The 'Pripyat River' (; ; ) is a river in
Eastern Europe, of approximately 710 km (441 mi.) length. It flows east through
Ukraine,
Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the
Dnieper.
The Pripyat passes through the thirty-kilometer zone around the
Chernobyl reactor, where the
nuclear disaster happened. Therefore it transported and still transports
radionuclides downstream. The concentration of
caesium-137 is still increasing in dredges and has not been reduced in the river sediments.
The city of
Prypiat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.
Pripyat River
See also
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Prypiat Marshes
External links
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Pripyat: Radioactive pollution, 2003
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