"Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/26
Excerpts of the book here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.2009.1181.is...