24 Hours In The Most Radioactive Places on Earth / On the Ukrainian border: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- People, today, we are in Belarus, close to the Ukrainian border, no more than a dozen miles away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Back in the day, this area counted among the most prosperous in the entire Soviet Union, but the explosion of the No. 4 reactor at the nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986 brought a happy life of thousands of people to an abrupt end. We’ll see the land that will remain unsafe for habitation for hundreds and even thousands of years into the future. We’ll visit ghost villages and towns with their abandoned kindergartens and houses where time seems to have stopped.
This is "The People" project reporting from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
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The guy that does your voice over is absolutely fantastic! He really captures the humour, the message, has a great pace of delivery and makes your English videos great! I seem to remember you might have used another voice over guy for some videos a couple of years ago, and I just wanted to say how good this guy is and please always keep him for dubbing your videos!!
Glad you enjoy it!
For context, the radiation levels that are mentioned here could do with some explaining:
We measure dose to the human body and organs in a unit called Sievert (Sv), or more commonly micro-sievert, which is what can be seen on the counters at 8:50, for example.
Typically, acute radiation sickness happens if you are exposed to between 0.5-1 Sieverts relatively quickly. An (almost) certainly deadly dose of radiation is about 4 Sieverts (again, delivered relatively quickly).
Looking at the counter at 8:50, you can see that it gives a value of 0.35 micro-sievert per hour. This means that you could, in principle, stay at that place for about 2400 hours (100 days) without suffering immediate symptoms.
However, like is mentioned, radiation also has a carcinogenic effect which is unrelated to the short-term dose. For that effect, the total accumulated dose is what matters.
This all means that walking around in the forest, like they do, is harmless. The dose is too small to matter in the short term, and the total accumulated dose is not worse than getting an X-ray scan (in principle, depending on how long they stay). However, living there and being exposed for days and years on end would, statistically, increase the risk of developing carcinogenic diseases.
As for the field mice and bison, they likely does not get cancer because it takes a while for it to happen (cancer, in principle, is a random process). An animal that only lives for a few years is less likely to develop cancer than something that lives for as long as us humans do.
Addition and correction: Other animals that live a very long life (like blue whales) don't get cancer because their bodies adapted to not getting it. Humans usually don't get cancer before 40, which was the life expectancy evolutionary speaking. Cancer rates statistically go up if a dose of 0.1 Sieverts is absorbed within a year. Below that no statistical increase in cancer rates can be detected. meaning in a place where there is 0.35 micro-Sieverts per hour, you can stay for more than 11 thousand days until you get increased cancer. 0.35 Microsieverts thus isn't really a cancer risk. Other places on Earth have 0.35 µSv per hour radiation rates and those places are absolutely fine to live in. (Granite rock formations, being near uranium deposits and so on)
When you're talking about immediate symptoms, you'll never get them from 0.35 µSv/h radiation levels. Those are just too low to get acute radiation sickness, so you could in theory live in that condition indefinitely.
The big issue in Chernobyl is NOT getting irradiated, it's getting contaminated, which means that you somehow get radioactive particles inside of your body, for example by ingesting or inhaling them. That would lead to localized problems in your body. The most radioactive places are mostly a bit underground, there's a layer of top soil that's been washed a little cleaner by either decontamination or rain.
That's why Russians who dug trenches in Chernobyl got radiation sickness. They dug in the soil, exposing higher levels of radiation than those that are measured on the surface.
Very interesting thank you
The world average background radiation is 0.344 uSv/h. The lowest 1 year dose clearly linked to increased cancer risk is around 11.4 uSv/h (~33x background radiation).
Albert Stevens was subjected to an involuntary human radiation experiment and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human (350 uSv/h or 3 Sv/year for 20 years, ~1000x background radiation), he died of a heart disease at 79. He also never got cancer, which shows that an increased risk of cancer is not a guarantee of getting cancer.
So in conclusion the increased cancer risk is absolutely non existent for them.
@@HELLO7657 Accurate! Also: You'd need to take into consideration that most places on Earth that are naturallyradioactive are so due to natural uranium, which is predominantly undergoing alpha decay, which is quite benign unless internal contamination is achieved, as alpha particles don't get through the outer skin layers that are shedded off or even dead already. (So people don't freak out if they find uranium containing minerals.)
