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18/05/16

LETTER: CHERNOBYL DEATHS CLOSER TO 1 MILLION


Letter: Chernobyl deaths closer to 1 million

FILE - A 1986 file photo of an aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine showing damage from an explosion and fire in reactor four on April 26, 1986 that sent large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they're still unknown. (AP Photo/Volodymyr Repik, File) ORG XMIT: LON27 Photo: Volodymyr Repik / AP


A recent Associated Press article vastly underestimated the human death toll from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power disaster in the former USSR at between 9,000 and 90,000 when it may be closer to 1 million ("Soul still hurts 30 years after reactor explosion," April 27).

A report reprinted in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Vol. 1181) in 2009 provides the evidence. It is titled, "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment" and was authored by Alexey Yablokov, a biologist with the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and Vassily Nesterenko, a biologist and ecologist, and Alexey Nesterenko, a physicist, both with the Institute of Radiation Safety in Minsk, Belarus.

Their report is based on a review of thousands of studies, radiation surveys, doctoral theses and scientific reports, many printed in eastern Europe in Slavic languages. They concluded that, by 2004, Chernobyl had killed more than 800,000 people worldwide. 

Among their conclusions were that: 1. Nearly two decades after the catastrophe began, only 20 percent of the children in extensively contaminated regions in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were healthy compared to 80 percent in 1985; 2. Genetic consequences "will impact hundreds of millions of people" during the next few centuries; and 3. "...serious increases in morbidity and mortality [in animals have been observed] that bear striking resemblance to changes in the public health of humans — increasing tumor rates, immunodeficiencies, decreasing life expectancy (and) early aging."

Data: 17.05.2016
Fonte: www.timesunion.com


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