Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, visitors measure radiation levels with Geiger counters while exploring abandoned towns, a preschool frozen in time, and a courthouse from the 1986 trial. The video reveals that some areas record lower radiation than Kiev city center, and approximately 100 residents still legally live within the zone.
- Duration
- 16 min 42 s
- Route distance
- 2.0 km
- Start
- Red Forest
- End
- Pripyat town
- Stops
- 2
- Channel author
- Kara and Nate
Timestamps and places
- — Kiev baseline radiation
- — Chernobyl introduction
- — 30 kilometre exclusion zone checkpoint
- — 30 kilometre zone reading
- — Evacuated villages
- — Town hall
- — Courthouse
- — Residents in exclusion zone
- — 10 kilometre exclusion zone
- — Buried village site
- — Abandoned preschool
- — Radiation laboratory
- — Reactor 4 memorial
- — Red Forest
- — Pripyat town
- — Furniture store
- — Town square
- — Theatre
- — Grocery store
- — Red Forest drive-through
- — Private hotel
- — Radiation dosimeter devices
Route on the map
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