One reason I believe that there was no deliberate deception is that, when the governmental commission visited the scene right after the disaster and stayed overnight in Polesie, near Chernobyl, its members all had dinner with regular food and water, and they moved about without respirators, like everybody else who worked there. If the local administration or the scientists knew the real impact of the disaster, they would not have risked doing this.
所以，那种宣称政治局刻意掩盖有关那场灾难信息的说法是不符合事实的。我之所以相信并没有故意欺骗的原因之一是，政府委员会在事故发生后立即访问灾区并在靠近切尔诺贝利的Polesie过夜。委员会所有成员晚饭吃的喝的都是平常的东西，他们行动的时候像在那里工作的所有的人一样也没有戴防毒面具。如果地方当局或科学家们知道灾难的实际影响，他们就不会冒这样的风险了。