Pripyat River
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| Origin | Ukraine |
| Mouth | Dnieper |
| Basin countries | Ukraine, Belarus |
| Length | 710 km (441 mi) |
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The Pripyat River (Ukrainian: Прип’ять, Pryp”yat’; Belarusian: Прыпяць, Prypyac’; Polish: Prypeć) 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: Drut (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 | |||
