The Chernobyl disaster (also called the Chornobyl disaster) was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event …

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant consisted of four RBMK-1000 reactors, each capable of producing 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electric power (3,200 MW of thermal power), and the four together produced about 10% of Ukraine's electricity. Like other sites which housed multiple RBMK reactors such as Kursk, the construction of the plant was also accompanied by the …

A series of 30 paintings by the Kyrgyz and Ukrainian artist Roman Gumanyuk, titled "Pripyat Lights, or Chernobyl Shadows", is dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster.In 2012, the artist paid a visit to Ukraine, and toured the polluted areas the abandoned town of Pripyat, and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant itself. Impressions from what he saw were the basis for his artworks.

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster triggered the release of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous radioisotopes.As of 2022, it was the world's largest known release of radioactivity into the environment.. The work of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), suggests that the Chernobyl incident …

Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. The series was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck.It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Paul Ritter.The series was produced by HBO in the …

The Chernobyl Disaster - including some discussion of the disagreements within the UN organization about its publications, Stanford University Chernobyl - A Canadian Perspective Lưu trữ 2012-02-04 tại Wayback Machine ( PDF 405 KB ) - A brochure describing nuclear reactors in general and the RBMK design in particular, focusing on the safety ...

The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter, rarely Arka) is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The structure also encloses the temporary Shelter Structure (sarcophagus) that was built around the reactor …

Pripyat (/ ˈ p r iː p j ə t, ˈ p r ɪ p-/ PREE-pyət, PRIP-yət; Russian: При́пять), also known as Prypiat (Ukrainian: При́пʼять, Prypiat, IPA: [ˈprɪpjɐtʲ]), is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus.Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad (a type of closed town in the Soviet ...

Chernobyl was evacuated on 5 May 1986, nine days after a catastrophic nuclear disaster at the plant, which was the largest nuclear disaster in history. Along with the residents of the nearby city of Prypiat , which was built as a home for the plant's workers, the population was relocated to the newly built city of Slavutych , and most have ...

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor in Pennsylvania, United States.It began at 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, it is rated Level 5 – Accident with Wider Consequences.