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  Pripiat, la cité HLM la plus radioactive du monde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pripiat, construite en 1970 à 3 kilomètres de la centrale de Tchernobyl...
A Pripiat même, comme dans un rayon de 10 kilomètres autour de la centrale, le contrôle est donc absolu.
Pripiat, figée par le drame, est morte à jamais : la ville nouvelle de Slavoutitch, à 50 kilomètres à l'est, l'a déjà remplacée.
sortirdunucleaire.org /septembre2002/lemonde060902.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Pripiat - Wikipédia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
La ville de Pripiat se trouve dans la zone d'exclusion de 20 km autour de la centrale (elle se trouve exactement à 12 kilomètres).
Pripiat est aussi le nom de la rivière qui coule dans cette ville et qui rejoint le Dniepr.
Pripiat est aujourd'hui une ville abandonnée et est presque devenue un musée témoignant de la fin de l'ère soviétique.
fr.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Prypiat   (668 words)

  
 Welcome to the FRADIN / HORS-CHAMP archive.
Dans les rues de Pripiat, court ces dernières heures le bruit qu’un grave accident aurait eu lieu à la centrale.
C’est le silence de la ville de Pripiat qui l’a frappé, « j’ai vu un piano ouvert et des partitions posées prêtent à être jouées.
It is the silence of the city of Pripiat which hit her, « I saw an opened piano and partitions ready to be played.
www.emmanuelfradin.com /Production/PhotoGroupView.aspx?pbid=4&msa=1&pgid=1032357   (1532 words)

  
 Chapter II The release, dispersion and deposition of radionuclides - Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health ...
The mean annual activity of 137Cs in the water of Pripiat river and in the Kiev reservoirs has now stabilised within a range of from 1 to 0.2 Bq.l-1 (Bq per litre), ten time higher than the values obtained before the 1986 accident.
The 90Sr activity of the Pripiat river is sometimes higher than authorised levels for drinking water (2 Bq.l-1) due to meteorological conditions, rains and floods.
From 26 April to 6 March 1986, during the period of releases, the highest levels of radioactivity measured in water of the Pripiat river was of the order of 100 000 Bq/l, principally from 131I.
www.nea.fr /html/rp/chernobyl/c02.html   (3826 words)

  
 Pripiatsky National Park
The climate is temperate and warm with a not too hot summer, alternating with mild weather and snow cover in winter.
The land is flat and low and actually constitutes an ancient flood-plain comprising of the Pripiat River bottom land.
There is a recommended waterway journey from Turov along the Pripiat River and there is always plenty of opportunity for fishing.
www.belarus.org.uk /pripiatsky.html   (360 words)

  
 IEER | E&S No. 35: Décontamination des sols au Laboratoire national de Los Alamos
Parmi eux certains ont été évacués en 1986 de Pripiat, la ville d’origine des employés de Tchernobyl, toujours inhabitable du fait de la contamination causée par l’accident.
Notre dernier arrêt à Pripiat s’est fait sur le toit d’un immeuble d’habitation.
Sur le mur d’un immeuble, une fresque peinte du fameux profil de Vladimir Lénine encourageait Pripiat à construire l’avenir radieux du socialisme, alors que tout autour de nous on pouvait voir l’échec de cet objectif.
www.ieer.org /ensec/no-35/no35frnc/chernobyl.html   (3734 words)

  
 ENVIRONMENT: Some Chernobyl Clouds Will Not Clear
People in Pripiat, the largest city in the region, left under the impression that they would return shortly.
Most of Pripiat's residents were involved with the nuclear plant one way or another.
While Pripiat will never see life again, further away from the plant, still within the radius of a 30km government-restricted zone, villagers have been reoccupying their abandoned homes in an illegal move to which the state turns a blind eye.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=28290   (957 words)

  
 Waaah! Americans whine about high gas prices.... - Page 4 - Quarter To Three Forums
You can walk around it now, though you have to carry a dosimeter to warn you if the area you're in is too radioactive.
Supposedly, the silence there was an insurmountable problem, no matter what they did, and people would become paranoid, panic and demand to be taken back to the bus, and so on.
Pripiat's is a dead calm free of any organic noise at all, a silence absolutely total: you walk around an empty city and hear nothing but every detail of your own movements.
www.quartertothree.com /game-talk/showthread.php?t=25749&page=4   (1469 words)

