Radioactive Cloud/Fallout Over Europe From the Chernobyl Disaster

[markovic]

In Yugoslavia scientists knew everything but had to shut down,communists lied the nation although the circumstances in decades after have been terrible....

[unterredetu]

Spain and portugal untouched

[MrGOTAMA420]

oops my bad sweden

[MrGOTAMA420]

are you in lithuania or poland?

[Heerdt2011]

I saw it twice. First time, when I was an teanager, we became ,,hibakusha `` by radioactive cloud ( 0:56 Germany ) , maybe 2 MicroSv/ h , and we had problemes with Cäsium and Jod 131. And now, this year, in Japan, my secound home, just 260 km far from the Fukushima daiichi Nuclear power plant.

I thought, Nuc. powerplants in Japan and Germany are safe. But they arent safe.

So, we have to stop the nuc. power plants in all over the world. Urgent !!!

原発止めよ !!! Stoppt die AKW´s !!!

[LucasFlandria]

Fucking fantastic. Our weatherman (belgium) back then, had to lie there was no danger and everyone could stay outside. After a while (i dont know i wasnt born untill 91) he quit his job, the man was broken by guilt cause he knew he made it worse

[Berniessen]

Arent all particals gone now,in the meaning that they flushed into the ground by rain?

That they will radioactiver for decades i know,but that most of the particals are not harmfull now is that correct?

I read somewhere that fallout gets like 5cm a jear into the ground by rain,on a avarage place in Europe,so i gues most of the treath caused bye Chernobyl is gone,in a certain way,but it will reach the ground water one day,and than we have a new problem...

[alexforspeed]

@Berniessen

Most is gone but the Chernobyl area still got some radioactive fallout.

[FASTBOOBS]

PUTTANA EVA!!!!!!

[seanlookalike]

no wonder cancer rates are on the increase

[FASTBOOBS]

Chernobyl IS STILL PUMPING THE FUCKING RADIOACTIVITI IN OUR AIR!!! WAKE UP!! IS STILL WORKING THAT FUKING FACTOY OF URANIUM AND PLUTONIUM!SHIT!

[PDana2009]

I live in Romania and I remember well the first days. Saturday morning thick, dark clouds were above Bucharest. Sunday there was sun, but I started to be very dizzy, specially outside. Probably the radioactive Iodium did arrive. Monday Sweden was complaining at BBC Radio about unusual high radioactivity. Our Communist regime warned after other 2 days to keep the children inside. Mother had the first signs of her cancer 6 month later and died after 2,5 years.

[boniface8th]

I live in teh UK and remember that we couldn't eat many things for a while - for example - we could only eat New Zealand lamb, not British lamb for a time.

I have recently learnt that the French government said that the cloud avoided France. I think not!!



[zuzanaT1]

Woow! And check this! I found an interesting article where you can chceck the movement of of Radiaoactive Cloud:

[MsKava98]

@zuzanaT1 what happened to your link?



[zuzanaT1]

Woow!

[shivercanada]

Horrible! Worried about Fukishima! We in Canada are currently getting XE-133 gas here but seems small.

Nuclear power is a godsend, BUT we yet don't have the technology to use it with 100% safety, this is to me the problem with it.

For example if someday we have a beam or device that will stop the fission completely, there will be no problems with spent fuel and meltdowns.

Until that day comes it will always be a Pandora's Box and MANY will suffer!

[unapolakita]

I was 10 when Charnobyl exploded, I survived :) I live in Warsaw, Poland. I have a friend who was 6 in 1986, she lost her hearing, now she is deaf on one ear.

I am afraid of the Japaneese radiation. Today it is rainy and I'm staying home...

[monkeykilling13]

@unapolakita polish people are smart, you are not polish or just a child

[unapolakita]

@monkeykilling13 I'm just neurotic that's all ;))

[thelordofassholes]

Interesting. But now we better watch the Fukushima clouds ... if the EU let's us ...

