Within a few weeks of the disaster, 30 workers died who were present at the disaster. Along with these 30 workers, another 100 workers suffered from radiation injury. According to radiation injuries, 115,000 people were relocated to insure their safety. 220,000 more people from Belarus were also relocated. Because of these events, people suffered from both social and psychological problems. In 2005, UNSCEAR reported that more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer were present in both children and adults. The shocking part is that those reported people were present in the disaster. The main health impact in Chernobyl was thyroid cancer. While there were 9,000 cases of thyroid cancer, only 9 of them died. The main question is how does radiation cause cancer? Ionizing radiation is known to cause DNA breaks which develops cancer tumors. The main problem is that the driving mutation wasn’t found. The main isotope that was released during the disaster was Iodine-131. Since
Within a few weeks of the disaster, 30 workers died who were present at the disaster. Along with these 30 workers, another 100 workers suffered from radiation injury. According to radiation injuries, 115,000 people were relocated to insure their safety. 220,000 more people from Belarus were also relocated. Because of these events, people suffered from both social and psychological problems. In 2005, UNSCEAR reported that more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer were present in both children and adults. The shocking part is that those reported people were present in the disaster. The main health impact in Chernobyl was thyroid cancer. While there were 9,000 cases of thyroid cancer, only 9 of them died. The main question is how does radiation cause cancer? Ionizing radiation is known to cause DNA breaks which develops cancer tumors. The main problem is that the driving mutation wasn’t found. The main isotope that was released during the disaster was Iodine-131. Since