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> Chernobyl killed less than 100 people. 31 direct deaths, later raised to 54. Repeating a lie does not make it true. The official numbers are completely worth
by brazzy 7y ago
> Chernobyl killed less than 100 people. 31 direct deaths, later raised to 54.
Repeating a lie does not make it true. The official numbers are completely worthless because the Soviet leadership massively mis- and underdocumented pretty much everything related to the accident.
> There is considerable debate about expected deaths due to increases in cancer rates, but there is no consensus on the numbers (ranging from 4,000 to 60,000 projected deaths), and not even consensus about whether cancer risk due to exposure to radiation is even linear or not (linear no-threshold vs radiation hormesis).
...so you'll simply assume that all that radioactive material spread far and wide over huge swaths of Asia and Europe had no ill effects at all?