  
 Golden Ring of Gomel oblast
The town of Turov was founded on the territory inhabited by the ancient Slav tribe Drygovichy on the bank of the River Pripiat.
It is a vast plain in the south of the Pripiat Polesie consisting of the Pripiat water meadows and terraces merging into a fluvio-glacial plain.
Another legend says that the cross in the Boris and Gleb cemetery is one of the three crosses that had drifted first by the Dnepr then by the Pripiat from Kiev after the Baptism of the Ancient Rus.
www.goldring.gomel-region.by /en/turov   (668 words)

  
 World-News
PRIPIAT, Ucrania, 26 de abril (France Presse).- Ciudad modelo citada otrora como un ejemplo, Pripiat, a tres kilómetros de la central de Chernobyl, se convirtió en una ciudad fantasma, símbolo del tributo que los hombres pagaron a la tecnología.
Ciudad de edificios modernos, construidos para los empleados de la central en el corazón de una campiña antes apacible, Pripiat está hoy cercada por un alambrado con púas.
Hoy está prohibido vivir en Pripiat, pero unas 1,500 personas trabajan aún en un puñado de empresas públicas, todas consagradas a la reparación de las consecuencias de la catástrofe.
www.christusrex.org /www2/news-old/4-96/sm4-27-96.html   (1355 words)

  
 Zientzia.net
Pripiat herriaren kasuan, atzeratu egin zen beharrezko autobusak lortu eta laino erradioaktiboaren eraginik ez zuten bide egokiak aukeratu arte.
Hala ere, ebakuazio-planak egoera bakoitzari egokitu beharko zaizkio, eta bestela, pentsa gauzak nola aldatuko liratekeen laino erradioaktiboa horizontalki jaurtiki balitz eta haizeak Pripiat aldera bidali izan balu.
Zentral nuklearraren leherketaren ondorioz laino erradioaktiboa 10 km-ko altueraraino jaurti zen, baldintza meteorologikoek Pripiat eta Kiev herrietatik aldendu egin zuten laino erradioaktiboa, istripua izan zen unean jende gehiena bere etxean zegoen eta ez zuen euririk ari.
www.zientzia.net /artikulua.asp?Artik_kod=7996   (1945 words)

  
 Pripyat Photos 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was with him that my son ran along the shore of the river Pripiat' playing, on April 26, 1986 (almost right by the Chernobyl nuclear station).
Then, in the spring, they visited dead Pripiat' twice together--the city of their childhood.
And there, in the overgrown, neglected school, in their own classroom, they met yet another classmate by chance--Sasha Beliaev, in whose soul there was also a vacuum, since he, too, had been suddenly torn away from his child's memory of the city of his youth.
www.wsu.edu:8000 /~brians/chernobyl_poems/photos9.html   (227 words)

  
 Chernobyl travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see - World66   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
You take a bus to a checkpoint about 20 km from the power plant, where you change to another bus which never leaves the contaminated zone.
Among the "major attractions" are the villages of Kopachi, which has “partially encased” houses, and Pripiat, a ghost town left exactly as it was when the residents were evacuated.
The culmination of the tour is the cement- and lead-encased nuclear reactor, known as the Sarcophagus.
www.europeonvacation.com /europe/ukraine/chernobyl.html   (172 words)

  
 The Phenotype Diversity of Some Zebra Mussel
As far as one shell could have many signs all phenotype could be described by phene-formula in letter symbols.
In rivers Pripiat, Dnieper, Sasyk lake (Ukraine), Konin lakes system (Poland) it was marked more than 80 phenotypes of Zebra mussels.
The increase of melanist specimen portion from river Prypiat to low Dnieper was noticed.
www.sgnis.org /publicat/p97_33.htm   (414 words)

  
 CNN - Airborne photographer aims his lens at Earth - December 9, 1999
The photos in "The Earth from Above" show the immense beauty of the planet, but also draw attention to the environmental dangers it faces.
An image of the abandoned city of Pripiat in Ukraine -- where 50,000 people were evacuated after the April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant -- is an ominous reminder of what humans can do to the Earth.
Pripiat was one of the sites where Arthus-Bertrand walked on the ground that he was to photograph from above.
edition.cnn.com /1999/books/news/12/09/earth.from.above   (545 words)

