Chernobyl disaster

When

26 Apr 1986

Kind

Event

Coordinates

51.39° N, 30.10° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Chernobyl disaster.

Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4,056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property". Radioactive fallout from the accident is concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people are forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".

1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union

On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, exploded. The accident resulted in dozens of direct deaths and a major release of radioactive material into the environment, causing widespread health effects and requiring the establishment of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nükleer reaktörde yapılan ısı testi sırasında yapılan bir hata sonucu Çernobil reaktör kazası gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Reaktorkatastrophe von Tschernobyl beginnt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “explosion de la centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl, en URSS”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “взрыв реактора 4-го энергоблока Чернобыльской атомной электростанции, крупнейшая техногенная авария, повлёкшая за собой сильное радиоактивное загрязнение”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la central nuclear de Chernóbil, Ucrania, se produce la mayor catástrofe nuclear de la historia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “كارثة تشيرنوبل – انفجار في مفاعل تشيرنوبل النووي، في مدينة بريبيات في التابعة وقتها للاتحاد السوفيتي”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “蘇聯烏克蘭切尔诺贝利核電廠發生史上最大的核事故 - 切尔诺贝利核事故。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ソ連のウクライナ・ソビエト社会主義共和国のチェルノブイリ原子力発電所で大規模な爆発事故発生（チェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page