Chernobyl was evacuated on 5 may 1986 9 days after a catastrophic nuclear disaster at the plant which was the largest nuclear disaster in history. Chernobyl was chosen as the site of ukraine s first nuclear power plant in 1972 located 15 kilometres 9 mi north of the city which opened in 1977. It has shaped and inspired nuclear policy influenced environmentalist and activist groups and left a direct physiological impact on pripyat ukraine and the eastern european regions it contaminated.
The chernobyl disaster of april 25 and 26 1986 was the most catastrophic nuclear accident of the 20th century. On april 26 1986 the world s worst nuclear power plant accident occurs at the chernobyl nuclear power station in the soviet union thirty two people died and dozens more suffered radiation. The chernobyl nuclear power plant is located about 81 miles 130 kilometers north of the city of kiev ukraine and about 12 miles 20 km south of the border with belarus according to the world.
Commercial nuclear power plants and 3 conducting longer term studies suggested by the assessment. 1 determining the facts of the accident 2 assessing the accident s implications for regulating u s. The nrc s chernobyl response included three major phases.
The chernobyl nuclear power plant officially the vladimir ilyich lenin nuclear power plant is a closed nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of pripyat in northern ukraine 16 5 kilometers 10 mi northwest of the city of chernobyl 16 kilometers 10 mi from the belarus ukraine border and about 100 kilometers 62 mi north of kiev it was cooled by an engineered pond which is fed. It was a direct consequence of cold war isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture. The april 1986 disaster at the chernobyl a nuclear power plant in ukraine was the product of a flawed soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators b.
Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness some of whom later died. Chernobyl disaster accident at the chernobyl nuclear power station in the soviet union in 1986 the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and was caused by one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven the maximum severity on the international.
4 reactor in the chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of pripyat in the north of the ukrainian ssr. The chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on saturday 26 april 1986 at the no.
