Chernobyl Exclusion Zone / Nuclear Power Plant / Reactor Number 4

The nuclear power plant consisted of four reactors, each capable of producing 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electric power (3,200 MW of thermal power), and the four together produced about 10% of Ukraine’s electricity at the time of the disaster.[2] Construction of the plant and the nearby city of Pripyat to house workers and their families began in 1970, with reactor No. 1 commissioned in 1977. It was the third Soviet RBMK nuclear power plant, after the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant and the Kursk Nuclear Power P