The nuclear waste generated is found stored at nearly 800 different sites in and outside the 30 km. Recovery of the nuclear accident area and cleaning supplies has resulted in a large amount of radioactive waste and contaminated equipment. After 30 years the current situation in chernobyl remains delicate.
The chernoby nuclear accident was the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. On april 26 1986 technicians at the chernobyl nuclear power plant in pripyat ukraine accidentally detonated one of its nuclear reactors when it suffered a dramatic power increase thirty one. 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. 28 people died as a direct result of the incident and countless.
In april 1986 reactor 4 of the chernobyl nuclear power plant was the location of the largest man made disaster in world history. Bernhard ludewig for ludewig however the real turning point was chernobyl. Ludewig s project also took him to the abandoned chernobyl nuclear power plant in present day ukraine.
Chernobyl nuclear power plant 1970 present day 28 04 2020 03 05 2019 by heather y wheeler this timeline is a chronology of the chernobyl power plant from construction to the disaster to present day. Photo by laski diffusion getty images but strains of fungi are flourishing at the scene by absorbing radioactive. The chernobyl nuclear power plant in may 1986 a few weeks after the disaster.
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.
