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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.
Chernobyl is a historical drama series that depicts the 1986 nuclear disaster and its aftermath in the Soviet Union. The series is based on eyewitness accounts, official documents, and scientific research, and features an ensemble cast of actors.
The Chernobyl Trust Fund was created in 1991 by the United Nations to help victims of the Chernobyl accident. [125] It is administered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , which also manages strategy formulation, resource mobilization, and advocacy efforts. [ 126 ]
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces subsequently captured Chernobyl. [57] While there is an increase in radiation in the area, this is due to Russian forces disturbing the soil in the Red Forest and releasing radioactive dust and not from the reactor 4 itself. [58] The New Safe Confinement is reportedly unharmed. [59] March ...
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes is a 2022 British documentary film, directed and produced by James Jones.It tells the story of the Chernobyl disaster using personal interviews with people who were there and newly discovered, dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant, most of it never seen before in the West.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [a] (ChNPP) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine , 16.5 kilometers (10 mi) northwest of the city of Chernobyl , 16 kilometers (10 mi) from the Belarus–Ukraine border , and about 100 kilometers (62 mi) north of Kyiv .
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus or Shelter Structure (Ukrainian: Об'єкт "Укриття") is a massive steel and concrete structure covering the nuclear reactor number 4 building of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The sarcophagus resides inside the New Safe Confinement structure. The New Safe Confinement is designed to ...
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation [a] is an officially designated exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. [5]: p.4–5 : p.49f.3 It is also commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 30-Kilometre Zone, or simply The Zone. [5]: p.2–5 [b]