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  2. Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6 - Wikipedia

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    Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's original Soviet plan consisted of 12 units, and that units 5 and 6 were phase three of the plan. At the time, only two phases were complete, reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4. Both units were intended to be RBMK-1000 and would generate approximately 1,000 megawatts each, and also supported by two cooling towers located ...

  3. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located next to the Pripyat River, which feeds into the Dnieper reservoir system, one of the largest surface water systems in Europe, which at the time supplied water to Kiev's 2.4 million residents, and was still in spring flood when the accident occurred.

  4. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Investigations into the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear disaster that occurred in the early hours of 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine.The accident occurred when Reactor Number 4 exploded and destroyed most of the reactor building, spreading debris and radioactive material across the surrounding area, and over the following days and weeks, most of mainland Europe ...

  6. I was a first responder at Chernobyl. It should have ... - AOL

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    Thirty-five years ago, when the nuclear reactor unit at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, I was a physician among the first responders. Radioactive materials catapulted into ...

  7. Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents

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    Number of reactors: 4 on site; 1 involved in accident: 6 on site; 4 (and spent fuel pools) involved in accident; one of the four reactors was empty of fuel at the time of the accident. Amount of nuclear fuel in affected reactors: 1 reactor—190 tonnes (t, metric tons = 210 U.S. short tons): spent fuel pools not involved in incident [4]

  8. Chernobyl exclusion zone - Wikipedia

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    Satellite image of the reactor and surrounding area in April 2009. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, [a] also called the 30-Kilometre Zone or simply The Zone, [5]: p.2–5 [b] was established shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.

  9. Town still healing 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster - AOL

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