Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries produced by HBO and Sky UK.Created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, the series revolves around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Paul Ritter. And now, intrepid travelers be able to get inside the control room where the world’s worst nuclear accident unfolded, Chernobyl tour companies confirmed to CNN.Those who venture inside the highly radioactive area at the infamous Reactor 4 will be provided with white protective suits, helmets and masks for the brief visits. October 3, 2019 11:15 AM. "The HBO series boosted the interest to Chernobyl. Eerie photographs have emerged showing visitors dressed in hazmat suits, face masks and helmuts exploring the room in which the world's worst recorded nuclear disaster started. Patrick Landmann/Getty Images Chernobyl control room open to visitors. According to reports, you can now visit the control room of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4. chernobyl 2 day tour ; chernobyl 1 day tour ; chernobyl power plant and pripyat tour (2 days) chernobyl reactor 4 control room tour ; private chernobyl tour He pumped water in the ruined reactor after the explosion and died three weeks later.

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"Authorities are currently planning 21 new tourist routes to satisfy growing interest in the region, including the one that sees tourists visit the control room at the disaster site. "Chernobyl staff have described the deteriorated room, in which plant operators tried and failed to prevent the disaster on April 26, 1986, as blood-chilling.This year alone has seen more than 85,000 visitors flock to the Ukraine to visit the infamous abandoned city.Aleksandr Novikov, Chernobyl's deputy director of safety, said the plant's senior engineer on duty the night of the accident, Leonid Toptunov, was a friend of his. Inside Chernobyl's control room, 25 years on This article is more than 9 years old.

This paper has a figure (on 3rd page of the PDF file) showing the location of the backup control room (РПУ). Revendication : Pripyat residents gathered on what was later called the 'Bridge of Death' to observe the Chernobyl meltdown; none survived. "He helped to fight with the consequences. After leaving, they will be subject to two radiology tests to measure exposure.The move is part of a government drive to encourage tourism in the area after President Volydymyr Zelensky signed a July decree designating Chernobyl an official tourist attraction.“We must give this territory of Ukraine a new life,” Zelensky said at the time. The control panel of reactor unit 4 inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone and nuclear power plant in 2006. Tourists can now visit the infamous radioactive control room at Chernobyl for the first time since the catastrophe took place more than three decades ago. Everybody now wants to see more and we are going to satisfy the demand. Watch the thrilling new series The Deceived now on Stan.Tourists can now visit the infamous radioactive control room at Chernobyl for the first time since the catastrophe took place more than three decades ago.Eerie photographs have emerged showing visitors dressed in hazmat suits, face masks and helmuts exploring the room in which the world's worst recorded nuclear disaster started.Photographer's haunting images of Chernobyl 33 years after nuclear disasterThe image stills, featured on Ukrainian network 1+1 International, shows the decaying state of the room that is soon to host visitors from around the world.The control room is located at Unit Four, where the reactor exploded — also the location of the deadly "Elephant's Foot" radioactive mass discovered in the basement under the remains of the reactor.Unsurprisingly, the radiation here measures at around 40,000 times the safe level, meaning visitors will only be permitted to linger for five minutes.Urban explorers daring enough to visit the site will be given masks, anti-radiation suits and industrial boots before entering the room.The decision to open the site to tourists comes on the back of the HBO mini series The series prompted a surge in visitors to the region, in a growing trend of that sees travellers seeking out sites associated with death and disaster.Vitalii Viktorovych Petruk, the head of Ukraine's state agency for the Exclusion Zone, cited the TV series specifically when talking on the decision to open up the site.
Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness, some of whom later died. More than 30 years after the decisions made in Chernobyl's Reactor 4 Control Room led to one of the biggest nuclear accidents ever, tourists can now visit it. It’s time to change it.”The makeover will involve developing new tourist routes including waterways, building new checkpoints and restoring and upgrading existing ones.Zelensky made the announcement at the inauguration of a new metal dome at Chernobyl which will encase the destroyed reactor in order to prevent radioactive material from leaking out.Weighing in at 36,000 tonnes and measuring 108-metre high, the 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) structure was paid for via a special fund launched by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and sponsored by 45 countries, AFP reported.The structure is strong enough to withstand a tornado and is built to last a century, the EBRD said.Chernobyl once sat at the centre of a 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone implemented after the 1986 catastrophe, but much of the area has been open to tourists since 2011.Some sections, such as the “machine cemetery” of Rossokha village, remain off-limits.Travel interest in the location of the horrific nuclear explosion has surged dramatically since the launch of HBO series “Chernobyl” in May, according to local tour operators.The miniseries, starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson, dramatizes the aftermath of the disaster.CNN’s Lianne Kolirin and Tamara Hardingham-Gill and journalist Denis Lapin contributed to this report. Reactor unit 4 was the one that blew up on April 26, 1986.