Chernobyl Chernobyl Chernobyl () is a city in the restricted Chernobyl Exclusion Zone situated in the Ivankiv Raion of northern Kiev Oblast, near Ukraine's border with Belarus. Chernobyl is about northeast of Kiev, and approximately southwest of the Belarusian city of Gomel and 16 km [10 mi] from Ukraine’s border with Belarus. The city was the administrative center of Chernobyl Raion (district) from 1923 until it was disestablished in 1988. Before its evacuation, the city had about 14,000 residents. The city was evacuated on 27 April 1986, 30 hours after the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which was
Kursk Nuclear Power Plant Power Plant and the neighbouring town of Kurchatov stood in for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and Pripyat for the production of the 1991 American television movie "". In 2018, the first concrete construction started on Kursk-II-1, a VVER-TOI reactor. Kursk-II-1 and II-2 will replace Kursk 1 and 2 which are approaching end of life. The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant has 4 operational units: Kursk Nuclear Power Plant The Nuclear power station Kursk (Russian: Курская АЭС []) is located in western Russia on the bank of the Seym River about 40 kilometers west of the city of Kursk. The nearby