How bad was Chernobyl disaster! Pt.2

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The explosion released the equivalent radioactive material of 400 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki significantly contaminating over a hundred thousand square kilometers of land and not just in the area surrounding Chernobyl

weather patterns carried radioactive fallout to Belarus Ukraine Russia Sweden Finland Austria Norway Bulgaria Switzerland Greece slovenia italy and moldova in fact the first evidence of a major nuclear disaster came not from Ukraine but from Sweden workers

at a Swedish nuclear plant 1,100 kilometers away were found to have radioactive contaminants on their clothes the radiation was not only detectable by these many countries it also directly affected their food and water supply dark radioactive

rain collected in rivers and lakes and seeped into the ground many fish became too heavily contaminated to eat as did some livestock thousands of kilometers of land became uninhabitable Chernobyl is located next to the Pripyat River which at the time provided

much of the water for Kiev's 2.4 million residents that water became unsafe to drink or bathe in 4 square kilometers of forest near the site turned reddish brown and died and many of the local animals with it as recently as 2010 1000 bore killed

in Germany's hunting season were contaminated with levels of radiation exceeding the limit for consumption in the weeks and months after the incident 237 people died from radiation poisoning 31 of whom died within three months the report states that 28 emergency

workers known as Liquidators died from acute radiation poisoning and beta burns and 15 people died from thyroid cancer in the following years it's estimated that somewhere around 4,000 people will eventually die from cancer directly caused by the Chernobyl incident

though it is very hard to accurately estimate the rate of cancer formation by 2000 the number of Ukrainians receiving state benefits for radiations offering had climbed a 3.5 million or about 5% of the population many of whom are citizens relocated from contaminated zones

around Chernobyl besides the health and environmental effects the Chernobyl disaster required an 18 billion rubles spend ature on containment and decontamination that's the equivalent of 41 point 1 billion dollars in today's money 30 years after the incident

the spending on Belarus alone had added up to a staggering 301 billion dollars adjusted for inflation according to a 2005 report Ukraine still spends 5 to 7 percent of its annual budget entre Noble related expenses to top it all off the horrific mismanagement of the disaster

was a key factor in the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 considering all the damage to ennoble caused the radiation poisoning the ruin of farmland and drinking water the cancer

and relocations the lives lost in the immediate aftermath Chernobyl deserves its title as the worst nuclear disaster in history.