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April, 2000
Deadly toll of Chernobyl
One of Chernobyl's nuclear reactors is still in operation
About 15,000 people were killed and 50,000 left handicapped in the emergency
clean-up after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, according to a group
representing those who worked in the relief operations.
The number of invalids caused by the radiation has multiplied twelvefold
since 1991, says Viacheslav Grishin, president of the Chernobyl League.
The Chernobyl plant was the scene of the world's worst civilian nuclear
accident in April 1986 - when its number four reactor exploded, sending a
radioactive cloud across much of Europe.
Chernobyl toll
30 killed immediately
15,000 relief workers killed
50,000 relief workers invalid
5 million exposed to radiation
52,000 fled the area around Chernobyl
The exact number of dead has never been given, but it is estimated that five
million people were exposed to radiation in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
About 30 people were killed immediately and thousands were evacuated from the
region.
Ageing faster
Ukraine's Health Ministry estimates that 3.5 million people, over a third of
them children, have suffered illness as a result of the contamination, and
the incidence of some cancers is 10 times the national average.
First Deputy Health Minister Olga Bobylyova said: "The health of people
affected by the Chernobyl accident is getting worse and worse every year.
"We are very disturbed by these data."
Ms Bobylyova told a news conference that the death rate among workers exposed
to radiation while cleaning up Chernobyl has been rising.
She said that the death rate among the "liquidators" - as the group is known
- was higher than among other people apparently because they are ageing
faster.
Ms Bobylyova said most of the deaths were caused by poor blood circulation,
cancer, respiratory and digestive diseases and traumas.
She noted that thyroid cancer cases have increased 10 times in Ukraine in
general since the accident.
One of Chernobyl's four nuclear reactors is still in operation.
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency: Chernobyl ten years on
Virtual Nuclear Tourist: Chernobyl
Chernobyl photographs
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