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As the fire spread, a small village near the mostly abandoned town of Poliske was evacuated on April 10. [2] By April 13, the wildfires had spread to just over 1.5 km (1 mi) away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and had reached the outskirts of the abandoned city of Pripyat. More than 300 firefighters worked to stop the fires from ...
The Chernobyl disaster [a] began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union. [1] It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity ...
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [a] (ChNPP) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located 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 Kyiv .
10-kilometre and 30-kilometre Zones. The Exclusion Zone was established on 2 May 1986 soon after the Chernobyl disaster, when a Soviet government commission headed by Nikolai Ryzhkov [ 8]: 4 decided on a "rather arbitrary" [ 6]: 161 area of a 30-kilometre (19 mi) radius from Reactor 4 as the designated evacuation area.
A sign warns of radiation at the site of Kopachi village located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on September 29, 2015 near Chornobyl, Ukraine.
Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been closed since the 1986 meltdown. But it still contains nuclear fuel that could pose a radiation threat.
Ukraine is home to four nuclear power plants, as well as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. [ 1] As of January 2024, both the Chernobyl and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants saw battles during the war that resulted from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The invasion has prompted significant discussion ...
Environmental activists had warned on Monday that the fire, near the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, posed a radiation risk. ... posed a radiation risk. Chernobyl tour operator ...