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Friday, 14 July 2006

Chernobyl: Sabre-Toothed Rabbit?

Despite the tremendous hooha, the number of deaths attributable to the Chernobyl disaster stands at only 56-- a figure so low that it is forcing scientists to reassess their ideas about low-level radiation hazards.

56 versus the 100,000 that Greenpeace hoped for predicted. Quite a difference.
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  1. AnonymousFriday, 14 July 2006 at 11:45:00 GMT-7

    WHat about the cancer rates in children in Ukraine and Belarus. Not all deaths from Chernobyl were immediete. THis is going to affect that part of the world for thousands of years. To count the number of deaths as just those who died in the actual accident is naive and dangerous! Get out and rad something!

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