finding radioactivity... in prenzlauer berg, berlin, germany.

[SebiTimeWaster]

ich finde es immer wieder erschreckend in wie weit "journalisten" angaben die ihnen schon wiederholfertig vorgekaut werden dann doch falsch wiedergeben. da werden aus μSv/h auf einmal μSv oder gar mSv, zeiteinheiten werden durcheinandergewürfelt, zusammenhänge weggelassen, einheiten verwechselt. es ist echt ein graus.

[caesiumsalad137]

niiiice!

[bored1980]

Great video! Also, congratulations on getting your physicist's degree in just a few hours! :)

[bored1980]

4:05 - It's not very nice to mock people that don't understand radiation. Everyone must start learning somewhere.

[butterfingers8008]

What type of geiger counter is that? Where did you get it?

[zenoist2]

Do you know what it was proved to be?

[zenoist2]

I suppose this must be funny to an expert.

I wouldnt have a clue of whats safe and normal how much it varies etc and whats definitely not good.

I can understand natural influences maybe varying it.

200.000 times normal to an idiot like me sounds really bad though.

[thefamousDrFeelgood]

und wer hats jetzt wiklich verloren???

[bionerd23]

@thefamousDrFeelgood

die information liegt mir leider nicht vor. :(

[oafKC]

nice . . .

I want gamma scout . . .in my conutry costs about 600 euro . . .

I have an old military geiger . . .

[Maxwell9959]

Finde ich gut! Du bist Deutsche, oder? I like it! You are German, aren't you?

[web1bastler]

is ja lustig

lol was der reporter gesagt hat

"ist das die bombe zum entschärfen?" lol

[MrACMILANFOREVER]

like my tires ....radiation . Did you discover that, or you have you been there because the place was famous because the tv or media know before you?

[lekkimsm2500]

What is the yellow geiger counter? brand and model?

[bionerd23]

@lekkimsm2500

gamma scout, ALERT version.

[lekkimsm2500]

@bionerd23 ... the big one :)

[bionerd23]

@lekkimsm2500

CDV700, maybe. dunno which you're talking about. would need MIN:SEC timestamp definition to really tell you, e.g. "the one at 3:22!".

[web1bastler]

@bionerd23

kostet aber auch einiges

[slapleatheru3]

You are one cool lady.[iminent=6cQQzlR59l2]

[megasmart1337]

mongos

[charliegirl6]

Yey! It's nice to see people geeking out with the things they love. :))

[obblan]

I see you get disturbed when people talk about things they dont know so much about. I get disturbed to. But i also find it amusing. So i never correct them.

[11crasher11]

...there must be a roman guy burried under there...

That made me laugh loud! :D

[LordEthan2]

you need a fkin boyfriend

[RockSteadyRus]

watch?v=tI4oj7hKQLw

Nice

[pc4gamers]

I'm just wondering, why did they make you take out the bit where you went back to see if there was any safety personnel or anything a reply would be much appreciated keep up the good work !

[bionerd23]

@pc4gamers

well, i'm not sure which precise bit you mean, but anyway, i edited all stuff where either tv broadcast content or people / physicists etc. were clearly visible.

[ThinkingBetter]

One hour of 30mSv/hour is scary. Just imagine a city event of someone standing there for an hour. Your body just got 30 years of the equivalent to background radiation induced mutations with no time for the cells to recover. But still perhaps only 2% increase in cancer risk I would guess.

[bionerd23]

@ThinkingBetter

well, not really. his feet would receive the equivalent of that, yes, but he wont be getting a full body dose of 30 mSv...

[ThinkingBetter]

@bionerd23 True, but it's quite interesting how such a strong radiation level can go undetected for so many years in such a high traffic area. I often set my Terra-P to warn at 0.2uSv/Hour while driving around and have yet to get a positive detection. I wonder how far away from a spot like this I would start to see > 0.2uSv/Hour radiation.

[alancj05]

@ThinkingBetter if my reading is right then 30 mSv is equal to 3 rem which is well below anything immediately dangerous. Some research or evidence indicates that about 10 rem per year is a good optimum for human health. Low doses, even seemingly high doses have a positive impact on human health. It's the crap loads in 5 minutes kinda radiation that does a guy in. Off course you don't want to pitch a tent on it for more than a day, that's when cancer risk does increase.

[Doppelbuckel]

@ThinkingBetter

1 Sv full body dose gives you 5 percent increase of cancer AFAIK.

[chemiealex]

Die Tatsache, dass Medien viel Blödsinn schreiben und sich die Wahrheit so hinbiegen, wie sie sie brauchen, ist wohl nicht nur unter Hobbychemikern bekannt...

Auf alle Fälle ist das ein echt interessantes Video!

[Thallium208]

@bionerd23 Just a duplicate. YouTube sometimes doesn't say "OK" when a comment is posted, so it gets posted twice as happened here.

[bionerd23]

@Thallium208

oh yeah, i see now. didnt see that initially, as it was flagged as "spam" - sorry!

[Thallium208]

Fascinating mini-documentary! Sorry you had to take down the original, which I also saw. I dream of finding stuff like this, but never have. There was a particular reporter who wondered if the Bonner-ball neutron detector was a bomb--presumably for instantly cleaning up the site! Too funny! Unfortunately, this episode also reveals some very lazy and inaccurate reportage by the traditional press. I'm glad you were able to set them straight on a few things! Nice find!

