As liquidators still work in the area, the local animals are quite friendly to tourists. Only a legal tour to Chernobyl will allow you to see the most interesting objects of the Zone without risk to your health.
Let's take a tour of Chernobyl to the past in the year of 1986. Chernobyl was a small, picturesque town located in the north of Ukraine. In a few years a nuclear power plant was built on the banks of the Pripyat river and the city of the same name with the river grew, where fifty thousand builders and operators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant settled. The station was to become a powerful energy and financial source not only for the European part of the USSR, but also for Eastern and Central Europe.
No one guessed that the spring of 1986 will forever be written in black letters in the history of our people and humanity, and the whole world will know about the small town of Chernobyl. In the memory of the Ukrainian people, it is the day of the Chernobyl disaster, pain, sorrow, warnings, it is impossible to forget it or erase it from memory. The Ukrainian Chernobyl tour shows how 34 years separates us from that terrible misfortune, which still resonates with burning pain and suffering.
Couldn't the explosion have been avoided?
Taking a tour to Chernobyl Zone you can see how one experiment turned into a tragedy for the whole planet. What are the main causes of the disaster?
- Conducting an insufficiently complete and correctly prepared electrical experiment.
- Low level of culture of operators, management of both stations and the Ministry of Electrification in general in the field of nuclear safety.
- Insufficient level of safety of graphite-uranium reactor RBMK-1000.
- Staff errors.
The explosion at the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was led, as is known, by an experiment aimed at the reduction of the cost of electricity at the station. It was prepared by Dontechenergo, an organization that has never dealt with nuclear power plants. So, all these led to an explosion on April 26, 1986 at 1:24 p.m. The fourth unit can still be seen from afar as a part of the Chernobyl tour program.
Nuclear catastrophe: results and lessons
The scale of the worst man-made catastrophe in human history is well known to both scientists and politicians around the world. About 5 million people were affected, about 5,000 settlements of the Republic of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation were contaminated with radioactive nuclides. The Chernobyl accident led to unprecedented exposure of the population of these states. In addition the impact of the Chernobyl disaster was felt by Sweden, Norway, Poland, Great Britain and other countries.
Tour to Chernobyl Zone is not a place for fun, captivating landscapes, picnics for instagram and permissiveness. Here, people gave their health and, most importantly, their lives to save not only Ukraine, but the whole Europe. It is a place where you can see how nature wins the battle against civilization.
The lack of people in the area is doing its thing: unique species of animals and birds are appearing there. In particular, the number of moose, deer, wolves, lynx, and Przewalski's horses is growing, there are brown bears and even bison. As liquidators still work in the area, the local animals are quite friendly to tourists. Only a legal tour to Chernobyl will allow you to see the most interesting objects of the Zone without risk to your health.
A professional guide will help you with all permits, who will also conduct a safe tour of the most interesting places in the Zone – Chernobyl tours cost starts from 75 dollars per person. Also, you should not stay in the Exclusion Zone for longer than the planned tour. This can be dangerous.
