The reactor explosion caused a fire that killed the few first responders on duty that night. Most of the people who died trying to seal off stop the spread of radiation were young recruits. Many did not know and some knew. The recruits were given the option to go there for a few minutes or go fight in Afghanistan.
@@romandiesel8026 Not sure where you get the afgan theory, haven't heard it before, in most cases I heard or read before, they were called out and transported without knowing where they are going, as soviet union tried to keep it quiet from the people and the international community as to not spread panic and such, and even while the workers worked all around the exclusion zone, the radiation dosimeters they were provided were either uncalibrated or in some way rigged to show minimal radiation exposure, no matter if you worked in the outskirts of the exclusion zone or on the rooftop of the nearby reactor.
Kristian Tervakoski That was a complete disaster, the way URSS government handle all the issue, the silence, all the people who were expoesed to higher levels of radiation, that's unforgivable and inmoral as well
Kristian Tervakoski Do you really believe that a helicopter crew that was dropping sand directly on the reactor did not understand that they would die from the radiation?
Do you really think the firefighters, soldiers (and pilots) and volunteers did not know the radiation level was deadly? You don't need a PhD in nuclear engineering to know that, but you do need to be an arrogant jackass to assume they would not.
Very sad indeed. I personally knew some of the first responding fire fighters. Very brave men they were. They knew they would not survive yet they fought the fire. They did what the brotherhood of firefighters do, they gave the ultimate sacrifice in attempting to save others. Even after all these years I think of them often.
my dad was there when it happened and they were looking for bus drivers for the evacuation and his friends took the jobs and died within 8 years later but he stayed because he knew what was going to happen. this is a sad tragedy that still puts chills down my back when i think about it.
3500 soldiers from Moldova were turned into liquidators, after being taken to an unknown destination. 2000 are alive today. All are sick of...something bad. Their children too.
With a guide and the right paperwork you can get into any part of the exclusion zone (except right near the Chernobyl plant of course) quite easily. It's become a decently large tourist attraction I believe.
Turborider satellite images in different years: 2002 cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/201407/04/1282865/2002.jpg 2012 cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/201407/04/1282865/2012.jpg 2013 cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/201407/04/1282865/2013.jpg you can see it on Google Maps 51.154490, 29.983146
I just imagine all the lifes and history behind all those vehicles and helicopters... all the fear, pain, perhaps happiness or hope feelings that people riding or driving those vehicles felt during that time... Now they are just rusty metal, junk, sick from radiation, after one accident that represented the end of world to Prypiat and Chernobyl, and it was about to be the same for the rest of the world... I loved the video and the music. Fascinating!!
I was just about to ask about the poor condition and postdict this conclusion. Somehow you have verified my hypothesis and satisfied my curiosity while I was still formulating them in my head. Thrilling :) Thank You
Radioactive dust was everywhere on the ground around Chernobyl after the explosion. Since these vehicles were used during the cleanup, they picked up a lot of radioactive dust, thus becoming radioactive themselves. As for the choppers, they were flying right over the NPP to drop sand in the molten reactor, so they picked up radioactive dust when they passed through the smoke.
+scaleop4 this truck cleaned the area around the reactor after the accident its so heavy contaminated that you pass out or die after some minutes near it.
What gets me is the fact some people have gone to these highly radiated places and looted homes and vehicles that were saturated with radiation! Makes you wonder if those people are still alive?
WTF He should shut up? you do understand He's basically saying. the Russian vehicles are made so well. you could turn the key and they would start up after all these years. But your being disrespectful
21l price sadly they wouldn because they are so radiated with neuclear compounds the engines probably are rusted over or have been destroyed but maybe one of them would
its amazing how quickly it was abandoned after the reactor blew up but it is sad with all the health complications people will have to deal with for life :(
@JHoward393 That's the reason they left all that machinery. When the explosion happened, those vehicles were used to neutralize the effects. Afterwards, they left all that machinery because it was contaminated with crazy amounts of radiation.
They would, most of Pripyat was looted of any metals you could sell in the scrapyard, I'm guessing the vehicle yard was more secured, but i did hear of a few cases, aswell as tourists taking bits and pieces as souvenirs, that's why the vehicle graveyard is gone, everything was buried. Also scrapyards don't usually have geiger counters to check if the metal brought is irradiated
All the machines used still contain high levels of radioactivity, which made men decide to abandon them there rather than take away and reuse. Iron and steel can keep it for decades...
