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The Chernobyl disaster began on April 26 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor ... Evacuation began one and a half days before the accident was publicly ...
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 kilometres (10 mi) northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Kyiv.
The Convention was concluded and signed at a special session of the IAEA general conference on 26 September 1986; the special session was called because of the Chernobyl disaster, which had occurred five months before.
Initially, the Soviet Union's toll of deaths directly caused by the Chernobyl disaster included only the two Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers killed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the plant's reactor. However, by late 1986, Soviet officials updated the official count to 30, reflecting the deaths of 28 additional plant ...
Deceased liquidators' portraits used for an anti-nuclear power protest in Geneva The abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine, with the post-disaster Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the distance. Worldwide, many nuclear accidents and serious incidents have occurred before and since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
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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 ...
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.