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Thanks for commenting! Chernobyl and Pripyat are both cities, though Pripyat is closer to the power plant. In this case, the measurement we're referring to was taken in the city of Chernobyl.

Hello, I'm Rafi Letzter. Before Live Science I covered the climate, neuroscience, and photography for a number of outlets. I'm mostly on the physics beat these days, so you'll see me writing about giant black holes and the history of the universe on the one hand, and tiny particles on the other...