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To: average joe who wrote (6301)	4/24/2006 2:07:30 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Chernobyl deaths 'up to 66,000' CHRISTOPHER CLAIRE (note my embolding of text related to UK... pb) THE long-term effects of the Chernobyl disaster have been severely underestimated with a new study estimating that the nuclear explosion could eventually cause up to 66,000 deaths from cancer - 15 times more than the formal figures released last September. Nearly 20 years after the world's worst industrial accident, the report suggests the impact of the 1986 nuclear disaster on the UK and the rest of the world may never be fully realised. The Other Report on Chernobyl, otherwise known as Torch, comes ahead of this Wednesday's anniversary. It was co-written by Dr Ian Fairlie and Dr David Sumner. Torch claims that more than half of the fallout from the explosion landed outside Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, contaminating about 34% of the UK's surface. It reveals that there are still restrictions on 374 farms covering 750 square kilometres and 200,000 sheep in the UK. It says that up to 66,000 people globally could die from cancer due to Chernobyl, above the number who would die from cancer normally. This conflicts sharply with a figure from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organisation, which set the number of excess cancer deaths at 4,000 in a press release last September. Sumner said: "The main message is that this was a very, very serious accident. "The full extent of the damage will perhaps never be known of cancer induced by radiation after exposure." When the nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, radioactive gases and debris were sent hurtling more than five miles into the air. A fire raged for eight days, sending radioactive waste around the globe. The radiation was 200 times that of the combined releases of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.