Screw the radiation. That place looks like a playground to me. I would happily wander among the wrecks absorbing radiation. A little cancer never hurt anyone
@Vixhall keep in mind that they're Soviet made, they were meant to work 10 years when properly used, Imagine how they could possibly work after being abandoned for 26 years. :p
+Jakeiota It depends where you stand ... there some vehicle's that are so strongly contaminated that you get cancer in a matter of minutes. The most contaminated vehicle i saw was a old water tank that they used to remove the contaminated water under the exploded reactor. Even the Geiger counter stoped at a cuple of million counts per hour.....
It'll work, the dome is meant to keep the radioactive dust particles from getting wafted into the jet stream while the power plant itself is taken apart in chunks so the sight can be made significantly less dangerous. it'll still be thousands of years until humans can safely live in the Chernobyl area but we wont have to worry about that structure poisoning countless people just because a wall fell over.
Dopa Dopa your right..However there are people capable of ignoring the suffering it would cause to bring something into the city that would harm several peolpe all in the name of the dollar,The people that parked those vehicle and helicopters didnt bash oput the windows or take the engines out of thirty five trucks in a row, when the city was evacuated people left behind television sets and stereos yet all apartments have had pretty much everything removed, this is very obvious in every video from inside, even the school desks where removed in some areas
Dopa Alot of of udereducated people doesnt even know what radiation is, so they dont know looting stuff from Chernobyl is bad for their healt. And some people doesnt just care.
I think it was the same with the near by city, when the residents left their homes they were ransacked by thieves. Ironically they fell ill with radiation poisoning,
виктор белопухов people in Canada watched as this happened I saw many people cry over the horror,alot of people gave their lives to try to control the leak of radioactive material, a very sad time indeed
Correct. These vehicles were fenced and abandoned because they where the ones that maintained the safety zone in chernobyl and dropped the sand and clay on the reactor core.
Most of the vehicles have been salvaged for parts, sad thing is with most "relics" that humans get in an vandalize or mess with things. You don't get a good picture of how things age naturally. Animals also do incredible damage as well.
After 25 years, the rain has washed most of the transferable contamination into the ground. The risk is in the vegetation that uptake contamination from the soil and in the spots in the vehicles where rain water pools instead of washed off.
Radiation is energy, and enough energy will boil you to death. An example is Microwaves use radiation to cook food, but the frequency used by microwaves isnt harmful to people unless dirrectly exposed.
My grandad rescued people from it, my mum had a mutating tumour which was removed early last year, the Ukranian goverment hid it up, and my mum remembers playing outside on the day of the event. The thing is: people who helped in Chernobyl had privelages. One of them being not having to pay taxes on car imports/registraion. Many marauders stole cars from the Chernobyl area and then re-sold them. My grandad only ever imported hungarian cars, but if you are going to buy lets say an old tank or APC
It depends. Some really close to Chernobyl are wardened off because they are super radioactive but others aren't and are just strewn all over the place... so yes and no
some of this equipment is radioactive and some of it is not. The area was a junk yard for the military before the accident at Chernobyl happened. Even today the Yard is keeped under watchful eyes of Armed guards.
Beta and gamma radiation require heavy shielding to be blocked. Protective clothing doesn't stand a chance against subatomic particles and high frequency energy, and so it's ignored and goes straight to the skin - where your cells suffer. So while "cleaning", you're actually being exposed. The only thing clothing protects against is alpha radiation, which is good for sure, because it is the most damaging type of radiation out there - it's what killed Alexander Litvinenko (using a Po-210 source).
@whorayful I was thinking the same thing. The nearest scrap metal buyer had better invest in a gieger counter. Seriously though, this is sacrey to think people are sneaking in there pulling parts off radioactive vehicles and bringing them home, or selling them.
Except it won't.... we are on the verge of developing fusion reactors that actually work, and they have zero chance of causing fallout since they do not use any fissile material like old reactors.
many people didn't know about those vehicles are contaminated and they jump the fence and take what they need, None of the machines used during the operation to clean up the zone could ever be used again, as they had become highly radioactive. They lay in vast metal fields for years, before they were gradually taken away and buried in pits.
Вам забавно на всё это смотреть из своих мониторов, а тогда это было несчастье и горе на всю страну. Кстати металл всасывает в себя радиацию как губка, поэтому бросали всё целым. Я бы даже сейчас не стал бы приближаться к этим грудам железа. Я помню как после событий в Чернобыле по стране колесило много транспорта из Зоны, были такие байки, что владелец Жигулей не подозревая откуда машина умирал через некоторое время. Я смотрю на кадры этого видео и вижу разобранные машины на запчасти - тупые дураки кто это делал.
