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You can book a flight to Ukraine and go on a tour of Chernobyl yourself. It's kind of a standard tourist thing now, no law-breaking required.

For anyone who's actually going there: you have to book the tour 2 weeks ahead because the company that will be taking you there needs to get an entry permission for each visitor.

I expected better from Vice. They were just drunk the entire time and didn't get to see the mutated animals or anything.

I wonder why they keep these shuttles abandoned compared to turning them into museum type pieces. Pretty amazing that these awesome machines are just abandoned on a military base.

For those interested in some video footage of animals in the radioactive zone a decent video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG-nwQBBfmc

TLDW: No massive mutations like VICE teased with the 3 eyed boars etc.

I was disappointed to learn it wasn't a difficult place to visit after the kidofspeed girl posted about her (fake) motorcycle tour of the place some years ago.

[0] https://chernobylproject.blogspot.com/2012/01/slight-case-of...