• The consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in France have sparked ongoing debate since the catastrophic event in 1986. Officially, French authorities...
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    The Chernobyl disaster of 26 April 1986 triggered the release of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous...
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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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    Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster...
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    in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about 90 kilometres (60 mi) north of Kyiv...
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    amounts of radioactive isotopes are released, such as in the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. The impact of nuclear...
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    commissioned in phases with the four reactors entering commercial operation between 1978 and 1984. In 1986, in what became known as the Chernobyl disaster, reactor...
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    Zone,: p.2–5  was established shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.: p.4–5 : p.49f.3  Initially, Soviet authorities...
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    Yury Bandazhevsky (category People associated with the Chernobyl disaster)
    1957, in Belarus), former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel (Belarus), is a scientist working on consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. He was...
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    remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The structure...
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    released, after the Chernobyl disaster and was regarded as the worst nuclear disaster in history until Chernobyl. It is the only disaster classified as...
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    how the impact of humans' alteration of the land has led to widespread and/or long-lasting consequences. These disasters have included deaths of wildlife...
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    report by the JNES (Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization). It is regarded as the worst nuclear incident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which...
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    Valery Legasov (category People associated with the Chernobyl disaster)
    and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is primarily known for his efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Legasov also...
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  • disaster. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was the site of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces during the Battle of Chernobyl as part of the Russian...
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    Deficiencies in the existing INES have emerged through comparisons between the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which had severe and widespread consequences to humans...
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    the Chernobyl disaster, on July 17, 1990 a directive decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Russian Socialist Soviet Republic led to the...
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    tsunami on 11 March 2011. It is the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. The plant comprises seven separate boiling water reactors...
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  • "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere". Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: Following...
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  • Zero Hour (2004 TV series) (category Works about the Columbine High School massacre)
    were: "Disaster at Chernobyl", "Massacre at Columbine High" (cut version), "Terror in Tokyo & The Bali Bombing", "The Capture of Saddam Hussein", "The King...
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    RBMK (category Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union)
    and instability at low power levels—which contributed to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in which an RBMK experienced an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction...
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    Uranium and the Global Nuclear System (2007) Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free (2007) Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment...
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    The 2020 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone wildfires were a series of wildfires that began burning inside Ukraine's Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in April 2020. The...
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    tsunami on 11 March 2011. It was the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, and the radiation released exceeded official safety guidelines...
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    plants, as well as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. As of January 2024[update], both the Chernobyl and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear...
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    explosion to distract attention from Chernobyl. United Press International. 27 Nov 2000 Stasi accused of Swiss disaster. The Irish Times. Nov 23, 2000. Sehnsucht...
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    Adi Roche (category People associated with the Chernobyl disaster)
    the Chernobyl Children International, to provide aid to the children of Belarus, Western Russia and Ukraine following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of...
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    dramatizes the story of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) – in this movie directed by George Clooney, the CIA approaches...
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  • On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences (Russian: «О культе личности и его последствиях», romanized: “O kul'te lichnosti i yego posledstviyakh”)...
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  • Filtered Containment Venting System (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    accelerated by the occurrence of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. It was realized that some accident scenarios would lead to substantial releases of radionuclides...
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