SLEEPING INSIDE CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE (are we crazy?)

So if you missed our last video you might think we're a little

crazy

about

sleeping

and the

exclusion

zone

and we're not convinced we're not

crazy

too, but we've been told it's safe, now it seems likely at some point. In recent days there has been perhaps the worst accident in the short history of the global nuclear energy industry. The accident occurred in Chernobyl, a city of about 50,000 people about 50 miles north of kyiv in Ukraine. The accident he was referring to was the explosion of nuclear reactor number 4 forcing everyone within a 30 kilometer radius to drop everything and evacuate due to the deadly radiation released into the air.

It killed thousands and ultimately affected millions of people. 33 years later, Chernobyl and the surrounding cities are mostly abandoned and frozen in time. In our last video we spent all day exploring different places within the

exclusion

zone

where this tragedy occurred, so this is what measures the radiation level, so you are always exposed to some level of background radiation in your life that we are putting. with boots, long pants, long sleeves, so we have just entered the 30 kilometer exclusion zone, within the 10 kilometer exclusion zone I am receiving less radiation next to reactor 4 than if I were on a plane, it is a of the most contaminated areas.

Unlike most tourists who come to see it during the day, we will not leave tonight, we say it is the only private hotel within the exclusion zone. I had no idea you did this. The rest, ramesh shower. I feel so good to be there. a t-shirt I've had to wear long sleeves and long pants since we got here it's about 90 degrees today it's dinner time for dinner we're going to have what looks like Asian chicken with dill rice on top of course because we're in Ukraine and a salad, but we also have Dylan, especially considering we're inside the exclusion zone, so one of the interesting things we learned today is that none of the water in this city runs underground for fear of contamination, so in Instead, all usable water is pumped above ground and as you drive down the road you'll see these big silver pipes that you have to go through and that's pretty much the city's water system.

There's one right here. At our hotel I'm just outside because I feel trapped when I'm there, but from the lights I can see in some of the windows, it looks like we might be the only people here, so probably the most interesting. The good thing about staying at this hotel is that there is a curfew, so after 10:00 p.m. We are not allowed to go out and they literally lock us in using this door, so in 1 hour and 45 minutes they will take away our freedom, so they gave us these Geiger counters that measure the amount of radiation our body is exposed to. a lot in the city center of kyiv and it is measuring point 1 1, so we are experiencing the same amount of radiation

sleeping

here tonight as we are in the city center of Kiev according to this device, so we put all our trust, but at the same time The people who work here do 15 day shifts, so they only stay for 15 days and then leave for 15 days.

We have heard that it is more of an old rule that is now more preventative, since there used to be a lot more radiation than there. It's now, but they never changed, there are a hundred people who still live in Chernobyl and there are thousands of people who come here and work every day, so surely one night he really drowned, I don't think that will happen, it's day 2 in Chernobyl and We both slept surprisingly well with the dogs barking and the radiation alarm beeping. The website copy was strong this morning covering our bodies and we are ready for another night.

If anyone is wondering what a convenience store is like inside Chernobyl, they have ice cream cones. souvenirs, coffee cups and many things. I've never seen anyone using a calculator like that, okay, we just re-entered the ten kilometer exclusion zone and we're on our way back to the previous one, this phone sign right here is this exact phone sign with this. mosaic and this building behind these trees this is the amusement park that never actually opened the explosion occurred on April 26 and was supposed to open on May 1 so there are only a few attractions that could never be enjoyed apparently it was used the ferris wheel is completely stable as if the cables hold everything in place, but someone recently came and broke one of the cables, so now when the wind blows it moves and creaks, this is starting to be because apparently after the explosion the helicopters that were flying around I would use this as a landing area, so there is a lot of radiation here.

They've repaved it to try to cover some of it, but it's obviously still here around the corner from the amusement park. It was like a sports complex. So this is the pool, we just saw the boxing ring and like a gymnastics vault like you as a city and now it's empty, it's mind-blowing, but it's really like traveling back in time like you're looking at a city that's like frozen in time. 1986, impressed with how well the hardwoods held up, what are you doing? It's old so this was a pre-pet public pool and I think the craziest thing about it is that it didn't actually close until 1996 which was 10 years after the accident so there were workers living here trying to clean it up and they actually wanted to move people back to Pripet.

Eventually it was an initiative started by the Soviet Union and then when the Soviet Union collapsed I gave it to Ukraine who eventually ran out of money so This forest we are in now was like the main road with the school that never Would you know, so apparently during the Cold War school children would learn to wear these gas masks at school, but unfortunately when the explosion happened, the children were not here and none of them had to be used. What's crazy is that they were learning to use them for the threat of a nuclear bomb as if it were someone else's, but not for something that was happening in their backyard, the nuclear reactor.

