So GreenPeace is now reporting on the dire consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. And bad-mouthing the IAEA report. I'd be more convinced if the entity reporting wasn't known for unreasonable analysis and tin-foil hats.
A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancers cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers. Our report involved 52 respected scientists and includes information never before published in English. It challenges the International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted 4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification of the real breadth of human suffering.I'll take a look, but the numbers they are reporting make me pause. If the IAEA underestimated the numbers, then GreenPeace has likely overwhelmingly overestimated.
The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl. The report also concludes that on the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have additionally died in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident, and estimates of the total death toll for the Ukraine and Belarus could reach another 140,000.
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