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- With Clarkson in a Volkswagen Up, Hammond in a Ford Fiesta and May in a Dacia Sandero, the trio have been driving around the Crimean peninsula. But to complete their journey they must face one last fearsome challenge; to drive into Chernobyl. Cue as much wasting of fuel as possible. Clip taken from series 21, episode 3.
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50,000 people used to live here.. now it's just Jeremy Clarkson
*Are ye Daft? Stay out of Radioactive Areas!*
mccabber24 wonder what he does over there
there is a guy named Mark Keiths who lived and still lives in chernobyl they are in one of the apartment blocks and is a 58 year old man
he shall call it New Jezza
?Unknown %Percentage Are you daft? It’s a cod4 reference ya fuckwit
they went in cameraboys and came out cameramen
No comments so I will be the first
On 203 likes
Pomegranate Juice smoothie lol thanks bro
he responded after 10 months. What a legend
I commented on a 1000 congrats buddy
In the end credits, the cameramen were honored with a highlighted section called “Extra Brave Film Crew”
They did, with an extra shine of red, very damn deserved.
i can hear your pfp
@@imbasing WHERE IS 25A
The cameramen were awarded hero of socialist labour. Jeremy was awarded for valorous labour.
@@YszapHun what? Lmao
Running out of fuel in Ukraine, a challenge the Russians are now copying. Top Gear truly is globally popular.
lmaooo
Silly joke that doesnt make sense ... and I hope you remember the part of the episode where they show the REASON for this invasion: the naval base on Crimea ... which will be worthless if NATO can station missiles this close to it. NATO "promised" not to expand eastward 30+ years ago ... but hey, that promise didnt last long. The USA was also guaranteeing the independence of Ukraine ... but then kept influencing it by sending billions of $$$$ to basically bribe the people.
@@Muck006 NATO has never ‘expanded’ as you wrongly think. Expansion is a word for dictators and tyrants who March their army’s into unwilling country’s and flatten everything in their path. NATO is a group of independent country’s who have over time chosen to join the alliance, and I understand the word ‘choice’ is not something in the vocabulary of a Russian or someone who supports them.
Ultimately though wether you support Russia or not my joke does make sense because this invasion has been one of the most incompetent Europe has seen. Logistics are in disarray, there’s plenty of evidence of vehicles left abandoned and without fuel. It shows that apart from its Nukes, NATO has no reason to fear Russia, NATO could easily defeat Russia in a conventional war. Let’s face it, Russia surrounds Ukraine and Ukraine is a much smaller force, but with superior tactics and western military might Ukraine has made a joke of a once proud country.
HAHA
I wonder if Clarkson dug a trench for himself while awaiting rescue.😆
"It's gone"
*Camera truck accelerates and leaves him behind*
@Jie Andaya he made a joke
@Jie Andaya yup, sorry mate
@Jie Andaya BTW i can take a print and post?
@Jie Andaya ok, no prob
@GracjanPlayz bruh nobody cares
The clicking of the Geiger counter is arguably one of the most creepy sounds I've ever heard.
Especially after watching HBO's Chernobyl
It’s scary as is, even more so knowing what it means.....
And it's no doubt inaccurte. They wouldn't do this if it wasn't safe. I bet you they wouldn't have even gotten anywhere near where they were if it was still considered too unsafe to drive through, have studied TV too much to fall for that. (But just for clarity, yeah that geiger coutner noise is scary :D)
ツFredi very true but you can not argue that Chernobyl was in fact safe and that was before they covered it up
It is safe as long as you don't live there. Technically you can't fly on that many airplanes either because the radiation is high, but the few hours don't matter that much. In that big of an area you'll be exposed for way longer though and there'll be more damage done.
James: “why are there two blokes with ghillie suits and rifles?”
Ive seen the ferres wheel in Call of duty
Luckily they didn't drive into any claymores
*bullet gets fired*
*James gets shot*
*arm flies off*
James: oh cock
The ferry and the building where we shot Zahkeav's arm off is giving me so much nostalgia
Huh, cheeky bastard
From the moment Jeremy and James entered the exclusion zone, the entire scene gave me chills. It was both the soundtrack, the sheer bravery of going into such a dangerous place, and the sound of the Gieger counter ticking that made it terrifying.
Music is _Gemini_ by Boards of Canada.
