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Zone guide Goncharenko, who accompanies groups of tourists on visits organised by private companies, said he'd experienced such booms before. The tour operators' association working in the region said it expected the number to jump to 100,000 this year. Tourist numbers have steadily increased every year, and last year 72,000 people visited Chernobyl.

"If people come here to understand what happened and try to learn, it's a good thing," Carlos said, as a friend took a photograph of him next to the nuclear power station. Louis Carlos, a 27-year-old visiting from Brazil, said he didn't know much about the disaster before watching the TV series but was motivated to travel to Ukraine to find out more. In July, new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree that aims to develop the site further as a tourist attraction. Oleksandr Syrota, head of the Chernobyl information centre, said that certain tourist companies were offering up the disaster zone as "fast food" - a quick and easy travel experience.Īnd the trend towards more tourists looks set to continue. The abandoned site had already become a "dark tourism" destination in recent years, even before the eponymous TV show that has picked up 19 Emmy nominations.īut some Ukrainian travel agencies have adapted their tours to take in locations from the "Chernobyl" series and offer further special trips, such as kayaking in rivers around the exclusion zone.

The blast spewed radiation over a vast swathe of Europe and a 30-kilometre (19-mile) exclusion zone remains in place around the plant, although a small part of it is open to a growing number of tourists.

The hard-hitting mini-series recreates the April 1986 disaster, when one of the reactors at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl plant, in what is now Ukraine, exploded during testing.