What and where is the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?
Posted on Feb 24, 2026 / Travel
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was a Soviet‑era nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, about 110 km north of Kyiv. It had four main reactors, with units 1–3 producing electricity before they were eventually shut down in the years after the accident. Reactors 5 and 6 were being built when the 1986 disaster stopped construction and they were never completed. The plant is now inside a large restricted area called the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone that surrounds the site and nearby towns. All remaining reactors eventually stopped operating and the whole site is being decommissioned over decades under Ukrainian supervision. The location and history of the facility make it one of the most infamous energy sites in the world because of what happened there in 1986. It’s still a focus of cleanup and containment work today even though it doesn’t generate power anymore.
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