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RE: My Trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion Area: Part V
Once again a great post! I really like the pictures of the insides of the school. An interesting portrait of how the world might look after we're gone!
How much of the city is explorable now? I would have expected there to be some uninhabitable zones still?
Well, the whole city is uninhabitable, but it's safe to stay in most of the places for a while. Pripyat itself, as I've mentioned in the last part, is barely polluted because it was not covered by the radiation release traces from Chernobyl NPP. Places that are closed to tourists include the inside of reactor No. 4, the area formerly covered by the Red Forest and the vehicle graveyard of decomissioned vehicles that were used in the relieve operations for Pripyat and the Chernobyl NPP after the explosion.
Ah yeah that's sort of what I thought. It's amazing to me that there are areas you can explore like that, with no suits or anything. But from your article I take it people still do explore the zones that are closed to tourists? Must still be a lot of interesting places to see, deep in the irradiated zones
Nah, the closed zones are not only closed, they are literally deadly. You will get radiation poisoning if you go there. "Stalkers" just visit the zone without permission and explore on their own, they are mostly harmless adventurists. A friend of mine crossed illegally and his group had an overnight stay in one of the abandoned houses of Pripyat. However, there actually is still police in Pripyat and it even has its own road police, so they can catch you if you are not careful.
Yeah that's what I figured. I hope to one day at least be able to check out the safe zones!