Cooking in the Danger Zone - The red forest

Video index photo:
http://www.chnpp.info/YT/dangerzone01.jpg

Norwegian subtitles.

In this clip Stefan makes a short stop at the ChNPP, before visiting the red forest.

"From the BBC series Cooking in the Danger Zone, food writer Stefan Gates travels to Chernobyl in Ukraine and meets people who live and eat in the radioactive zone"

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Cooking
• in
• the
• Danger
• Zone
• Chernobyl
• chnpp
• pripyat
• Red
• Forest
• radiation
• alfa
• beta
• gamma
• geiger
• counter
• dosimeter

[paullypaully18]

Does anyone feel headache? "No" , Well, i do

[KLONIME1001]

holly shit!!

[bored1980]

@DrHooty911 Also, 130 kev is quite low power for gamma radiation because gamma rays can be between 10 kev - up to 10,000 kev! So those suits are only good for low radiation areas or getting away really really really quickly.

On the plus side they're really handy if you operate an X-Ray machine all day, because they'll block at least 50% of all X-Rays (because X rays operate at 0.1 kev to 100 kev).

I'm babbling, but in short, your best defense is to get a Geiger counter, and run like hell! :)

[bored1980]

@DrHooty911 There are lead-suits, but they don't cover every part of the body and weigh around 60 pounds. Still, they could be made yourself cheaply.

Demron make a suit that blocks 50% of gamma rays at 130 kev, which is handy to help you get away quickly - though they're $1700 each.

[DrHooty911]

@bored1980 And you're telling me that in 2012 we are yet to find a solution to this?

[bored1980]

@DrHooty911 A suit will only help against alpha and beta radiation (when there's radioactive smoke from a fire). Now, it's only gamma radiation left (the most dangerous) which goes through concrete, never mind a little suit.

[xWeBecameTheSunx]

STALKER anyone?

[DrHooty911]

Why didn't they wear suits?

[TheCaptainLulz]

@SlyFox70100 dont have to imagine. One of the control room operators (nicolai Fomin) is still alive, if you can find him, Hes a bit of a recluse I hear. There are still alive others that worked in the plant as well as reactor 3 which was nearby. There are also quite a few of thew origional bio-robots still alive.

[SlyFox70100]

@TheCaptainLulz i guess so, but imagine how it was at the epicenter in 1987.

[TheCaptainLulz]

@SlyFox70100 Chances are slim. It may slightly increase cancer risks, but not much else. The human body is actually pretty good at dealing with radiation as its something thats always around us.

[videotjes]

@SlyFox70100 You don't die or get sick if you don't stay too long ;)