[elphreaker]

Really loved it bionerd23, nice one! I suppose all the censoring was due to using news media no?

[derbaroper]

ich sag's ja immer wieder... berlin ist halt total überbewertet! überall diese verstrahlten scene-menschen!!! ;)

[gekesulen]

wtf dit your where man ome kind of lead skirt thing for the hospital?

[EA78751]

congratulations on your news appearance and new job title.

[marenmarcochris]

Total interessant! Wusste gar nicht, dass diese Methode auch bei "normalen" Rohren eingesetzt wird.

Mal eine andere Frage, diese Torfbrände in Russland haben ja auch auf kontaminierten Boden übergegriffen, kann der Rauch da irgendwie gefährlich werden? Ich glaube den Medien nicht mehr viel, da frag ich lieber jemanden der Ahnung hat. :)

[bionerd23]

@marenmarcochris

theoretisch ja, aber auch ich habe keine ahnung, inwieweit die feuer jetzt WIRKLICH auf kontaminierte gebiete uebergegriffen haben...

[ArmaHighVoltage]

Nice reportage. It's quite high the radiation level :|

[Radium1337]

cäsar 137 hahahahahahahaahhahaha! neues element entdeckt oder was? :p

wieviel kostet n portables strahlenmessgerät?

[bionerd23]

@Radium1337

"portables strahlenmessgeraet" ist ja alles moegliche. GM-zaehler? proportionszaehler? scinti-zaehler? sca? mca? riid? insofern: zwischen fuenfzig euro und fuenfzigtausend euro.

[vk2zay]

Anyone know how long the source had been there?

[bionerd23]

@vk2zay

more than 20 years, as the last roadworks were done then.

[vk2zay]

@bionerd23 No doubt similar hot-spots occur all over the place. Unless someone camps out over one for a few days there is no real danger to health.

I know of one particular spot in Sydney where there was once a Radium refinery, the general area has slightly elevated background levels. Of no real consequence, but every now and then the press make a big deal out of it.

[omegahunter9]

You'd think that the TV content would fall under FAIR USE. I would have a hard time arguing that this video isn't for EDUCATIONAL purposes. Of course that's US law, and I don't really know what the law is over there...

[10mintwo]

That's bullshit! Did the bundesministerium fur reaktorsicherheit make you take down that infos or something because of "security risk"? Because other print media published all those guys' faces all over the place! And they have a lot of pictures of the equipment they were using too! I had never seen a plastic scintillator based survey meter before, so your old video was really interesting. Oh well.....

[tesla242]

Jejeje This is why I love Berlin ;) You can almost find a Cesium source in the middle of the street jejeje Great documentary video! absolutely curious stuff, this kind of things didn´t happen every day. I wonder how the source was discovered. There are not too many people who walks around with his pocket geigers on :P

[bionerd23]

@tesla242

it was just a test drive by the ABC (atomical, biological, chemical) truck response team (department of the firefighters)... they school their people in the use of the radiation monitors and all. well, this time, the devices went off during routine cruising in berlin streets... so the radioactive source was found by pure chance.

[nhojmabon]

That's quite funny how wrong the newspapers were, thanks for sharing :)

[1ownjoo2]

Its sucks that the other video was taken down or something.... I so want to talk to the guy who called me ignorant... The wildifres in Russia are also near Bryansk which is a forested area contaminated with caesium 137... Chernobyle isnt the only area with radiation is he stupid or something... God... i really hate people who call others ignorant when they are the ones who know nothing.

Yea im talking to you LechuCzechu i hope you read this

[warezvz]

jetzt bist du ein nuklearer starnchien

[TurboDally]

Have you tried pointing the detector at a boiling kettle? IF it does detect radiation there what would be your explanation of it?

[bionerd23]

@TurboDally

hydrogen fusion! \o/

lol, just kidding. hmmm. maybe radon. i know radon levels can dramatically increase when e.g. taking a shower; radon is freed from the water as it is in contact with air. however, i dont know if that's even more so the case with boiling water... i could imagine that, but it's a mere guess, dont take it for a fact.

[wowggscrub]

what kind of pipes sewage ?

[UnoRaza]

I'm a computer geek by trade and every article in a non-technical paper/journal would rarely be accurate.

Goes to show we should ignore what we read in those contexts unless we want to plant the seeds of "garbage in/garbage out".

Congradulations on your new careers / promotions /demotions in the MSM! ;D)

[bionerd23]

@UnoRaza

haha, thanks. yeah, GIGO sounds crap, too! i'll rather go with FIFO as far as that's possible legally. and in my case, I == O, and not I != O. ;)

[Phacias]

Why have You had to censor this video?

[bionerd23]

@Phacias

issues with the copyright holders of some of the shown material.

[Phacias]

@bionerd23 Ahh, I see ;) Stupid owners of their property ;p

[UnoRaza]

Thanks for sharing this information; there are some to which it's equally fascinating. Translated too! Thx!Thx!Thx!Thx!

Have you been to Busum? (Near Heide on N.Sea)

Great little city!

[bionerd23]

@UnoRaza

nope, but is there something especially RADIOACTIVE in that city? =)

[dan77l]

thank you for reposting what you could!