Pripyat River
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The Pripyat River (Template:Lang-uk; Template:Lang-be; Template:Lang-pl) is a river in Eastern Europe, of approximately 710 km (441 mi.) length. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper.
The Pripyat passes through the thirty-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.
The city of Prypiat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl accident.
See also
Image:Belarus Dnieper-River Pripyat-River Sosh-River.png* Prypiats Marshes
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