Jan Panteltje  wrote:
> Later ... we had the Chernobyl fallout, and where I worked the filters in
> the aircos were hot (radiation) and had to be properly disposed.
> That made me want to measure things, by that time I lost my nuculear fear
btw,
> But nobody died, vegetables in your garden you were not recommended to eat.

From "Int. J. Cancer: 119, 1224–1235 (2006)" via
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44334601/Estimates_of_the_cancer_burden_i
n_Europe20160402-19341-ugwo1h.pdf

"The risk projections suggest that by now Chernobyl may have caused about
1,000 cases of thyroid cancer and 4,000 cases of other cancers in Europe,
representing about 0.01% of all incident cancers since the accident. Models
pre- dict that by 2065 about 16,000 (95% UI 3,400–72,000) cases of thy-
roid cancer and 25,000 (95% UI 11,000–59,000) cases of other can- cers may
be expected due to radiation from the accident, whereas several hundred
million cancer cases are expected from other causes. Although these
estimates are subject to considerable uncertainty, they provide an
indication of the order of magnitude of the possible impact of the
Chernobyl accident. It is unlikely that the cancer bur- den from the
largest radiological accident to date could be detected by monitoring
national cancer statistics. Indeed, results of analyses of time trends in
cancer incidence and mortality in Europe do not, at present, indicate any
increase in cancer rates—other than of thyroid cancer in the most
contaminated regions—that can be clearly attributed to radiation from the
Chernobyl accident."

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