The Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Fallout: Chernobyl's exclusion zone is the latest dark-tourism hot spot, thanks to hit HBO-series, Chernobyl. What is life like for those living and working in the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster?
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Tour buses line up at the exclusion zone's border, while tourists await their turn to be guided through the interior - Geiger counter in hand. "Chernobyl tourism is a very positive, necessary and useful phenomenon", says Alexei, who worked as a nuclear engineer at the time of the accident. "It's useful in the sense of preserving the memory of this event." Three-hundred thousand people were forcibly removed from their villages, but the risk of residual radiation didn’t stop some from returning. Sofia went back to her village in the exclusion zone just two years after the disaster. “Radiation is radiation. It’s an invisible enemy”, the 73-year-old says. Dangerous levels of contamination remain in the ecosystem of northern Ukraine, damaging the environment and putting the area’s inhabitants at risk. Still to this day, thousands of children suffer from radiation-related illnesses. “The soil has to be removed from the polluted territory. Only then the radiation would disappear. That wasn’t done. Everything was left as it was”, says a nurse treating children at a hospital outside Kiev.
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“The dust might be radioactive here.”
Wears zero masking over eyes, nose or mouth.
Sheri’s Movement agree. He’s even disturbing dust as he walks through. Well I imagine so🤷🏽♀️ crazy and the tourists
Seriously.. to begin with security let him thru there. He's good guys lol
iamjuliaboyle He’s good. Because he has immunity from radioactivity?
Also, in these types of places people can do what the hell they want.
He did not need permission from ‘security’.
Omg that is what I wanted to write. #twinning
Sheri’s Movement and is touching the door (it loooks like )
Let's face it, if the Titanic were on land, it would be a major tourist destination.
I'm Irish and the Titanic experience in Belfast does amazing and thsts only a small replica of the front of the ship
@Carol Howard Many people still died, hundreds of them. It still is no different than this.
Yup and 9/11 and many other places such as concentration camps have tourist destinations set up
So true, sad but very true, as is all the other tragedies
@@kiraangela_ the concentration camp that we visited with school 10 years ago was more of a memorial & museum set up to remind us. maybe it's because it was 10 years ago and we didn't really have smartphones, but I don't think any of us really took any pictures and at the end we were all silent and crying. the tourism there was very different from the tourism shown in this documentary. We had learned something from the experience. Not sure what the people visiting Chernobyl like this will remember from it in 10 years time...
So disrespectful how it is now treated. It should be used as a warning and a memorial, not for an insta shot and a laugh and a joke
Jessica Brown people’s lives were changed forever and the ones who lived, children were born with major deformities & people treat this like a tourist destination it’s disgusting.
Auschwitz is a TOURIST DESTINATION. Pipe down there woman.
yea i think chernobyl exclusion zone might close gates soon because they are going to start dismantle the reactor, sarcophagus and buildings in pripyat (because the buildings might collapse and spread radioactive dust)
KO OR and yet the level of respect when people are there is in another league compared to how the tourists behave here
@@vico3319 but Auschwitz isn't dangerous anymore, the new substance elephants foot made of silicon dioxide, with traces of uranium, titanium, zirconium, magnesium and graphite, it gives off 20,000 roentgens per hour and is supposed to last 23,000 years, the new shelter is only going to last 100 and there are no ways to die in Auschwitz anymore there is with chernobyl
I don’t get why anyone would want to go there. The risk isn’t worth it. And it’s honestly disgusting that people laugh and play like it’s a game. It’s a disaster.
Samantha Moser I feel the same about Auschwitz but, since my children wont grow up with grandparents who lived the horrors of the Second World War, I’m going to take them there to press just how dangerous racism can be.
Eve lion I support that. We plan to take our kids to Pearl Harbor and Ground Zero in NYC but the difference in all of these places you and I mentioned- no radiation to kill them. I’d never take them where there is this kind of risk. I can however teach with books, internet and videos.
@@PrayerfullyBlessedMama you are absolutly right !!!!
You should watch Veritasium's video about radiation; The radiation from visiting even the most radioactive part of Chernobyl for a couple of hours would be the same amount as you get on a yearly basis from the sun. It's not that dangerous however I do agree that it's not a tourist site but a disaster site and should be treated with respect.
@@PrayerfullyBlessedMama you risk your life everytime you walk outside. Going into a dangerous city like NY could get you killed, or hit by a bus. During your flight to Pearl Harbor something could happen on the plane, or the boat even. You're exposed to radiation on a daily basis as well. The people that go there don't want the history to die and want to see firsthand what their last moments there were like.
he's afraid of the dust and yet he's not wearing any protective suit or mask?????? huh?????????
