The Most Radioactive Places in The World

Nuclear energy was first introduced to the world in 1945 and since then it has evolved and changed along the way. Through this evolution nuclear energy has seen many uses some good and some bad, but one thing that remains constant through these are the accidents that come along with them. When dealing with an energy source so unstable there are bound to be accidents and today we will be taking a look at the most nuclear torn places in the world. Ranging from the minor occurrences of old testing zones to major radioactive spills that will make places uninhabitable for decades. Lets take a look.

00:00 Intro
01:30 Sponsor Section
2:51 Trinity Testing Site
4:05 The U.S. Marshal islands
6:02 The Sellafield Site
8:52 The Polygon
11:01 Fukushima, Japan
13:29 Chernobyl

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[StefanoBorini]

I think it should be important to say that it was not only the USSR that didn't care of the surrounding population. Utah downwinders were heavily affected by the nevada testing site. Similarly, the people who built the dome in the Marshall islands were not told what they were risking and were never compensated for the resulting medical issues.

[danieljames]

it’s not the machines that caused the disasters, it’s the lackluster maintenance and disregarding regulations and procedures. the technology is perfectly safe, it’s the human element that caused all those reactors to fail. even fukushima, if they had maintained the facility the way they were supposed to, it would’ve been able to withstand the tsunami. kyle hill has a great video series about all of this, highly recommend watching it

[HTehnique]

Favourite tid-bit about the Fukushima clean up efforts was how the elderly people volunteered to do it because 'cancer takes years to kick in and by then I'll be gone anyway' - paraphrasing the last bit as I do not recall the exact wording, but that's the general idea of what was said.

[mattwitkowski]

14:44 Stop. That’s not a mutation. That’s the Partisan’s Tree. It’s been that way for a bit…

[Guillermo.R.S.]

0:37 The bombs used in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki used the power of nuclear fission, not nuclear fusion. The two are completely different (opposite, as a matter of fact) ways to produce the intended destructive energy of a nuclear weapon. Cheers.

[yanstein]

as someone who lives in southern belarus (which is really close to northern ukraine, where chernobyl happened) while this is not such a relevant problem now, since caesium's half life of 30 years has already passed in 2016, but in the 2000's when i was a kid, it was still a major concern

i remember being tested for radioactivity in my body a few times (it was at a normal level) and my dad measuring radioactivity levels in our dacha's backyard, i remember being told by parents stories of how they evacuated as children from affected zones and how a lot of villages close to the belarusian/ukrainian border are abandoned now, i know the jokes about having iodine just in case (which became more popular after the chernobyl tv show came out)

to me since i was a kid radioactivity was always this ever-present, invisible, but dangerous force

[loaytarek]

Something to mention about the Chernobyl incident is that it could have been much worse it could have made Europe and parts of asia uninhabitable that didn't happen though because of the Chernobyl liquidators limiting the effects of the explosion by a lot if it weren't for these heroes almost all people in Europe would be in danger and some in asia

[toorandomenvi]

the fact the audio is slightly to the left got me checking all my cables ...

[sooploopz]

I could have sworn you had like, 1 million subscribers. This channel is so underrated

[utkarshtiwari]

the first dream i had on the night of the new year was one of a nuclear war. Seeing this as the first post on my YouTube feed makes me a bit worried

[Masterhitman]

Perfect way to start the new year, not a precursor anything for this year.

[FACTOTUM_]

Great vid, don't wanna be that guy but it's nu-clear not nu-cular . Love your stuff, keep it up

[RealJuiceWrld]

Say what you will but nuclear is still safer than coal.

[alk_]

A 16 minute video about the most radioactive places in the world and the first word is "nucular"...

[tracythomas]

I remember Chernobyl happening and living in the UK it spread a lot more than the map you showed in the video, travelling across the country into Wales, were the sheep there were finally cleared of radiation 10 years ago

[rdalbum]

You could do with a proofreader - you misspelt United Kingdom and dissolution (in reference to the USSR) and you referred to bombs and bomb tests as "nuclear" when in fact they were atomic.

Love your videos in general, and this one was good content, but seemed slightly rushed.

[gossdaboss]

Could you do a video over neglected infrastructure risks? Like dam's most likely to fail or something along the lines of that, or water still not cleaned up properly from past pollutions the poses the most risk to the population, etc. Something similar to this video just more general instead of focusing on radiation

[riodwisaputraa]

6:15 there seems to be a mistake in typing, 'unitem kingdom'

[BarryChumbles]

Interesting that you chose not to include the Hanford Nuclear Site, or any of the other nuclear-related superfund sites in the U.S.

[sufjams]

I would say no one is at that one house on the Marshall Island dome.