This is painful to watch. Did you know Chernobyl is a tourist attraction now? The scientist doesn't wear protection. Not only that, he doesn't tell us what he's measuring in. Another video Geiger Counter/Radiation Monitor shows a guy getting the same readings walking down a street, measuring bananas, and at the beach. He arbitrarily states "above background" but that number varies widely. This video is bunk.
I somewhat dislike that they said "radiation" and "radioactive waste dump" and never care to qualify what that actually means. When people hear "radiation" they immediately go into a craze-freak mode where they imagine high-level spent nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons fallout. This is more in line with toxic waste dumps where people get ill/die slowly if they live too close to them. They are dangerous and need to be sorted out, but not the "you'll die in minutes" kind of dangerous people imagine.
Oh boy, what a crappy video. The presenter shows little knowledge of radiation. The site is a U238 dump where they buried unusable DU from Pu239 production. U238 is an alpha emitter, so holding the geiger counter HALF A METER from the sample won't register shit. Of course, with a 4.4Gy half-life, it's not all that much of an acute radiation hazard anyway. The danger with U238 is in breathing in an aerosol. The protective clothing is a bit overkill. A small nose+mouth mask would have been enough.
I'm pretty sure the guy said suits are for protection againist dust and avoiding radiation somehow staying onto the clothes, he clearly states they don't protect againist radiation, so where's the problem?
Pure horseshit! 10x normal is NOT 'highly radioactive.' It's roughly the level you're exposed to during an airline flight. See XuQgVGDENbU Simon is a f*ing idiot.
I suppose the security is the best and cheapest you can get. you have to be more than the regular jihadist zealot to bother going to Kyrgyzstan and did up low level radiactive waste. You're probably dead from boredom even before you get enogh crap for to contaminate a 100th of an acre. Kyrgyz, i think, are not excactly stuid in these matters :-D
Well there's alpha, beta and other rays that can give you cancer when you breathe them in. These rays only affect really thin skin. The gamma rays are the ones that makes the skin boil and shit. The gamma rays are also what the background radiation consists of. So even if the gamma rays aren't strong enough to hurt you; other kinds of radiation might.
@Davidivov Other types of radioactive particles such as alpha and beta particles are easily stopped. Alphas are stopped by a sheet of paper and betas by a few mm of metal. Those become serious hazards when the are ingested or inhaled. Gamma rays are the main concern and if they are high enough energy they will pass right through the body with no interaction.
@Onefoot08 Yes i know. What i meant was that the locals have no protection against the alpha and beta partices, and the gamma radiation was apparently so low that it wasn't directly harmful.(According to some of the other comments)
So what was trying to say was that it's not only gamma rays that are dangerous; many people seem to believe that.
what you got to think is that a foot deep hole had double the radiation as the air, if terrorists wanted they could go in with hazmat suits and a JCB, dig a twenty metre hole and create a dirty bomb to wipe out a town
Would be curious to see how many of these local people are dying because of these dangerous waste dumps. Yes, if you pitched a tent directly on top of the waste dump and lived there for the year you would probably receive a slightly higher dose than normal (10 x above background is not that much), however you would never receive enough for a lethal dose. People never put these things into context though, just cling to a couple of scaremongering facts to instill interest.
You are all forgetting about accumulation. The longer you are exposed to a low dose the more risk you take. Even the americium in smoke detectors can kill you if you ingest it or file it down into someones food, etc. Accumulative radiation will kill.
@justclimb77 Your argument there is slightly inaccurate. "The longer you are exposed to a low dose the more risk you take" - are you referring to dose? radiation doesn't accumulate in your body when you receive a dose, the dose is a measurement of biological damage caused by an external source of radiation. e.g. beta or gamma. so yes if you stood next to a radiation source for a long period of time there would inevitably be biological damage, however in this particular video this is not the case
These are old uranium mines, run by the Soviets from 1947 to 1968. The mines did not create radiation, the radiation is natural and is not that high. Also, they did not "dump" waste there. These are mines tailings, waste rock from the mines left over after uranium was extracted.
The risk is from natural radon in homes and well water, this could be avoided by ensuring houses are ventilated and well water is left for 24 hours before use (allowing radon & it's progeny to decay).
The suits are only to stop radiactive particles in the dust from contaminating them. If they picked up a radioative isotope on their clothing they could be exposed to radiation for years
@TheKillrob1 no it wouldnt be isotope, it would just be radiation from the radioactive waste, it could also be isotope waste, see a radiactive isotope isnt the waste, its the actual product such as plutonium,uranium,thorium,americium ect. ... the only possible actual isotope that can enter the body is radioactive iodine, which contaminates the thyroid, causing much problems for the body...but here it wouldnt be isotope contamination, just radioactive dust particles
@activeproandrey number 1...it isnt the time in some cases, if radiation is high enough it can kill u in a matter of seconds, radiation is deadly, even in small doses
Yeah i know about this. But there is not very high radioactivity levels. Just more than normal 3-4 times (10-25 microsiverts\hour is normal) 80-120 microsiverts per hour wont kill you in 2 - 3 hrs.
he may have measures a few spots at ten times, but you know there has got to be certain spots at 100 times or even one thousand, if you stay away from these spots I'm sure your fine, maybe not a good place to live for a lenghy period of time since your bound to get contaminated at some point, whether by food or water
rofl you look like idiot douchebags in those suits infront of these people :) hahaha. 10times the normal background radiation is nothing. 5000 times normal radiation is nothing (same as xray scan). Damn you are uninformed idiots :) haha cant stop laughing. At least natives had a good laugh.
