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I've read a lot of accounts about the cleanup efforts after the accident, and your description of digging around the school to remove the contaminated earth is right in line with some of the survivors' stories I've come across. They used the word "dirty" for radiological contamination because...

Thanks, Shadow. That actually does make me feel a bit better about it. There are so many who've died from Chernobyl while trying to contain the disaster and whose names don't appear in the commonly-shown lists of people referenced (myself included), but at the plant there is a memorial for us...

Hm, that thought actually never occurred to me, but that's a good point. I wonder if I did find her, how I would recognize her.

I don't really know how to start this, so I'll just start here: when I was in 7th grade, I read my first book about the accident. It's called Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, and it contains the personal accounts of hundreds of survivors from the disaster. As someone with...