Low radiation for Chernobyl fauna IT IS true that two-and-a-half dozen died in the immediate aftermath of the accident and that a couple of thousand children subsequently developed thyroid cancer ('Wildlife thrives in Chernobyl's nuclear winter', March 8), but most of these deaths were actually preventable.
The fire-fighters failed to take adequate precautions and the thyroid cancers could have been prevented with prompt medical intervention. The fact that wildlife thrives shows that the radiation level in the controlled zone is not very high, in fact it is barely higher than the natural background radiation in Aberdeen. It was unnecessary for the area to be evacuated.
