happy radioactive new year with radium rockets, radon fireworks & gamma spectroscopy! bionerd23 2015-01-11 | yep, i definitely managed to collect some radioactive material from the air outdoors on new year's eve!but what was it? are firecrackers spreading radioactive material?we shall debunk the myths and put things into perspective. =)more info, including the non-radioactive chemicals that may produce issues associated with fireworks (just click on the PDF link): http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/4/3/034006
Chernobyl: Janov Янов train station, train wrecks & tanks bionerd23 2018-02-15 | Radioactive, rotting soviet trains that serve as temporary homes for the "Metallists", surrounded by the nature just north of the infamous Red Forest...
Pripyat. Summer. Nature. Rainbow. Радуга. Природа. Лето. Припять. bionerd23 2018-02-04 | when i first came to Pripyat, i ran around and tried to find as much radioactive stuff a i could. and i still do that, sometimes.then, i started to be interested in the stories of the residents, the people who lived in the zone of alienation. and i still am.now, i often ask "ok, when do we meet again?", and then i run as far away from other people (usually to a top floor), and just sit back and listen to her, to the majestic city of Pripyat and her beautiful nature.experience expanded. happy birthday, paradise city.
DAT STARE! Chernobyl wild zone: Tawny owl encounter bionerd23 2018-02-04 | we spotted (and awoke...) this little owl. it was a beautiful moment, but we had to retreat after this scene, as the poor owl was getting panicked after she had spotted us.
decontaminating Chernobyl - what to do with a radioactive truck? bionerd23 2018-02-03 | in this hands-on exercise, we're learning how to detect and remove radioactive contamination on a vehicle used to transport various materials during the decomissioning of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.even at 30+ years, liquidating the consequences of the Chernobyl accident remains a task for thousands of Ukrainian and international workers every day.
HAZMAT radioactive pieces from inside Chernobyl reactor 4! bionerd23 2016-12-31 | seriously hot stuff from inside the Sarcophagus, being decommissioned for the construction and placement of the New Safe Confinement... seems like bits of the core / nuclear fuel are around in abundance, too!this trip was a joint venture with Carl Willis, be sure to check out his youtube channel for more Chernobyl & radiation-related videos: youtube.com/user/Thallium208
constructing a 1:1000 scale model of the Chernobyl NPP / Sarcophagus [model building] bionerd23 2016-12-29 | instruction / howto: building a realistic 1:1000 scale model of the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant and sarcophagus (reactors 3+4).in memory of an iconic building and the heroes (liquidators) who have built it!modellbau tschernobyl akw
train to Chernobyl NPP (ЧАЭС), from Славутич (Slavutych) to Семиходы - feat. Gamardah Fungus bionerd23 2016-12-10 | taking the route of the workers of ChNPP, we're on a bullet train through space and time;heading to a place where life is nothing but decay - but still remains the same as it ever was.music: Gamardah fungus - Last train to save usgamardahfungus.bandcamp.comfacebook.com/GamardahFungus...thanks, guys, for giving me your permission to use your music in my videos!
inside Chernobyls sarcophagus - the turbine hall & ventilation stack (chimney) bionerd23 2016-12-04 | so, where's Chernobyl's old iconic chimney now, after they've dismantled it?well, we shall find it... in the mighty hall of turbogenerators.this trip was a joint venture with Carl Willis, be sure to check out his youtube channel for more Chernobyl & radiation-related videos: youtube.com/user/Thallium208
inside Chernobyl ЧАЭС sarcophagus 2016 - reactor #4 control room and lead-lined corridors bionerd23 2016-11-21 | today, we're venturing into the "shelter object" via the "local zone"... for the last time before the area will be covered with the "new safe confinement". curious about the looks of the INTACT Chernobyl NPP control rooms? check my video including CR #3 here: youtube.com/watch?v=KRHnApxVFQUthis trip was a joint venture with Carl Willis, be sure to check out his youtube channel for more Chernobyl & radiation-related videos: youtube.com/user/Thallium208
goodbye, Chernobyl! the New Safe Confinement has started moving... [November 2016] bionerd23 2016-11-16 | the giant "arch" has just started moving, about to swallow the rugged old "shelter object", entombing the remains of the Chernobyl reactor unit 4 forever...this trip was a joint venture with Carl Willis during an emergency response & decon training; be sure to check out his youtube channel for more Chernobyl & radiation-related videos: youtube.com/user/Thallium208
Chernobyl & Pripyat from dusk until dawn - featuring Gamardah Fungus bionerd23 2015-10-11 | home is where the heart is... and freedom means to ride into the wild, on par with the wind - wide awake and heading home.be sure to check out the Ukrainian band GAMARDAH FUNGUS, creators of this awesome music (links below):gamardahfungus.bandcamp.comfacebook.com/GamardahFungus...thanks, guys, for giving me your permission to use your music in my videos!
