Ukraine to open Chernobyl nuke disaster zone for tourists in 2011 - official RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED December 13, 2010 Ukraine's Emergencies Ministry plans to organize from 2011 tourist routes to Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, Ukrainian news agency UNIAN quoted Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloga as saying on Sunday. Baloga said the ministry was carrying out a large amount of work and planned to report on its results by the end of the year so that visits to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster site, so far referred to extreme tourism, "should become systematic in January." An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 resulted in a highly radioactive fallout in the atmosphere over an extensive area. A 30-kilometer (19-mile) exclusion zone was introduced following the accident. Vast areas, mainly in the three then-Soviet republics of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, were contaminated by the fallout from the major nuclear meltdown. Some 200,000 people were relocated after the accident. Russia also offers extreme tours, such as ones to the most infamous prison camps, Josef Stalin's Gulags. Tourists may spend their "holiday" in the Soviet prison camp and feel the experience of being a prisoner. Topics: East Europe, Ukraine Other news: Arctic expedition diary, blog one We're setting out tomorrow around 11 a.m. after a visit by Sergei Ivanov and possibly a news conference. Iran installs reactor cap at Bushehr NPP "The reactor cap was successfully installed," Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Chief Ali Akbar Salehi said. Rosatom denies Russian origin of polonium in Litvinenko's case Rosatom denied claims by the British media that former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium originated from Russia. |
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