According to our best present predictions about the medical consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, the longer-term cancer deaths caused by that accident will

A) be medically indistinguishable from cancer deaths produced by other causes.
B) be very difficult, or impossible, to detect statistically among the large number of other cancer deaths.
C) be much more numerous than the roughly 40 deaths caused directly by short-term radiation effects.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.


D

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