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 power plant was the site of the world's worst-ever nuclear accident.

From BBC

“This is a NOW problem. We cannot kick these ‘Chernobyl cans’ down the road any longer.

From Salon

Among those returned Friday were 19 Ukrainian fighters from Snake island, 14 people captured at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and 10 fighters from the city of Mariupol that was captured by Russia.

From Seattle Times

The devastating impact of a nuclear accident, like the 1986 one in Chernobyl, Ukraine, was barely a talking point at the meeting.

From Seattle Times

Major catastrophes including the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown and the Challenger space shuttle Disaster* are thought to be caused, in part, by human error associated with fatigue.

From Science Daily