I'm pretty sure that it was kinda staged, and that they didn't leave Jeremy there, it was just for dramatic effect
@@nobodywl
Yes, obviously, but that doesn't make it less entertaining.
Fallout vibes for sure
@@nobodywl ofc not, they just stopped showing their counters for a reason. They obviously had more than enough fuel
No one:
Top gear: "the loser gets radiation poisoning"
Such a forced meme
They just need to drink some Vodka. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Thought me that.
Why is the no one even there i swear everytime someone makes this "joke" it makes no sense whatsoever.
this no one: meme is awful
This comment is fuckin trash
The eerie, foggy shot of the reactor sarcophagus as Clarkson points to it is without a doubt the most terrifying scene in all of Top Gear.
Feels like something out of a horror movie
@Zeuffy god
Oh my God yeah, that was horrible. That was straight up horrifying. And that was before they got there!! And then when they saw it: I think I held my breath? It was something out of a horror movie!
Like something out of a scary movie.
I used to find it creepy aswell untill I found youtube channels literally going there and camping in the buildings. The channel is called Shiey if you were wondering.
I see a lot of comments down here talking about how the sound when the reactor comes into view gave them chills. It did that to me too, but what really made me shiver was James speaking 'That is... the remains of Reactor Number Four.' as they drive past the rusted old plant buildings. Seriously, the immensity of that location and what happened there, and just knowing that exact spot in Chernobyl as 'Reactor Four' really puts it into the 'serious shit happened here and won't be forgotten, ever.' category.
It quite literally can never be forgotten because the problem will not go away in ANY of our lifetimes. The half-life of that waste material and remaining nuclear fuel are insane. And all this because a handful of dullard building engineers, under trained nuclear technicians, one arrogant moron and a single faulty button turned one outdated reactor into a bomb more long term devastating than BOTH bombs dropped on Japan combined.
@@Windclaw There have been plenty of accidents in the US, GB, Japan, etc aswell. Usualy hidden better.
Also Clarkson is greayly exaggerating here. There are actually people working in the building on a daily basis.
Ppl impressed with a geiger counter, but have no idea what it reads or what it means.
@@TheUrbanGaze For where they were they dont need to cover up in hazmat suits.
Visitors to the area have to, for as far as i know, still have to wear cumulative geigermuller counters with a pre set for alarm and have to stay within cleaned areas. Also they are instructed what to do; dont pick up anything, what to do if the counter sounds alarm, etc.
Actually, it was all the fault of Dyatlov being a total Karen. @@Windclaw
@@Windclaw lmao, 4000 people died in total from the Chernobyl disaster.
The act of literal genocide that was dropped on the two Japanese cities was over 200000.
Don't even attempt to whitewash the US.
“Still, could be worse.”
*Cut to Russian troops digging trenches in the Red Forest*
and they're also glowing in the dark
Lol comedic cut to Eastern Ukraine
@@yakivpopavich cope harder russki
@@spiroagnew3909 Keep seething. 30% of Ukraine's regions and territories are now Russian held. Ukraine is admitting it's losing multiple towns, villages and cities in both the South and East daily. Their commanders are outright saying they are out-manned 5 to 1 in most areas in regards to infantry. And for every piece of armor they have, Russia has ten. And they are stating that every ONE shell they fire from an artillery piece, Russia fires ten from multiple pieces. And lets not even mention the air situation, where Russia has complete and total superiority. Less than 100 Ukrainian air assets left operational and Russian jets and helicopters perform strikes with near impunity from other aircraft. Kiev could only intercept 1 out of 5 cruise missiles fired from Russian jets some weeks ago. Ukrainian ground to air defense systems cannot handle Russia's firepower, simply put. Now lets look to the waters, where the sea is filled with hundreds of Russian vessels. Once again, these boats can fire rounds straight into Kiev whenever they are told to do so, among many other locations. Ukraine is destined to lose. They may have infinite western supply, but they have finite manpower. Limited amounts of men. There is no UN/NATO/US infantry backup coming to save them, and they are suffering hundreds of casualties per day. In due time there will not be any Ukrainian military forces left to pick up and use any of these fancy imported weapons. Unfortunately for Zelenskky when he said " We will fight to the last Ukrainian " he didn't understand Putin is willing to oblige him.
@@yakivpopavich lol ruski bot
Later when they're selling the Up and the Sandero: ''Low mileage, good condition, fully equipped, only mildly radioactive (3.6 roentgens, not great, not terrible).''
