[smsm42]

Note also this was very close to May holidays (May 1st etc.) when people customary go out, with kids, some go camping, etc. Kiev - a city with population over 2 millions - is 90 km from Chernobyl, and nobody there knew what's going on for a while. I'm not even sure there's any statistics of what health effects this produced. And of course when it was known there was no proper information on dealing with radioactive contaminations, mostly everybody would go by wildest rumors and home remedies. No tools for measuring radioactivity either anywhere to be bought, people made their own eventually. Etc., etc.

[trhway]

> I'm not even sure there's any statistics of what health effects this produced.

My post with some effect summary for Belarus https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15737928&goto=threads%...

[smsm42]

AFAIR due to the weather patterns Belarus got a lot of the fallout and Kiev area was affected much less.

[petre]

Yes, we were camping as well. It all happened during a sunny weekend.

[dboreham]

It was raining very heavily in Scotland unfortunately. Probably also Norway.