Engineers at chernobyl nuclear power station shut down its last working reactor a day earlier than planned. View of the chernobyl nuclear power plant s fourth reactor in this may 1986 file photo. The accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant the chernobyl disaster the chernobyl accident the most often used terms in the media are the chernobyl disaster or chernobyl the destruction of the fourth power unit of the chernobyl nuclear power plant on the territory of the ukrainian ssr now ukraine on april 26 1986.
Plant director viktor brukhanov in hat and tie and the plant s. Children gather for a parade celebrating the success of the chernobyl power plant in april 1986 a few weeks before the accident. Reactor unit 4 was the one that blew up on april 26 1986.
The control panel of reactor unit 4 inside the chernobyl exclusion zone and nuclear power plant in 2006. 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. A chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holds a dosimeter to measure radiation levels with the under construction sarcophagus meant to contain the destroyed reactor visible in the background in.
34 years ago 1986 04 26 time 01 23 40 msd utc 04 00 location chernobyl nuclear power plant pripyat ukrainian ssr soviet union type nuclear and radiation accident cause reactor design flaws and serious breach of protocol during simulated power outage safety test outcome chernobyl disaster effects deaths. 3 after the disaster date 26 april 1986. Chernobyl disaster reactors no.
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. Chernobyl was the first nuclear power plant in soviet ukraine a flagship of the peaceful atomic energy program of the ussr. Twenty eight years after the chernobyl power plant blew up rt remembers the tragedy and takes a look at the changes that time has wrought to the fallout zone.
