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Ukraine Markets Chernobyl To Tourists
Kiev, Ukraine (UPI) Oct 18, 2004 Cash-strapped Ukraine is generating foreign currency reserves by commercializing the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster as a tourist site. In the evening of April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 exploded in the world's worst nuclear disaster, the Guardian reported Monday. Estimates of fatalities from the fallout reach as high as 15,000. Eventually, Soviet authorities sent 1,200 buses to evacuate 48,000 of the nearby villagers and erected a makeshift cordon around the power plant complex. Now, however, tourists can pay $250 per person for an all-inclusive, day long bus tour of the catastrophe, about 40 miles north of picturesque Kiev. About 90 tons of radioactive waste lies under the vast concrete that now covers the destroyed reactor. Paradoxically, much of the land around Chernobyl is lush: Most of it looks more like a nature sanctuary, with abundant forests, lush grass and herds of a rare species of wild horse. The lack of human activity has allowed wolves, foxes, wild boar and myriad other species to flourish. All rights reserved. Copyright 2004 by United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of by United Press International. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Civil Nuclear Energy Science, Technology and News Powering The World in the 21st Century at Energy-Daily.com
India Calls For Action Against Nuclear Proliferators
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 24, 2005India Monday urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to take action against illegal proliferators of nuclear weapons technology such as Pakistan's disgraced scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. |
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