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Chernobyl

Anschul [Edit] [Delete] 14:09, 26 April '06

Happy 20th Chernobyl
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4944898.stm

It was only two weeks after the explosion, when radiation releases had tailed off, that the first Soviet official gave a frank account, speaking of the "possibility of a catastrophe".

Official UN figures predicted up to 9,000 Chernobyl-related cancer deaths. But a Greenpeace report released last week estimated a figure of 93,000. Greenpeace said other illnesses could bring the toll up to 200,000.


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