Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.
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24 Facts About Chernobyl disaster
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Meanwhile, another regional power station unexpectedly went offline and at 14:00 the Kyiv electrical grid controller requested that the further reduction of Chernobyl disaster's output be postponed, as power was needed to satisfy the peak evening demand, so the test was postponed.
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Several buildings in Pripyat were officially kept open after the Chernobyl disaster to be used by workers still involved with the plant.
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Chernobyl disaster felt the physics of this would be more similar to the explosion of a fizzled nuclear weapon, and it produced the second explosion.
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Chernobyl disaster's evidence came from Cherepovets, a city 1,000 kilometres northeast of Chernobyl, where physicists from the V G Khlopin Radium Institute measured anomalous high levels of xenon-135—a short half-life isotope—four days after the explosion.
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Contamination from the Chernobyl disaster accident was scattered irregularly depending on weather conditions, much of it deposited on mountainous regions such as the Alps, the Welsh mountains and the Scottish Highlands, where adiabatic cooling caused radioactive rainfall.
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Chernobyl disaster release was characterised by the physical and chemical properties of the radio-isotopes in the core.
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Cladosporium sphaerospermum, a species of fungus that has thrived in the Chernobyl disaster contaminated area, has been investigated for the purpose of using the fungus' particular melanin to protect against high-radiation environments, such as space travel.
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Four most harmful radionuclides spread from Chernobyl disaster were iodine-131, caesium-134, caesium-137 and strontium-90, with half-lives of 8.
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Two primary individuals involved with the attempt to suggest that the mutation rate among animals was, and continues to be, higher in the Chernobyl disaster zone, are the Anders Moller and Timothy Mousseau group.
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Risk projections suggest that by now [2006] Chernobyl disaster may have caused about 1000 cases of thyroid cancer and 4000 cases of other cancers in Europe, representing about 0.
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In 2004, the UN collaborative, Chernobyl disaster Forum, revealed thyroid cancer among children to be one of the main health impacts from the Chernobyl disaster accident.
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However, the risk of thyroid cancer associated with the Chernobyl disaster accident is still high according to published studies.
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The Scientific Secretary of the Chernobyl disaster Forum criticized the report's reliance on non-peer-reviewed locally produced studies.
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Much of the current cost relates to the payment of Chernobyl disaster-related social benefits to some seven million people across the three countries.
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The Chernobyl disaster became a key factor in the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and a major influence in shaping the new Eastern Europe.
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Meanwhile, commentators have argued that the events of the Chernobyl disaster were uniquely inclined to occur in a communist country versus a capitalist country.
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Need for larger, longer-term radioactive waste management at the Chernobyl disaster site is to be fulfilled by a new facility designated ISF-2.
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International Project on the Health Effects of the Chernobyl disaster Accident was created and received US$20 million, mainly from Japan, in hopes of discovering the main cause of health problems due to iodine-131 radiation.
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In Germany, the Chernobyl disaster accident led to the creation of a federal environment ministry, after several states had already created such a post.
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Finally, the horror film Chernobyl disaster Diaries released in 2012 is about six tourists that hire a tour guide to take them to the abandoned city of Pripyat where they discover they are not alone.
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Documentaries like the Oscar-winning Chernobyl Heart released in 2003, explore how radiation affected people living in the area and information about the long-term side effects of radiation exposure over the years that include mental disabilities, physical disabilities, and genetic mutations after the disaster.
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The Babushkas of Chernobyl released in 2015, is a documentary that explores the story of the three women who decided to return to the exclusion zone after the disaster.
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