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<text id=91TT0331>
<title>
Feb. 18, 1991: World Notes:Soviet Union
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 53
World Notes
SOVIET UNION
Risking Radiation
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<p> Soviet enterprise has taken a macabre turn: vacation trips
to the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl. Kievturist, a Ukrainian
tour operator, is organizing excursions to the forbidden zone
surrounding the entombed remains of the world's worst nuclear
accident. Truly adventurous visitors can tour the massive
concrete mound where the wreckage of the reactor is buried, a
town built for the workers who cleaned up after the accident
and a nuclear-waste dump.
</p>
<p> "We want to show people what can happen if they are not
careful about the ecology," says Gennadi Blinov, Kievturist's
director general. The $4-a-day price tag includes optional
radiation scans for tourists who are worried. Income from the
tours will be used to help victims of the April 1986 disaster.
</p>
<p> Soviet scientists are conducting tests to be sure visitors
will not suffer any ill effects. Thousands of residents are
still being moved out of contaminated zones nearby. The tours
will begin in about a month, after the area has been declared
safe for travel. But some former residents are apparently not
waiting for the government's verdict. Tired of their cramped
existence as refugees in Kiev, farm folk have been seen
trickling back to reclaim their homesteads, despite the risk
of radiation.
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