Chernobyl

[ chur-noh-buhl; Russian chyir-naw-bil ]

noun

1. a city in northern Ukraine, 80 miles (129 km) northwest of Kyiv: nuclear-plant accident 1986.

Chernobyl

/ -ˈnɒbəl; tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl /

noun

1. a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986

Chernobyl

1. A place in Ukraine where a nuclear power plant — a generator powered by a nuclear reactor — underwent a meltdown in 1986. A cloud of radioactive gases spread throughout the region of Chernobyl and to foreign countries as well. Forty thousand people living nearby were evacuated. Dozens of deaths and hundreds of illnesses were reported to have been caused by the accident. ( Compare Three Mile Island (see also Three Mile Island ).)

Example Sentences

The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 had seen one of Ukraine’s nuclear reactors explode, spewing a cloud of radiation over half of Europe.

From TIme

The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 has been a recurring theme of film and television, starting with productions in the 1990s.

From Time

As Chernobyl and Fukushima taught the world, radiation fallout does not stop at national boundaries.

From Popular-Science

It was the world’s worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl in Russia.

From Popular-Science

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster embodied the flaws of Soviet planning.

From MIT Technology Review

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to be the greatest nuclear catastrophe in world history.

From The Daily Beast

Bayes read Bible verses on stage and linked the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl to the Book of Revelations.

From The Daily Beast

In the same speech, Beck compared Washington, D.C. to Chernobyl—because our political system is “toxic,” get it?

From The Daily Beast

In the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, thyroid cancers cases started to show up after four to five years after the accident.

From The Daily Beast

You know things are bad when Chernobyl is your reference point.

From The Daily Beast