The Chernoby
The most expensive accident ever goes to The Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday, April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) exploded at a reactor response number 4. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history in terms of both costs and casualties. Due to the lack of walls, the fallout cloud from the plant spread to much of the western Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, Great Britain, and the eastern United States. Large areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were severely polluted, leading to the evacuation and resettlement of more than 336,000 people. About 60% of the radioactive cloud fell on Belarus. According to a 2006 report by TORCH, half of the radiation fell outside the three Soviet republics. This disaster emitted four hundred times more radiation than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
The Chernobyl disaster was regarded as the worst socio economic disaster in history. Ukraine is poisoned in 50 percent of its territory. There should be 200,000 people evacuated and relocated, with 1.7 million people directly affected by the crisis. About 125,000 people have perished as a result of Chernobyl, including those who died of cancer years later. Nobody knows the exact cost of the world's worst nuclear disaster. Cleaning, transmigration, and victim compensation are all estimated to cost $200 billion. A new steel shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear power facility alone will cost $2 billion.
Total loss: $200 billion
