• The Chernobyl Forum is the name of a group of UN agencies, founded on 3–5 February 2003 at the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Headquarters...
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    The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in...
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    The 1986 Chernobyl disaster triggered the release of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous radioisotopes...
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    The Chernobyl disaster, considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian...
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    mass formed beneath Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, during the Chernobyl disaster of April 26 1986, and is noted...
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    Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in...
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  • The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear disaster rated a level 7 accident on the International Nuclear Event Scale, alongside the Fukushima...
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    The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation is an officially designated exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster...
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    Anatoly Dyatlov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    deputy chief engineer for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. He supervised the safety test which resulted in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, for which he served...
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    The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in...
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    This article compares the radioactivity release and decay from the Chernobyl disaster with various other events which involved a release of uncontrolled...
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    Aleksandr Akimov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986. Aleksandr Akimov...
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    the number 4 reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The structure also...
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    This is a list of Chernobyl-related articles. Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear...
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    The Chernobyl disaster is the world's worst nuclear accident to date. The name "Chernobyl" has become synonymous with the concept of a nuclear energy...
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    The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear disaster that occurred in the early hours of 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet...
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    Valery Khodemchuk (category People associated with the Chernobyl disaster)
    night shift circulating pump operator at the Chernobyl power plant, and the first casualty of the Chernobyl disaster. Valery Khodemchuk was born 24 March...
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    Valery Legasov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    Soviet Union. He is primarily known for his efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Legasov also presented the findings of an investigation to the...
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    compares the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents. Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster List...
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    Around Nuclear Plant". The New York Times. The Chernobyl Forum: 2003-2005 (April 2006). "Chernobyl's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-economic...
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  • Leonid Toptunov (category People associated with the Chernobyl disaster)
    reactor control chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986. Leonid Toptunov...
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    Boris Shcherbina (category People associated with the Chernobyl disaster)
    supervised Soviet crisis management of two major catastrophes: the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake. Shcherbina was born in Debaltsevo...
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    Slavutych (category Aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster)
    in northern Ukraine, purpose-built for the evacuated personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the 1986 disaster that occurred near the city...
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  • pp. 14–15. Retrieved 8 May 2024. Agency., Chernobyl Forum. International Atomic Energy (2006). Chernobyl's legacy : health, environmental and socio-economic...
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    Vasily Ignatenko (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    1986) was a Soviet firefighter who was among the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster. He worked as an electrician before being conscripted into the...
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  • Volodymyr Pravyk (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    his role in directing initial efforts to extinguish fires following the Chernobyl Disaster. Following the event, he was hospitalized with acute radiation...
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    (2006). Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programmes: Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum, Expert Group "Health" (PDF). Geneva:...
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  • Leonid Telyatnikov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    notable for his role in directing the early stages initial response to the Chernobyl disaster. Telyatnikov served many years as an officer in both Soviet and...
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    anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in reply to the 2006 report of the Chernobyl Forum which was criticized by some advocacy organizations opposed to nuclear...
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  • Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment is a translation of a 2007 Russian publication by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily...
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