Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 16.5 kilometres northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometres from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres north of Kyiv.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Power station
- Description: decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, known by Chernobyl disaster
- Also known as: “ChAES”, “Chernobyl NPP”, “Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station”, “Chornobyl NPP”, and “Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 750 kV-Switchyard”
- Historically known as: “Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New Safe Confinement and Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.
New Safe Confinement
Building
Photo: Cls14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The New Safe Confinement is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. New Safe Confinement is situated 390 metres west of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Sarcophagus / Shelter Object
Building
Photo: Roman Harak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus or Shelter Structure is a massive steel and concrete structure covering the nuclear reactor number 4 building of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Sarcophagus / Shelter Object is situated 340 metres west of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Yaniv railway station (former)
Railway station
Photo: Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yaniv railway station, also named Yanov station, is an abandoned Ukrainian station located in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Sometimes referred to as Pripyat station, it lies in the village of Yaniv, south of the city of Pripyat, and is part of the Chernihiv–Ovruch railway. Yaniv railway station (former) is situated 3 km west of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yaniv and Pripyat.
Yaniv
Locality
Photo: Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yaniv is an abandoned village in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It is located south of Pripyat and west of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Yaniv is situated 3½ km west of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Pripyat
Town
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad, catering the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Pripyat is situated 3½ km northwest of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Kopachi
Locality
Photo: Firef7y, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kopachi is a former village near Chernobyl, Ukraine, just south-west of the Pripyat River Basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated and is now within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; and thus has been abandoned since 1986. Kopachi is situated 4½ km south of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant
- Categories: nuclear power plant and industry
- Location: Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.38978° or 51° 23′ 23″ northLongitude
30.10427° or 30° 6′ 15″ eastElevation
116 metres (381 feet)Inception
May 27th, 1978Operator
НАЕК ЕнергоатомOpen location code
9G3G94Q3+WPOpenStreetMap ID
way 23652365OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مفاعل تشرنوبل”
- Arabic: “مفاعل تشيرنوبل”
- Armenian: “Չեռնոբիլի ատոմակայան”
- Armenian: “Վ. Ի. Լենինի անվան Չեռնոբիլի ատոմային էլեկտրակայան”
- Azerbaijani: “Çernobıl AES”
- Bashkir: “Чернобыль АЭС-ы”
- Basque: “Txernobylgo zentral nuklearra”
- Belarusian: “Чарнобыльская атамная электрастанцыя”
- Belarusian: “Чарнобыльская АЭС”
- Belarusian: “ЧАЭС”
- Bengali: “চেরনোবিল পারমাণবিক বিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র”
- Bosnian: “Černobiljska nuklearna elektrana”
- Bulgarian: “АЕЦ Чернобил”
- Bulgarian: “Чернобилска АЕЦ”
- Catalan: “central nuclear de Txornòbil”
- Catalan: “Central nuclear de Txornòbil”
- Chinese: “切尔诺贝利核电站”
- Chinese: “切爾諾貝爾核能電廠”
- Chinese: “切爾諾貝爾核電廠”
- Chinese: “切爾諾貝爾核電站”
- Chinese: “車諾比核能電廠”
- Chinese: “車諾比核電站”
- Crimean Tatar: “Çornobıl atom elektrik stantsiyası”
- Czech: “Černobyl”
- Czech: “Černobylská jaderná elektrárna V. I. Lenina”
- Czech: “Černobylská jaderná elektrárna”
- Czech: “jaderná elektrárna Černobyl”
- Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna Černobyl”
- Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna V. I. Lenina”
- Danish: “Tjernobyl Atomkræftværk”
- Danish: “Tjernobyl Atomkraftværk”
- Danish: “Tjernobyl-atomkraftværket”
- Danish: “Tjernobyl-kernekraftværket”
- Danish: “Tjernobyls atomkraftværk”
- Danish: “Tjernobyls kernekraftværk”
