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by ivanmilles 3461 days ago
Chernobyl is still open for tours, afaik. You won't get very close to any of the running reactors (and not the closed one, of course) but the tours generally go through the complex' main road and through the Pripyat ghost town.
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> You won't get very close to any of the running reactors

They've all been decommissioned. #3 was the last one to shut down in 2000.

On a related note, this Youtube user [0] has videos from what appear to be tours inside units 2, 3 and 4 (the one which suffered the meltdown in '86). The one from the reactor hall in unit 2 [1] is particularly interesting.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/Thallium208/videos [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe_zzTQFV3o

I can't help but think of Half-Life and Portal watching those videos. Quite incredible footage.
The last reactor in Chernobyl shut down in 2000. [0]

The whole complex is in the process of being decommissioned.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...