Reactor unit 4 was the one that blew up on april 26 1986. The control panel of reactor unit 4 inside the chernobyl exclusion zone and nuclear power plant in 2006. The 21cm thick fungus could largely negate the annual.
Scientists have revealed that a fungus that can potentially eat radiation has been discovered inside the chernobyl nuclear reactor. Chernobyl s nuclear reactor exploded in ukraine on april 26 1986 killed 31 people and resulted in the mass evacuation and abandonment of a huge area and led to an evacuation of 50 000 people. Units 1 and 2 were constructed between 1970 and 1977 while units 3 and 4 of the same design were completed in 1983.
The chernobyl power complex lying about 130 km north of kiev ukraine and about 20 km south of the border with belarus consisted of four nuclear reactors of the rbmk 1000 design see information page on rbmk reactors. The chernobyl nuclear power plant officially the vladimir ilyich lenin nuclear power plant is a closed nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of pripyat in northern ukraine 16 5 kilometers 10 mi northwest of the city of chernobyl 16 kilometers 10 mi from the belarus ukraine border and about 100 kilometers 62 mi north of kiev it was cooled by an engineered pond which is fed. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and was caused by one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven the maximum severity on the international.
4 reactor in the chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of pripyat in the north of the ukrainian ssr. The chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on saturday 26 april 1986 at the no.