Transilvanian90 Best comment!!!
I'm not certain how good those engines are after all that redlining. Not great, but not terrible.
This is why I came here
🤣
"Survived Pripyat"...
You know shit just got real and the fun stopped when the main cameramen went home because they have families to look after
It was scripted, in reality walking around Chernobyl is totally safe
I’d say don’t stay there for more than 12hrs and you’ll be fine
If you travel along the roads you're pretty much safe it's just being in the plant that's pretty much death
@@Galedan-C1029 I'm pretty sure the hospital there is still extremely dangerous too. Or at least, the basement is.
Parts of the region are more dangerous than others. The playground isn't somewhere I'd want to be for long. Just depends on how it settled.
To anyone wondering, they were not at all in any sort of danger due to the exposure to the radioation. A human can spend couple days inside the exclusion zone and be perfectly fine. There are numerous videos of controlled trips that go inside other, twin reactors.
And then there are the S.T.A.L.K E.R.s they go in illegally all the time and are fine
there are still pockets of intense radioactive buildup everywhere in random areas wherever the wind carried it that day. you need a geiger counter. you also do not want to exceed your yearly limit for background radiation. the red forest is still deathly toxic. it got the heavy doseage of radiation immediately after the reactor blew. it was absorbed into the foliage and gradually filtered to the ground.
@@MrWolfSnack russians learnt that the hard way
@@Crunchy121 lol yeah. I wonder what happened to them. The last news heard was that they went to the army hospital in Belarus and when the one guy broke the geiger counter because he was so irradiated, they all panicked and ran away out of the hospital and into Belarus. PM of Ukraine and the nuclear expert said they had about 6 months to live if not less.
@@MrWolfSnack Severe radiation sickness is just the start, if the case here was extreme they would develop multiple organ failure quite fast, I am not sure just how hot the nuclear waste buried in the red forest is, but given the AMOUNT that was buried there? Just walking through that place would be hazardous. A lifespan of half a year seems reasonable.
Someone needs to shoot the moron who gave those poor saps the order to dig trenches in one of the most irradiated sites on the planet.
The audio editing at 6:00 tho..... Just amazing how it set the tone to be so damn creepy. Love it.
Always gives me chills, no joke. Andy Wilman and the guys that do the audio track editing know their stuff. I read years and years ago that James May picks the music for the various scenes (you dont get to hear it in youtube, dave reruns, or the dvd versions sadly)
It always gives me the Chills cuz I would hate to run out of gas there
New title: “British man goes on expedition through abandoned city to see if colonization is possible.”
This comment is sooo underrated
Sadly for Jeremy, not for another 30,000 years...
Britain must be getting pretty desperate for more colonies
@@BizlaC I mean we wanted the falklands
@@BizlaC there’s already 30 year old ‘barracks’ there I suppose and it would be a mental training ground
Clarkson went into the basement of the plant, and stood next to the elephant's foot for three minutes.
Two weeks later, the elephant's foot died.
nasty lad compilation
People have actually stood next to the Elephants foot for more than two minutes, pretty stupid and risky though
I bet the elephant's foot screamed "CLARKSON!!!!" before it died.
Two weeks later, the elephant’s foot said:
**CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!**
Or "HAMMOND YOU BLITHERING IDIOT"
For some strange reason the trio always visit countries that later falls into horrific wars... Syria, Burma, Ukraine...
Let's hope they don't visit your city or country or did they already?
@@samurai5910 Mine got surrendered more than once already 😂
@@TobRacer Interesting, which is it?
@@samurai5910 France.
Thought you'd get the joke. 😂
@@TobRacer As a German somehow I did not get it :D
7:19 We also registered a big spike next to that booth by the ferris wheel when we visited The Zone in 2016. From what I know, the concrete/asphalt pad of the amusement park was used as a helicopter pad during the decontamination efforts, so the liquidators tried to wash the contamination off of it, resulting in uneven patches of radiation surrounding the park. Plus of course there was the dust risen by the landing choppers.
There are still LOADS of places that you simply DO NOT TOUCH! when visiting, almost gives certain death (like cancer) and the likes.
"i've seen this, this is the playground" clarkson has been playing cod 4
😂😂 true
Or Stalker...........;)
jeremy said it one of the episodes thst he plays call of duty
"ive killed some russians here"
He said he plays CoD when they played Forza Horizon 3 :P
6:00 the fact that they did it in a cloudy day after rain close to dark hours, make this way more scary.
