Pripyat River

The Pripyat River (Ukrainian: ????'???, Prýp"yat'; Belarusian: ???????, Prypia?; Polish Prype?) is a river in Eastern Europe, of approximately 710 km (441 mi.) length. It flows west through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper.

Related Topics:
Ukrainian - Belarusian - Polish - Eastern Europe - Ukraine - Belarus - Dnieper

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The Pripyat passes through the 30-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl reactor, where the catastrophic nuclear accident happened. Therefore it transported and still transports radionuclides downstream. The concentration of caesium-137 is still increasing in dredges and has not been reduced in the river sediments.

Related Topics:
Chernobyl - Catastrophic nuclear accident - Radionuclide - Caesium-137

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The city of Pripyat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl accident.

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