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 He Zheng Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located about seventy miles (115 kilometers) north of Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. This project was meant to be like any other power plant that has reactors, and could generate electricity, but the purpose of what it actually built for is different. The soviets decide to use nuclear because they were intended to produce power and they were the total domestic electricity production in the country as well as it could also produce plutonium for military use, back to 1950s, when soviet was trying to a par with of united state’s nuclear arsenal, to accomplish it, they need a dependable supply of plutonium, which were benefits the military as a great source of creating nuclear weapon. According to same article called // Chernobyl accident - Ukraine: 1986” // By Neil Schlager it says “At the time of the accident, twenty-one reactors of this design were in operation in the Soviet Union. Energy supplied by nuclear power plants, at that time, accounted for about fifteen percent of all the electricity generated in the nation.” (Schlager) These reactors were built without containment shells, and that might be the reason why it made the accident even worse, because without those shells, radioactivity materials were being spreading within the range of surrounding area . Chernobyl has four Chernobyl RBMK-1000 reactors, an abbreviation for //reactor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy,// or "reactor with high power of the type channel." ( Schlager) The unit 4 was destroyed after in the accident, unit 2 was shut down after a turbine hall fire in 1991, unit 1 was closed in 1997 and unit 3 closed at the end of 2000 due to international pressure. No one did benefit from it, but on the other hand, a lot of innocent lives were being taken from it, as well as how harmful it does to the environment. Besides, it also had other features regarded unsafe in the Soviet Union as well as by experts from other countries. The Soviet Union never exported RBMK reactors, which prove that they put human’s life in dangerous, and careless about the whole project. ( McCarthy) As in 2004 Russia still using these power plant, and they’re considered by the world community as out-of-date reactors.