The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
is a decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, 14.5 km northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 km from the Ukraine–Belarus border. Reactor No. 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and the power plant is now within a large restricted area known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
The nuclear power plant site is to be cleaned by 2065. On January 3, 2010, a Ukrainian law stipulating a program toward this objective came into effect.
On Saturday, April 26, 1986, a disaster occurred at Reactor No. 4, which has been widely regarded as the worst accident in the history of nuclear power in the world. As a result, Reactor No. 4 was completely destroyed and is being enclosed in a concrete and lead sarcophagus to prevent further escape of radioactivity. Large areas of Europe were affected by the accident. The radioactive cloud spread as far away as Norway.
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