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.
Evacuation Soviet authorities started evacuating people from the area around Chernobyl within 36 hours of the accident. The Chernobyl accident: What happened. Reactor Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant began to fail in the early hours of 26 April, 1986.Seven seconds after the operators activated the 20-second shut down system, there was a power surge. The chemical explosions that followed were so powerful that they blew the 1,000 ton cover off the top of the reactor.vacuation Soviet authorities started evacuating people from the area around Chernobyl within 36 hours of the accident. The Chernobyl accident: What happened. Reactor Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant began to fail in the early hours of 26 April, 1986.