To not want my husband to visit and tour Chernobyl

[Elephant07]

Given the radiation risk.
Is it safe? Thoughts please...

I would like to go.

Presumably they wouldn’t do tours unless it was?

As far as I know, the risk is considered low now. DH wants to go, and before I discovered my pregnancy I was planning on going with him - think he'll have to make it a lads trip now though

Are they to wear special clothing?

They can’t necessarily know sirzy

Loads of people go. If he has a particular interest I can't see why not.
I'd like to go myself really.

It is safe. Majority of the area. If you spend 2 days in there it would equal to one xray from a doctor. Thours usually spend a day or a half a day from what I hear.

I'd love to go! It's supposed to be relatively safe, there is a time limit when people can be in the area and there have been tours going for years now.

I understand they are only allowed to stay for short periods of time and that it's safe. How fascinating - lucky him ... I'd love to go and definitely would if given the opportunity.

It's fine as long as he's not planning on setting up a farm and eating his own produce in the 30 km exclusion zone. even then he'd probably be pretty ok

Of course they know it's safe, everyone will have a Geiger counter attached to them. They know exactly where is safe and where to avoid. They've been running these tours for years.

Here you are - the tours are incredibly tightly controlled so that visitors don't disturb anything dangerous. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/how-do-i-visit-chernobyl-is-it-safe-exclusion-zone-tours-radiation-ukraine-a7490851.html

Are the plants and wildlife flourishing?

Plants.

I'd love to go, I think it would be very interesting.

Wildlife. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-to-radioactive-wasteland-of-chernobyl/

It's fine. I wouldn't want to live there for a year but unless he's there more than two days it'll be less radiation than an X-ray at the dentist.

Very interesting re wildlife - since the humans left it's flourished. thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist/158-biologist/features/1493-out-of-the-ashes

Friend went & she's not stupid, said it was fascinating.

Of course it's safe to go for a few days, and have a tour. I bet it would be fascinating.

I’d just love to go.
A friend has been working on the Fukushima clear up since about four months after the tsunami; that’s scary.

TBH I don't understand why anyone would want to visit the site of such a disaster. The impact on children has been devastating.

(KilljoysRus)

YANBU as I understand why you'd be concerned but it is fine, honestly, someone I work with goes on an organised tour to Pripyat every year with his photography club. You go with experienced and knowledgeable guides and are advised just to not stray from the tour. (Apparently a day's visit is like having a few hospital x-rays and it's the forests and soil that is more radioactive apparently) Your husband is lucky, I'd love to go one day.
Search Pripyat tours on You Tube, this is a good one:

I'd also love to go (professional interest). He will probably get more radiation dose on the flight there than he will from the visit.

DS went last April, he still seems fine