CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Chernobyl Power Complex, lying about 130 km north of Kiev, Ukraine, and about 20 km south of the border with Belarus, consisted of four nuclear reactors of the RBMK-1000 design (see information page on RBMK Reactors).

Detailed explanation-2: -View of the Chernobyl nuclear power station after the explosion on April 26, 1986, in Chernobyl, Ukraine. CHERNOBYL, Ukraine-Sophia Arkadiyivna remembers when the Soviet Union built the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1977, just 20 miles from the village where she served as mayor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today, just over 100 people remain. Once these remaining returnees pass away, no one else will be allowed to move into the exclusion zone due to the dangerous levels of radiation that still exist. Although the areas in the exclusion zone are still deemed inhabitable, many areas bordering the zone are safe to live in.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1986, reactor No. 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster; as a result of this, the power plant is now within a large restricted area known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Both the zone and the power plant are administered by the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management.