The cloud (other more accurate maps exist but it is not the subject of the subject)
Contamination in Europe
Contamination in France
The 4 reactor
The liquidators' medal
Estimation of the economic cost of Chernobyl
Source: https://www.econologie.com/forums/accident-n ... 9-160.html
Christophe wrote:Here's an interesting article that tried to estimate the cost of the Chernobyl disaster, and as expected, it's tricky: http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/ ... obyl.shtml(...)
socio-economic consequences
To assess the cost of the Chernobyl disaster, we must consider:
- direct damage and repair and rehabilitation costs: construction of a concrete sarcophagus around the damaged reactor, cleaning of the site, landfilling of waste and the most contaminated land, evacuation of a town of 50 000 inhabitants and construction of an equivalent city to relocate the inhabitants, relocation of the inhabitants of the hundreds of evacuated villages, monitoring of the radioactivity,
- indirect expenditure: compensation, victim care,
- the losses of agricultural, forestry and industrial production (including the production of electricity from the Chernobyl power plant permanently closed in 2000).
● As far as she is concerned, Belarus evaluates the total cost of the disaster on 30 years to 235 billion dollars. She dedicated 22,3% of her budget in 1991 and 6,1% in 2002. As an indirect consequence of the disaster, some analysts believe that the need to establish a genuine war economy is one of the causes of the installation of authoritarian rule in Belarus.
● Ukraine, for its part, gives a range of 175 to 200 billions of dollars and allocated 25% of its budget to Chernobyl in 1991 (3,4% today). But these figures do not include the loss of life or the loss of production of invalids (65 000 liquidators).
For example, according to the Act on the status and social protection of citizens affected by the Chernobyl disaster, about 7% of the Ukrainian population is concerned, that is:
-165 000 residents evacuated areas
-253 000 liquidators
-643 000 children of liquidators
● Russia, for its part, has not published precise accounts.
However, spending added three countries certainly exceed 500 billion.
The payment of compensation to victims is the most burdensome for the three countries. Seven million people currently receive allowances related to Chernobyl.
However, the tax burden is being quickly proved unbearable for transition countries experiencing a drop in their standard of living, the authorities have failed to reassess disability pensions and other allowances, so that the amounts received individually become relatively paltry.
In conclusion, the real cost and the environmental and health consequences of the Chernobyl disaster will probably never be known in their entirety.
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In addition, it is always difficult to quantify the human cost (and biological in the broad sense ...)
I reasonably think we can go on 500 to 1000 billion for the direct and indirect costs of Chernobyl ...
And a very hot reminder of topicality: Yesterday the trial "of the Chernobyl cloud" dismissed the "negationism" of the cloud in France by the French officials at the time, which therefore remains "unpunished":
http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/sant ... 87322.html
http://www.liberation.fr/terre/01012329 ... nt-a-paris
Read also:
https://www.econologie.com/tchernobyl-et ... -2819.html
And see absolutely THE documentary the Battle of Cherno:
https://www.econologie.com/forums/la-bataill ... 10595.html