It’s all a tour until someone says “Do you taste metal?”

everybody gangsta until the dosimeters start screaming

I'm just fine with taking the Chernobyl tours from a KZfaq video in my home, thank you!

The flickering cathode light tubes give it that extra creepiness 🙄

“Here we have the metal door to death” *dude casually walks in and closes the door*

Respirators must be sealed, followed by a dude just vibing without a mask

It's crazy how alike "lethal dose" and "little dose" sound with a eastern european accent lol

1:24 westeners: oh no, this is radioactive, we need to quarantine it and no-one will enter! russians: just walk a little faster

Everybody gangsta until the floors in Chernobyl are cleaner than in public restrooms

The legends says comrade dyatlov is still in Chernobyl's toilet

The people who sacrificed their lives did not die in vain. They died heroes, and saved so, so many lives.

Yeah, that’s a big nyet from me.

"Valery Khodemchuck Memorial" I'm happy that there is something, that reminds of him.

This whole video is absurd - everyone knows an RBMK reactor can't explode.

this is my 10th tour in Chernobyl from the comfort and safety of my home.

Someone:walks in without a hazmat suit Their third arm: helo

Somebody is doing a great job keeping the floors in the radioactive area amazingly clean

I’m gonna guess here. The tour guides there don’t stay at that job long. Hope they have health coverage

"You didn't see graphite on the ground because it's not there! "

humans: *hmm big nuclear reactor which caused a ton of damage in the past? Lets turn it into disney land.*

The Chernobyl series took a lot of artistic liberties with the facts. (It exaggerated a lot of Dyatlov's villainy and had events occurring out of order, etc.) But the point was to tell a story. Dyatlov didn't just represent a real life person, but the self-serving Soviet system in which safety was ignored by officials for the sake of status and profit. The real Dyatlov might not have literally seen graphite out of a window, but the series portraying him doing just that and then having him deny it later just shows how deluded the Soviet officials were in refusing to face the problem.

I give the cameraman a great big Chernobyl Three-Thumbs-Up...

1:10 That is one creepy hallway. Dark with flickering lights, and knowing how many people died at the plant, I would not want to be there alone.

It’s the ability to see something like this without going there that I appreciate this platform for.

Another thing that’s scary, is that this will be around affecting the environment LONG after we are gone.

0:21 Respirators *must* be sealed 0:26 This dude: Y’all hear somethin?

You can still get a similar tour in Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania, but without radiation :)) The power plant is currently being disassembeld... It was the biggest nuclear power plant in the world by year 1991. Similar design to Chernobyl but more blocks.

"Perevozchenko looks down on the enormous steel lid of the reactor, and sees the impossible. The control rod and fuel channel caps which each weigh 350 kilograms are jumping up and down." My blood froze when I saw that. And I don't get scared easily

Nurse: have you been to Africa in the past 6 months me: No but ive been to Chernobyl Nurse: oh....

This HBO Chernobyl Series Stuck in my mind

In 40 years when they have removed all the fuel I hope they find the lost guy behind the wall.

I absolutely am obsessed with Chernobyl like so many of us have been past and present (especially present, since 'Chernobyl' on HBO, and reading the excellent 'Midnight in Chernobyl'). I've fantasied about being there, being in the Exclusion Zone, being in Pripyat, being at the actual plant, in the catacombs....being there--truly being there. Something about this video scooped me back into reality; I really wouldn't want to be there. It's a tomb. It's dangerous. It's death. It's scary. It's sad, and awful and depressing. I'd be regretting it from the second I set foot in that golden corridor. It would take my breath away.

Guys if I was there and that meter went "weeeee-oooh" I was gone.

0:35 "Pick up as little radiation as possible" What radiation? You hallucinating! Take her to infirmary!

As a major in Nuclear Technology: Operations, this is one tour I’d love to take some time. I’m also kind of a history nerd so learning about the history of the event, as well as the actual technical details has me interested. For all of those who don’t know much about nuclear reactors nowadays, they are MUCH safer than what this design was.. It also didn’t help that the people at Chernobyl that night disabled their safety related equipment...

Ask tour guide for elephant foot

When Dyatlov saw the graphite he wasn't in the control room, he was in a hallway near the exterior of the power plant.

I’m a fine scale modeler and I’m amazed at how clever and detailed that model is. Of course there are better photos of it that you should look at if you’re interested but that model is a first-class reproduction that would take the prize in any show. The only thing I’ve seen that compares with it is the 3-D diorama of the gravesite of the Edmund Fitzgerald which is another astounding work.

