My engineering lecturer at university used to be a public works engineer. He and a colleague lost a similar caesium vail during construction of the city bus station in the 1970s. They shut the site and combed the area with a Geiger counter for three days straight to find it again!

@friedrichjunzt

21 күн бұрын

In sowjet russia, just like today, human lifes do not count much.

@RoundShades

18 күн бұрын

This is why they combed so hard.

@CrazyBear65

11 күн бұрын

Did you mean _cesium vial?_

@stephweasenforth7891

3 күн бұрын

I have just one question. How do you “accidentally” lose a cesium vial?

@Peppermint0M

3 күн бұрын

@@stephweasenforth7891 The device it was part of could be taken apart for transporting. Apparently it shouldn't have let the radiation source out, but if you move the parts in the wrong way, it breaks. This was in the 60s, so a lot of the Fool had to happen for fool-proofing.

So, long story short, need to own a Geiger counter.

@juanmacias5922

23 күн бұрын

Apparently checking for mold, lead, and asbestos as well. xD

@daveyjones8969

23 күн бұрын

Nowadays, you should legitimately check products made in China...

@riripari2042

23 күн бұрын

​@@daveyjones8969 I've pretty much given up because I keep seeing reports about just about everything. Micro plastics in drinking water. Recalls for numerous products. It just never stops. You gotta worry about everything at this point.

@VNeto94

22 күн бұрын

​@@riripari2042 we have to embrace the chaos, suffering and death while trying to avoid it. The best strategy is to keep everything as natural as possible. We gotta do what we can.

@The-One-and-Only100

22 күн бұрын

A scintillation detector is better than a geiger counter

Oh boy this was my final essay for college report

@World-8.1B

23 күн бұрын

This was uploaded 2 seconds ago

@YourDearestSmiley

23 күн бұрын

@@World-8.1Bthey mean that they made the final essay before the video. As in this “WAS” my final essay.

@World-8.1B

23 күн бұрын

@@YourDearestSmiley I don't understand

@HowManyPoco

23 күн бұрын

They wrote an essay about what Brew is covering. ​@@World-8.1B

@alexaalford493

23 күн бұрын

@@World-8.1Bso

Despite its danger, humans have no way to sense radiation. We can't see it, we can't feel it, we can't smell it. So, it leaves us very vulnerable to instances where sources of radiation are where they are unexpected.

@ferretyluv

23 күн бұрын

I mean, you can feel radiation. It feels warm. If you’ve ever had one of those portable X-rays, the limb that got xrayed will feel warm afterwards, like you set it in front of a radiator.

@nathanlong8295

23 күн бұрын

Radiation can only be felt but not noticed. It all depends on results and testing.

@daveyjones8969

23 күн бұрын

You can notice it if your cellphone footage is grainy, you just need to know what to look for. *There's also that fluid that shows the trails of radioactive particles, but it's probably easier to just get a Geiger counter lol.

@daveyjones8969

23 күн бұрын

​@@ferretyluvThat could be, let's say, weaponized in the right hands.

@seer-9126

23 күн бұрын

​@@nathanlong8295When the gamma radiation is so high that you can feel it, you know it's too late

Theres a neighborhood in Nevada that was similar. Within a year of moving there, almost half of the original residents died or were dying from cancer. Supposedly, it was built on testing ground for radiation...

@jai_lyricz

17 күн бұрын

Wow really more details plz. I hope they were paid

@Nesany

16 күн бұрын

bro is gatekeeping the name of the neighbourhood

@vapingcat1885

16 күн бұрын

@unhinged_minds Just google Downwinders

@mj-rg9kp

16 күн бұрын

I used to live in Nevada, which neighborhood?

@copeland7225

16 күн бұрын

Developers got a killer deal on the land

Unbelievable that something so small, could have such devastating impacts. On a happier note, the Aussies impressed by ensuring the same thing didn't happen to them. Scary stuff... great Narration, my friend. 👍👍

@daveyjones8969

23 күн бұрын

Almost every modern nation has orphan source incidents, including Australia. Just with a cursory search, I found a report from 2021 that said a potential orphan source is lost every THREE DAYS in Australia alone. You should check these things before bragging about your country's superiority. *In fact, taking pride in how your country turned out is a waste, since YOU didn't contribute to how it has developed over time. I'm Canadian, but I don't pretend I was part of the liberation of the Netherlands in WWII...

