Chornobyl USA Today: Chornobyl is set to become an official tourist attraction, but is it safe? By USA Today. Published July 16, 2019 at 5:32 pm Visitors walk in the ghost city of Prypyat during a tour in the Chornobyl exclusion zone on June 1, 2019. Photo by AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky no longer wants the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant to be a dark-tourism destination. Read more here.