Сергей Максимов Если посмотреть на снимки в Gogle Earth - то сейчас это уже все оттуда исчезло (51°9'13"N 29°58'55"E). А используя опцию программы "Исторические снимки" можно увидеть в динамике как техника разбиралась и исчезала.
It is safe if you are shielded from the radiation. And it is possible that the helicopters where used, but yes they would have left them behind as radiation would have "soaked" into the metal.
true for seconds at a time. they are all horribly irradiated. The fire trucks took massive amounts of both X-ray and Gamma radiation and remained parked there for weeks until they were moved.
War? Chernobyl was a power plant that suffered a meltdown. These vehicles and helis were probably used in the clean up / evac and are unsafe to be exposed to for a long duration.
none of them. after the explosion they were alarmed but were not informed about the radiation. most of them went up to the roofs, and never came down. they died in minutes because of high radiation level. after that people started to realize that something very bad had happened.
They've absorbed the radiation and will now continue to emit it forever, the vehicles still run (as good as when parked) but if you were in one it would be kinda like getting an X ray.
The pages I have seen that do tours show that the sites are safe for limited exploration, but there precautions. long sleeves, boots and pants are required. you are no longer allowed inside buildings due to structure risks. But in Pripyat yeah, no... There are outer zones that likely may be cleared in the coming years but they are there to keep the maximum amount of people away from the area so who knows...
I can only imagine humans hundreds of years from now, with no concept of history, living in some post-apocalyptic world. They stumble across this graveyard and the other remains of Chernobyl, not understanding just how dangerous that entire place is.
The fire trucks are the most radioactive things there. They pulled right up to the reactor when it first blew and they had no idea it was a radiation incident. They thought it was just a fire... sad they all died with in 21 days.
The music is from Half Life 2 Episode 2 First song is: Track 5 - Eine Kleiner Elevatormuzik Second song is: Track 13 - Extinction Event Horizon Thumbs up so everyone can see!
They were heavily contaminated with radioactive material from the power plant. some of the vehicles were so badly irradiated that the metals, rubber and fabric that the vehicle was made of became radioactive as well. They became too dangerous to use or salvage so they were dumped. The vehicles used in the area nearest the reactor building to bring in troops and clear up crews are still quite radioactive and still dangerous to be around for long periods of time.
Now imagine, what happened to the people, who left those vehicles behind. They were young conscript soldiers, who were given order to secure the disaster area. Most of the time they were not given any safety equipment.
Quick geography lesson - The Ukraine is a country that borders Russia (western side). "No" the Ukraine is not "in" Russia. History and pride aside (you'll have to Google the history between the countries - it's not glamourous), customs, culture, and language are similar.
The scary thing about this video is, these vehicles were running when parked.. They all have been ravaged for parts since being put here because of radioactivity.. So people have been exposed since then because of coming in here and removing parts, not to mention where the parts went to are now exposed.
The concrete sarcophagus they built in a rush has worked for over 20 years..... what makes you think this carefully engineered solution they have won't work?
it is possible to visit. but u need to see a specialist that can walk you through. most of this machines are still radioactive and can cause damage if you spend long time around them.
A vehicle is full of all kinds of cavities, trying to decontaminate it is simply not worth it...these will most likely be cut up and dealt with as nuclear waste... Also, at least the helicopters have been exposed to some serious neutron flux and given the fact that a good sized portion of the reactor core was all around the plant, other stuff will have been exposed to shitloads of neutrons as well, so it may actually be radioactive on it's own...
This is very tragic. If you imagine yourself standing as one of the victims' while the radiation burst in Chernobyl, you can still hear the cries of those people. So much sadness and grief.
I did not know they were Ukrainians, we did not talk of ideologies or where we are from; to me they are brother Fire Fighters. They came and spoke to U.S. Marine Crash Fire Rescue Fire Fighters about the hazards of responding to Nuclear reactor fires. They truly are still heroes to me. I am a retired Chief Fire Officer now and think of them often.
When ever I watch videos about chernobyl I think of all the people that say "where are the radioactive bests?"...I would like to say to them, "Actually radiation does not mutate you into something cool, I just brutally kills you."
