The location of Chernobyl and the country it is situated in are questions that are being pondered due to current news headlines. Ukrainian President Zelensky announced that Russia conducted an attack on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), causing damage to the structure protecting the collapsed 4th reactor. The statement highlighted that Russia’s attacks on nuclear facilities pose a threat to global security. So, where is Chernobyl located? Where is the Nuclear Power Plant? The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is located 130 km away from the city of Kiev, Ukraine, housing 4 nuclear reactors of the RBMK-1000 type. In 1986, this plant witnessed the world’s largest nuclear disaster, operating with four reactors. The explosion that occurred in Reactor 4 during those times caused extensive environmental damage and spread radioactive materials to a wide area, affecting the environment. Following this disaster, a large “exclusion zone” was established around the plant, which still harbors radioactive materials at dangerous levels. Known as the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant during the Soviet era, it consisted of four RBMK type reactors, each capable of producing 1000 megawatts (MW) of electrical energy (3.2 GW thermal power), collectively producing approximately 10% of Ukraine’s electricity at the time of the disaster. The Chernobyl plant is located 14.5 km northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 km from the Belarus-Ukraine border, and approximately 110 km north of Kiev. The construction of the city of Pripyat, where the homes of the plant’s workers and families were located, began in 1970, and the first reactor was commissioned in 1977. After Leningrad and Kursk, it was the third RBMK type plant in the Soviet Union and the first nuclear power plant on Ukrainian soil. Following the completion of the first reactor in 1977, Reactors 2 (1978), 3 (1981), and 4 (1983) were completed. According to the same reactor design, Blocks 5 or 6 were planned adjacent to the four old blocks at a distance of approximately 1 km. Reactor 5 was about 70% complete at the time of the explosion of Block 4, and it was scheduled to become operational around six months later on November 7, 1986. Following the disaster, the constructions of Blocks 5 and 6 were suspended and eventually canceled in April 1989, a few days before the third anniversary of the 1986 explosion. While Reactors 3 and 4 were second-generation units, Reactors 1 and 2, like at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, were first-generation units. Second-generation RBMK designs were equipped with a more secure containment structure, visible in photos of the facility. On April 26, 1986, Reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was part of the then Soviet Union, experienced a loss of control during inappropriate low-power tests, leading to an explosion that destroyed the reactor building, causing a significant amount of radiation to be released into the atmosphere. When safety measures were neglected, the uranium fuel in the reactor overheated and melted through the protective barriers. The accident that occurred on April 26, 1986, at the plant located 110 kilometers from Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, remains etched in memory, with its consequences continuing to hold a place on the international agenda. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was considered one of the greatest achievements of Soviet science. The explosion at the time occurred in Reactor 4 after a safety test lasting 1 hour, 24 minutes spiraled out of control. Thousands of tons of the roof exploded into the air, and 8 tons of radioactive fuel dispersed into the atmosphere. Out of the firefighters who extinguished the fire in the reactor, 31 succumbed to high radiation exposure on-site. As the collapsed reactor continued to emit lethal radiation, Soviet officials did everything they could to conceal the incident. Secret preparations were made for the evacuation of Pripyat city, where the workers and their families of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant lived, but the evacuation could only commence the following afternoon. Within three hours, Pripyat transformed into a ghost town, and in the subsequent days, thousands of tons of chemical materials were dropped onto the exploding reactor by helicopters. The poisonous cloud that emerged after the explosion affected Ukraine and Belarus, as well as parts of Russia and Europe. Ten days later, the toxic clouds reached as far as the United States, Canada, and even Japan.