Chernobyl & Pripyat from dusk till dawn - the ghost town at night bionerd23 2015-09-18 | sunset and sunrise over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - but what happens at the dead of night, all alone in the abandoned exclusion zone...?
the highly radioactive kindergarten laboratory of Pripyat bionerd23 2015-05-26 | no dolls and toys to find here - the shelves are stacked with highly contaminated radioactive samples from the red forest and other parts of the exclusion zone.not as famous as the Kopachi (копачи) kindergarten - but this is one of the infamous temporary dosimetry laboratories set up after the Chernobyl accident.instead of toy cars, you can find laboratory samples full of plutonium, cesium and uranium along with toxic chemicals - and everything's a mess for you to step right into.
Hitlers nuclear pile - WWII uranium cube reactor & the Alsos mission: Atomkeller Haigerloch bionerd23 2015-05-10 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapon_projecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsos_Missionhttps://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FForschungsreaktor_Haigerloch
Chernobyl New Safe Confinement (NSC) 2015 - Арка shelter of Reactor 4 bionerd23 2015-05-05 | what is the purpose of the Novarka project? when will the new sarcophagus be completed? what happens afterwards? and why did they remove the chimney and built a new one?find the answers in this video! for additional information, check the links below:http://www.novarka.comhttp://chnpp.gov.ua/en/
Inside Chernobyl ЧАЭС 2015 - 29th anniversary of the Чернобыль disaster bionerd23 2015-04-26 | 29 years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened. today, we'll walk inside and document what the reactor buildings look like in 2015.besides seeing the control room and golden corridor - as an example of many human tragedies, we will go to the circulation pumps, where Valery Khodemtchuk remains buried beneath the debris of the explosion.but you might be surprised - there's a lot of people working in the nuclear power plant now, even in the control rooms...
the highly radioactive Chernobyl graphite crane claw and hot particles bionerd23 2015-04-19 | this temporal contaminated vehicle storage site is located just to the southwest of Pripyat. most of the vehicles have been transferred to proper radioactive waste storage years ago, but some objects still remain - including pieces of the reactor's inventory, Chernobyl's nuclear fuel & graphite hot particles.
Pripyat ghost town in 2015, nearly 30 years after Chernobyl NPP accident bionerd23 2015-04-12 | so what's it like to visit the city of Pripyat today? take a virtual tour with me!we'll see the amusement park with the ferris wheel and the bumper cars, the central square with the culture palace, the music school with a piano, collapsing buildings, and a radioactive DJ...
Chernobyl wild zone: wolves of the northern radioactive track & other animals bionerd23 2015-04-09 | upon taking a stroll in the highly contaminated grounds around the Pripyat cemetery - just north of the Chernobyl NPP - i find recent tracks of big paws - wolf paws...
climbing Duga-3 / Дуга-3, the Russian Woodpecker / Chernobyl-2 radar site [full climb] bionerd23 2015-04-06 | full climb, GoPro 1st person footage only! skip to 11:40 for 3x speed.no audio, as the audio is just noise of the camera case rubbing against cloth.detailed video with narration: youtube.com/watch?v=0l_4fzJv_i0
inside Duga-3 / Дуга-3, computer mainframe of the Russian Woodpecker / Chernobyl-2 bionerd23 2015-04-04 | in this video, we'll take a look at the control room and computer mainframe of the Chernobyl-2 over-the-horizon radar, finding punch-card programs - the software for the Duga-3 radar array...previous video (climbing): youtube.com/watch?v=0l_4fzJv_i0
climbing and exploring Duga-3 / Дуга-3, the Russian Woodpecker / Chernobyl-2 radar site bionerd23 2015-03-29 | this is the enourmous (height: 160 meters) Soviet OTH (Over The Horizon) radar which could have detected nuclear bombs / intercontinental missiles being launched from the USA.the world's most powerful radar - video with extensive footage from the array, climbing it, and background information on its operation.my Duga-3 photos (and others from this trip) on flickr: flickr.com/photos/bionerd/sets/72157650850418127original sound file from a Duga-3 transmission: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Woodpecker.oggfull footage of the climb as well as scenic views available on request.
east of Chernobyl and the Pripyat river: машеве (Maschewe) village & physics university bionerd23 2015-03-29 | for some photos of this, please go to flickr.com/photos/bionerdotherwise, enjoy the final video of the "east of Chernobyl and the Pripyat river" series, where we'll see an amazing university with lots of experiments left behind, and even some wild animals - two moose!
