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What are the radiation levels in the zone?

The zone average is about 40 microroentgens, though that doesn’t tell you much at all. Radiation exposure can vary radically within just a few steps because the contamination was very patchy. In some places, like the Red Forest, radiation exposure can be as high as 1 roentgen, which is more than 50,000 times normal background. In the ghost town of Pripyat, they can exceed a milliroentgen, though most readings hover around several hundred microroentgens. In other places, like the village of Ladyzhychi on the left bank of the Pripyat River, levels are completely normal.

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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?

How is it possible that Chernobyl helped nature? Wasn’t it the worst environmental disaster ever?
Of all Chernobyl-related subjects, why did you decide to write about natural history?
What led to your interest in Chernobyl?