1. Chernobyl - Noun
2. Chernobyl - Proper noun
a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)
Source: WordNetIf my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them. Andriy Shevchenko
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society. Sam Kinison
I absolutely reject the accusation that the Soviet leadership intentionally held back the truth about Chernobyl. We simply did not know the whole truth yet. Mikhail Gorbachev
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station was graphic evidence, not only of how obsolete our technology was, but also of the failure of the old system. At the same time, and such is the irony of history, it severely affected our reforms by literally knocking the country off its tracks. Mikhail Gorbachev
Anatoly Karpov and I donated the prize fund from our 1986 world championship match to the Chernobyl victim relief fund. Garry Kasparov
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl. Elizabeth Wurtzel