Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - Aftermath

Shelter object mock-up of Unit 4 to demonstrate the history of the construction of the first protective structure over Unit 4, and the history of New Safe Confinement construction near Chernobyl, on June 18, 2019. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. Chernobyl nuclear disaster is the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation.