Chernobyl exclusion zone was opened for tourists
One of the most dangerous and closed facilities in the world, thirty-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant stopped the first tourists visited. On Tuesday they were journalists of Ukrainian and world media, among which was correspondent of the Russian service of Voice of America ».
From the moment the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced the possibility of establishing a tourist and excursion routes in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, took no more than three months. "I'm very positive for tourism. I believe that everything that is beneficial and philosophical things for the Ukrainian public, it should be. There is a demand - people need to start, let look, "- said in November 2010, Minister of Emergencies of Ukraine Viktor Baloga.
In fact, the new simplified rules for visiting the radiation-free areas may not seem too new. Especially for those who had been in the exclusion zone and mandatory evacuation. Simplified fares thirty-kilometer zone also includes all pass through the checkpoint "Dityatki" - the main gate of the Chernobyl zone. Other border crossing points for tourists does not exist yet. Passport control patrol MIA - a necessary procedure, as well as signature on a special document about the personal responsibility for any force majeure.
Besides the territory remains a number of objects, which are forbidden to photograph, but for whom travel here fans of extreme rest: building the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the sarcophagus over the four units. To this list is to add monitored at the exit and the services of mandatory guide - it's practically a full list to meet today's tourist. Similar procedures have passed and those who have been here five or ten years ago.
However, according to the deputy director of the National Information Agency, International Cooperation and Development "Chernobylinterinform Yuri Tatarchuk, in the sense of the list" can not "changed a lot. "The road to the exclusion zone should not cause some sort of fear. A huge number of professionals, journalists, scientists and visitors have visited here. Has almost nothing to fear. The more people come, the more young people know what can cause errors, careerism, strange behavior with the technique, the less likely that such man-made disasters occur again, "- said Tatarchuk. According to him, the Chernobyl catastrophe was a huge warning to the world about how to deal with new technologies.
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