HBO’s Chernobyl mini-series drives up the number of tourists wanting to see Pripyat, a ghostly abandoned site of the world's worst nuclear accident in then-Soviet Ukraine
Visitors stand outside the New Safe Confinement structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine on June 2, 2019.
The HBO mini-series depicts the explosion's aftermath, the vast clean-up operation and the subsequent inquiry. Yaroslav Yemelianenko, director of Chernobyl Tour, said he expected a similar increase of 30-40% because of the show. They are then taken to see reactor number four, which since 2017 has been covered by a vast metal dome 105 metres high which envelops the exploded core. The day finishes with a walk around Pripyat.
"To walk where they walked felt so strange, and also being under that same piece of sky you start to feel a little closer, in a sense, to who they were," he told an HBO podcast. A Belarusian study estimates the total cancer deaths from the disaster at 115,000, in contrast to the World Health Organisation's estimate of 9,000.
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