The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. On april 26 1986 a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems test destroyed unit 4 of the nuclear power station at chernobyl ukraine in the former soviet union. 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.
The chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 april 1986 at the chernobyl nuclear power plant in the city of pripyat then located in the ukrainian soviet. 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. 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.
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. At the time it was one of the oldest nuclear power plants in existence and also one of the largest.
The nuclear reactor consisted of four 1 000 megawatt reactors. On april 26 1986 the chernobyl nuclear power plant in the town of pripyat suffered a catastrophic failure that resulted in an explosion and a meltdown. 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. 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.