  
 Minsk History -- 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Situated on the watershed of the river-routes linking the Baltic to the Black sea, its trading history going back to prehistoric times some have thought that the city owes its name to the word miena or "barter".
Others look at a hill-fort known as Haradysczy by Stroczyce, a "Skansen"-village, a few kilometers away on the west from the city on the banks of the river Menka, which flows to the river Pticz and on to join the Pripiat' and Dniapro.
A heroic folk legend that a giant called Menesk or Mincz kept a mill on the banks of a river, and ground rock and stones to make flower for bread in order to feed the war-band he had assembled to protect his settlement, and safeguard its prosperity.
www.belarusguide.com /cities/minsk_DZ/mh_1.html   (352 words)

  
 TIME Europe Magazine: Earth's Album -- Jul. 8, 2002/Vol. 160 No. 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
From Arthus-Bertrand's perspective, his most powerful photograph is not of a Brazilian slum, a Philippine village inundated by mud or a quake-ravaged Turkish town.
Rather, it is a view of the Ukrainian city of Pripiat in snow.
Three kilometers from the now-closed Chernobyl nuclear plant, Pripiat is a ghost town, emptied of its 50,000 people.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,267739,00.html   (853 words)

  
 La ciudad perdida de Chernobyl // menéame
que vamos no se por que se le llamo la central de Chernobill, ya que pripiat estaba a unos 1.5 km si mal no recuerdo y Chernobill a mas de 30 km....
al menos las fotos de la noria fijo que son de pripiat ciudad con unos 25000 habitantes y que evacuaron en 36 horas usando personal civil y militar con unos 1000 y pico autobuses.
Pero para facilitar esa construcción se construyó alojamiento para trabajadores y familias, lo que es la llamada ciudad de Pripiat a la que pertenecen la mayoría de las fotos que se identifican siempre como Chernobyl.
meneame.net /story/la-ciudad-perdida-de-chernobyl   (262 words)

  
 Fishing in National Park "Pripiatski".
The climate is relatively mild, temperate, warm: summer is not very hot, alternating with frequent thaws and unsteady snow cover in winter.
The relief is flat, lowered and, actually, constitutes an ancient flood-plain comprising the Pripiat river bottom land, benches passing in the south into the fluvio-glacial plain.
There are several streams and creeks crossing the National Park from South to North.
www.bysands.net /en/fish3.php   (337 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The conference dedicated to the results of the TASIS project was held on December 16.
When presenting the directory “Monitoring, managing and usage of Pripiat water resources” one of its authors director of the central research institute on complex usage of water resources at the nature ministry of Belarus Doctor in technical sciences Mikhail Kalinin noted that 35 authors from Belarus and Ukraine participated in compiling the edition.
Although so many people were creating the book it appeared to be an integral edition aimed at solving ecological, economic and social problems of Belarusian and Ukrainian neighboring regions.
belta.by /Engl.nsf/8e0f3945e981f83042256a0d0037cd32/4cb3545418a8ae4a42256dfe005e1679!OpenDocument   (183 words)

  
 O & A Montreal: Arthus-Bertrand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But the benefits of irrigation are not without its drawbacks, as much of the underground water supply is in danger of depletion.
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became the worst nuclear catastrophe on record.
Just two miles from the epicenter, the town of Pripiat (population 50,000), was evacuated — but not until sometime after the disaster.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2002/08_2002/08152002oamont1.htm   (626 words)

  
 The United Nations and Chernobyl
The reservoirs in the Dnieper River still contain large amounts of radioactive material ready to be released into the Black Sea.
“An Appraisal of the Chernobyl Dyke Project on the Pripiat River”, written by Samuel Lepicard’s in the “Risk and Prevention” magazine, explains how the Chernobyl Dyke reduced the radioactive impact caused by spring floodings, which transported high radioactive material from areas surrounding the Chernobyl plant into the Pripiat River.
The Chernobyl Tissue Bank… was jointly funded by the European Commission, World Health Organization, the National Cancer Institute of the USA, and the Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation of Japan and is aimed at helping scientists all over the world research increased incidences of thyroid cancer in the Chernobyl areas.
www.un.org /ha/chernobyl/reference.html   (952 words)