And pushing a door open..... dust would be swirling
yes. if you touch the dust and then unknowingly put your fingers in your mouth, you will have radioactive material inside of you. this is very dangerous as it will keep emitting radiation from the inside of you. breathing in dust is certainly not healthy either, but the slima and hears in your nose will catch a lot of that dust. anyways, radiation itself is dangerous, but radioactive material is much worse.
well dust is more concentrated on things rather than in air after settling down for 30+ years; so relatively speaking it's not a lot of danger there; just from dust point of view. It's whole another thing to actually reach up and touch things. There is much more concentrated dust. But yeah just coz dust is not concetrated doesn't mean it's not dangerous tho; radiation isn't present just on dust; it's in air; some areas are too radiated to visit even with limited time exposure and even with no dust present.
Petite Monica you read my mind.
He's not very smart @ all.
I want to go visit Chernobyl one day. No doubt about that. However, I want to do it very respectfully. This is still the old workers' and families' home. They were the last inhabitants there. Their apartments, stuff, and memories are there. Their old lives are there. I won't be laughing or acting immature. I will come simply as a spectator with a heavy heart for what all those had to go through.
My grandma lived in Belarus not too far from the exclusion zone when this all happened.
I hope you can go with that type of attitude. I wish you luck in this.
Good luck..
Vienna M Acting miserable and not laughing doesnt exactly equate to being respectful. You can be respectful and have fun and laugh and smile, they are not mutually exclusive.
Unfortunately I’m this day and age people forget that and go around looking for things to be offended by when it doesn’t even have anything to do with them. What’s offensive to one person isn’t to another. Some instaho taking topless pictures in the exclusion zone might be seen as disrespectful to you but some of those coal miners that basically donated their health to save millions of people might just think it’s the greatest thing ever.
As long as someone isn’t destroying things or making fun of the victims then just calm down, they care enough of the history to get themselves there and like it or not they’ll usually get other people interested in what happened there.
"Their stuff" are not there anymore: the whole place seem to be looted. The bits you can see (neatly dusted doll, book) are put there for the tourists to give them 'heavy heart' - it's all a big show. A dangerous show drenched in radiation.
Searching for higher radiation levels and taking photos of the dosimeter - is not only insane in my eyes but highly disrespectful imo. As if you were hoping and wishing for higher danger, greater destruction.
The real sad fact is Sofia is 73 and is healthier than most 73 year old in the west who were never exposed to any radiation. Hope she has many more good years.
lol.... your making a huge assumption..
She looks like early 60s hard work is important to longevity, boredom and not seeing your own worth is what kills and brings down the elderly
@@Imawhiteboard you're*
During a tour we went into the house of a returnee! She was such a sweet old woman! These people just want to die at home and be buried with their long line of relatives. A van delivers food and benefits money to the villages every week.
I love that she gardens in her bare feet. She's alot like my Granny; I don't understand more than a word or two but it's like Music to my ears !!
This tour is sad and serious. So sad all the ppl that suffered. The money from the tour should goto any surviving family of those lost. Maybe goto hospitals or a memorial of all who was lost from this nitemare.
That’s a great suggestion
Karen, if you watched HBO'S miniseries Anatoli Dyatlov should suffer for his stupid behavior
@@SpeedBlake he'll have a job to,he's dead
Or they could use the money to rehabilitate the area and remove some of the fallout.
Karen Leister I always love watching people tell other people how their money should be spent.
I’ve heard the residents were not allowed to take their pets with them. Heartbreaking. 💔
nope, they were hunted by liquidator squads. The should have been left alone to try to survive in the wild, which many would have.
@@sark76 many pets were just locked in flats, this is sad
All the pets would die 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥
sark76 - They couldn't just leave them there though.... They where radioactive and harmful to their environment and food web, so they tried to take out as much as they could.
They could not take their pets because they would threaten the environment. It was easier and a more safe decision for the USSR to eliminate the threat at the source. By hindering the reproduction of these animals it limited the danger. It is sad for most that these animals had to die. (Not just pets, but they tried to kill every animal within the exclusion zone because they were contaminated.) They thought of safety over petty and personal keepings of animals/pets. If they didn't make this decision, a lot of more animals would be suffering of mutations.
The zone and the buildings that remain should be treated as a memorial, not damn tourist attraction. Many lives were sacrificed during the clean up and many more were taken in the aftermath. These people were heroes and deserve our respect forever.
It's the Ukrain what do you expect honestly they poor as hell and will do anything for money at this point
I find your comment highly offensive.
@@lynzblk u are sick 😒
princess larry yeah right ?
@@girlysoap9031 Not wrong though.
