Chornobyl

[chawr-noh-buhl, chohr-noh-bil]

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

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Evgeniy is a technical producer on Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, an upcoming video game developed by Kyiv-based developer GSC Game World.

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After the conflict broke out, the game's subtitle was altered to Heart of Chornobyl, to reflect the Ukrainian spelling of the name.

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The 1986 disaster at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant transformed the surrounding area into the most radioactive landscape on Earth.

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A new study led by researchers at New York University finds that exposure to chronic radiation from Chornobyl has not damaged the genomes of microscopic worms living there today -- which doesn't mean that the region is safe, the scientists caution, but suggests that these worms are exceptionally resilient.

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In recent years, researchers have found that some animals living in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone -- the region in northern Ukraine within an 18.6-mile radius of the power plant -- are physically and genetically different from their counterparts elsewhere, raising questions about the impact of chronic radiation on DNA.

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