If it’s in a cloudy day, then radiation would literally had sprinkled on them
@@ferrariboy5647 Not how radiation works, especially this long after the incident, but since I assume you’re joking you can have it.
The fact they had to close the back doors I think adds to it, too. It feels more like a found footage movie when we get those shots.
Stop exaggerating ppl. Its not dangerous provided you take some measures.
Rainy day is actually better, as no dust kicks off, that could contain radio active particles
A cloudy day _or_ they just closed the camera by 2-3 f-stops.
Legend has it Clarkson is still in Chernobyl, thus why BBC ended his contract. Clarkson in the rest of Top Gear and The Grand Tour is just a mirage
Its all an illusion
@@themuffincat It's Jeremy Clarkson's Dutch cousin.
@@keiztrat lol
Nah, talk show episode about it is more enjoyable to think of
Talking about the shoes he was walking back in "I was told to throw them away but I didn't" "Well I hope you don't have them here tonight" "Uh, actually it was this pair"
I feel like this would've been much more challenging if completed today.
not if youre the russians
@@tommyg9719 Russians did the same challenge with their armored vehicles and convoys, but they ran out of fuel way before reaching this area.
@@Rysher735 they even dug trenches in the red Forrest
7:32 / 8:08 kreosan
Chernobyl in Popular Culture: A post apocalyptic hellscape where you could die any moment from radiation or mutants.
Chernobyl IRL: "Careful not to get separated from the tour group, you don't want to get lost in a foreign country now."
i checked it out on google maps and there's literally people just walking around
I mean, the reactor is sealed off now. It's much safer now than it was then.
(at least for the next 90 years before the arch needs to be replaced)
@@Axius27 they are accualy planing on removing it now to build a new one beacuse the old one isent gonna last a 100 years
@@one1kng997 The new one has been in its place since 2017 already
one:1 kng No?? They aren’t gonna remove a 1 billion dollar thing that has been finished and applied already..
7:45 actual footage of BBC dropping Clarkson
Then they later pushed him and he did a grand tour.
“It’s gone...”
coffeecat450 the radioactive stuff gone?
Liam Macdonald no ‘twas a joke of BBC leaving Jeremy behind, in reality the radiation is still quite present despite the fact that the protective dome around reactor number 4 was finished a few years ago. However living organisms that can withstand radiation are slowly starting to reclaim the area, the amount of damage that Chernobyl has done is not nearly as bad as Fukushima, as it’s still spreading radioactive isotopes into the Pacific Ocean causing further damage in the future... So anyway, cheers!
you probably forgot about this comment, but now I have the honor of presenting you with the 2000th like. Well played
The way they present the danger of the reactor core is simultaneously hilarious and chillingly scary.
meanwhile
"I still have 2 bars of fuel left"
The fact that going to a Alabama town was more dangerous then this tho
Clearly you never saw the episode where they dumped them in Iraq, unarmed in convertibles
this is technically more dangerous, they were driving just near to the exposed reactor core, under it there is the elephants foot. which has radiation unknown to science
@@k7r-n That's untrue. When the Elephant's Foot was discovered it gave out about 8000 roentgens. When Artur Korneyev visited it in 1996 it was only about tenth of that due to nuclear decay. It's still pretty radioactive but far from unknown to science.
@@adamgorski2610 Yes, it is known to science. I just didn't want to google it. I was too lazy. Thanks anyway!
Generally speaking, radiation doesn't get in a pickup and chase you.
*Police pulled Camera crew over*
Police: Why is that guy Zig-Zagging?
CameraCrew: I don't know, we were in the toilet.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
if he just said: "i'm trying not to reach Chernobyl" they would have understood immediately.
That is a good point. How DO you explain that sort of situation?
Did You not get the joke
@@sannidhyabalkote9536 Nothing wrong with that english.
This is genuinely one of the most chilling moments in Top Gear
How so?
The snow clearing episode was quite... chilling.
mandarin125 it’s just so frightening to see all that untouched city and so many people died there
@@Sclumsy 32 people died. It's a tragedy, but there are many worse disasters. A concentration camp, for example is chilling, and the fact that all major powers had them says a lot about human nature.
mandarin125 absolutely but it’s just chilling overall. There were far more tragic events but it’s jus that they are driving right through danger.
