Welcome to part one of merchants ogle video series on the 26th of April
1986 at 1:48 p.m.
the world's worst nuclear accident
to date took place this area is now a part of Ukraine and everybody living in the main city which is Pripyat which we
visit in this video series had a population of
49,000 people and not to mention the surrounding villages that had
Thousands of other residents at the time they were all told that they had three hours to evacuate
But the thing is is they were told that they would be able to return in three days and only to take the bare essentials
but of course they were never able to return so many of the places we explore in the series many of the items of the
residents remain there are still many hot radioactive spots around this area that we will enter still evidence of
Reactor fours explosion, so let's go explore this very sad but fascinating place
Good morning guys what you just saw was us driving an hour and a half from Kiev
And now we have arrived at the start of the
Exclusion zone here of Chernobyl and here behind me we have one of the fences here not to cross because it's radioactive
Right now my guide Igor is just sorting out some paperwork to get and through the checkpoint because they have to check your passport
They have to have you fully registered you have to sign papers saying that you won't do this
You won't do that because it's quite dangerous inside in some areas
I'm lucky enough to be doing these videos with a tour company called solo eath
And they're gonna be showing me around today around this whole Chernobyl zone
So if you come to Chernobyl all the information for their company is gonna be linked below watch the videos first
And then you'll get an idea if it's something that you want to come and check out
Alright guys, so we just made it through two more checkpoints the abandoned houses you saw that was the Chernobyl town
And that's where a lot of the kind of administration for this exclusion zone happens and where some people actually stay for example there's
7,000 guards for this area in total
But they're not always working can be anywhere from 150 guards working at a time around this whole area
We've just shown up at this area here over here
They have a field testing place to grow plants and test their radioactive levels
So he goes gonna take us for a walk and explain to us the labels and etc
0.16 it is absolutely normal radiation background because we are staying on clean Road as what was changed a smooth off road
So as long as off road the radiation is increasing 117
21 21 this is exactly like in my apartment in point two four and point three nine and what's a dangerous level?
So dangerous level it should be million times higher than now dose of radiation is danger dose of radiation now
It's zero point four four
Microsieverts per one hour so to get those of radiation. We have to spend here hours. You know
If you stay here in this very place for one hour our body will get
0.55
Micro zero usually you can you get same time small in our plane?
Thank you and a plane so if you spend eight hours on a plane. You'd be quite radioactive
That's not dangerous
That's quite dangerous because pilots who make long-distance flight like between continents Europe America
America Europe after 10 years they cannot be donors for blood and organs
I
Guess ur ego
Has just brought me to this
Experimental field trial site and basically this is where they grow different kinds of vegetables
And they test them for their radioactive levels pretty interesting. They don't test them by eating them though do they ego I
Not going to have lunch too because I don't want to be a part of experiment, okay
So just turn off the and abandoned kindergarten here, and he goes just doing a grand reading here
And this is the same soil that was here during the contamination and that's quite high isn't
here on the ground
We have the same allure for radiation like flying in a plane at altitude of 12
Kilometers across the Atlantic to stay here for a long time and to live here
It is dangerous, but you know it was calculated by Ukrainian cities to get problems from radiation. We have to spend here more than
20,000 hours sustained here for two minutes it is again
Thanks
Almost no radiation inside
Right
So it's safer inside then than it is outside. Let's say safer outside because
There are many bills which are ready to collapse, and they kind of kill us
This is insane just all these kind of bunk beds
It's crazy to think that this was once used every day, and then one day just the reactor blew up and everything changed
Okay, I'll finish in the kindergarten. It's pretty creepy. We're going to the nuclear power fine now
So that building that you just saw with the cranes that was reactor number five and that wasn't actually complete
It was 85% complete, and it was supposed to be finished six months
I have to reactor number four blow up so that's just all abandoned over there in the background and now we're coming up to
reactor number one two three and four we can succeed the
Sarcophagus which was used to cover up reactor four but it's still a work in progress
They still have to dismantle the reactor number four their projects still not complete
These are the workers that are building this guy and
dismantling reactor number four remains inside the sarcophagus here
We just passed the fire station and from that fire station and some surrounding fire stations
28 firefighters came to extinguish the flames from the explosion and so they were exposed to the radiation
Basically what happens when you're exposed to radiation at that level you get diarrhea your hands start to shake
Your skin starts to fall off and within two months
They were all dead and they had to be buried in concrete coffins to control the radiation coming from their bodies
They were buried in Moscow in Russia
Now we're just walking towards the reactor measuring the micro speeds, and it's increasing as we get closer
Point seven three
before the sarcophagus was put on
What was the reading here around three micro sieverts three so now it is up to one Mike regime?
So three times place. This is probably this place looked
Before November 2016, okay, it's a bit more than one year ago
And this is how it is look now it works now, right?
So this new shelter is very thin. It's made out of very thin metal shields and
insulation and you can see two rails
connected to the ceiling of new object right two remote-controlled cranes have been already installed here and
Using those cranes this big structure will be dismantled
But first they want to open it in some part and take out the worst stuff which is melted fuel
Magma this magma will be moved to the storage number one cold vector using these cranes
This old sarcophagus will be also dismantled
using only plutonium from inside the sarcophagus
It is
Possible to kill 100
Million of people that's one of the reasons this place is so heavily guarded is because they don't want terrorists coming in and taking
Really dangerous substances and doing whatever they do with really dangerous substances
It's possible to make some very dirty bump and poison other people you're not really bummed
And this is one of the radioactive dogs one of the many wolves of Chernobyl hello mate you're gonna feed him
No, so that's a cough, I guess you just saw it's so far cost two billion dollars two bills
So now we're going to head into profit
and that's the science of creepy at town the city was established in 1970 and it had a population of
49,000 people and only nine out of those
49,000 were working in the nuclear power plant in the disaster heaven in
1986 so it was only 16 years until when it was abandoned many of the
Constructions and things were still being built you're about to see and you'll hit in there
So to interpret town we have to go through another checkpoint
Now guys, that's just ego going in and doing the paperwork check this out over here
So that's just a big old abandoned building, and it looks like there's heaps more down here
There's so much snow here, but apparently this is a lot more snow than normal
It kind of gives the place this more crazy kind of feel you know what I mean
Let's hit it now and see what the city is like this is like the main kind of
Attraction if you will of this trip because it's just a huge city that's been abandoned
So people from Kuryakyn in one day evacuated in one day
Yes, because it was so dangerous to stay for them any longer during four days
It was possible to die in some places not everyone prepaid, but in some part
So this is Main Street of this town called Elaine in Boulevard people from here were evacuated so quickly
But they were told it it is only for three days
Don't be worried
Be happy you would be considered a steak only buy essentials like money
Don't you mind and food supply for three days the people who told them that they were gonna be
Evacuated for three days and then brought back know that they would never come back no one understood
What is going on because even Gorbachov who was told they going to fixed?
Fixed reactor and put back it into operation by May or June
This is the word of god bachi little gorbachev leader who was leader of soviet
Union at that time even he was told they go in to fix reactor number four so basically
What you're saying is the people that we're in charge of the nuclear plant here?
They didn't know how dangerous what they were playing with was
Equipment was out of scale only when soldiers came here with military equipment
They can measure radiation here only after that they realized radiation is too high and they as they start to think about
this town evacuation
As I told design of reactors are so perfect?
So safe it could be set up even on Red Square
In Moscow right yes. Yeah, so it just arrived in appropriate city centre
Now we're gonna go explore
Join me in the next episode guys where we go deeper into pre fiat town. We find the school
supermarkets swimming pools and even a hospital
Thanks for watching see you in the next one
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