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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ( ChNPP; Ukrainian: Чорнобильська атомна електростанція, romanized : Chornobylska atomna elektrostantsiia; Russian: Чернобыльская атомная электростанция, romanized : Chernobylskaya atomnaya elektrostantsiya) is a nuclear power plant undergoing ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Chernobyl disaster, accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union, the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation. The Chernobyl power station was situated at the settlement of Pryp’yat, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the city of Chernobyl (Ukrainian: Chornobyl) and 65 miles (104 km) north of Kyiv ...
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- The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 25 and 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. It is one of the worst disast...
- The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at nuclear reactor Unit 4 attempted a poorly designed experiment. They shut down the reactor’s pow...
- Some sources state that two people were killed in the initial explosions of the Chernobyl disaster, whereas others report that the figure was close...
- As a result of the Chernobyl disaster, the Soviet Union created an exclusion zone with a radius of about 18.6 miles (30 km) centered on the nuclear...
- The Chernobyl disaster caused serious radiation sickness and contamination. Between 50 and 185 million curies of radionuclides escaped into the atm...
Explore the spatial aspects of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster and its consequences for the environment and population. The project uses GIS-based mapping to present data on radioactive contamination, irradiation, morbidity, and resettlements.
IAEA, Vienna, 2008 (ISSN 0074–1884; STI/PUB/1312; ISBN 978–92–0–110807–4) On 26 April 1986, the Number Four reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what then was the Soviet Union during improper testing at low-power, resulted in loss of control that led to an explosion and fire that demolished the reactor building and released ...
Apr 24, 2018 · The control panel of reactor unit 4 inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone and nuclear power plant in 2006. Reactor unit 4 was the one that blew up on April 26, 1986. Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
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The Chernobyl disaster [a] began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union. [1] It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity ...
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation [a] is an officially designated exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. [5] : p.4–5 : p.49f.3 It is also commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 30-Kilometre Zone, or simply The Zone. [5] : p.2–5 [b]
