Higher cancer risk continues after Chernobyl;
NIH study finds that thyroid cancer risk for those who were children and adolescents when exposed to fallout has not yet begun to decline
Nearly 25 years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, exposure to radioactive iodine-131(I-131, a radioactive isotope) from fallout may be responsible for thyroid cancers that are still occurring among people who lived in the Chernobyl area and were children or adolescents at the time of the accident, researchers say.
http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/newsfromnci/2011/ChernobylRadiation
And those cancers are easily treatable; one doesn’t die from them. I’m not trying to minimize a cancer diagnosis, but we just don’t have the vast numbers of thyroid cancer deaths which you claim.