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- 1. a town near Kiev in Ukraine where, in April 1986, an accident at a nuclear power station resulted in a serious escape of radioactive material.
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- Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness, some of whom later died.
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Jun 17, 2024 · Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness, some of whom later died.
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The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.
Apr 24, 2018 · Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that was the site of a disastrous nuclear accident in 1986. Learn about the causes, consequences and aftermath of the worst nuclear disaster in history, and how it affected the Soviet Union and the world.
Chernobyl ( / tʃɜːrˈnoʊbəl / chur-NOH-bəl, UK also / tʃɜːrˈnɒbəl / chur-NOB-əl; Russian: Чернобыль, IPA: [tɕɪrˈnobɨlʲ]) or Chornobyl ( Ukrainian: Чорнобиль, IPA: [tʃorˈnɔbɪlʲ] ⓘ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
- Life in Pripyat before the disaster. Children waving Soviet flags, take part in a parade in Pripyat before the disaster (MyPrypiat5 ©OlenaPantsiuk)
- April 26, 1986. The day of the disaster. In the early hours of Saturday 26 April, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic explosion, throwing clouds of radioactive material over the surrounding area.
- The Liquidators. A memorial to the liquidators stands in front of the Chernobyl power plant.
- The effects on the Soviet Union. In the days after the disaster, the Soviet Union government attempted to cover up the incident, and they refused to report what had happened.
May 17, 2019 · Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that exploded and burned in 1986, releasing radioactive material into the atmosphere. The disaster caused thousands of deaths, evacuations, environmental damage and political changes, and is still being cleaned up and studied today.
Modern History Science and Technology. On 26th April 1986, a routine safety test went catastrophically wrong and triggered the worst nuclear accident of all time. The incident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine led to the release of 400 times more radiation than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WW2.
