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    er lange Weg bis zur Stilllegung von Tschernobyl

    A large, impartial information, communication and networking platform, provided by Switzerland and the United Nations, on the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.

    Pripyat, Ukraine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Prypyat (Ukrainian: ??????????'???

    Pripyat Ghost Town (1970-1986): My Chernobyl Rides

    Photos, poems and articles of Pripyat (in Basque and English)

    Chernobyl accident From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Chernobyl accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) is widely regarded as the worst in the history of nuclear power generation. It produced a plume of radioactive debris that drifted over parts of the western USSR, Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia. Large areas of the Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Russian republics of the USSR were contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of roughly 200,000 people. The accident raised concerns about the safety of the Soviet nuclear power industry, slowing its expansion for a number of years, while forcing the Soviet government to become less secretive. The now independent countries of Ukraine and Belarus have been burdened with continuing and substantial costs for decontamination and health care because of the Chernobyl accident.

    The dead city of Pripyat is one lasting legacy of Chernobyl that will forever be a symbol of the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster.




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