Robot inside Chernobyls Sarcophagus - Робот в Чернобыльском Саркофаге

[Itzmyrave]

Can I ask just a wild guess how many roentgen(hope I spelled it right) per hour was this nuclear melted fuel during the catastrophe? I saw the videos of bio-liquidators working on the roof with levels between 8000-12000Roentgen/hour. Is it safe to assume that back in the day radiation level in melted nuclear fuel on the day of disaster was 30000 roentgen/hour? Please reply

[jaketaylor15]

i feel bad for the chernobyl people . that piece of land is scarred forever .

[sebieracino]

how did he get this

[datifocmah]

Like for video , Hate for nuclear shiet 

[mrtwigable]

Who or what's filming the robot, Robots filming robots?!

[tictac111100]

i am a robot and im going to...wheres everyone?and who put these dead bodies here???

[ChernobylWildZone]

@tictac111100

You are not robot. You are small stupid, smelly goat.

[tictac111100]

@ChernobylWildZone and who are you?i see by ur profile that ur a chipmunk whit gas mask or something squirrel like

[FpsGameMaster91]

@ChernobylWildZone that was harsh lol

[HelloHansSolo]

@ChernobylWildZone And you are a stoopid, motherfucking tuna-stenched rotten cunt.

[gonzalo060375]

I wonder how many time a human could be right there, watching this with naked eye? minutes, seconds?

Noticed that the control and video signal goes through a cable. Perhaps a wireless comm. wouldn't work with those radiation levels.

How is the electronics shielded? does it use lead plates?.

Amazing video, thanks for sharing.

[ChernobylWildZone]

@gonzalo060375 Under irradiation, the main impact on the human circulatory system. Eyes are resistant to radiation and affected by long-term (permanent) stay at high levels.

Electronic robot is protected through the screens of steel.

[gonzalo060375]

@ChernobylWildZone Thanks.

[doglessliberal]

@gonzalo060375 350 rads/hr is equivalent to 3.5Gy/hr. According to Wikipedia, if you spent one hour in there, the immediate effects would be nausea and fever within an hour, as well as cognitive impairment/confusion. Later, you would experience hair loss, hemorrhage, and infection. Chance of survival is ~50% (assuming medical care), with mortality in 4-6 weeks.

[KnittingPasta]

how is that robot functioning in such high radiation?

[MindSeeR666]

Erm, is that robot meant to be there

[kayper54]

@MindSeeR666 Nope, it went over the side during the period of time the liquidators were trying to shovel the radioactive graphite back inside of the reactor by using radio control robots to do the work instead of humans. Or course, the extreme radiation messed with the electronics of the robots and they broke down fairly quickly. Eventually they had to send humans, or "bio-bots," onto the roof of the reactor to finish the job.

[BMuris]

@kayper54 Yeah, I was going to write the same thing, but you already wrote it. I was watching a long documentary (the story from start to the end) about this and if I remember correctly, the bio-bots were only allowed to be exposed to the radiation on the roof for about 30 seconds at the most (1-2 shovels of material over the roof and they had to go back). I remember the people saying that many would start throwing up due to the radiation. Bad accident, sad story.

[EarthquakeMachine]

Саркофаге what a cool word!

[robrok2010]

I've lost that toy!!! ;(

[Kardasves123]

which gives off more radiataion uranium-235 of plutonium

[spotlightman1234]

@Kardasves123 in terms of shorter half-life plutonium-239 is "more" radioactive.

[MrMegacurie]

@Kardasves123 235U and Pu are alpha emitters - shielding against thiy type of radiation is very easy (a paper or your outer skin is enough)

worse are strong gamma emitters like 137Cs - penetrating everything (up to a specified thickness). Against y-radiation a protection suit is totally useless

[puncheex]

@MrMegacurie: Cesium itself is not the major gamma emitter, but rather 137barium, which is the daughter product, with a half-life of 153 seconds. It's gamma is 300 times more energetic than cesium's. The distinction is lost on those that live there, but it will die away in 300 years or so.

