Wikipedia has an article on: Ribston pippin. A triploid cultivar of apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red. [quotations â¼] 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 55 [â¦] that the officiating clerk peeled and ate three Ribstone pippins while it was performing. Retrieved from https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Ribston_pippin&oldid=48237497 Categories:
Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl. On this day in 1986, the worldâs worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disaster is still being tallied, but experts believe that thousands of people died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe poisoning.
The disaster began during a systems test on Saturday, 26 April 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant, which is near the city of Pripyat and in proximity to the administrative border with Belarus and the Dnieper River.nly on 28 April, after radiation levels set off alarms at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from the Chernobyl Plant, did the Soviet Union publicly admit that an accident had occurred.