Article: Truth still radioactive 20 years after Chernobyl.

Byline: Mike Sigov

Apr. 23--Twenty years ago this week a nuclear reactor blew up at the Chernobyl power plant in the then-Soviet Ukraine. The world's worst nuclear-power accident has killed between 50 and 200,000 people, depending on who is counting - independent experts or Russian bureaucrats and their sidekicks in the United Nations. The latter grossly underestimate the death toll. They simply refuse to acknowledge the link between the accident and the ensuing spike in cancer-related deaths in the area. Ever since the breakup of the Soviet Union 15 years ago, Russians have been accusing Ukrainians of trying to bilk them by exaggerating the effects ...

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