Genuinely one of the best segments they ever did, when they turned their hands to a drama they did it damn well instead of the normal comedy
Jeremy: ran out of fuel
James and the official cameramen: Well as you know, we are not the US marines, we leave a man behind
(not so) FUNNY FACT: The amusement park in Pripyat never unlocked it's doors. As you know, the explosion of Reactor 4 happened on April 26th, 1986. The amusement park was scheduled to open on May 1st, 1986
I think they did open it up after the explosion for a day or two whilst they were evacuating people. Trying to keep people calm and all that.
Didn't they open the doors on the day of the meltdown to attract attention away from the fire going on?
+tehcornflakes Live no it was open for only one day because the government told them to go there to wait untill they were evacuated and it did not explode it leaked.
+carton228 live It did open on the 27th for one hour though, It was open to distract people from the reactor blow whilst the evacuation buses arrived.
+Josh Dowda the reactor did indeed explode, it blew a hole clean out the roof
*Geiger counter intensifies*
"There it is."
*power plant emerges from the grey*
Well, that was an unexpectedly chilling moment.
Ikr. Doesn’t matter how many times I watch it.
Yup, all they needed for that moment was a soundtrack of a choir of little kids singing Frère Jacques.
@@cryhavoc8461 that would have ruined it
@@eebrohim7001 I agree, the silence is chilling
@@stayforthepeelpronpls4774 They did a great job with that. Must've been proud
Top 3 most terrifying sounds.
~Geiger counter.
~The siren of the Junkers Ju 87
~Hearing a knock on your bedroom door while you're rubbing one out.
I think something that’s under appreciated is whilst they do get a joke in Clarkson and May are actually sincere that the camera assistants stayed behind to actually carry on recording, I kinda appreciate that
"Comrade, we don't have the good Geiger counter"
"Is it in the safe?"
"No, Jeremy Clarkson has it"
Jeremy : "is that graphite on the ground?"
Some say the real Clarkson is still there
No thats not graphite legasov's say tjernobyl is gona end to day 30 years latet jeremy clarckson yeah but where are my neightbours 😂😂😂😂😂
@@jonatancools8844 you illiterate fuck
@@jonatancools8844 you're actually illiterate
imagine that there’s still some bodies buried somewhere inside that reactor, never to be recovered again
There is many scientists and firemen in there that could not be recovered due to the extremely high radiation. There is a story I read about when a scientist went to save his friend he was so irradiated that his hand burned into through his coat and clothing.
There is at least 1, one of the workers. Left entombed inside the sarcophagus in an extremely radioactive part of it.
Actually I think there's only one, Valery Khodemchuk. He was a pump operator and died during the explosion. He's still entombed in the rubble near reactor 4 inside the sarcophagus.
They are probably puddles
Poor Khodemchuk the engineer was never found; he was either obliterated or buried by the explosion. He's still under the rubble in what was the pump room.
I never thought that this video will make sense in 2022
yeah
Frr
7:32 That Soviet-era hammer and sickle on the roof of the building is probably the most subtle and yet terrifying scene in this video-even worse than the shot of the reactor itself. Just because, Ukraine is a country with a set of decommunization laws including ones that prohibit communist symbols, and yet that hammer and sickle-a hallmark of communism-remains situated on top of that dilapidated building the way it has been for probably decades, despite the modern decommunization laws. This just demonstrates how dangerous and lonely the region is, that even a decades-old symbol that's reviled in the country, hasn't been removed yet.
Considering that at the time this was posted there was a giant hammer and sickle _in the middle of the capital_ I have some doubt about the vigor they enforced those laws with. (It's gone now.)
I have to say, that scene before and after jeremy says "there it is!" really got my attention. I just love how the music matched the dramatic camera shots and that on time deafening squeak to match. Loved how that scene played out
FPSPhilippines reminds me of stranger things
The squeak sounds like an ear ringing.
stop being so cringey
@@a.3160 u mean me motherpants?
It creeps me out more than amusing
Jeremy: I’ve seen this (Ferris wheel)
Me: Modern Warfare flashbacks
thats the comment that i have been finding :)
oh yes :)
@Thomas Al-Mdanat i definitely agree with you on that
Oh man i played it yesterday
I played this game in 2009/10 probably and then this episode when it was released.. every time i see that wheel, i remember the mission
Music at 1:52 is _Midnight Train_ by Baltic Fleet.
