there is a lot of whitewashing of history is happening (after all there is a huge money race between big solar and wind installs and new &quot;safe&quot; reactors - notice that even 5-10 year ago we didn&#x27;t have this tsunami of &quot;Chernobyl was really not that big a deal of an accident&quot; articles).<p>Decades after the Chernobyl there is much higher rate of cancer of internal organs, adeno- and thyroid (ie. cancers related to ingestion of radiation sources) among people who lived or spent time in the North Ukraine, South Belarus in the months right after the catastrophe. Only official statistics points to 5000 additional thyroid cancers in Belarus in people who were children at the time.