there has been a nuclear accident in the
Soviet Union and the Soviets have
admitted that it happened in 1986 the
Soviet nuclear power plant in the heart
of the Ukraine went into meltdown the
still radioactive core was sealed up
with concrete and a 30 kilometer
exclusion zone was erected but what’s it
like there today welcome to
watchmojo.com at of the Chernobyl
catastrophe number 5 nobody knows how
many people the meltdown is killed more
than a hundred nuclear plant workers and
first responders were killed in the
weeks following the disaster but we have
no idea how many other people have died
25 year-old Samara school teacher and
mother just diagnosed with thyroid
cancer with the exception of one rare
type of thyroid cancer it’s impossible
to tell which fatal cases of cancer were
caused by radiation and which weren’t so
estimates are all over the place the UN
believes that 4000 people have been
killed by radiation poisoning while
Greenpeace claims that 93 thousand
deaths are the direct result of the
meltdown it’s also estimated that 2.7
million people were affected in some way
by the meltdown this includes both the
less serious medical complications and
the 350,000 people that need to be
relocated the people of Pripyat will end
the day in the homes of strangers of
course so will the radioactive dust on
their hair they close their bodies
number 4 apparently humans are worse for
animals then Chernobyl’s radiation so
you got like 3 eyed wolves and like 5
legged bears that are in Chernobyl now
since humans have largely left the
exclusion zone the population of animals
has skyrocketed the population of many
animals is now greater than it was
before the accident and the wolf
population is about 7 times that of
nearby areas so basically the research
indicates that chronic radiation is less
the problem to animals than the
pressures of human habitation makes you
feel proud to be a homo sapien however
there are a lot of negative effects in
many individual animals 4 to 6 percent
of mice are born with
birth defects also plant life is
struggling biodiversity is about 50% of
similar nature reserves but more on that
shortly so it’s not all sunshine and
giant non-mutant catfish you can see
these quick catfish acquired normal
nothing wrong with them no mutations
visible they’re just huge because they
don’t have any predators
number three the exclusion zone is
populated by radioactive grandmothers
more than a thousand people to finally
return to Chernobyl after the meltdown
today the remaining resettle errs are
quite old and most of them are women but
many of these little old grandmothers
believe that they made the right choice
returning to the exclusion zone they
think this not only because it’s their
ancestral home but also because they
already survived Stalin’s genocide by
starvation and watch their relocated
friends and relatives end up poor and
hungry in urban areas and she said to me
when I asked for the obvious radiation
doesn’t scare me
starvation does these women are
relatively healthy and they live simple
lives relying on farming soil that will
be radioactive for the next 20,000 years
in this wasteland her animals are all
the company she needs number two
Chernobyl is home to zombie trees
the red forest is one of the most
radioactive places on earth it gained
the name because the trees turned a
rusty shade of red just after the
accident and if you go in there you’re
going to die today the trees have become
green again but trees that die there
take decades to decompose there are
still standing trees that died at the
meltdown twenty-nine years ago this is
because the radiation kills the fungus
and bacteria that would normally break
down the trees and insects that eat
plant matter choose to live in areas of
the exclusion zone that are less
radioactive than the forests recent dry
summers have sparked fears of forest
fires which could send radioactive smoke
to large city of Kiev only 68 miles from
the exclusion zone number one a vacation
at Chernobyl is less harmful than an
x-ray gather her Chernobyl yeah there’s
a new disaster happen yes have you heard
of extreme tourism you’re incredible
who’s coming with Paul the Chernobyl yup
you can even go to the exclusion zone on
your vacation and it only costs about
380 dollars for a two-day tour of the
site of history’s biggest nuclear
disaster is it creepy yes is
exploitative maybe but it does seem to
be pretty safe the radiation that you
would be exposed to is less than you
would get if you went to the doctor for
an x-ray for context nuclear power
plants are considered safe if their
employees are exposed to less than 100
micro sieverts of gamma radiation per
day while a pelvic x-ray for example
could expose you to 700 micro sieverts
according to the tour operators during a
vacation in the exclusion zone your body
would only absorb about 5 to 7 micro
sieverts
no it’s not take it away so how about
you would you take a two-day Chernobyl
tour for more former Soviet superpower
top tens and radioactive top fives be
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me if you see something moving in water