Music at 6:03 is _Gemini_ by Boards of Canada.
No, Gemini starts at 6:39. Everything during their drive-by of reactor 4 is uncredited.
Running out of fuel while trying to get to Chernobyl?
Russia has entered the chat.
50,000 people used to live here.. now it's a ghost town
Keep low.
I love that game and there is the hotel and the playground that was in CoD 4
Hotel 'Policca'
The Pro pronounced as 'polissya
Lol i didint say nothing about the hotel s name lol i am croatian
Chernobyl seems like nicer version of Detroit.
hahaha xDD
*****
But for different reasons...
***** True story in both scenarios.
***** All things considered. I think I will take getting shot over radiation sickness.
Same here, Its a faster death.
5:58 was the most creepiest climax of this episode and more creepier when they entered Pripyat
"there it is"
Fun fact: You can actually go all the way up to the reactor 4 sarcophagus for up to 2-3 days without protection and leave without any long term damage to your health.
I'd rather eat glass than try that.
6:03 Idk why but that gave me cold chills
That's the point of the audio editing
matthew david jarvis asshole
If you go back through the old seasons and some of james mays toy stories whoever does sound and music uses game soundtracks it seems more like an easter egg to Stalker shadow of Chernobyl and the enemy the controller that does that same ear piercing screech.
TheReal Doom same
The most terrifying part is knowing the chaos, destruction and death that ONE REACTOR did to the land, and how much radiation is STILL in that building.
And it's worse when u think about the fact that the only thing standing between us and the longest and deadliest disaster the earth has seen since the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, is concrete, bad welding from the rush of containing the radioactive waste, and now a big movable dome of sheet metal that is LITERALLY on 2 train tracks!
All we need is for a tornado to hit anywhere near reactor 4 Or the Chernobyl NPP and WE ALL PAY THE PRICE!
Good news everyone. The Dacia Sandero acts as a radiation shield.
Great! Now, the Toyota Urban Cruiser...
Or simply, Jeremy May doesnt' turn on the Geiger counter!
Excellent... Now...
Oh no. Anyway...
But will it work as a blast 🛡
5:46 That Geiger Counter ticking is so fricking creepy
Top Gear Russian Army
🤝
Running out of petrol in Chernobyl
Good one
Out of gas, missiles, generals, morale, ammunition and men and yet still the war isn't over. Interesting isn't it?.
New TopGear should consider a trip to Chernobyl in roofless rialtos, just make sure only Evans goes
XD
Get Chris to have a look at the elephants foot...
In the reactor
Ha!
TONIGHT: I get leukemia. Matt grows a second head. And Sabine goes bald
6:03
My blood ran cold.
same
It's honestly spooky just watching the video. I can't imagine how spooky it is to see for real.
my body stop moving after 20 secomds
Same here :O
Yes
This hits different
BBC : beware we are taking you to a very dangerous place.
The trio : Oh is it ? Well how dangerous is it ?
BBC : yes.
Well, it was safer than Argentina.
@@JamaicanCastle LMFAO
Not great but not terrible...
When you think about it, this is actually educating people about what can waste fuel.
i learned from this episode
Sri-Kaushal Ramana I now know I need to tape my doors and not swerve
not taking care of your car also wastes fuel. i worn out damaged engine from lack of care uses more gas than a perfectly maintained engine.
Thank you to the people who have built the ark, thank you to the three men who went under chernobyl to drain the water under the facility, thank you to the liquidators for decontamonating the city, thank you to the firefighters who put out the blazing fire and sufferd an annual exposure to radiation and thank you to the 3 men who had 90 seconds to clear as much graphite from the roof as possible
the best part about this whole episode is at 7:30. The drone flying above the buildings. Want to know why the shot is so fuzzy? Well, it isn't. What you see in that shot is radiation. This is by far the craziest thing TopGear has ever done I reckon and it just settles in how massive this disaster really was
i don't think thats radiation. what it most likely is is the small camera sensor doesn't do that well in low light.
@@lanczenbela890 Im pretty sure it's thing about how cameras will get incredibly fuzzy if there is extreme radiation in the area
@@SASMADBRUV7 they will get fuzzy but it has to be a lot of radiation. i don't think where they flying there was enough radiation to affect the sensor.
