@Azazaazazazza Not in technical sense. It was a build up of steam pressure that blew the "top" off the the reactor exposing the radioactive core to the environment. The radioactive core did NOT explode. Had the core exploded the fallout would have covered most of western europe.
@smala01 The water is the core (it's the neutron moderator), it wont work without it. If you gloss over that and talk about the radioactive materials, well they only get hot enough to melt. Hence the term "meltdown".
Saying "if the [radioactive materials] had exploded" is a nonsense hypothetical and just as valid as saying "if Elvis returned as a zombie".
Only nuclear bombs are capable of exploding like that and several geniuses found it very hard to make one of those, even then it took years.
wow it still snows there in june? or is this old footage. also i have never seen radiation have that kind of effect on a camera in other chernobyl vids
As for the camera some very strange things happened. Once i got back to the hotel i found the camera not work anymore. Also when i later touched the clothes i was wearing on the day, there was a peculiar "in and needles" feeling in the hand. Very weird and haunting place!
@smala01 I thought when you go on the tours you have to go through a radiation detector upon leaving the chernobyl zone to make sure you weren't contaminated. IF you had to do that did it turn up anything?
Yeah - they make you walk through an old soviet radiation detector. It did not show up anything - but I'm not sure i would trust it!
There is a difference between contamination and exposure. You can be exposed (by standing too close to an abandoned vehicle) without becoming contaminated, You would need some kind of transfer (i.e. dust) for it to be present on clothes.
My Jeans and Shoes went straight in the bin when got back to the hotel!
@smala01 I take it they didn't allow you to go to the vehicle graveyard then? That place is apparently the most radioactive since all or most of those vehicles were part of the cleanup operation just after the incident.
YEAH! CALL OF DUTY! >:D
HorusFlint 6 months ago
Out
PS3man4798 8 months ago
The doll creeped me our
PS3man4798 8 months ago
Do you not feel unsafe without a gun on you?
LatinGamerps3 9 months ago
How much money did trip coast?
dzoni2307 11 months ago
@dzoni2307 I dont remember... i think about 80GBP but i was already in Kiev..
smala01 4 months ago
"Had the reactor of exploded then the whole of Western Europe would have become uninhabitable."
So you think the reactor didn't explode!?
Azazaazazazza 11 months ago
@Azazaazazazza Not in technical sense. It was a build up of steam pressure that blew the "top" off the the reactor exposing the radioactive core to the environment. The radioactive core did NOT explode. Had the core exploded the fallout would have covered most of western europe.
smala01 4 months ago
@smala01 The water is the core (it's the neutron moderator), it wont work without it. If you gloss over that and talk about the radioactive materials, well they only get hot enough to melt. Hence the term "meltdown".
Saying "if the [radioactive materials] had exploded" is a nonsense hypothetical and just as valid as saying "if Elvis returned as a zombie".
Only nuclear bombs are capable of exploding like that and several geniuses found it very hard to make one of those, even then it took years.
Azazaazazazza 4 months ago
I understand the abandoning, but why is everything destroyed?
Weslietje 11 months ago
@Weslietje i suppose if we didn't destroy it then it'd be in perfect condition 24 years later right?
figurefigure 10 months ago
@Weslietje Its just the decay of soviet building in 20 years... Also some have been looted / vandalized etc
smala01 4 months ago
What an annoying song.
atrumira 11 months ago
wow it scares me a lot, there is a cold atmosphere, a dead atmosphere...what about the people that live there?i mean the people that came back there
subzero92MK 1 year ago
when you were panning the camera around i say a building with lots of cranes around it. what are they building
wolfcatsden 1 year ago
@wolfcatsden
i believe thats the old plant, the cranes where left over from when they built the cover over the destroyed reactor
ljones121 11 months ago
@wolfcatsden its been abandoned. nobody except maybe some homeless still live there
figurefigure 10 months ago
will it ever be safe to go back
SilverLugia2494ever 1 year ago
@SilverLugia2494ever No, the levels of radiation were too high to ever get rid of
CharlieTehUnicorn001 10 months ago
@SilverLugia2494ever Its safe to go back now to the city... the radiation is 2 meters under the ground. No-one wants to live there though!!
The immediate area around the power station will take several hundred years to become safe!
smala01 4 months ago
Fascinating!
panostsak 1 year ago
Only few old people live there.
They get a visit to a town each month
TehProgresses 1 year ago
wow it still snows there in june? or is this old footage. also i have never seen radiation have that kind of effect on a camera in other chernobyl vids
mikee286 1 year ago 2
@mikee286 I was there in March 2010.
As for the camera some very strange things happened. Once i got back to the hotel i found the camera not work anymore. Also when i later touched the clothes i was wearing on the day, there was a peculiar "in and needles" feeling in the hand. Very weird and haunting place!
smala01 1 year ago
@smala01 I thought when you go on the tours you have to go through a radiation detector upon leaving the chernobyl zone to make sure you weren't contaminated. IF you had to do that did it turn up anything?
mikee286 1 year ago
@mikee286
Yeah - they make you walk through an old soviet radiation detector. It did not show up anything - but I'm not sure i would trust it!
There is a difference between contamination and exposure. You can be exposed (by standing too close to an abandoned vehicle) without becoming contaminated, You would need some kind of transfer (i.e. dust) for it to be present on clothes.
My Jeans and Shoes went straight in the bin when got back to the hotel!
smala01 1 year ago
@smala01 I take it they didn't allow you to go to the vehicle graveyard then? That place is apparently the most radioactive since all or most of those vehicles were part of the cleanup operation just after the incident.
mikee286 1 year ago