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Chernobyl 25 years later: Do major nuclear accidents stop countries from building new nuclear reactors? - By Matthew Fuhrmann. Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of the explosion at Chernobyl.

Chernobyl 25 years later: Do major nuclear accidents stop countries from building new nuclear reactors? - By Matthew Fuhrmann

Meanwhile, the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun to stabilize, if only slightly. The horror stories from Chernobyl set the nuclear industry back countless years, with many countries canceling or stalling previous plans to build nuclear reactors. How will the disaster in Japan affect global reliance on nuclear energy? Chernobyl_digest_report_EN. How Many Cancers Did Chernobyl Really Cause? NOTE: An updated version of this post is now available here.

How Many Cancers Did Chernobyl Really Cause?

There is a lot of confusion about how many excess cancer deaths will likely result from the 1986 Chernobyl accident in Ukraine. As we see below, 70,000 and 35,000 are reasonable estimates of the number of excess cancers and cancer deaths attributable to the accident. Much lower numbers of cancers and deaths are often cited, but these are misleading because they only apply to those populations with the highest radiation exposures, and don’t take into account the larger numbers of people who were exposed to less radiation.