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  2. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located next to the Pripyat River, which feeds into the Dnieper reservoir system, one of the largest surface water systems in Europe, which at the time supplied water to Kiev's 2.4 million residents, and was still in spring flood when the accident occurred.

  3. Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Abstract of the April 2006 International Agency for Research on Cancer report Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident stated "It is unlikely that the cancer burden from the largest radiological accident to date could be detected by monitoring national cancer statistics. Indeed, results ...

  4. Chernobyl New Safe Confinement - Wikipedia

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    The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter; Ukrainian: Новий безпечний конфайнмент) is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

  5. Is nuclear power gaining new energy? - AOL

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    The Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011 raised new fears about the safety of the global industry [Getty Images] But nuclear development did not stop. In China, for example, there were 13 nuclear ...

  6. Chernobyl isn't the biggest nuclear risk. Ukraine's active ...

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    The concern is that a nuclear disaster could occur if during the conflict they were accidentally damaged, left unmaintained or cut off from the power grid needed to cool the reactors.

  7. What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst ...

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  8. Chernobyl exclusion zone - Wikipedia

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    According to Chernobyl disaster liquidators, the radiation levels there are "well below the level across the zone", a fact that president of the Ukrainian Chernobyl Union Yury Andreyev considers miraculous. [35] The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has been accessible to interested parties such as scientists and journalists since the zone was created.

  9. World Nuclear Industry Status Report - Wikipedia

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    This water contained in the basement of reactors and in storage tanks contains 2.5 times the total amount of caesium-137 released at the Chernobyl accident. The report says that China, Germany and Japan, three of the world's four largest economies, as well as India, [10] now generate more power from renewables than from nuclear power. For the ...