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はてなキーワード: the power stationとは
They insist the excursions, which are endorsed by the Ukrainian Government, are not ghoulish but instead are intended to educate visitors about the human and environmental disaster which occurred on April 26 1986 when reactor 4 exploded of the power plant exploded releasing large quantities of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
Visitors are taken inside the 20-mile exclusion zone are allowed to get to within 300-metres of the reactor itself which is now housed in a concrete sarcophagus and will remain highly radioactive for an estimated 20,000 years.
They also visit the nearby ghost town of Pripyat where most of the power station’s workers were housed at the time of the accident.
The entire 50,000 population was evacuated in the aftermath of the disaster leaving schools, shops and homes locked in a time warp of more than quarter of a century ago.
A bus then takes visitors through the so-called Red Forest, which was virtually completely destroyed after being exposed to massive levels of radiation.
