is it still dangerous to go to the place of where the chernobyl happened
How radiation-safe are short-term trips to the Chernobyl Zone? Radiation warning sign in Pripyat. The Chernobyl Zone appeared owing to the radiation contamination of the area adjacent to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, when several decades ago its reactor 4 exploded. The bulk of the radiation, which escaped from it, fell within the borders of the contemporary Chernobyl Zone. Up to now in the Zone there are places with considerably elevated and perhaps even deadly radiation.