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"The most painful and critical is the social protection area... The affected persons should permanently sense the support of the state: their children should have the right to enter higher educational establishments without entrance examinations, they should be entitled to preferences when paying communal payments, to larger preferences when undergoing medical treatment etc..."

Interview with Mr. Samoilenko, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for ecological policy, use of natural resources and liquidation of the Chornobyl disaster consequences, Head of "Zeleny Svit" (Green World) Ecological Association of Ukraine

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Human catastrophe Chornobyl is not just the technical disaster. It is a human catastrophe the effects of which are still being felt today. Even now, when the last operative reactor #3 is shut down, the Chornobyl legacy will not die away anytime soon. The disaster has resulted in about 7% of the population of Ukraine, that is 3.361,870 people.

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...3,278,521 persons, including 340,654 liquidators and 1,300,000 children suffered from the gravest tragedy of the 20th century.
Number of disabled people has reached 91,200. Annual expenses for one invalid whose disability was caused by Chornobyl catastrophe account for about 8,000 UAH, while same expenses for disabled of common disease are 500 to 600 UAH.

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"Radioactive fallout resulted from the catastrophe amounted for 50 mln. Cu that is equivalent to 500 nuclear bombs dropped to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It contaminated 150,000 square kilometers of the former Soviet Union… In Ukraine radioactive clouds covered 12 of 25 Oblasts, i.e. 44,000 square kilometers".
"Izvestiya", 15.12.00

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