nuclear-news

The hidden secrets of Chernobyl 2012 – Video investigation series

I must return to chernobyl… call for donations and introduction to the video series

bionerd23

Published on Aug 4, 2012

I heed the call of Chernobyl – i must return at all costs.

It’s where i belong – basking in atom’s glow, blinding YOU with the truth.

My return to Chernobyl is planned for September 2012 – but i’m still a few hundred dollars short.

So… if you can help out, i’d be more than grateful –

THANK YOU for making this possible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyWzVNu8TOM

Chernobyl 2012 II: the deja vu series (now in HD) Part 1

bionerd23

6.03 mins

Published on Oct 1, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvkwikZ3Odk

Chernobyl 2012 II: the kindergarten of копачи (kopachi) (deja vu)

Published on Oct 3, 20125.41 mins

копачи was a small village near Chernobyl. it was entirely torn down as it was heavily contaminated… only the kindergarten – which was too solid to tear down quickly – remained…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlWFRXeNpQg

Chernobyl 2012 II: the red radioactive forest (Рудий ліс) (deja vu)

Published on Oct 4, 2012

5.04 mins

For the mobile phone used to get a dose reading, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNe1UBfJvoo !

The pine trees in this forest turned brown as they died from the intense levels of radiation after the Chernobyl disaster.

The whole forest was torn down; now, fresh trees are growing on the still quite radioactive grounds, seemingly without problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQrLpqgxSBw

Chernobyl 2012 II: up to the rooftops of pripyat (Припять) (deja vu)

Published on Oct 7, 2012

6.27 mins

Lost places from above; the city of Pripyat, the nuclear power plant… and duga-3, the russian woodpecker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3timSIFkswU

Chernobyl 2012 II: Pripyat harbor and wildlife in the zone of chernobyl (deja vu)

Published on Oct 11, 2012

6.12 mins

At first glimpse, everything seems abandoned and dead – except for the trees and plants… but nature is reclaiming the zone, and the animals are just hidden – but they are there! we’ll take a look at a few of them…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOtMu59KnMk

Chernobyl 2012 II: the highly radioactive graphite crane claw (deja vu)

Published on Oct 12, 2012

2.15 mins

This claw was used to pour graphite into the burning reactor of Chernobyl in the initial days after the incident.

To this day, it remains highly contaminated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clN1p4dtm2E

Chernobyl 2012 II: yet another hot particle of nuclear reactor fuel (deja vu)

Published on Oct 13, 2012

6.40 mins

Seems like finding a fuel fragment was not so unusual… this time, i saw a lot of these scattered around! this one was the biggest, though…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAf6RWvydCQ

Chernobyl 2012 II: the police station of pripyat (intermission)

Published on Oct 16, 2012

3.57 mins

Just an intermission, walking the “chernobyl jungle” (plants and trees mixed with objects of mankind)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQc47byEYaU

Chernobyl 2012 II: a pripyat house full of hints and secrets

Published on Oct 18, 2012

11.4 mins

Is this special place hinting towards more? What else is there to find in the zone? And, most of all, how can we access it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnhny7qCrac

Chernobyl 2012 II: school and pool of pripyat (intermission)

Published on Oct 21, 2012

5.01 mins

The school and pool of pripyat will be the last intermission of a relatively normal experience… from now on, radiation and unusual encounters will follow us everywhere we go, gradually increasing in strength.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQGcnqn6nI

Chernobyl 2012 II: lead-glass tanks and more hot particles from the reactor

Published on Oct 23, 2012

7.08 mins

These tanks were used for the cleanup after the disaster – and some carried hot particles / fuel fragments all the way to this random tank cemetery in the forest…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUdR7TTb5xs

Chernobyl 2012 II: strolling through the zone with high levels of radiation

Published on Oct 26, 2012

18.17 mins

That’s what you get when walking outside of the tourist paths… the true readings of non-decontaminated grounds, and a nice view on the reactor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEyavzsyHA

Chernobyl 2012 II: garages of pripyat (and another hot spot / particle)

Published on Oct 29, 2012

5.35 mins

Strolling around garages as we make our way further into the curious bits of the zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq1NwrpcTiY

Chernobyl 2012 II: digging up highly radioactive waste (includes HPGe gamma spectroscopy!)

Published on Nov 1, 2012

8.50 mins

In the middle of the forest, life is buzzing as i disturb the peace of their home just to fulfill my inquisitiveness… and in the end, an unusual isotope is discovered here!

This place is largely untouched by humans, so you can see spiders, ants, roaches etc. everywhere… while hearing the buzz of radioactive mosquitoes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbWHDjSAwsU

Chernobyl 2012 II: the radioactive cemetery of vehicles, burjakivka (Бурякiвка)

Published on Nov 5, 2012

8.26 mins

Let’s check out what happened to all those vehicles used in the days right after the chernobyl disaster, especially the tank wagons that carried away the insanely radioactive water which had collected under reactor #4…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPZGYVxU_YI

Chernobyl 2012 II: radioactive secrets of the zone – the detector laboratories

Published on Nov 8, 2012

12.11 mins

This place greeted us with thermoluminescent personal dosimeters, showed us hundreds of geiger tubes and pancake probes, and finally… shelves for the storage of radioactive material.

what remains is puzzlement and the question: “where does that hallway lead to…?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_L863AMacg

Chernobyl 2012 II: radioactive secrets of the zone – the plutonium laboratory

Published on Nov 13, 2012

22.34 mins

This is the last video of the “return to Chernobyl” series – but i still have a few surprises for you folks! for once, in this video… but also in the next video, which will be spectroscopy… but not only *gamma* spectroscopy this time! further on, after all words are said and all stories are told, i’ll also have a more hands-on surprise for you guys…!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhdCbDch6A

Chernobyl 2012 II: radioactive secrets – alpha and gamma spectroscopy

Published on Nov 18, 2012

8.43 mins

…and finally, here are the radioactive fingerprints of the things we’ve encountered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnwO3fVq4Wc

January 14, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized