Chernobyl disaster

On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, a city in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, exploded. With dozens of... Wikipedia

• Time:  01:23 MSD (UTC+04:00)
• Date:  April 26, 1986
• Type:  Nuclear and radiation accident
• Cause:  Reactor design and operator error
• Outcome:  INES Level 7 (major accident)
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