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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)
(n): a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
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It was big enough for those of us nearby!
And a less big man-made problem is a three mile island
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."