Swedes Raise Estimate of Chernobyl Cancer Cases
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
More than 800 people in northern Sweden might have cancer as a result of fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in the former Soviet Union, according to a new study by Swedish scientists.
The figure is significantly higher than previous estimates.
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