Chernobyl Journal: Road To Chernobyl

Chernobyl Journal (video #1) - from Kyiv to Chernobyl Town. Read the journal entries: http://timmsuess.com.

Video (not including audio) is licensed Creative Commons by-sa: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Music: "prelude" by shardik's walkman (cc-nc-by-sa) and "magnetosphere" by Michael Hoffmann (cc-nc-by-nd), available via http://jamendo.com

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• travel
• chernobyl
• roadtrip
• creativecommons

[MASTERCHIEF2434]

Man this shit is creepy, if you go on Google Maps, and Search Ukraine, Chernobyl, all you see is some Blurred out location, with some weird green and bluish stuff, someone tell me why

[lordyo75]

@MASTERCHIEF2434 Actually, the maps of the Chernobyl zone of exclusion are quite detailed. You probably went too far east or got some wrong geotags around Chernobyl village. Search for "Pripyat" instead.

[mikee286]

Do people still live in chernobyl town or is it abandoned as well?

[lordyo75]

Chernobyl town used to be abandoned (except for some old people who didn't want to go away), and now it's inhabited again, by about 100-200 people, mostly from the federal agency for the zone. Lots of camo uniforms.

[StripedTabbyCat]

@lordyo75 Ive been really interested in Chernobyl and stuff all the time, and obsessed with radiation. So the radiation level is low enough to live in the Chernobyl town?? Cause if it is iam moving. Or do you have to take a dose of potassium Iodide every day?

[lordyo75]

I'm not a radiation expert, so don't take my advice from this, but from what I've seen the gamma radiation is low enough to be comparable with European towns. However, the scientists and officials we met were all on a 50% plan, spending half of their time in the zone and the other half in Kyiv. The food and water is imported. Still, I wouldn't call Chernobyl town a booming metropolis of the Ukraine.

[TripleRainbowify]

Lordyo: I am planning a trip to Chernobyl this summer. I was wondering which group/agency you went through and the total price for each person. If you could reply, I would appreciate it.

[MASTERCHIEF2434]

@lordyo75 mm kk

[eress4]

Radioactive kitteh cares not about radiation

On a more serious comment; thanks a lot for this footage, I find Chernobyl and Prypyat's histories very interesting.

[Wiktormotra]

This cat looked pregnant... my cat looked exactly the same before she had kittens.

[MeadowLark8]

Thankyou, Now, I can share more history with my children. Seeing is learning.

[StripedTabbyCat]

@lordyo75 Ahh, Ok thanks