@luvghd

22 күн бұрын

@@daveyjones8969wow why so bitter? calm down!

@graenicholls4657

21 күн бұрын

@@daveyjones8969 Dude, his username is USArmyvet91... I don't think he was bragging about his country in any way. Learn to read. Also, I'd love to see the link to this 'report'. seeing as you make the claim, you should provide a link.

@edsanville

19 күн бұрын

Luckily, the fact that the orphan sources emit a lot of radiation tends to help us to locate them more easily.

@FKEY

17 күн бұрын

That's what she said.

Reminds me of a House episode. When a small metal device caused a boy, his father, and friends to suffer radiation poisoning. Scariest moment for me was when House pulled out the Geiger and it started going haywire.

@daveyjones8969

23 күн бұрын

Don't remember that, but was it a piece of scrap someone was carrying around? Happens a lot, actually. "Orphan sources" they call them. Also, that's an "evacuate the hospital" moment, as opposed to the usual quarantine (half the time initiated by House on purpose lol...love that guy).

@gerardomacias7370

23 күн бұрын

@@daveyjones8969 yeah. In the episode they thought it was a STD he got over seas with his friend but turns out it was a piece from his dad scrap yard. His dad intended it as a keychain/family keepsake. Turns out it was part of a device used in wells to measure depth or something. And the amount of radiation he took was equivalent to 100 x-rays. Which is super scary to hear.

@daveyjones8969

23 күн бұрын

@@gerardomacias7370 I kinda figured. During my 20s, I led a real rough and tumble lifestyle. I got into a fair bit of fights, but also did incredibly dangerous things while camping, like tripping on a log in the fire to have it land on top of me, but I couldn't throw it right away because I was surrounded by tents with people in them lol. Second degree burns all over both forearms. Anyway, I was getting a lot of x rays as a precaution, and I asked the radiologist if I was getting a dangerous amount. He starts saying how it's nearly impossible for someone to "overdo it". Then he looked at my chart and his eyes went wide, and he changed his tune to "Actually, you may want to slow down..." 😂

@violetaura9007

21 күн бұрын

I was just thinking about that episode! It was so sad and heartbreaking

@arsonfly

21 күн бұрын

That was uranium, wasn't it?

new fear unlocked!

@artbk

21 күн бұрын

almost every video, tho not for me on this particular case, because I was terrified of radiation for most of mmy life, thanks to that leaky nuclear submarine movie

@tharuka25

17 күн бұрын

😅😅

This is my nightmare. I don’t live in a nice apartment. Whenever I go back home I can’t breathe and I always get sick. I can’t afford anything nicer. I’m so worried.

@enbykeith

17 күн бұрын

Likely mold. Mold test kits are cheap online!

@stuartpenman6387

12 күн бұрын

i agree its most likely mold , get it checked

@jamesharrison2763

11 күн бұрын

Ventilation for mold and keeping dust levels low will help.

Honestly it’s smart to own a Geiger counter for stuff like this. They really aren’t that expensive, considering they can see something lethal, that your eyes cannot.

Was the company responsible for the quarry held accountable at all? All those people who suffered.... it's so sad. :(

@marchduck2958

23 күн бұрын

A company. In USSR. 🙄 No one held accountable for this

@marchduck2958

23 күн бұрын

No one did

@heliosgnosis2744

22 күн бұрын

@@marchduck2958 Even if this happened in the US, this is the late 1980s not much if anything would have been done, maybe after a decade or so but even then, in the end just wasted life is all that would be the end result. This world is the problem not a certain nation., take a look around at common ppl anywhere, those who so rule them yeah, they are not there to make life better for the common person anywhere or place on the globe/map.

@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

22 күн бұрын

Yeh but I understand their mindset ​@@heliosgnosis2744

@marchduck2958

16 күн бұрын

@@heliosgnosis2744 , lol, you assumed that I didn't mean. I meant there were no companies back then as we understand them in the capitalist manner. I'm Russian, so I heard about such cases. Crimes are either punished or not, in any sphere in USSR you could have the whole administration or some usual worker punished for something less dangerous like this, so it wasn't about time, it was done, as I think, to not taint the image of the government. I share your worldview from what I see, but I think that any crime should have and investigation upon it ending with the fair punishment or justification

Similar thing happened at a coal mine I work at. A few decades ago (before I was ever on site) one of the maintenance guys found a shiny piece of metal. He put it in his pocket and forgot about it. It turned out to be from one of the sensors, and was radioactive enough that the poor bugger lost most of his leg. He was otherwise okay.

