Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe: economic, ecological & social impact of the nuclear power disaster 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant technological disaster 0f April 26, 1986 took hundreds of lives of the service staff, fire fighters and volunteers. The nuclear catastrophic accident in Ukraine resulted in over 10,000 mutations with newborn children and over 50,000 cases of Thyroid cancer. The direct economic losses caused by the Chernobyl disaster up to now have reached 200 billion USD. Even more will be spent throughout the next 500 years in maintenance and nuclear safety costs. The ecological and social costs of the Chernobyl catastrophe are hard to calculate now as they will continue to sum up and multiply as the huge territories of natural terrains and a large number of towns and villages in Ukraine  and Belarus remain contaminated with radiation and isolated from the rest of the World