Making memorial is same as poking hole in already sinking ship. Its insensitive bullshit to not make tourism and education out of that.
When the accident happened I was twelve and I live in Greece. The government told us to stay indoors for four days and not open any windows. I remember not understanding what was truly going on. I'd never visit this place....never....
I was born 1 year after Chernobyl I have a genetic disorder I’m wondering if it’s due to Chernobyl particles reaching USA .
Allison Barnes that would be very bizarre if it came from that but you never know i guess !!
Ellemphriem Nil same was in all nearby countries,we were told to stay indoors too in Baltic’s
The tourist thing seems so wrong like an exciting thing for them when it was a horrible disaster that created unhealthy and deformed children. Risking your health just to see the torn up city is strange.
It's all they've got to offer as a tourist destination.
Very sad and wrong..
It's strange! Weird🤔
Is it any different to visiting a concentration camp from WWII? Auschwitz is still a popular tourist destination. It's a very humbling and sad experience but also necessary to keep the reality of what happened there alive so we don't make the same mistake in the future. The people in the surrounding village had no real concept of what was happening there at the time. If they wanted to ask questions or talk about it, it was too dangerous. In the same way, the workers at Chernobyl had 'questions' about the test that was being carried out but they could barely speak up due to the way they were trained to obey without question (at the risk of losing their jobs or more).
Dude.. i was going to write something against your comment then i watched the video. For me these people seem like scum giggling in this tragic place. Tourism related to tragic is interesting as in what is acceptable, the pyramids in egypt were built by slaves, so was the white house but thats a long time ago. What is closer to our time is the ww2 camps but there are gold arguements for why it is an acceptable tourist destination. Even some of the survivors visited these places years after they were liberated. Hearing diferent peoples opinions about this is always interesting
Its definitely not something everyone wants to do and while I don't think the guides should be exposing themselves so much to the area it is important to keep the memory of this disaster alive. This also helps their economy as this is a poor nation they definitely can use it and these people want to tell their stories and if it helps their economy then why not.
As an Australian I'm deeply sorry about a fellow Australians lack of acknowledgement of such a sensitive subject. Sending lots of love.
Free West Papua I’m embarrassed also as an Aussie.
@@paulmcdonough1093 really?? Look up the convict history it was incredible brutal. Also the Australian government in the second world war was ready to write off the top part of Australia. We go through bushfire, flooding, cyclone and really really bad drought yep real easy stuff that is. Oh not to forget what our aboriginal have gone through. Yes we might not have had things happen like what has happened in Europe but we deal with our share of stuff happening.
You would be surprised at how many Australians don't know about it, I fully agree with you.
Bec Gould It was stupid for that person to say that Australia has had it easy...NO country has had it easy - there’s always a dark past
@@sugakookies8063 thank you I do fully agree with you.
@@becgould3772 try having your entire town and much further out all radioactive and never being able to go back. And imagine loosing absolutely everything. What you guys get like droughts you get yearly so you guys are most likely used to it but you arent used to radioactive land. Go live in Chernobyl tell me how you'll feel
Tourists? Amazingly disrespectful. People lost their lives there - some through self-sacrifice, others were innocent victims. I wouldn't really consider that a laughing/joking kind of place to visit.
Tourism is not always "laughing and joking"...
Blame the people who opened it as a tourist attraction
Tourism is not a sign of disrespect. People are allowed to be fascinated and curious about such a huge disaster in human history.
I disagree. It would be far more disrespectful to forget all about Chernobyl.
People need to be reminded. There are still 10 RBMK reactors in Russia today.
Poor Sofia had to waste her water for this interview.
I wish I knew how to send money in aid of that children's clinic. They don't even have a proper electrocardiogram. That's so incredibly heart-breaking.
The world is at your fingertips....
Andrew Vernon no,that was awful,lots of neighbour countries were also advised to be vigilant,due to winds and rains,and I still remember we were advised to stay indoors during the rain in the weeks after catastrophe
Exactly; me too. Instead, Journey Pictures is only doing this for self-promotion, not to help anyone else. And they could have easily done that too given how much space in the description they allot to their own social media feeds. Total narcissism.
“Creatures”... It’s disgusting tourists don’t see the victims as people to be respected 😪
I guess he talked about wild animals with two heads and other deformities
I’m hoping so! It doesn’t seem clear in the video if he is or not, but I took the general excitement over it to be disrespectful.
@@SB-wj8oj I went to Chernobyl and saw stray cats, they were very friendly and I could touch them. The video is on my channel. Feel free to leave a comment.
@@Pawpawmission You do know cats like to roll in sand? And that you touch your face a lot with your hands? I hope you stay at good health. All the best!
