There’s a lot of nonsense written about Chernobyl in the mainstream press.  Mostly you get stuff by written by adventure seekers on a day pass to the Zone.  It’s hard to get good, accurate reporting on the science.  What you get instead are silly, breathless stories about mutants (see the Chernobyl story in the current issue of Outside Magazine by a fellow named Shukman).

Anyway, thanks for reading!

Dianne, I must have grown up in an extreme Anglo environment because I didn’t know about Baba Yaga until my adulthood. Better late than never.

Thanks for writing the article. It opened a window for people like me to get a glimpse of what’s really happening there. Part of me wants to imagine all sorts of fanciful, hopeful things, but I also want to know the truth.