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Chernobyl disaster, a Legendary card
On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, exploded.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 93
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 188
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,400,000
Ranked #250 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Chernobyl disaster quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chernobyl disaster card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The response involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an ______ 18 billion rubles.
Answer
estimated. The response involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles. From the Chernobyl disaster article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
On 26 April ____, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, exploded.
Answer
1980s. On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, exploded. From the Chernobyl disaster article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of highest-grossing films. List of highest-grossing films 100 · OpenAI 96 · Chernobyl disaster 93 · Sea otter 89 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The accident resulted in dozens of direct deaths and a major release of radioactive material into the environment, causing widespread health effects and requiring the establishment of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
- The response involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles.
- It remains the most destructive nuclear disaster and the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of US$700 billion.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chernobyl disaster article was read about 4,400,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 93 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Chernobyl disaster (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAEA Imagebank, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.