8:28 If the explosion was able to lift 2000 tons of rods and make a hole in the ceiling it's more than likely that pieces of graphite would be scattered all over the place. So theoretically he could've seen them. Though this scene is more than likely for dramatic effect.

dyatlov wasnt actually evil. HBO just potrayed him like it. he actually went with perevozchenko and some other to attempt to rescue khodemchuck. he also told akimov and toptunov to go home. and the reason in HBO's series he said "RBMK reactor do not explode",was because he was also a victim of propaganda lying about safety.

So, when I took the tour I had my own calibrated thermo scientific combination meter. The levels were incredibly low, and the annoying garbage yellow meters were 1) not very accurate, and 2) set ridiculously low for alarm rates. The protective clothing was to protect from dust. The highest rates I picked up were from the 3 pumps on the north side, which was 623 urem/h. I also work in the industry, so I am very aware that the dose rates in the station were less than the average granite counter top in general, and the peak rate was about equivalent to living in Denver Co. If you doubt that I was there, anyone who took a tour with this woman (in the video) would know that "in this very place ..... " and "This very key ..." are common. I am sure for an average person who is taught to fear even small amounts of radiation from the media this is terrifying, however ..... in reality the dose rates in the station, Pripyat and the surrounding area were all quite low. I took more dose from my flight to Frankfurt from Borispol than the entire time I was in the restricted zone, and we stayed overnight in Chernobyl Oblast. Lastly U3 stayed in commercial operations until 2000 when it was shut down. 14 years after the U4 event took place. and this summer past (2019) there were still many people working in the plant when I visited.

those flashing lights at the beginning seem to be a nice touch

If I was tour guide there, I would definitely pull off the joke of the meter screeching 😂

I was there on a Tour. This was absolutely terrifying and fascinating at the same time.

How many times can the tour guides give a tour per year?

I remember when this disaster happened, I was eight years old and even at that young age the gravity of the news reports grabbed me. The world was standing still, waiting on every news report, jaws hanging open with disbelief. I will never forget.

i feel my cells tingle just from watching this

Please take a moment to appreciate this guy who literally risked his life to take this recording

I visited Chernobyl earlier this year. @ 3:00 where it shows 56.5, you can actually get higher readings in the woods still in quite a few places. The highest I saw in the woods was near 70.

I've been twice, the second time was much like this tour and was never told not to take pictures.

Great video, thanks. Saw angles and corridors never seen before, at least by me. Massive respect to all the people that stayed behind to help clean up the mess. And what a great tour guide! Respect

Don't care about the radiation. You only got one life, so shine to the fullest

03:18 After for a while, those plastic flowers will mutate become live organic flowers.

She said he was not found. He is still in here. That's wild.

This was awesome! Thank you for showing us!!

Great video. Chernobyl intrigues the hell outta me.

The most incredible thing about the poor dude whose body was not found, is that probably his body is still well preserved due to absurd levels of radiation that keep bacteria, molds and other decomposers away.

" I already know how a nuclear reactor works. .so I don't need you"

What a monumental tragedy. So many needless deaths in following years from cancer. Children, teenagers, diagnosed with myriad of "unexplained" illnesses too.

Imagine if a resident evil boss showed up at the end of the tour 💀

It's mind blowing to think that I'm only born roughly 130 miles away from the Chernobyl disaster and that my city faced moderate effects from the fallout.

Hey honey shall we try for kids. let’s go on a trip to Chernobyl first darling.

This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!

Nice video man. Keep it up 👍

I wish Bald and Bankrupt was the one taking us through. It's be interesting

when they turn this into some type of tourist attraction with guided tours inside the power plant it gets wrong on so many levels

Amazing that we have come so far that it is possible to even get close to this location. The amount of human sacrifice involved is extensive. Remember also that the current radiation might not be so dangerous for the guest, but the guides are here again and again.

That radiation level is not dangerous at all. The only dangerous place is the basement of where reactor nr 4 was that contains the molten cores and is called the elephants foot because of the shape. That place is not accessible to visitors and they still have to find out how to get rid of that deadly mass. And the second dangerous place is a small piece of forest west of the complex called the Red Pines that was directly in the path of the accident in 1986. Pripyat and the Duga1 radar are totally save. It's just a tourist attraction so that people visit Ukraine but it has much more to offer and the people of Ukraine are nice and deserve a better future

Plot twist- The sarcophagus & arch wasn't built to keep radiation from getting out but were built to keep Valery Khodemchuk inside!

