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Outline of the Chernobyl disaster

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Original black and white photo of the severely damaged Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant several months after the disaster.
The severely damaged Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant several months after the disaster, prior to the construction of the first sarcophagus containment structure.

The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, when the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded during a test.[1][2] The explosion and reactor core fire spread radioactive contaminants across the Soviet Union and Europe. An exclusion zone was formed around the plant, evacuating over 100,000 people primarily from the cities of Pripyat and Chernobyl.[3] With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The response involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles (about $84.5 billion USD in 2025).[4] It remains the worst nuclear disaster and the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of US$700 billion.[5][6][7]

Overview

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  • Pronunciation: Chernobyl disaster (/tʃɜːrˈnoʊbəl/ chur-NOH-bəl, UK also /tʃɜːrˈnɒbəl/ chur-NOB-əl); also known as Chornobyl disaster
  • Name: Chernobyl disaster or Chernobyl nuclear accident; also Chornobyl disaster or Chornobyl nuclear accident
  • Belarusian name: Чарнобыльская катастрофа, Charnobylskaya katastrofa
  • Russian name: Авария на Чернобыльской АЭС, Avariya na Chernobylskoy AES
  • Ukrainian name: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska katastrofa
  • Date: 26 April 1986

Disaster

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Russo-Ukrainian War

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Places and geography

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Power plant

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Exclusion zone

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Other

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Media

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See also: Cultural impact of the Chernobyl disaster


Non-fiction

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Fiction

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Organizations

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People

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Other

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Accident of 1986". Chornobyl NPP. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  2. ^ McCall, Chris (April 2016). "Chernobyl disaster 30 years on: lessons not learned". The Lancet. 387 (10029): 1707–1708. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30304-x. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 27116266. S2CID 39494685.
  3. ^ Steadman, Philip; Hodgkinson, Simon (1990). Nuclear Disasters & The Built Environment: A Report to the Royal Institute. Butterworth Architecture. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-40850-061-6.
  4. ^ "Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impact, 2002 update; Chapter II – The release, dispersion and deposition of radionuclides" (PDF). OECD-NEA. 2002. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  5. ^ "The Chornobyl Accident". United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  6. ^ Steinhauser, Georg; Brandl, Alexander; Johnson, Thomas E. (2014). "Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents: A review of the environmental impacts". Science of the Total Environment. 470–471: 800–817. Bibcode:2014ScTEn.470..800S. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.029. PMID 24189103.
  7. ^ Samet, Jonathan M.; Seo, Joann (21 April 2016). The Financial Costs of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: A Review of the Literature (PDF) (Report). USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. pp. 14–15. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  8. ^ Bailey, Kat (April 24, 2024). "Exclusive: Chornobyl Liquidators Is a Haunting Tribute Closer to the HBO Series Than STALKER, Releasing in June". IGN. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
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