" He described the enduring costs of the accident, the 115,000 people he said would never return to their homes in the Exclusion Zone, the 2.5 million more living on land contaminated by radionuclides, and the hundreds of thousands of disabled Chernobyltsi who continued to require support from the state and society. "

― Adam Higginbotham , Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster