[3] Both are members of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, an organization awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
[6] The summary of the 2006 TORCH report said, in part: "Early on April 26 1986, two explosions in Chernobyl unit 4 completely destroyed the reactor.
However the TORCH Report makes predictions of the numbers of excess cancer deaths from published collective doses to affected populations.
More than 80% of Moldova, the European part of Turkey, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria and the Slovak Republic were contaminated to lower levels (> 4000 Bq/m² caesium-137).
[6] The TORCH 2006 report "estimated that more than half the iodine-131 from Chernobyl [which increases the risk of thyroid cancer] was deposited outside the former Soviet Union.
[6] The TORCH report also stated that "two non-cancer effects, cataract induction and cardiovascular diseases, are well documented with clear evidence of a Chernobyl connection.