KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's Government, Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident to turn into a tourist hotspot.
Ukraine's emergency situations Ministry said on Monday, it works on a map the area around the except that starting next month distribute power to open set plant - where a reactor on 26 April 1986, exploded radiation on the then-Soviet States Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - visitors.
The Ministry said radiation in certain parts of so-called exclusion zone that extends 30 km (19 km) around the exploded reactor, now were back to normal levels. Visitors will be able, take the views nuclear plants, as well as towns and villages that were placed in the aftermath of disaster.
New official tour operators have would operate to strict criteria, situations Ministry a spokesman for the emergency said Yulia Yurshova, stray from the route can be dangerous because of the danger of collapsing buildings and different radiation.
"The Chernobyl zone as scary as the whole world thinks, is not," said Mrs Yurshova. "We want to work with big tour operators and Western tourists from which it is whom momentum to win."
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from the exclusion was zone after the accident and the access to the area. Several hundred have returned since then and about 2,500 workers still maintain the plant, which is now closed to enter protected area from a nearby town.
Tour to Chernobyl and the sealed area around a plant - many of which are illegal, lead according to Mrs Yurshova - currently attract estimated 6,000 visitors per year and costs around $150 for a day trip.
Mrs Yurshova said official tours would begin in January. More details on how tour operators would be elected next week would announced, she said.
Helen Clark, who heads the United Nations Development Programme and visited Chernobyl on Sunday with emergency situations Minister Viktor Baloha, said the plan supports.
"It is an opportunity to tell a story here and of course the process which tell a story, a sad story is something, is the positive in economic terms and positively in communicating important messages," she said by a Press Secretary.
Chernobyl is on a day trip from Kiev, the hotels before the European African Cup 2012, add of Ukraine with neighbours Poland event is reached. The Government expects an eye to the thousands of visitors to flood the land for this event.
To seal work on a new sarcophagus, the exploded reactor is expected by 2015, the Ministry also announced, completed on Monday. The huge shield made of metal and concrete, costs $1.2 billion and is financed by Ukraine and international donors.
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