Chernobylite

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Chernobylite is a solid solution technogenic compound consisting of a crystalline zirconium silicate and an amount of uranium as high as 10%.

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It was discovered in the corium (a lava-like glassy material) that was formed during the nuclear meltdown of Reactor 4 in the Chernobyl disaster. [1] [2] [3] Chernobylite is highly radioactive due to its substantial uranium content and contamination by fission products.

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  1. ↑ United States. Joint Publications Research Service; United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1991). USSR report: Chemistry. Joint Publications Research Service. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  2. ↑ Richard Francis Mould (1 May 2000). Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chornobyl Catastrophe. CRC Press. pp. 128–. ISBN   978-0-7503-0670-6 . Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Valeriy Soyfer "Chernobylite: Technogenic Mineral", Khimiya i Zhizn', No 11, Nov. 1990, p. 12, in Science & Technology USSR: Chemistry. JPRS Report. 27 March 1991. p. 29.
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