THOUSANDS of people who were within 30 kilometres of the Chernobyl reactor
when it exploded in 1986, or who helped to clean up in the immediate
aftermath, will form the core of a study by the French Nuclear Safety
Institute, near Paris, and the Russian Centre for Ecological Medicine in St
Petersburg. The study will estimate the radiation doses each individual
received and try to explain the high prevalence of digestive disorders being
reported in the group.
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