Chernobyl: Life in the Dead Zone (part 3)

[mounlasy]

Is it even safe to be recording in or around this area?

[oOTheLynxOo]

Poor kitten. It even saw it coming too =(

[cyrodragon99997]

i'd like a cat like that :D

[KingLentend]

I enjoyed this because i'm from Ukraine and because I love Cats! Thank you for the Uploads.

[NurseJhonnaMS]

@FL0D0S: they use zoom lenses like national geographic

[FL0D0S]

i wonder how the where able to film this: why don't the animals run away from the crew? or is this because they have never seen humans before?

[canadassweetie]

The park never opened! I don't understand why they have scenes of the park being used! It was a gift to the population for May Day not long after the accident, it never saw usage.

[iSweetMV]

such a lie video they didnt open the park yet it hat to open december 1 but it didnt because everything happened 26th liers

[dcccapfan]

I almost want to say the animals there are the spirits of the people that died in the disaster. Like they are trying to go back to there old homes and city. Like they just can't leave the place they once called home.

[thikabouit]

What a beautifull city.Every country in the world should have a Chernobyl!

[aldobu1990]

This is the map of cod mw

[Sanderj89]

@aldobu1990 No, it's the area where in 1986 one of the biggest disasters in recent modern history took place, not the map of a stupid little video game..

[HQO106]

the music at 5:19 Edward scissor hands?

[FlyingCows88]

There be kittehs in mah wallz 2:04 & 2:40

[KawaiiEthan]

when the kittys went outside i was so scared for there lives, it was hard to watch..

[sujoms]

people commenting think that Bears eat only Honey and no little cats :D

[eggsalad774]

why does that particular kitten keep falling lol

[Kozzy06]

I was so scared that the bear would eat the little kittens :(

[calexrose]

give it 50 more years and it will be back to normal

[ajvulcan]

@calexrose It depends what you call "normal", because radiation will continue being there 24 thousand years more, yes, 24000 years. But nature is still there, and mutating animals simply die because natural selection. So the good new is nature always finds the way to go on, adapt and survive...

[MrMarkove]

@ajvulcan lololol wtf dude radiation wil stay for 150 years

[ajvulcan]

@MrMarkove: FALSE. Elements like radiactive iodine last only few days, others like caesium-137 or radiostrontium-90 lasts 30 years, but the heaviests like plutonium have a life of 24 thousand years or even more, some reports of scientists like Alexéi Yáblokov suggests 300 thousand years, but in my opinion they could be a little exagerated or at least is impossible to predict in such large period of time. The known fact is that radiation from chernobyl will be there 25 thousand years as minimun.

[MrMarkove]

@ajvulcanoke thats what you mean srry for the misunderstanding

[TheQwetyu]

@ajvulcan good point, however natural selection IMO is less survival of the fittest and more death of the shittest. So yes nature has a way of moving on and adapting but that is just the mutated ones dying, not them gaining immunity to radiation as you no doubt know. (given your explanations of radioactivity of plutonium). however might I add that the 24,000 years is the HALF LIFE of Plutonium, therefore it should be producing significant radiation for many many more years.

correct if wrong.

[ajvulcan]

@TheQwetyu Of course, the mutated dies and the others survive, but we can´t know the long term effects, we as humans are the result of mutations along the milleniums. A mutation is usually bad and produces the death of the individual, but sometimes, once of thousand, its someting good that creates a more adaptated specimen, so the mutation is eventually incorporated in the species, but yes, i know, is something difficult to happen and must be little in only one generation.

[ajvulcan]

@TheQwetyu And about plutonium 24000 years, it is said half life because is the semidesintegration period, but its a different concept from average life. But in this case the numbers are similar, about 24 or 25 thousand years. The radiation could continue, but not in such dangerous levels for humans, but like always, too much time to predict anything. The truth is, life will continue, even with suffering and death, but we must change things and abandon this dangerous type of energy.

[TheQwetyu]

@ajvulcan i see. you seem to have a sound knowledge of energy from the nucleus and so i must ask why you think this is so dangerous... the coal and oil industry has many many more deaths per year of its workers ("innocent" civillians i cannot speak for) but would seem to be safer to its workers on the whole and is increasing in safety everyday. not to mention the energy produced is no comparison and leaves no CO2 emmisions. However i do understand that that the waste produced is dangerous etc.

