Chernobyl and the ghost towns surrounding the nuclear power plant, a stone’s throw from World Heritage



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The Luxembourg-sized Chernobyl exclusion zone surrounds the plant within a radius of 30 kilometers, the fourth reactor of which exploded on April 26, 1986. Pre-pandemic tourism in 2019, Chernobyl recorded a record number of 124,000 visits.

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The Luxembourg-sized Chernobyl exclusion zone surrounds the plant within a radius of 30 kilometers, the fourth reactor of which exploded on April 26, 1986. Pre-pandemic tourism in 2019, Chernobyl recorded a record number of 124,000 visits.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, or what's left of it, is in Ukraine, 110 kilometers from the capital Kiev - a busy city where avenues intersect underground and a modern metro system leads everywhere through a plastic blanket. .  Heavenly- and less than 20 kilometers from the northern border with Belarus.  REUTERS / Gleb Garanich

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The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, or what’s left of it, is in Ukraine, 110 kilometers from the capital Kiev – a busy city where avenues intersect underground and a modern metro system leads everywhere through a plastic blanket. . Heavenly- and less than 20 kilometers from the northern border with Belarus. REUTERS / Gleb Garanich

A woman photographs an old carousel near the Ferris wheel in the abandoned town of Prypyat, near Chernobyl, Ukraine on April 15, 2021. Ukraine will commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy on April 26, 2021. EFE / EPA / OLEG PETRASYUK

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A woman photographs an old carousel near the Ferris wheel in the abandoned town of Prypyat, near Chernobyl, Ukraine on April 15, 2021. Ukraine will commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy on April 26, 2021. EFE / EPA / OLEG PETRASYUK

View of the protective arch above the sinister Reactor 4 of the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear power plant, intended to replace the old sarcophagus and believed to be the largest mobile structure ever built by man.  According to official estimates, the explosion that occurred early in the morning of April 26, 1986 in Chernobyl, dispersed up to 200 tons of material with a radioactivity of 50 million curies, the equivalent of 500 atomic bombs as the one dropped in Hiroshima.  EFE / Oleg Petrasyuk

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View of the protective arch above the sinister Reactor 4 of the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear power plant, intended to replace the old sarcophagus and believed to be the largest movable structure ever built by man. According to official estimates, the explosion that occurred early in the morning of April 26, 1986 in Chernobyl, dispersed up to 200 tons of material with a radioactivity of 50 million curies, the equivalent of 500 atomic bombs as the one dropped in Hiroshima. EFE / Oleg Petrasyuk

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