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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.
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