Chernobyl disaster

“The risk projections suggest that by now [2006] Chernobyl may have caused about 1000 cases of thyroid cancer and 4000 cases of other cancers in Europe, representing about 0.01% of all incident cancers since the accident. Models predict that by 2065 about 16,000 cases of thyroid cancer and 25,000 cases of other cancers may be expected due to radiation from the accident, whereas several hundred million cancer cases are expected from other causes.”

“We were just not prepared for that sort of situation.”

“Mankind has never experienced a misfortune of this magnitude, with consequences so grave and so hard to\xa0eliminate.”