<P> The report concluded that' the vast majority of the population need not live in fear of serious health consequences from the Chernobyl accident' . </P> <Ul> <Li> The claim is made, by Collette Thomas, writing on 24 April 2006, that someone in the Ukrainian Health Ministry claimed in 2006 that more than 2.4 million Ukrainians, including 428,000 children, suffer from health problems related to the catastrophe . The claim appears to have been invented by her through a very creative interpretation of a webpage of the Kyiv Regional Administration . Psychological after - effects, as the 2006 UN report pointed out, have also had adverse effects on internally displaced persons . </Li> <Li> In a recently published study scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, published the "Korma - Report" with data of radiological long - term measurements that were performed between 1998 and 2007 in a region in Belarus that was affected by the Chernobyl accident . The internal radiation exposure of the inhabitants in a village in Korma County / Belarus caused by the existing radioactive contamination has experienced a significant decrease from a very high level . The external exposure, however, reveals a different picture . Although an overall decrease was observed, the organic constituents of the soil show an increase in contamination . This increase was not observed in soils from cultivated land or gardens . According to the Korma Report the internal dose will decrease to less than 0.2 mSv / a in 2011 and to below 0.1 mSv / a in 2020 . Despite this, the cumulative dose will remain significantly higher than "normal" values due to external exposure . Resettlement may even be possible in former prohibited areas provided that people comply with appropriate dietary rules . </Li> <Li> Study of heightened mortality in Sweden . But it must be pointed out that this study, and in particular the conclusions drawn has been very criticized . </Li> <Li> One study reports increased levels of birth defects in Germany and Finland in the wake of the accident . </Li> <Li> A change in the human sex ratio at birth from 1987 onward in several European countries has been linked to Chernobyl fallout . </Li> <Li> In the Czech Republic, thyroid cancer has increased significantly after Chernobyl . </Li> <Li> The Abstract of the April 2006 International Agency for Research on Cancer report Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident stated "It is unlikely that the cancer burden from the largest radiological accident to date could be detected by monitoring national cancer statistics . Indeed, results of analyses of time trends in cancer incidence and mortality in Europe do not, at present, indicate any increase in cancer rates--other than of thyroid cancer in the most contaminated regions--that can be clearly attributed to radiation from the Chernobyl accident ." They estimate, based on the linear no threshold model of cancer effects, that 16,000 excess cancer deaths could be expected from the effects of the Chernobyl accident up to 2065 . Their estimates have very wide 95% confidence intervals from 6,700 deaths to 38,000 . </Li> <Li> The application of the linear no threshold model to predict deaths from low levels of exposure to radiation was disputed in a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Horizon documentary, broadcast on 13 July 2006 . It offered statistical evidence to suggest that there is an exposure threshold of about 200 millisieverts, below which there is no increase in radiation - induced disease . Indeed, it went further, reporting research from Professor Ron Chesser of Texas Tech University, which suggests that low exposures to radiation can have a protective effect . The program interviewed scientists who believe that the increase in thyroid cancer in the immediate area of the explosion had been over-recorded, and predicted that the estimates for widespread deaths in the long term would be proved wrong . It noted the view of the World Health Organization scientist Dr Mike Rapacholi that, while most cancers can take decades to manifest, leukemia manifests within a decade or so: none of the previously expected peak of leukemia deaths has been found, and none is now expected . Identifying the need to balance the "fear response" in the public's reaction to radiation, the program quoted Dr Peter Boyle, director of the IARC: "Tobacco smoking will cause several thousand times more cancers in the (European) population ." </Li> </Ul> <Li> The claim is made, by Collette Thomas, writing on 24 April 2006, that someone in the Ukrainian Health Ministry claimed in 2006 that more than 2.4 million Ukrainians, including 428,000 children, suffer from health problems related to the catastrophe . The claim appears to have been invented by her through a very creative interpretation of a webpage of the Kyiv Regional Administration . Psychological after - effects, as the 2006 UN report pointed out, have also had adverse effects on internally displaced persons . </Li> <Li> In a recently published study scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, published the "Korma - Report" with data of radiological long - term measurements that were performed between 1998 and 2007 in a region in Belarus that was affected by the Chernobyl accident . The internal radiation exposure of the inhabitants in a village in Korma County / Belarus caused by the existing radioactive contamination has experienced a significant decrease from a very high level . The external exposure, however, reveals a different picture . Although an overall decrease was observed, the organic constituents of the soil show an increase in contamination . This increase was not observed in soils from cultivated land or gardens . According to the Korma Report the internal dose will decrease to less than 0.2 mSv / a in 2011 and to below 0.1 mSv / a in 2020 . Despite this, the cumulative dose will remain significantly higher than "normal" values due to external exposure . Resettlement may even be possible in former prohibited areas provided that people comply with appropriate dietary rules . </Li>

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