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.
Key Facts. The 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the former Soviet Union, is the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power to cause fatalities from radiation.