Is travelling to Chernobyl appropriate or insensitive?

You can’t have failed to hear about HBO’s new show, Chernobyl, a retelling of events leading to and after the iconic disaster, which has picked up critical praise and is currently the best-rated show on IMDB. And, in response, it has led to an upsurge in tourists wanting to visit the Chernobyl power plant and Pripyat, the Ukrainian ghost town where it’s located. But this surge in tourism does also lead to a big question – what is our responsibility as tourists in a site of natural tragedy?
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