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OK, you should be aware that there isn’t good evidence linking Chernobyl with Leukemia increase!

This is why many people think danger from Strontium 90 is badly overrated, while perhaps danger radioactive iodine was underestimated.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18049227

The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in 1986 led to a substantial increase of thyroid cancer among those exposed as children. The other cancer that is the most sensitive to the effects of ionizing radiation is leukemia, and this paper evaluates the evidence relating exposure to Chernobyl radioactivity and leukemia risk. Two types of objectives are identified, namely, scientific evidence and public health, and two approaches to addressing such objectives are discussed. Empirical studies in affected populations are summarized, and it is concluded that, possibly apart from Russian cleanup workers, no meaningful evidence of any statistical association between exposure and leukemia risk as yet exists.

OK, you should be aware that there isn’t good evidence linking Chernobyl with Leukemia increase!

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Actually, there is good evidence linking Chernobyl with Leukemia increase!

Soviets made it illegal to report deaths as having been caused by radiation for the first three years following the disaster. Here’s a quote from the comprehensive report on the Chernobyl effected regions
(http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf)
NOTE: EXCERPT TAKEN FROM PAGE 198 of the 349 page PDF

“Owing to the secrecy and the
falsification of data that continued for 3
years after the catastrophe (see Chapter 3 for
details), unknown numbers of leukemia cases
in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were not in-
cluded in any registry. These distortions should
be kept in mind when analyzing the following data.”

Then the data shown in the tables of the PDF (page 177-181 by internal page numbering or page 198-202 of PDF file) indicate significant increases in leukemia, and that is in spite of inherent suppression of data following the disaster.
Note that increases in leukemia occurred in neighboring regions as a result of Chernobyl:
Here are a few of the countries (Page 180 internal numbering)mentioned in the document:

“6.3.4.Other Countries

1.GERMANY. There was 1.5-fold increase in
the incidence of leukemia among infants born
in West Germany between July 1,1986, and
December 31,1987(Pugbeil etal.,2006).

2.GREAT BRITAIN. In 1987 in Scotland
leukemia in children under the age of 4 years
rose by 37% (Gibson etal.,1988;Busbyand
ScotCato,2000;Busby,2006).

3.GREECE.Infants born between July 1,
1986, and December 31,1987,and exposed
to Chernobyl fallout in utero had 2.6 times the
incidence of leukemia compared to children
born between January 1,1980, and December
31,1985, and between January 1,1988,
and December 31,1990. Elevated rates were
also reported for children born in regions of
Greece with higher levels of radioactive fallout
(Petridou etal.,1996).