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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ sparks tours, stokes fears in Lithuania


IGNALINA: Walking along the top of Lithuania’s decommissioned nuclear reactor, the set of HBO’s critically acclaimed “Chernobyl” TV series, tourist Vytas Miknaitis says he’s not “afraid at all”.“They know what they’re doing,“ the retired computer engineer from Chicago says, referring to organisers of the three-hour tour of the Ignalina power station in eastern Lithuania.Similar in design to Chernobyl, some 450km away, the Ignalina reactor provided the backdrop for the show’s outdoor scenes, shot last year.The Baltic state’s only nuclear power plant built in Soviet times was open to the public even before the “Chernobyl” drama first aired in May but …read more

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