*driving past one of the most radioactive place on earth
Clarkson: 👁👄👁
I mean what else are you supposed to do?
Summary of the comment section:
- people that don't know shit about radiation and are scared to death for no reason
- "I played CoD4"
- people that know shit about radiation and would like to go and visit Chernobyl
Dont forget the useless facts
***** fact: this is an useless fact
And me: people that know shit about radiation and already visited Chernobyl 😂
Good god the words "an useless" piss me the hell off, but strangely, its correct.
and, me who does not play CoD but knows there shit, and would like to go to chernobyl
7:18 "50 000 people used to live here. But now, it's a ghost town"
😔
Modern warfare
+Fin Harrison i dont think so
***** cyka blyat
+Company007 Exactly what I was thinking
You *really* dont want to run out of petrol there now
6:43 "Gemini" by Boards of Canada if anyone is wondering
This video got me all ghillied up
Michael Benedict lol
a bottle o' bleach !
Michael Benedict Cod 4 references we OGs xD
It should actually make you Breeki
#noscope
Say whatever, I really want to visit that place personally.
There *are* hotels in the zone but you can only stay a week and they're on the fringes of it.
I don't need to stay in the zone. I can just drive there from outside.
Attila Rischt
I think the closet place you could would be Kiev; 60 miles away from the border.
That's good enough
there are organized trips to Chernobyl by travel companies from Kiev to exclusion zone, apparenlty you can even volunteer for a price to cleanup Pripyat
“Come on petrol, sod off”
😂
Fun fact: Most of the exclusion zone is safe, apart from the area in and near Reactor 4.
I would LOVE to be able to get a permit to explain the remains of Chernobyl's reactor incident
Jeremy Clarkson: stops
Random armed Ukrainians: get out of here stalker
Оружие убрал
I said come in! Dont just stand there!
"What are you Waiting for, Stalker?"
this did not age well.
Of course James chose, none other than, a DACIA SANDERO!!!
it did a great job considering...lol
GREAT NEWS EVERYONE.
Everyone reads this in a James May voice
MrTURBOJOHN or professor farnsworth
I own the new Dacia Sandero Facelift of 2017. This car is great.
Red Card I
interesting fact: the Ferris wheel is made of metal that has a slight magnetic charge which attracted the radioactive fallout so it registers a little higher than the surrounding area. Also there are truck grave yards there full of trucks broken down and/or decommissioned due to radioactive damage. their wheels and treads have tonnes of little radioactive bits of the core of reactor 4 on them. Super high on the radioactive scale.
What's really interesting is you'll notice the arc that Jeremy was talking about (The massive metal structure that looks kind of like an aircraft hanger at 6:04) is noticeably not over reactor 4 (the one that exploded and caused the disaster). This is because the radiation around the reactor building was so high it wasn't safe for workers to be around. So they built it and then used rails to move it into position after it was done.
While the Soviets did build their own arc back in the 80s, it was always a temporary measure to quickly put up and later have a more long-term one built. Thankfully the new arc war finished in 2017 and is designed to last 100 years.
Which petrolhead watching this after HBO Chernobyl?
Kis Tibor 👋😊
Right here ✋
meeee
I came here for some comic relief XD
666th like
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Legend says he's still waiting for help.
+Clorox Bleach What are you doing here Bleach ? xd
That's why they stopped Top Gear, they lost him in chernobyl
LOL xD hahahahahahh I highly doubt that since the radiation levels at the time are much slightly lower so he was able to make it out of Chernobyl but not without getting a small exposure to radiation.
Tachanka only you mighty lord will know your LMG controls all of time and space
The lord and saviour Tachanka is waiting with him though
Russian Army: *I should try this!*
Despite having been driven through the exclusion zone, James' Dacia is still taxed and tested, and presumably still being driven on UK roads.
I wonder if the current owner, knows about the car's glowing history? 😁
I'm amazed it doesn't fail it's emissions test. 😁
I wish i could go there. This place looks amazing :D It's actually pretty safe there right now. Radiation is of course higher but you must stay there for days or even weeks to get the dangerous amount of radiation.
Me too, it would be so interesting!
just come to Ukraine, there are a lot of such tours from Kiev.
***** well actually the only thing that makes Chernobyl special is radiation. Actually there are a lot of abandoned military cities which look pretty much the same. That's why the guy reacted that way
Well, you have until June of next year. That's when the arc is supposed to be finished and cover the reactor forever.
