The WHO released the UN report 20 years after the disaster that provides definitive answers and ways to repair lives in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. A total of up to 4,000 people ?could? eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 years ago, an international team of more than 100 scientists has concluded. As of mid-2005, however, fewer than 50 deaths had been directly attributed to radiation from the disaster, almost all being highly exposed rescue workers, many who died within months of the accident, but others who died as late as 2004. The new numbers are presented in a landmark digest report, Chernobyl Legacy - Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts, just released by the Chernobyl Forum.
The digest, based on a three-volume, 600-page report and incorporating the work of hundreds of scientists, economists and health experts, assesses the 20-year impact of the largest nuclear accident in history. This compilation of the latest research was designed to settle the outstanding questions about how much death, disease and economic fallout really resulted from the Chernobyl accident. With the exception of treatable thyroid cancer, by and large, however, they have concluded that there was no profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding damaged reactors, nor have they found widespread contamination that would continue to pose substantial threat to human health, within a few exceptional, restricted areas near the damaged reactors.
Dozens of important findings are included in the massive report ... Here are the first few ... Approximately 1000 on-site reactor staff and emergency workers were heavily exposed to high-level radiation on the first day of the accident, among the more than 200,000 emergency and recovery operation workers ?exposed? during the period from 1986-1987, an estimated 2,200 radiation-caused deaths ?can be expected? during their lifetime.
Read on... but you should also read the very critical report on the international reporting on Chernobyl accident exposures:
https://i2mconsultants.com/downloads/corp/WhoIsAfraidVol1181.pdf
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