Imagine the level of radiation the guide woman gets every day😬😬

The tour guide seem immune to radiation she does nt even wear a glove i think she did that hundred times

that dark hallway with the flickering lights scares the crap out of me lol

Talk about a Dirty Job... Just imagine the poor lady going in and out into a nuclear disaster over and over again to show off someone's stupid mistake... A tour guide's worst nightmare...

If you haven't already done so, a good book to read is "Midnight in Chernobyl" by Adam Higginbotham. He talks to all of the key players at Chernobyl at the time of the disaster, the various officials in Moscow, Kyiv and most importantly Pripyat. Great book. Detail is immense.

Watching from Guyana 🇬🇾. I was in primary school at the time when this catastrophe had happened. I heard the news over the radio but didn't understand the gravity of it until a few years later when I was in high school. Then I read and re-read some articles in the 1992/1993 Popular Science magazine. That wasn't enough. My quest to learn more about Chernobyl didn't stop there until now...the grown man I am. Sometimes, like how I just saw this video I would retire to bed and my mind just wandering about the incident that should have never happened @01:23 am that fateful morning. Sometimes, I am lead to believe that it was all well intended because from the chain of events that occurred and the 'junior' staff on that shift 'conducting' such an 'experiment' in the wee hours of the morning is something...

No Monolith soldiers on every corner with gauss rifles and no stupid ghost voice who repeats the same sentence over and over again ? 0/10 Would not visit ...

Always great to see a new video on this with new views perspective and insight. It's like the imitation game and then you visit Bletchley Park where the guides giving the talks start off with how many have seen the movie knowing that that's what got most of them there. And then they give a much more real story's and different parts they played and real character traits. Plus as tour guides they are there to talk at the get togethers with people who worked there in all the different more regular roles, and pass them little titbits onto the visitors. I hope all this interest generated leads onto more people wanting to know more and learning and visiting to get to the guts of the issue without know stereotypes of drinking vodka after everyshift. But now I think of it if I was sent on a job shitting myself I'm likely gonna die why shouldn't they get some booze doing that dangerous job into the depths of the unknown. They really should have been celebrating there last possible days...

2:54 'What is the level?' "4.4uSv" That is LOW. Those geiger counters start alarming at a few times higher than background level. You get somewhere around 2 to 3uSv/hr sitting on a plane at 40,000 feet. The area near the reactor is actually quite low dose as it was so thoroughly cleaned up because people had to work close to it. There are much much higher reading hotspots around the zone if you know where to look.

Love your videos buddy just subbed 😜

The show got the important details right, ie the bureaucracy and the scale of casualties

I don`t get the current fetish for trips to Chernobyl. Go, then , to say you have been. As for me, living 1400 miles away from the plant is close enough - even 34 years after.

Reactor 4, is not dead, its alive for the next 50, 000 years, its immortal, still living and breathing. I did a private Chernobyl tour July 2019 (watch my video) Guides limited to 3 days a week, 15 hours maximum in the zone. Chernobyl workers living and working there can do 15 days per month, but only doing 5 hours active work outside per day, all other time has to be in the safe accommodation provided, unless in Cherbobyl Town (40 KM Zone) from the reactor. Its possible to visit deep inside, but only for a few minutes maximum, keep levels low as a 9 hour trans Atlantic flight USA to Ukraine.

Amazing video. Thank you for the exclusive view.

Thank you for your videos!

What about Dyatlov's toilet?

Wow I wish I can see more of that 3D model pretty cool.🤔

this is an excellent video, thanks so much for sharing it.

Very good video. Thank you.

Nuclear energy is strong but I feel like it was discovered at the wrong time...

I like to imagine that the engineer that was never found goes through something similar to Dr. Manhattan, maybe Dr. Chernobyl?

It's all a tour until someone says "Do you see that giant foot like object?"

Love your vids seen them all

Everyone gangsta till they start tasting metal

8:25 I dont think Dyatlov was in the control room at this scene. He was walking down a corridor I think

this is terryfing this is no place for humans, and your device tells you every second

Putting this place on my bucket list

It's still possible to go down under the reactor to see the tons of Corium which is known as the elephants foot. Its not part of the standard tour but available on request. 60 seconds is the max exposure time before you have to get out, just enough to get a picture. Any longer and in a few months extra arms and legs will start appearing..

Being a Chernobyl tour must be a sought after job.

Everybody gangsta until the dosimeters start screaming.

Amazing video!