fully evacuated within like 36 hours of the 1986 disaster and never resettled. it's a proper ghost town now inside the exclusion zone, tourists go, researchers go, it's become this weird case study of nature reclaiming a city once humans leave.
the famous ferris wheel in the amusement park never even opened to the public, it was set to debut days after the disaster happened.
radiation levels in most of the city are actually low enough now for short supervised visits, which is why tourism there took off.
deepika.n this whole story lives in my head rent free now
retro_vibes haha wild, TIL