The control rods were meant to. The meltdown by the minute to prevent meltdown the operators reinserted all the 200 some control rods into the reactor at once. 1 commissioned in 1977.
Construction of the plant and the nearby city of pripyat to house workers and their families began in 1970 with reactor no. The nuclear power plant consisted of four rbmk 1000 reactors each capable of producing 1 000 megawatts mw of electric power 3 200 mw of thermal power and the four together produced about 10 of ukraine s electricity at the time of the disaster. The russian nuclear program developed the technology for rbmk reactors throughout the 50s before the first rbmk 1000 reactor began construction at chernobyl in 1970.
Despite the contamination of the site and the inherent risks in operating a reactor with serious design flaws the chernobyl nuclear plant continued operation to meet the power needs of. On the night of the incident at 1 23am local time reactor four of the soviet power plant. Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern soviet ukraine suffered a critical failure on april 26 1986.
Carl willis 9 648 166 views. Reactor hall of unit 2 chernobyl nuclear power plant duration. Chernobyl disaster an inside look at what happened 3d duration.
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. 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 design of the reactor is unique and in that respect the accident is thus of little relevance to the rest of the nuclear industry outside the then eastern bloc. The chernobyl disaster was a unique event and the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power where radiation related fatalities occurred e.
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.
Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion. The chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on saturday 26 april 1986 at the no. 4 reactor in the chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of pripyat in the north of the ukrainian ssr.
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.
