What is with all the insanely propagandic diagrams and drawings? Random "death" and "happy" symbols? Horses frolicking next to a monorail? You are cracking me up.
They're too high to live in (for human standards) and far too high to cultivate food in.
However, for a week visit you're likely to have no more exposure than a chest x-ray. Also the measures they're proposing would certainly help. It sounds like the 'tourist' portion where you're outside exploring you're likely wearing something akin to disposable scrubs to mitigate the radiation inside the buildings (where you're likely to spend 1/2 your time anyway).
I went there last year on a tourist trip - walking around the exclusion zone and through the abandoned buildings was an amazing experience and I'd recommend it to anyone.
In all honesty, one can rate most radiation sources as 'pack of cigarettes per time'.
A lot of Cherynobyl is pack a week. Closer areas is pack a day. Some of the hot areas are pack an hour. And you stay the hell out of the pack a minute areas.
for anyone interesting in the pretty fascinating story of how the threat posed by the abandoned chernobyl plant is being ignored, i recommend the documentary 'chernobyl 4 ever'[1]. it even features parts of the stalker videogame :)
Thank you for linking this. Watching Soviet scientists scramble over a jumble of fuel rods, concrete and graphite blocks in their desperate attempt to figure out where all the fuel had disappeared to is both fascinating and deeply scary. As one person in the video says, it's a job they had to do, no matter the cost.
