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  2. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    e. The Chernobyl disaster 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 northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border in the Soviet Union. [ 1 ] It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the ...

  3. Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the Soviet Union 's toll of deaths directly caused by the Chernobyl disaster included only the two Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers killed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the plant's reactor. However, by late 1986, Soviet officials updated the official count to 30, reflecting the deaths of 28 additional plant ...

  4. Chernobyl: Abyss - Wikipedia

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    Chernobyl: Abyss (Russian: Чернобыль), also titled Chernobyl 1986, is a 2021 Russian disaster film directed by and starring Danila Kozlovsky. [1] The film centres on a fictionalised firefighter who becomes a liquidator during the Chernobyl disaster. [2] The film was released in Russia by Central Partnership on 15 April 2021, [3] and ...

  5. Vasily Ignatenko - Wikipedia

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    On 26 April 1986, following the initial explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Paramilitary Fire Brigade No. 6 was quickly called to the scene, the call out coming at 1:29 a.m. [7] As Ignatenko was on duty that night, he was among the first 9 duty-watch firefighters from Pripyat to depart for the power station, located a mere four ...

  6. Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Chernobyl liquidators - Wikipedia

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    Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on the site of the event. The liquidators are widely credited with limiting both the immediate and long-term damage from the disaster. Surviving liquidators are qualified for ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Aleksandr Akimov - Wikipedia

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    Aleksandr Akimov was born on 6 May 1953 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR (Republic of the Soviet Union). In 1976, Akimov graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, with the degree of specialist in engineering and automation of heat and power processes. He began his career at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in September 1979.