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- 1. a town near Kiev in Ukraine where an accident at a nuclear power station in April 1986 resulted in serious radioactive contamination in Ukraine, Belarus, and other parts of Europe.
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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.
Apr 24, 2018 · Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that was the site of the worst nuclear accident in history when a routine test went horribly wrong on April 26, 1986.
May 17, 2019 · The Chernobyl disaster: What happened, and the long-term impacts. The accident at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine shocked the world, permanently altered a region, and leaves many questions ...
Chernobyl was chosen as the site of Ukraine's first nuclear power plant in 1972, located 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of the city, which opened in 1977. Chernobyl was evacuated on 5 May 1986, nine days after a catastrophic nuclear disaster at the plant, which was the largest nuclear disaster in history.
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.
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began early in the early hours of Saturday 26 April 1986 within the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western USSR and Europe.
Apr 18, 2023 · Russian invasion. Additional resources. Bibliography. In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union)...
By ScienceAlert Staff. (francescadani/iStock) The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was an electricity-generation facility near what was once the city of Pripyat in the Soviet Ukraine.
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.
Apr 26, 2021 · When the Chernobyl power plant exploded it wasn't just the immediate surrounding area in the then Soviet Union that was affected. The poisonous radiation that spewed into the atmosphere drifted...