[puncheex]

@Kardasves123: They're both rather mild as far as radiation goes, but they last a long time. The real killers are the lighter fission products which decay more rapidly but are much more intense. Right now the chief culprit is 137Cesium, which has a half-life of about 30 years.

[Scottthefish]

If it wasn't for chernobyl, we wouldn't have glo-sticks

[jeffs1000]

looks harmless enough....

just a molten mass

[sspecialairsservice]

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[MicrosoftVistahasser]

I don't think it is, what it seems to be.

That's just some fragments of a great content which is evaporated after the explosion!

[w13rdguy]

Spock!

[Scottthefish]

@w13rdguy That is where they should have gone in Star Trek IV to collect the photons!

[rappy90]

Even though reactors 1-3 have been shut down, are they still 'radioactive'?

[ohgoditsjames94]

@rappy90 Do you mean at the Chernobyl plant?

[rappy90]

@ohgoditsjames94 Yeah... I recall reading that the other 3 reactors were decommissioned, but are they still infact 'radioactive'?

[ohgoditsjames94]

@rappy90 I don't imagine so because they will of been decommissioned, meaning they will of removed the Fuel rods ect

[schenkel123]

@rappy90 When your funeral is over, are you still dead?

[puncheex]

@schenkel123: You could have been faking it, I suppose.

[puncheex]

@rappy90: Yes, and yes. The last reactor was closed down, as per agreement with the Ukraine, in the final week of 2000. They have not been decommissioned; that will happen after the dome is built.

[wulli1988]

there is another type of this flawed reactor model in operation in lithuanian and is even more powerful than the chernobyl plant

[ohgoditsjames94]

And actually, you CANNOT taste Radiation, the sensation is the radiation attacking your nerves, however it is correct if you feel this, you have been exposed to far too much Radiation.

[jerickvmx]

what was actually happen? why the chernobyl blown?

[puncheex]

@jerickvmx: You can read all about it on the wiki page "Chernobyl Disaster".

[hellenicsniper]

Some of you here say that materials thata last for thousands of years are clean ? (For the enviroment ? ) ARE YOU CRAZY MATES ? WTF !!! Look at the video over here AND think again about it. THINK THINK THINK.

[puncheex]

@hellenicsniper: Does you no good to think if you haven't learned about the physics of radioactivity. For example, there is an inverse relationship between the half-life of a material and its radio intensity; the worst have half-lives in hours (like 131iodine), and they totally disappear in weeks. The long ones, like uranium and plutonium, are barely radioactive. Most of the radioactivity will decay at Chernobyl within 300 years; they'll use the shelter to hasten that along.

[hellenicsniper]

@puncheex

wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_wi­ll_the_radiation_at_chernobyl_­last

wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_wi­ll_chernobyl_remain_radioactiv­e

[puncheex]

@hellenicsniper: And Randall Bell, whoever he is, says, "... It will be at least two centuries before there is any chance the situation can change within the 1.5-mile Exclusion Zone. As for the #4 reactor where the meltdown occurred, we estimate it will be 20,000 years before the real estate will be fully safe."

He is assuming no amelioration, which is almost assuredly not going to be the case. He is also assuming Linear Non-Threshold radiation, which is also being challenged.

[HedgehogStudios1]

this is a growing problem that's not getting enough attention. that glassified fuel has pores all over it and if water gets in...kaboom. maybe NASA should donate those 1.5 billion dollars to fix the damn thing. I think they can delay a few space missions to save mankind doncha think?

[n0f3aR629]

@HedgehogStudios1 Fuck NASA

[craioveanu95]

@HedgehogStudios1 don't you think that our planet is dying anyway and that we need those space programs so we can get out of here in case of a crysis?

[puncheex]

@HedgehogStudios1: Kaboom what? There's nothing explosive there. The danger is that the dust that erodes off the surface could be lifted into the air by a vagrant breeze. Why NASA? Maybe a little of the defense budget? The US pledged 135 million to the shelter last April.