[Videomakera]

austria was the most got pwned land in europe from the radioactivity

[monkeykilling13]

@Videomakera no way! I'm honestly fascinated to hear more proof/info on this matter!

[MicrosoftVistahasser]

Thanks for your upload!

[shabba211]

your going to die get out

[Videomakera]

@shabba211 no... you dont understand something... we are writing the year 2011 and not 1986 its all okay in europe but in the 30 kilometre-zone around the chernobyl power plant there you can die

[ExtraTerrestrials]

i live in Belarus.. the rest is clear

[harrowbits]

what was the timespan for what is shown in the video?

[alexforspeed]

@harrowbits

1 week I think.

[CarboneCZ]

@alexforspeed

more importantly, what value those colors represent. I'd say the dark red one is 1000x lower than the black one around Chernobyl (which by itself can vary 1-1000x), the red one 1000000x, etc. Since radiation decreases exponentially (square of the distance) it can't be much different from that. I have also hard time finding any peer-reviewed evidence that the number of deaths (10000) is sound.

[CarboneCZ]

@alexforspeed I know only about those 134 people near the reactor (47 died, 4 solid cancers, 2 leukemia, rest with some more or less major issues) and 6848 children with thyroid cancer (from iodine 131 in milk). I have hard time believing the number (10000 during 1986 and many more afterwards, i've read even about million deaths). Radiation level decreases so quickly with distance that it's just not very believable (not at all to be perfectly clear).

[ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT]

put some music at least, like this is too frikkin scary shit

[ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT]

only bloody Spain didnt touch ??????????????????

[alexforspeed]

@ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT

Haha, yeah.

[KStealed]

@ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT touch or not i go for my second brain surgery next month. first was in 2005, lets see what happen next

this is a bad shit ... we are all touched :(

three mile island america -1979-

chernobyl europe -1986-

japan asia -2011-

we just have THIS ROOM we call our planet ... and is soooo fked up

[MadMedeiros]

@ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT  and portugual

[xander7ful]

@MadMedeiros That's amazing, isn't it? It stopped at the border of Spain and never came close to Portugal.

[niperaquestes]

@ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT  jodete

[one2manyification]

I live in california how do you think the radiation from Japan will effect us they say all the radiation is blowing out to sea and Japan used this same wind to send bombs atached to balloons during WWII some balloons made it but did not detonate. we are having strang wheather right now. before this disaster jets where flying over cloud seeding or spaying somthing that is now reacting with the radiation and causing the current wheather system.

[TheUnnamed321]

o fuck i live in athens greece look how much time the radiation staid there fuck grrr fuck nuclear reactors :(

[a9500a]

Because the government at those days did not tell us early enough about the danger, we walked through the contaminated rain when the cloud reached Austria.

[UnknownOconnor]

I live in Ireland. Damn, I thought we got spared from that radioactive cloud until I seen this. Although we did detect some abnormal radiation readings on our mountains, nothing at sea level. 

[Mariogiussepe]

I overheard that small particles are gonna approach the West Coast of North America;even as far South as Nicaragua and that's in Central America,I talked to my Aunt Edda in Managua and She told me that the Gov't down there it's very aware about what the next Plan is after a World Catastrophe;it's just a scary thought when you think about it...

[Snittioett]

I live in Sweden too, in goteborg.. should we be worried about the radiation fallout thats coming now from japan ? anyone?

[pray2U4ever]

Yes, here in Europe we should also be worried about a fall out.

Just stay inside if it rains or when it is foggy, take the same precautions as with Tsjernobyl.

Buy conserved food, vegetables, milk and clean water, I did and I hope and pray I will not be thankful to myself that I did it.

Our government will take action to inform us when it's too late, they say it's "nothing like Tsjernobyl" while it concerns FOUR reactors instead of ONE!