Look at all the Btr's and ural's. Russia has the craziest looking vehicles and heavy equipment. I love studying Russia and have much respect, but am glad I grew up in the United States having fun my whole life. Soviet life seems harsh. Respect from USA!
This is the soviet army work, so the soldiers lined the cars like they would for anything and disabled choppers and other army vehicules so no one could just take them.
It is indeed open for tourism. Radiation still exists. And there are even a few women that still inhabit the place in their original homes. This is the largest wildlife reserve in Europe now. Its amazing. As far as the cleanup and this place being a bustling environment again....try another 20,000 years. It will never be a city again. Once a beautiful place.
As of a couple of years ago, many of those vehicles were still SINGING with radiation. You definitely don't want to go climbing in or around them without a Geiger counter... If you're touring the area, you probably want a dosimeter, as well.
Haven't you ever heard of the Chernobyl disaster? This is in Ukraine, where the Chernobyl nuclear plant suffered a meltdown and radiation escaped the reactor, creating a massive exclusion zone around the area. Nearby is the abandoned city of Pripyat, which housed the workers and their families until the incident. Vehicles and such had to be abandoned, including those responding to the meltdown, because the metal retains high levels of radiation. It would certainly be a neat place to see, though.
I know that music from Half-Life videogame series. It's probably Episode One of Half-Life, when Gordon Freeman is accessing the reactor core of the Citadel :) whohoow! one more horde of zombies incoming lol great fun
And I think we should be saying "Thank you" to all the people that gave their lives putting out the nuclear fire.
+Alison Starchylde true herO's..some actually knew they were sacraficing their lives for mankind..RIP
The reactor explosion caused a fire that killed the few first responders on duty that night. Most of the people who died trying to seal off stop the spread of radiation were young recruits. Many did not know and some knew. The recruits were given the option to go there for a few minutes or go fight in Afghanistan.
We should also be saying thank you to these trucks and cars. They didn't deserve to die so early.
@@edwardwoodward8052 My comment was 5 months ago
@@romandiesel8026 Not sure where you get the afgan theory, haven't heard it before, in most cases I heard or read before, they were called out and transported without knowing where they are going, as soviet union tried to keep it quiet from the people and the international community as to not spread panic and such, and even while the workers worked all around the exclusion zone, the radiation dosimeters they were provided were either uncalibrated or in some way rigged to show minimal radiation exposure, no matter if you worked in the outskirts of the exclusion zone or on the rooftop of the nearby reactor.
Good choice with the Half Life soundtrack.
From the first Half life ?
Half life 2
westsideconnection27 Half Life 2 episode 1
Hl3 confirmed
Half life 2 episode 2 train
Many of the people who operated this equipment died soon after. They knew the job would kill them and went anyway, for their people.
hah! communist bullshit, they didn't have a clue.
Kristian Tervakoski That was a complete disaster, the way URSS government handle all the issue, the silence, all the people who were expoesed to higher levels of radiation, that's unforgivable and inmoral as well
Kristian Tervakoski Do you really believe that a helicopter crew that was dropping sand directly on the reactor did not understand that they would die from the radiation?
They were firefighters, soldiers, volunteers, they didnt really have a PhD in radiation nor nuclear engineering...
Do you really think the firefighters, soldiers (and pilots) and volunteers did not know the radiation level was deadly? You don't need a PhD in nuclear engineering to know that, but you do need to be an arrogant jackass to assume they would not.
This place can be visited in the Call of Chernobyl mod for Stalker Call of Pripyat.
Finally, if we ignore mutants, human enemies and anomalies.
Doing a mission in here rightnow on stalker gamma they did it so well it’s crazy
Very sad indeed. I personally knew some of the first responding fire fighters. Very brave men they were. They knew they would not survive yet they fought the fire. They did what the brotherhood of firefighters do, they gave the ultimate sacrifice in attempting to save others. Even after all these years I think of them often.
my dad was there when it happened and they were looking for bus drivers for the evacuation and his friends took the jobs and died within 8 years later but he stayed because he knew what was going to happen. this is a sad tragedy that still puts chills down my back when i think about it.
3500 soldiers from Moldova were turned into liquidators, after being taken to an unknown destination. 2000 are alive today. All are sick of...something bad. Their children too.
With a guide and the right paperwork you can get into any part of the exclusion zone (except right near the Chernobyl plant of course) quite easily. It's become a decently large tourist attraction I believe.
