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ciudad parcialmente abandonada en Kyiv Oblast, Ucrania
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Chernobyl, also known as Chornobyl, es una ciudad parcialmente abandonada en Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ucrania. Está ubicada dentro de la Zona de Exclusión de Chernobyl, a 90 kilómetros (60 mi) al norte de Kyiv y a 160 kilómetros (100 mi) al suroeste de Gomel en la vecina Bielorrusia. Antes de ser evacuada tras el desastre de Chernobyl en 1986, fue hogar de aproximadamente 14.000 residentes, considerablemente menos que la adyacente Pripyat, que fue completamente abandonada tras el incidente. Desde entonces, vivir en cualquier lugar dentro de la Zona de Exclusión de Chernobyl es técnicamente ilegal, las autoridades ucranianas han tolerado a quienes han comenzado a vivir en algunas de las áreas menos irradiadas de la ciudad; la estimación de población de Chernobyl en 2020 fue de 150 personas.
“There has been an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the nuclear reactors was damaged. The effects of the accident are being remedied. Assistance has been provided for any affected people. An investigative commission has been set up.”
“Chernobyl happened, first of all, because it was no automatic system of control. ... Why? It was a huge reactor, very heavy, ... very very heavy and big ... way bigger than reactors which we have here in the United States. So it is very more difficult to control. So, I would say, it was clear for many people that sooner or later it will be this accident.”
“I absolutely reject the accusation that the Soviet leadership intentionally held back the truth about Chernobyl. We simply did not know the whole truth yet.”
“We were just not prepared for that sort of situation.”
“After the 1986 meltdown, radioactive fallout scattered across much of the northern hemisphere, while some 150,000 square kilometres in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine were contaminated, according to the IAEA. That contamination spread as far as 500 kilometers north of the site.”
“Mankind has never experienced a misfortune of this magnitude, with consequences so grave and so hard to eliminate.”
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