- Dutch: “Kerncentrale Tsjernobyl”
- Esperanto: “Nuklea centralo de Ĉernobilo”
- Estonian: “Tšernobõli tuumaelektrijaam”
- Estonian: “Tšornobõli tuumaelektrijaam”
- Finnish: “Tšernobylin ydinvoimala”
- Finnish: “Tšernobylin ydinvoimalaitos”
- Finnish: “Tshernobylin ydinvoimalaitos”
- French: “Centrale de Tchernobyl”
- French: “Centrale nucleaire de Tchernobyl”
- French: “centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl”
- French: “Centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl”
- French: “Centrales nucléaires de Tchornobyl”
- Georgian: “ჩერნობილის ატომური ელექტროსადგური”
- German: “AKW Tschernobyl”
- German: “Atomkraftwerk Tschernobyl”
- German: “ChNPP”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Lenin”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Tschernobyl”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Tschornobyl „W. I. Lenin“”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Tschornobyl”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk W. I. Lenin”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Wladimir Ilitsch Lenin”
- German: “KKW Tschernobyl”
- Greek: “Πυρηνικός Σταθμός Παραγωγής Ενέργειας του Τσερνόμπιλ”
- Hebrew: “תחנת הכוח הגרעינית צ’רנוביל”
- Hebrew: “תחנת הכוח הגרעינית של צ’רנוביל”
- Hindi: “चेरनोबिल परमाणु ऊर्जा संयंत्र”
- Hungarian: “csernobili atomerőmű”
- Hungarian: “Csernobili atomerőmű”
- Indonesian: “Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Nuklir Chernobyl”
- Italian: “centrale nucleare di Černobyl‘”
- Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Černobyl’”
- Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Chernobyl”
- Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Čornóbil’s’ka”
- Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Čornobyl‘”
- Italian: “Centrale nucleare V.I. Lenin”
- Japanese: “チェルノブイリ原子力発電所”
- Japanese: “チェルノブイリ原発”
- Japanese: “チェルノブイル原子力発電所”
- Japanese: “チョルノービリ原子力発電所”
- Japanese: “チョルノービリ原発”
- Japanese: “チョルノーブィリ原子力発電所”
- Korean: “체르노빌 원자력 발전소”
- Latvian: “Černobiļas AES”
- Latvian: “Černobiļas atomelektrostacija”
- Latvian: “Čornobiļas atomelektrostacija”
- Lithuanian: “Černobilio atominė elektrinė”
- Lithuanian: “Černobylio AE”
- Lithuanian: “Černobylio atominė elektrinė”
- Malay: “Loji Janakuasa Nuklear Chernobyl”
- Malay: “Loji Kuasa Nuklear Chernobyl”
- Malay: “Loji Kuasa Nuklear Chornobyl”
- Malayalam: “ചെർണോബിൽ ആണവോർജ്ജനിലയം”
- Northern Sami: “Černobyl atomfápmorusttet”
- Northern Sami: “Černobyla atomfápmorusttet”
- Northern Sami: “Tšernobyl atomfápmorusttet”
- Northern Sami: “Tšernobyla atomfápmorusttet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjernobyl atomkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjernobyl kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjornobyl kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Tsjornobyl kjernekraftverk”
- Persian: “نیروگاه هستهای چرنوبیل”
- Polish: “CzAES”
- Polish: “Czarnobylska Elektrownia Jądrowa”
- Polish: “Elektrownia atomowa w Czarnobylu”
- Polish: “Elektrownia jądrowa w Czarnobylu”
- Polish: “Elektrownia jądrowa w Czernobylu”
- Portuguese: “Reator Nuclear de Chernobil”
- Portuguese: “Reator Nuclear de Chernobyl”
- Portuguese: “Usina Nuclear de Chernobil”
- Portuguese: “Usina Nuclear de Chernobyl”
- Romanian: “Centrala de la Cernobîl”
- Romanian: “Centrala nucleară de la Cernobîl”
- Russian: “ЧАЭС”
- Russian: “Чернобыльская атомная электростанция”
- Russian: “Чернобыльская АЭС”
- Scots: “Chernobyl Nuclear Pouer Plant”
- Scots: “Chornobyl Nuclear Pouer Plant”
- Serbian: “Нуклеарна електрана Чернобиљ”
- Serbian: “Чернобиљска нуклеарна електрана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nuklearna elektrana Černobilj”
- Slovak: “Atómová elektráreň Černobyľ”
- Slovak: “Černobyľ”
- Slovak: “Černobyľská atómová elektráreň V. I. Lenina”
- Slovak: “Černobyľská atómová elektráreň”
- Slovak: “Jadrová elektráreň Černobyľ”
- Slovenian: “Černobilska jedrska elektrarna”
- Slovenian: “Jedrska elektrarna Černobil”
- Spanish: “central nuclear de Chernobil”
- Spanish: “central nuclear de Chernóbil”
- Spanish: “Central nuclear de Chernóbil”
- Swedish: “Tjernobyls kärnkraftverk”
- Thai: “โรงไฟฟ้านิวเคลียร์เชอร์โนบิล”
- Thai: “โรงไฟฟ้านิวเคลียร์เชียร์โนบีล”
- Turkish: “Çernobil Nükleer Santrali”
- Ukrainian: “ЧАЕС”
- Ukrainian: “Чорнобильська АЕС”
- Ukrainian: “Чорнобильська атомна електростанція”
- Ukrainian: “Чорнобильська Атомна Електростанція”
- Vietnamese: “Nhà máy điện hạt nhân Chernobyl”
- Vietnamese: “Nhà máy điện hạt nhân Chornobyl”
- Welsh: “Atomfa Chernobyl”
- Yue Chinese: “切爾諾貝爾核電廠”
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