@kardas666 10 times the normal radiation is nothing, thats treu. But 5000 times will kill you if you stay to long in a area with such a high background radiation. So maybe YOU should be better informed, you idiot.
@omnomnom85 Why call him an idiot? I would think you are the idiot for being smart enough to know the facts but nasty enough to insult a person who does not. You dick head.
@kardas666 that is true...but how many xrays do you get in your life? I don't think you get an xray 24/7 & 365 such as the locals do....I guarantee life span is shorter here and there are still problems due to the radiation. I'd rather look like and idiot and not get exposed to any unecessary radiation than take a chance.
@saintpedr00 no no no, people said you dumb Americans wearing protective suits at a hardly radioactive area and i just wanted to point ut they arnt american to whoever said that buti forgot to put @(placenamehere). sorry if it appeared that way.
Another thing regarding dirty bombs: they don't really work, at all. Radiation is only acutely dangerous so long as it's concentrated, or if you use extremely short-lived beta and gamma-emitting isotopes. An effective dirty bomb could never be made from long-lived transuranic wastes for this reason.
Rogue states and terrorists have yet to build dirty bombs for that reason. They've built plenty of chemical bombs, now THOSE are horrific. Radiation has nothing on nerve agents and chemical burners.
Soviets, unlike the west, actually know what radiation is and when it's harmful. This stuff is just emitting low quantities of alpha and beta particles, harmless unless ingested. They aren't growing their food directly on top of the sites so they're pretty much fine, they'll more likely die of a number of other causes not associated to radiation at all.
@liviameimei that's why the world has to change we don't know how or when that day will be - but we 'll someday see that change that the needs to keep producing the life in the planet and the goal we have in mind is to conquer another planets around the universe
There is simply not enough information here. No units on the radiation levels. They dont state what the sites are, i can only assume they are low level waste (clothes etc used in the nuclear plant). They make it seem to the public that these are high level waste sites just dunked 5 meters into the ground. Which cant be true. As this would likely result in a national disaster.
This vid seems like nothing more than green propaganda.
@GeologistRob I'm definitely on the same page as you, 4 times larger than background radiation, is not a lot at all. most humans are exposed to 2.0 mSv a year. and U.S. Radiation workers, are allowed to be exposed up to 50.0 mSv a year, without any longterm affects. so as a town being affected with 8.0 mSv of radiation a year, they are hardly going to notice a difference at all. even if they all were exposed to 10 times the amount of a background radiation constantly, they would be fine.
10 times background radiation does not make a significant health risk at all. As a matter of fact 100 times the background radiation doesnt make a significant health risk. Wearing a radiation suit in a area with so low levels of radioactivity makes you americans look like pussies.
Make me laugh how our health and safety culture should extend worlwide, the locals there look bemused at these suited people, robably thinking they are from outer space or something. Wouldn't surprise me if the locals lead a long and health life, yet we in the west as usual are shocked.
Why are you so against this? The world's nuclear waste has to go somewhere. As long as it's not in your backyard, then you shouldn't say anything about it. I don't think anyone in Russia oppose the idea of dumping it in other people's backyard in the beginning. I don't think people in America would mind dumping their in Africa or Asia. Just don't say anything about it, okay. Problem solve as long as it's not in my backyard.
The former Sovjet Union is basically the waste dump of the world for nuclear material. Most of what comes out from germany and france is being deposited more in the north without any protection.
Thats why education must be supressed. If the people knew what radiation is and what it does, there wouldn't be one single nuclear power plant on earth. So just keep the people ignorant and dull to protect the business.
Those levels are purely harmless. Obviously I do not agree with the means of storage, but I assume those readings were in micro sieverts. If it's milli sieverts I'd be a little more worried.
Radiation isnt that bad were taking in radiation just sitting on our couch. It gets bad when you go in to super strong stuff like even nuclear reactors people still work in there,Uranium mines, Nuclear fallout from little boy,fat man, and if the cobalt bomb ever was made and blown up thats bad if you take to much in.
Lol, Im using my Wi-Fi for the Internet to my other rooms and a day in the house with my pc on makes quite a bit of radiation!!! Why do people compain about shit, if every nosey country was so bothered they would pay for it to be cleared up!!!
@lukelikesrock you're talking about "electromagnetic radiation" which isn't dangerous. It doesn't have enough energy to affect the DNA or proteins in cells in any way. Unlike "nuclear radiation" which is trillions of times more energetic.
Comparing the energy of the radio waves given off by your wireless to the energy of radiation ejected by the nucleus of unstable elements, is like comparing a faint breeze, to an armor piercing anti-tank round.
@lukelikesrock Its because geting rid of that stuff is varry super ouber retardidly expencive because that Radioactive metreal probly has a half life of about at lest 4.6 milloun years so its going to be active for a long long long time your going to half to encace it in lead lined bearrls and put it under ground. So your looking at around a cupule of billoun dallers. But your right why don't thay stop b****ing about how big of a problum it is and just fix it we have the teckology!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, never seen such idiots! They get more radioactivtiy at their bodies from the flight to this area, as if they would live there for years! Stupid idiots again!!!
i assume its micro sieverts (the standard gieger counter measure)... in which case less than 10 uSv is minute... you would get a similar amount from radan gas from a weekend in cornwall.
this is not investigative reporting... it is trying to spread fear, of something that people do not understand...
What they don't tell you is mother nature has away of taking care of this stuff over time but it's amazing how animals and people can adjust over longer periods of time but geez i wonder what kind of cancer that country has.
