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The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (then part of the Soviet Union). It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in all the history. On April 26, 1986 shortly after 01:23 a.m., reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near Pripyat, had a fatal meltdown. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area, including the nearby town of Pripyat. Four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. Contaminated rain fell as far away as Ireland and large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia had to be evacuated, with over 336,000 people resettled. According to official post-Soviet data, about 60% of the fallout landed in Belarus. About 135,00 people were evacuated from a 30-km radius around the plant, with the peripheral areas remaining at a high risk of radioactive exposure. Over the following years about 600,000 people known as "the liquidators" worked on clean-up operations inside the 30-km zone. Chernobyl unit 4 is now enclosed in a large concrete shelter which was erected quickly to allow continuing operation of the other reactors at the plant. Is the stay in Chernobyl zone dangerous? Yes, in the same way as in any other place in the world. The radiation is high only in some places, which can be easily avoided. A two-day stay in these places will radiate the human body with the same amount of X-rays as a medical screening or several hours spent in an airplane. Tour Schedule:
Registration starts at 8:30 AM and finishes at 9:00 AM. We check your passport data with our booking information, check your clothes. Then you have to make the second payment for the tour, receive all necessary documents (pass) and get on a bus. You may also rent Geiger counters and buy souvenir T-shirts. The bus leaves for the Chernobyl zone at 9:00 AM. While going to Chernobyl, you will be watching documentaries about the disaster. In 2.5 hours you will arrive to the Dytyatky checkpoint. Once you have arrived to the Chernobyl zone, you will meet with representatives of the Chernobylinterinform Company who will answer all your questions about Chernobyl. Then, you will leave for the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. On your way, you will pass another checkpoint where the Chernobyl zone staff will check your passports and passes. You will also make a stop at reactor cooling passages. If the weather is good, you may be lucky to see huge catfishes, witnesses of the Chernobyl tragedy. You may bring some bread to feed them. Next stop is Reactor No.4. You will be able to approach it at less than 100 meters. Then, you will stop at the Red Forest and go to the Pripyat village where you will be able to take pictures of the ghost town, abandoned hotels, school, Ferris wheel, swimming pool, playground, etc. After that, you come back to Chernobyl for a lunch, if it is included in your tour package. After lunch, you will leave for the Opachychi village where you will be able to speak to its inhabitants who came back to their village after the Chernobyl zone evacuation. At the end, you come back to the Dytyatky checkpoint where the zone security checks your radiation level. You come back to Kiev around 6:00 PM. Price for a group tour to Chernobyl (you have to joint a group of other visitors): 190 USD/155 EUR per 1 person. 1 persons – 500 USD/ 400 EUR Additional information:
Chernobyl - what happened? Chernobyl disaster incident (part 1,2)
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