The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is managed by an agency of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, while the power plant and its sarcophagus (and replacement) are administered separately. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone borders a separately administered area, the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve, to the north in Belarus. Its borders have since been altered to cover a larger area of Ukraine. : p.4–5 : p.49f.3 It is also commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 30 Kilometre Zone, or simply The Zone : p.2–5 ( Ukrainian: Чорнобильська зона, romanized: Chornobyl's'ka zona, Belarusian: Чарнобыльская зона, romanized: Charnobyl'skaya zona, Russian: Чернобыльская зона, romanized: Chernobyl'skaya zona).Įstablished by the Soviet Armed Forces soon after the 1986 disaster, it initially existed as an area of 30 km (19 mi) radius from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant designated for evacuation and placed under military control. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation ( Ukrainian: Зона відчуження Чорнобильської АЕС, romanized: zona vidchuzhennya Chornobyl's'koyi AES, Belarusian: зона адчужэння Чарнобыльскай АЭС, romanized: zona adchuzhennya Charnobyl'skay AES, Russian: Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС, romanized: zona otchuzhdenya Chernobyl'skoy AES) is an officially designated exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.
Satellite image of the reactor and surrounding area in April 2009
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