I'm going to write a small guide book about the Zone of Chernobyl. I have never been in the zone yet, but I will visit it.
Firstly, the easiest way to enter to book a tour of a local travel agency. The tour costs about 130-160 USD. You will get a permission to enter the zone, transfer, (safe) lunch, english tour guide, etc...
You can stay in the zone max. 4-5 hours. If you follow your tour guide, you won't be in trouble or get dangerous amounts of radiation.
Some words about the sights and spectacles. There are 2 borders: outer and inner; here are the papers checked. Firstly, you see the unfinished cooling towers of the reactor 5-6. Then you behold the ChNPP4, the 4th reactor with the grey, huge Sarchophagus (a steel roof above the debris to keep inside the radioactive mass). You cannot approach the reactor, you can just stay 100 metres far from it. Then you can go to Pripyat.
-Pripyat. It was a very new town, built for the workers of the powerplant. It was found in 1970.
It has got so many sights. For example, the main square, the Hotel Polissia, cultural buildings, Azure swimming pool and the sports centre, police station, school, kindergarten, creche, library, Café Pripyat, theme park and the ferris wheel, and the 15-storey building (the highest in the town) There is a very nice lookout on it's roof.
The WHOLE town is abandoned, nobody lives in there nowadays, just the guards patrolling due to the graffiti painters and the looters, who steal radioactive stuff to sell it in the blackmarket.
Before 1986 the town had 47.500 citizens. In 2010 it has got 0.
-The other sight is the Chernobyl-2, it was a military radar station to detect the american rockets (cold war)
-There is a sight what have been closed down in 2008, due to the looters. Nobody should approach it. This is the weirdest junkyard next to the village Rossokha. A lot of cars, trucks, armored vehicles, helicopters of the liquidators are stored here. Because they are highly radioactive.
-Near the town of Chernobyl you can find a lake filled with ships of the liquidators, they are very radioactive too.
-Yanov train station. It was the local train station. Nowadays the trains, engines, and cars are parked here. It is very dangerous to enter them, they are too rusty and contaminated.
-The Red Forest was a huge pine forest, but it was glowing red after the explosion,and the authorities cut down. It is the most contaminated part of the outskirts nowadays too.
Please write down your comments and opinion.
Thanks, Peter |