[ajvulcan]

@TheQwetyu I don´t have any special knoledge of atomic energy, only basics and some physics learnt with my degree. You are comparing diferent things, its true that in a normal situation nuclear energy is cleaner, but nuclear waste is not only dangerous, its also apocaliptic, because the effects are there for milleniums. On the other hand its now possible to use nuclear fusion energy (no waste, more power, use water so its inexhaustible), there isnt any reason to continue with fision.

[TheQwetyu]

@ajvulcan true. i was under the impression that fusion energy is well behind though.. it seems that it requires a hell of a lot of energy to get it moving and is very hard to keep going as it needs temperatures and speeds nearly that of the speed of light (99% or something) this is possible with hydrogen nuclei, but requires more energy input than output. i was under the impression that fusion would not be more than pipe dreams for decades.

[ajvulcan]

@TheQwetyu Fusion is real and can be done, the only "but" is that requires a huge temperature in order to initiate the reaction (so build somethind that doesn´t touch the fusion plasma is needed), but when it starts....its incredible, it can give much more energy than fision reactions, don´t have radioactive waste and if something happens the reaction stops, not explode or something like that. Europe is building a fusion nuclear plant in caradache (france), it will be finish and working in 2022

[TheQwetyu]

@ajvulcan yeah i get that it can be done, but if it needs more energy to start than it produces, i dont see it to be viable.. then again what do i know im only a yr 11 student. If its possible then im all for it, however this super fuel which has no waste and no emmisions and no real cost to the environment seems too good to be true. french reactor for real then?

[ajvulcan]

@TheQwetyu Of course not, the goal is to produce more energy, the reaction doesn´t stops if you are still giving "fuel" (from water), its like a bonfire where you don´t stop to put new logs so it never goes out, so you don´t have to start the reaction again (in this case using your "lighter" again xD). However its not perfect, the core walls becomes radiactive (for 50 years) and they need to use trillium, which is also radiactive for 15 years, but without waste of any kind

[ajvulcan]

@TheQwetyu If you write "iter" in google you could find the webpage of the nuclear plant i was talking about. The domain is .org

[docatomics]

The day wormwood fell upon the earth , making all waters bitter, all genetic altered forever more. What only nature use to bring , man now creates. This was not the first mass nuking we gave the planet, nor the last since then. How ingenious and risky is that, to all whom dwell upon the earth. Even the worms are now fucked !

[TheTwoHunters]

Sad, but at the smae time beautiful

[CanadianAlbertan]

Watching this makes me forget about the real danger I'm more concerned over that cats familys survival poor kitty got scooped by the bird :(

[antonioalvarez714]

i hate cats but....OH NOEZ I FELLD OFF DE WALLZ!

[996Chris]

2:45 kitten falls again

[nikola1996]

I Was in Pripjat

[996Chris]

?! IT'S FORBIDDEN!!!!

[fallingta]

kittens are so cute !!!

[mrjustin5]

At 1:00 - i believe that number to be a severe under statement it will be more like 150,000 to 1.5 Million years, depending on how the radioactive mess continues to decay and crumble - it is entirely unknown what it will turn into.

A meltdown of this sort has never happened, besides 3 Mile Island and the decay of the radioactive material is uncertain.

[blobboyjunior9]

Its all about fitness, people could still live there and survive. Of course the mortality rate would be much higher but as a whole we would produce enough to continue the chain. Just as nature does

[Prostheta]

Indeed. Humanity is obsessed with removing itself from the natural processes and having an grossly artificial crafted habitat.

[sansam25]

Stupid bird. I hope it died on the radiation the kitten had in it.

[sujoms]

@sansam25

why is it stupid? it kills to survive you idiot, the Wolf eats cut little rabbit :OOOO:OOOO and we, humans eat Chicken, Fish, and other stuff that were cute little whatevers once :O

[sevensixtwomm]

Nooooooooo! Kitten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

[Stig1138]

This series of videos is great. It brings a sad feeling of failure (maybe?) when you see Prypiat and Chernobyl abandoned, with animals inhabiting the towns. The people there advanced so far, like the rest of the world, but were nevertheless sent fleeing when their own technology shot them in the back. It's just kind of spooky, how everything seems to stand still there, I don't know, I can't really summarize what I mean. If anyone's played Call of Duty 4, they'll know what I mean.

[patie132]

poor cat snif...snif

[DEStrukcionierius]

@patie132 leave the poor cat on her own

[009noobagent]

@patie132 yea, sniff...sniff... *cough* *chokes bcus of radiation*

[patie132]

scary town 0.0

[kingmaxim187]

@patie132 hehe

[InternetRevolution]

I would like to visit Pripyat someday, too.

[Aleksitusasd]

Thank you for posting these videos. Really, thank you.