Talk:Chernobyl disaster

The first sentence should read: "At the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, located in the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR)" instead of: "at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR)". It did not physically move.

The section titled "Social Economic Effects" should be renamed to "socioeconomic effects" to reflect proper terminology.

minor but this is the English language page "Numerous structural and construction quality issues, as well as deviations from the original plant design, had been known to KGB since at least 1973 and passed on to the Central Committee, which take no action and classified the information." should be "been known to the KGB... which took no action"

The timeline says all fires were contained at 5:00 - this should probably mention "fires around the power plant": The core continued to burn days after, but there is no description what measures really lead to containing the fire inside the reactor. It just says "It is now known that virtually none of the neutron absorbers reached the core." It is not clear what really stopped the fire.

decay heat was the "fire" and it "stopped" being "red hot" like decay heat always does. With time.

There's a rather extended high-comma-count "sentence" with what looks to be a misspelling.

The expected highest body activity was in the first few years, were the unabated ingestion of local food, primarily milk consumption, resulted in the transfer of activity from soil to body, after the dissolution of the USSR, the now reduced scale initiative to monitor the human body activity in these regions of Ukraine, recorded a small and gradual half-decadal-long rise, in internal committed dose, before returning to the previous trend of observing ever lower body counts each year.

minimal-change improvement:

The expected highest body activity was in the first few years, where the unabated ingestion of local food (primarily milk) resulted in the transfer of activity from soil to body. After the dissolution of the USSR, the now reduced scale initiative to monitor the human body activity in these regions of Ukraine recorded a small and gradual half-decadal-long rise in internal committed dose before returning to the previous trend of observing ever lower body counts each year.

This has come up before, see..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chernobyl_disaster/Archive_13#Lead_too_long

Dougsim

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In the early hours at 1:23 am on the day of 26th April 1986 Helleons (talk) 10:16, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please detail the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Day Creature (talk) 14:32, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

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Change the title of this entry from "Chernobyl disaster" to "Chornobyl Disaster" and include a new section at the top of the entry explaining the history of the name and the name change.

The UN General Assembly recently adopted a key Ukrainian-led resolution on the Chornobyl disaster (December 2025) that promotes cooperation, corrects the spelling to "Chornobyl," and addresses ongoing impacts, including threats to nuclear safety from Russia's actions, overriding Russian-backed efforts for an alternative text. The resolution emphasizes Ukraine's sovereignty over the plant, calls for sustainable development in affected areas, and passed with broad support (97-8-39) Neiloakley (talk) 08:09, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: to request a page move, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves. IsCat (talk) 14:47, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I do not understand why some indications of weight are expressed in tonnes, and then translated into pounds. My idea is: this is an event which took place in Europe. USSR and in general the entire world, except 3 countries, use the metrical system. Should we transform weight measurements into another system just for the benefit of some American colleagues? What does U.S. have to do with this specific entry? Thanks Edox1999 (talk) Edox1999 14:10, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

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Under the section "Accident Sequence", in the second paragraph of the subsection "Reactor conditions priming the accident", within the final sentence of the paragraph, is a misspelling of the word "little" as "liitle". This is a minor spelling correction, but noticeable.

Change this: Unknown to the operators, this positive feedback loop had liitle to restrain it, and the reactor became highly sensitive to void formation,[22]: 3, 14

To this: Unknown to the operators, this positive feedback loop had little to restrain it, and the reactor became highly sensitive to void formation,[22]: 3, 14 ~2026-68845-9 (talk) 21:26, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Done, thanks to VSredmash. MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:36, 31 January 2026 (UTC)