Great Use of the Half Life Soundtrack here, its really fitting, this vehicles graveyard is really erie but cool
It's official,... not even radiation can kill RUST!
Lol yup
Same, I just love how everything is trapped in time. It would be great to go.
Now this graveyard does not exist
Most of it anyways. You can't simply collect and destroy that many vehicles. It was over a kilometer long!
+Антон Карпузиков really?
Turborider satellite images in different years:
2002 cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/201407/04/1282865/2002.jpg
2012 cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/201407/04/1282865/2012.jpg
2013 cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/201407/04/1282865/2013.jpg
you can see it on Google Maps 51.154490, 29.983146
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+Антон Карпузиков Thats somehow sad that everything is gone now....i dont want to own any russian vehicles but looking all the stuff is kinda cool....
I just imagine all the lifes and history behind all those vehicles and helicopters... all the fear, pain, perhaps happiness or hope feelings that people riding or driving those vehicles felt during that time... Now they are just rusty metal, junk, sick from radiation, after one accident that represented the end of world to Prypiat and Chernobyl, and it was about to be the same for the rest of the world... I loved the video and the music. Fascinating!!
The song is From Half life 2 Episode 1
I was just about to ask about the poor condition and postdict this conclusion. Somehow you have verified my hypothesis and satisfied my curiosity while I was still formulating them in my head. Thrilling :)
Thank You
Radioactive dust was everywhere on the ground around Chernobyl after the explosion. Since these vehicles were used during the cleanup, they picked up a lot of radioactive dust, thus becoming radioactive themselves. As for the choppers, they were flying right over the NPP to drop sand in the molten reactor, so they picked up radioactive dust when they passed through the smoke.
I would want to play manhunt in there! oh wait, it's irradiated to high hell.
I love the music. It blends in with this video so beautifully. It's like it completes it.
0:49 That truck is scary as hell.
it does
+PC-VX41 looks like something from carmagedon.
+PC-VX41
Actually, It's an old bulldozer.
But yeah,. it looks pretty mean. :)
we know were to go if we have a zombie apocalypse lol
+scaleop4 this truck cleaned the area around the reactor after the accident its so heavy contaminated that you pass out or die after some minutes near it.
What gets me is the fact some people have gone to these highly radiated places and looted homes and vehicles that were saturated with radiation! Makes you wonder if those people are still alive?
I bet ya all them Russian machines would start right up lol
21lprice sadly no
21lprice shut up American
WTF He should shut up? you do understand He's basically saying. the Russian vehicles are made so well. you could turn the key and they would start up after all these years. But your being disrespectful
21l price sadly they wouldn because they are so radiated with neuclear compounds the engines probably are rusted over or have been destroyed but maybe one of them would
Half of them actually can with little wrench magic and spare parts from the same yard
its amazing how quickly it was abandoned after the reactor blew up but it is sad with all the health complications people will have to deal with for life :(
One of my friends asked me if transformers were real so I showed them this video
@JHoward393 That's the reason they left all that machinery. When the explosion happened, those vehicles were used to neutralize the effects. Afterwards, they left all that machinery because it was contaminated with crazy amounts of radiation.
scrappers would not touch it all is highly radiated.
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They would, most of Pripyat was looted of any metals you could sell in the scrapyard, I'm guessing the vehicle yard was more secured, but i did hear of a few cases, aswell as tourists taking bits and pieces as souvenirs, that's why the vehicle graveyard is gone, everything was buried. Also scrapyards don't usually have geiger counters to check if the metal brought is irradiated
All the machines used still contain high levels of radioactivity, which made men decide to abandon them there rather than take away and reuse. Iron and steel can keep it for decades...
why are these vehicles missing components, you telling me that someone took stuff out and salvaged it... Ouch!!
The main components were taken out to avoid people stealing the vehicles and driving radioactive machines around
Screw the radiation. That place looks like a playground to me. I would happily wander among the wrecks absorbing radiation. A little cancer never hurt anyone
I want to live there... almost.
@Vixhall keep in mind that they're Soviet made, they were meant to work 10 years when properly used, Imagine how they could possibly work after being abandoned for 26 years. :p
We need another movie about Chernobyl
3LightningBolt after 3 years hbo made chernobyl how cool isnt it?:)
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Not long ago I read an article that lot of vehicles are gone, possibly it was cut in smaller peaces and put in other place if I remember right.
they dident moved anything.
Its way to dangerus.
+Nino Joel You don't know shit
+Nino Joel occasionally there is working on the elimination of waste equipment. If you do not stay close to this for days, all relatively safe..
