quite crazy levels of radiation are to be found in this hospital basement, as highly contaminated clothing from the initial days after the chernobyl disaster was disposed of here.
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Even ignoring the radiation, it does look like the kind of room you're likely to get horribly murdered in. It's like that scene from a horror movie where a character stumbles across a room full of previous victims belongings and the audience are screaming "GET OUT OF THERE NOW!"
A lot of the firefighters were only 22, 23, 24 years old. They died within hours or days of being just outside the plant. The handful that went on the roof to drop hoses into the reactor....they never came back down and nobody ever saw them again.
either way courage doesn't have a age limit or any boundary. I think they knew once they were there they weren't coming out alive, but they still kept fighting the fire anyway. I don't know what the highest medal is there in 1986 or even now but I say they deserved that the memorial for them and then some
I am not sure about this but I think they fought it was a normal fire and only realised that there was lots of radiation when they got to the hospitals. Not sure though.
unfare plen he kemp boosh I watched some documentaries and the firefighter though it was a normal fire, they didn’t know it was the reactor because nobody told them
It’s radioactive but wearing the right clothing and limit how long you’re in their for and keep an eye on the radiation reader you should be ok when I say ok I mean theirs no exact guarantee you’ll live till you’re 60. Again I don’t know much but I wouldn’t play with radiation but I sure would give it a try and explore the place
@@dynamictelevision8470 radiation doesn't travel far from the source , there is a law of square for the distance and strength of radiation, 1.4mSv/h is a lot, but standing 1m from it you would maybe get a reading of 50micro sievert/h , which is almost nothing, especially if you are wearing overalls and gloves . + if it was dangerous to explore, the ukranian goverment would not let you in there , like they don't in the reactor building ( most people)
If it wasn't done, all of Europe could have been lost. And if we didn't learn the lessons from Chernobyl, Fukashima would have been 10X the disaster it was.
Forced*, well isn't the quite well term for this sentence. Many voluntereed. Many were forced, because were military, like firefighters and the reservists. But they are the heroes, not only of the USSR, but the the world's heroes. Without their supreme sacrifice the Europe might have been damned.
Sloppy Sip It's from the HBO Chernobyl mini series. It's a line of absolute denial of there being anything majorly wrong. Oh, and it's also said as one guy starts puking his guts out from radiation poisoning.
@@htothek9780 well then don't respond to these memes. Nobody asked you to in the first place. Nobody is stupid for writing/liking a meme. Only difference between you and people who liked this is, that you didn't watch the HBO's Chernobyl from which this joke comes and therefore, you do not understand the joke. Simple.
The exploded reactor was measuring at 15,000 in the first few days/weeks after Chernobyl happened. Those Firemen-First Responders would have been right there.
Actually, it's not that far of. Chest X-ray gives 0.1 mSv. These clothes around 1 mSv per hour. So standing 6 minutes in that room, lying on the floor against those clothes, is the same as a chest X-ray. The dose used to be a lot higher, but there's been a lot of decay already.
Nah, as anxiety-inducing as the sound of the detectors may be to those not used to it, they are not screaming at her, they are merely keeping her informed and thereby help to keep her safe. Even at the 1 mSv/h dose rate she was picking up there, it would still take 20 hours of exposure to reach her annual permitted dose (as a radiation worker). But it's obviously still high enough that you'll want to be mindful of it to avoid spending too much time there, and the incessant beeping is an excellent way to remain mindful of it ;-)
Happily Depressed You’ll be stupid to go into a radioactive basement with nothing. You say that but the radiation reader will save your life along with the proper clothing. You melt.
+Goga Montana that's like saying Alexander Fleming was an idiot for testing something out for science and as a result created something that would lead to the end of smallpox. She's there's for research so she can show he radioactivity of this place. No one else would go so she is helping us out.
