iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Some say you can get a vacation glow, and while this won’t literally happen, there’s now a chance to stay at the most radioactive place in the world: Chernobyl.
After the deadly nuclear accident at the facility in 1986, the 1,000 mile-area surrounding the plant, including the city of Pripyat, has been a ghost town — but now the Telegraph reports the Ukrainian government is opening a hostel there.
The facility, a former Soviet dormitory, will soon be able to accommodate more than a hundred tourists, who are allowed to take tours — albeit brief ones, for safety reasons — of the exclusion zone.
In its first week of operation, travelers from the U.S., Denmark and New Zealand are staying over.
The facility itself has been entombed in a massive steel and concrete coffin, meant to tamp down the radiation and radioactive dust from within from escaping.
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