+Jakeiota It depends where you stand ...
there some vehicle's that are so strongly contaminated that you get cancer in a matter of minutes.
The most contaminated vehicle i saw was a old water tank that they used to remove the contaminated water under the exploded reactor.
Even the Geiger counter stoped at a cuple of million counts per hour.....
They are gone....was there in April last year
It'll work, the dome is meant to keep the radioactive dust particles from getting wafted into the jet stream while the power plant itself is taken apart in chunks so the sight can be made significantly less dangerous. it'll still be thousands of years until humans can safely live in the Chernobyl area but we wont have to worry about that structure poisoning countless people just because a wall fell over.
All ı heard nuclear cars are going faster
Man, even if you played "Spongebob Squarepants" theme song, this vid would still have been dark and eerie. Nice use of half life though.
LOOKS LIKE LOOTERS HAVE BEEN STRIPPING DOWN THE VEHICLES, IMAGINE??
Dopa Dopa your right..However there are people capable of ignoring the suffering it would cause to bring something into the city that would harm several peolpe all in the name of the dollar,The people that parked those vehicle and helicopters didnt bash oput the windows or take the engines out of thirty five trucks in a row, when the city was evacuated people left behind television sets and stereos yet all apartments have had pretty much everything removed, this is very obvious in every video from inside, even the school desks where removed in some areas
Dopa
Alot of of udereducated people doesnt even know what radiation is, so they dont know looting stuff from Chernobyl is bad for their healt. And some people doesnt just care.
I think it was the same with the near by city, when the residents left their homes they were ransacked by thieves. Ironically they fell ill with radiation poisoning,
Good parts with a free ton of radiation! Just for free!
виктор белопухов people in Canada watched as this happened I saw many people cry over the horror,alot of people gave their lives to try to control the leak of radioactive material, a very sad time indeed
Correct. These vehicles were fenced and abandoned because they where the ones that maintained the safety zone in chernobyl and dropped the sand and clay on the reactor core.
If these vehicles was made by OPEL each one of them will be only a dust at the moment.
Velin Ivanov or Mercedes in the 80s and 90s ,or european Ford in the 70s
because no one ever need opel as a whole or by parts
Most of the vehicles have been salvaged for parts, sad thing is with most "relics" that humans get in an vandalize or mess with things. You don't get a good picture of how things age naturally. Animals also do incredible damage as well.
Человек правит над человеком во вред ему
After 25 years, the rain has washed most of the transferable contamination into the ground. The risk is in the vegetation that uptake contamination from the soil and in the spots in the vehicles where rain water pools instead of washed off.
it,s all gone now
where?
they buried and took away most of the vehicles to prevent people stealing radioactive components
No they removed them as part of the plan not because people were taking parts.
Radiation is energy, and enough energy will boil you to death. An example is Microwaves use radiation to cook food, but the frequency used by microwaves isnt harmful to people unless dirrectly exposed.
so free vehicles
If getting Rad Poisoning is fine for you, yes. But you'll die pretty quick because of how contaminated they are.
NO JOKE AND MY GRANDMA DIED OF IT BUT...
Its Nuclear It Will Give You Cancer
the video creator really went for the eerie factor with that soundtrack, i do find abandoned and decaying vehicles strangely appealing though.
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From the looks of the service roads I think you have a lot of company. For me, there are enough cool parts currently in service to keep me satisfied!
My grandad rescued people from it, my mum had a mutating tumour which was removed early last year, the Ukranian goverment hid it up, and my mum remembers playing outside on the day of the event. The thing is: people who helped in Chernobyl had privelages. One of them being not having to pay taxes on car imports/registraion. Many marauders stole cars from the Chernobyl area and then re-sold them. My grandad only ever imported hungarian cars, but if you are going to buy lets say an old tank or APC
In 100 years, the whole world might look like this
It depends. Some really close to Chernobyl are wardened off because they are super radioactive but others aren't and are just strewn all over the place... so yes and no
some of this equipment is radioactive and some of it is not. The area was a junk yard for the military before the accident at Chernobyl happened. Even today the Yard is keeped under watchful eyes of Armed guards.
Beta and gamma radiation require heavy shielding to be blocked. Protective clothing doesn't stand a chance against subatomic particles and high frequency energy, and so it's ignored and goes straight to the skin - where your cells suffer. So while "cleaning", you're actually being exposed. The only thing clothing protects against is alpha radiation, which is good for sure, because it is the most damaging type of radiation out there - it's what killed Alexander Litvinenko (using a Po-210 source).
