Chernobyl

alternative Ukraine Chornobyl

1. A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.

   A couple of oil shocks, a Chernobyl meltdown, and a Gulf War later, his basic message - the need to emphasize efficiency and renewable resources over oil and nuclear power - is still a minority view,[…]

   1991 July 26, Brad Knickerbocker, “Think Tank on the Efficient Energy Trail”, in Christian Science Monitor

2. broadlyThe 1986 nuclear accident which resulted in the abandonment of the aforementioned city.

   After Chernobyl, very few nuclear power plants were built for years.

3. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the location where the accident occurred.

   Although it no longer produces electricity, many people still work at Chernobyl decommissioning the plant.

plural Chernobyls · alternative Ukraine Chornobyl

1. broadlyA major nuclear-energy accident.

   Many secret cities were Chernobyls in slow motion.

   1994 August, “Nuclear chaos”, in Popular Science, volume 245, number 2, page 54

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   The effects of a Chernobyl disaster in my community would probably be barely noticeable.

   1999 May 6, Terence Scully, “When cell phones kill our brain waves, we will worry less”, in The Record (Kitchener, Ont.)

   So those would be a lot of Chernobyls that the ecosystem would have to deal with.

   2007 September 7, “Imagining a World Without Humans”, in NPR_TalkNation

   It has to be handled properly with great accuracy and no room for mistakes, because if we do have like a Chernobyl catastrophe, God forbid, it could wipe out our entire people.

   2010 March 10, Ben Garcia, “Many Kuwaitis yet to be convinced on nuke energy”, in Kuwait Times