![]() ![]() However, there is considerable debate concerning the accurate number of projected deaths due to the disaster's long-term health effects long-term death estimates range from up to 4,000 (per the 20 conclusions of a joint consortium of the United Nations) for the most exposed people of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, to 16,000 in total for all those exposed on the entire continent of Europe, with figures as high as 60,000 when including the relatively minor effects around the globe. There is consensus that a total of approximately 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster, respectively, with 60 in total in the decades since, inclusive of later radiation induced cancer. ![]() ![]() From 1986 onward, the total death toll of the disaster has lacked consensus as peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet and other sources have noted, it remains contested. The Chernobyl disaster, considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine. ![]()
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