I went to Pripyat/Chernobyl in 2008

I don't understand why anyone wants to go see this?

The radiaition levels are still quite high atleast too high for my personal liking, and really there is nothing much to see other than a sad ghost town and a abandon power plant which had meltdown due to incompetence.
That whole disaster never should have happened, the men doing the experiment weren't told everything they should have known thanks to the Soviet government, and they were careless when doing the experiment to begin with.

ok, i didnt realise my post went this out of control whether it was sad or not.

A- yes it is sad what happened. no question!

@ Nukeeus.

are you trolling? as antiswa77 corrected you in their reply. when you visit the chernobyl area you go right next to the reactor that went into meltdown and imploded. It may not be possible now as they are building a new more modern enclosure. yes the areas around it vary in the degree of radioactivity. the areas we went in ranged from 20 up to 2000 on the geiger counter we had with us. it was about 10-30 in most of the areas we went to like the swimming pool complex, right by the reactor building it was about 500+, driving back through the red forest it shot up within milliseconds to 2000+. Also there is wildlife everywhere. nature has claimed it back. we saw many wild dogs and cats, they didnt have visible deformities and didnt seem that agressive as there is still a common human presense in the area. when you go into the zone you get scanned for radiation, the same when you leave. there are armed guards present when we went there. they check your passport and entrance pass. we went to the fairground in pripyat, the guide picked up a wild mushroom which read high on the geiger counter as does moss. the area was very green, you can see a tree growing inside one of the buildings on my pics. we booked the tour through Tour Kiev, we were picked up by the chenobyl tour guide from our apartment in Kiev city. Oh we also ate food within the exclusion zone by the hotel within the zone which is a place foreign workers and other people working in the zone stay at. I have had no health issues since going either. i believe we had about the same radiation dosage in a day as travelling by plane the average jet setter gets in a lifetime. and no we had no soda pills. WTF!

also no souvenirs taken, that would be disrespectful. the area has already been looted.hence the guards.

oh, bananas are radioactive too! (potassium)

at MaximusXXX i didnt lie! it was 2008 we went.

heres the video i did the day after we got back to the uk. sorry for the poor editing and quality. i could never be bothered to edit it so it can be boring, but its proof we went there, that year!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP3XtckjWpU

frigging hell! this forum is like youtube comments full of non believers and accusers .....

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i just dont understand why they couldnt have filmed a lot in the actual location

most of the building we were allowed to view were pretty much looted of most things, there was still basic things like pictures, gas masks, old furniture we saw

why so?

yes you can still go there

(in 2008 we used Tour Kiev website to plan the trip to Chernobyl, but like the film they pick you up in a small bus/van, we were staying in a small flat within Kiev. They drive you through a checkpoint where they check your entrance passes and passports upon entry into the exclusion zone)

no the film was not shot in the real place where it is based upon

if you saw my pics, vid you would see we were in our usual casual clothing

we only explored where our guide took us, even that took all day