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Yeah, what the fuck does Reddit expects with those questions besides a politically correct answer? It is stupid to publicly talk shit about your field of work or people you work with that can get you a gig.

Hello! Thanks for this. One question: are radiation levels in Chernobyl harmful to humans? What are your thoughts on this or what have you found? I've been reading about this idea that people could live there without issues.

Thanks for your answer! I will quote what I've been reading, from the book Flat News Earth by Nick Davies, I found this interesting:

In 2006, BBC’s Horizon broadcast a programme, made by the independent production company Dox, in which radiation scientists queued up to argue that radiation is simply not as dangerous as we have been led to believe. They argued that for years our understanding of the health impact of radioactivity was based on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but that those victims had been exposed to extremely high doses – far higher than anything released by any nuclear power plant, far higher even than the dose experienced by the vast majority of those who have been affected by the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl.

They endorsed the World Health Organisation’s conclusion on the very small number of people who had been killed by the accident and cited extensive research into the condition of mice, voles and other small mammals at the Chernobyl site. Unlike the humans who had lived there, these animals have not been evacuated; over the years, they have been thoroughly irradiated. And yet they show no sign at all of any of the cancers or of the ill health or genetic damage which have been attributed to the Chernobyl accident. . Some scientists insisted that low-level radiation was not harmful and indeed that it could even be positively good for health by stimulating the body to resist genetic damage.

Dr Antone Brooks, professor of radiation toxicology at Washington State University, who has spent years studying radiation sickness, told the BBC programme: ‘In my opinion, low doses of radiation are a piss-poor carcinogen and just not a big hitter when it comes to health effects. We have through our fear of radiation parlayed it into a major player when it is not.’

Typical Steam user answer.