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Cher⋅no⋅byl

  [chur-noh-buhl; Russ. chyir-naw-bil]
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a city in N Ukraine, 80 mi. NW of Kiev: nuclear-plant accident 1986.
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Cher·no·byl   (chər-nō'bəl, -bĭl)   
A city of north-central Ukraine near the border of Belarus. It was evacuated and remains uninhabited as a result of a major nuclear power plant accident nearby on April 16, 1986.
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Chernobyl [(chuhr-noh-buhl, cher-noh-buhl)]

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.)

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