They seem to be the only ones worried the grass is green the animals are grazing and old people are living to be old there, what the hell is the problem.?
@5150gamer HI BILLY MAYS HERE WITH THE ALL NEW RADAWAY! ARE YOU TIRED OF GETTING RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUST AND THOSE HARMFUL RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES? THEN TRY MY ALL NEW RADAWAY!
Why would you wear a hazardious materials suit if the radiation levels were only ten times the regular backround levels. Thats like stading outside for 10 minutes instead of 1. And there was no need for gas masks. It's not like the place got bombed. All those suits do is stop alpha particles anyway.
@stormking14 you are right, ten times is nothing. And, even more nothing, when its only on some spots of 30x30cm. And, of course the meter readings go as you hold it on a radioactive source! This are Geiger Counters, they count every radioactive particel going through them. Theyre calibratet to measure for example 35seconds long, an ONLY THEN the meter reading is the radiation level in uSv/h, and not when you hold it there for a second or two. During the measurement it has to be in place!
@christyandmattshow Fallout is when it rains from the sky in a radioactive cloud. A example would be from a mushroom cloud or a nuclear accident like Chernobyl. Fallout is not from burring radioactive materials.
Average natural background radiation is 2.4 millisievert per year. higher in some places lower in others. So 0,7 microsievert / h would be 6,13 millisievert/ year. 3 times as much but still not dangerous. Remember, radiation should be judged in strengt times exposure length. I hate those mediafucks and their horror fairy tales just so they can sell their crappy TV Shows and newspapers. Simon Reeve should go back to elementary school.
Suits, and crying about that nasty bad security is only the show for the people who dont know anything about radiation, and think its dangerous as hell. 0,70 microSieverts/h! Oh god, I am surprised that they didnt poop in their little ridiculous suits because of that really-really high levels of radiation. Yeah, just ignore the fact, that you are exposed to 2-3uSv/h radiation(about 10 times normal) every single fucking seconds on airplanes(still not dangerous), and just live your ignorant life!
0.64 of WHAT? Microsieverts or what? Looks like just above background to me. Bit of a storm in a teacup, and I'm pretty sure that plug on the rhs of his mask, should have been CLOSED.
they must have felt grate having their car broke down and then seeing some people with gas masks and chem suits on with a geiger counter going off walk past them
LOL, I think the protective suits and all that just propogate the false perceptions of nuclear energy. 10 times normal Background radiation? Big deal. More people would die from second hand smoke that if they spent their entire lives building a house right on top. Get a grip...
spent fuel rods would probably melt though, and radioactive decay is pretty much the reason there is lava in the first place, so not much would happen aside from greenpeace bitching about how radiation is evil
with all their expertise they have managed to deduce the same stuff you learn about radiation in the seventh grade, but somehow still claim to be better informed than someone with a doctorate in nuclear chemistry
@BVargas78 It would melt, possibly burn and if the volcano erupts it'd get tossed into the atmosphere, Chernobyl style... Radioactive waste should be locked into lead cylinders and shuttled off-world, in my opinion. Possibly hurled into the outer solar system, off into deep space. Just gotta be careful when calculating, wouldn't want it to slingshot around a planet's gravity well, only to come back and slap us in the face. Dumping into the sun is also safe.
4:08 yeah,ive come here to se nuclear wastes and you show me a bunch of shit
Victor1234paul 18 hours ago
Fuckin radiophobos
MrDrimogemon 5 days ago
This is painful to watch. Did you know Chernobyl is a tourist attraction now? The scientist doesn't wear protection. Not only that, he doesn't tell us what he's measuring in. Another video Geiger Counter/Radiation Monitor shows a guy getting the same readings walking down a street, measuring bananas, and at the beach. He arbitrarily states "above background" but that number varies widely. This video is bunk.
0HippyHunter0 6 days ago 2
I somewhat dislike that they said "radiation" and "radioactive waste dump" and never care to qualify what that actually means. When people hear "radiation" they immediately go into a craze-freak mode where they imagine high-level spent nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons fallout. This is more in line with toxic waste dumps where people get ill/die slowly if they live too close to them. They are dangerous and need to be sorted out, but not the "you'll die in minutes" kind of dangerous people imagine.
totoritko 1 week ago 2
Oh boy, what a crappy video. The presenter shows little knowledge of radiation. The site is a U238 dump where they buried unusable DU from Pu239 production. U238 is an alpha emitter, so holding the geiger counter HALF A METER from the sample won't register shit. Of course, with a 4.4Gy half-life, it's not all that much of an acute radiation hazard anyway. The danger with U238 is in breathing in an aerosol. The protective clothing is a bit overkill. A small nose+mouth mask would have been enough.
totoritko 1 week ago 2
I'm pretty sure the guy said suits are for protection againist dust and avoiding radiation somehow staying onto the clothes, he clearly states they don't protect againist radiation, so where's the problem?
Ricokz 1 week ago
Pure horseshit! 10x normal is NOT 'highly radioactive.' It's roughly the level you're exposed to during an airline flight. See XuQgVGDENbU Simon is a f*ing idiot.
geonerd 1 week ago
I suppose the security is the best and cheapest you can get. you have to be more than the regular jihadist zealot to bother going to Kyrgyzstan and did up low level radiactive waste. You're probably dead from boredom even before you get enogh crap for to contaminate a 100th of an acre. Kyrgyz, i think, are not excactly stuid in these matters :-D
JanusKramer 2 weeks ago
Well there's alpha, beta and other rays that can give you cancer when you breathe them in. These rays only affect really thin skin. The gamma rays are the ones that makes the skin boil and shit. The gamma rays are also what the background radiation consists of. So even if the gamma rays aren't strong enough to hurt you; other kinds of radiation might.
