We should stop running away from radiation

Okay, I'm just going to set your claim against the introduction to the report (http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/Advance_copy_Annex_...) referenced in the BBC article.

   There has been an unprecedented effort by the international
   community to assess the magnitude and characteristics
   of the health effects due to the radiation exposure
   resulting from the accident. As early as August 1986, a
   widely attended international gathering, the “Post-Accident
   Review Meeting”, was convened in Vienna. The resulting
   report of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group
   (INSAG) contained a limited but essentially correct early
   account of the accident and its expected radiological consequences
   [I31]. In May 1988, the International Scientific
   Conference on the Medical Aspects of the Accident at the
   Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [I32] held in Kiev summarized
   the available information at the time and confirmed
   that some children had received high doses to the thyroid. In
   May 1989, scientists obtained a more comprehensive insight
   into the scale of the consequences of the accident at an ad
   hoc meeting convened at the time of the 38th session of
   UNSCEAR [G15, K25]. In October 1989, the former Soviet
   Union formally requested “an international experts’ assessment”
   and, as a result, the International Chernobyl Project
   (ICP) [I5] was launched in early 1990; its conclusions and
   recommendations were presented at an International Conference
   held in Vienna, 21–24 May 1991 [I5]. Many national
   and international initiatives7 followed aimed at developing a
   better understanding of the accident consequences and in
   assisting in their mitigation. The results of these initiatives
   were presented at the 1996 International Conference on One
   Decade After Chernobyl8 [I29]. There was a broad agreement
   on the extent and character of the consequences.

   ...

   The objective of the present annex is to provide an
   authoritative and definitive review of the health effects
   observed to date that are attributable to radiation exposure
   due to the accident and to clarify the potential risk projections,
   taking into account the levels, trends and patterns of
   radiation dose to the exposed populations. The Committee
   has evaluated the relevant new information that has become
   available since the 2000 Report, in order to determine
   whether the assumptions used previously to assess the radiological
   consequences are still valid. In addition, it recognized
   that some issues merited further scrutiny and that its
   work to provide the scientific basis for a better understanding
   of the radiation‑related health and environmental effects
   of the Chernobyl accident needed to continue. The information
   considered included the behaviour and trends of the
   long‑lived radionuclides in foodstuff and the environment in
   order to improve the estimates of exposure of relevant population
   groups, and the results of the latest follow‑up studies
   of the health of the exposed groups. The effects of radiation
   on plants and animals following the Chernobyl accident are
   discussed separately in annex E, “Effects of ionizing radiation
   on non‑human biota”. Other effects of the accident, in
   particular, distress and anxiety, and socio‑economic effects,
   were considered by the Chernobyl Forum [W5] but are
   outside the Committee’s remit.

   The Committee, in general, bases its assessments on
   reports appearing in peer‑reviewed scientific literature and
   on information submitted officially by Governments in
   response to its requests. However, the results of many of
   the studies related to the Chernobyl accident have been
   presented at scientific meetings without formal scientific
   peer review. The Committee decided that it would only
   make use of such information when it could judge that the
   results and the underlying work were scientifically and
   technically sound.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Assessing_th...