Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
More or Less: Behind the Stats
The recent TV miniseries βChernobylβ has stirred up debate online about the accuracy of its portrayal of the explosion at a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet state of Ukraine. We fact-check the programme and try and explain why it so hard to say how many people will die because of the Chernobyl disaster.
Image: Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster. Credit: Getty Images
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