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by steeve
1883 days ago
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I feel for her struggle, but this is disinformation. She starts with the false claim that the Chernobyl disaster "killed hundreds of thousands of people". UNSCEAR (the IPCC of radiation) puts the death toll at 50 people, + 6000 thyroid cancers for those who were children at the time (due to radioactive iodine sticking on the thyroid) [1]. This is why folks who live near a nuclear power plant are given iodine pills: to saturate the thyroid so it doesn't use the radioactive one. This mostly useful for children. She then attributes her defects on mutations originated from radionuclides induced DNA damage. Unfortunately there is no way to verify that claim, since there is no discernible health effect under 100mSv/year, which her parents definitely were not exposed to since they were in England. [1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html |
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This claim is repeated e.g. by National Geographic on Instagram [0]: "More than 100,000 people may have succumbed to Chernobyl-related illnesses."
[0]: https://www.instagram.com/p/COGV1yzFkO-/