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We have four independent and well respected bodies; The New York Academy Of Sciences, the ECRR, the UN and OCHA to choose from when it comes to helping us figure out from an unbiased and neutral point of view, how many people died or were negatively affected due to the Chernobyl radioactive catastrophe. These organizations represent a global network of doctors, biologists, and nuclear experts who are NOT associated with the nuclear industry. They are all more or less in agreement. 

They state that based on extensive research from the time Chernobyl melted through and exploded to now, that there are between 1 MILLION DEATHS (http://youtu.be/f4uVgMp4Ycs) and/or 9 MILLION VICTIMS up to around 2001/2004….(See links below) ‘Victims’ includes those who have cancer, deformities, one of 2,400 genetic diseases, etc…

Now we can go over to the nuclear industry and their marketing arms such as the IAEA or the nuclear industry revolving door NRC. This is where people routinely go from the IAEA/NRC to the nuclear industry or the other way around. The mission statement of the IAEA is that they are marketing and promoting nuclear power. Would you trust a salesperson to tell you anything about something as dangerous as nuclear radiation? These 'experts' say that only a couple people died and almost no one got sick or injured, from the Chernobyl accident to present day.

The nuclear industry further makes the bold, outrageous claim that low level radiation affects NO ONE, EVER. Further, they also claim internal radiation ingested via water, food or dust from nuclear accidents has NO EFFECT. All of the scientific and medical studies pointed to by  the New York Academy of Sciences, the ECRR, the UN and OCHA about low level radiation make this claim look astoundingly laughable. 
The nuclear industry also claims that ‘hot particles’ have ZERO effect or do not exist at all. (http://youtu.be/HIOfjuYWxl4) . When it comes to explaining the 80-85% rate of unhealthy infants as well as elevated death rate around Chernobyl, they have no explanation, other than all of these unhealthy women, infants are others  are ONLY due to ‘stress’, worry, and/or not smiling enough.

Who do you tend to believe more? The salesperson/marketing organization in charge of selling the item that may be dangerous or deadly, or someone outside the industry that does not have any profit motive? Which one would have more or less bias, or built in conflict of interest?

The other thing about the number of total deaths around Chernoby issue is that this total deaths and victims number is GROWING year by year, not shrinking. When one watches the present day interviews with health professionals in the area and reviews the scientific and medical studies, the number of victims (those negatively affected or dying) is actually growing and getting worse year to year, not the opposite. So these are ‘old’ numbers. They are obsolete.. No one has updated them since they came out. For example, the ECRR estimates that Chernobyl will have killed 1.4 million people by 2030.

UN Secretary General Dr Kofi Anan said that the “consequences of Chernobyl do not fade away, but actually grow over time and in many ways, become more intense.” Dr Anan and D. Zupka, UN representative of UN humanitarian affairs UN – OCHA agree and say that there are 9 million victims from Chernobyl as of 2001, and the tragedy is only beginning. This calamity will be with us for generations to come. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8746168177815160826&hl=en

New York Academy Of Sciences Link; http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d7b-a086-753f44b3bfc1