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…showed last 75 words of 1741 total…so many negative health effects for the world. The accident was basically caused by human error. Its effects were tremendous: killing 31, and exposing over 600,000 to severe radiation. (Medvedev 129) It had huge effects on both agriculture and the environment. At first the Soviets kept the Chernobyl incident a secret, which was the wrong move. If they had informed the rest of the world about the accident sooner, more might have been done to prevent such devastation.