The death rate from Chernobyl is way lower than you might have expected!!!
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Experts have estimated that around 4,000 people will die from the effects of the 1986 accident at Chernobyl.
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The report finds more than 600,000 people received high levels of exposure, including reactor staff, emergency and recovery personnel and residents of the nearby areas.
The predicted 4,000 death toll includes 50 emergency workers who died of acute radiation syndrome in 1986, and from other causes in later years; nine children who died from thyroid cancer and an estimated 3,940 people who could die from cancer as a result of radiation exposure.
The report says there is "no convincing evidence" that there has been a rise in other cancers because of Chernobyl.
It says confusion over the incident's impact has arisen because many emergency and recovery workers have died since 1986 from natural causes which cannot be attributed to radiation exposure.
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Most people who died from Chernobyl, died from drinking milk from cows who ate contaminated grass, which concentrates the radiation in such a way that you get thyroid cancer.
People older than me, who have been through civil defense instruction during the cold war, remember that
iodine pills can be given to prevent this precise problem.
Don't know about you, but I am in favor of nuclear energy.