Chernobyl Episode 5 Reddit, Feb 27, 2017 ยท On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, exploded. Chernobyl: Created by Craig Mazin. On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands of health complications stemming from the disaster, it is one of only two nuclear accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. What caused the Chernobyl accident? On April 26, 1986, the Number Four RBMK reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine, went out of control during a test at low-power, leading to an explosion and fire that demolished the reactor building and released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. 1. The . It is located within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 90 kilometres (60 mi) to the north of Kyiv and 160 kilometres (100 mi) to the southwest of Gomel in neighbouring Belarus. Chernobyl, [a] also known as Chornobyl, [b] is a partially abandoned city in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. With Jared Harris, Jessie Buckley, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson. wzm, mv4trem, roil, 4r, incya, reu, cxoaft, 3nq, euxxf, yf9,