Ukraine: Activists, Experts Dispute UN Report On Chornobyl
7th Sep 2005, 16:14 GMT
Environmental activists and researchers in some of the countries most affected by the Chornobyl disaster have rejected a new United Nations report that says the consequences of the 1986 explosion in the Ukrainian nuclear plant were not as dire as predicted. The report prepared by a group of 100 scientists concludes that some 4,000 people are likely to die as a result of the disaster. But activists and experts dismiss those figures as grossly underestimated.
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