[annyonghaseyo90]

Doesnt this robot damage in any way from the high radiation?

[geeknproud2110]

@annyonghaseyo90

Fortunately only living things are harmed by radiation. If you were in a sealed and properly shielded vehicle, you could drive right into the sarcophagus problem-free. Radiation can be almost entirely blocked with special protective suits as well. Remember radiation is an actual physical particle, not a force of energy like a magnet, so it's dangerous to humans but won't even bother a robot. I would imagine you wouldn't want to handle the robot after it's been in there though.

[Frostiken]

@geeknproud2110 Alpha and beta particles can be blocked with suits and respirators.

Gamma radiation are rays, penetrate deeply, and are the most dangerous.

[ohgoditsjames94]

@Frostiken In some respects, you're wrong because gamma is the less Ionizing than Alpha and Beta, but it's the most penetrating.

[ohgoditsjames94]

@geeknproud2110 Incorrect, Gamma rays penetrate everything, Lead and concrete are good at reducing the effects by a percentage, and actually Machines are heavily effected by radiation, it completely breaks them down.

[svandamme76]

@geeknproud2110

Radiation can and will harm non living things just the same.

The simple non electronic fire trucks in Tjernobyl stopped working from it.

The non human robots they wanted to use to push the core debris on the roof, back in the pit... they all failed, hence the "bio robots" were needed.

You may want to read up on Neutron radiation and it's effects on materials.

[geeknproud2110]

@svandamme76

At one point it was an issue. But remember Chernobyl happened in the 80s. The issue wasn't physical damage from the radiation but a lack of proper shielding for the electronics. It can certainly affect non-living things, but it only ACTIVELY damages living tissue. Not saying I'm above being corrected, I'm not :P Just saying my previous comment probably didn't come out right. i was more explaining a simple concept.

[ohgoditsjames94]

@annyonghaseyo90 Yes radiation damaged machines severely, it breaks them down. 

[MrPenguinPerson]

What radioactive element is used to power nuclear power plants?

[ChernobylWildZone]

@MrPenguinPerson Use special nuclear fuel. Main radioactive element is uranium-235

[MrPenguinPerson]

@ChernobylWildZone Thanks :-)

[js111410]

also  plutonium-239

[Flowerpower210]

@ChernobylWildZone Mostly uranium-235, but it depends on the reactor. For example, in canada, we have CANDU reactors and they don't need enriched fuel. Just uranium in ciramic pellets.

[RaGexClanOfficial]

@ChernobylWildZone and plutonium i think 283

[estoqueTV]

@MrPenguinPerson

235 and 238

[MrDikkeSnikkel]

@MrPenguinPerson Pu-238, U-235

[CowboyFromFarbeyond]

The RBMK 1000 was developed by the britains. But they soon realized that the construction was not safe enough and threw that plan away. But before a soviet spion could make a copy of it... that was the main mistake. Soon after that, the soviets builded the reactor.

[ChernobylWildZone]

@CowboyFromFarbeyond very interesting version. Where can I read more about spyware?

[CowboyFromFarbeyond]

@ChernobylWildZone

I can't remeber where I gained this information...

sorry. maybe google is your friends, hehe

[mshigorin]

@CowboyFromFarbeyond you seem to have gained misinformation from what I know so far... (just in case, I live in Kiev, was fleeing from radiation as well, and took quite some time to understand what did happen)

[CowboyFromFarbeyond]

@CowboyFromFarbeyond

I mean spion = spy!!

[xEmberstrife]

@CowboyFromFarbeyond LOL!!!!! stupid people writing random stupid shit.

[dicthash]

@CowboyFromFarbeyond

wrong

[MaksimovLugansk]

@CowboyFromFarbeyond When the USSR developed reactors Britain on foot under the table saw. This is from the Soviet Union spies steal information dreaming.

