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  2. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Chernobyl New Safe Confinement - Wikipedia

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    The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter; Ukrainian: Новий безпечний конфайнмент) 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.

  4. Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl) - Wikipedia

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    The Elephant's Foot is the nickname given to the large mass of corium, composed of materials formed from molten concrete, sand, steel, uranium, and zirconium.The mass formed beneath Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, during the Chernobyl disaster of 26 April 1986, and is noted for its extreme radioactivity.

  5. Ukrainian couple evacuated from Chernobyl in 80s are now ...

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    Halyna and Valeriy, a Ukrainian couple in their 60s, were evacuated from their home near the Chernobyl plant where they worked as engineers when a reactor exploded in 1986, triggering the world's ...

  6. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    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 kilometres (10 mi) northwest of the city of Chernobyl , 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the Belarus–Ukraine border , and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Kyiv .

  7. Red Forest - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Black Frogs - AOL

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    Germán Orizaola/Pablo Burraco via The ConversationBy Germán Orizaola and Pablo Burraco, The ConversationThe accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 generated the ...

  9. Chernobyl exclusion zone - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is located inside the zone but is administered separately. Plant personnel, 3,800 workers as of 2009 [update] , reside primarily in Slavutych, a specially-built remote city in Kyiv Oblast outside of the Exclusion Zone, 45 kilometres (28 mi) east of the accident site.