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Pripyat River

The Pripyat River is a river in Eastern Europe, of approximately 440 miles (710 km). It flows east-west through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukarine again, draining into the Dnepr River.

The Pripyat passes through the 30 kilometer zone around the Chornobyl reactor, where the catastrophic nuclear accident happened. Therefore it transported and still transports radionuclides downstream. The concentration of Cesium-137 is still increasing in dredges and has not been reduced in the river sediments.

The city of Pripyat, Ukraine (population: 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chornobyl disaster.

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Pripyat: Radioactive pollution, 2003

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