16:41 27/04/2012 An explosion ripped through the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, formerly the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the early hours of April 26, 1986. It would be the biggest disaster in the history of the global nuclear power industry. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located on the right bank of the Pripyat River 12 kilometers from Chernobyl in the Kiev Region. Photo: A car enters the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at the Teshkov checkpoint.>>