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Dirt cheap for whom? Chernobyl costs Belarus 20% of its annual budget according to https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/17/belarus-border-town-chern

• p_l 6y ago
  It cost 22% in 1991, which obviously wasn't a good year for Belarusian budget. Despite management so bad that even security services turned against it, by 2002 Belarus spent 6% of its budget on Chernobyl - like Ukraine, majority of it was benefits paid as compensation for around 7 million people.