 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was a Soviet nuclear power facility located near the town of Pripyat, in northern Ukraine, approximately 130 kilometers (81 miles) north of Kyiv. It is best known for the catastrophic nuclear disaster that occurred on April 26, 1986, when reactor number four experienced a massive explosion due to a combination of design flaws and operator error during a late-night safety test.