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Travel The last artists crafting a Thai royal treasure. Subscriber Exclusive Content. But it may also take much longer than that. Some estimates reach into thousands of years. World Chernobyl Nuclear Anniversary Disaster. Newsweek magazine delivered to your door Unlimited access to Newsweek. Unlimited access to Newsweek. In the 35 years since the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the nearby main thoroughfare in Pripyat, Ukraine, has been taken over by plants, trees and wildlife.
Abandoned hours after the meltdown of the Soviet nuclear reactor in , the town that once housed workers of the nuclear plant and their families has existed ever since as an eerie ghost town. But now its central boulevard has been cleared of trees and shrubs, and even reconnected to the electricity grid.
In , the former residents of this once-thriving town visited it for the first time to mark five decades since it was first established in the then-Soviet Union. While only a trickle of hardy tourists have made their way to Chernobyl and its environs over the last decade, the Ukrainian authorities believe this could soon turn into a stream - if not a flood. Public awareness of what happened at Chernobyl 35 years ago on April 26 has been heightened by a popular and critically-acclaimed HBO mini-series about the disaster and its aftermath.
Mass tourism would not only help to keep the events of Chernobyl alive, the Ukrainian authorities believe, but also bring in cash to help with further restoration work. Entering the buildings is strictly forbidden, but many do so anyway. The views from the tops are too enticing to pass up. Only from up top do you truly get a sense of just how eerily empty this place now is. It once housed nearly 50, people, but now only contains a smattering of tourists at any given time.
You can see them walking around below, many flocking to the amusement park with its ferris wheel and bumper cars. Most tourists carry Geiger counters to measure the radioactivity of their surroundings. Apart from the obvious withering away of the structures of Pripyat, the thing that sticks with most people is the silence.
Although about 1, stubborn elderly Ukrainians chose to move back after the disaster, only around now remain. That being said, I would not advise you to walk through the forests around the Chernobyl site.
One reason not to go into the woods is that the area around Chernobyl has been taken over by wildlife , including radioactive wolves popularized in a PBS documentary.
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