Digest Press

"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

Mr. L. Kuchma's appeal on the occasion of ChNPP closing: "About 3,5 million people suffered from the catastrophe and its consequences… 160,000 people from 170 settlements had to leave their homes and moved for others… Total Chornobyl related expenses already accounts for 130 billion USD. It means that yearly up to 12 per cent of the country annual budget is spent for mitigation of the catastrophe consequences that exceeds expenses for science and culture".

"Uryadovy kuryer", 19.12.00

"UN Resolution adopted by 189 member-countries of the General Assembly… considered ChNPP closing as outstanding contribution to mitigation of the consequences of most tragic technogenic catastrophe in the history of the mankind and underlined that very closing of the plant… means a qualitatively new stage of international cooperation".

"Uryadovy kuryer", 19.12.00

"Chornobyl power plant means 5791 employees (and members of their families mostly inhabited in Slavutych, total population of which accounts for 25,225). Most of them will be discharged in 2001. By 2008 only 1,885 persons will be employed by the plant… Total cost of the social protection measures for ChNPP employees and the inhabitants of Slavutych for the period till 2008 accounts for 1,8 billion UAH…"

"Zerkalo nedelyi", 16-22.12.00

"Oleg Dubina, Vice-prime Minister of Ukraine will be the head of the Working group dealing with the problems of Chornobyl NPP and Slavutych as it was announce at the meeting of L. Kuchma, President of Ukraine and ChNPP administration that took place in Prypyat."

"Den", 21.01.01