+Goga Montana did you not listen to any of them???? They said she is there for SCIENCE of curse you won't go there because your probably a KID and the public is allowed there but only in the less contaminated places.
shrishail katti Not to down play their heroic act but the initial firefighters didn’t account for the radiation before running in. So they weren’t expecting to die
what's even more tragic is that all the people that treated those firefighters that night probably died too, and all the people in the hospital were exposed to insane amounts of radiation too. the more you think about it, it just becomes an endless list of people that undoubtably died legnthy, painful deaths which the Soviet Union then so seamlessly covered up that we'll never know. "31 casualties" my arse, more like millions mate
Max Ponsonby not millions. Definitely 10's of thousands but nowhere near 1 million, let alone millions. Around 300k people were affected in total though, whether it was relocation, sicknesses or losing loved ones themselves. That 31 number from the Soviet Union is bullshit.
Definitely not millions. The estimated total amount of chernobyl-related deaths is around 4000 people, which is terryfying. Also, 134 cases of acute radiation poisoning among the liquidators.
If those fire fighters didn't do their job and put out that fire at the cost of their lives, this accident would have been MUCH MUCH worse, even a secondary explosion.
Voss2120 also for these 3 men when the reactor was melting down. They dived into the pool of water to release a valve. If they didn't the reactor would have exploded more violently and probably covered most of Europe.
theyre not even meant to protect in the sense of shielding from radiation. you wear gloves in a place like that so you dont get dust etc on your hands and bring it out of the place, then transfer it to your clothes, your face etc as you touch things.
I remember watching your videos long ago, but after seeing the Chernobyl series I couldn't believe that the clothing was that radioactive. The answer is yes.
Mate, can you give me an english version about name of radiation numbers... i mean in my version (UA) its рентген/год, i saw the translation - its X-ray/per hour....but im not sure. I dont understand how and in what these girls measure the radiation level... So what exactly said the driver in Chernobyl serial about "how much radiation on Chernobyl" after driving the car into the gates of the station....
@@xSETUMx Рентген is Roentgen, not radiation. Bionerd23 usually measures in microsieverts/hr. At 2:10 you can see the GammaScout displaying 960.7 µSv/hr.
@@Corgigirl901 external radiation from that pile should not kill you, even if you spent a few hours there. It would probably not even make you radiation-sick. Just imagine, that people get radiation treatment for cancer. I assume that a whole body irradiation before bone marrow transplantation gives you a higher dose. The biggest problem with those contaminated clothes is ingestion or inhalation of radioactive particles, that can cause long-term effects. And of course, also small radiation doses can contribute to your lifetime cancer risk.
Mr Boombastic it was a npc which constantly shouted " get out of here stalker " it was Kind of a Bug, just type it into RU-vid, You should be able to find a lot of Clips xd
the corridor view is not from this cause its in real colors, and the radiactive boots comes frome ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tItVL70NsQI.html
@@walnuttreescooter4349 Train spotting Damn... you're right! I would've sworn it was this video. The look, the clothing, bagged gamma scout, etc. False memory i suppose. Oh well. Thanks for pointing that out.
What I would give up to be where she was. It sounds stupid but that place is literally a giant time capsule. Honestly, I wish there was a way to explore even further without getting sick or dying. Just to be able to enter the reactor 4 building or see the infamous "elephants foot" up close. I know it was a terrible accident and RIP to all that were taken from this earth by saving lives and making sure nobody else got hurt. But this place fascinates me to no end.
True fact: there were these people in Russia that were told that they could spend the rest of their lives in prison or spend 2 minutes cleaning up Chernobyl, they died.
I think all the work you have undertaken is a valuable historical archive of a moment in history. This story will go on for a very long time and any efforts such as these to record activity and the gradual decay of the human fabric of buildings will prove invaluable as time progresses.
Thank you for actually giving us competent readings from the dosimeters. Nearly all of the stalker videos who take readings with a meter have no idea what they're talking about.
This place should be sealed off so that no one even thinks of taking a souvenir out of Chernobyl. Crazy people exist. Of course the movie creator does not belong to that group
Chiyu Ryuu they did more than to embellish it. An example would be when you see the “liquidators” (guys cleaning the roofs) get their bonus and a thanks from the general. 1’st exaggeration: the liquidators yells: I SERVE THE SOVIET UNION. In real life they just said thanks in a very calm way. 2’nd exaggeration in same scene: a high ranked general gives them the thanks on behalf of the Soviet Union. The same general is seen in meetings with Gorbachev. A such high ranked general was never at the Chernobyl site! Only the chief of the civil defence were there and it was him that thanked the liquidators on behalf of the Soviet Union. The clean up of the graphite is very well documented and HBO is exaggerating a lot in some parts. Go to ‘telecon documentary’ here on RU-vid and watch for yourself. We owe these men, the “liquidators”, everything..