Soviet Union and the Soviets have
admitted that it happened in 1986 the
Soviet nuclear power plant in the heart
of the Ukraine went into meltdown the
still radioactive core was sealed up
with concrete and a 30 kilometer
exclusion zone was erected but what’s it
like there today welcome to
watchmojo.com at of the Chernobyl
catastrophe number 5 nobody knows how
many people the meltdown is killed more
than a hundred nuclear plant workers and
first responders were killed in the
weeks following the disaster but we have
no idea how many other people have died
25 year-old Samara school teacher and
mother just diagnosed with thyroid
cancer with the exception of one rare
type of thyroid cancer it’s impossible
to tell which fatal cases of cancer were
caused by radiation and which weren’t so
estimates are all over the place the UN
believes that 4000 people have been
killed by radiation poisoning while
Greenpeace claims that 93 thousand
deaths are the direct result of the
meltdown it’s also estimated that 2.7
million people were affected in some way
by the meltdown this includes both the
less serious medical complications and
the 350,000 people that need to be
relocated the people of Pripyat will end
the day in the homes of strangers of
course so will the radioactive dust on
their hair they close their bodies
number 4 apparently humans are worse for
animals then Chernobyl’s radiation so
you got like 3 eyed wolves and like 5
legged bears that are in Chernobyl now
since humans have largely left the
exclusion zone the population of animals
has skyrocketed the population of many
animals is now greater than it was
before the accident and the wolf
population is about 7 times that of
nearby areas so basically the research
indicates that chronic radiation is less
the problem to animals than the
pressures of human habitation makes you
feel proud to be a homo sapien however
there are a lot of negative effects in
many individual animals 4 to 6 percent
of mice are born with
birth defects also plant life is
struggling biodiversity is about 50% of
similar nature reserves but more on that
shortly so it’s not all sunshine and
giant non-mutant catfish you can see
these quick catfish acquired normal
nothing wrong with them no mutations
visible they’re just huge because they
don’t have any predators
number three the exclusion zone is
populated by radioactive grandmothers
more than a thousand people to finally
return to Chernobyl after the meltdown
today the remaining resettle errs are
quite old and most of them are women but
many of these little old grandmothers
believe that they made the right choice
returning to the exclusion zone they
think this not only because it’s their
ancestral home but also because they
already survived Stalin’s genocide by
starvation and watch their relocated
friends and relatives end up poor and
hungry in urban areas and she said to me
when I asked for the obvious radiation
doesn’t scare me
starvation does these women are
relatively healthy and they live simple
lives relying on farming soil that will
be radioactive for the next 20,000 years
in this wasteland her animals are all
the company she needs number two
Chernobyl is home to zombie trees
the red forest is one of the most
radioactive places on earth it gained
the name because the trees turned a
rusty shade of red just after the
accident and if you go in there you’re
going to die today the trees have become
green again but trees that die there
take decades to decompose there are
still standing trees that died at the
meltdown twenty-nine years ago this is
because the radiation kills the fungus
and bacteria that would normally break
down the trees and insects that eat
plant matter choose to live in areas of
the exclusion zone that are less
radioactive than the forests recent dry
summers have sparked fears of forest
fires which could send radioactive smoke
to large city of Kiev only 68 miles from
the exclusion zone number one a vacation
at Chernobyl is less harmful than an
x-ray gather her Chernobyl yeah there’s
a new disaster happen yes have you heard
of extreme tourism you’re incredible
who’s coming with Paul the Chernobyl yup
you can even go to the exclusion zone on
your vacation and it only costs about
380 dollars for a two-day tour of the
site of history’s biggest nuclear
disaster is it creepy yes is
exploitative maybe but it does seem to
be pretty safe the radiation that you
would be exposed to is less than you
would get if you went to the doctor for
an x-ray for context nuclear power
plants are considered safe if their
employees are exposed to less than 100
micro sieverts of gamma radiation per
day while a pelvic x-ray for example
could expose you to 700 micro sieverts
according to the tour operators during a
vacation in the exclusion zone your body
would only absorb about 5 to 7 micro
sieverts
no it’s not take it away so how about
you would you take a two-day Chernobyl
tour for more former Soviet superpower
top tens and radioactive top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com tell
me if you see something moving in water
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