Davidivov 3 weeks ago
@Davidivov Other types of radioactive particles such as alpha and beta particles are easily stopped. Alphas are stopped by a sheet of paper and betas by a few mm of metal. Those become serious hazards when the are ingested or inhaled. Gamma rays are the main concern and if they are high enough energy they will pass right through the body with no interaction.
Onefoot08 3 weeks ago
@Onefoot08 Yes i know. What i meant was that the locals have no protection against the alpha and beta partices, and the gamma radiation was apparently so low that it wasn't directly harmful.(According to some of the other comments)
So what was trying to say was that it's not only gamma rays that are dangerous; many people seem to believe that.
Davidivov 3 weeks ago
don't say bullshits, doing your fck matters
PS2djX 1 month ago
This rock is emitting as much radiation as the luminous hands on my watch? lol
shanepaulcoward 1 month ago
Reporter: Those are animal droppings
Cameraman: EXTREME CLOSEUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheBlackBritt 1 month ago
what you got to think is that a foot deep hole had double the radiation as the air, if terrorists wanted they could go in with hazmat suits and a JCB, dig a twenty metre hole and create a dirty bomb to wipe out a town
MrDoItL4ter 1 month ago
wow i never thout it whoud look like that and what kind of itot whoud dig up that (besides me)
KingTemplarDragon 1 month ago
wow it's so Exciting ^^
yaowamarn0812617544 1 month ago
Would be curious to see how many of these local people are dying because of these dangerous waste dumps. Yes, if you pitched a tent directly on top of the waste dump and lived there for the year you would probably receive a slightly higher dose than normal (10 x above background is not that much), however you would never receive enough for a lethal dose. People never put these things into context though, just cling to a couple of scaremongering facts to instill interest.
sbsbell95 1 month ago 2
ermmm.... the suits and gas masks would protect from radiation.... Alpha radiation only, but most of it would be alpha radiation
calumiveson 1 month ago
You are all forgetting about accumulation. The longer you are exposed to a low dose the more risk you take. Even the americium in smoke detectors can kill you if you ingest it or file it down into someones food, etc. Accumulative radiation will kill.
justclimb77 2 months ago
@justclimb77 Your argument there is slightly inaccurate. "The longer you are exposed to a low dose the more risk you take" - are you referring to dose? radiation doesn't accumulate in your body when you receive a dose, the dose is a measurement of biological damage caused by an external source of radiation. e.g. beta or gamma. so yes if you stood next to a radiation source for a long period of time there would inevitably be biological damage, however in this particular video this is not the case
sbsbell95 1 month ago
congrats you found somthing you should get the HELL away from
WolfPackAttack1911 2 months ago
in what units are the measurements?
stefaan10111992 2 months ago
These are old uranium mines, run by the Soviets from 1947 to 1968. The mines did not create radiation, the radiation is natural and is not that high. Also, they did not "dump" waste there. These are mines tailings, waste rock from the mines left over after uranium was extracted.
The risk is from natural radon in homes and well water, this could be avoided by ensuring houses are ventilated and well water is left for 24 hours before use (allowing radon & it's progeny to decay).
Diamonddavej 2 months ago 3
The suits are only to stop radiactive particles in the dust from contaminating them. If they picked up a radioative isotope on their clothing they could be exposed to radiation for years
TheKillrob1 2 months ago
@TheKillrob1 no it wouldnt be isotope, it would just be radiation from the radioactive waste, it could also be isotope waste, see a radiactive isotope isnt the waste, its the actual product such as plutonium,uranium,thorium,americium ect. ... the only possible actual isotope that can enter the body is radioactive iodine, which contaminates the thyroid, causing much problems for the body...but here it wouldnt be isotope contamination, just radioactive dust particles
blackwolfkodi 2 months ago
Some words: Not highley radioactive background activity kills you, Time what you was there kills you.
activeproandrey 2 months ago
@activeproandrey number 1...it isnt the time in some cases, if radiation is high enough it can kill u in a matter of seconds, radiation is deadly, even in small doses
blackwolfkodi 2 months ago
@blackwolfkodi
Yeah i know about this. But there is not very high radioactivity levels. Just more than normal 3-4 times (10-25 microsiverts\hour is normal) 80-120 microsiverts per hour wont kill you in 2 - 3 hrs.
P.S sorry for my bad english.
activeproandrey 2 months ago
Po co wy się tam chłopaki tak męczycie w tych kombinezonach? Odnoszę wrażenie, że wasza zapobiegliwość jest co najmniej śmieszna. :)))
AWredny 2 months ago
he may have measures a few spots at ten times, but you know there has got to be certain spots at 100 times or even one thousand, if you stay away from these spots I'm sure your fine, maybe not a good place to live for a lenghy period of time since your bound to get contaminated at some point, whether by food or water
ricktbdgc 3 months ago
that guy needs to replace his cap on the intake valve where his respirator cartridge would be on his right side. O_o
leakyvalve 3 months ago
10 times the normal background radiation, and they're walking around in suits like they're in some kind of danger.
What s load of hipster crap. This is fear mongering for people who know shit about radiation.
endimion17 3 months ago
No way on the fps @powertoolifaction but he does look like him
5835421 3 months ago
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You are an irresponsible fear monger.
