Of the people at the plant who were exposed to extreme levels of radiation, just 28 died from radiation Another 19 have died from NON-radiation causes!pic.twitter.com/BEIX97Rtm0
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Of the people at the plant who were exposed to extreme levels of radiation, just 28 died from radiation Another 19 have died from NON-radiation causes!pic.twitter.com/BEIX97Rtm0
Other than that, the increased levels of most cancers are so small that it's almost impossible to separate the increase from background levels of cancer!
The only cancer that we can definitively say that Chernobyl caused is thyroid cancer, of which there are 6-11,000 extra cases so far due to the accident Not many deaths - it has been relatively treatable - but certainly an increase in casespic.twitter.com/S0i4ylF0qE
The UN report agrees that it's likely that more cancers will come in the future, but it's still hardly the apocalyptic scenario painted by most people
I listened to a talk about lessons learned from Fukushima and Chernobyl a while ago, and the conclusion was finding sensible and humane ways to help the inhabitants was crucial. The health effects of evacuations done wrong were significant.
Hormesis was another important topic of that talk. Difficult to measure for sure, but...
That sounds terrifying. I don't mean to imply that the tragedy was any less significant than it was, merely that death counts in the hundreds of thousands don't seem accurate. If you know of a better source than the WHO and UN reports send me a link
Just chalking it up to coincidence does a disservice to humanity.
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