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FAQ

• What led to your interest in Chernobyl?
  
  
• Of all Chernobyl-related subjects, why did you decide to write about natural history?
  
  
• How is it possible that Chernobyl helped nature? Wasn’t it the worst environmental disaster ever?
  
  
• What are the radiation levels in the zone?
  
  
• What are normal background radiation levels?
  
  
• Why do Americans use different radiation units than the rest of the world?
  
  
• Isn’t that confusing?
  
  
• With such high radiation in some places, the zone must be crawling with mutants, no?
  
  
• Why not? Since the Bomb first dropped, sundry mutants have starred in nearly every sci-fi movie about radiation.
  
  
• How much time have you spent in the zone?
  
  
• What was your total radiation dose?
  
  
• Is that dangerous?
  
  
• What does flying have to do with radiation?
  
  
• What kind of protective gear did you wear?
  
  
• Did you ever see that woman, Elena, that rides around the zone on her motorcycle? Her website www.kiddofspeed.com was a big thing a few years ago.