Units 1 and 2 were constructed between 1970 and 1977 while units 3 and 4 of the same design were completed in 1983. The chernobyl power complex lying about 130 km north of kiev ukraine and about 20 km south of the border with belarus consisted of four nuclear reactors of the rbmk 1000 design see information page on rbmk reactors. Ukrainian society for friendship and cultural relations with foreign countries courtesy iaea on april 27 the 30 000 inhabitants of pryp yat began to be evacuated.
The destroyed reactor unit 4 at the chernobyl nuclear power station ukraine u s s r april 26 1986. Home information library facts and figures reactor database chernobyl 4 nuclear essentials information library facts and figures country briefings nuclear fuel cycle current and future generation safety and security energy and the environment economic aspects non power nuclear applications. 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 radioactive lava that formed was named corium. In april 1986 reactor 4 of the wladimir iljitsch lenin atomic power station near the city of chernobyl experiences a catastrophic core meltdown.
However the experts definitely do not know what processes are happening there because the damaged unit saves tons of nuclear fuel. The last one was extinguished in 2000. Despite the complete destruction of the reactor number 4 the three survivor blocks chernobyl reactor 3 1 continued to generate electricity.
This full day trip from kiev offers a hassle free excursion and the essential commentary needed to understand the site and its catastrophic event. Visiting chernobyl the nuclear power plant whose 1986 explosion was one of the world s worst radio ecological disasters isn t permitted unless by guided tour. 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 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.