@@tink_a i hope they don't stay in good health. this spamming comment as self advertising is sick
The woman they interviewed who has a garden is such a great example of resiliency. What an inspiring human.
I love how they were like "radioactive, dont come back" and she literally was like "no" and went back anyways, and is doing amazing. I love that she's so passionate about her home and garden.
I feel like as long as she isn’t exposing any children to the dangers of living there, more power to her
I feel so sorry for the lady who lost both her sons
The dust might be radioactive; yet you don't have any protective gear... Huh, sounds stupid to me
Ya, he says don’t touch anything bc the dust is radioactive, as he walks through it and touch’s the door.
I'm really starting to believe these conspiracy kooks, saying nukes don't exist... I get it now!
@@lovesanimalshatesrats6339 and kneels down to show a radioactive "hotspot". stupid
@@labbeaj Your skin is very resistant to radiation so touching low doses of radioactive material such as dust will not do anything. It's inhaling and digesting the dust that is the problem however very tiny doses are still okay as most of the surface soil in chernobyl has been removed.
Don't believe uneducated people. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
@@RetroDanceMonsterxX That is the best advice! Not believing uneducated people but also not believing, in general, because it is the opposite of knowing.
In the first two minutes he says he can’t touch anything because of the dust that may be radioactive....but he goes in without a mask?? You kick up dust as soon as you walk through places like this
Prolonged exposure is the keyword. You don't die from x-ray scans,human bodies themselves emit radiation, ISS/pilots are most exposed to radiation.
The thing is, if the radioactive dust gets somewhere hard to get to, a.k.a. your lungs, it will stay there and give you prolonged exposure.
Looking at the thriving nature there proves again, that humans are the greatest pests on this planet... So sad.
Someone's grandmas are really out here playing Fallout: Cottagecore, amazing.
If that tourists felt that feeling of chaos, fear and death, what people felt many years ago... they would not go there and be so excited about that place. People are nuts.
"we were told not to touch anything"
*touches a door a second later*
That's how you know it's propaganda. It's all done for dramatic effect, he knew there was no risk, at least not in that area.
Yeah- because the doorknob wasn’t covered in layers of radioactive dust
Still, the risk is low with the amount of time people like the presenter spend in the area. It’s prolonged exposure and spending developmental years (pre and post birth) in areas with consistent levels of radiation. See: the part about the hospital and the children.
One of my favourite singers is from a city where most of the evacuees from Pripyat were sent. She lost part of her lung as a teenager due to a cancerous tumour.
On a smaller scale, x-ray technicians stand behind protective shields and shit while patients don’t because getting an x-ray isn’t dangerous but being exposed to that amount of radiation day in and day out for years is
You should watch " Igor: Child of Chernobyl (Medical Documentary) by Real Stories
These people have lived on and of this contaminated land for 30+ years. They drink the water, eat the food grown on it and they thrive. The power of their devotion to their home and land are a huge factor in their survival. Not one looks I'll. Bless them all in health and happiness the remainder of the lives ❤
The firemen's uniforms are under a giant mound of sand? There are videos on RUclips or Chernobyl tourists walking around the basement in street clothes pointing geiger counters in at the firemen's boots and uniforms. The gear are scattered about... It's terrifying that the government are permitting tourism but doing nothing to secure the site.
It used to be free and scattered around till a few years ago. It was buried under sand when the "tourism" started.
KiK D Chernobyl Stalkers are still getting past the sand in order to film in the basement.
@@x87-64 I was watching a video from a guy called 'Exploring With Josh' posted April 2018. They did actually don some face masks in the end, but really, that's not going to help your much when it comes to radiation. I'm pretty sure you can still get down there. It really shouldn't be possible...
@@kikkd how about people respect where they shouldn't be? They know the risks. İt's not the government's fault people go in and do these things. People need to take responsibility for their own actions.
@@chunkylass8671 I think the issue is that people don't fully understand the risks. This is a hazard that cannot be seen and because they are 'allowed' to go they believe it to be completely safe. People are taking items (such as fireman's hats) away from the site. That's a government issue that they need to take responsibility for.
I still remember there were gates,guards,patrols and checkpoints... and now you can stamp a ticket and take the mickey mouse train to pripyat.... sad times...
I was 2 when it happened, I remember when I was a bit older, around 8/9 we had a group of children come over to UK for the summer holidays. That 4-6 weeks the children spent in the UK prolonged their life’s by years.
Hats off to the tough little olde ladies !
with all of the money being gained from tourists visiting chernobyl, at least some of it should go towards getting proper medical equipment for the hospitals that treat affected children.
