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You may of heard of this small city called Pripyat that was in Ukraine. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I will show you the devastating disaster of this small city. Pripyat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986. Why was it abandoned? We will get to it.

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rdfs:comment	You may of heard of this small city called Pripyat that was in Ukraine. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I will show you the devastating disaster of this small city. Pripyat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986. Why was it abandoned? We will get to it.
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abstract	You may of heard of this small city called Pripyat that was in Ukraine. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I will show you the devastating disaster of this small city. Pripyat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986. Why was it abandoned? We will get to it. It was the ninth nuclear city ("атомоград" (atomograd) in Russian, literally "atom city") in the Soviet Union at the time and its population was around 50,000 before the accident. The annual rate of natural increase for the city's population was estimated at around 800 persons, plus over 500 newcomers from all corners of the Soviet Union each year. and Pripyat's population had been expected to rise to 78,000. The Yanov railroad station (part of Chernigov-Ovruch railroad link) was less than 1 km away from the city, and the navigable Pripyat River flowed nearby. Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as Nuclear Power Stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Science, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.

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