[pvaldes]

According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, 25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled"

Which makes a total of 60,000 dead and 165,000 disabled (by now).

The organisation Médecins pour la prévention de la guerre nucléaire estimated that 10,000 babies had born in Europe with malformations attributable to Chernobyl, and 5,000 sucklings died by the effects of radiation.

The "but just 31 people died" statement, that conveniently forgets about the long and middle term health effects suffered, or about the effects on babies and pregnant women, is incredibly disrespectful for the victims.

[sam_lowry_]

I lived in Minsk, 400km from Chernobyl when it happened, so I should count as one of those "victims". Still, I would rather maintain the deathcount of 31 people and the International Atomic Energy Agency figure of 4000 projected deaths.

Crooks will tell you anything in exchange of funds and media attention.

[pvaldes]

This deathcount is just for people dying by acute poisoning radiation before 90 days. Leaving cancer and middle term effects out of the statistics is not a realistic way to measure mortality here.

[sam_lowry_]

This is included in the 4000 estimate.

[Supermancho]

More than 31 people died that day. There were emergency personnel and journalists filming molten containment rods (which was filmed), and they must be included in that 4000 because they are definitely dead.

With that 70s technology and understanding, which would you rather be a responder for, Chernobyl or The World Trade Center (after the second collapse)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...

It's not up for debate, that the UN numbers are low, despite the downvotes.

[sam_lowry_]

You will be amazed to know that even the 3 kamikaze that swimmed in radioactive water and drank vodka to celebrate survived.