I grew up in the 80s, being afraid and taught to protect against sudden nuclear attack. We also were very aware and educated about Earth health
Very weird for me to see tourism here.
Weird, but necessary and understandable: some of the money from each tour group goes to a survivors' fund, and for the people leading the tours, they could have a shit job paying $300/month (the AVERAGE Ukrainian wage) or have a job that allows them to interact with curious foreigners, they earn up to $1,000/month (if not more) and they can impart on them the lessons of this tragedy that they might not otherwise get if they don't have HBO.
@@Schnitz13 Thanks for your reply, what you are saying makes sense
So much tragedy associated with the whole place and these tourists are acting like their going to an amusement park. Gross.
It would kill me to my core if I saw someone’s selfie in my old community or in or near my home in Pripyat.
Apparently, we haven't learned anything from this. Sad.
I remember that day very clearly. In fact I was even online talking about it a few weeks after it happened in online forums. One of which I ran back in 1988. Many people had no idea it even happened for a while. The first people to know were members of online boards that got informed by people from Pripyat that used the boards.
People, if you are planning to visit there don't take the radiation lightly. Prepare a week or so in advance with iodine drops or pills to keep it from absorbing into your thyroid and wear something over your eyes, mouth, nose and entire body. It's no joke. If you get an exceptionally radiated particle into your lungs you could very well be in for the most horrible agonizing death you can imagine. Radiation sickness is a terrible way to die and you have no idea exactly where the hot spots are and how long you have been in one, even if only a few minutes, since they tend to move around depending on growth, wind, seasons. I suspect we'll be seeing these guides becoming ill in the next several years.
There is a reason x-ray techs don't stay in the room when you get an x-ray.
Be safe everyone, and don't be prideful. Just go, and don't take pics. Respect the location. It's not a side show. The experience is for in your head. There are plenty of pics and film online if you like to see also.
@Trent There was a form of net and it was the BBS. I ran an online forum myself in 1988. If you go to my channel you can find a video called "My Bedroom In 1989“. In this video on the computer in the background my BBS is running. Of course you can't see the actual BBS software but that is the computer I ran it on. There was mass online communication long before we had something called "internet". A quick web search would have shown this. Take care.
@Trent If you go to BBS Mates website you should be able to search my BBS. I think it's still listed. Would be under the 902 area code and named "Spitting Image" after my fave political satire TV show from back then. My nick was Bugz Bunny. Mariner was my brother. www.bbsmates.com/
might sound cruel, but what should happen once in a while is all Geiger counters going completely nuts and say MAX during the tour. Then the tour guide starts handing out placebo
iodine pills and tell everyone to run for their lives towards the bus, where actors in military hazmat suites tell them to turn around and go back. The radiation levels might be down, but it's not meant as some kind of bucketlist item...
The most alarming thing is that the reactors which are beyond their life spans are still being used.
And if the remedial safely work preventing the possibility of a positive void coefficient hasn’t been completed, another Chernobyl incident could occur.
I agree. These are ancient reactors based upon 1950's Soviet technology. The should have been decommissioned decades ago.
Even CANDU reactors have a small positive void coefficient. It's not the end of the world. The RBMK design isn't even that terrible. The real problem is that this reactor had had all its fly-by-wire automatic control systems bypassed and people were manually pulling out all the control rods.
It's astounding to me that tourists are going there...
I remember when that happened.
Certainly nobody imagined it would ever become a hotspot for tourism because of the disaster 😬
85 years old looking healthier than people in their 50s in the big cities.
Not really
@@QRG707 actually daisy's s right. She looks young for an 84 year old
Why is the reporter not wearing protective clothing , gloves and a face mask to stop breathing in and absorbing all the hazardous radiation.
Shame on them for turning this into a tourist attraction!
Dee Fredericks It’s not necessary anymore.
Exactly I feel the same way
It's perfectly safe so long as you're there for only a certain amount of time. The most dangerous radiation particles always have the smallest half life, so a lot of what was dangerous back when the reactor exploded is now safe.
Only long exposur will be dangerous to people, and it's been a tourist attraction far longer than than this guy first arrived or when this was first filmed.
He’s stupid...? Extra safety isn’t stupid, zero safety is stupid!
Actually the radiation is gone down considerably. There are pockets where it's bad but some areas there's none at all
Who ever thought that one could capitalize on a disaster?
Hm, capitalism, probably 😉
Multiple films and dozens of books about the sinking of the Titanic, couple feature films of 9/11 and to top it all off just look how many films, books, videogames have been made of WW2 and the holocaust. People just love tragical stories.
