An HBO miniseries featuring Soviet-era nuclear
nightmares has sparked global interest in the
1986 Chernobyl disaster and boosted tourism
in Lithuania.
The Baltic country, which served as the
filming location for “Chernobyl,” has become a
destination of so-called atomic tourism since the
program aired earlier this year.
At Ignalina nuclear power plant, Mikhail Nefedyev
was staring grimly at the row of blinking green
lights on a control panel when another group
of curious visitors poured into his realm. The 64
year-old engineer explained to them what exactly
happened when a similar reactor exploded in
Chernobyl, Ukraine, 33 years ago.
The Ignalina plant is of the same prototype as
the one in Chernobyl. It has similar blueprints
and the same water-cooled graphite-moderated
reactors with a capacity of 1,500 megawatts
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(C. Jardin)
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