I Got Access to Chernobyl’s Deadliest Area

Though thousands of people have toured the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, almost no one has been allowed inside the New Safe Confinement to document what I’m about to show you. [EXPEDITION CHERNOBYL] Part 3 / 3

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[kylehill]

*Thanks for watching.* This video concludes the series’ overall arc of the three main areas of the Zone.

After this, we have 3-4 smaller videos with smaller stories, like the wild dogs of Chernobyl's woods.

This has been the biggest video thing we've ever done, so any feedback is welcome.

[FranklyBuilt]

Seeing the camera show artifacts of radiation in the footage is like a creepy callback and reminder to the photos of the elephants foot that were bombarded with radiation. Also I think a testament to how well the containment units now work.

[andrewholaway]

This was one of those episodes I didn't want to end. I could watch hours of explanations about how the NSC works, the engineering and design that went into it, and how the NSC changed the lives/jobs of those who have dedicated their lives to cleaning up this disaster. Thank you for your professionalism and willingness to go out there and see these things first hands for us! What an incredible series this has been.

[Viaplier]

i genuinely did think that they left this place to be forgotten, amazing that people still stay here and help the country and the world

[spce]

Keeping the site under negative pressure is a genius idea. Not only does it keep the radioactive dust and particles inside, but also it is easier to tell whether there are any leaks if the pressure inside changes

[_Backpack_]

When Kyle says "until next time..." at the end of his videos, it feels like a wise old npc guide in a video game telling you to stay safe until you meet again. A really comforting feeling

[felixcaskey]

The screaming of the radiation monitor, is one of the most terrifying sounds I've ever heard.

[PMW]

"The goal of Chernobyl's clean up is to have no more Chernobyl"

That's fascinating that they're disassembling the plant. I had always assumed that they were going to just build bigger containment structures over the ruins.

[giggityguy]

7:24 Astronauts actually experience a similar phenomenon in their own eyeballs! While in space, occasionally a cosmic ray will pass through the vitreous humor in the eye, releasing Cherenkov radiation as it goes. The retina detects the light and perceives it as a flash. Some reported having difficulty sleeping due to the effect, since it was visible even with their eyes closed.

[helenafranzen]

Can we just take a moment and salute the liquidators, firefighters and all the other people that gave their lives to conceal the core after the accident. Heroic efforts with a huge prize they payed for our safety.

[Smegheid]

7:25 The really horrifying part about those scintillations caused by gamma rays hitting the camera sensor: if you look at old Soviet footage taken in Pripyat on the day of the accident, the film typically shows a lot of them. The town’s about 2 miles away, yet the area around the power plant was radiologically hot enough to significantly affect film even at that distance.

[CartoonHero]

I remember the early images of the New Safe Confinement Arch right after they put up the superstructure for it. It was so massive it looked eerie and almost otherworldly.

[kindofweird]

3:23 The so called "chimney" you see on this footage is not the one that people used to perceive as the iconic one. The iconic 4th reactor VT-2 funnel got dismantled around 10 years ago.

[ellalawrence]

I used to be obsessed with Chernobyl, watching hours or videos on youtube over the years about the forest, Pripyat, the liquidators and everything in between. Now i've been watching Kyle for a little while now and as always, the content is s-tier. But if there is one thing that i have learnt about Chernobyl during the Expedition series, its that Chernobyl is a beautiful place. While it houses one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, something about it is so alluring and truly beautiful. Especially down to the "smaller" details like the negative pressure inside the dome. It shows, in some ways that while humans can screw things up to a monumental point, we are also more than capable of rising to a challenge that cannot be avoided and throwing our hearts and souls into it to just do what is right.

[EATSxBABIES]

The part that blows my mind the most is that this is an active work site. It's not simply a lab, a waste site, a burden or a wasteland but a job. An actively maintained 9-5 for hundreds of people ever day. It's always occupied the same space in my mind like the aftermath of a fire or ruins after a flood rarely you find hundreds of people sifting through the ashes for years on end with the hopes of turning it back into a forest or at the very least stop more fires from happening.

[Ace_Unicrn]

"Who'd want to look after this place?"
Me, I would. I find it fascinating, I love history and science. Chernobyl always has been my favourite thing to read about, learn about and talk about. I could go for hours just talking about it, when it's safe again, I'd love to go there. I have huge respect for the workers there, they're amazing and I'd love to talk with them

[scarletbanana]

Nothing is as cool as filming...in FRONT OF reactor 4. Education, information, and entertainment at its finest. Excellently done, Kyle.

[berthulf]

I always knew it was big, but there's knowing it's big, and then there's seeing how massive it is from inside. And knowing that Lady Liberty would fit under it really puts a scale on the structure that you can't get any other way... what a feat it was to complete this, and thank you for bringing this to us Kyle. You really are a treasure!

[Noavailableusernamesadly]

I remember my mother telling that my grandfather working there, well, when he was still alive. He was probably entering the place(we assume, to the date he went out of his home and went in the train) when the explosion happened. My grandfather was found somewhere near core 1, so he probably ran away from the first explosion, only to get crushed by a piece of steel that flew out during the explosion. The information may not be exact, becouse no one around him came out alive. I wish I had a chance to meet him, heard he was a nice guy.

[Vizzard]

Thank you Kyle for showing us something we probably would've never seen. Hopefully in the next 20, 000 years someone will come back to this video & comment saying that the threat of radiation is alleviated & people have finally started a new settlement around the plant, while it stands as a symbol for remnants of one of the worst mistakes of mankind.