for questions about claims based in the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl, or limited to Chernobyl. Chernobyl is perhaps most well-known for an accident at a nuclear power plant in 1986.
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Did Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov die of radiation poisoning?
During the Chernobyl disaster, Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov were tasked with preventing a potentially disastrous steam explosion, by opening the sluice gates to drain a bubbler pool. (AP report)
Many sources have the three…
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At Chernobyl, did someone see the fuel channel caps bounce shortly before the explosion?
The well known 2019 show Chernobyl mentions an operator who happened to walk through the reactor hall of Unit 4 seconds before the reactor exploded. He allegedly saw this:
If this story seems implausible, it is supported by an earlier Discovery…
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Does Belarusian milk contain strontium-90 at levels above safety standards?
The Associated Press organised to test some milk in Belarus - an area affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident
The state-run Minsk Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology said it found strontium-90, a radioactive isotope linked to cancers and…
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Does Chernobyl require active cooling to avert a catastrophe?
In the BBC article, Inside Chernobyl: We stole Russian fuel to prevent catastrophe you can find this
"If we had lost power, it could have been catastrophic," Oleksandr explained. "Radioactive material could have been released. The scale of it, you…
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