The author responds, point by point, to Dr. Jargin's critique in this Journal issue of A. V. Yablokov, V. B. Nesterenko, and A. B. Nesterenko, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, published in 2009 by the New York Academy of Sciences.
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