[AustraliaFrance]

Ah bah non ! Voyons .. le Nuage n'est pas passé en France .. Il s'est arrété aux frontieres .. ( et les gens ont gobé ça . pfffff)

[agenthelios1]

I wouldnt be surprised if theJpanes government came out a week from now saying that "magical radiation loving microbes" absobed all the radiation and its all better now.

Same thing US government did in conjustcion woth BP lying and saying "magical oil loving microbes" ate the oil...its all better.

Lies..Lies , and MORE LIES!

[MikeyBoobs11]

The reason this happened is because they didn't have their reactors in containment vessels so when the building collapsed massive amounts of radioactive material went into the atmosphere. If a meltdown happened in Japan it would be contained. This is not going to happen in Japan.

[mjs48130]

@MikeyBoobs11 Yes but the spent fuel rods aren't contained and if the pond's structural integrity has been compromised and is leaking and/or they can't keep it cool by pumping more water in it, then those rods are just as deadly.

[Szymek25]

I live in north-east part of Poland and was born in december 1986. Do you think it's cool? :S

[FreeinTX]

Folks, chernobyl was 1 core.

Japan has 6 cores on the troubled sight, 4 in distress right now, and several other sights experiencing complications.

Japan will by Chernobyl times 4, maybe 6, maybe more!

GET OUT OF JAPAN!

GET OUT OF JAPAN!

[RatatRatR]

@FreeinTX And there have been six earthquakes in California in just the past two hours -- so things must be six times worse there than they are in Japan!

[FreeinTX]

WHY is the main stream media and the US, as well as European countries, NOT showing us any of the satelight imagery, you and I both know they have, of the Japan reactors?

They have satelights that can detect a suitcase nuke signature, they have DOZENS that can show us the radiation levels in real time, as well as show us live, real time, pictures of the sight.

This is a TOTAL COVER-UP by the worlds governments!

[thelordofassholes]

@FreeinTX I agree that this must be a cover-up and I think it's for the "simple" reason that there is hardly any place to go if you want to flee from radiation any more. And because nuclear lobby has even become stronger during the past years.

[ScotlandTh3Brave]

there are still radiated land in west of scotland and the fallout wasn't as intese here just shows you how devistating it can be. Hope for the best in japan

[iciloic]

What software did you use to make such an animation? It's really great work!!

[holy1337]

göteborgare och allt! =)

[psihicka]

I'm from Slovenia and my grandparents took their home-grown salad for testing and it was radioactive :S so they had to throw away all the crops that year. We were in the orange bit.

[airbark]

how long would it take for me to turn into a ghoul? :P

[Procharmo]

Still couldn't eat sheep from Scotland till last month 2011

[webwebwebby0]

I'm surprised how quickly the fallout reached the Sundsvall Municipality, herregud! Eastern Europe was hit pretty hard by that cloud

[gemdha21]

human are insane making things that kill them selves like a ticking time bomb....

love the EARTH

[nbp92]

Now i realize why our politicians here in Greece are such dummies!!

[RussianLawyer]

it looks fake -- according to that map the whole europe must be dead.

[alexforspeed]

@RussianLawyer

It's not fake and this map does not mean that people died in these coloured areas. It just shows how much radioactive fallout it was over europe from the disaster til 1 week after the disaster.

[paddytheduck]

@RussianLawyer 1 word retard

[MrAapenkind]

@RussianLawyer its not fake retard red is danger

[xygomorphic44]

This radiation cloud didn't just spread over Europe, it affected radiation detectors all over the world. Most of it landed in Eastern Europe but about a third went toward western Europe where it settled on a dozen countries and even was found at the eastern US and Canada. The jet stream also carried it west over the Pacific ocean to North America after a week, but by that time it was mostly dissipated. Still, the Soviets hid the true extent of the disaster from the world.

[robuk1981]

my home town was almost in the dark orange bit in the uk :(

[callimede]

i live in rome and i remember that at school we didn't have milk and various kind of fruit and vegetables for months and months and no tap water... we ate frozen food for a long time... i had milk after 9 months... and people in my country still talk about nuclear plants!!!!!! may they don't remember... i'm so worry about the next generations...

