Chernobyl

Chernóbyl English Alternative forms en Chornobyl Ukraine Etymology en :bor ru:Черно́быль + 1 The place name is from ru чернобыль, meaning “mugwort” or “wormwood”. en Chornobyl, from the Ukrainian cognate. Pronunciation en /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/ /tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Chernobyl.wav Southern England en /t͡ʃɚˈnoʊbəl/ GA en ɒbəl əʊbəl 3 Proper noun en partially abandoned city/and/ghost town in northern c/Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster. en July 26, 1991 Brad Knickerbocker Think Tank on the Efficient Energy Trail w:Christian Science Monitor https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0726/26101.html 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, https://web.archive.org/web/20260905180603/https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0726/26101.html 5 September 2026 en by extension The 1986 nuclear accident which resulted in the abandonment of the aforementioned city. en After Chernobyl, very few nuclear power plants were built for years. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the location where the accident occurred. en Although it no longer produces electricity, many people still work at Chernobyl decommissioning the plant. Derived terms en Chernobyl syndrome en Chernobylian en Chernobylic en chernobylite the mineral en Chernobylite a person from Chernobyl Translations city in Ukraine Arabic: ar تْشِيرْنُوبِيل m tširnūbil Armenian: hy Չեռնոբիլ Basque: eu Txernobyl Belarusian: be Чарно́быль m Bengali: bn চেরনোবিল cernōbil Bulgarian: bg Черно́бил m Catalan: ca Txernòbil Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 切爾諾貝利 Qiè'ěrnuòbèilì Crimean Tatar: crh Çornobıl Czech: cs Černobyl m Danish: da Tjernobyl Esperanto: eo Ĉernobilo Estonian: et Tšornobõl Finnish: fi Tšernobyl French: fr Tchernobyl m Georgian: ka ჩერნობილი German: de Tschernobyl n, de Tschornobyl n Greek: el Τσερνόμπιλ n Hebrew: he צ׳רנוביל Hindi: hi चेरनोबिल Hungarian: hu Csernobil Italian: it Černobyl' m, it Cernobil, it Čornobyl' rare Japanese: ja チョルノーブィリ Chorunōbuiri, ja チェルノブイリ Cherunobuiri Korean: ko ^체르노빌 Latin: la Czernobela f Medieval, Polish Lithuanian: lt Černobylis Macedonian: mk Че́рнобил m Marathi: mr चेरनोबिल Norwegian: no Tsjernobyl Nynorsk: nn Tsjernobyl Old Ruthenian: zle-ort Чорнобыль Polish: pl Czarnobyl m Portuguese: pt Chernobyl m, pt Chernobil m, pt Tchernóbil Russian: ru Черно́быль m Samogitian: sgs Černuobīlis Serbo-Croatian: sh Чернобиљ m, sh Чернобил m, sh Černobilj m, sh Černobil m Slovak: sk Černobyľ m Slovene: sl Černobil m Spanish: es Chernóbyl m, es Chernóbil Swedish: sv Tjernobyl Tatar: tt Чирнүбел, tt Каранәремле Turkish: tr Çernobil Ukrainian: uk Чорно́биль m Uyghur: ug چېرنوبىل Yiddish: yi טשערנאָבל Noun en by extension A major nuclear-energy accident. en 1994 August 245 2 54 Nuclear chaos Popular Science Many secret cities were Chernobyls in slow motion. en When cell phones kill our brain waves, we will worry less The Record (Kitchener, Ont.) May 6, 1999 The effects of a Chernobyl disaster in my community would probably be barely noticeable. Terence Scully en September 7, 2007 Imagining a World Without Humans NPR_TalkNation So those would be a lot of Chernobyls that the ecosystem would have to deal with. en Many Kuwaitis yet to be convinced on nuke energy Kuwait Times Ben Garcia March 10, 2010 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. See also en Bhopal en Fukushima en Hiroshima en Historical events Nuclear energy Italian it:Černobyl' Alternative forms it Cernobyl Etymology it :bor ru:Черно́быль it ru Черно́быль. Pronunciation Cèrnobil,Cernobìl<r:DiPI:Chernobil> Proper noun it abandoned city obl/Kiev c/Ukraine site of a major 1986 nuclear accident Chernobyl References Portuguese Proper noun f pt Chernobil