[Ullip12]

@CowboyFromFarbeyond Also that they strained the power rods to the max during a test with no safety precautions.

[TeunisD]

Yeah, Human mistakes. But also the design of the RBMK Reactor has alot of flaws!

[freeculture]

If you are interested, check wikipedia "Chernobyl Disaster" where the "accident" is explained. In Summary, human induced error.

Nuclear reactors are not that clean, you have to take into the equation extraction, processing and transportation of radioactive material and byproduct disposal.

The ones using Thorium (Molten Salt Fluoride Reactor) look cleaner, but are still very rare.

[mshigorin]

@freeculture every error is human induced but this was induced by academia and production for the most part if we take Dyatlov's book into account (and read accidont.ru materials as well since Dyatlov wasn't a third party to the event either).

Among the critical problems were the concealing of KNOWN design+implementation error (an explosion like that almost happened at Leningrad NPP in 1975), AND by lacking wiring of the lower half of emergency rod activator...

[DarthBarkerSithLord]

What is that red/orange/brown blob the robot was in front of?

[ChernobylWildZone]

This molten nuclear fuel and the construction of a nuclear reactor after the explosion, which turned into a frozen lava.

[mcphisto85]

@ChernobylWildZone This lava is called "charnobylite", a completely new crystal. It melted through lower floors and basement under the reactor to form these new rocks/crystals.

[KOLSARNIT]

@DarthBarkerSithLord a worker

[IggyHazard]

Fuel Containing Material, also known as a "fuel lava formation."

[Bombargo333]

There was send robots to sarcophagus, but they were very soon broken. But humans survived long, sad is they wasnt got chance for return back.

[IggyHazard]

FCM formations are fascinating yet frightening.

[drag00n77]

the brown stuff in the vid is the fuel that was for the reactor...it has hardend and will be radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years...chernobyl was just humanitys next step in turning the planet into an unhabitable eradiated waistland...,,u cant see smell or taist radation...the only way to trace it is with a device....infact you could be being exposed to radiation as you read this and how would you know? we shouldnt toy around with things capable of destroying continents imo..but we do

[frambesbuckeye]

@drag00n77

Actually, you can taste and feel radiation......although once you do........you have been exposed to too much.

[b1gbird001]

taste is metalic, they say

[MrRein1988]

You can't taste it lol.

The receptors in your nose and mouth are not made to catch single electrons or electromagnetic waves of ultrahigh frequency :)

And the only thing that you can feel is the heat from extreme amounts of radiation.

However you can taste the ozone .. like during the lightning storm, when the air gets ionized.

[frambesbuckeye]

@MrRein1988

I'm just going off of the reports of people exposed to the radiation.  Nearly all of them noted they had a metallic taste in their mouth and felt like pins were hitting their face. Neurologically, the radiation could effect nervous response to possibly cause these effects.

[clockworkdreams]

i would disagree. even exposure to radiation for medical purposes is something i've been able to taste and smell. although in my experiences its a strong sensation but also something like a phantom sensation. it doesn't smell like ozone though, i'd bet its like the other person said and the radiation has some sort of impact on nerves directly. thats certainly how it comes across..

[clockworkdreams]

thats a strange thing to say since the exclusion zone is hardly lifeless. theres more of a problem with there being an overabundance of animals, including pests, than the lack of animals. just because people are kept out doesnt mean its lifeless or a wasteland. the only real 'wasteland' element is probably the red forest where the radiation was high enough to kill off a cone shaped swath of trees.

[clockworkdreams]

beyond that you ARE being exposed to radiation as you watch this. even if you're silly and don't count visible light toward that tally there's back ground radiation every where on the planet and our own bodies have a radioactive foot print that would probably surprise you. beyond that you really should count visible light toward that tally, its fully capable of causing cell death and burns.

[Yastamba]

Plutonium uranium 235 and 238 do we really need that kind of stuff they are dangerous and makes pernament damage to the enviroment!

