The Pripyat River (Ukrainian: Прип'ять, Prýp"yat'; Belarusian: Прыпяць, Prýpyats'; Polish Prypeć) is a river in Eastern Europe, of approximately 710 km (440 mi.) length. It flows west through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper. In general English usage, length (symbol: l) is but one particular instance of distance – an objects length is how long the object is – but in the physical sciences and engineering, the word length is in some contexts used synonymously with distance. Height is vertical distance; width (or breadth) is... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. ... In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the amount of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. ... The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume. ... This article is about the unit of time. ... For the term related to television programmes, see watershed (television). ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... This article is about the river. ... For the term related to television programmes, see watershed (television). ... Eastern Europe is, by convention, that part of Europe from the Ural and Caucasus mountains in the East to an arbitrarily chosen boundary in the West. ... This article is about the river. ...

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. Chernobyl area. ... The nuclear power plant at Chernobyl. ... A radionuclide is an atom with an unstable nucleus. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Caesium, Cs, 55 Series Alkali metals Group, Period, Block 1(IA), 6, s Density, Hardness 1879 kg/m3, 0. ...

The city of Pripyat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl accident. Pripyat Abandoned village near Pripyat Ukrainian Prypyat (При́пять), Russian Pripyat (При́пять), abandoned city located in the north of Ukraine, near the Belarus border. ...

External link

• Pripyat: Radioactive pollution, 2003 (http://www.grida.no/enrin/htmls/belarus/water2003en/Text/ch2-3.htm)