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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (officially the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station, or ChNPP) is a decommissioned nuclear energy facility located in the Vyshhorod Raion of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, along the Pripyat River and a man-made cooling reservoir, roughly 3 kilometers southeast of the abandoned city of Pripyat and 18 kilometers northwest of Chernobyl. On April 26, 1986, the site suffered the most catastrophic reactor breach in nuclear history (Level 7, the maximum on the INES scale), which destroyed Reactor Unit 4. Today, ChNPP is a specialized decommissioning site enclosed by the monumental New Safe Confinement arch structure.
Pripyat
Pripyat is an abandoned city of regional significance situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, along the banks of the Pripyat River roughly 3 kilometers from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) and 16 kilometers from the border with Belarus. Founded in February 1970 as the ninth Soviet "atomgrad" (atomic company town) for power plant personnel, the municipality was completely evacuated on April 27, 1986, following the catastrophic explosion of ChNPP Reactor No. 4. Housing nearly 50,000 residents at the time of the disaster, Pripyat became the world's premier modern ghost town, serving as an open-air monument to industrial failure, a frozen time capsule of late-Soviet urban planning, and the ground zero of global urban exploration culture.