9/11
It's happened at places like various concentration camps. It's a way for people to learn and understand, to see mistakes and horrors we've committed as people. So we don't do such things again, or allow them to happen. If we hide from it, don't face it, things can happen again. And, in this case, it can remind people that it is still a looming danger that we need to maintain in order to keep safe - the encasement needs updating in another 100 years. If we keep people interested, and seeing it, they'll understand and know.
At least this is my opinion.
There is a market for everytjing
Sophia's passion is so humbling and also courageous. All the self settlers are so brave.
Sad to see that people visiting there are laughing, There are many sad stories there....
The British lads who's going in to the restricted zone has nothing to lose!!? The all look contaminated and damaged!
How rude....... And you look like such a catch Aristole. (NOT)
its "lose", not "loose"
Bob Bowie I’m glad u got the point!
@@JRsttl88 when did you get back from there it took your 1 brain cell :)
Paul Mcdonough ask ur mom dear ...she was there first... that’s why she spawn an imbecile bellend like u😀
Each visiter is assigned a gigameter...
Quagmire has entered the room...
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I'm not at all surprised that the 'young British men' are very clearly middle to upper class boys. I'm really not surprised. 😅
18:38 “never seen wild horses in England” there’s tonnes mate haha
I thought the lady was in her 50’s she’s in her 70’s!! She looks so young!
Violeta Cardenas you thought she was in her 50’s? You must be kidding!
Agne Ki why would I be kidding? it’s my opinion
Ikr? She looks so young for such an old age!
Another effect of radiation
I was 3 when it happened. I can't remember anything related to the incident. My parents told me the government issued iodine tablets to all children.
I literally lived 43 miles away from there growing up and none us never even thought about to go there and visit. We were impacted by the radiation too so we got free school and medical. I’m just in awe that ppl want to go there all together.
It must be so haunting to be there considering so many lost their lives. Hope they rest in peace.
24 000 years are required to reduce the level of radiation only by half!
By dad in the west of Poland had to take medicine 24hrs a day so that he wouldn’t be exposed to the radiation
If you seen the babies and children dying from their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents being exposed, you’d would never say “oh, let go on a vacation trip to Chernobyl.”
This is terrible and disappointing that people are thinking Chernobyl is a Tourist attraction, the Reactor Core is still active, everything around that section filled with radioactive radiation and people are eating ice cream and hotdog nearby it, making selfies in confinement suits. The entire Area should be sealed and forbidden for tourists. This is a great example that Humanity has learned nothing from this Catastrophe, first of all to respect nuclear energy.
I wonder about their shoes and why they don't have their shoes covered.
Because the areas where the tourists are taken have extremely low levels of radiation. As they showed, you can have higher levels just a few steps away, but for the most part the radiation is confined to a few small areas here and there, which are easily avoided with the Geiger counters the guides carry.
Seeing all the misinformation in the comments I think basic education on what radiation can and can not do would be a wonderful idea.
It's both more benign and far more dangerous than most people seem to understand.
Thu benign? Since when is radiation benign? Only when it’s at low levels. It causes cancer, we know that. It also can cause birth defects in babies from mothers or fathers who have been exposed to radiation. There isn’t much more I need to know. I know that the left overs of that disaster, inside the plant, are so radioactive.....humans can’t even get close enough to look at it. It’s called medusa for this very reason......nuff said..lol!
Which type of radiation are you refering to? The kind that lets you communicate over continents, powers your home or the stuff that cooks you from the inside?
Ever eaten a banana, had an x-ray, flown on a plane, or gone out in daylight? Congrats you've been exposed to radiation. Every minute of every day of your life you are exposed to radiation from both natural and manmade sources. That's what I mean by a lack of education and why teaching people this is a good idea.
I’m all for urban exploring but making jokes about “mutants” is beyond inappropriate. Maybe during their tour they should visit an orphanage where those “mutants” go to die because their family can not afford to care for them.
My mom left Chernobyl the day before this happened.
Tiear Dragon woooow
Milky Peach my mom 4-26-45
Damn so lucky!
@Serban Diuligher if she hadn't left she would have been dead and I wouldn't have been born. she was 20 when she visited Chernobyl on vacation, she originally had to leave the day after the explosion would have happened, but she decided to leave early to visit family in another city.
@Serban Diuligher the vacation spots were closer to the reactor, she would have died of radiation poisoning.
You're stiring up dust walking around and opening doors as is.
I was born in Ukraine and I've heard this story all my life. Ukraine is just so poor they stopped caring about living and fixing the problem. They are waiting like it's a ticking time bomb.
waiting for what?
Outdated equipment to save those children and their military is advanced technology
Priorities are backwards.