  
 Center "Polissja"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It strives to introduce better control systems and to cooperate with the international community in Chernobyl-related research.
The center has conducted an expedition to the upper reaches of the Pripiat river and organized a study which supported the establishment of a new national park.
It has mapped several river basins in the Polissie region, studied water balance in areas where marshes had been drained, and monitored stability, soil erosion, radiation levels, and biological diversity.
www.civilsoc.org /nisorgs/ukraine/polissja.htm   (139 words)

  
 Schizophrenia.com - X-rays and schizophrenia, Chernobyl
While all participants recognized that mental disorders had been spawned by the disaster, there is still debate about the influence of radiation in the genesis of mental disorders.
Listed as cosponsors were the three organizations responsible for the Chernobyl site today -- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Scientific and Production Association Pripiat, and international scientific and technical center Ukrytie (Shelter).
The conference drew western experts and organizations including the International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation, the UNESCO Chernobyl Program, and the European Commission.
www.schizophrenia.com /prevention/xray3.htm   (634 words)

  
 Red Atom
Four reactors were built, and construction was well underway on units 5 and 6 when reactor unit 4 at Chernobyl exploded.
On the morning after the explosion, because the authorities had yet to notify the residents of the nearby town of Pripiat about the seriousness of the accident, fishermen downstream from the reactors cast their lines in the river.
It had mattered little to Soviet planners that the river, the Pripiat, was a tributary to the mighty Dnepr River, or that the Dnepr flows through the center of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and a city with a population of four million.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/j/josephson-atom.html   (7032 words)

  
 History Radiation Explosion Essays -- Chernobyl
On April 26, 1986, Soviet's Union Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded letting out a massive amount of radiation that all Russian citizens would debate for years to come.
on April 26th 1986 in Chernobyl, a city near the Pripiat River the No. 4 reactor exploded and released thirty to forty times the radiation of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing.
The exact causes of the explosion are not known, however scientists and researchers, under thorough investigation, have uncovered possible causes to the explosion.
www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=58200   (1667 words)

  
 The Aquatic Warbler Conservation Team (AWCT) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Upper Pripiat floodplain is one of the key Aquatic Warbler breeding sites in Europe.
According to Aquatic Warbler survey, which is implemented every year by USPB, the BirdLife partner in the Ukraine, it supports about 3,5 thousand vocalizing males, or c.
of Volyn regional programme “Ecology 2010”, approved by the State Regional Department on Ecology and Natural Resources of Volyn district, poses a real threat to wetlands of upper Pripiat in Volyn region.
www.aquaticwarbler.net.cob-web.org:8888   (155 words)

  
 Did you know?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It opened people’s eyes to the problems that can be faced and brought about many changes and regulations to contain such problems in the future.
of April 1986 Chernobyl was a small town near the river Pripiat in Ukraine, not known to the world.
Its name was associated to the V. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant located in its vicinity.
edugreen.teri.res.in /explore/facts/n_renew.htm   (532 words)

  
 History: Analysis of the Chernobyl Meltdown
On April 1986, Soviet's Union Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded letting out a massive amount of radiation that would debate of all Russian citizens for hundreds of years to come.
on April, 1986 inChernobyl, a city near the Pripiat River the No. 4 reactor exploded and released thirty to forty times the radiation of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing.
Soviet officials clamed that if the technicians, would have avoided at least one of those mistakes, then the plant could have been saved.
www.cyberessays.com /History/77.htm   (1616 words)

  
 OFFOFFOFF theater review COMPENSATION (Compensation: A Liturgy of Fact) Russian play by Sergei Kurginian with Mary Kay ...
In 1988, psychologist Adolph Kharash interviewed "Liquidators" from the city of Pripiat, near Chernobyl, who had helped with the cleanup after the accident, collecting the memories that are the basis of this play from Russia.
Five women take the stage, dressed entirely in white scrubs, and give voice to the misery reflected in the survivors' descriptions — and the misery doesn't stop after the accident, it continues in what the women perceive as the indifference of the then-Soviet government and of their fellow citizens.
One remembers being relocated to a new city and meeting her neighbor who noticed her ill health: "This one man says, 'Ah, Pripiat?
www.offoffoff.com /theater/2000/compensation.php3   (464 words)

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