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Element with isotope 90, named alongside caesium for long-term contamination
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STRONTIUM - 2 Down
Restricted area: 10 km at first, widened to 30 km within about ten days
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ZONE - 3 Down
Dairy drink whose I-131 contamination caused many thyroid cancers
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MILK - 4 Across
Western-style protective building around a reactor, which the RBMK lacked
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CONTAINMENT - 5 Down
Forest fungi that can hold radioactive contamination far from the reactor
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MUSHROOMS - 6 Across
Japanese site of 2011, the only other event rated Level 7
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FUKUSHIMA - 7 Across
Bird that gave its name to a Soviet radar signal that jammed radio worldwide
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WOODPECKER - 7 Down
Animals and plants flourishing in the Zone now that people have mostly left
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WILDLIFE - 8 Down
Animal in the name of the wrinkled corium mass found in late 1986
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ELEPHANT - 9 Down
Metal that behaves like potassium; its isotope 137 has a 30-year half-life
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CAESIUM - 10 Across
Variant of an element with its own half-life, such as iodine-131 or caesium-137
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ISOTOPE - 11 Across
Soviet over-the-horizon radar built for missile early warning, shut down in 1989
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DUGA - 12 Across
Scale from 0 to 7 for rating nuclear events; Chernobyl got the top level
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INES - 13 Across
Soviet name for a model town built to house nuclear workers
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ATOMGRAD