Inside Chernobyl & ghost town of Pripyat (HONEST VLOG)

we're about 20 minutes north from Kiev heading out to Chernobyl nuclear power plant we booked this tour there's about I don't know 20 people on it it's two vans and we'll see what it will experience we got these Geiger counters that are showing us how much radiation we're getting into our bodies so we'll see [Music] [Applause] we're at our first step and everything I will tell you is either stuff I heard from our guide or the stuff I read online and so on documents that this is a radar called Duga which actually in czech means do ha it means a rainbow and it was a system to protect missiles that would be fired towards the USSR from us the reason why it was so close to Chernobyl to the power plant was one to actually it needed a lot of energy to be powered from the power plant and also the second reason is that they want to keep to keep it a secret and there was nobody really living around here and it's huge it's 500 meters long and 150 meters tall it was never operating and you can find if you search for people some adventures actually climb it up read the first hotspot just a few kilometers from the reactor and due to different conditions there are certain places where the radiation is higher we have machines that measure it in very little amounts and we were told by our guide we would have to be here probably preferably naked on this spot for 13 years to actually get our bodies affected but it does go higher as you put it near the ground [Music] the question is what does the Fox say now you don't know that song you don't know the song what does the Fox say oh you don't know it either doesn't matter then the joke is not gonna come through those bag there are two cooling towers unfinished you can actually only see one and they were built for new reactors that we're supposed to be built here but never finished nor the reactors nor the cooling towers and before that for the reactors we can see here they would use the water from the cooling ponds and like artificial channels that would you know make the water go around and I guess cooled stuff I'm not a nuclear engineering as you probably noticed I'm seeing like my teacher from high school doing like Oh before we look at the actual power plant we're gonna go have a lunch at the local Cantina so this is something that we refer to as our DNA so the workers come Tina here in Chandler bill is absolutely lovely and you know it's something we're used to so we love it I can imagine American kids would be surprised because the our guide kept explaining how does it work and happening you have to return the tray let me know how this so we're right by the shed noble nuclear power plant this right behind us is the fourth reactor actually you can't really see it because it's covered in this huge arch that was built by many countries throughout Europe even Ukrainians participated eventually on it and it's the largest moving arch in the world actually did they slide it at the top of the fourth reactor and it really helped we were told that before they put it on the number so you could measure here we're three times higher so now there are three times lower the most surprising thing for me is that the reactor right behind the fourth one number three was operating up until year 2000 partially the reason was because this was producing enough energy to fill the needs of 10 / 10 percent of the Soviet Union and second you couldn't just fire 7,000 people and send them away so right next to this they were still producing electricity up until 2000 our next stop is very back City located right next to Chernobyl power plant that's where all the workers and their families lived and they were evacuated a couple days after the tragedy so that's where we're heading right now [Music] this iconic wheel here is part of a park for kids because there were actually many many kids living in Pripyat and it was running a couple months before the disaster and then the last run was actually on the day of the disaster they made it go just to calm people down and our guide showed us another hot spot where she could measure with her finger you go be I don't know what really that was but it was just a tiny little spot on one of the cabins and the way she explained it is that when they were washing the wheel from all the dust they actually left a spot which made her thing go on her dolls a metre or it's called different thing that it's beeping right now Soviet Union really wanted to show up with the city of prypiat so they did build a supermarket / shopping mall for the locals and it was filled with stuff that would be very unusual for the Eastern Bloc even I experienced that you will have to wait in a line to even get a banana my parents would tell me that as well I'm like here this was fully supplied [Music] in all honesty we had three days in Kiev and one of them we spent here near Chernobyl in Pripet and it was something I will never forget and I highly highly suggest it that you do it as well there's a tons of agencies that do it the ones we did it are in the description and our guide was amazing just giving heads up

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Keywords: chernobyl, honest guide, honest vlog, pripyat, ghost town, wheel, ferry wheel, abandoned, reactor 4, nuclear, catastrophy, explosion, ukraine, belorussia, secret, inside, danger, janekrubes, janek rubes, honest janek, honzamikulka, honza mikulka, honest honza, honest prague guide, kyiv

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Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 04 2018