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Chernobyl still is affecting France 20 years later. Court battles continue over whether the incidence of cancer increased due to the event. In the days following April 26, 1986, a radioactive cloud drifted over central Europe, dumping contaminated rain.



Scientists today are investigating thyroid cancer levels in Corsica, a Mediterranean island that is half French, half Italian territory. For one week the radioactive cloud hovered over Corsica. Cesium 137 levels in goats' milk reached toxic levels, but the fact was kept quiet. The French health department did not issue warnings against eating fresh produce. Today, thyroid cancer rates on Corsica are much higher than on the mainland.



Even now, French nuclear officials deny that Chernobyl is the cause of the increase in cancer rates in France.



One of the four reactors at Chernobyl, Ukraine, exploded 20 years ago today. The nuclear fuel burned for four days, spewing radioactive smoke. The toxicity was equal to 200 Hiroshima bombs. 130,000 people were evacuated.



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