Posted on 06/08/2019 8:51:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Chernobyl, site of the world's deadliest nuclear accident, is now a surprisingly popular tourist destination.
Ukrainian officials opened the area to tourists nearly a decade ago, declaring that visits were safe, though tours would be strictly regulated.
When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, it released deadly levels of radiation, but radioactive fallout wasn't distributed evenly across the surrounding area, due to weather conditions and changing winds. Locations that were farther away from the reactor became radioactive hotspots, "and there were villages that were reasonably close to the plant that didn't get much contamination," …
Even within villages, radiation was unequally distributed and could vary from street to street...
An average one-day visit to Chernobyl begins and ends with passage through an official checkpoint for dosimetry control, or radiation measurement, and there is an additional radiation checkpoint midway through the tour...
Visitors may not touch any structures or plants or remove anything from the zone, and they are prohibited from sitting or placing any camera equipment on the ground...
An estimated 60,000 tourists visited Chernobyl in 2018, Anton Taranenko, the chief of the Tourism and Promotion Department of the Kiev City State Administration, recently said at a news briefing; of all the most popular tourist destinations in Ukraine, "Chernobyl zone is the leader,"...
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I think it’s good...but I worry that the HBO show is not imparting the right takeaway message... people leave just thinking that ‘nuclear power could be bad’ or that impending ‘climate change’ is the next disaster. (According to the show’s liberal creator.)
Not about the roots and evils of the Soviet system and why it collapsed.
I’ve read some glowing reviews of this tour!
“Is It Safe to Visit Chernobyl?”
I’d rather visit there than a DNC executive meeting.
Look what the radiation did to that guy with the camera’s hair!
“I’ve read some glowing reviews of this tour!”
I’ll nominate that for Post of the Day!
If the place was littered with pigeons blood rubies and uncut 10 karat diamonds, and you could take as much as you could carry, I STILL would not be interested.
I don’t know.
Is it safe to dance with a Grizzly?
Might be. Might not be.
I watched that Chernobyl series.
That fireman’s skin fell off.
Probably really good makeup, but still awful to look at.
Let’s see.....Grand Canyon.....Hawaii.....Alaska......
Plenty of safer things to go and see.
I came across s this web site years ago. It’s from a woman who used ride her motorcycle through the ghost towns and document the history.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
Unless I’m a scientist, or have Russian family to reconnect with, no. I have no reason to go there.
Do they have T-Shirts in English?
“I went to Chernobyl and it was a Blast!”
Radiation doses of 50 to 200 mSv can lead to chromosomal damage, while doses of 200 to 1,000 mSv can cause a temporary drop in white blood cell count; serious radiation sickness sets in at about 2,000 mSv, and death follows within days of exposure to 10,000 mSv, according to the Atomic Archive.
Soon after the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, dozens of cleanup workers at the plant were exposed to radiation levels as high as 8,000 to 16,000 mSv, the equivalent of 80,000 to 160,000 chest X-rays. This led to at least 134 workers developing serious radiation sickness and caused 28 deaths.
Is it safe to visit Chernobyl?
I don't know because this article doesn't tell me what the CURRENT mSv levels are.
Or “ I Went To Chernobyl And Came Back With A Healthy Glow!”
The video is enough for me.
Chernobyl translates "wormwood".
I'm curious if you actually watched the show. Because what I got from watching it was that the problem was not nuclear power in general, but how the corruption and dysfunction of the totalitarian state created an accident that never should have happened.
The climax of the show was Legasov's testimony at the trial, and he specifically noted the differences between how the West designed and operated its reactors, and what happened in the Soviet Union.
Overall, the show was a searing indictment of the Soviet Union.
A Russian girl, touring the area a few years after it happened, was fascinating reading. She was posting under the name KiddOfSpeed, I believe.
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