The success of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant and the ghostly abandoned town that surrounds it. Here’s a look at the new visitors, and a look back at the 1986 nuclear disaster.

A visitor takes photos of a building in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, June 2, 2019.

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