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[flosdraad]

I am wondering if the helicopters and other vehicles can be used..

Or have they been blown up or something?

[ChechenIngush04]

that helicopters standing there from exp.?

not using? OMG that helicopters can be used for army :S

[radimzk]

@ChechenIngush04 it is contaminated, can't be used without high risk.

[Dibbadong]

Elena, as soon as I get a motorcycle, and somehow get it to Ukraine, do you want to go to Chernobyl with me?

[Seriouspatt]

@Dibbadong

She won't, because it's not wise to travel in other people's contaminated dust. =)

[9SLR2]

puhut suomee oikeasti vai? angelfiren kautta eksyin tänne.

[MrLyle85]

Thanks for your work!

[JVonD]

I love your work. =)

[harlequin2262]

I am curious as to how you minimised the risk? Surely there are still many dangerous areas. How deep into the zone did you go? Are there area's you do not go anywhere near?

[hentaiseeker]

She carries a Geiger counter.

[kkestone]

The "zone" area begins after Dytiatki control post. And there are no photos of her bike in the "zone", just outside it.

[candyb357]

kkestone, how is she going to take a picture of herself ? Bring a tripod with herself on her bike?

[kkestone]

Dear Elena Filatova, stop lying about your bike. Bikes are not allowed in the zone. To prove that, I can say that you have not posted any foto or video, from which one can see that you are actually riding your bike in the zone.

[RedVox1973]

I donnot know anything about the rules of entry in to the area. If you however take a look at the foto's on the various trip's, you can clearly see the motorbike in the area.

Regardless of the fact if there was a bike or not (or may be sometimes)... the foto's give a very impressive "feeling" to the area and disaster that struck it. I can only say that due to Elena's site and foto's I have at least a small understanding of what happened and the impact it had and still has.

[BigBananaMan]

You can clearly see photographs of her motorcycle in Chernobyl on her web site. Or are you perhaps just a troll?

[reideatworld]

kkestone dont critique elena and how she does stuff, thats not the point of the video just watch it.

[mickeyqbitsko]

Don't be an idiot. TOURISTS go there all the time.

[dhfenwick]

Elena - Thank you for documenting one of the most if not the most toxic place on the planet earth. May we all see the horror these empty shells represent and then look at the folly that is harnessing the atom, when indeed we could harness the wind for much less. Thank you for these amazing photographs, narrative, and thoughtful websites that has ever been offered to the world. My hope is we all learn from it.

[ChochoGK]

Amazing video and site! Thank You for Your job!

[youbrush]

one touch mean dead

[SpookeyR]

This place has a hopeless morbidness to it that is unmistakably horrifying. And yet, I find myself drawn in constantly watching videos about Chernobyl. If anyone can make any recommendations for specific videos about Chernobyl I would very much appreciate it. Post any such comments & recommendations on my profile & specifically where to find them, be it here on YouTube, Daily Motion, Google Video, etc. There are literally 1000s of videos about Chernobyl right here on YouTube alone.

[terssi12]

I gonna too go to Chernobyl I have to buy a nice bike. I know i will love it.

[danniiminogueishot]

Such a brilliant video and such a beautiful accent you have,i love it,very cute!x

[t07xqj4o]

Very informative video. Where would we be without the internet in terms of events around the globe. It is truly amazing to know how thousands of innocent lives lie in the hands of a few ignorant and arrogant self-consumed leaders. Look at what they have done. At the price of what. The inventions of man is not what is detrimental to our planet, it is his ego. Take it away and everything flows smoothly. Realy.

Ps the narrator (Elena?) has a soft and beautiful accent; nice pronounciations. :)

[traf1852]

Chernobyl must be the only ghost town on the planet that has the ghosts of dead as well as of living people. Eerie and fascinating at the same time. Love your videos.

[brutsi]

ive allways been fascinated by emptied buildings and towns and some day im gonna visit the biggest ghost town of them all chernobyl and i love to see how nature quickly returns while man dont

[oeliewoep]

I too am atracted by ghost villages, but if i see this i'm scaried to visit it. Even nature is not returned. You see a kind of short yellow gras. If i don't mow my jardin for a month, there are already tree's growing. You can also see how the desaster reflect on the red wood.

Never again!

[RAbbi74]

Just remember that most of the rest of us get power from coal-fired or hydroelectric plants, and they don't do THAT when they fail catastrophically. More sulphur dioxide is a small price to pay when you consider what Chernobyl did and how many more potential Chernobyls there are...

[hanger1800]

If you research alittle that you will find that the reason Chernobyl was so bad was because the Soviets didn't build a second cap above the first one. That said the design they used was very very bad and not to mention the plant only failed during a safety experiment, So here's the reason it failed: Incompetent scientists (mabye they didn't know better?) and the Soviet reactor design. Modern nuclear plants are build well and today we especially have the skills to stop radiation spreading.

[oeliewoep]

the scientist where very competent, but dause to the hyrachy you had to listen to you're topman. The problem with the topman he was not told how the reactor was build exactly, and he would improve his statue by "doing better" than he was asked to do on the test-paper

[warewolf4586]

every1 has its opinion whether harnessing nuclear energy is safe or not... bt this wont change nething, we r movin towards nuclear age... incidents like chernobyl wont stop this, it cn only increase concerns leadin to more safety standards... such incident may occur again coz humans never learn from their mistakes.....

[ccmedic]

present day reactors are much more secure. Of the contributers to the chernobyl failure, antiquated core design and safety measures are at the top of the list. This reactor deign is no longer used. It is a tragedy and much was learned from it. Nuclear power is very safe at present.

[jeremix2006]

Still ccmedic, you never know. They are unsafe, because some countries are not mantaining them ( thats the case of Argentine)

[BitingHobo]

Uh... I can't speak for every nuclear power station, but the one I visited was guarded so closely, not even mosquitos get in without clearance. After actually being there, I have absolutley no concern about it ever being compromised.

[CrudeDude]

BitingHobo says

" Uh... I can't speak for every nuclear power station, but the one I visited was guarded so closely, not even mosquitos get in without clearance. After actually being there, I have absolutley no concern about it ever being compromised." *************

Right. No one could EVER crash a hijacked airliner into one, because they are so well guarded!!! You're a delusional fool!

[KZKZ]

This should be a lesson to all countries who wanyt more nuclear technology. Many of the safety issues are still open.

[paulssx79]

Thats a blatant lie. nuclear power is very safe and green to boot.  Chernobyl was an unfortunate accident brought on by poor training, management and response. Many countries are increasingly choosing nuclear power just for those reasons.