What is Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?
{{Infobox power station | name = Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant | name_official = Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station | image = File:Chernobyl_NPP_Site_Panorama_with_NSC_Construction_-_June_2013.jpg | image_caption = View of the plant in 2013. From L to R [[Chernobyl New Safe Confinement|New Safe Confinement]] under construction and reactors 4 to 1. | coordinates = {{coord|51|23|21|N|30|05|58|E|region:UA_type:landmark|display=title,inline}} | country = [[Ukraine]] | location = [[Pripyat]] | status = Inactive | construction_began = 15 August 1972 | commissioned = {{start date|1977|09|26|df=yes}} | decommissioned = Process ongoing since 2000 | operator = [[Chernobyl Exclusion Zone#Administration|SAUEZM]] | np_reactors = 4 | np_reactor_type = [[RBMK-1000]] | ps_thermal_capacity = 12,800 [[Megawatt|MW]] | ps_units_operational = None | ps_electrical_capacity = 4,000 [[Megawatt|MW]] | website = {{url|https://chnpp.gov.ua/en}} }}'''Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant''' is a nuclear power plant currently under decommissioning near the city of Pripyat in the Kyiv region, which operated from 1977 to 2000. ==History== Construction of the station began in [[1970]], the first unit was launched in [[1977]]. The nuclear power plant is located at a distance of 2 km from the city of Prypyat, built primarily for its employees. The name is associated with the city of Chernobyl, then the district center of this area. As of the beginning of 1986, Chernobyl was the most powerful nuclear power plant in the European part of the [[USSR]]. On April 26, [[1986]], during a design test, an [[Chernobyl disaster|accident occurred]] that completely destroyed the station's fourth reactor and caused significant contamination of the surrounding area with radioactive substances. As a result of this [[Chernobyl disaster|catastrophe]], the [[population]] of Prypyat, Chornobyl and all other settlements within a radius of about 30 km around the station was completely evacuated. Today the accident itself is one of the largest man-made disasters in human history.<