The fact the russians went there after invading ukraine, and DUG in and had guys living in the red forest blows my mind. They had 100s of guys get radiation sickness and had to take them back to russia. 😂😂😂 I mean, the senior guys in the russian military took part in this, and knew what was buried there, and they still did it. 😅
Does it really surprise you that much that Russia would knowingly do this to their own soldiers? Cuz it doesn't really surprise me, lol
Go watch Ben from Bald and Bankrupt visiting grandma living whole her life in that area.
Russian soldiers are treated as expendables.
Not only Russians do this think before you comment some shit like this American dropped a freaking nuke in the middle of the ocean while the navy army was there and 3000 troops stationed there majority of them died only 200 hundred or less survived they were exposed to high levels of radiation and all of them died from cancer related illnesses….
I'd take a minimal dose (like 0.5 to 1 Sievert) for radiation sickness instead of the exorbitantly high chance to get blown to pieces in a war I have no motivation fighting in...
Anton i notice your videos got so many views long ago and now only a couple ten thousand now. They are so high quality. You should be getting millipns of views.
COD all ghillied up memory activated
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So are you going to go to Nova Khahovka next and explain to everyone why it wasn't a swamp until not too long ago?
DUUUDE how did you pull this one off? when did you record this?
I've been watching since 2020 man, you are the BEST travel youtuber.
Thank you for your work.
They literally give tours of this zone constantly, it's the least cool thing he did
@@iHaveTheDocumentsBro. Not since the war started
I'm so excited for a new video! My favorite journalist on the internet!!!!
Another Awesome Adventure Thank You Aton 🙂❤👍Watching from Canada🙂
I enjoy your content Anton, keep up the good work.
The part that sucks about this is that you know the tour guides set up these "creepy scenes" in advance for the tourists.
you don't need creepy dolls to know something bad happened.
I don’t mind it plus he trying to make it more Interesting nothing wrong with that
I spent many hours playing the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games and watching videos on Chernobyl so seeing this video is a treat.
woah anton finally grew a beard :D
Anton can't go to is new adventure if we don't subscribe...hmmmm
thank u maxim and anton. I'm only 27 but chernobyl has been fascinating to me since i was about 11/12
Who is Ray Da Asian? i hear you talk alot about him but i dont see him? :P
Where’s Anton? :/
promoted to management apparently
Very interesting watch, even in the Baltics, one of my neighbours was a liquidator during the disaster, I even had the chance to talk to a firefighter a few years ago who was a responder to the fire.
Yess we needed an Anton video 🎉
its NOT Anton tho.....
is the hosts name , Maxi Buttstuff ? lol :))
11:22 any guesses on what soviet brand is that abandoned car
The radiation meter is detecting gamma radiation (from Cs-137 primarily), not beta radiation from Sr-90. The discussion of dose rate is not very accurate - a more accurate description would be that an acute (short term) dose accumulated of greater than 0.50 Sieverts would cause radiation sickness - so the dose rates shown (0.000009 Sv/hr) are extremely low, but above background levels elsewhere in the world.
Fifty thousand people used to live there...
Now it's a Ghost Town... 👻
Lol, antone looks a little different 🤔. Also, i feel like walking around an area that still has radiation in it for a video is kinda not a good idea
Let's hope and pray it never happens again thank you for the video
Rest in peace Wolfie 🙏
Such is life.
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Could end up being Ukraines new "area 51"
wtf is that map bro
I thought Chernobyl was in Ukraine not on the border...
Get out of here, stalker
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It looks like the Monolith didn’t give you any trouble
He'd sided with duty before he went in. Not those freedom hippies......😂
Welcome home, Stalker.
All those bs medals on their jackets. Lol
Vnimaniye Vnimaniye
The views fell off hard and now he's don't normal tourist stuff in his country
Dude I can't believe that your content has taken such a downhill turn. how desperate can you be to do Chernobyl its been done 1000s of times by let alone RUclipsrs, tourist groups lol. this doesn't qualify as dangerous places!
all propaganda the people in the city where forced to leave, by the government not for safety reasons, people still live in Fukishima, people still live on three mile Island, Nagasaki is a thriving city so is Hiroshima, people in fact still live in Chernobyl its not abandon like he said. the only people that died in Chernobyl were the fire fighters exposed directly to the core.
Did you test yourself after handling dusty items in the school? 🫣