Code50010 3 months ago
Is this just me or does this guy look (and sound) like Dmitri from FPSRussia?
powertoolification 4 months ago
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Have a look what the skies above our nuclear waste storage look like:
"HUGE storms over Europe 28 June 2011 update"
There is something seriously wrong! I live 5 miles from the Areva facility in Petten.
and have been noticing and recording the effects for months now.
After seeing that video you'll realise what they are doing.
If you have simular experiences near reactors or nuclear waste storages -you know what I mean if you do- I would like to hear about that.
N3anderthaler 4 months ago
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Have a look what the skies above our nuclear waste storage look like:
"HUGE storms over Europe 28 June 2011 update"
There is something seriously wrong! I live 5 miles from the Areva facility in Petten.
and have been noticing and recording the effects for months now.
After seeing that video you'll realise what they are doing.
If you have simular experiences near reactors or nuclear waste storages -you know what I mean if you do- I would like to hear about that.
N3anderthaler 4 months ago
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Have a look what the skies above our nuclear waste storage look like:
"HUGE storms over Europe 28 June 2011 update"
There is something seriously wrong! I live 5 miles from the Areva facility in Petten.
and have been noticing and recording the effects for months now.
After seeing that video you'll realise what they are doing.
If you have simular experiences near reactors or nuclear waste storages -you know what I mean if you do- I would like to hear about that.
N3anderthaler 4 months ago
it would be cooler if you didnt wear protective gear pussy
MrBurkdawg 4 months ago
Where are the barrels and big holes filled with goo? What the fucking fuck is this lame shit
doggbrown1 4 months ago 3
when are you gonna say you had enough people ?
MrSouthphillyitalian 4 months ago
did he really test the poop for radiation?
Sounxai 4 months ago 2
HOLY SHIT THAT SOUNDS LIKE FUUUN I WANNA GO AND BLOW UP BOMBS ITHE THE FIELDS!!!!!!!!!!
Canadiansolider13 5 months ago
rofl you look like idiot douchebags in those suits infront of these people :) hahaha. 10times the normal background radiation is nothing. 5000 times normal radiation is nothing (same as xray scan). Damn you are uninformed idiots :) haha cant stop laughing. At least natives had a good laugh.
kardas666 5 months ago
@kardas666 10 times the normal radiation is nothing, thats treu. But 5000 times will kill you if you stay to long in a area with such a high background radiation. So maybe YOU should be better informed, you idiot.
omnomnom85 5 months ago 6
@omnomnom85 Why call him an idiot? I would think you are the idiot for being smart enough to know the facts but nasty enough to insult a person who does not. You dick head.
HardeyLeone 1 month ago
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@HardeyLeone I call him a idiot because he said that 5000 times the normal background radiation is normal. Did you even read what he wrote??
omnomnom85 1 month ago
@kardas666 that is true...but how many xrays do you get in your life? I don't think you get an xray 24/7 & 365 such as the locals do....I guarantee life span is shorter here and there are still problems due to the radiation. I'd rather look like and idiot and not get exposed to any unecessary radiation than take a chance.
xPinkStrifex 3 months ago 2
if you take a hand of sand from the beach of La Hague in france you will go to jail if you get arrested with it.
Nutzername36 5 months ago
my brother is in the military and he went to a dump site in the desert and they made him wear lead clothes and a really heavy helmate
wowwee1278 5 months ago
Dude this guy is speaking in a accent he is obviously not American is british so those british people look like pussys
MrDrNo1 5 months ago
@MrDrNo1 fuck you we got more balls than you
reznov1996 5 months ago
@reznov1996 more ballz hahah lol
manox1337 5 months ago
@MrDrNo1 r u saying british people r pussys ???
saintpedr00 5 months ago
@saintpedr00 mate UK is one of the greatest country in the world (if not the greatest), and the people also..
Samyaza69 5 months ago
@saintpedr00 no no no, people said you dumb Americans wearing protective suits at a hardly radioactive area and i just wanted to point ut they arnt american to whoever said that buti forgot to put @(placenamehere). sorry if it appeared that way.
MrDrNo1 5 months ago
Another thing regarding dirty bombs: they don't really work, at all. Radiation is only acutely dangerous so long as it's concentrated, or if you use extremely short-lived beta and gamma-emitting isotopes. An effective dirty bomb could never be made from long-lived transuranic wastes for this reason.
Rogue states and terrorists have yet to build dirty bombs for that reason. They've built plenty of chemical bombs, now THOSE are horrific. Radiation has nothing on nerve agents and chemical burners.
OfficeThug 5 months ago
Soviets, unlike the west, actually know what radiation is and when it's harmful. This stuff is just emitting low quantities of alpha and beta particles, harmless unless ingested. They aren't growing their food directly on top of the sites so they're pretty much fine, they'll more likely die of a number of other causes not associated to radiation at all.
OfficeThug 5 months ago
they look like pusses in thoughs suits.i'd be rolling in that shit and then i'd be superman
havensdevils 6 months ago 2
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What a bunch of clowns
Sekuhara 6 months ago
3 rads is suposedly enough to kill a man but its really 12 rads
Ant100mc 7 months ago
couldnt you send the radio active waste in to deep space orbit
slipknotTHS 8 months ago
@slipknotTHS what happens if say the rocket blows up ?
tylervanballegooyen 8 months ago
@slipknotTHS everything men try to do is for their own destruction. that's why the thing happens in this world and
why don't try to do something right instead of destroying the world
estebansulvaran 5 months ago
I feel sad for people living beside the radioactive dump.
liviameimei 8 months ago
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@liviameimei that's why the world has to change we don't know how or when that day will be - but we 'll someday see that change that the needs to keep producing the life in the planet and the goal we have in mind is to conquer another planets around the universe
estebansulvaran 5 months ago
GO IN WITH RAD-X
samdo123 8 months ago 2
dirty bombs are not made with dirt.
masluxx 8 months ago
There is simply not enough information here. No units on the radiation levels. They dont state what the sites are, i can only assume they are low level waste (clothes etc used in the nuclear plant). They make it seem to the public that these are high level waste sites just dunked 5 meters into the ground. Which cant be true. As this would likely result in a national disaster.
