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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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