I find it wild that they couldn't find the vial of an element that emanates so much radiation, I'd think they'd be able to use Geiger counters, or some sort of measuring device to find it.

@friedrichjunzt

21 күн бұрын

They just didnt care.

@Kalvinjj

21 күн бұрын

As the radiation received drops with the square of the distance, you'll end up having very little information in a wide area if you don't have a clue where it is. If it's far enough, you'll not get much above the background radiation, if you have a good guess where it fell, and it didn't sink into the ground or such, you would find it quickly enough but otherwise it is really a needle in a haystack.

In México there is actually a story pretty similar to this, Cobalt 60 ended up used to make building material, and till today there is no idea where those materials are

Ah, Cobalt 60. A substance so dangerous that its casing is marked "Drop and Run."

@bleukreuz

15 күн бұрын

I assume it is to warn random person who might find it so they know to get away from immediately.

Great to see the old format!!

Father: Please! We have evidence. Our children and the children before them all died of cancer in that room. Please investigate! Government: Eh. Give us two years to decide…

@jackr2287

21 күн бұрын

Soviet government, no less.

@friedrichjunzt

21 күн бұрын

In Sowjet russia, you can be glad anything was done at all.

@Prehistoric_YT

20 күн бұрын

@@friedrichjunztTrue

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

18 күн бұрын

I think all government just next Budgeting for next year

Does that mean the wall from spiderman was bitten by a radioactive wall?

@T-J-S

23 күн бұрын

U

@Ben-CipherK.OStyle

23 күн бұрын

Congratulations

@yangliu6901

23 күн бұрын

yo bro congratulations for being the first comment Edit: I see what you did there, clever

@T-J-S

23 күн бұрын

This comment was literally "D" before he edited it. Great way to be the first comment lol

@antipathetic9603

23 күн бұрын

Body wash

This is probably the saddest story I've ever heard

I’m happy to have the little chibis back. They’re so cute and just feel more personable.

For god sakes this guy can make literally anything sound dangerous. Rip for the families too.

@thelibyanplzcomeback

22 күн бұрын

Nah, that's the news media's job.

@andiftheycallmeaSLUT

19 күн бұрын

are gamma rays not dangerous???

@levithebaddest2369

18 күн бұрын

Wut? A radioactive apartment is definitely dangerous

@SusLord633

18 күн бұрын

@@levithebaddest2369 No I was talking about normal apartments. I think it's crazy how he can find stories involving death with like anything possible.

I think my next door neighbor apt is cursed too. People keep dying. Not from radiation poisoning but various other things. I'm glad I don't live in that apartment.

@bekabeka71

14 күн бұрын

Is it the soviet building?

I haven't been recommended your stuff in a while. I thought you stopped posting. Checking your channel, that's not the case, and I've got a lot to catch up on. Hype

Yay!!! Thank you so much for bringing back the amazing animations!!!!! Can't tell you how happy this makes me 🥰

I'm just surprised no lawsuit followed.

@AmaroqStarwind

23 күн бұрын

It was the Soviet Union.

@rine3440

23 күн бұрын

I'm not, lawsuits in eastern europe, especially in ussr weren't as common and easily filed as they were in the US back in the day ( i have no idea where You are from but im guessing US). They would often end in the destruction of the plaintiff's career or would just be covered up as file mistakes or something else.

@CookiePieMonster

22 күн бұрын

@@AmaroqStarwind Ah, I definitely missed that part lol, I was using this as background noise.

@CookiePieMonster

22 күн бұрын

@@rine3440 Yeah, I misunderstood where this took place.

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

18 күн бұрын

​​@@CookiePieMonster the house is Government own. How do you sue a government-owned house

oh my, i better be careful with my 500 containers of ccm 137

@daveyjones8969

23 күн бұрын

Especially if you ordered bulk from China...they're the one product that probably ISN'T radioactive 😂

Always a good day when Brew posts :D

Why did the Soviets mess up with radioactive material so often?

@marchduck2958

23 күн бұрын

No them only, though. It's just easier to attract lots of attention after messing up with radioactive materials

8:09 If the tiniest amount of radioactive material is dangerous, then what about the six NUKES lost to date?

