Chernobyl Timeline

  • Reactor 4 shut down

  • Explosive destruction of reactor 4 at 1:23 am

  • First fire put out by 5 am

  • Evacuations commence and 30km exclusion zone established

  • Nuclear fallout covered Ukraine and Belarus, reaching as far as Scandinavia

  • 116,000 people evacuated

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