Chernobyl - What It's Like Today

This is what a nuclear disaster area looks like.
Broadcast locations and times:

North America: PBS, July 28 & 29 @ 10pm ET / 9pm Central
Europe: ZDF/arte, July 31 @ 10pm
Australia: SBS, August 6, 13, 20 @ 8:30pm EST

[Callux]

50, 000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town

[binaryryuga]

Moment of silence for those who prevented this disaster from doing anymore damage

[leokimvideo]

Chernobyl - What It's Like Today...5 years ago!

[WiseAndWide]

Imagine the people who lived there seeing this after so much time and recognising their belongings in the video, they places they used to go to, dine, hang out, walk... the emotional turmoil they must go through, unimaginable!

[davidjuneja]

That Geiger counter sound will always haunt me.

[BarkaDog]

*after 24000 years*
Video title: standing on reactor number 4

[AkashS]

The dosimeter's sound is one of the most scariest sounds I've ever heard.

[nezurrak]

3:12 "you can't feel it, smell it or see it" Toptunov: "do you taste metal?"

[azorahai]

Chernobyl fans: The show was amazing we want season 2.
Ukrainian people : wait what ????

[Kebabalaba]

Explain to me how an RBMK reactor explodes

[alexsovtysik]

My dad’s godfather died at that day when it exploded he died because he was a firefighter and they did not tell what happened

[sashankshah]

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth..Sooner or later that debt is paid"
-Valery Legasov

[leopruhs]

"They were told it was only going to be for two weeks"

They told me that too, but its been 6 months

[vitaliysakun-duvalko]

My mom worked south of Chernobyl. She was operating on childrens’ teeth. She saw a whole bunch of deformed mouths, and cleft lips and pallets. This was because of the radiation, and the kids grew deformities. She says that now she has PTSD, from seeing all the pain those kids went through.

[LordMichaelRahl]

HBO Chernobyl show comes out
Youtube algorithm to Veritasium: I'm about to make this man's whole career

[GuideEver]

2:07 "It seems quiet and peaceful."
Shows the torn apart teddy bear.

[talha]

this area is literally got time frozen, things are there how it was there 35 years ago. its like clock didn't move a second.
its scary how dangerous humans can be. creating destruction to the humanity and to the nature.

[UdanaWijesuriya]

Watching this video before watching HBO's Chernobyl and watching this after the series, are two very different experiences.

[MeLikeGuns]

Veritasium: "Will my subscribers be taken care of?"
Shcherbina: "I don't know."

[Andrew-ziyt]

“I am inside an old kindergarten and it is incredibly peaceful”

Try going in at night, wonder what it feels like 🤷🏻‍♂️