radioactive cloud
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April 1986 - Explosion at Chernobyl nuclear reactor spreads radioactive cloud across Europe.
From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022
Shute's book imagines a group of ordinary Australians living out their final months, marked for death by a slow-moving radioactive cloud.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2022
When I was still a child, in 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant spewed a radioactive cloud through Ukraine and Belarus.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022
When a radioactive cloud rose from the Chernobyl plant in 1986 and moved toward Western Europe, Fessenheim quickly became a rallying point for West German activists.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2021
A great radioactive cloud was deposited on the tiny atoll of Rongalap, 150 kilometers away, where the inhabitants likened the explosion to the Sun rising in the West.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
