The Chernobyl Disaster: What Happened?
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 25–26 April 1986 in the No. 4 nuclear reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the now abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Soviet Ukraine. The disaster began during a systems test on 26 April 1986 at reactor 4 of the V. I….