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Yet even estimated death tolls that have acknowledged and attempted to mitigate for such methodological debates have yielded a body of divergent estimates—including the Union of Concerned Scientists' 2011, LNT-model-based conclusion of 27,000 deaths due to the accident; [35] the death toll of 93,000 to 200,000 that Greenpeace has posited ...
The Chernobyl Forum predicts an eventual death toll of up to 4,000 among those exposed to the highest radiation levels (200,000 emergency workers, 116,000 evacuees, and 270,000 residents of the most contaminated areas), including around 50 emergency workers who died shortly after the accident, 15 children who died of thyroid cancer, and a ...
4 2022. 5 2021. 6 2020. 7 2019. 8 2018. 9 2017. 10 2016. 11 2015. 12 2014. 13 2013. 14 2012. 15 2011. 16 2010. 17 2009. ... This is a list of lists of deaths of ...
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was captured [3] on 24 February 2022, the first day of the invasion, by the Russian Armed Forces, [4] who entered Ukrainian territory from neighbouring Belarus and seized the entire area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the end of that day.
The Abstract of the April 2006 International Agency for Research on Cancer report Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident stated "It is unlikely that the cancer burden from the largest radiological accident to date could be detected by monitoring national cancer statistics. Indeed, results ...
The plant with seven units is the largest single nuclear power station in the world, which now again is shut down due to the Fukushima accident. [47] 0: 1 Dec 2009: Hamaoka, Japan: Leakage accident of radioactive water. 34 workers were exposed to radiation: 0: Mar 2011: Fukushima Dai-ichi, Japan: The world's second INES 7 accident.
The TORCH report (The Other Report on Chernobyl) was a health impacts report requested by the European Greens in 2006, for the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in reply to the 2006 report of the Chernobyl Forum which was criticized [1] by some advocacy organizations opposed to nuclear energy such as Greenpeace.
On 1 April 2022, The Daily Telegraph reported that one Russian soldier died from acute radiation sickness after being camped in the Red Forest for a prolonged time. [21] In October, CNN reported that injured Russian soldiers who operated in Chernobyl had been treated at the Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology in ...