@whorayful I was thinking the same thing. The nearest scrap metal buyer had better invest in a gieger counter. Seriously though, this is sacrey to think people are sneaking in there pulling parts off radioactive vehicles and bringing them home, or selling them.
someday the whole earth will look like this :( :( :(
+Nedews or maybe worse, much worse...
Nedews it's true
Except it won't.... we are on the verge of developing fusion reactors that actually work, and they have zero chance of causing fallout since they do not use any fissile material like old reactors.
many people didn't know about those vehicles are contaminated and they jump the fence and take what they need, None of the machines used during the operation to clean up the zone could ever be used again, as they had become highly radioactive. They lay in vast metal fields for years, before they were gradually taken
away and buried in pits.
Вам забавно на всё это смотреть из своих мониторов, а тогда это было несчастье и горе на всю страну. Кстати металл всасывает в себя радиацию как губка, поэтому бросали всё целым. Я бы даже сейчас не стал бы приближаться к этим грудам железа. Я помню как после событий в Чернобыле по стране колесило много транспорта из Зоны, были такие байки, что владелец Жигулей не подозревая откуда машина умирал через некоторое время. Я смотрю на кадры этого видео и вижу разобранные машины на запчасти - тупые дураки кто это делал.
мне понятно одно - они дауны тупые
Интересно-через какое время с этим можно будет работать,ведь столько техники-жаль.
en donde están los autos de la gente?
Сергей Максимов очень грустно, будь здесь, в Бразилии было бы гораздо хуже, потому что власти не заботятся ибо здесь
Сергей Максимов Если посмотреть на снимки в Gogle Earth - то сейчас это уже все оттуда исчезло (51°9'13"N 29°58'55"E). А используя опцию программы "Исторические снимки" можно увидеть в динамике как техника разбиралась и исчезала.
Amazing that a group tried to steal one of the helicopters once to use as a roadside 'cafe'
It is safe if you are shielded from the radiation. And it is possible that the helicopters where used, but yes they would have left them behind as radiation would have "soaked" into the metal.
Rasocha bone yard is not existing since 2006-8. all vehicles were moved to Buriakivka for scrapping and to be buried under soil
true for seconds at a time. they are all horribly irradiated. The fire trucks took massive amounts of both X-ray and Gamma radiation and remained parked there for weeks until they were moved.
War? Chernobyl was a power plant that suffered a meltdown. These vehicles and helis were probably used in the clean up / evac and are unsafe to be exposed to for a long duration.
none of them. after the explosion they were alarmed but were not informed about the radiation. most of them went up to the roofs, and never came down. they died in minutes because of high radiation level. after that people started to realize that something very bad had happened.
breaks my heart to see those beauties laying down to rust.
They've absorbed the radiation and will now continue to emit it forever, the vehicles still run (as good as when parked) but if you were in one it would be kinda like getting an X ray.
The pages I have seen that do tours show that the sites are safe for limited exploration, but there precautions. long sleeves, boots and pants are required. you are no longer allowed inside buildings due to structure risks. But in Pripyat yeah, no...
There are outer zones that likely may be cleared in the coming years but they are there to keep the maximum amount of people away from the area so who knows...
I can only imagine humans hundreds of years from now, with no concept of history, living in some post-apocalyptic world. They stumble across this graveyard and the other remains of Chernobyl, not understanding just how dangerous that entire place is.
remember reading vehicles are missing from there while others are being stripped of parts
In My understanding most vehicle seen here in this particular graveyard were long since dismanteled and buried....
The fire trucks are the most radioactive things there. They pulled right up to the reactor when it first blew and they had no idea it was a radiation incident. They thought it was just a fire... sad they all died with in 21 days.
The music is from Half Life 2 Episode 2
First song is: Track 5 - Eine Kleiner Elevatormuzik
Second song is: Track 13 - Extinction Event Horizon
Thumbs up so everyone can see!
Difficult to say; it looks like the majority have been stripped for parts. Even the picture of that one MI-6 looked like it was missing its engines.
Chernobyl looking like most of locations in Fallout 2...Just freaking awsome!
Its so eery. Especially the firetrucks. Those were the first on scene.
They were heavily contaminated with radioactive material from the power plant. some of the vehicles were so badly irradiated that the metals, rubber and fabric that the vehicle was made of became radioactive as well.
