Tourists are flocking to Chernobyl...

@soar2newhighs hehehe, I see what you did there..😜

@soar2newhighs I doubt that... we'd have had glowing workmen by now, if that were the case - remember that there are still people working on decommissioning the plant to this day.

An accident like that, leaves many things. Exposure, and after effects.@PavlovsPuppy

OK, if you say so@HootyTheNightOwl

@soar2newhighs Try giving the Wikipedia page a little read... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant

I don't need to read Wikipedia. It's my belief that what happened there, may not be total finished, OK?@HootyTheNightOwl

@soar2newhighs @Becksta Wow, why is everyone so intense?
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Perhaps we (many of us, like me) believe the threat of nuclear contamination, albeit from an incident some 30 years ago, might just be still there, and harmful to those entering that region. That's all I'm saying.@PavlovsPuppy

@soar2newhighs That's neither here, nor there... i never said anything one way or the other about the disaster itself - only that we'd have had glowing workmen from the new solar farm or inside the plant by now.

@HootyTheNightOwl I thought it was a joke, you know, glowing people and the three eyed fish?
I don't know if it was supposed to be taken literally.

@soar2newhighs Oh, I definitely agree with you.
I also think it's fine to think otherwise too.

Nuclear release and potential contamination should be considered by those desiring to go to Chernobyl.@PavlovsPuppy

@soar2newhighs Yes, for sure.
Chernobyl was also the only accident of that magnitude to occur, so honestly how do we know as humans what the real impact is?
We don't. We are still finding out, until this day.

Exactly, therefore, why would anyone, not aware of might befall them...want to go there? But if they do, so be it.@PavlovsPuppy

@PavlovsPuppy Regardless of if it was or not, you are the one who asked the question... isn't there at least a part of you that has an interest in that area and how it's changed over the years since the explosion???

Sure, i get that there was this huge disaster that afeected millions of lives across half of the world - but time hasn't stood still in the area and the exclusion zone does have it's uses beyond the new tourism industry that has popped up there. There's the new solar plant that i mentioned before and it's even become a nature reserve for some endangered species... which is probably a fact not covered by the show.

In a way, some good things are finally coming out of one of the planet's darkest times - and they aren't spoken of as widely as perhaps they should be.

@HootyTheNightOwl I'm so confused why you're supplying this information?
No one disputed that changes have occurred. The reality is that we aren't scientists, so we can't personally answer how safe such an area would really be.
All I asked was would anyone go if they won a free trip?
I'm quite sure that everyone is capable of googling, and forming their own opinion, if they want to learn more about Chernobyl.
I feel like you want to deliberately argue over something so trivial, like you have some sort of chip on your shoulder.