Chernobyl is 'still killing us' as new book warns disaster is to blame for 'global rise in cancer and disease'
Chernobyl ‘may STILL be killing us’ as new book warns disaster could be to blame for ‘global rise in cancer and disease’By Charlotte Edwards, Digital Science and Technology ReporterCHERNOBYL could still be 'killing us' according to a new book which suggests the disaster may be responsible for the global rise in cancers and diseases.
According to Cancer Research UK, cancer rates and cancer risk overall are rising, but this is largely blamed on people living longer – as well as a move towards diets high in red and processed meats, increasing obesity in the west, and a culture of sunbathing and sunbeds. She also theorises that academics who were not willing to cover up the facts were 'sidelined' because many influential scientists "had much larger radioactive skeletons in the closet from nuclear bomb tests".
Trees surrounding the area absorded so much radition they died and turned red resulting in an area known as the 'Red Forest' The New Safe Confinement is the name of the shelter which now surrounds the exploded reactor and is intened to confine any radition that it stills gives offExperts believe that the area won't be safe for humans to live in for another 20,000 years
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