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US
/tʃɝˈnoʊbəɫ/
]
NOUN
- a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)
How To Use Chernobyl In A Sentence
- As nuclear physicist Frank Close commented, it should have been the hottest source of radiation west of Chernobyl.
- Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, a name forever to be associated with catastrophe. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- It's not just industrial pollution and radiation from Chernobyl, 50 miles upstream.
- They later made a second Chernobylesque blunder by bodging a highly-explosive warhead part back together with tape.
- Belarus was one of the territories affected by the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in 1986.
- For Khvostyk, the village, a three-hour bumpy drive from the capital, Kyiv, was a safe place where the world drifted by harmlessly until the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened. Coming Home to Chernobyl’s Desolation Zone
- The utility has released data showing it meets these criteria at Fukushima, the site of the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, though some nuclear scientists say the term doesn't apply to melted reactors. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- The Agency organized two international agreements, prepared since 1982 but signed in September 1986 as a result of the Chernobyl accident.
- Painfully aware of the contradiction between the policy of glasnost and the party's handling of the Chernobyl crisis, Gorbachev at last acted.
- There are people going on protests now who were not even born when Chernobyl happened.