Outline of the Chernobyl disaster


The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, when the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, exploded during a test. The explosion and reactor core fire spread radioactive contaminants across the Soviet Union and Europe. An exclusion zone was formed around the plant, evacuating over 100,000 people primarily from the cities of Pripyat and Chernobyl. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The response involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18billion rubles. It remains the worst nuclear disaster and the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of
US$700 billion.

Overview

Disaster

Russo-Ukrainian War

Places and geography

Power plant

Exclusion zone

Other

Media

Non-fiction

The Bell of Chernobyl, a documentary film, a documentary filmChernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, a Russian scientific publicationChernobyl Heart, a documentary filmChornobyl.3828, a Ukrainian documentary filmThe Russian Woodpecker, a documentary film

Fiction

Aurora, a 2006 filmCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a video gameChernobyl, a 2019 TV seriesChernobyl, a novel by Frederik PohlChernobyl: Abyss, a 2021 Russian disaster filmChernobyl Diaries, a 2012 disaster horror filmChernobyl: Zone of Exclusion, a Russian TV seriesChernobylite, a 2021 science fiction survival video game', a 1990 Soviet film

Organizations

People

Other