20 000 years without humans in cernobyl. You lucky land
Yea baby here's my money I wanna visit Chernobyl to touch , eat and breath radiation.😂😂😂😂😂😂
I wonder if the water tastes good
You sheeple are easy to fool, you believe every lie you are told, comical and amazing.
Are you crazy
the sarcasm is so up there tho
You get more radiation yearly from the sun than staying there for an hour or two.
I was only 4 years old when this happened, but it still breaks my heart that many died for the sake of science and also the ones who were in the reactor when it blew up.......RIP guys
These reactors are based upon 50's Soviet technology. Far too many flaws, even for the era. Modern designs are orders of magnitude safer than these dinosaurs.
Pretty sick that’s it’s a tourist attraction. At first I thought ok, let’s educate people but then see them putting on suits and having fun!😞
I agree. The tours should be treated as an educational experience and a sobering reminder of how quickly things can go wrong and the impact they could have even years later. Unfortunately people are treating it like it's some sort of joke not realizing this is someone's home that they will never be able to go back to. My heart goes out to those affected by this disaster.
Hey, if i were those lovely old ladies I would return back to my home as well. I'm sure they would have a very difficult time adjusting to the modern world and they just want to end their days in their home . And truthfully they probably will pass away before the effects of long-term radiation exposure start to effect their health.
When the tragedy really hit me in this documentary was when they showed briefly the pediatric ward. Then the still Ferris wheel which never operated has a duplicitous emotion of anticipated happiness of children enjoying a ride and and a still, morbid sadness that resonates in the story.
Just like people who use x-rays during their jobs, they're the ones exposed more than the patients.
That one British guys teef were mad trippy ahahahahha
very creepy, I feel death all around me just looking at the inside of the that hospital.
When you walk you stir up dust but no protection !
Damn, if I knew I was going to die soon then I’d just use that time to help clean the forests and soil. I have such great respect for the people who lost their lives helping to contain the situation.
I think it's good to see it as a tourist place - so people can be educated. I think people need to learn and be reminded how dangerous it still is - that the enclosure around the reactor needs updating every so often, like in 100 years, so people remember and now how it needs to be maintained and are willing to ensure it happens. If people forget...if people don't see it for the possible danger it can be, again, in the future if it's not maintained...it can become a danger. I think it's good for people to see what can happen when using this sort of energy...and learn about how people were uninformed, for so long, due to the type of government at the time.
I just hope more people to be tour guides are found so it's safer for them all, less time spent there. But I see the need for this, in my opinion. Take away the false rumors, mutants and such, and give them the truth and what the future outlook is, that it will need a new enclosure in time. Keep this fresh in peoples minds.
Oh sweet baba❤️ the poor souls. I pray they find their peace and the sorrow melts away.
I hope someone helped that cat
You could not pay me to risk my health like that! I will not be visiting in this life time.
you are so right ….have all these people been so dumb-ified or no one learns anything in schools anymore--THIS IS RADIATION ZONE PEOPLE--regular Ukrainians would not go there ever . Of course there will be someone making money off of dumb westerners.
Apparently the nuclear cleanup will be completed in 2065 ... I think that means they will stop cleaning it up because it’s still going to be radioactive for another 2000 to 3000 years
I would visit if I manage to survive college.
@@gachablueberries5002 Actually you couldn't be more wrong than that...Pripyat is very safe nowadays except from some few hotspots like the Pripyat hospital in the basement for examle...there is no point making Chernobyl like it happened yesterday...
@@alex_6911 please indicate the valid source you draw this info from ---
"Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history, created an inadvertent laboratory to study the impacts of radiation - and more than twenty years later, the site still holds surprises.
Reinhabiting the large exclusion zone around the accident site may have to wait longer than expected. Radioactive cesium isn't disappearing from the environment as quickly as predicted, according to new research presented here Monday at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Cesium 137's half-life - the time it takes for half of a given amount of material to decay - is 30 years. In addition to that, cesium-137’s total ecological half-life - the time for half the cesium to disappear from the local environment through processes such as migration, weathering, and removal by organisms is also typically 30 years or less, but the amount of cesium in soil near Chernobyl isn't decreasing nearly that fast. And scientists don't know why.
It stands to reason that at some point the Ukrainian government would like to be able to use that land again, but the scientists have calculated that what they call cesium's "ecological half-life" - the time for half the cesium to disappear from the local environment - is between 180 and 320 years."
Cool documentary.
I'm from Latvia and know that we also got struck by this accodent.
Hell the swedish where the first ones which discovered that radiation is a bit too high
WHY IS NO ONE WEARING PROTECTIVE GEAR
Nizz 0matic because they aren’t allowed off the designated paths and limit kicking up dust. The radioactive material is heavy, the dust is the dangerous bit.
