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Chernobyl, also known as Chornobyl, is a partially abandoned city in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 90 kilometres to the north of Kyiv and 16
Administrative Centre, Radiation Control (2013)
Photo of the town and Chernobyl Power plant from Mir station, 1997
Chernobyl welcome sign
Orthodox Church of St. Elijah
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 16.5 kilometres northwest of the city of
Chernobyl
…murdered by Nazi Germany as part of the Holocaust. In 1972, Chernobyl rose to prominence in the Soviet Union when it was selected as the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant; Pripyat was constructed nearby to house the facility's workers. Located 15 kilometres (9 mi) to the north of Chernobyl proper, it opened in 1977. On…
View of the plant in 2013. From L to R New Safe Confinement under construction and reactors 4 to 1.
Computer-generated synthesis drawing of all 4 units prior to the accident viewed from NW
Incomplete reactors No. 5 and 6
The Chernobyl #4 reactor was catastrophically destroyed on 26 April 1986. This photo was taken of the ruins of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor #4 during the construction of the Sarcophagus in the late summer of 1986.