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  2. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015) is a documentary about three women who decided to return to the exclusion zone after the disaster. In the documentary, the Babushkas show the polluted water, their food from radioactive gardens, and explain how they manage to survive in this exclusion zone despite the radioactive levels.

  3. Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    Ukraine, Belarus and parts of Russia were exposed to radiation after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, but prior to the disaster the number of children affected by thyroid cancer was relatively low globally. Every year about, "0.1–2.2 individuals per million of all aged under 15 years old world wide" were affected by thyroid cancer. [8]

  4. Anatoly Dyatlov - Wikipedia

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    After graduation, he worked in a shipbuilding plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Lab 23 where reactors were installed into submarines. During a nuclear accident there, Dyatlov received a radiation dose of 100 rem [ 1 ] (1.0 Sv ), a dose which typically causes mild radiation sickness , vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue and reduction in resistance to ...

  5. Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    At 4 a.m., Moscow ordered feeding of water to the reactor. As Director of the Chernobyl site, Bryukhanov was sentenced to ten years imprisonment but only served five years of the sentence. The first director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Viktor Petrovich Bryukhanov, died on October 13, 2021, at the age of 84.

  6. Investigations into the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear disaster that occurred in the early hours of 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine.The accident occurred when Reactor Number 4 exploded and destroyed most of the reactor building, spreading debris and radioactive material across the surrounding area, and over the following days and weeks, most of mainland Europe ...

  7. The True Cost of the Chernobyl Disaster Has Been ... - AOL

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    The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986, is predicted to continue to harm the environment for at least 180 years

  8. Mykola Melnyk - Wikipedia

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    Mykola Mykolayovych Melnyk (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Мельник; 17 December 1953 – 26 July 2013), also known as Nikolai Melnik, was a Soviet-Ukrainian pilot and liquidator hero known for his high-risk helicopter mission on the dangerously-radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant building immediately after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

  9. Town still healing 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster - AOL

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