Lol, I just dug up the first article I could find, admittedly didn't check the news source. But that source isn't for the claim you're quoting... that's for th

Lol, I just dug up the first article I could find, admittedly didn't check the news source. But that source isn't for the claim you're quoting... that's for the (well known) claim that Chernobyl could have gone much worse if not for remdiation efforts, it shouldn't be hard to find alternate sources for that claim. For the claim you're quoting, see the paper cited in the sibling comment to mine. Edit: For completeness I'll relink that paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1384269 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...