• A Chernobyl necklace is a horizontal scar at the base of the throat which results from surgery to remove a thyroid cancer caused by fallout from a nuclear...
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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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    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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    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 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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    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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    Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents Chernobyl disaster Effects of the Chernobyl disaster Chernobyl necklace Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear...
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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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    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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    Bellesrad Chernobyl Children's Project (UK) Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases Chernobyl Heart Chernobyl necklace Chernobyl Shelter...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Mykola Melnyk (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    mission on the dangerously-radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant building immediately after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. For this operation, he was...
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    drama series The Crown (2016–2017); and Valery Legasov in the miniseries Chernobyl (2019), for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor and was nominated...
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    The Chernobyl disaster remains the major and most detrimental nuclear catastrophe which completely altered the radioactive background of the Northern...
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    Report on Chernobyl) was a health impacts report requested by the European Greens in 2006, for the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in...
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    Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, passing through southern Belarus and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The line is owned by Ukrzaliznytsia alone, with railway...
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  • in Translation 2003 (76th) 1 4 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 (76th) 1 2 Chernobyl Heart 2003 (76th) 1 1 Harvie Krumpet 2003 (76th) 1 1 Monster 2003 (76th)...
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    (2021) Executive producer The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008) Chernobyl Diaries (2012) The Good Lie (2014) No Manches Frida (2016) 12 Strong (2018)...
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    Helena's The Greatest; Former nurse scoops People's Oscar for 'adopting' Chernobyl kids #We honour ordinary people who have achieved the extraordinary #...
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    donated all the proceeds from their single "Time Is Ticking Out" to the Chernobyl Children's Project. She was accompanied at the Clarence Hotel by Ali Hewson...
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    Gigolo (2017) (Associate producer) Lullaby (2021) Executive producer Chernobyl Diaries (2012) The Good Lie (2014) No Manches Frida (2016) 12 Strong (2018)...
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