Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

September - October 1990. USSR. Kiev region. Temporary burial site for radioactive waste in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone after the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant named after V. I. Lenin. On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred in the fourth power unit of the NPP during equipment testing during the reactor shutdown for routine preventive maintenance. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valery Zufarov/TASS