[ RadSafe ] Wired Magazine Article About Chernobyl Liquidators

[Roger Helbig]

The article is a photo tribute to these brave men, but there are numbers
given here that do not agree with what I have known before and I wonder
what you think of them.

4000 died, 70,000 disabled - the reference for the 4000 deaths is this 2000
article https://www.apnews.com/06effee50627aa36555120e6d69f7b80 and I
wonder how accurate that is.  No reference seems to be given for the 70,000
disabled.  This came to my attention through Nuclear News, but WIRED has a
very large readership and this will spread widely and be added to the first
"established" death from radiation caused cancer of a Fukushima worker that
just hit the news within the past week.

The Wired link
https://www.wired.com/story/chernobyl-liquidators-photo-gallery/

Roger Helbig