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On 26 April 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) exploded. [1] With tens of direct casualties, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
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.
A nuclear meltdown (core meltdown, core melt accident, meltdown or partial core melt [2]) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating. The term nuclear meltdown is not officially defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency [ 3 ] or by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission . [ 4 ]
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling the site, fuelling fears of a nuclear disaster. The United Nations is seeking access to the plant and has called for the area to be ...
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.
It is shut down but needs external power to keep its nuclear material cool and prevent a meltdown. "Ukraine will submit the draft resolution to the General Assembly for consideration shortly ...
In 2021, Ukraine's nuclear reactors produced 81 TWh — over 55% of its total electricity generation, [5] and the second-highest share in the world, behind only France. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, is in Ukraine. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in northern Ukraine was the world's most severe ...
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was captured [3] on 24 February 2022, the first day of the invasion, by the Russian Armed Forces, [4] who entered Ukrainian territory from neighbouring Belarus and seized the entire area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the end of that day.