@CMStrawbridge

23 күн бұрын

Oh, we're all constantly being irradiated for sure, just some more than others

@ferretyluv

23 күн бұрын

These vials are concentrated. Nukes are massive and won’t fission until they explode.

@poka26ev2

23 күн бұрын

@@ferretyluv I know that the radiation from the nuke is not a big hazard unless eaten, but nukes overtime decays and particles ends up in the water

@Slyfoxx

21 күн бұрын

​@@poka26ev2if it makes you feel any better 5/6 of the lost nukes are located in the ocean, so they're essentially speed running that water contamination lol

Great video; not the first time I've heard of this event, but you did an excellent job with it. Also: Where's Quiz? Bring her back!

I swear everything can give you cancer at this point 😭🙏

@yuukanee

23 күн бұрын

yes, existing is just causing cancer to you, just that yoyr inmune system is stronger, but cancerigens just make it more cancer than you inmune system can digest

@Somnus_et_Somnia

23 күн бұрын

That is correct from medical point of view. It just needs the adquate substace to be activated. Those are different for different people.

@ItzTerraYT

23 күн бұрын

And that is why cures for cancers are a pretty high priority.

@GabrielleTheGreat0718

21 күн бұрын

Fr

@dx-ek4vr

17 күн бұрын

Being born gives you cancer

A new video from Brew! Yes!

Someone needs to make this a movie!

Hey Brew...good vid dude 👍😎

Note to self: avoid any building numbered 7

@iamhungey12345

23 күн бұрын

Especially in a Communist country.

@daveyjones8969

23 күн бұрын

My lucky number is 13. It's also considered a lucky number in hockey, and was my favorite player's number (Mats Sundin) so maybe I'm biased lol.

@heliosgnosis2744

22 күн бұрын

@@daveyjones8969 13 was only made unlucky by superstitious medieval religious leaders and public a like, 13 full moons a year, 13 is the array of a witch's coven, the Knights Templar were first attacked by King Phillip IV of France and the Pope on Friday the 13th, 13 Zodical Signs, and I can keep going and going. I love the number 13 myself, the History of it makes it even better.

@Hllee6428

15 күн бұрын

7 is a sacred number though!

@SalfordMatt

14 күн бұрын

@@Hllee6428 not anymore for me, it’s banished!!!!

brew: this building will take everything you love away from you Me: that's sounds like a crazy ex-

@PerceptionVsReality333

23 күн бұрын

Like my 1st ex wife, but for my sanity's sake I let her take almost everything house included as long as she went away.

Omg didn’t know people outside of kramatorsk know this story lol. When I lived in kramatorsk I was afraid that my own apartment had some sort of radioactive material in my walls

Can you do a video about the rescue of a guy named subhash who fell in a deep hole (900ft+) in the Guna caves (Tamil Nadu, India) and got rescued by his friend? It happened in 2006. It got adapted into a movie (Manjummel Boys)

Very sad. Reminds me of the Love Canal neighborhood, in New York State. It was a housing development built on land that had been a dumping ground for all kinds of industrial waste. Sometime in the 70s.

Excellent video, one small bit. You said "Donet sik" it's more like "Doh neh tsk" All one syllable of course, spaces to help seperate sounds. Beautiful work everywhere else.

Oh my God how sad is that, those poor families

Uhh... When are you gonna drink your coffee?

new fear unlocked: getting cancer from walls

I use cesium powered clocks in my time distortion unit. Building them was very tricky but if you know what youre doing, its quite easy to assemble and easy to handle.

Cancer apartment sounds horrific

@07:07 wow this is incredible and so sad!!!@ ive noticed being sicker respiratory symptoms since moving into my apt.....

@Xnoob545

16 күн бұрын

Check for mold

I played the game which plot was based on this story, I found it on Steam and that's how I learned about this case in Kramatorsk. The game is super good but idk if it has English language, it's called "Bright lights of Svetlov"

I feel good about the Geiger counter I own out of paranoia

If you go somewhere and your body start to vibrate but you don't hear loud music or humming or you smell petroleum, leave that area asap. Some people E can detect poison without equipment.

Yikes, I live in Western Australia and never heard of that!

