Talk:Chernobyl disaster

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Grammar

The fist sentence should read: "At the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, located in the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR)" instead of: "at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR)". It did not physically move.

The section titled "Social Economic Effects" should be renamed to "socioeconomic effects" to reflect proper terminology.

minor but this is the English language page "Numerous structural and construction quality issues, as well as deviations from the original plant design, had been known to KGB since at least 1973 and passed on to the Central Committee, which take no action and classified the information." should be "been known to the KGB... which took no action"

Containing fire

The timeline says all fires were contained at 6:35 - this should probably mention "fires around the power plant": The core continued to burn days after, but there is no description what measures really lead to containing the fire inside the reactor. It just says "It is now known that virtually none of the neutron absorbers reached the core." It is not clear what really stopped the fire.

decay heat was the "fire" and it "stopped" being "red hot" like decay heat always does. With time.

Grammar edit request

There's a rather extended high-comma-count "sentence" with what looks to be a misspelling.

The expected highest body activity was in the first few years, were the unabated ingestion of local food, primarily milk consumption, resulted in the transfer of activity from soil to body, after the dissolution of the USSR, the now reduced scale initiative to monitor the human body activity in these regions of Ukraine, recorded a small and gradual half-decadal-long rise, in internal committed dose, before returning to the previous trend of observing ever lower body counts each year.

minimal-change improvement:

The expected highest body activity was in the first few years, where the unabated ingestion of local food (primarily milk) resulted in the transfer of activity from soil to body. After the dissolution of the USSR, the now reduced scale initiative to monitor the human body activity in these regions of Ukraine recorded a small and gradual half-decadal-long rise in internal committed dose before returning to the previous trend of observing ever lower body counts each year.

length of lead

This has come up before, see..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chernobyl_disaster/Archive_13#Lead_too_long

Dougsim

Wrong Spelling

It should be spelled Chornobyl Disaster since the place it was named after is actually pronounced Chornobyl in Ukrainian. Chernobyl is Russian for the name, but Chernobyl is in Ukraine. 94.187.238.111 (talk) 08:30, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

This is the English language Wikipedia, and uses the most common spelling in that language. That is Chernobyl. Britmax (talk) 09:35, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Already handled by redirect: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chornobyl_disaster&redirect=no Sredmash (talk) 14:35, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 January 2022

Vegetation impact

A new study in the United States in 2013 showed that the Chernobyl nuclear accident had a sustained adverse impact on local trees.

A joint study by the University of South Carolina and other institutions in the United States shows that many trees in Chernobyl have a very abnormal shape due to long-term exposure to radiation, which is due to mutations in the genes of trees. The increasing gene mutations have significantly affected the growth, reproduction and survival rate of trees. In addition, the study found that the trees that survived the accident, especially the relatively young trees, are more and more difficult to bear the environmental pressure such as drought.

This is the first large-scale study of the ecological impact of radiation leakage. Tim Muso, an expert at the University of South Carolina who participated in the study, said: "our results refer to many previous small-scale research results and reports on the genetic impact of trees in the region."

The researchers pointed out that they hope to follow the experience of this study and conduct similar research in the Fukushima nuclear leakage area of Japan to measure the ecological and economic impact of nuclear radiation.

216.209.218.133 (talk) 16:17, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Wikis are not reliable sources. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:30, 26 January 2022 (UTC)