Chernobyl will open its doors to tourists, 24 years after the nuclear explosion
Since January, the Chernobyl nuclear plant will open its doors to tourists, with visits to the plant that failed and caused the most important civil nuclear disaster in history.
Viktor Baloga, the Ukrainian Emergencies Minister, announced that the works will be completed to open the tourist site, but only to groups with official approval, with payments of between 200 and 400 dollars.
The tenth anniversary of the closing of the plant is on Wednesday, after the closing of the third reactor in 2000 and the explosion of reactor 4 on April 26, 1986.
65 people died due to the accident, but it was estimated that there were at least 4 000 affected as a result of radioactivity, for diseases arising from radioactive material.
Other studies showed that deaths from causes arising from nuclear incidents reach 500 000 and that its effects may persist at least until 2065.
via Momento 24.