@arch1107

20 күн бұрын

ukraine in in the 80, of course no one did

Australia managed to search miles and spent days to find that deadly material. But at the quarry, they couldn't be bothered to search 1 quarry with the proper equipment? It sounds like they just did a regular search, and didnt use detection eqiuptment.

Hey, brew, have you made any videos on night terrors

Thats tragic 😢😢😰😰😭😭

now I know to be careful when choosing an apartment building and never going in floors number 5 and 8 again

Ohhhh, I am from this city, yeah, we heard about that, it was ussr times … so scary Building made with concrete panels, and when workers made that panel, they dropped radioactive element in raw concrete mass

I was thinking it was something else, steel that had inadvertently been contaminated with radioactive materials that was used in constructing buildings, turning them into radioactive hotboxes of death, but, this just seems far worse given that it was pure bad luck that the radioactive thing was sat so close to childrens' beds in a wall... :S

Today I learned that Bean is extremely radioactive 👀

@saphiremeadows4829

22 күн бұрын

Hard to believe something as cute as Bean is dangerously radioactive lol. And someone as panophobic as Brew doesn't care?

hi stew brew

That’s soviet union for you. - We have lost an extremely dangerous item, what should we do, should we call the people with radiation sensing equipment who could find it? - No, are you insane? Search for it with your bare hands and continue to work! Of course it was just swept under the carpet and never reported. That’s what they’ve done or at least tried to do with every incident back then.

This was rough! But that is the cutest hazmat suit ever!😅

no worries, the apartment flattened by russia already

@lucaskluender7301

10 күн бұрын

😂

@unknownguy637_roblox_pro

10 күн бұрын

👍🇷🇺

@Seenu_4

9 күн бұрын

Slava russiya

omg you should cover the mit "building 20" also known as "the magical incubator"

I love orphan source stories

Wtf, this is actually insane. Woah.

Wow, such a tiny lil thing.....

history at a school ❌ this guy ✅

the man on a photo at 4:03 is not a radiologist. he is an urologist from Belarus and has nothing to do with that story.

Okay, now who left the demon core in that apartment

Similar thing in soviet regions, or at least here in Hungary, they made houses of radioactive slag, it wasnt worse, but over time, you can get your life expectancy reduced. I think it was linked to smelteries.

@RyolithRandil

8 күн бұрын

One more reason nobody is eager to rejoin Orcland.

6:50 Welcome

How is hot water and a working elevator cause for excitement?

@trashAndNoStar

22 күн бұрын

cause it was new and uncommon in 1980 USSR?

@carv7374

20 күн бұрын

Heck, at this moment in time there is still a lot of people who don’t have a department and let alone any kind of water

Hehehe Got the notification and clicked on it

This is so sad 😞

Oh no. It wasn't even the type that entitles them to financial compensation this time! Unfortunate.

@arch1107

20 күн бұрын

no ammount of money can replace so many dead people, it doesnt matter, what matters is that source was found and no one will get radiation from it again

Wow, it's so SCARY & GROSS! ☹☹😢😢😾😾

Hi brew

New landlord of this apartment: "now now, this apartment is perfectly safe to rent now, it's not cursed.......who left a demon core here?" ☠☠☠☠

No one bringing up Brew's radioactive tardigrade?

the thing in the tank looks like a tick

Bro I wanna make this an essay for school

Ah cancer Time to learn what else to worry about for my upcoming job

Me watching on a CRT monitor: GOD SAVE ME

My first thought was with narrowed eyes: 😒ASBESTOSSSSSSSSSS

@jessica_entrepreneur

15 күн бұрын

Ugh that was my first thought too 😫

0:07 what sound effect you use?

This guy really deserves more attention

Working elevator and hot water. Amazing, I have to move out of my villa with cold water.

How does a solid metal piece went through processing facility of cement ?

ok and this is currently happening in North Carolina at NCSU- Poe hall is giving former students cancer

In India they say this is cursed

How tragic

New fear unlocked

The incident in Western Australia is appalling. The radiation source had been missing for 2 weeks before anyone even noticed.

New fear unlocked... 😭

There is even a game based on this story, called Bright Lights of Svetlov

rip to the victims of the ussr's shortcuts

Talk about bad luck...

Let me guess, radiation poisoning. That's why I get a geiger counter of my own.

that colbalt was like a needle in a haystack

I have the luxury to be owning a house an apartment an a cottage in the countryside 👌🏼

I thought it’d be asbestos..