Twenty years ago, the nuclear accident at Chernobyl exposed hundreds of thousands of people to radioactive fallout. We still have much to learn about its consequences, argue Dillwyn Williams and Keith Baverstock.
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Williams, D., Baverstock, K. Too soon for a final diagnosis. Nature 440, 993–994 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440993a
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