almost 50,000 of them lived here in pripyat. dream town, purpose built for workers at the power plant. it was evacuated overnight. no residents were allowed to return. just a few kilometres from the plant, this is in one of the zone's hotspots. and after the city was permanently abandoned it gradually turned to ruin. but in recent years, human activity has come back. pripyat has been deemed safe to visit for short periods and is now a tourist destination. 60,000 people came here last year, keen to witness the decay. chernobyl was number one on the list. because it's, like, something that was in the news a lot when i was growing up as a kid. so it really took on the imagination. i wanted to see what it was like. it is sort of the post—apocalyptic environment, which, ithink, is very scary. the sense of danger here is now a selling point. but should we fear this place? that is a question only be decades of research can answer. 0n the dry bed of what was the reservoir providing water to cool the nuclear reactors, we've come, with ji