Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a former nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of in northern , 16.5 kilometres northwest of the city of , 16 kilometres from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres north of .
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  • Power station
  • …lies at an elevation of 116 metres (381 feet)
  • …was formerly known as “Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant”
  • …is operated by НАЕК Енергоатом
  • 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”
    “Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 750 kV-Switchyard”
    “V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant”
    “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant”
  • Established: May 27, 1978

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include New Safe Confinement and Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.
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The is a structure put in place… is situated 390 metres west of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Roman Harak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus, also… is situated 340 metres west of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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is a railway station, which is situated 740 metres north of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yaniv and Pripyat.
Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an abandoned village in , , northern . is situated 3½ km west of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Jorge Franganillo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned… is situated 3½ km northwest of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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is a former village near , , just south-west of the Pripyat River Basin. is situated 4½ km south of Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

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Latitude
51.38978° or 51° 23′ 23″ north
Longitude
30.10427° or 30° 6′ 15″ east
Open location code
9G3G94Q3+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23652365
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Geo­Names ID
7289548
Wiki­data ID
Q215419

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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 Txernòbil”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Tashar Nukiliya ta Chernobyl”
  • 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 имени В. И. Ленина”
  • 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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