HBO miniseries success drives Chernobyl tourism boom.
The area around the plant retains the feel of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where stray dogs roam and vegetation encroaches into windowless, abandoned buildings strewn with rubble.
Yaroslav Yemelianenko, director of Chernobyl Tour, said he expected a similar increase of 30-40% because of the show. A visitor takes a photo of gas masks at the former Soviety Army base near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on June 2, 2019.They are then taken to see reactor number four, which since 2017 has been covered by a vast metal dome 344 ft high which envelops the exploded core. The day finishes with a walk around Pripyat.
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