The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, its history, present and future.

  The trip will include a visit to the observation building, near the Sarcophagus covering the destroyed Reactor #4at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

  We will have a short hike in the abandoned town of Pripyat, which was home for the ChNPP workers and their families, and had forty-five thousand inhabitants before the explosion. En route we will see critically important spots and material objects of the mitigation of the Chornobyl disaster, and two former villages: one uninhabited and one demolished (we will make a stop in the first).

  We will also see town of Chornobyl. In addition, we will visit an active village and an amateur museum of local lore of Ukrainian Polissya.

What we will see:

• the field camp of the 25th brigade of the radiation-chemical and bacteriological protection brigade;
• the zone checkpoint "Dytjatki";
• the abadoned village of Zalissja;
• the eliminated village of Kopachi;
• concrete-reloading unit (was used to build the Sarcophagus);
• the decontaminated Red Forest (located on the trace of the worst – first – release of the radiation immediately after the explosion);
• the abandoned city of Pripyat (a bus tour to the town and a short walk in the town);
• the Chornobyl NPP (including the Sarcophagus, the memorial, the administrative building);
• the town of Chornobyl (the world’s best monument to the heroes of Chernobyl, and an open-air exhibition of vehicles which took part in the clean-up);
• the live village of Orane (an amateur museum of local lore of the Ukrainian Polissya region).

(There can be some changes owing to the weather conditions!)

Your guide will be Sergii Mirnyi, a former officer of Chernobyl radiation surveillance, now a writer/scriptwriter, scholar of Chernobyl and contemporary disasters and expert in their mitigation.