east of Chernobyl and the Pripyat river: Pripyat river banks & an intact (!) Church bionerd23 2015-03-23 | this is a place of pure beauty - beautiful nature, and beautiful ancient architecture which scavengers did not dare to rip apart and steal stuff from.but, to some extent, this is also a sad place - so this is what it would look like if people had not carelessly ripped apart everything?makes you wonder how much of the destruction of the buildings in Pripyat is due to natural force, and how much is due to human evil again...
east of Chernobyl and the Pripyat river: Krasnoje (Красне) village & radioactive combine harvesters bionerd23 2015-03-20 | finding the only place around with electricity - and farming equipment that exceeds all radiation levels seen before on this side of the Pripyat river.
east of Chernobyl and the Pripyat river: Simowishtshe (Зимовище) village bionerd23 2015-03-18 | increased radiation levels, at last - and a lot of wild animals living in that environment.previously, this village presumably had a lot of animals, too - we've even found a veterinary clinic!
bumble bee drinking nectar from flower macro hd (Osmia cornuta) bionerd23 2015-03-17 | bee-autiful bumble bee macro video!photos here: flickr.com/photos/bionerd
east of Chernobyl and the Pripyat river: Starosillja (старосилля) village bionerd23 2015-03-15 | this is our LAST STOP with NORMAL RADIATION LEVELS: the village of старосилля.it holds a precious ancient item, a reminder of a place and time where my ancestors slaughtered the ancestors of the comrade i now walk the zone with.
east of Chernobyl and the Pripyat river: Koschiwka (кошивка) village bionerd23 2015-03-13 | our first stop on the east of the припять river: the small village of кошивка.15km southeast of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Koschiwka has pretty much normal ambient radiation levels.this was simply "luck" and due to wind not blowing in that direction as the accident happened.as we're going north towards the border of Belarus, we'll find much higher radiation levels.
the busy town of Chernobyl and its rusty shipwrecks (and the pripyat cat!) bionerd23 2015-03-12 | you can find my photos here: flickr.com/photos/bionerdfun fact: you can also check out the town of Chernobyl on google streetview!there are up to 4000 people working at or near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.it's not just the people working inside the nuclear power plant and building the new safe confinement;the area needs security guards and bus drivers, shopkeepers, cooks, launderers and sweepers, street repair units and firefighters - just to mention some of the jobs in the exclusion zone of Chernobyl.
Chernobyl 2015: lets do something more dangerous! bionerd23 2015-03-11 | here's a little preview of what is to come...Duga-3 climbing video now up: youtube.com/watch?v=0l_4fzJv_i0meanwhile, links to the terrorist threat on chernobyl:http://fakty.ictv.ua/ru/index/read-news/id/1543563http://www.newsli.ru/news/ussr/politika/13770no english links, sorry. seems like the english speaking world did not even cover this "issue", makes you wonder why... but i'll leave speculations to you.
Radian Barite / Radio Baryte, a naturally radioactive Radium mineral! bionerd23 2015-01-26 | what does it look like? how is it created on our planet? what is it used for? are fireworks radioactive? are radiocontrast agents for x-ray imaging dangerous?find out in this video - including gamma spectroscopy analysis of various Radiobaryte specimen!link to my related video about a "radioactive new year": youtube.com/watch?v=NWMJQu9Vs7o
the doppler effect - applied physics: cardiology / echocardiography bionerd23 2014-12-30 | by making use of the doppler effect in medicine, doctors can measure and display blood flow velocity and direction / obstructions with great ease.here's a look into usage of the doppler effect in medical procedures (simple ultrasound doppler probe as well as echocardiography of a female (my) heart, displaying valves and cardiac output).
radioluminescence / scintillations from H-3 (Tritium) vs. Radium (Ra-226) - highly radioactive! bionerd23 2014-12-16 | skip to 3:45 if you already know the basics! view in HD, fullscreen, with high screen brightness!a few billion beta rays per second will hopefully allow you to see radioluminescence in the form of little "flashes" of light (scintillations) despite youtube's video compression...