I think schools make me very sad, obviously there are endless reasons why this whole situation is a tragedy, but I used to be a teacher and I love children and I think this is the place where I can really imagine how many people were affected. for this and kind of uprooted from their lives like they had no idea they would never come back here so this whole area that we're walking through now is where they were storing the equipment that was used to clean up Trey Noble so it's all very highly radioactive, especially moss, the radioactive particles are absorbed into the moss and simply stored there.

We were literally standing in a radioactive graveyard, but we have our tents, our USB sticks there, making sure we don't get too much radiation, which is why you think this call. behind us was actually used to clear the area around reactor four and this is by far the most radiation we've seen tonight at this time, the highest we've seen is ninety and just like the center of the Kiev city, it's point one and this is 500, so should we be worried about being so close to something that's just two meters away? We're already on 16, so we're not experiencing as much radiation, but it's still crazy to see.

I feel weird even breathing so close. but we've been told that as long as I don't like sitting inside it or touching it, we'll set a record, yeah, it's crazy, our guide, so that's the most radiation the Geiger counter has ever recorded when you've been holding it. yeah, okay, I think I'm done here, oh yeah, this room is filled with a bunch of old versions of these radiation monitors that we wear around our necks, let's go downstairs, we're in an old apartment right now, the elevators are Out of service. We are climbing to the roof of this 16-story apartment building to have a view of the entire city.

This someone's room maybe this will really give you perspective on how many people were affected by the disaster. Go up here and have a view of the city. You can say numbers all over the city, but like that for some reason it really puts it into perspective for me, it's so symbolic like the city and then boom, everything is deserted and then there's like nothingness if you look in the direction of Belarus. We're only 15 kilometers from the border right now, so this is the hospital where they took the firefighters after they responded to the explosion and after they got here, all of their clothes were super contaminated, so they just took them off and They threw her to the ground. a room in the basement and they are still there to this day it is one of the most contaminated areas in all of Trinova, that was to me like one of the most iconic scenes from the HBO documentary coming out of the basement, it is contaminated.

I don't want to go there anyway, that's crazy, so this would have been like a piece of fire helmet that someone took out of the basement and it's super radioactive, so this was the entrance to the basement right here and because it was very radioactive. They took sand and closed it completely so that no one can enter. That's so loud right in my ear. We're driving through the red forest again. It's crazy. It's like that area. Nowhere else on the road sends. the alarms go off like this, we are having lunch in the same restaurant where all the people who work in the bataplane are like a buffet, so they give you a tray, but instead of choosing what you want, they only give you one of everything, no There is no choice, then the official use of the dew god, this giant metal thing, was a missile detection system that was used by the Soviet Union, but apparently there are many theories that it was used for many other things and there are also many secret around, there is no So you can see how giant this thing is, apparently the Soviet Union built this giant military base here but they disguised it as a pioneer camp which is like the Boy Scouts and then when they built this huge satellite that didn't They could hide, they said it was like a giant radio station that could reach very, very far, but what's crazy is that to this day no one knows what it is or what it did before, which is a little scary, It hasn't worked since the explosion and now we go to the control room the best student so far our last stop we are going to visit someone who has resettled in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

She is one of the few people who lives here full time, but we don't want to show up empty. delivered, it was a pleasure meeting you Courtney 585, can you ask him if he goes to the doctor for checkups? She said the lab came here and checked everything and he and everyone knows that about the kidney, so rookie Busey pays anything to live. here our planet like a fool chooses an electric chest, literally, just, you upload it, you get a commission, you know, the same for the electricity they pay, they have these special devices like the rest of the people in Ukraine and they pay for electricity here among them.

Eva was outside I feel the love thank you thank you it's possible well they were incredibly kind they have these giant pumpkins that are bigger than a pumpkin this big you told me they're this big oh I didn't understand what I thought the point was that this place isn't radioactive, but the pumpkin is right outside the house where they live and it's registering 0.11, which is pretty much exactly what it was registering in the city center of Kiev, so technically the guy was 85. He looked like who was in pretty good health for 85 has been living in the exclusion zone for the last 86 24 33 years I mean, here they live practically off the grid, they are heating the house with firewood. they are growing all their own food, the net, wow, what day will they check the car, separately, put at least five trinova with us, hey, you really don't know if you will survive until 50 years later, it's not funny and there's no one here.

I just realized. that I was very hot all day and you want to stop being hot, yes, if you come to Chernobyl, maybe it is better in spring, fall or winter, and no, I think I would set the mode to not 90 degrees hot in the Summer when You have to wear long pants, long sleeves and closer to the juice. I know where to get that. Nothing if there is a break and a fall. I'm a little nervous every time we play this. The heat and every time we enter you. for having us you love me you love me I heard it I heard it