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  2. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    Documentaries like the Oscar-winning Chernobyl Heart released in 2003, explore how radiation affected people living in the area and information about the long-term side effects of radiation exposure. [266] The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015) is a documentary about three women who decided to return to the exclusion zone after the disaster. In the ...

  3. Chernobyl - Wikipedia

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    Chernobyl (/ tʃ ɜːr ˈ n oʊ b əl / chur-NOH-bəl, UK also / tʃ ɜːr ˈ n ɒ b əl / 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.

  4. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [a] (ChNPP) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine , 16.5 kilometres (10 mi) northwest of the city of Chernobyl , 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the Belarus–Ukraine border , and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Kyiv .

  5. Today in History: The Chernobyl Disaster and the Old Scourge ...

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    Chernobyl. The word and the place will be forever associated with the dangers of nuclear energy. More than any other event, including America's Three Mile Island, Chernobyl slowed global.

  6. Russian Soldiers Camped in Chernobyl's Radioactive Forest ...

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    Russian troops got sick after digging into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone’s heavily irradiated Red Forest. And today, some soldiers are still falling sick.

  7. Fire out at Ukrainian nuclear plant after Russian shelling - AOL

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    A fire at Europe's largest nuclear power plant was extinguished Friday after Russian troops shelled it overnight in an attack that prompted fears of a Chernobyl-like disaster.

  8. Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases

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    The external relative gamma dose for a person in the open near the Chernobyl disaster site. The intermediate-lived fission products like Cs-137 contribute nearly all of the gamma dose now after a number of decades have passed, see opposite. The relative contributions of the major nuclides to the radioactive contamination of the air after the ...

  9. Chernobyl nuclear plant loses power, again prompting fears of ...

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    Last week, a fire broke out at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, after Russian troops shelled it, prompting fears of a Chernobyl-like disaster.