The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 16.5 kilometres northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometres from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres north of Kyiv. The plant was cooled by an engineered pond, fed by the …
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 16.5 kilometres northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometres from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres north of Kyiv. The plant was cooled by an engineered pond, fed by the Pripyat River about 5 kilometres northwest from its juncture with the Dnieper River. On 26 April 1986, during a safety test, unit 4 reactor exploded, exposing the core and releasing radiation. This marked the beginning of the infamous Chernobyl disaster.
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