Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

September - October 1990. USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Burakovka temporary radioactive waste disposal site in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone due to the nuclear accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. 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