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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima - Unit 4 spent fuel removal >99% complete [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)"Chernobyl. All of us would like to cross this word out of our memory. But over seven million people who live beside us cannot afford it. Every day and every hour they continue suffering from what happened.
Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General
According to Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/chernobylhealthreport/
"Our report involved 52 respected scientists and includes information never before published in English. It challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted 4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification of the real breadth of human suffering.
"The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl.
"The report also concludes that on the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have additionally died in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident, and estimates of the total death toll for the Ukraine and Belarus could reach another 140,000."