Sarcophagus / Shelter Object

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 .
Wikipedia
Photo: Roman Harak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Building
  • Description: steel and concrete structure covering the nuclear reactor number 4 building of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
  • Also known as: “Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus” and “Shelter Object”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and New Safe Confinement.

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 Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.

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.

Memorial
Photo: Mattias811, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 330 metres northwest of Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.

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 Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.

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 Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.

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 Sarcophagus / Shelter Object.

Sarcophagus / Shelter Object

Latitude
51.38962° or 51° 23′ 23″ north
Longitude
30.09934° or 30° 5′ 58″ east
Inception
1986
Height
65 metres (213 feet)
Open location code
9G3G93QX+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 500551951
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q4470718
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Satellite Map

Discover Sarcophagus / Shelter Object from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sarcophagus / Shelter Object” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تابوت محطة تشيرنوبل النووية”
  • Arabic: “محطة تشيرنوبل النووية”
  • Basque: “Txernobylgo sarkofagoa”
  • Belarusian: “Чарнобыльскі саркафаг”
  • Catalan: “Sarcòfag de Txornòbil”
  • Chinese: “切尔诺贝利核电站石棺”
  • Czech: “sarkofág Černobylské jaderné elektrárny”
  • Czech: “Sarkofág Černobylské jaderné elektrárny”
  • Czech: “Starý sarkofág”
  • Indonesian: “Sarkofagus Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Nuklir Chernobyl”
  • Italian: “Sarcofago della centrale nucleare di Černobyl’”
  • Italian: “sarcofago della centrale nucleare di Chernobyl”
  • Polish: “sarkofag elektrowni jądrowej w Czarnobylu”
  • Polish: “Sarkofag elektrowni jądrowej w Czarnobylu”
  • Polish: “Stary sarkofag”
  • Portuguese: “Sarcófago da Usina Nuclear de Chernobil”
  • Romanian: “Sarcofagul de la Centrala Nucleară de la Cernobîl”
  • Russian: “Укрытие (ЧАЭС)”
  • Russian: “Укрытие”
  • Slovenian: “Sarkofag jedrske elektrarne Černobil”
  • Spanish: “Sarcofago de Chernobil”
  • Spanish: “Sarcófago de Chernóbil”
  • Swedish: “sarkofagen vid Tjernobyls kärnkraftverk”
  • Ukrainian: “Об’єкт ‘Укриття’”
  • Ukrainian: “Укриття”

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Highlights include Reactor #4 and Administration.

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