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CHERNOBYL
CHERNOBYL
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a city in the USSR, site of a
nuclear reactor
plant
where, in
late
April 1986, systems malfunctioned causing an
explosion
of one of the
reactor
buildings and a
fire
of a
reactor
core.
Radiation
contamination from this accident
spread
across much of the western USSR as well as
eastern
and
central
Europe and Scandinavia.
—All About
Radiation
Glossary.
Final
approval 27.9.89