Where does that 400,000 figure come from? Sounds like a heck of a lot of bodies to hide.
“...I have done a lot of reading about Chernobyl and everything I read pointed to this. Elena said in one of her articles that the USSR gov’t only admitted that 30-40 people died when the actual number is way over 400,000...”
400,000 dead from Chernobyl?
This is from an article published yesterday at Real Clear Science:
“...In 2006, 20 years after the accident, a group of eight UN agencies, including the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization, assessed the damage in a study incorporating the work of hundreds of scientists and health experts from around the world.
It turns out that two decades after the fact, the death toll had not reached the tens of thousands that were predicted. In fact, fewer than 50 deaths could be directly attributable to radiation from the disaster, almost all of them among rescue workers who had been exposed to massive amounts of radiation on the disaster site at the time of the fire and its immediate aftermath.
In addition, nine children in the area died of thyroid cancer that is thought to have been caused by radioactive contamination, but even among the nearby population, there was neither evidence of decreased fertility nor of congenital malformations that could be attributed to radiation exposure...”