{"id":3289,"date":"2012-08-16T19:24:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/?page_id=3289"},"modified":"2022-05-23T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:37:14","slug":"chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Power Plant was commissioned in 1977, with one RBMK 1000 megawatt reactor being commissioned, over the next 6 years, another three reactors were added and a further two were under construction. The plant provided 10% of the Ukraine&#8217;s electrical power. After the accident tore through reactor 4, the plant continued to operate at a limited capacity and provide electricity to the newly independent Ukraine. The plant did not fully close until the millennium, and suffered one more minor accident within the turbine hall. Decommissioning is expected to finish by 2060.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\">Return to\u00a0The Exclusion Zone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style1 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Reactors.jpg\" alt=\"Chernobyl Power Plant\" usemap=\"#chernobyl\" width=\"837\" height=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n<map id=\"chernobyl\" name=\"chernobyl\">\n<area class=\"lbp_secondary\" title=\"Chernobyl 25th Anniversary Memorial\" coords=\"29, 120, 152, 256\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/25th-anniversary-memorial\" \/>\n<area title=\"Unfinished Cooling Towers\" coords=\"601, 442, 811, 618\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/reactor-5-6-cooling-towers\" \/>\n<area title=\"Cooling Canal Fishes\" coords=\"295, 118, 432, 237\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/cooling-canal-fishes\" \/>\n<area shape=\"default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/reactor-5-6-cooling-towers\" \/>\n<area coords=\"0, 0, 10000, 10000\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/reactor-5-6-cooling-towers\" \/> <\/map>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power Plant was commissioned in 1977, with one RBMK 1000 megawatt reactor being commissioned, over the next 6 years, another three reactors were added and a further two were under construction. The plant provided 10% of the Ukraine&#8217;s electrical power. After the accident tore through reactor 4, the plant continued to operate at a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3380,"parent":2883,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3289","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2FkD4-R3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3289\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}