Chernobyl footage inside reactor 4, the basment and the Elephants foot (1080p raised quality)

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[crazycars]

The white specks on screen is not the camrea quality, but in fact the radiaton messing with the film/camrea itself.

[AJdarkfire]

These folks sacrificed their own health and potentially their own life to record footage of this disaster. Mad respect.

[VirreFriberg]

I feel like I surpassed my yearly radiation quota just by watching this video

[SHT_THPUMP]

Somebody grabbed that phone, and made a call in a state of panic, then left it hanging there and probably ran as fast as they could. That is so eery man.

[detectivedan]

This footage is incredible. The specks of radiation effecting the film is a good indicator of how dangerous the reactor was and still is. Any longer than 40 minutes in this area and they would be dead.

[jychu]

I’ve researched, and come up with a few things about the video!
The person filming is Alexander Kupnyi* (I accidentally misspelled this as Kupny, it’s Kupnyi- so sorry!) . He was a health physics technician in Chernobyl unit 3, and 4. He volunteered to measure radiation in the 80’s after the explosion (so ‘86-‘89). Based on the articles I read, he continued to work at Chernobyl and measured radiation levels. Alexander was /very/ aware of the risks, and he is still alive in his 60’s.
This was filmed between 2007 and 2009, and he was accompanied by a friend Sergei Koshelev. He’s since retired from nuclear work. They were in there for about 30 minutes, 40 minutes tops or else they would be over exposed.
Comment any questions u may have and I’ll try my best to answer!

[OWNIDGE]

The decay looks so… organic. This is nightmare fuel.

[KingDaveth]

First of all, awesome use of the Fallout soundtrack, got me feeling all nostalgic lmao.

Second of all, I'm not even there and I feel like I should get the fuck out.

[Alvin]

Its crazy how they got this on camera. the reactor hall. reactor 4 it self!. the elephants foot. and the fact you can even see the uranium fuel rods in the reactor! this piece of film is priceless and the fact these films costs several lives and the radiation specs on the films makes this terrifying at a whole other level.

[minacapella]

Chernobyl is always so fascinating, scary, and saddening to me all at once. I really hope we don't have anything near this scale again for a few dozen lifetimes.

[tyleroutingdyke]

This video needs 10x more credit, there's nothing more gut wrenching is hearing those dosimeters going bonkers while staring eye to eye with a vein of corium... that or staring directly into reactor #4's core

[mikesnitro]

We all owe these men a Thank You for providing footage like this. Very few people in the world would risk their health for this. Crazy but amazing to see.

[Hadfield]

Truly haunting. Between the radiation affecting the camera, the sheer damage left behind by the explosion, everything

[CrazyNerdInventor]

I mean is it even worth bringing a giger counter with you in this scenario?
Him: "what level are we at?"
His giger counter: "yes"

[boyzback]

Fun fact: the elephant's foot is actually the molten reactor core, and it burned down through the ground and they had to build the tunnel to stop a second explosion that would have been way worse than what DID happen, thank god those heroes were there to prevent it. They risked their lives knowing it would save all of us, they are real-life heroes.

[jmw]

I'm surprised that the footage of the Elephant's Foot was not not covered up with white dots. Also, that's the closet I've ever seen any footage of the foot.

[RailsofForney]

4:54
Kudos to you for *actually* experiencing “The Elephant’s Foot”. In the past, if you went down there to “The Elephant’s Foot”, you, even with a HAZMAT suit on, would likely receive prolonged ARS from it. It isn’t as radioactive as it was back then, but that’s not to say that it isn’t.

[limabravo]

The video itself is a great representation of radiation itself, because all those little dots in the footage that look like old school vhs tracking problems are radioactive particles moving at a significant percentage of C and they are what tear through your cells damaging dna and leading to all sorts of horrors

[Dr-Peppy]

It is unbelievable to me that they got even this close to the core, let alone the literal lead dampening rods themselves.

[contraptionsandcrashes]

This has to be the most terrifying footage I've ever seen