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Wels catfish in Chernobyl are fed bread by tourists. An unusual habitat for the species exists inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, where a small population lives in abandoned cooling ponds and channels at a close distance to the decommissioned power plant. These catfish appear healthy, and are maintaining a position as top predators in the ...
Effects of the Chernobyl disaster. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster triggered the release of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous radioisotopes. As of 2024, it was the world's largest known release of radioactivity into the environment.
10-kilometre and 30-kilometre Zones. The Exclusion Zone was established on 2 May 1986 soon after the Chernobyl disaster, when a Soviet government commission headed by Nikolai Ryzhkov [ 8]: 4 decided on a "rather arbitrary" [ 6]: 161 area of a 30-kilometre (19 mi) radius from Reactor 4 as the designated evacuation area.
The Red Forest ( Ukrainian: Рудий ліс, romanized : Rudyi Lis, Russian: Рыжий лес, romanized : Ryzhiy Les, lit. 'ginger-colour forest') is the ten-square-kilometre (4 sq mi) area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone, located in Polesia. The name "Red Forest" comes from the ginger-brown colour of ...
The Chernobyl disaster[ a ] 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 the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union. [ 1 ] It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity ...
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Nearly four decades later, the ...
The New Safe Confinement ( NSC or New Shelter) is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the 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 also encloses the temporary Shelter Structure (sarcophagus) that was built around the ...
Chernobyl liquidators. A group of liquidators gathered at the Museum of Slavutych on the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, 2018. Soviet military badge (left) and medal awarded to liquidators. The central detail of the Liquidators' medal, with traces of alpha (α) and beta (β) particles and gamma (γ) rays over a drop of blood.