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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
While I get what your saying, and the damage the Tsunami did is enormous from a monetary cost and a cost of lives and help.
I do not agree that Chernobyl was overblown as a disaster.
A 30 Sq KM radiated exclusion zone, up to an estimated 50,000 deaths among the rescue workers and others due to long effects (WHO).
Animals are being wiped out in the area and there are documented cases of severe health problems among those that were evacuated during the emergency.
Make no mistake, Chernobyl was the momma bear of technology accidents.
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I completely agree. Europe was economically devastated. I can tell you a little of what happened, in a second-person account. Crops were essentially useless, and deemed unfit to consume. Rationing was huge across Europe. Unlike Japan, the Ukraine is located inland. The radiation spread to adjacent countries quite easily. Although the soviets attempted to cover it up, their neighbors blew the whistle. In particular, the Soviet union was ill-equiped to deal with such a matter. Many suffered radiation poisoning from radioactive iodine isotope, including my mother. Shortly after Chernobyl, my mother (who was visiting Poland at the time) was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She had her thyroid removed, and is on (and has been since shortly after Chernobyl) supplementary drugs to compensate for thryroid hormone loss.