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Deaths that have occurred due to Chernobyl nuclear accident – estimates range from 4,000 to 27,000

Derby Telegraph 16th June 2019 A Burton woman who grew up close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant has told
how families knew little about the disaster and where told ‘everything was
fine’ by the authorities. While she was at school, youngsters were given a
series of tablets but were never told what they were for; only later did
she learn they were to deal with radiation caused when a reactor exploded
at the nuclear plant in 1986. Elina Oliferuk, 32, was born in October 1986,
in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, just six months after the catastrophic
nuclear accident near the city of Pripyat.

Estimates of the number of
people who died due to Chernobyl range from 4,000 to 27,000 according to
the Union of Concerned Scientists, although Greenpeace estimates that
between 93,000 and 200,000 people died as a result of the disaster.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/chernobyl-woman-story-ukraine-burton-2978192

June 17, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News