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The Prism   →   New Study Reveals Increased Risk of Leukemia for Chernobyl Cleaners

Tags: chernobyl nuclear disaster, dr. lydia b. zablotska, leukemia, Russia, International, Interviews, Science, Prism
Andrew Hiller
Nov 16, 2012 14:06
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Displaced people allowed to visit their homes in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, meet again in the village of Dernovich, evacuated in 1986 after the Chernobyl accident. Photo: ©RIA Novosti, Andrei Aleksandrov.
Displaced people allowed to visit their homes in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, meet again in the village of Dernovich, evacuated in 1986 after the Chernobyl accident. Photo: ©RIA Novosti, Andrei Aleksandrov.
WASHINGTON – More than 100,000 workers involved in the clean-up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident share a significant increased risk of developing leukemia, according to a recent 20-year longitudinal study.

Host Andrew Hiller spoke with Dr. Lydia B. Zablotska, an epidemiologist with the School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco Campus, to examine the impact of low doses of radiation.


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