First elimination stage

    The main dates of the first stage

    April 26 – Accident at the Unit 4. Governmental Commission for investigation of the accident causes and elimination of Chornobyl accident consequences had been created by the USSR Council of Ministers Order No 830. B.E.Shcherbina - Deputy Chairman of USSR Council of Ministers has been appointed as the commission head.

    April 27 - Evacuation of the Pripyat and 10-km zone inhabitants.

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    April 26, 1986 (1.23.40 a.m., Moscow time) – accident at Chornobyl NPP Unit No.4 in the course of design testing of one of the safety-related systems
    In the beginning of May, 1977 the assemblers, builders, servicemen and operational personnel of ChNPP begun precommissioning works at Unit 1

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