Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham

a 2009 study of soybeans grown near the reactor seemed to show that the plants changed at a molecular level to protect themselves against radiation.

by 2005, about four thousand people who were children at the time of the accident had developed thyroid cancer caused by iodine 131 from the reactor, leading to nine deaths.

In February 2003, his commission concluded that there were no such weapons in Iraq;