# @cgtneurope on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@cgtneurope/video/7633103178333998368
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64644850-cgtneurope-tiktok
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/4dbf8f47d2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-04-26T16:18:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

## Caption

At 01:23 on April 26, 1986, a human error during a safety test triggered a blast in reactor number four at the Chornobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The explosion tore the inside of the building apart, sending a plume of radioactive smoke into the atmosphere, with nuclear fuel burning for more than 10 days. It became the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. The area was evacuated and became an exclusion zone. The city of Pripyat, 3km from the plant with a population of 48,000 residents in 1986, was completely evacuated. It remains abandoned, with its empty decaying buildings -- including a rusting amusement park and ferris wheel -- resembling a post-apocalyptic ghost town. #chornobyl #nuclear

## Stats

- **Views:** 1,647
- **Likes:** 51
- **Shares:** 2
- **Comments:** 1

## Tags

nuclear, chornobyl

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