The Soviet Union claimed they paid £882million in compensation – £2.5billion in today's money – to 116,000 people evacuated from the Chernobyl area in Ukraine. However, 65 percent of this – £574million or £1.6billion in today's money – was not paid for by the Soviet Union.
The salary ranges from 5260 UAH. (hydrogeological technician) up to UAH 8500 (frame). Considering the health risks this sum seems small, but given the free room and board, it is not bad money for a small town or village.
EBRD puts cost of Russian occupation of Chernobyl at EUR100 million.
The Chernobyl disaster had other fallout: The economic and political toll hastened the end of the USSR and fueled a global anti-nuclear movement. The disaster has been estimated to cost some $235 billion in damages.
Financing for the Chernobyl NSC
The entire Chernobyl SIP was financed through the Chernobyl Shelter Fund, which is managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The funds were provided by 45 countries and organisations, along with additional contributions from EBRD.
Russia paid out £2.3billion to victims between 1992 and 1998 – around £4.5billion if you generously account for inflation. However, many victims of the disaster fell through the cracks without compensation, because they could not prove their health issues were related to Chernobyl.
The Soviet government also created a large system of compensation payments. Today, some 7 million people are entitled to special allowances, pensions and health care privileges because they have been considered to be affected in some way by the Chernobyl accident.
How long can you stay in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone? There are two exclusion zones in Chernobyl; a 10km inner and 30km outer Exclusion Zone. It is safe to stay in the outer Exclusion Zone overnight.
While it naturally fades over time, this can sometimes take thousands of years. Scientists have previously said, due to the huge amount of contamination in the Chernobyl area, the exclusion zone will not be habitable for many, many years.
According to the official, internationally recognised death toll, just 31 people died as an immediate result of Chernobyl while the UN estimates that only 50 deaths can be directly attributed to the disaster. In 2005, it predicted a further 4,000 might eventually die as a result of the radiation exposure.
After three days of virtual news blackout, the Soviet authorities finally admitted last night what Scandinavia had already deduced from radioactive fallout - that the Chernobyl nuclear accident is a "disaster", that some people have been killed and many thousands more evacuated.
The funding—contributed by more than 40 nations—was managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
1. Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant, Japan is one of the world's most radioactive places. Fukushima is still highly radioactive today.
Alexander Yuvchenko was on duty at Chernobyl's reactor number 4 the night it exploded on 26 April 1986. He is one of the few working there that night to have survived.
The three men would live longer than a few weeks and none would succumb to ARS, as modern myth would have you believe. As of 2015, it was reported that two of the men were still alive and still working within the industry. The third man, Boris Baranov, passed away in 2005 of a heart attack.
Although no longer a working power station, Chernobyl was never fully abandoned and still requires constant management.
Hiroshima had 46 kg of uranium while Chernobyl had 180 tons of reactor fuel. A reactor also builds up a huge amount of nuclear waste, over the weeks it is running. There is a lot of different waste products, but the worst are cesium, iodine and irradiated graphite moderators.
Chernobyl animals are mutants ...
Scientists have noted significant genetic changes in organisms affected by the disaster: According to a 2011 study in Biological Conservation, Chernobyl-caused genetic mutations in plants and animals increased by a factor of 20.
Nearly 40 years later, hundreds of stray dogs roam inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), an area encompassing some 1,000 square miles around the power plant where access is restricted due to radioactive and chemical fallout from the disaster.
To visit the Exclusion Zone, you must be dressed in closed clothing that covers all areas of the body as much as possible (long sleeve, long tight pants, comfortable shoes, preferably with thick soles), the headdress is welcome. Forbidden: shorts, skirts, dresses, slippers, sandals, high-heeled shoes.
Obviously you can no longer see the actual reactor as it's hiddent underneath the new "sarcophagus" they finished buliding in 2016. However, you can get quite close to the strcture and for those who go inside the power plant, you can actually go inside the Control Room #4, where the accident basically started.
Underneath his portrait, the text reads: “Valery Khodemchuk's body was never recovered. He is permanently entombed under Reactor 4.” Officially, the death toll for the incident is only 31, although it is believed thousands more people have died as a result of long term radiation exposure in the years since.
But who was to blame? Viktor Bryukhanov was officially held responsible for what happened at Chernobyl. He had helped to build and run the plant, and played a pivotal role in how the disaster was managed in the aftermath of the reactor explosion. Here's more about Viktor Bryukhanov.
In Russia, that category included 50,000 people, and in Belarus, the republic that suffered the most from the Chernobyl fallout, 9000 individuals were similarly categorized. Ukraine also recognized almost 500,000 individuals, Russia 200,000, and Belarus >100,000.