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. Its purpose was to house nuclear experts and workers servicing the plant as well as security troops. Just 3 kilometers from the plant the city of pripyat was built.
Chernobyl was the first nuclear power plant in soviet ukraine a flagship of the peaceful atomic energy program of the ussr. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
