Pripyat (river)
The Pripyat River or Prypiat River is a river in Eastern Europe. It is about 710 km (440 mi) long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again. It drains into the Dnieper.
| Pripyat (river) | |
|---|---|
| Length | 761 km (473 mi) |
The Pripyat passes through the zone of alienation around the Chernobyl reactor, site of the nuclear disaster. It is polluted with radionuclides. The amount of caesium-137 in river sediments continues to go up. The city of Prypiat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.
Tributaries
- Horyn River (659 km; 22,700 km2)
- Sluch (451 km; 13,800 km2)
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