They became too dangerous to use or salvage so they were dumped. The vehicles used in the area nearest the reactor building to bring in troops and clear up crews are still quite radioactive and still dangerous to be around for long periods of time.
This isn't a graveyard ; it's an active junkyard , these vehicles are being stripped for parts.
Now imagine, what happened to the people, who left those vehicles behind. They were young conscript soldiers, who were given order to secure the disaster area. Most of the time they were not given any safety equipment.
definately would be a creepy setting for a zombie horror game of the sort love the music
It's not a graveyard. It's a parking lot.
And the machinery is not abandoned. It's just waiting for it's time to defend the Earth from the invasion!
thats what the world will look like everywhere, after an apocalypse
Quick geography lesson - The Ukraine is a country that borders Russia (western side). "No" the Ukraine is not "in" Russia. History and pride aside (you'll have to Google the history between the countries - it's not glamourous), customs, culture, and language are similar.
The scary thing about this video is, these vehicles were running when parked.. They all have been ravaged for parts since being put here because of radioactivity.. So people have been exposed since then because of coming in here and removing parts, not to mention where the parts went to are now exposed.
The concrete sarcophagus they built in a rush has worked for over 20 years..... what makes you think this carefully engineered solution they have won't work?
tnx for the the slide show which whispers us "stay away the war"
very good,and the soundtrack fits in perfectly(i think its from hl or hl2)
That "Cherobyl" video with that mutated guy pic...*shudder*
*closes right eye*
it is possible to visit. but u need to see a specialist that can walk you through. most of this machines are still radioactive and can cause damage if you spend long time around them.
They are the most contaminated vehicles at the site. They flew directly over the destroyed reactor.
A vehicle is full of all kinds of cavities, trying to decontaminate it is simply not worth it...these will most likely be cut up and dealt with as nuclear waste...
Also, at least the helicopters have been exposed to some serious neutron flux and given the fact that a good sized portion of the reactor core was all around the plant, other stuff will have been exposed to shitloads of neutrons as well, so it may actually be radioactive on it's own...
This is very tragic. If you imagine yourself standing as one of the victims' while the radiation burst in Chernobyl, you can still hear the cries of those people. So much sadness and grief.
I did not know they were Ukrainians, we did not talk of ideologies or where we are from; to me they are brother Fire Fighters. They came and spoke to U.S. Marine Crash Fire Rescue Fire Fighters about the hazards of responding to Nuclear reactor fires. They truly are still heroes to me. I am a retired Chief Fire Officer now and think of them often.
When ever I watch videos about chernobyl I think of all the people that say "where are the radioactive bests?"...I would like to say to them, "Actually radiation does not mutate you into something cool, I just brutally kills you."
Look at all the Btr's and ural's. Russia has the craziest looking vehicles and heavy equipment. I love studying Russia and have much respect, but am glad I grew up in the United States having fun my whole life. Soviet life seems harsh. Respect from USA!
Remember the cheap truck parts and furniture you picked up a few years ago?
On second thought, never mind.
This is the soviet army work, so the soldiers lined the cars like they would for anything and disabled choppers and other army vehicules so no one could just take them.
It is indeed open for tourism. Radiation still exists. And there are even a few women that still inhabit the place in their original homes. This is the largest wildlife reserve in Europe now. Its amazing. As far as the cleanup and this place being a bustling environment again....try another 20,000 years. It will never be a city again. Once a beautiful place.
As of a couple of years ago, many of those vehicles were still SINGING with radiation. You definitely don't want to go climbing in or around them without a Geiger counter... If you're touring the area, you probably want a dosimeter, as well.
Haven't you ever heard of the Chernobyl disaster? This is in Ukraine, where the Chernobyl nuclear plant suffered a meltdown and radiation escaped the reactor, creating a massive exclusion zone around the area. Nearby is the abandoned city of Pripyat, which housed the workers and their families until the incident. Vehicles and such had to be abandoned, including those responding to the meltdown, because the metal retains high levels of radiation. It would certainly be a neat place to see, though.
Some of the strangest looking vehicles, in my opinion. Very cool.
Kenny, you would "DIE" if you explored a place like that.
I know that music from Half-Life videogame series. It's probably Episode One of Half-Life, when Gordon Freeman is accessing the reactor core of the Citadel :) whohoow! one more horde of zombies incoming lol great fun
What better place to dump vehicles than an irradiated hellhole.