Sorry, but I had to read a little.... "Moreover, the Academy of Science established a group of leading scientists, who were immediately dispatched to the Chernobyl region."
LOFL!!!
What does not follow.... "And then suddenly, we were losing our leading scientists to a strange illness...their hair was falling out..they were losing their vision...and then they just died... it was the strangest thing! So then we got some more of our leading scientists and sent them over to Chernobyl... and they got sick too.."
Chernobyl was a non-event in terms of people killed and injured. I studied this in detail while working in the commercial nuclear industry.
More background:
The Chernobyl Catastrophe Reassessed
http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.632/news_detail.asp
The UN report emphasizes a factor that the anti-nuclear and other activist groups always ignore: the greatest threat from the Chernobyl accident, and even more so in the case of Three Mile Island earlier, was the fear factor, the "mental health impact," as the report terms it. Somewhere between 200,000 and 350,000 people were evacuated from the area over the subsequent years, although three out of four of the reactors resumed operation before the end of 1986. The earth and water near the facility were heavily contaminated, but again, the report noted that, for the overwhelming majority, stress and anxiety -- the fear of radiation effects, the loss of homes and livelihoods -- were more serious problems than the actual radiation.
"Fear of radiation is a far greater threat to the affected individuals than radiation itself," UN Assistant Secretary General Kalman Mizsei told a conference on Chernobyl. Those relocated went through "a deeply traumatic experience."
Tourists Flock to the Dead Zone of Chernobyl
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/25/wcher25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/25/ixnewstop.html
Many locals are surprisingly unconcerned by the legacy of Chernobyl. About 600 people have returned to live inside the dead zone. Maria Dika, 42, leaning from a balcony in Chernobyl town, said she had suffered no long-term ill effects after three months of treatment for acute radiation sickness. She was working as a security guard at Reactor Four on the night of the disaster.
"We're fine," she joked. "No health problems. The radiation has got used to us." Tatiana Khrushch, 66, agreed. "The air's clean, the water's lovely and the mushrooms are great," she said. "This is a fine place."
Lessons of Chernobyl: Nuclear Power is Safe
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202004/Spring2004/Jaworowski_on_Chernobyl.pdf