Anton Kukoba Top advice is not like Ukraine is a war zone or something
If they drove a bit more to the West they wouldve seen Zachaev Lose His Arm
Smurphy this is the most underrated comment ever
Zachaev needed a Volkswagen Scirocco diesel.
"The brand new Scirocco diesel, for the people who value their arms"
i see what you did there
A wee bit of name communism here I see
@@smurphy2146 INTRUDER ALERT!
Just a quick fact. Every single "tick" sound you hear from the Geiger counter is ONE radioactive partial being picked up. ONE!
The winter fog, the desolation, the Geiger counter ticks and the sound effects - all come together to make this one of the creepiest and memorable moments in Top Gear history...
Music at the end is Gemini - Boards of Canada
so what's the name of the song at 1:53?
JFLChanneL Midnight Train - Baltic Fleet
holy shit podel
Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison from BOC are Gods in the art of music.
Cheers Podel!
I was just a lieutenant back then. Doing some wet work.
Sam Carpenter these are truly the best comments and replies I've seen on CZcams
Best.Comment.Chain.EVER
"Thats a bloody convention out there"
“Look at this....50,000 people used to live here....now it’s a ghost town”
agreed
I love the mood when they enter the exclusion zone. And as the Geiger counter begins to click, that tension goes up extremely high. Then when they got to the remains of the reactor, going by the buildings and that playground… wow.
What a car show.
4:31 Can someone tell me what soundtrack this is. I believe that it is from STALKER but I can't find it.
6:04 *sends chills down my spine*
Masashi Iino same
That's kind of the point. It's called 'dramatic editing'
mandarin125 of course it is, no need to be a dick about it. Dude was just sayin they did a good job
Same
That moment when the Geiger counter went from constant clicking to a constant stream was truly horrifying
I love how this video just ends when he says 'It's gone' and the film crew proceeds to drive off, abandoning him in a radioactive wasteland
Who would’ve thought that in just 7 years the Russia military would try the same challenge
And actually conquer it
@@themuhammad1I wouldn't be so sure about that
@@ignorantethan656 yet due to my connections... I am sure
Ironically radiation in Pripyat is lower than on their flight from London to Ukraine...
? What do you mean. I'm interested
The background radiation in Pripyat is significantly higher than the global average. However when you fly at high altitudes you are exposed to more background radiation from space, radiation which you are protected from by the atmosphere at ground level. @@nordicphyromaniac
@@alfredlarsson1127 thanks
@@alfredlarsson1127 oh yes
Of course
OhFishyFish depends what part of Pripyat you’re going into, some parts of it are highly radioactive, like the basement of the hospital where all the firefighters gear was dumped or areas of the town conjoining the red forest which is in particular areas, highly radioactive (between 1-20 milisiverts per hour), but generally most of it is relatively low.
What's Jeremy so afraid of? It's only 3.6 Roentgen there!
Not great, not terrible.
@@ozmond2600 beat me to it
Still, could be worse.
That’s actually quite significant
6:02 Clarkson's face is one of terrified awe. In fact all of their faces were that. This scene was genuinely scary
Also, the sarcophagus was not completed and put into place yet. So it was NOT as safe back then.
"Sit rep, Richard Hammond is a b---h" - Jeremy Clarkson 3:25
Its 3:28
Dyatlov was on 25 kill streak this dude called it in straight away
LMFAO amazing comment
Oh.My.God. Best comment I’ve ever seen, well done mate
At 7:32 you can see the iconic hammer and sickle
It's a very Masonic/Saturn symbol. Communism was always just a reflection of the Beehive System we have in the west, all planned by Rome.
That’s a great way to put it
*soviet national anthem plays*
Succ Lord
We can comrade*
Succ Lord *our iconic chisel and sickle
Clarkson: "it's gone"
James May: My Car Is a Worth Shield
Russian BBC Cameramen: Leaves Clarkson Behind
CZcams recommendations have a sick sense of humour these days...
you should use RadAway, IMMEDIATLY
Haha
#fallout3/4
+SuperSilver301 Pop some RadX first. :>
+SuperSilver301 If only that was real. lets start making fallout chems
+SuperSilver301 and Rad-X beforehand!
3:37 - Me in a maths exam
Same
7:24 . Over 200 counts per second, not great, not terrible
7:03 Top Gear used a Boards of Canada track? No way