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Chernobyl

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Cher·no·byl  (chr-nbl, -bl) or Chor·no·byl' (chôr-)
A city of north-central Ukraine near the border of Belarus. It was evacuated and remains uninhabited as a result of a major nuclear power plant accident nearby on April 16, 1986.
Chernobyl [tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl -ˈnɒbəl]
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(Placename) a town in the N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
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Noun1.Chernobyl - a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)
Ukraine, Ukrayina - a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century


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Written by prizewinning journalist Igor Kostin, who braved severe radiation to take the only existing photograph of the Chernobyl plant on the day of its catastrophic destruction, Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter is a compilation of black-and-white and color photographs that Kostin continued to take for twenty years of the plant, the forbidden zone surrounding it, and the people who worked there.
Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter by Carson, Michael J. / Reviewer's Bookwatch
Independent radiation scientists from the UK have accused the United Nation's sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of downplaying the impact of the Chernobyl disaster.
Chernobyl death toll downplayed by Australian Nursing Journal
Most unusual is Mary Mycio's Wormwood Forest: A Natural History Of Chernobyl (0309094305, $27.
Joseph Henry Press by The Bookwatch
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