Rather, I would like to share some of the more interesting things I have learned throughout my studying of the accident that you probably haven't heard of. I don't want to harp on these points too much since I think they are widely known. You'll have to politely fill them in on the details. By now, if anyone tries to tell you that an accident like Chernobyl could happen here in the United States or elsewhere, there is a 99.999% chance that person knows nothing about nuclear power. You have probably heard that people still live in the exclusion zone, despite government orders saying they can't. And lastly, you probably know that high-power channel reactor, or RBMK reactors, are not operated in the western world and are gradually being phased out of operation and replaced. You have probably heard that the official death toll from Chernobyl is 31 killed from acute radiation sickness (ARS) and that linear no-threshold models predict up to 4,000 premature deaths from cancer due to radiation exposure (never mind that these estimates are based on a heavily disputed model). Nuclear power advocates have done a great job through various forms of media trying to combat the false claims, and you may have already heard some of these facts.
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