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ckuehne on March 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: We should stop running away from radiation

It was a great tragedy. But neither was the the number of deformed children nor the number of cases of cancer "countless". There have been put numbers on it [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Assessing_th...

moe on March 27, 2011 [–]

And which number is the right one?

According to your link:

  - UNSCEAR claims 6000 cases of cancer.
  - IAEA claims 4000 deaths
  - Greenpeace claims 200,000 deaths
  - IPPNW claims 10,000 - 50,000 cases of cancer
  - New York Academy of Sciences claims 985,000 deaths

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