Note to moderator: Read answerline carefully. Description acceptable. The NGO Planet of Hopes was founded in the 1990s to raise awareness of one of these events, which was first publicized in the 1970s by a biologist exiled in London. The Bellona Foundation in conjunction with Norway is leading efforts to mitigate one of these events at Andreev (“ann-DRAY-yeff”) Bay. The TORCH report was published on the 20th anniversary of one of these events that led to the formation of a population of mostly-elderly sam·osely (“sahm-oh-SEL-lee”). Many crew members of the K-19 died during one of these events. One of these events involving a location named “Mayak” near Kyshtym (“kish-TIM”) is the third-largest ever as measured on a scale called INES. Anatoly Dyatlov was blamed for one of these events, whose effects were limited by teams of “liquidators” and led to the establishment of a “Zone of Alienation” For 10 points, in 1986, what kind of disaster devastated Pripyat ■END■
ANSWER: nuclear accidents [or nuclear disasters or nuclear events; or radioactive accidents or radioactive disasters; or radiation accidents or radiation disasters; accept nuclear meltdown, core meltdown, core melt accidents, or partial core melt; accept descriptions of radioactive fallout being released into the atmosphere; accept International Nuclear Event Scale; prompt on soil contamination or water contamination by asking “From what?”; reject “nuclear tests,” “nuclear bomb detonations,” or “nuclear explosions”] (Planet of Hopes was founded by Nadezhda Kutepova to bring awareness to the Kyshtym Disaster, which was first mentioned by Zhores Medvedev.)
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