Chernobyl Disaster/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Chernobyl Disaster.

A nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, in 1986, considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 instance on the International Nuclear Event Scale.