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Extreme excursion to the Chernobyl zone.

         Excursion to the Chernobyl zone with a visit to town, Pripyat, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

          On the night of April 25-26, 1986, the most terrible disaster happened at the nuclear power plant near a small Ukrainian town of Chernobyl.

      The staff of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which was considered one of the best in the country were testing the reactor’s emergency cooling facility and disaster protection system was deliberately shut off. 44 seconds later the reactor went out of control. An explosion destroyed a cover slab which weighted 1000 tons. Graphite coating of the reactor caught fire. More than 40 types of radionuclides were released into the atmosphere.


The total power of the explosion was 100 times greater than the power of the nuclear weapons released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The force of the explosion spread contamination over large parts of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.

       Today ZONE - is a unique monument to the greatest man-made disaster twentieth century.
   
 
For residents of the Ukrainian Chernobyl zone - it is also a huge seam of the history and culture of the province.

This tour:
7.45 Departure from Kiev, parking lot near the metro station Lukyanovskaya near McDonalds
10:00 Arrive at KP "Dityatki". Entrance to 30 - ty kilometre exclusion zone
10.30 Study Chernobylinterinform to "talk": general information about the Chernobyl tragedy of the exclusion zone, the life of Chernobyl today
11.00 -12.00 Entrance to 10 - ty kilometre zone. A trip around the Chernobyl NPP. Stopping at a viewing platform in front of the gate fourth power unit with a view of the "Shelter".
12.00-16.00 trip to the town of Pripyat. Walking through the "dead city", a visit to one of the highest buildings - Hotel "Polese, school, kindergarten and once residential homes permanently abandoned its inhabitants
16. 00-17.00 Study tour of the city with Chernobyl in the river port of arrival, Elias Church, the Park of Glory, visiting the graves of Hasidic
Dinner at 17.00-18.00 Chernobylinternform of 3 x dishes. (All products brought from Kiev).
19.00-Departure from the Exclusion Zone.
21.00 - the arrival in Kiev.


The cost of travel is 320 hryvnias (64 USD)

Notes:
- Children under 18 years of age is prohibited from entering the Zone.
Check-in the Zone is permitted only if there is a passport. Please do not forget to take it with. - When ordering prepayment made in the amount of 50% of the cost of travel. In the case of travel, this amount is not refundable.
The list goes on tour at the request by e-mail chernobyl@interesniy.kiev.ua

P.S. The level of radiation, which you can get for the trip, roughly equal to that obtained in flight for jet aircraft and several orders of magnitude less than for medical radiography.


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