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Chornobyl

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[chawr-noh-buhl, chohr-noh-bil] / tʃɔrˈnoʊ bəl, tʃoʊrˈnoʊ bɪl /
  1. a city in northern Ukraine, 80 miles (129 km) northwest of Kyiv: nuclear-plant accident 1986.


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Ahead of the meeting, Kyiv officials said a Russian drone had hit a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near the Chornobyl nuclear plant in the north of Ukraine.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

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

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024

After collecting samples in the field, the team brought them to Mousseau's field lab in a former residential home in Chornobyl, where they separated hundreds of nematodes from the soil or fruit.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

One relative bright spot is Chornobyl, where Ukrainian scientists are restoring labs damaged early in the war.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2024

"Thirty-seven years ago, the Chornobyl NPP accident left a huge scar on the whole world," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.

From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2023

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