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chernobyl

(n): a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)
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9 months ago reesetee said:

It was big enough for those of us nearby!

9 months ago kewpid said:

And a less big man-made problem is a three mile island

9 months ago Treeseed said:

See ghost town

I have seen this word used as a generic term for a manmade ecological catastrophe, as in "We've got to clean up the river and stop the mill from dumping here. This thing is turning into a Chernobyl."

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