[alexforspeed]

@callimede

I'm not worried. If you die you'll just die. There is no idea of being scared, I think. By the way the nuclear plants is getting more and more safe now.

[Adrenochrome71]

@alexforspeed

...as you actually can see in Japan. Hope you recognize NOW that you're talking crap. We'll never make nuclear plants save!

[TheHorsenation]

@alexforspeed

more an more safe? Yes that may be true, despite the fact that this is what engineers say every time the invent something new. Human error can never be ruled out neither in operation nor in planning/writing software. AFAIK nuclear plants are economically a bad deal, and that doesn't even take into account that the waste is radiating for 100.000 years to come.

Check out the movie Onkalo about waste storage plans (link on my page) so see how crazy these people are and delusional...

[faraskan]

@alexforspeed so much crap in so few sentences. you say it doesnt matter if you die? well maybe it matters HOW you die ? dying a radioactive death is a suffering for years. its painful and a very slow death. its a very cruel way to die. so stop speaking like a mad scientist without any feelings or a robot. it DOES matter to people when they die and how. and nuclear power ist FAR away from being safe. look at japan now. safe? SAFE MY A** ! nuclear power is a threat to the whole world

[alexforspeed]

@faraskan

Yeah I might have said that. So what? I'm not scared of dying and why should you be scared of dying? If you'll die, you'll die. I don't understand why people are scared of death. :/

[alexforspeed]

@poodooyou1

It can take lots of days. Even years. There are till radiation in Chernobyl. Even though it happend in 1986.

[dadrunkendog]

Was rainfall radioactive?

[alexforspeed]

@dadrunkendog

Yep. The rain turned black from the radioactive fallout.

[MjrDario]

@alexforspeed like in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

except they drank it O_O

[AfroN1nj4]

are we safe after the cloud have gone?

[alexforspeed]

@AfroN1nj4

Yes. You don't have to worry.

[bacabu30]

I was a small child when this cloud crossed Ireland. We were told the cloud would be crossing us at 8pm on Saturday but afterwards we were told that it had arrived in Ireland sooner and that it had passed over us at 2pm. I remember I was going to the swimming pool at 8pm and was worried about breathing!! I was indoors at 2pm but my brother and sister had been outside playing. It was really scary time for a child like me! I remember my mother being very worried. It was disgraceful and unfortunate

[alexforspeed]

@bacabu30

Actually it wasn't dangerous for us because we didn't get that much radioactive fallout. It was just in north Ukraine, Belarus & Russia where people died of the radiation.

[bacabu30]

@alexforspeed Yes, Sweden was affected so badly but I think Poland did get quite a lot of fallout. On the radioactive radar, southern Poland is covered in red for a time. Ireland was lucky in that it only got a bit of yellow for a brief time.

Still though the whole thing was scary for me when I was a child. I'm not sure if Russia was even affected that much as the winds were blowing everything northwestwards. It seems to have been Belarus that was hit the worst.

[theadux]

@alexforspeed while we may not have gotten the accute radiation (I am from the Netherlands by the way), I remember there being food restrictions for a long time because of gaseous particles contaminating agricultural areas well outside of Belarus and Ukraine. The one I remember most was bell peppers. We were advised not to eat the bell peppers from Hungary.

[EverywhereVirtually]

@theadux I lived in Northwest England back then in the county of Cumbria. There were restrictions on eating local lamb. Ironic considering that fears of Nuclear leaks were always focused on Sellafield which is a Nuclear reprocessing plant.

[robdigna]

@alexforspeed but what happen to your mom and dad what didi they do at the time ?

[alexforspeed]

@robdigna

Nothing. Lol.

[robdigna]

@alexforspeed that just blows my mind that your mom and dad did nothing. if i'd lived there i would go to canada or something. oh and i have one more question what happen to the place u lived at is it still there or is it a ghost town

[alexforspeed]

@robdigna

It's still there. It's just the Chernobyl area which is abadoned.

