Re: Chernobyl deaths

[Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 19:16 28.04.1996 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Radsafers,
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>The Australian press published a report on the weekend from the Ukraine
>which included the following statement:
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>"Ukraine released figures showing that 2929 clean-up workers were among the
>4229 people who had died in Ukraine as a result of the Chernobyl disaster."
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>A very short comment:

Look at the figures. According to the "Ukrainian release" 4229 people have
died (well counted to the last digit!). 2929 of them were according to the
release clean-up workers. A really easy calculation shows that then  e x a c
t l y   1 300 people other than clean up workers have died!

Do you think it is reasonable that by chance just such an even number like 1
300 persons have died? What do you think about such an exact figure of 4229
deaths when nobody knows how to distinguish between a death attributable to
the accident and to natural circumstances and incidences?

Do you know now what to think about figures released in connection with the
Chernobyl accident?  I know!!!!!!

Franz Schönhofer
Federal Institute for Food Control and Research
Kinderspitalg. 15
A-1095 Vienna
AUSTRIA 
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