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The one recorded death was a Japanese citizen, which caused a diplomatic crisis. The Marshall Islands were occupied by the US and very remote, so it was probabl
by rob74 5y ago
The one recorded death was a Japanese citizen, which caused a diplomatic crisis. The Marshall Islands were occupied by the US and very remote, so it was probably easier to sweep any deaths that may have occurred in the local population under the rug...
- hef19898 5y agoNobody really wanted to count deaths and long time effects on people from Chernobyl neither. Because, IMHO, people knew. Accurately counting would have meant knowing, an nobody really wanted that.
- acidburnNSA 5y agoOn the contrary, UNSCEAR has painstakingly tracked the long-term effects at Chernobyl specifically because they wanted to know. [1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html
- hef19898 5y agoThe immediate impact, yes. Liquidators and residents, no. Not even Soviet authorities really tracked how many were there or what happened to them after. Long term effects were not properly recorded. Everything done since is basically meta statistics on cancer rates and types.
- potatoman22 5y agoIt seems like it's all tracked by that organization... plus, determining causality for diseases 30 years later is really hard.