I find the idea that hundreds of thousands of people died due to Chernobyl fascinating, because the UN and WHO have investigated and thus far there appear to have been fewer than 300 deaths totalhttps://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/en/ …
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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