A Health Disaster Scene
Reading the United Nations report on Chernobyl would easily lead you to believe the Chernobyl clean-up workers — aka, the liquidators — suffered at most minimal health effects for their heroic battle against the worst nuclear disaster in history. As the UN’s Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation concluded:
“[S]everal hundred thousand people were involved in recovery operations, but to date, apart from indications of an increase in the incidence of leukemia and cataracts among those who received higher doses, there is no evidence of health effects that can be attributed to radiation exposure.”
So I set out to acquire all scientific research on the health of the liquidators and found a grim reality far removed from the rosy picture painted by the United Nations. In this video I give an overview of that research:
The following is a chronological compilation of all the research investigating the biological health of the Chernobyl liquidators I tracked down. My aim was to acquire all such studies, irrespective of their results so we can determine the balance of results for or against adverse-health consequences. A green check indicates evidence for adverse consequences while a red x indicates no detected health effect. The balance weighs overwhelmingly toward adverse health effects. And lack of detections among the early cancer studies are attributable to the slowness of cancer latency.
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