Groundwater contaminated from the Chernobyl disaster
Chernobyl disaster
The reactor in 2013
Effects
Comparison with other radioactivity releases
Comparison with Fukushima
Cultural impact
Deaths
Elephant's Foot
Groundwater contamination
TORCH report
Individuals
Aleksandr Akimov
Anatoly Dyatlov
Vasily Ignatenko
Valery Khodemchuk
Boris Shcherbina
Valery Legasov
Mykola Melnyk
Vassili Nesterenko
Vladimir Pikalov
Volodymyr Pravyk
Nikolai Tarakanov
Leonid Telyatnikov
Leonid Toptunov
Locations
Exclusion Zone
Chernihiv–Ovruch railway
Chernobyl
power plant
Kopachi
Opachychi
Poliske
Red Forest
Tarasy
Velyki Klishchi
Vilcha
Yaniv
Polesie Reserve
Aravichy
Dzernavichy
Pripyat
amusement park
Azure swimming pool
Avanhard stadium
FC Stroitel
Energetik cultural palace
Jupiter factory
Polissya hotel
Slavutych
Organisations
Chernobyl Children International
Children of Chernobyl Benefit Concert
Chernobyl Forum
Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme
Chernobyl Shelter Fund
Friends of Chernobyl's Children
State Institution for Radiation Monitoring and Radiation Safety
Related topics
2022 Russian capture of Chernobyl
Chernobyl: Abyss (2021 film)
Chernobyl (2019 miniseries)
Chernobyl liquidators
Chernobyl necklace
Chernobylite
Sarcophagus
New Safe Confinement
Samosely
National Chernobyl Museum
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The Chernobyl disaster remains the major and most detrimental nuclear catastrophe which completely altered the radioactive background of the Northern Hemisphere. It happened in April 1986 on the territory of the former Soviet Union (modern Ukraine). The catastrophe led to the increase of radiation in nearly one million times in some parts of Europe and North America compared to the pre-disaster state.[1] Air, water, soils, vegetation and animals were contaminated to a varying degree. Apart from Ukraine and Belarus as the worst hit areas, adversely affected countries included Russia, Austria, Finland and Sweden. The full impact on the aquatic systems, including primarily adjacent valleys of Pripyat river and Dnieper river, are still unexplored.
Substantial groundwater contamination is one of the gravest environmental impacts caused by the Chernobyl disaster. As a part of overall freshwater damage, it relates to so-called “secondary” contamination, caused by the delivery of radioactive materials through unconfined aquifers to the groundwater network[1] It proved to be particularly challenging because groundwater basins, especially deep-laying aquifers, were traditionally considered invulnerable to diverse extraneous contaminants. To the surprise of scientists, radionuclides of Chernobyl origin were found even in deep-laying waters with formation periods of several hundred years.[2]
^ abYablokov, Alexey V.; Nesterenko, Vassily B.; Nesterenko, Alexey V. (November 2009). "8. Atmospheric, Water, and Soil Contamination after Chernobyl". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1181 (1): 223–236. Bibcode:2009NYASA1181..223Y. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04831.x. ISSN 0077-8923. PMID 20002050.
^Bugai, D. A. (September 1997). "Effects of the Chernobyl accident on radioactive contamination of groundwater utilized for water supply". International Atomic Energy Agency: 349–356.
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