Congratulations bionerd23, your footage here got featured at the end of the HBO Chernobyl series! May I ask how you were able to get the sample out of the exclusion zone without being detected?
Herkes novadan geldigini yazmiş ama kimse hastanenin en tehlikeli ve en radyasyonlu ölümcül bölgesine girildiğini fark etmemiş novada buraya inemediler
At first I thought she picked up that sample at 3:40 with her bare hands! I had to double check she was wearing gloves, as bionerd23 has taken many risks before... but that might mean limb amputation or a possible death sentence at those levels of radiation!
Damn i hope we can do a crowdfunding for Bionerd to go to Fukushima if she’s into it. Would be very easy now with all the Chernobyl series publicity. Really want to know the truth. Im also following Dana Durnford.
May I ask, were there any moments of your time in the Chernobyl, Pripyat area when you felt like your life was seriously in danger or were you more comfortable but still aware of your surroundings?
Best Chernobyl videos right here. Thanks Bionerd23! I wish I lived close to Chernobyl so I could do this. I am from Pennsylvania but I love Pripyat and Chernobyl. I was 7 years old when It happened.
The clothings only have ~1 mSv? Thats not very much. The average radiation exposure per year is ~2 mSv. This means you can easily hang out in that basement without any protection for 2 hours and it won't do you any harm. Thought it would be way more dangerous in that basement before watching that video. Now i know that chernobyl is nothing but exaggeration.
Id like to ask you, what impact on your body has such a "long" exposure to radiation? Because this is not your only video from this area. What kind of protection do u use?
I'm sure you've probably gotten this question 1000s of time, and I'm sure you've also explained it countless times, (also I am new to the units measuring radiation so sorry if I don't understand) but what units does your equipment measure and/or when we see the readings, what is considered a normal level and which is the worst level to be exposed to or have an object contaminated in? (Again sorry if you've answered this before id just like to know real quick.)
That's really painful too watch this much destruction, the more you think , the more you feel bad for those people who faced it and for the whole soviet
it depends on the time you spend there. ~ 1 mSv/h is much on the one hand, but on the other hand 20 mSv is the maximum dose that workers that are exposed to radioactive materials are allowed to take in one year - so you have to stay 20 hours inside to reach this level. If you stay only 15 minutes there it's about 0,25mSv (250μSv) so just quite okay.
After watching Chernobyl, everyone thinks she’s dead or will have radiation related illnesses. I don’t think most people here in the comments understand how radiation exposure and radiation sickness works. She’s likely just fine
Jordan Russ her scan read around 16.2 mSv of radiation she was exposed to. A full body CT scan is equivalent to between 10-30 mSv. Not only that, she limited her exposure time to a reasonable time to avoid a significant dose. She is also wearing protective clothing, which she can remove later that prevents her from being contaminated with radiated dust and particles that she brings with her on her clothes. Radiation isn’t instant death or cancer unless it’s an insane dose or for prolonged periods of time. She’s likely just fine.
bionerd i have a question about the contaminated clothes the room they are piled in if you were accedentally locked in that room how long would it take for you to become sick? or if you had to wear those clothes how long would it take to receive a fatal dose of radiation?
Always been fascinated by Chernobyl/Pripyat. I really enjoy your videos. The thing that would scare me the most is all that particulate. Nothing like a committed dose to ruin your day(s).
well, people nearby, any, received high doses from the crap that was airborne, which again contaminated their clothes. imagine you walk through a sandstorm, there's sand on your clothes, but the sand is also everywhere in the air. that's how it was back then. so crazy, it's hard to imagine, as the "sand" was invisible, yet deadly...
If all the radioactive contamination isn't bad enough, pretty sure all those quilted overhead pipes are lagged with asbestos too. Not the sort of place I'd want to be poking about in.
