Pripyat River
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The Pripyat River (Ukrainian: Прип’ять, Pryp”yat’; Belarusian: ; Polish: ) 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 nuclear disaster 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 disaster.
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| Tributaries: Druć (R) | Berezina (R) | Sozh (L) | Pripyat (R) | Teteriv (R) | Irpin (R) | Desna (L) | Stuhna (R) | Trubizh (L) | Ros (R) | Tiasmyn (R) | Supiy (L) | Sula (L) | Pslo (L) | Vorskla (L) | Samara (L) | Konka (L) | Bilozerka (L) | Bazavluk (R) | Inhulets (R) | |||
| Reservoirs: Dnieper | Dniprodzerzhynsk | Kakhovka | Kaniv | Kiev | Kremenchuk | |||
| Hydroelectric stations: Dnieper | Dniprodzerzhynsk | Kakhovka | Kaniv | Kiev | Kremenchuk | |||
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