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Why Chernobyl is suddenly a hotspot for global tourists

Why Chernobyl has suddenly become a hotspot for global tourists

Aired 10/29/2019

PBS News Hour

Why Chernobyl is suddenly a hotspot for global tourists

Clip: 10/29/2019 | 7m 21sVideo has Closed Captions

Why Chernobyl has suddenly become a hotspot for global tourists

The site of the world’s worst radiological catastrophe is unexpectedly coming back to life -- due to an American television show. Scores of tourists are visiting Chernobyl, located in northern Ukraine, in response to an HBO miniseries that illuminates the disaster, which occurred before Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, in new detail. Special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky reports.

Aired 10/29/2019

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