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Nature 440, 982-983 (20 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440982a; Published online 19 April 2006; Corrected 21 April 2006
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Special Report: Counting the dead
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Twenty years after the worst nuclear accident in history, arguments over the death toll of Chernobyl are as politically charged as ever, reports Mark Peplow.
No more than 4,000 people are likely to die as a result of Chernobyl. That was the conclusion released by the United Nations and the governments of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in September last year, in the most comprehensive assessment of the accident so far.
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