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On the contrary, UNSCEAR has painstakingly tracked the long-term effects at Chernobyl specifically because they wanted to know. [1] https://www.unscear.org/uns
by acidburnNSA 5y ago
On 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.