Chernobyl new hot spot for tourism

50,000 people visited area last year, with 70 percent of them foreigners

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Camera? Check. Sunglasses? Check. And a Geiger counter? Check. For a growing number of thrill-seekers visiting Chernobyl's radiation-contaminated lands the device is used to help navigate the site of what remains the world's worst nuclear accident.

The uninhabited exclusion zone, a 30-kilometer radius around the former nuclear power station, has seen a surge in tourists in the past few years.