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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators

• acqq 11y ago
  Wow, the differences in the number of victims from different sources are immense: "- According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, the main organization of liquidators, "25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled", which makes a total of 60,000 dead (10% of the 600 000, liquidators) and 165,000 disabled.[6] - A UNSCEAR report places the total confirmed deaths from radiation at 64 as of 2008.[citation needed] - Estimates of the number of deaths potentially resulting from the accident vary enormously: the World Health Organization (WHO) suggest it could reach 4,000" According to the WHO report from 2006 (which is stupidly in the form that can be neither searched nor copy-pasted, I guess intentionally!) 600,000 persons did receive the official certificates that they worked as the liquidators there: around 200,000 people worked during the first two years, others afterwards. See page 2. http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/who_chernobyl_report_2006.pdf http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/who_chernoby... The same report on page 107: "The RNMDR data indicate that 4.6% of the Russian emergency workers fatalities that occurred during the 12 years following the accident can be attributed to radiation-induced diseases."
  • lorenzhs 11y ago
    About the un-searchable pdf: you can use OCRfeeder to fairly easily OCR pdfs that use such obfuscation techniques. It processes around ten pages per minute for me, so best get a cup of tea. Unfortunately uploading an OCRed copy would probably violate the WHO's copyright :(