Wearing a mask for themselves of what the president of the United States calls the “invisible enemy”, the fatal coronavirus, Chernothroughl staff lit candles in memory of those killed at the factory three years ago through their own “invisible enemy”: the hundred radioactive elements they vomited in the air in that fateful afternoon on April 26, 1986 , when reactor number four melted and infected more than 58,000 square miles from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
The turn of fate was the result of a flawed reactor design, reduced Soviet costs, poor construction, corruption and a culture of secrecy. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine gained independence in 1991, his government banned visitors from visiting two “exclusion zones” around the plant, the largest being roughly the length of Rhode Island. But in 2011, the government inspired tourism in 75% of the domain considered safe.
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Last September, I visited Chernothroughl with a small Fox Nation production team shortly after HBO broadcast a miniseries about the twist of fate that he noticed through millions of others around the world.
What we saw in Chernobyl still hangs me, just as the turn of fate itself keeps hanging out in Ukraine.
Would HBO docudrama generate renewed interest and visits to the devastated and harmful? As a journalist, he had already seen many Soviet-era nuclear and germ-era services and our own check in Nevada, still partially polluted, just 65 miles north of Las Vegas, where the United States checked more than a thousand atomic bombs in the 1950s. .
But what we saw in Chernobyl still hangs over me, just as the turn of fate itself keeps hanging out in Ukraine. And now you can do this “Nuclear Pompeii” with me, practically watching our documentary about “Destination Chernobyl” Fox Nation.
You can meet Serhii Plokhy, an innovative e-book about the accident, which is involved about the Chernobyl classes and nuclear power we’re not learning.
You can see the nuclear ghost of the city of Pripyat, the Soviet “atomic city” 10 minutes from the factory where 50,000 employees and their families lived before the accident.
You can walk in the football box now covered with plants where the children once played, see the book of algebra faded, covered in radioactive dust on the floor of a decrepit school, the ragged and smiling doll in a small bed in a deserted building, the Big Ruede the city’s amusement park, frozen for eternity.
Nearly 1,000 dogs, descendants of those who defected when the Soviets evacuated the city, 36 hours after the turn of fate, roam the city and its surroundings. They’re not friendly. Scientists say they live on average only four years.
The forests seem green and lush, filled with deer, moose, wolves, eagles, and horses imported from Mongolia. But that, too, is deceptive, Plokhy says. There are no spider webs in these forests. The soil remains too contaminated.
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For example, in April, when wildfires, naturally or intentionally still doubtful, razed more than 8,600 acres of birch trees and approached the nuclear power plant, scientists feared that radioactive soil dust could endanger the other 3 million people in Kiev’s Ukrainian capital. 60 miles away. But the fires were contained and only some of the Tourist Attractions of the Soviet era were destroyed.
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During my excursion, I took a dosimeter to measure my exposure to radioactive isotopes, some of which can last 25,000 years. Having an official consultant allowed the team and I not to stay on infected domains too long. But many young Ukrainians, who cannot or do not want to pay the fees of around $100, according to the user charged through an excursion that is not consistent with them, like to sneak into the domain through themselves. Many of the so-called “stalkers” also use dosimeters. Watch one of them illegally call being in the domain as a true ‘exconsistente psychedelic attention’.
Because the coronavirus led Ukraine to close its borders in mid-March, there are no more tourists here. But Sergii Mirnyi, the head of Chernobyl Tours, has ambitious plans once it reopens: kayaking in the Dnieper along the factory for the disabled and its giant “sarcophagus” – the world’s largest cell steel design covering tons of radioactive debris from the reactor – four – and five days of “spa” vacation. “Very relaxing,” he tells us.
The government also needs to inspire tourism here. In July, President Volodymyr Zelensky, 42, former comedian, screenwriter, film maker and director elected in the spring of 2019 with more than 73% of the vote, signed a decree encouraging Chernobyl tourism. Calling it a “unique” site, he said he was looking to give “a new life” to this desolate region of Ukraine.
The exclusion zone control company, which is guilty of protecting the critical plant infrastructure, has other ideas. One official told us that the company intends to buy nuclear waste here in the area, only of the 15 Ukrainian nuclear reactors that continue to get the maximum electricity from the country, but also waste from other European nuclear reactors.
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Plokhy calls it a horrible idea. Although it makes sense to buy nuclear waste at an already infected site, the domain is not composed of solid hard rocks that can involve radioactive for many years, it tells us, however, unsound and highly porous marshes.
But even he thinks that other people stop at Chernobyl if only to perceive the possible danger of nuclear energy in incompetent or malicious hands. The turn of fate itself continues to weigh on Ukraine, which continues to pay reimbursement to families of at least another 35,000 people who died from Chernobyl-related cancers.
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There are valuable classes to learn from what Adam Higginbotham, the “Midnight in Chernobyl,” another difficult e-book about disaster, calls this “Radioactive Eden.”
But when my team and I left Chernobyl, I wondered if we were ever going to be informed. Watch “Destination Chernobyl” by Fox Nation and for yourself.
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