Chernobyl 2006

Added: Nov 14, 2006

From: CarlMontgomery

Duration: 8:19

Video from time I spent around the still radioactive Chernobyl, the reactor and the abandoned town of Pripyat. http://www.carlmontgomery.com for answers to the usual "isn't this absurdly dangerous?" types of questions and how you can get there yourself, check out my FAQ http://www.carlmontgomery.com/faq/ More pics and video from Chernobyl is at http://www.carlmontgomery.com/radiation/ Test results from the contamination scan i had afterwards: http://www.carlmontgomery.com/back-in-one-piece-not-glowing-in-the-dark/ POLISH TRANSLATION: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lc-u1rq2u8w (Thanks to dexter192 http://www.arek-w.yoyo.pl/ for the translation) Half Million + Views on 6th July 2008 400,000+ views and 1000+comments on 11th April 08 300,000+ views on 3rd Feb 08 Honors for This Video: #8 - Most Discussed (All Time) - Travel & Events - Australia #70 - Most Responded (This Month) - Travel & Events - Australia #10 - Most Responded (All Time) - Travel & Events - Australia #34 - Premium Most Viewed (All Time) - Australia #1 - Premium Most Viewed (All Time) - Travel & Events - Australia #5 - Most Viewed (All Time) - Travel & Events - Australia #20 - Premium Most Viewed (All Time) - Travel & Events #3 - Top Favorites (All Time) - Travel & Events - Australia #3 - Top Rated (All Time) - Travel & Events - Australia #61 - Top Rated (All Time) - Travel & Events

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Tags: adventure  cccp  chernobil  chernobyl  cityscape  destination  events  landmark  log  nuclear  pripyat  radiation  travel  ussr 

Rating: 4.85 (1973 ratings)    Views: 616797' favoriteCount='1943    Comments: 25

vergangsta Says:

Nov 12, 2008 - Arzamas-16 Chelyabinsk-65 Chelyabinsk-70 Krasnoyarsk-26 Krasnoyarsk-45 Penza-19 Sverdlovsk-44 Sverdlovsk-45 Tomsk-7 Zlatoust-36 This is quite a famous list. All of the above cities have their apparent status set to "closed". These are only the ones that Russia acknowledged. Recent reports claim that Russia have new cities with similar activities and they are as reclusive as these were. In fact, Russian scientists acknowledge that these new cities exist. But they won't tell anything about them.

vergangsta Says:

Nov 12, 2008 - There are some great sources found at Wikipedia, search for: Closed_City.

strokerjones Says:

Nov 13, 2008 - great video makes you think how obsessed with power humans are

plaskuplasku Says:

Nov 13, 2008 - Exactly, this guy is a fucking liar

mkarnerfors Says:

Nov 13, 2008 - And what's the point of all this? You made a claim saying that "nations are still investing enormous amount of cash into nuclear technology and weapons." I asked for facts to support this. You had none. Instead you are now rambling about "closed cities" as some kind of proof of... what exactly?

vergangsta Says:

Nov 13, 2008 - "Just the fact that they're working on nuclear weapons is frightening." I told you that as I can't prove to you where I had seen the budget spending. It was said on a documentary that aired on TV, not something over the net. "And how are you going to prove to me that there are secret cites that the public don't know anything about, hm?" So I told you about that, since that was part of the documentary as well. Gave you some links in case you're interested as well. :)

kingrexrex666 Says:

Nov 14, 2008 - where are the mutant zombies?

spickupua Says:

Nov 14, 2008 - well such reactors as RBMK-1000 are not used only for producing electricityюююерун are loaded with U 238...the main product is U 235...for nuclear weapon. That's horrible.

Risinimala Says:

Nov 14, 2008 - is ok to walk around with no protection??

nucflashevent Says:

Nov 15, 2008 - You mean like how I like Electric Lights, Refrigeration, Television, Internet, Computers, Hospitals, Telephones, Hot Water. Yeah, I guess I am 'obsessed' with power.

mynameisjoedavis Says:

Nov 16, 2008 - aren't people still at the power plant maintaining and renovating the inside or something?

mkarnerfors Says:

Nov 16, 2008 - No... noone uses uranium for bombs. Uranium bombs are inherently unsafe and rather ineffeicient. But you are correct in that the RBMK's could be used for making plutonium, which is a weapons material.

mkarnerfors Says:

Nov 16, 2008 - As long as you keep a dosimeter with to so that you you keep track of your recieved dose and that doesn't go above what is concidered safe... then you'll be allright.

mkarnerfors Says:

Nov 16, 2008 - Yes, there are people that work at and around the plant. Currently in the planning- and design-phase is the New Safe Confinement, which will be built by the French consortium Novarka. This will be a big concrete arc over the reactor and the sarcophagus. Currently the plans say it'll be done in 2012. After that is in place, they will start dismantling the crumbling sarcophagus and the broken reactor.

bikechainz19 Says:

Nov 17, 2008 - I hear the whole place is like a nature reserve no one can hunt any of the animals because they're too iradiated, and packs of house cats left from the diaster swarm all over these abandoned towns

Lawnwake Says:

Nov 17, 2008 - they mostly come out at night, mostly.

strokerjones Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - yeah i guess you are and you are telling me that we are in iraq to liberate them yea right and most of the power to run all that stuff are reactors asshole

nucflashevent Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - No one lives any closer than town, no one will come any closer than that,...at night, in the dark.

nucflashevent Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Hey, no reason to cop an attitude with me. If you want to live in out in the woods in a tent, you won't offend me any. Just don't make fun of us who would rather have homes.

izzysmart Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - excellent video

thundersmurf Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - excellent video - I'm hoping to go out here in January :) Thanks for sharing...

Nypopsicle18 Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - Fry your sperm :()... I don't know about you but i'd like to have NORMAL children

Nypopsicle18 Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - It's like a real life Silent Hill.... D: . It would be fucking freaky to be there...

grantkielyyyy Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - lol, your sperm would have 3 tails xD

pmislov Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - i heard radioactivity are like thousands of bullets that go through you but are so small that you don fell it but when you stay to long u die. if that really is radiactivity then why the hell it afects your babys and sperm -.- and other things? Can someone can explain plz?