You can now visit Chernobyl’s control room
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tourists are now able to visit the radioactive control room at Chernobyl which has been within the exclusion zone of access since the disaster more than 30 years ago.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The control room is in decay and is located at Unit Four, where the reactor exploded.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is also the location of the deadly “elephant’s foot” radioactive mass which was discovered in the basement under the remains of the reactor.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the control room is still a hotbed of radioactive activity and measures at around 40,000 times the safe level, visitors are only able to visit the control room for five minutes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The decision to open the site up to tourists came after the success of the HBO mini series </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chernobyl</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which outlined the disaster and what mistakes led to it happening. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vitalii Viktorovych Petruk, the head of Ukraine's state agency for the Exclusion Zone, mentioned the popular TV series by name when talking on the decision to open up the site.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The HBO series boosted the interest to Chernobyl. Everybody now wants to see more, and we are going to satisfy the demand."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year alone has seen more than 85,000 visitors flock to the Ukraine to visit the infamous abandoned city.</span></p>
