Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Nuclear Power Plant, Reactor Number 4

The nuclear power plant consisted of four reactors, each capable of producing 1, 000 megawatts (MW) of electric power (3, 200 MW of thermal power), and the four together produced about 10 of Ukraine s electricity at the time of the Construction of the plant and the nearby city of Pripyat to house workers and their families began in 1970, with reactor No. 1 commissioned in 1977. It was the third Soviet RBMK nuclear power plant, after the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant and the Kursk Nuclear Power P