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What led to your interest in Chernobyl?

I talk about some of my reasons in the Preface. My Ukrainian immigrant parents raised me to believe that Ukraine was very important – even though I had never seen the place before 1989. Ukraine was a republic in the Soviet Union and anti-Communist diaspora Ukrainians did not find it easy to get visas. I also was extremely sensitive to the specter of nuclear war, and was traumatized for several months after a fifth grade teacher warned my misbehaving class that we would die in a nuclear war because we didn’t follow instructions. So, when Chernobyl exploded, it touched on some of my deepest emotions – love for a country I had never seen and the fears of the atomic age.

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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?