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Jun 23, 2023·edited Jun 23, 2023

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant had four operational RBMK-1000 reactors, each capable of producing 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electric power (3,200 MW of thermal power). Only one was disabled in the events of 26 April, 1986; two more reactors were partially completed, No. 5 and 6, but that was stopped after the accident.

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Good information --I will revise that in the article

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