[drag00n77]

no not permanent damage.....well would you call hundreds to thousands of years of barren waistland permanent....?

[SORAROX10]

Fallout 3.

[thisissick22]

grow up.

[SORAROX10]

Make me XD

[thisissick22]

its advice.

[SORAROX10]

its gay advice.

[thisissick22]

no, gay advice would be: dont feel depressed. your friends and family may not mind that you're gay.

[SORAROX10]

Ok then its retarded advice.

[thisissick22]

telling someone to grow up is retarded? you've just made the advice even more applicable to yourself.

[SORAROX10]

Yes sir, its very retarded :]

[thisissick22]

go back to your game child

[SORAROX10]

Go be an adult adult.

[thisissick22]

you are a waste of time.

[SORAROX10]

you are a waste of MY time

[Gixxerracing51]

it was a test to determine what the reactor would do if it lost electrical power

[Kernow31426955]

wasn't it too safe money? -.-' well now we know no one will bloody dare do anything like that again, not even in war I suspect!

[Gixxerracing51]

i sure hope they dont. i live over 250km's from a nuclear powerplant with all of the best protection from something like this, and i personally still dont apporove of it.

[Kernow31426955]

I feel for you, and neither do I approve of them. I don't live close to a nuclear powerplant, yet, if that accident happened too the nuclear powerplant closest too me, I would die. I live in an area where the radiation is already quite high, not dangerously high, as in enough to damage you for life, however being out in the sun too long unprotected would mean you have a very good chance of skin cancer more so than some places. So if that plant went up, I would be dead within the hour.

[Gixxerracing51]

we came close in the three mile island accident.

[Kernow31426955]

Ouch! That's bad.

[Gixxerracing51]

it is, we would almost be talking about this on a video about the eastern united states being a ghost town

[Kernow31426955]

This would usually be the time I would shout out, HAHA! IM IN THE UK AND WE'RE CLEANER THAN YOU!! But we're obviously not. We may not have as many powerplants, but considering we are much smaller it's not very good. Then theres the radiation from Cornwall thats seeping out. That's where I'm from. And sellafield. Taking everything into consideration, neither the UK or US can stand up too say they are the cleanest and safest place around. And we didn't even touch the aspect of crime.

[Gixxerracing51]

canada is where its at . lol

[Kernow31426955]

Ouch, lol. I really should of seen that coming. How did I miss a simple U.S. hit like that? haha!

[justwatch000]

Chernobyl's power plant reactor #4 exploded during an experiment. Its like Eastern United States doing experiments which fail like Chernobyl's.

Nuclear Power plants are clean and efficent when used SAFELY. It is better than fossil fuels at least. There is tonnes of uranium in Australia, and America uses it for Nuclear bombs?

[nzigen31]

I have a house close to one, lucky of me that plant doenst worth shit and aint gonna explode or something... at least I hope so... xD

but this is brazil so I doubt

and no, we are not natives and our cities are not natives villages

[Kernow31426955]

lol, well I wish you luck just in case =P

I wasn't gonna think you lived in a native village, purely because i'm a narrow minded idiot and think of Rio. Or monkeys..they so fuzzy ^^

[Kernow31426955]

Lol, you have no idea how many people ask me what it's like to drive a tractor and live with loads of animals such as sheep, cows and pigs. Purely because I say I live in the cornish countryside. It's fun to listen to their rubbish accents though.

[Katsuk2Je]

А какие там уровни?..

[q123477]

what was the test they were trying to do when it went critical?

[hdaln2]

it wasnt a test, they tryed to not get a nuclear freeze down, when the reactor that exploded went out of power, it was some kind of fuses that died, and they tryed to fix it. Then it exploded

[conijoo]

yes it was a test,

[Gixxerracing51]

it was on a show that i seen like 2 years ago and the big man wasnt there and he was replaced with another big man that was a stupid and made some mistakes ans let some number go below what it should. i dont no watch the show