Because the core isn't emmiting any rays through the dome. The soil was also removed from the surface so there isn't much dangerous dust around either. The doses of radiation are very low and your skin blocks out almost all of it.
People are also still dying because of this disaster. The radioactive cloud travelled as far as Scotland. The numbers dying from cancer due to exposure to radioactivity from Chernobyl does not get hardly mentioned, it is still happening.
*There is NO AMOUNT OF MONEY on earth that could get me to go there.*
If I so much as _sneezed_ after visiting, I would forever wonder if we’re simply dust or due to the radiation i inevitably encountered due to my “vacation” to Chernobyl 😳
And how nice now that it’s a tourist attraction we’re millions can visit and come back to contaminate the rest of the world.
Is cancer, stress and the Standard American Diet not taking us out fast enough that we need death tours to speed us along?? 🤔
Sheesh 🤦🏼♀️
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I visited the region 3 months after the disaster happened. Had cancer 34years later.
No ty I don’t want to risk my life for something like this , and everyone is being so disrespectful to this event it’s so sad that they don’t notice it
Those women are so respectable for loving their land that much. No one has that connection to their motherland anymore, the way they described the landscape they grew up with sounded like they were talking about family. It's something that so many are missing nowadays.
Why risk the visit?
Because there is no risk. You'd get more radiation on the plane traveling there, from Cosmic Rays from Space and the airport if X-Rayed.
@@Diamonddavej if you stay on the touristroad, yes
The scary thing is what they mention towards the end. That despite this tragedy, they still use too old reactors, and do not take safety seriously enough..
I've been to the Anne Frank house, that was bad enough...humans will never learn from their mistakes.
I’m a radiographer and always wanted to go to Chernobyl. I certainly wouldn’t be treating it as a trip to the theme park. I use radiation to help diagnose and treat people and it would be so interesting for me to see how inversely devastating it can be to people’s lives. I suppose I won’t be going now if Putin has his way 🙁
I love how sweet and protective of Sofia he is
Why is it wrong to visit? Tons of people visit Auchwitz, Tower of London (beheaded people buried beneath), the beaches of Normandy, Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Ground Zero, etc. And what about people's curiosity about the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald? Tons of people were killed in those places, too. It's history and humans are curious about history. As for the jokes, they can often be fueled by people's helplessness over a situation, not by lack of caring.
and all because of one guys ego..namely Anatoly Dyatlov .... he blames the RBMK reactor but he made his own rules up in the control room ( eg running at 200mw instead of the 700mw it was designed for ) ...
Imagine you're thinking you're so cool, in this super dangerous and outlawed place then you look around and find just loads of old people gardening and getting drunk, try feeling cool then
when i watch this video the ad was ' visit chernobyl' like wth people make that scary and painfully place as a tourist destination,, and just for a freaking selfie, no mask and any protaction. why people dont thing the long term of spending time in there? i just dont understand them.
the entire region is, in itself a monument, to the heroism of the few and the fates of the rest. The people had their lives stopped at this point in history, many didn't survive, many did with serious illnesses, others had children sadly deformed through the mother's exposure to radiation, so this entire region should not be a tourist attraction, it should be respected and left in peace.
No one discussing Fukishema??? I know spelling is wrong but still releasing radiation into our oceans still to this day
Fukushima
I agree! This is never talked about. The damage to the ocean and the fish 😢
Or Marshall Islands, where US tested nuclear weapons.. it is more radioactive when Chernobyl or Fukushima.. and located much closer to US, than Ukraine, for example. Here www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/asia/marshall-island-radiation-chernobyl-intl-hnk/index.html
Makes you wonder Why's this planet is slowly dying, people trying to save earth from global warming but how can you fully save it with that crap leaking into the ocean.
福島 is just now allowing certain sites to be cleaned up, the entire area is still radioactive, there’s still not much we can do right now
Shame on these people this was once many people’s homes this is a tragedy ,not a tourist attraction shame on the people who made this!
Next, we will have fun at the town of Asbest
To the narrator, it's not a"gigger" meter,its a "Geiger counter" .
Linda Storey a meter is a device that measures and records the quantity, degree, or rate of something. It’s the same thing. 🤦🏻♀️ & making fun of his accent is just unnecessary.
@@Kimberly-wt1nu the Op wasn't making fun of his accent. I'm sure they didn't have the intent. They are correct of the fact that the narrator mispronounced Geiger. It's full name is Geiger-Müller Counter and is used to dectect and mesure ionizing radiation. It was invented by Hans Geiger and Walther Müller. So proper pronunciation doesn't hurt. Even if you have an accent.