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Would you visit Chernobyl on one of the tours being offered daily?

Asked by msh (4270points) April 26th, 2016 from iPhone

Three checkpoints in zones for workers to register which encircle the radius of the ground zero meltdown in this dead-zone surrounding this radioactive town in Russia. The Anniversary of the occurance of the disaster is being experienced right now.
Some folks living in the more-rural areas have returned to their homes and farms within these zones, living much from the earth as they always have. Trading thyroid death-knells for living in their own homes- figuring the value is worth possibly losing their lives to do so.
Some workers designing, facilitating and creating an ‘arch’ type of structure which is eminently due to forever seal the accident, meltdown, fire, and poisons which will Never disperse, forever entombed. Ironically, a high number of workers moving towards this goal were not born or very young when this incredible disaster occurred.
The area is still rife with high levels of radio activity. ( workers on this sealing tomb project work shifts of 2 weeks on/ two weeks off duties to reduce their exposure to radiation.)
The newest trend and ‘cool’ getaway is to take a guided tour of the abandoned town, forest and fields of the deadly areas. Tourists, figuring low-doseage exposure is worth the travel, fill up the rosters to bus into the town to tour the village that dropped life into a foreign demention frozen in a moment’s time. Food on set tables. School lessons immediately abandoned, leaving books and paper as if momentarily dropped awaiting the return of life again. Apartments, an amusement park, toys in daycare utterly dropped as was ( is?)
News sources were mostly the only persons, up to this point, who gained clearance to venture into the city via strict entry permits and the usual roadblocks at all levels, so often a part of life in Russia.
Now, people roam at will for various time span allotments. Warned Not to touch, nor come into direct contact with materials closer to the ground zero. Most visitors climb into bumper cars in an amusement park located in-between the town and plant grounds. A “photo op.”- with the often misunderstood consequences for the momentary ‘selfies’ to pretend battles on the now dead rides. Full warnings are being given by guides concerning the visitor’s health and radioactive exposure effecting their physical and future well-being while on such antics. Many visitors do not listen.
( Odd photo anomalies appear on phones, cameras, what have you, spurring belief in an otherworldy experience for some groups on line of late.)
A most facinating blog is available from a young woman still in the age of believed invincibility, riding her fast motorbike in the dead zone- and the poisoned wild areas of and around the town, nightly. She has brought back beautiful photographs of still-life glimpses from the highly off limit areas and the lands surrounding.
So-Would YOU go on a guided tour of Chernobyl as a tourist in this area of Russia, if the opportunity arose?
Sorry- facinating subject- long on information…

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