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==== Airborne radioactive contamination ==== | ==== Airborne radioactive contamination ==== | ||
- | Before being contained on 4 May 1986, an open-air reactor core fire that followed the core explosion released considerable airborne radioactive contamination. For about nine days the contamination spread | + | Before being contained on May 4, 1986, an open-air reactor core fire that followed the core explosion released considerable airborne radioactive contamination. For about nine days, the contamination spread |
==== The Red Forest ==== | ==== The Red Forest ==== | ||
- | The Red Forest is the name of a forest with the ginger-brown color of the pine trees. The pines died following the absorption of high levels of radiation from the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986. It is the 4 sq mi area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone located in Polesia. [(https:// | + | The Red Forest is named for the ginger-brown color of its pine trees. The pines died following the absorption of high levels of radiation from the Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986. It covers |
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