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Re: [Fwd: [DOEWatch] Deadly toll of Chernobyl]



I believe the 30 immediate deaths (that has been quoted in several places)
and I think the thyroid illness statistics are credible.  I know of no
backup documentation for the 15,000, or what they are said to have died of.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
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>Without starting a big flame war, please, please
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>Can I have some comments from you all as to whether you think the 15,000
>killed number
>is reasonable or not, and how some of you can defend the much lower
>numbers I've seen in your postings.
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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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