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More than 100,000 tourists have visited this year the exclusion zone of the Ukrainian atomic power station in Chernobyl, the scene of the greatest nuclear catastrophe in history , thus setting a "new record" so far in 2019.

"Since the beginning of the year we have registered 107,000 visitors in the exclusion zone," about 30 kilometers around the injured plant in 1986, said the Ukrainian State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone on its Facebook social network page .

Between January and February less than 3,000 people came to see the place of the greatest nuclear accident in history, but as of March the number of tourists began to grow , a trend that was only increasing after the premiere of the HBO series " Chernobyl "last May.

Other reasons that attract visitors, according to the Ukrainian authorities, are the elimination of obstacles to travel to the area and the improvement of infrastructure.

The State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone has approved 21 routes for tourists in the exclusion zone : 13 land routes, five water routes and three air routes.

In general, the flow of tourists to the area has increased markedly in recent years and, according to April in the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, since 2015 the visits have increased tenfold.

The majority of visitors - 80% - are foreign tourists, mainly from the United Kingdom (15,738 people), Poland (9,387 people), Germany (7,826 people), the United States (5,580 people) and the Czech Republic (4,063 people). So far this year, the Chernobyl exclusion zone was also visited by 22,468 tourists from other parts of Ukraine, according to official sources.

On the other hand, this Friday the Ukrainian Police reported through a statement on the arrest of "six men who entered illegally (in the Chernobyl exclusion zone) for extreme tourism purposes . " The offenders are between 20 and 46 years old and all are residents of Kiev, the police said.

According to official evaluations, the explosion that occurred at dawn on April 26, 1986 spread up to 200 tons of material with a radioactivity of 50 million curies, equivalent to 500 atomic bombs like the one launched in Hiroshima.

Radiation continues to affect thousands of people in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia , where 70% of the almost 200,000 square kilometers of contaminated land is found.

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