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According to the WHO, yes. Other reports have claimed up to 15,000 deaths, and 50,000 people handicapped after the disaster. McIntyre, P (May-June 2006). Chern
by timerickson 16y ago
According to the WHO, yes. Other reports have claimed up to 15,000 deaths, and 50,000 people handicapped after the disaster.
McIntyre, P (May-June 2006). Chernobyl 20 years on. Cancer World, 40-44.
- dublinclontarf 16y agoWe have endless reports from international agencies not just WHO, in these reports they find NO evidence of any increase of congenital malformations, those reports claiming 50,000 people handicapped after the disaster are plain wrong. The reports also state that as a direct result of the accident 4000 children got thyroid cancer, of which the recovery rate was almost 99%. Anti-nuclear groups have hyped up Chernobyl to such an extent that many people have an irrational fear of nuclear energy. http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/en/ http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/IAEA_Pub1239_web%5B1%5D.pdf http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/IAEA_Pub1239... http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/chernobyl_digest_report_EN.pdf http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/chernobyl_di... http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594179_eng.pdf http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594179_eng.pd... http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/annexj.pdf http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/annexj.pdf http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1239_web.pdf http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1239_web.pd... http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/statements/2005/ebsp2005n008.html http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/statements/2005/ebsp2005n008....