Chernobyl

[chur-noh-buhl, 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

It's dated April 1986 – the month of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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"One dentist said he's seen this before in the children who were in the fallout clouds of Chernobyl," said Mr Purse.

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But firing a rocket into properly stored stockpiles of enriched uranium would not pose a "nuclear incident" on the same scale as disasters that occured at nuclear power plants in Fukushima or Chernobyl.

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Nuclear power's reputation is tarnished though by high profile disasters, where radioactive material has been released into the environment - including in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986 and Fukushima in Japan, in 2011.

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The creators referenced the video game his show is based on, as well as real-world places that saw mass destruction, like the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

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