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This extensive section on health effects offers a whole new view of the consequences of radiation induced disease. Yes, there are cancers to specific organs, many thyroid cancers caused by Iodine 131 and 129 but there are also diseases that affect body systems such as the whole endocrine system, not just the thyroid, or the immune system, the respiratory and the reproductive systems. - Also a brief explanation of "half life" "hot spots" and why background radiation is different from radiation from nuclear processes.
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, was compiled by Dr. Alexey Yablokov, biologist and member of the Russian Academy of Science, and Vassily Nesterenko, former director of the Belarussian Nuclear Center.