rashidas wrote: I visited the Chernobyl Museum in Kiev, Ukraine, a few years ago. There is a photo gallery of volunteers who went to Chernobyl to contain the radiation from the nuclear power plant after the core melted. Most of these volunteers died of radiation exposure and cancer. The Chernobyl accident contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union 5 years later.
It’s not true that most of the volunteers died of radiation exposure and cancer. It’s probably closer to 10-20% of the emergency workers that were at the plant the night of the accident, which numbers in the hundreds. Show me proof that most of the volunteers died of radiation exposure and cancer.