This vid seems like nothing more than green propaganda.
GeologistRob 9 months ago 4
@GeologistRob I'm definitely on the same page as you, 4 times larger than background radiation, is not a lot at all. most humans are exposed to 2.0 mSv a year. and U.S. Radiation workers, are allowed to be exposed up to 50.0 mSv a year, without any longterm affects. so as a town being affected with 8.0 mSv of radiation a year, they are hardly going to notice a difference at all. even if they all were exposed to 10 times the amount of a background radiation constantly, they would be fine.
TheAmigoProductions 8 months ago 6
For the record, radioactivity has nothing to do with how long youre staying close to radioactive isotopes.
Freaekshow 9 months ago
10 times background radiation does not make a significant health risk at all. As a matter of fact 100 times the background radiation doesnt make a significant health risk. Wearing a radiation suit in a area with so low levels of radioactivity makes you americans look like pussies.
Freaekshow 9 months ago 2
Americans look funny in these suits around the regular people :)
kosmosleha 9 months ago
Uranium has the second highest atomic weight after plutonium, but is not as dense as gold or tungsten.
shiroineko13 9 months ago
Make me laugh how our health and safety culture should extend worlwide, the locals there look bemused at these suited people, robably thinking they are from outer space or something. Wouldn't surprise me if the locals lead a long and health life, yet we in the west as usual are shocked.
ukchris64 9 months ago
@ukchris64 for once this isnt a case of mother knows best. that site is seriously seriously dangerous. you can never be too careful with radiation
jimmyreed112 9 months ago
Why are you so against this? The world's nuclear waste has to go somewhere. As long as it's not in your backyard, then you shouldn't say anything about it. I don't think anyone in Russia oppose the idea of dumping it in other people's backyard in the beginning. I don't think people in America would mind dumping their in Africa or Asia. Just don't say anything about it, okay. Problem solve as long as it's not in my backyard.
XtraLarge2 9 months ago
10 times bkgd level is about what you get by living in a granite-clad house.
There are places on this planet (Ramsar) where *natural* background is 100 times higher than average, and people live there for thousands of years.
vcz11 9 months ago
ohh 10 times im so scared wow learn to live by the nature
Zombihilanth 10 months ago
Yeah, but human body's are actually able to handle 10 to 20 times the normal radioactive level and still grow old
TheBardonator 10 months ago
TheBardonator,
[2:10] I guess these QUEERS that flunk out of their SCIENCE Classes got to look as QUEERS and as WEIRD as they can where ever they go as well!! =/
The Geiger Counter....
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Myth: Nuclear Energy is Dangerous....
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They should wear LEAD Suits, but then they'll have to worry about Lead Contamination.... haha!! >=P
IronJackalTw 10 months ago
radioactive pooo
GunnyZoSo 10 months ago
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deplunger 10 months ago
Some people should have never been given a chemistry set as a kid. Fucking mad science!
mikebrisebois 10 months ago 2
mikebrisebois,
These R always what happen to those kids that didn't have a GOOD Chemistry Set while growing up....
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Here is another one of those kids without a GOOD Chemistry Set....
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Maybe, they should NOT even PLAY with any Chemistry Sets at all 4 our SAFETY!! >=P
IronJackalTw 10 months ago
Holly shit that is all what i can say!! You left me speechless!!
looserkuka 10 months ago
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The answer is simply fusion derived energy, we should be pouring trillions into hot and cold fusion research, particularly cold fusion.
We then eliminate fossil fuels and eliminate the dangers of the wastes that come from fossil fuel.
Richbund 10 months ago
nice eyebrows dude
zederish 10 months ago
Nice eyebrows.
LOLproductions2009 10 months ago
The former Sovjet Union is basically the waste dump of the world for nuclear material. Most of what comes out from germany and france is being deposited more in the north without any protection.
Thats why education must be supressed. If the people knew what radiation is and what it does, there wouldn't be one single nuclear power plant on earth. So just keep the people ignorant and dull to protect the business.
MillyVanillification 10 months ago
Those levels are purely harmless. Obviously I do not agree with the means of storage, but I assume those readings were in micro sieverts. If it's milli sieverts I'd be a little more worried.
UpstateEG51 10 months ago
haha he took a reading of the radiation from the cow shit. lmao
paintball227 10 months ago
@paintball227
Ofcourse.
You can check if living organisms have been affected by radiation by testing their excretion.
DutchManticore 10 months ago
wtf i was hoping for glowing green goo! wtf is this?!?!
stephbabeeszz 11 months ago 38
@stephbabeeszz thats it in its real form, nothing like what movies show ya!
boots992134 3 months ago
I grew a third arm and fith ball when I watched this.
CoconutsalesEO 11 months ago 3
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IronJackalTw 10 months ago
CoconutsalesEO,
Lol.... it's so true 4 me, too!! {roll my eyes}
IronJackalTw 10 months ago
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IronJackalTw 10 months ago
in Soviet Russia, Radioactive waste buries you.
