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Wikipedia puts it at $US 68Bn The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and
by sien 3y ago
Wikipedia puts it at $US 68Bn
The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion roubles—roughly US $68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
- dijit 3y agoI'm not sure specifically what is included in that number you cited; but $700B comes from here: https://globalhealth.usc.edu/2016/05/24/the-financial-costs-of-the-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-disaster-a-review-of-the-literature/ https://globalhealth.usc.edu/2016/05/24/the-financial-costs-...
- ecopoesis 3y ago$68 billion is a lot, but it also only three Big Digs ($22 billion). If Chernobyl killed the Soviet economy it was because it was in already terrible shape.
- FreshStart 3y agoSo jets were under the resource curse after the 70s.iran- Iraq war and resulting oil surplus killed them.