The last reactor at the site was closed down dow n in 2000, 14 years after the accident. Despite the accident, Ukraine Ukraine continued to operate the remaining reactors at Chernobyl for many years. According to Belarus official post-Soviet post-Soviet data, about 60% of the fa fallout llout landed landed in Belarus. Large areas in Ukraine, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia ussia had had to be evacuated, with over 336,000 people resettled. The plume plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union Union, Eastern Europe, Europe, Western Europe Europe, and Northern Europe Europe. This event exposed the graphite moderator components components of the reactor to air and they ignited the resulting resulting fire sent a plume of radioactive fallout into fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical geographical area, including Pripyat.
A sudden power output surge took place, and whenSocialist an attempt was made for aemergency shutdown, a moreĮxtreme spike in in power output occurred which led to a react reactor or vessel rupture and a series of explosions. The disaster occurred on 26 April 1986, at reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, Chernobyl plant, near the town of Pripyat Pripyat in in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, Republic, during systems test. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant power plant accident in history and is the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The abandoned city of Pripyat Pripyat with with Chernobyl plant in the distance Radio-operated bulldozers being tested prior to use Abandoned housing blocks in Pripyat The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Plant in Ukraine Ukraine (then (then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Republic, part of the Soviet Union). Reactor 3 (center right).Ĭhernobyl disaster Date 26 April 1986 Time Time UTC+3) UTC+3) 01:23:45 a.m (Moscow (Moscow Time Location Pripyat Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR SSR, Soviet Union