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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by sien on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:07AM (#36812388)
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

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by dijit on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:14AM (#36812451)
https://globalhealth.usc.edu/2016/05/24/the-financial-costs-...
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by ecopoesis on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:43AM (#36813125)
$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.
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by FreshStart on Saturday July 22, 2023 @02:47AM (#36823928)
So jets were under the resource curse after the 70s.iran- Iraq war and resulting oil surplus killed them.
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