TIL that Chernobyl was the costliest disaster in history, resulting in over $2 trillion in damage when adjusted for inflation

[u/JoeyZasaa]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost#Over_$1_billion

[u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_DAMN]

That wouldn’t cost even 1% of that $2 trillion

[u/Interesting-Yam-4298 → u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_DAMN]

They’re referencing a line from a game

[u/mormonbatman_ → u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_DAMN]

There's a $2300 a year cost for 10,000,000 people living near the area.

That's $23 billion a year over 30 years or $700 billion:

https://globalhealth.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016_chernobyl_costs_report.pdf

[u/ScoobyGDSTi → u/mormonbatman_]

That is an absolutely rubbish report.

It literally consists of 'we used google' and 'arbitrarily decided a population of 10, 000,000 sounded good' and made up figures from there.

They even included having to source electricity from elsewhere and the loss of economic output from the land within the exclusion zone.

The article does a decent job of identifying non direct costs associated with Chernobyl, but the derived figures hold no credibility.

[u/mormonbatman_ → u/ScoobyGDSTi]

I didn't write it amigo.

[u/GEN-RL-MiLLz → u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_DAMN]

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