[EverywhereVirtually]

@robdigna Why would his town in Sweden be a Ghost town? This cloud covered most of Europe and if you include the former soviet Union and Turkey then you are looking at 800 million people affected as of today. If if you assume the 1986 population was 500 million where do we all go? You cant see this stuff, you can't smell it. It just silently descends and gets into the food chain. As it happens this cloud went around the world ultimately. Caesium 137 has a half life of 30 years.

[clonmultcity]

You're right. Not much radiation landed here from Chernobyl. Some patches got more radion than others. There are mountains in the south east of Ireland called the Comeragh mountains and I've heard there some radioactivity there still from Chernobyl

[alexforspeed]

What the heck! Yesterday this video had about 1 500 views. Now almost 5 000! Thanks everyone!

[clonmultcity]

My Dad says he remembers seeing orange dust on his car one morning a couple of days after the Chernobyl accident. He had never seen it on his car before or since.

[alexforspeed]

@clonmultcity

Where did he live then? Sounds strange by the way.

[clonmultcity]

@alexforspeed On the south coast of Ireland.

[alexforspeed]

@clonmultcity

That's odd. It's a pretty long way from Chernobyl and I dont think Ireland got so much radiation from the disaster. Anyway where I live alot of animals died here at the end of the 80's and beginning of the 90's from the radiation.

[clonmultcity]

@alexforspeed You're right. Not much radiation landed here. Some patches got more of a dose than others. There are mountains in the south east called the Comeragh mountains and I heard that there's some radioactivity there still from Chernobyl.

[alexforspeed]

@clonmultcity

Oh. Ok.

[jumis6]

ou ou nice video

[alexforspeed]

@jumis6

Thanks.

[robdigna]

damn it got to where you live and what did you do

[alexforspeed]

@robdigna

I wasn't even born back then. I was born in like 9 years after the accident.

[lSASlLtGenRich]

I live in Wales. We only got it lightly. But i would of hated to be next to the powerplant. Must have been horrbile to leave your homes with only things you can carry. The lessons about nuclear power has been learnt the hard way i guess. =/

[MacGamer11]

Hey im doing a project on Chernobyl. How did you made this?

[alexforspeed]

lol i just recorded with hypercam

[MacGamer11]

but from where is taken?

[joshua99999999]

alex - the thing i dont get it that from what i saw a that map - was that london got part of the cloud to - well i live in rainham near london - and it showed on your map that it was infeced/passed over there - well my mums 46 - 47 and she never said anything ahppend here :S i wudnt know -

[Thehippiewithnolife]

I live in Denmark...

[Rostas]

lucky for you i live in ROMANIA

[triforcepower64]

wat was the time loop

[alexforspeed]

During the whole 1986.

[ipecaquana]

This movie is from 26 April to 9 May 1986

[triforcepower64]

so people died from clouds wtf

[alexforspeed]

Lol. That's a radioactive cloud. You can't see it. It's invincible and it was during the whole 1986. There are even some radiation left right now but only around Chernobyl.

[triforcepower64]

cancer

[Renew3D]

@alexforspeed Actually further away some growth of nature still absorbs the last of the radiation, such as mushrooms. But most of the radiation was caused by very short aged radioactive elements. Atm most is called cesium.

[alexforspeed]

@Renew3D

Oh, ok.

[alfabetdodupy]

you could add date, so i would know at what time it was where -_^

[alexforspeed]

I think it was during the whole 1986.

[09jamieboro]

hmm good point..

[09jamieboro]

well accidents happen...stupid ukraine's....

[alexforspeed]

It's not their problem. It's Soviet's problem because they took over some of those countries in the eatern Europe. Ukraine wasn't a country at 1986.

[tommygoogyx]

wow that caused a lot of damage

[alexforspeed]

Yup xD