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Originally Posted by papa smurf
In all, 7 million people in the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are believed to have suffered physical or psychological injuries from the April 26, 1986, catastrophe, when reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded and caught fire.
An area roughly half the size of Colorado was contaminated by the accident, forcing the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people and ruining some of Europe's most fertile farmland.
thats why not
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Course, that helps if you actually ignore why Chernobyl actually went bang, doesn't it, otherwise it would negate the scare tactics in the stats.