CHERNOBYL nuclear power plant, Ukraine - for the visitors, Chernobyl places high demands on the imagination - is just to see what much important.
From the outside the building in which sees a reactor until 26 April 1986, in the world's worst nuclear disaster usually blew industrial buildings such as an ordinary, dull. Only an odd addition of buttresses support - the sarcophagus for the reactor - notes that nothing unusual here happened.
The fantasy fights, too, to fill with the 50,000 people in nearby Pripyat, there lived. Once a special for the plant workers busy city, is a silent shell it now abandoned apartment towers and double-headed arrow brush slowly overtake main square.
And it is inevitable, the visitor tries, radioactive contamination image, which is 19-mile, to the plant anywhere in the field (30 km). The dosimeter a visitor's clothes and occasional metres around the site are the only Visual cues, flashing numbers that are meaningless for the uninitiated.
Someone saturated by the lively images widescreen disaster, the films on Chernobyl unavailability may be disappointed. But his is also, makes. Dealing with the invisible is a taste of the fear, the Ukrainians and much of the world spewed radioactive fallout in the sky by winds swept along like in the hemisphere of the shattered operation plagued.
The way these fears face on a day trip is increasingly attractive.
"A few months ago, it was a few dozen people per week", that sign up for the trips to Dmitry Bobro, Deputy Director of the Government agency that manages the zone around Chernobyl. "But now it is one hundred people week."
Even before the crisis on a Japanese nuclear power plant broke out in March, interest in visiting Chernobyl grew so much that the Ukrainian Government to bring the initiative in STW more visitors through the rationalization of the procedures for the registration for the tours.
"" "We want to say" come and see for yourselves you "," said emergencies Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova the associated press. Then a comment that the importance of Chernobyl is elusive for those, the closely related life she added: "We want to dispel that Chernobyl is still dangerous for the Ukraine and the world the myth."
But Chernobyl is in fact still a dangerous place, as the rules for visitors to make it clear. Touch all the structures or vegetation, not sitting do not on the floor, or even put take it your camera tripod, you eat any element from the zone, not in the open air. Guides ensure that the visitors understand that different spots in the zone more than others are contaminated and walking no one consist of the designated paths.
Visitors can also the beginnings of a project highlight the dangers which remain see - the efforts to build of a huge protection, the reactor building will cover. Like a behemoth Quonset hut shaped, blocked the protection fallout of the escape, when workers begin dismantling of the reactor.
Tourists get, see the reactor building only a few hundred metres away. But the visitors center from where they can look at the plant includes a large and detailed model of the area shattered reactor. There is pause, and visitors their eyes restlessly from the model of the hulking plant building; most seem relieved to move along.
Pripyat, optical highlight but an emotional low point is about 1 mile (2 km). Although the buildings are slowly fall apart, their clean lines and modern design, in contrast to some of shabby settlements, which the visitors on the bus ride through to from Kiev. Pripyat was a prime example of the perfect Soviet city, and the workers look at what the inhabitants lost, if it gives the visitors a twinge after the explosion were evacuated.
Pripyat's most affecting point possibly his rusting amusement park, where a Ferris wheel as unintended monument looms. The wheel; rode not dizzy couples ever It was opened the week after the explosion have.
Although the Chernobyl zone with silence and loss is affirmierte, there is life there, a kind of. Some of the workers, who keep an eye on the now in the idle plant life in the city of Chernobyl, about 10 miles (15 kilometers) from the plant for two weeks at a time. And some tours allow visitors, some of a few hundred people "Self settlers," hit, which had moved from the zone but came back against all advice, risking their health life where they were born, their days in the hamlets.
After the bus loads for the trip to Kiev, there are disturbing yet a moment ahead. On the border of the zone must all out and pass through a machine that registered a person of radiation. The visitor puts his hands, keeps them against two metal plates and is waiting in prayer-like position for a few seconds, he hopes, a green light flashes and tells him that he was safe but on the day.
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If you go...
Visit CHERNOBYL: Multiple agencies offer day trips to Chernobyl from Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, with prices starting at about $140 per person depending on group size. Agency websites include http://bit.ly/fSxGjD and http://www.tourkiev.com/chernobyltour/.
Visit UKRAINE: Ukraine requires no visas for visits by citizens of many Western countries including the United States. Detailed visa information request are to http://www.mfa.gov.ua/mfa/en/509.htm.
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Associated Press Writer Maria danilova in Kiev contributed to this story.
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