Arctic Radiation Levels From Chernobyl Declining 17
jangobongo writes "Nearly 20 years after the Chernobyl meltdown and much longer since Soviet nuclear weapons testing, radiation levels in the Arctic landmasses are finally declining. But nuclear disaster is still lurking on the horizon. The Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia is home to Russia's aging, decomissioned (and sinking) nuclear sub fleet as well as a depots of nuclear weapons and an old nuclear power plant. Estimated cost of clean up to prevent further toxic leakage is millions of euros."
Re:Not exactly much (Score:2, Interesting)
Reading comprehension (Score:3, Interesting)
Currently the page says:
> Estimated cost of clean up to prevent further toxic leakage is millions of euros.
Millions of euros is small change.
However, the actual article [go.com] says: Strand said it will take billions of dollars (euros) to clean up.
Since the source is ABC news, I assume that they use the American billion (10^9).
Now that is a whole different story, considering the fact that the projected revenue [russiajournal.com] for the Russian Y2005 budget is only ~92 billion Euros.
A conservative assumption of single digit "billions" results in something like 10% of the total budget revenue.
Just for comparison, this would be akin to [akamaitech.net] the US spending 200 billion dollars on a similar task.