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The site of the world’s worst radiological catastrophe is unexpectedly coming back to life -- due to an American television show. Scores of tourists are visiting Chernobyl, located in northern Ukraine, in response to an HBO miniseries that illuminates the disaster.

According to reports by local media, more than 100,000 tourists have visited this year the exclusion zone of the Ukrainian atomic power station in Chernobyl, "Since the beginning of the year we have registered 107,000 visitors in the exclusion zone," about 30 kilometers around the injured plant in 1986, said the Ukrainian State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone on its Facebook social network page.

Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries produced by HBO in association with Sky UK. Created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, the series revolves around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the unprecedented cleanup efforts that followed. At the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, it received nineteen nominations, and won for Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Directing, and Outstanding Writing.