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Chernobyl nuclear accident: figures for deaths and cancers still in dispute. â¢ Suspected infant mortality rise difficult to prove. â¢ Predicted deaths range from 4,000 to half a million.
Damage As a result of the Chernobyl disaster, almost a fourth part of Belarus was contaminated (some 23 per cent of the territory). For comparison, radioactive fallout in Russia amounted to 1.5 per cent and in Ukraine to 7 per cent of the countryâs territory.Damage caused by the Chernobyl disaster is estimated at some $235 billion. However, the overall amount of money that Belarus and the international community invested into the recovery amounts to just 8 per cent of the total damage.  Safe environment in the affected regions requires much time to take hold.