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  2. Chernobyl exclusion zone - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is an environmental recovery area, with efforts devoted to remediation and safeguarding of the reactor site. [51] [52] At the same time, projects for wider economic and social revival of the territories around the disaster zone have been envisioned or implemented. [53]

  3. Chernobyl groundwater contamination - Wikipedia

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    Unfortunately, hydrological and geological conditions in Chernobyl area promoted rapid radionuclide migration to subsurface water network. These factors include flat terrain, abundant precipitation and highly permeable sandy sediments [4] Main natural factors of nuclides migration in the region can be divided into four groups, including: weather and climate-related (evaporation and ...

  4. Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    This report titled: "Chernobyl's legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts", authored by about 100 recognized experts, put the total predicted number of deaths due to the disaster around 4,000, of which 2,200 deaths are expected to be in the ranks of 200,000 liquidators.

  5. File:Chernobyl radiation map 1996.svg - Wikipedia

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    Effects of the Chernobyl disaster; Environmental impact of nuclear power; Krupki; Legacy pollution; Nuclear energy policy of the United States; Nuclear labor issues; Nuclear power debate; Nuclear safety and security; Polesie State Radioecological Reserve; Radiation-induced cancer; Radioecology; Red Forest; Soviet atomic bomb project; Talk ...

  6. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl Forum revealed in 2004 that thyroid cancer among children was one of the main health impacts of the Chernobyl accident, due to ingestion of contaminated dairy products and inhalation of Iodine-131. More than 4,000 cases of childhood thyroid cancer were reported, but there was no evidence of increased solid cancers or leukemia.

  7. Red Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Red Forest (Ukrainian: Рудий ліс, romanized: Rudyi Lis, Russian: Рыжий лес, romanized: Ryzhiy Les, lit. ' ginger-colour forest ') is the ten-square-kilometre (4 sq mi) area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone, located in Polesia.

  8. File:Map of Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.svg - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org منطقة تشيرنوبل المحظورة; Usage on ca.wikipedia.org Zona d'exclusió de Txornòbil

  9. 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.