Individual Power Plant Tour and Pripyat
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Individual Power Plant Tour And Pripyat Uncover the fascinating secrets and facts about history’s most dreadful ecological disaster. Visit the epicenter of 1986’s infamous events – - Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. You will also witness the frightening results of the disaster on the streets of Chernobyl and Pripyat. The schedule and the itinerary of a private tour is can be flexible. - 100% safe and legal - Lunch included - Protective suits included -Transfer from and to your hotel in Kyiv 1 Approximate Itinerary (may be changed up to the CEZ administration request) 07:30-08:00 a.m. • Pick up from your hotel in Kyiv • Depart to Chernobyl 08:15-10:00 a.m. • Road to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 10:00-10:20 a.m. • "Dytyatky" checkpoint. Pass through Dytiatky police and dosimetry control checkpoint on the border of the 30-km Exclusion Zone (exclusion zone and the zone of absolute (mandatory resettlement), passport check, instruction of radiation safety rules. 10:30 a.m. • Cherevach village. Behold hundreds of deserted houses on the way to Chernobyl town. • Zalissya village. A place that was once home for more than 3500 people. • Discover the town of Chernobyl. The town with more than 4000 residents, most of whom are the personal of the Exclusion Zone and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. – Chernobyl Downtown, main square – Wormwood Star monument – The memorial complex to all towns and villages that got under the law of mandatory resettlement – Statue of Lenin. A rare chance to see a statue of an infamous communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Ukraine. The new decommunization law is not applicable to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – Destroyed synagogue – Chernobyl river port 2 – Memorial “To those who saved the world” near the Chernobyl fire station whose brigade was one of the first to arrive at the place of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster on the ill-fated night of April 26th in 1986 – The exhibition of authentic, remote vehicles that were used to clean up the aftermath of the ChNPP disaster • Pass the Leliv checkpoint, an entrance to the 10km zone • The village of Kopachy. Buried village and it’s only building – kinder garden • Enter the territory of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – Cooling towers of the ChNPP – Unfinished building of the 5th reactor of ChNPP Power Plant Tour 11:00 a.m. – 01:15 p.m. - ID check. Here you have the opportunity to see the first and largest SSE ChNPP’s cloth change facility. - Administrative Building (AB-1). ChNPP Head Office. You will be provided with the admittance card and your ID documents and personal belongings will be checked. - Protective Facility No 1. You will visit the unique protective facility designed to protect the personnel in case of emergency situations. - Restricted area Familiarization with the nuclear reactor control rooms, auxiliary systems for electricity generation and the systems currently being used to monitor the Shelter Object status: - Central Control Room (CCR-1) – place of open switchgear control and Plant’s Shift Supervisor workplace. - Unit Control Room (UCR), where all main technological processes were controlled during Reactor operation. - Skala. A unique electronic computing machine which appeared in 1973 at the Leningrad NPP and was named "SCALA" - Reactor Monitoring System of Leningrad NPP. Subsequently, it was also installed at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the central information link, which united most of the control systems of the power unit into a single automated monitoring system for technological process of NPP. 3 - Unit 3 Main Circulation Pumps (MCP) used for water supply to the Reactor Core. - Valeriy Khodymchuk Commemorative plaque – in memory of an MCP operator, who died in the performance of his duties, his body was never found. 01:15 p.m. – 02:00 p.m. Lunch (Canteen No. 19) - Set meal according to healthful and dietary meals standards, the same as for ChNPP personnel 02:00 p.m. – 03:00 p.m. - Bypass Channel Bridge You will see, and with a little luck, feed famous Chornobyl catfishes with bread - Liquidators Memorial. You will obtain information about the first victims of the Chornobyl accident occurred in 1986 and about the emergency actions to eliminate the disaster. - SO Observation Pavilion. Based on the Shelter object mock-up you will be informed about the history of the construction of the first protective structure over Unit 4, you will be also familiarized with the history of New Safe Confinement construction. 03:15 p.m. • Pass by the remains of the Red Forest. A relatively small section of a forest belt, about 10 square kilometers, assumed the largest share of the release of radioactive dust during the explosion. A powerful radiation leak "painted" the forest in a bright red color. Trees have helped people a lot at the cost of its lives, delaying dozens of tons of radioactive dust as a filter - the pine crown is very dense and well retains dust. One of the most unique places of the Chernobyl zone, where you can visually observe the effect of radiation on living organisms even today. • Take some photos near the Prypiat welcome sign • Drive through the “Bridge of Death” that was shown in one of the episodes of HBO’s Chernobyl TV-series • Pass the checkpoint and enter the Prypiat town. The abandoned city with a lot of radioactive fallout at a present. Dust firmly stuck into the ground, trees, houses. The city is overgrown with artemisia (lat.), which also grew in the vicinity before the accident. Empty buildings gradually come into disrepair under the influence of the environment. The oldest buildings of the city are 4 destroyed most rapidly: for example, the building of the first secondary school, which collapsed in 2005 and had two collapses in 2013. Note that it is officially forbidden to enter any buildings in Pripyat – “Pripyat” Café – Pripyat Abandoned Fluvial Port – Partially Submerged Boat – Cinema "Prometey" – Hotel Polissia – Palace of Culture Energetik – One of the first Supermarkets in the USSR – Pripyat Amusement. Park The non-functioning park is located in the center of Pripyat, behind the square with the buildings of the department store, the Energetik Palace of Culture and Polissya Hotel. The most famous object in the park is the Ferris wheel, which became one of the symbols of both Pripyat and the entire Chernobyl exclusion zone as a whole later. The wheel never worked; its launch was planned for May 1, 1986. The park is one of the heavily infected sites in Pripyat. – The iconic Ferris wheel – Avanhard Central Stadium • Pass the dosimetry control at the checkpoint at the exit from 10km zone • Pass the final dosimetry control at the checkpoint on the way out of Chernobyl exclusion zone 19:00 - 20:00 • Arrive back to your hotel 5 6 .