CALL FOR KELP - japanese seaweed analyzed bionerd23 2014-12-12 | the samples of Nori and Wakame from Swanson Health (US) and Healthsupplies UK i tested did not contain any Cs-137 or other reactor isotopes in detectable amounts. thanks to everybody who participated!
chernobyl: the pripyat school of engineering Куйбышевск - of soviet LSD (тарен) and scintillators bionerd23 2014-11-22 | so many interesting things in one place, again! soviet LSD and morphine in soldier's first aid kits, scintillators and geiger mueller tubes from ancient soviet times...
chernobyl: the pripyat school of engineering Куйбышевск (part 1/2) bionerd23 2014-11-08 | the school of engineering used ionizing radiation and respective detection equipment. thus, there's bound to be something interesting there, and maybe we'll even be in for a surprise!
chernobyl: the hospital for children in pripyat bionerd23 2014-11-01 | "praise the woman/mother, whose love knows no borders, whose breasts have fed the entire world!" -Maxim Gorky
radioactive city of pripyat: corner stores that became dosimetry labs bionerd23 2014-10-24 | this is what i like about the exclusion zone of chernobyl. a moment of human (soviet) history, conserved. like walking a 3D photograph. only nature does changes to this place, human technology no longer plays a role - but every remaining manmade object yells tragedy, with its only fate being decay.
CALL FOR KELP - ill analyze your seaweed for free! (fukushima isotopes gamma spectroscopy) bionerd23 2014-10-18 | feel free to skip the video and just read this summary:here is what you have to do if you want me to analyze some seaweed / kelp of your choice:- find a store that ships to germany- i will ONLY accept to buy seaweed / kelp, no other foods / goods, no fish or meat!- convert the price + shipping of the item(s) you want me to analyze to the currency you want to use for donation (USD, EUR, GBP) e.g. simply put "1200 yen to euro" into google to convert- DONATE the converted sum for the item in the store; the link to paypal is in the bottom right of my channel banner- IMPORTANT: in paypal, add the STORE URL as well as the ITEM NUMBER AND NAME to the comments field- optional: state if you want me to mention your name in my analysis video (default: NO)- if there's an issue with the purchase, or it's a duplicate request, i will refund you by nov 1st, 2014- DEADLINE for this CALL FOR KELP is november 1st, 2014! - further questions? leave a comment or write a "business inquiry" email from my channel's about page!
october 2014: New Safe Confinement (NSC) Арка / shelter / sarcophagus for chernobyl reactor 4 bionerd23 2014-10-13 | building progress for the new shelter of chernobyl reactor 4 as of october 2014.seems like it will indeed be completed by 2015 at this rate!
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eating radioactive apples from chernobyl? perfectly fine! [gamma spectroscopy] bionerd23 2014-10-10 | qualitative and quantitative analysis of apples from chernobyl, my urine after eating those apples, german / bavarian mushrooms picked in the forest, and chernobyl moss growing near the apple tree.if you don't have the patience to watch the entire video, here are the results:apple from pripyat, 4km from chernobyl npp: ~39 Bq/kg Cs-137my urine, 1 liter worth of morning urine: ~0.15 Bq/l Cs-137german mushrooms from the forest: ~400 Bq/kg Cs-137moss from near the apple tree in pripyat: 490000 Bq/kg Cs-137conclusion: eating the moss - if it was edible - from near chernobyl would be insane in regard to the Cs-137 content. however, the underground networks of mushrooms also concentrate Cs-137 to a much greater extent than an apple tree does; thus, eating an apple from near the nuclear power plant gives you only roughly a tenth of the dose that the same amount of these particular mushrooms from germany would. if you were to consume german boar meat - wild boar consume those mushrooms, concentrating the Cs-137 in their muscles - you may be getting even more of a Cs-137 exposure!thus, the apples from pripyat are the safest food source shown and analysed in this video... did you expect that?
radioactive chernobyl wild zone: rabies in fox (бешеная лиса) bionerd23 2014-10-07 | as i was happily eating my radioactive apple, my comrade suggested something behind me... i turned around just to look into the eyes of a potentially rabid fox, merely two meters away from me. after jumping into the car, i grabbed my camera and recorded this - my most terrifying adventure in chernobyl so far...
chernobyl cooling pond: giant radioactive mutated wels catfish? (Чернобыльский Сом) bionerd23 2014-10-04 | the catfish of the chernobyl cooling pond are indeed huge, but they are no river monsters - they simply do not have predators, plus they're being fed by tourists daily - hence why they do grow to enormous sizes.the population of fish in general - not only the catfish - thrives in these waters that pretty much act as a natural reserve.
chernobyl wild zone: radioactive rabies, autumn fruit and foxes. bionerd23 2014-09-30 | it's time for my return. it's time for your return. the new safe confinement is making progress, but the chernobyl wild zone is blooming with more madness than ever...
chernobyl 2013: radioactive ant bites & 115 mSv/h of pure gamma radiation bionerd23 2013-11-16 | obtaining superpowers and a peanut sized reactor fuel fragment outshines everything we've seen so far!finding uranium in nature at its worst - and i'm still waiting for my transformation into superwoman...thanks to the many comments i previously received, i took a streak test this time... and a gamma spectrum as well, of course.
