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The National Commission for Radiation Protection of Ukraine disputed the 6,000 estimate as much too high, maintaining that a Chernobyl-cleanup-related death toll of 6,000 would outstrip confirmed liquidator deaths from all other causes—including old age and car crashes—during the period in question.
The Chernobyl Forum predicts an eventual death toll of up to 4,000 among those exposed to the highest radiation levels (200,000 emergency workers, 116,000 evacuees, and 270,000 residents of the most contaminated areas), including around 50 emergency workers who died shortly after the accident, 15 children who died of thyroid cancer, and a ...
Included in this category are non-free fair use images related to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, an important topic of unique historical significance. Media in category "Images related to the Chernobyl disaster"
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Rival packs of stray dogs scavenging for scraps around the Chernobyl fallout zone may be evolving faster than other animals to survive in one of the most hostile environments on Earth.. Scientists ...
Due to heavy rainfall concomitant with the passage of the "Chernobyl cloud" over eastern Corsica, part of this region seems to have been the most affected in France by aerial fallout from the cloud. [49] In addition, populations living in mountainous areas are said to have an iodine-deficient diet, which is an additional risk factor for the ...
In its report, Greenpeace suggested there will be 270,000 cases of cancer attributable to Chernobyl fallout, and that 93,000 of these will probably be fatal, but state in their report that "The most recently published figures indicate that in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine alone the accident could have resulted in an estimated 200,000 additional ...
Herbaceous vegetation was also affected by radiation fallout. [9] There were many observations of color changes in the cells, chlorophyll mutation, lack of flowering, growth depression, and vegetation death. [9] Mammals are a highly radio-sensitive class, and observations of mice in the surrounding area of Chernobyl showed a population decrease ...