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“In our street, I went up to a
street vendor and told her to stop selling her sausages, as radioactive rain was falling.
But she just said:'Be off, you drunkard! If there'd been an accident, they'd have
announced it on radio and TV.' A naive soul, she believed in the righteousness of the
Soviet authorities.” Mikhail Byckau, Soviet nuclear physicist |
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Between 17 and 45 percent of
Chernobyl liquidators received doses between 10 and 25 centigrays (10 to 25 rads). (For
comparison, in the United States the annual dose permitted general public is 0.1 rads;
nuclear workers are permitted 5 rads.) |
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