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radioactive cloud

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radioactive cloud [¦rād·ē·ō′ak·tiv ′klau̇d]
(nucleonics)
A mass of air and vapor in the atmosphere carrying radioactive debris from a nuclear explosion.
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The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 provoked a radioactive cloud that floated not over just the modern states of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, but also Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, The Netherlands, Belgium, Slovenia, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, France and the United Kingdom.
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