Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Chernobyl Exclusion Zone The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation (, ) is an officially designated exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. It is also commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 30 Kilometre Zone, or simply The Zone (, ). Established by the Soviet Armed Forces soon after the 1986 disaster, it initially existed as an area of radius from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant designated for evacuation and placed under military control. Its borders have since been altered to cover a larger area of Ukraine. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone borders a
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