• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Three mile island isn’t comparable to Chernobyl, particularly not in the context of how it impacts a nations stability.

    Chernobyl cost around $900 billion, inflation adjusted, and the cost is rising because it’s controlled, not resolved.

    Adjusted for inflation, three mile island cost around $5 billion.

    To put it in scale, it’d be like the US having a disaster that cost around $7.5 trillion to resolve today. It’s the type of economic shock that can make nations fail.

    Bhopal, while a terrible disaster, cost the US nothing beyond the cost of not extraditing someone.