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The Industrial Disaster That Makes Chernobyl Look Like Kindergarten

Behind the Bastards

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Chernobyl and B.D.

The immediate death toll from the disaster was quite a lot lower than I think TV dramatizations might lead you to believe. As of like 2011, there have been a total of 28 deaths due to acute radiation syndrome and another 15 fatal cases of child thyroid cancer. In 2016, the World Health Organization estimated the eventual death toll of Chernobyl at around 4000 people. Today, we are talking about the worst industrial disaster in the history of our species - Bhopal India.

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