Tourists(Morons) Are Flocking To Chernobyl By The Tens Of Thousands
(source)–The control room at Chernobyl will open to tourists more than 30 years after the disaster – despite it still having 40,000 times the normal levels of radiation.
Visitors wearing protective suits and masks will be able to look around the Unit 4 control room in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant where the disaster began.
Vitaly Petruk, the head of the state agency said: ‘The HBO series boosted the interest to Chernobyl. Everybody now wants to see more and we are going to satisfy the demand.’
During this year, 85,000 people from around the world visited Ukraine to see the notorious site, local media report.
EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE decided to spend their hard earned money and their PTO to fly to a place with 40,000 TIMES THE AMOUNT OF NORMAL RADIATION. I understand wanting to go to places you’ve seen on a TV show. I am going to take a trip to Montana at somepoint this year just because it looked sweet on the show “Yellowstone” with Kevin Costner and basically every fantasy vacation I have is from watching Anthony Bourdain eps. Having said that…follow the news. There isn’t one good reason to go to Ukraine…ever. No place in Ukraine is good and if you do go there I assume there’s a pretty decent chance you end up lost and on the wrong side of a little thing called a “civil” war going on.
“Honey, honey, remember this part on the show where the miners sacrificed their lives to save the world? Take a picture of me in front of it for instagram”. Cool, great. Nice pic in front of a historic landmark. Maybe you can check out the hospital where the dude had his fucking skin fall off next. I know they’re wearing those suits and the little air filter hospital masks that Asians wear in airports. Call me crazy, but I don’t trust a white suit and some paper on a string over my mouth to protect my body from radiation levels that can kill you. Adventure as travel is certainly an industry I can get down with, but if you want to go on vacation and come back with a disease just go to Vegas or Panama City. Something you can cure with a little penicillin, not chemo therapy.