Abstract
When the lid blew off the Chernobyl No. 4 nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986, it released the largest quantity of radioactive material ever in one technological accident. The estimated 28 megacuries of escaping gases dwarfed the less than one megacurie released in the 1957 Windscale (U.K.) accident and the 17 curies from t.he l 979 Three Mi le Island (U.S.) accident. One hundred thirty-thousand people within a 30 kilometer radius were evacuated, and 300-400 million people in l.') nations were put at risk of radiation exposure. Present forecasts of additional cancer deaths attributable to the Chernobyl accident range from 5,000 to 75.000 (Byrne and Rich, 1987: 4).
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