CarlierJef 11 months ago 21
god this is stupid.
williamhad 11 months ago
did you really have to get a close up on that pile of shit?
vinniesM3 11 months ago
I love Kyrgyzstan, this makes me angry
geowar42 1 year ago 2
milk and vodka thats the sollution to the worlds nuclear crisis.. ha
jimmyass 1 year ago
Radiation isnt that bad were taking in radiation just sitting on our couch. It gets bad when you go in to super strong stuff like even nuclear reactors people still work in there,Uranium mines, Nuclear fallout from little boy,fat man, and if the cobalt bomb ever was made and blown up thats bad if you take to much in.
Huffdev 1 year ago
RADIOACTIVE !@#$
RAYtheIMAN 1 year ago
Lol, Im using my Wi-Fi for the Internet to my other rooms and a day in the house with my pc on makes quite a bit of radiation!!! Why do people compain about shit, if every nosey country was so bothered they would pay for it to be cleared up!!!
lukelikesrock 1 year ago
@lukelikesrock you're talking about "electromagnetic radiation" which isn't dangerous. It doesn't have enough energy to affect the DNA or proteins in cells in any way. Unlike "nuclear radiation" which is trillions of times more energetic.
Comparing the energy of the radio waves given off by your wireless to the energy of radiation ejected by the nucleus of unstable elements, is like comparing a faint breeze, to an armor piercing anti-tank round.
TSorovanMHael 1 year ago 3
@lukelikesrock Its because geting rid of that stuff is varry super ouber retardidly expencive because that Radioactive metreal probly has a half life of about at lest 4.6 milloun years so its going to be active for a long long long time your going to half to encace it in lead lined bearrls and put it under ground. So your looking at around a cupule of billoun dallers. But your right why don't thay stop b****ing about how big of a problum it is and just fix it we have the teckology!!!!!!!!!!!!
ThePolerbearproducts 1 year ago
@lukelikesrock
wow you must be dumb
Goregrinding 11 months ago
zoom in the poop
thatzombieplace 1 year ago
Aint that bad, 10x normal bg radiation isnt very dangerous.
AlexosMusic 1 year ago
Там и без всякой хим.защ. ходить безопасно)))Иностранцы всегда поражали)
begshark 1 year ago
wow those suits might have been just a tiny bit overkill
soapy05 1 year ago
@soapy05 reporters seem to be ever paranoid about radiation.
TheCaptainLulz 1 year ago
BOOM!!!! instant cancer
flipzhat 1 year ago 2
Wow, never seen such idiots! They get more radioactivtiy at their bodies from the flight to this area, as if they would live there for years! Stupid idiots again!!!
Gadeto 1 year ago
this is complete BS!
you have not told us what the normal level is
you have not told us what you are measuring...
i assume its micro sieverts (the standard gieger counter measure)... in which case less than 10 uSv is minute... you would get a similar amount from radan gas from a weekend in cornwall.
this is not investigative reporting... it is trying to spread fear, of something that people do not understand...
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF
jdk2891 1 year ago
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jdk2891 1 year ago
The VIDEO COULD BE RAIDO ACTIVE btw i am high on stuff
serenaally 1 year ago
What they don't tell you is mother nature has away of taking care of this stuff over time but it's amazing how animals and people can adjust over longer periods of time but geez i wonder what kind of cancer that country has.
egn83b 1 year ago
If WW3 kicks off.. drink MILK.
jacksawild 1 year ago
Thanks brits, for producing the most boring shit I've ever watched in my life. Not even being stoned could save that.
Love, 'Merica.
Notespompon 1 year ago
@Notespompon u were dubiously not stoned...cause dude
Alxe73191 1 year ago
They seem to be the only ones worried the grass is green the animals are grazing and old people are living to be old there, what the hell is the problem.?
Rick5150 1 year ago
Hard to believe there are elements in that waste that are worth as much as gold...Maybe someone should reprocess it.
OptimusGonzoo 1 year ago
Crunch, Crunch, Crunch ! As they walk in the suits
Legboy1129 1 year ago
go there with no suit u'll come out with 3 eyes and an arm on top of your head
tiagandremo 1 year ago
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@tiagandremo That is a cartoonish way. The Real life is he will get cancer and die
Legboy1129 1 year ago
@tiagandremo
Nah, But your kid might.
soccom8341576 1 year ago
How cheap are those house there?
neckarsulme 1 year ago
@neckarsulme 50 cents ?
miragef19 1 year ago
those suits are very unnecessary.
goomba45797 1 year ago 3
Ten times bacground is nothing, a coal ash pile can be more radioactive than stuff they were testing.
SkyyCaptainn 1 year ago 3
legalize pot.
XMrCXify 1 year ago 4
This waste is not from power plants, but from wars.
madjimms 1 year ago
@madjimms haha which war did you use Nuclear bombs in ? none
2976847 1 year ago
I would love to explore an area like this, as long as I have plenty of Radaway
5150gamer 1 year ago
@5150gamer HI BILLY MAYS HERE WITH THE ALL NEW RADAWAY! ARE YOU TIRED OF GETTING RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUST AND THOSE HARMFUL RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES? THEN TRY MY ALL NEW RADAWAY!
