Chernobyl disaster
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Summary
Chernobyl disaster is a nuclear disaster[1]. It draws 131,284 Wikipedia views per month (nuclear disaster category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Kyiv Oblast[3]
- Country: Soviet Union[4]
- Instance of: environmental disaster[5]
- Location: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant[6]
- Commons category: Chernobyl disaster[7]
- Point in time: April 26, 1986[8]
- Participant: Iekaterina Ivanenko[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Chernobyl disaster[10]
- Number of deaths: 60,000[11], 4000[12], 31[13]
- Present in work: Zero Hour[14], Seconds From Disaster[15], Decay[16], Chernobyl: The Final Warning[17], Aurora[18], Innocent Saturday[19], Land of Oblivion[20], Chernobyl Diaries[21], Inseparable[22], Voices from Chernobyl[23], Chernobyl[24], Chernobyl: Abyss[25]
- Immediate cause of: Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine[26]
- Number of casualties: 134[27]
- International Nuclear Event Scale: INES level 7 event[28]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[29]
- Social media followers: 88,172[30]
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Outcome and Impact
Things named for Chernobyl disaster include Chernobyl[31], a miniseries[32], directed by Johan Renck[33]; CIH[34], a computer virus[35]; and International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day[36], a calendar awareness event[37], founded in 2016[38].
Why It Matters
Chernobyl disaster has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] It is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]
Entities named for it include Chernobyl[31], a miniseries[32], directed by Johan Renck[33]; CIH[34], a computer virus[35]; and International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day[36], a calendar awareness event[37], founded in 2016[38].