It was the source of much pride in the USSR, a city of tomorrow with the latest innovations in urban planning and technology. It was named after the nearby Pripyat River and was proclaimed a city in 1979. Located in the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union, today it is in Ukraine close to the border with Belarus. Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970 for the purpose of serving the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
It is, alongside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, one of only two nuclear disasters rated at the highest level of seven on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The nearby city of Pripyat was evacuated, leaving the Chernobyl Nuclear Exclusion Zone abandoned. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant went wrong, causing what is considered to be the biggest nuclear disaster in history.
In the early hours of 26 April 1986, a standard test at the No.
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