Petrovsky, Alexander. Sergeant, Third Watch, Paramilitary Fire Brigade Number Two. Bohdany, Ukraine, November 30, 2016.

Prianichnikov, Veniamin. Director of plant technical training programs, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, February 13, 2006.

Protsenko, Maria. Chief architect for the city of Pripyat. Kiev, September 5, 2015; April 24, 2016; and May 28, 2017.

Reikhtman, Georgi. Deputy head of shift, Unit One, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, September 9, 2015.

Robinson, Cliff. Radiochemistry laboratory technician, Forsmark nuclear power station, Sweden. Telephone, March 2, 2016.

Sevastianov, Alexander. In 2016, shift engineer of Main Building Department, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Chernobyl nuclear power plant, February 10, 2016.

Shcherbak, Iurii. Author; research professor in the epidemiological department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, Kiev; special correspondent for Literaturnaya Gazeta, Moscow, from May 1986 onward; founding member of Green World; delegate to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1989–1991. Kiev, February 9, 2016.

Shyrokov, Sergei. Chief of the Atomic Energy Department, Ministry of Energy and Electrification, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Kiev, December 1, 2016.

Sich, Alexander. MIT nuclear engineering PhD candidate and member of the Chernobyl Complex Expedition under the Kurchatov Institute and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, November 1990 – April 1992. Telephone, December 21, 2016, and Steubenville, Ohio, April 20–21, 2018.

Sirota, Alexander. Student attending School Number One, Pripyat. Ivankov, Ukraine, June 4, 2017.

Sklyarov, Vitali. Minister of energy and electrification, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Kiev, February 6, 2016, and May 30, 2017.

Slutsky, Valery. Bus driver in the city of Pripyat. Pripyat, Ukraine, February 17, 2006.

Sorokin, Yuri. Defense attorney for Viktor Brukhanov. Moscow, October 13, 2016.

Steinberg, Nikolai. Engineer at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant beginning in 1971, and leaving in 1983 as chief turbine engineer, Units Three and Four. In April 1986, deputy chief engineer of Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant. Kiev, February 14, 2006; September 4, 2015, and May 28, 2017.

Stolyarchuk, Boris. Senior unit engineer (SUIB), Fifth Shift, Unit Four, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, July 14, 2015 and December 5, 2016.

Svetetsky, Anatoly. Head of technological safety systems, reactor and turbine department of Units Three and Four, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, May 28, 2017 (interview by Taras Shumeyko).

Tarakanov, Nikolai. Major general; deputy chief of staff, Civil Defense Forces of the USSR. Moscow, October 22, 2015.

Toptunova, Vera. Mother of Leonid Toptunov. Kiev, September 7 and September 10, 2015.

Usatenko, Vladimir. Chief electrical engineer of the Dnieper Science Institute, Kharkov; drafted in October 1986 and posted to the Chernobyl zone as a sergeant in military repair company 73413. Kiev, December 1, 2016.

Volodin, Sergei. Captain; helicopter pilot with the 225th Composite Air Squadron, Kiev military district. Kiev, February 15, 2006, and July 12, 2015.

Von Hippel, Frank. Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, 1983–1991. Princeton, NJ, February 15, 2018.

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Yankovsky, Sergei. Chief investigator of the Kiev region prosecutor’s office. Kiev, February 7, 2016, and May 31, 2017.

Young, Martin. In 2018, director, policy and risk, World Energy Council. Telephone, August 3, 2018.

Yuvchenko, Alexander. Senior mechanical engineer, Fifth Shift, Unit Four, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Moscow, February 12, 2006.

Yuvchenko, Natalia. Schoolteacher in Pripyat School Number Four; wife of Alexander Yuvchenko. Moscow, October 22, 2015, and October 11, 2016.

Zakharov, Anatoly. Driver, Third Watch, Paramilitary Fire Brigade Number Two. Kiev, February 15, 2006, and February 8, 2016.

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Borodavka, Anton. Faces of Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone [Лица Чернобыля: Зона отчуждения]. Kiev: Statsky Sovetnik, 2013.

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