The Chernobyl disaster caused 2 deaths within the complex.
 At 21:02 the evening of 28 April, a 20-second announcement was read in the TV news programme Vremya: "There has been an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
 It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seventhe maximum severityon the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan

