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Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl and try and explain why it so hard to say how many people will die because of the Chernobyl disaster.
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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Tue 2 Jul 2019
01:50GMT
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
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