"The most detailed estimate of additional deaths was done in Russia by comparing rates in six highly contaminated territories with overall Russian averages and with those of six lesser-contaminated areas, maintaining similar geographical and socioeconomic
The organisation set up to verify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts – and nuclea
Among the residents of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, there had been up to the year 2005 more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident, and more cases can be expecte
Nuclear-promoting regulators inspire even less confidence. The International Atomic Energy Agency's 2005 estimate of about 4,000 Chernobyl deaths contrasts with a rigorous 2009 review of 5,000 mainly Slavic-language scientific papers the IAEA overlooked.
"Liquidators (Russian: ликвида́торы) is the name given in the former USSR to approximately 800,000[citation needed] people who were in charge of the removal of the consequences of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl disaster on the site of the event."
"L'organisation internationale "Médecins pour la prévention de la guerre nucléaire" (IPPNW) a estimé, jeudi 6 avril, que le bilan et les prévisions de l'ONU sur la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl étaient "sous-estimés" et a appelé à plus de transparen
How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation George Monbiot and others at best misinform and at worst distort evidence of the dangers of atomic energy