r/chernobyl↗
Chernobyl
A subreddit to discuss the Chernobyl Disaster that happened on the night of April 26, 1986, and the Exclusion Zone that isolates the city of Pripyat from the rest of the world.
158k subscribers192 posts / mo in Sep 2026118 authors / mosince 2012
r/chernobyl has 158k members (+20% over the last 12 months). It gets about 192 posts a month from 118 people. Top topics: Chernobyl Control Rooms, Chernobyl Zone and Nuclear Reactors.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Chernobyl Control Rooms7.6%
- Chernobyl Zone2.2%
- Nuclear Reactors0.6%
- Nuclear Reactors0.2%
- USSR Alternate Histories0.1%
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- International Atomic Energy Agency
- ResearchGate
- ScienceDirect
- Medium
- IMDb
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