Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident or simply Chernobyl, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 Light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, in what was then known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). The accident motivated safety upgrades on all remaining Soviet designed reactors in the RBMK(Chernobyl No.4) family, of which eleven continue to power electric grids as of 2013.

Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident or simply Chernobyl, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 Light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, in what was then known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). The accident motivated safety upgrades on all remaining Soviet designed reactors in the RBMK(Chernobyl No.4) family, of which eleven continue to power electric grids as of 2013.