Evacuation of the most highly contaminated areas, where 1,100 people lived, was not completed until 10 days after the accident. Other areas were evacuated a year later, after the population had consumed radioactive food. One-fifth of these people eventually showed a reduction of leukocytes in their blood. There are no records of deaths caused by the accident. Contamination from Mayak operation activity can be compared with the effects of nuclear bombing, but they are more dangerous because they are kept secret.
People keep living on the contaminated territory.
The food is contaminated, water is contaminated, and air is contaminated. The most terrible effect this contamination has in on the third generation. Children's health is very bad. On the downwind territory each fifth child has chronic lung diseases, each third has acute respiratory disorders, each sixth has chronic stomach diseases. Each third child has vascular atone, each fifth has heart dysfunctions.