GeneralL33TSauce 1 year ago 41
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RainbowManification 10 months ago
@GeneralL33TSauce Oh. Billy Mays died.
brownsnuts 9 months ago
Why would you wear a hazardious materials suit if the radiation levels were only ten times the regular backround levels. Thats like stading outside for 10 minutes instead of 1. And there was no need for gas masks. It's not like the place got bombed. All those suits do is stop alpha particles anyway.
stormking14 1 year ago 3
@stormking14 you are right, ten times is nothing. And, even more nothing, when its only on some spots of 30x30cm. And, of course the meter readings go as you hold it on a radioactive source! This are Geiger Counters, they count every radioactive particel going through them. Theyre calibratet to measure for example 35seconds long, an ONLY THEN the meter reading is the radiation level in uSv/h, and not when you hold it there for a second or two. During the measurement it has to be in place!
HFbastler1 1 year ago
lol radiation is so low there that its funny to even think that someone would wear a suit in a place like that :D
JaksProductions 1 year ago 2
Its not called dust its Fallout stupid dont make me repe your gold fish
christyandmattshow 1 year ago 2
@christyandmattshow Fallout is when it rains from the sky in a radioactive cloud. A example would be from a mushroom cloud or a nuclear accident like Chernobyl. Fallout is not from burring radioactive materials.
Brandan09997 1 year ago
Can somebody please tell me the name of the music tune from 3.10 minutes, Thankyou...
russkikanji 1 year ago
well what if it didnt
crazylizardguts 1 year ago
Looks like my room.
cobolt13 1 year ago
wow how do u make a bomb out of that man terrorists r smart
123anacondas 1 year ago
OK WTF JUST SHOOT THE RADIO ACTIVE **** INTO THE SUN!!!
crazylizardguts 1 year ago
@crazylizardguts yea. then what happens when you change the patterns of the sun after shooting tons of uranium and plutonium at it there cheif?
xD12xSiCkNaStY 1 year ago
@xD12xSiCkNaStY hum let me see last time i cheched the sun would ****ing turn it into ash
crazylizardguts 1 year ago
@crazylizardguts And what if the shuttle blew up before it left earth
KB1PTH 1 year ago
@crazylizardguts I always tjhoughed that.... too costly I bet
Migueljs16 1 year ago
For reader from america and U.K.
The numbers read 0.7 microsievert and 6.13 millisievert.
Sorry but in my country we put a "," were you put a " . " and vice versa.
1 millisievert is equal to 1000 microsievert.
Nonamed22 1 year ago
Average natural background radiation is 2.4 millisievert per year. higher in some places lower in others. So 0,7 microsievert / h would be 6,13 millisievert/ year. 3 times as much but still not dangerous. Remember, radiation should be judged in strengt times exposure length. I hate those mediafucks and their horror fairy tales just so they can sell their crappy TV Shows and newspapers. Simon Reeve should go back to elementary school.
Nonamed22 1 year ago
Suits, and crying about that nasty bad security is only the show for the people who dont know anything about radiation, and think its dangerous as hell. 0,70 microSieverts/h! Oh god, I am surprised that they didnt poop in their little ridiculous suits because of that really-really high levels of radiation. Yeah, just ignore the fact, that you are exposed to 2-3uSv/h radiation(about 10 times normal) every single fucking seconds on airplanes(still not dangerous), and just live your ignorant life!
HOUSEMD75 1 year ago
0.64 of WHAT? Microsieverts or what? Looks like just above background to me. Bit of a storm in a teacup, and I'm pretty sure that plug on the rhs of his mask, should have been CLOSED.
bigkitten 1 year ago
Respond to this video... u look like a bunch of fucking deushe
bigc1494 1 year ago
10 times is not that bad those suits were ridiculous
reubenthorpe1992 1 year ago
@reubenthorpe1992 I know! I have an alarm clock in my room that's more radioactive than that!
TheLegoboy1997 1 year ago
i dont see how plastic suits will protect u from radiation ?????????
Emir1401 1 year ago
@Emir1401 partially..how much exactly?? idk
shocks007 1 year ago
radioactive poop! 4:09
gadawm10000 1 year ago 4
they must have felt grate having their car broke down and then seeing some people with gas masks and chem suits on with a geiger counter going off walk past them
dmsoccerschool 1 year ago 39
Why would some one dig up nuclear waste?
DCdude619 1 year ago
@DCdude619 to make a radioactive dildo?
NoobProject44 1 year ago 2
LOL, I think the protective suits and all that just propogate the false perceptions of nuclear energy. 10 times normal Background radiation? Big deal. More people would die from second hand smoke that if they spent their entire lives building a house right on top. Get a grip...
aaronandnicole 1 year ago 3
would you do that?
999finger 1 year ago
"where is the space time transfunctioner?".......ZOLTAN!
imacowtipper1984 1 year ago
where is it ??
mnimaty 1 year ago
What would happen if nuclear waste got dumped into a volcano? Would the lava destroy it, or could it potentially have disastrous results?
BVargas78 1 year ago
most nuclear waste is stuff like paper clothes
spent fuel rods would probably melt though, and radioactive decay is pretty much the reason there is lava in the first place, so not much would happen aside from greenpeace bitching about how radiation is evil
with all their expertise they have managed to deduce the same stuff you learn about radiation in the seventh grade, but somehow still claim to be better informed than someone with a doctorate in nuclear chemistry
ucihapokujin 1 year ago
@BVargas78 It would melt, possibly burn and if the volcano erupts it'd get tossed into the atmosphere, Chernobyl style... Radioactive waste should be locked into lead cylinders and shuttled off-world, in my opinion. Possibly hurled into the outer solar system, off into deep space. Just gotta be careful when calculating, wouldn't want it to slingshot around a planet's gravity well, only to come back and slap us in the face. Dumping into the sun is also safe.
Aethren 1 year ago