousands of years. Imagine the ancient Romans had a similar nuclear accident, we would still be dealing with the mess.

they were emptied, but traces of course remain, and formed rust etc. on the inside. empty a pot of water into the sink, and you'll see it's not dry inside. there's always traces remaining.

That rover was desighned by Von Braun, I hope they don't scrap it. It belongs in a museum but, being on chernobyle's roof did make it almost permanently radioactive. I wonder if the rovers are still there...

wow can't believe the joker is just dumped there rusting away. Amazing! I guess its not as if they can just put it on display in a museum. Maybe one day......

You gonna be apart of that scrap yard if you don't get some proper PPE on.

My guess is that the largest contamination may be found in an air filters of vehicle's engines - if there are any left? Some of these vehicles were probably military types, equiped for radiactive enviroment (lead glass etc.) - were they able to protect it's crew during operation?

5:08 In between all these millitary vehicles, a big russian truck (MAZ-537) is also put down. Really sad to see all this.

I absolutely love your Chernobyl videos. Did you by chance watch the HBO docuseries??

I'm curious, what would happen if the metal was melted now?

(2:18) Ah, there is the German Robot "Joker", made by Dornier in the 1980s.

well, inside the sarcophagus, you can find readings of multiple Sv/h. but apart from that, as far as i know, you'll only get mSv/h readings elsewhere at max.

Furthermore, this phrase intrigues me: ''Nuclear energy is a disaster in human hands.'' Since we're talking about human harnessing a natural phenomenon, so is electricity, the sea, fire... Basically a key element differentiating us from feral animals. Is that what you are talking about when you say ''roll the clock back''? I don't want to use rhetorics, but that's a bit conspicuous in your comment.

2.18 it is the STR-1 rover made by the team who made the Lunokhod moon rovers headed by Alexander Kemurdzhian .

( french > english translation ) thank you for this video, especially since we say that this cemetery no longer exists: is it true? Where is it ? I can't find it on Google Maps ;-) ( french > russian translation ) спасибо за это видео, тем более что мы говорим, что этого кладбища больше не существует: это правда? Где он ? Не могу найти на Google Maps ;-)

It's almost all buried now. There's one little yard full of junk left, and security guards working right next door to chase stalkers away.

I would call it anything but awesome , its a crying shame

Guys and Gals, Have you noticed that ALL vehicles are without engines ?? Where did they go ? Removed ? Weren't they contaminated as well ?? Strange, isn't ?? Thieves ?

What I like about all these vehicles is that they were all stripped apart, meaning that a lot of radioactive parts are distributed all over Ukraine and Russia...

Could you give us the coordinates of that graveyard? id like to see it in google earth.

@bionerd I would really liek to know if you have expierenced radiation sickness?

So did you ever end up with cancer after playing around with all this stuff for so long?

The Helicopter that chrashed at the reactor is also wburried there

Is that okay when she put the Geiger uller counter on the ground, right next to the highly contaminated robot? She picked it up and used it again. Im not sure that is right.

Bloody hell! Step away from the German yellow robot!!!

R.I.P. in Advance, Ms. Uploader.

That yellow robot at 2:25... It's Joker, from the movie. It was on the 12.000 rtg roof of the plant, of course it's highly radioactive.

"It's not 3 Roentgen, it's 15000!"

Am i the only one surprised because she doesn't give a fuck about radiation?

Not great but not terrible

ah, i dont think so, dont worry. everybody assumes the lung cancer of a person who smoked for 30 years is directly related to smoking tobacco, too - yet, smoking is legal, too.

So thats the wreckage of the helicopter crash

you DIDN'T see graphite because it is not there