Reactor #4

Reactor #4 is a ruins in , . Reactor #4 is situated nearby to the building , as well as near .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.

Power station
Photo: Ingmar Runge, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a 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 . is situated 340 metres east of Reactor #4.

Building
Photo: Roman Harak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus or Shelter Object is a massive steel and concrete structure covering the nuclear reactor number 4 building of the .

Building
Photo: Cls14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the , in , which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yaniv and Pripyat.

Locality
Photo: Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an abandoned village in , , northern . It is located south of and west of the . is situated 3 km west of Reactor #4.

Town
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in , , located near the border with . Named after the nearby river, , it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad, a type of closed city in the Soviet Union that housed nuclear workers. is situated 3½ km northwest of Reactor #4.

Locality
Photo: Firef7y, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former village near , , 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; thus it has been abandoned since 1986. is situated 5 km southeast of Reactor #4.

Reactor #4

Latitude
51.3895° or 51° 23′ 22″ north
Longitude
30.09936° or 30° 5′ 58″ east
Inception
December 20th, 1983
Open location code
9G3G93QX+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 500551950
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­ruins
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­flat
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Reactor #4” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “四号反应堆”
  • Czech: “Reaktor č. 4”
  • French: “Réacteur n°4”
  • German: “Reaktor Nr. 4”
  • Hungarian: “4.sz. Reaktor”
  • Italian: “Reattore Nº4”
  • Polish: “Reaktor numer 4”
  • Russian: “4-й Энергоблок”
  • Ukrainian: “IV енергоблок”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Chernobyl Sarcophagus Memorial and Administration.

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