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I watched the series, and wanted to know more. Ordered the book "Midnight in Chernobyl" by Adam Higginbotham from Amazon, and just finished reading it. It is a highly researched, and well documented book. I'm next going to read "Disaster in the Urals" by Zhores A. Medvedev. I found it on a paperback swap site I belong to. It covers the nuclear disasters in the U.S.S.R., and focuses mostly on the 1957 explosion at the disposal section of the Soviet atomic weapons industry located in the Southern Urals. The story of the explosion was suppressed. The radioactive contamination covered an area almost as big as Rhode Island.

Brief Biography of Zhores Medvedev

Last night I watched a video I downloaded from the internet, titled "The Babushkas of Chernobyl." Made in 2015, it's the story about the elderly women who returned to their homes in the exclusion zone, and continue to reside there.

First of all, I admit to being extremely ignorant about Nuclear Power and radioactivity.

But when you cited the book about the Southern Urals disaster, I wanted your personal opinion about that incident and the Dyatlov Pass mystery.

As you stated, the 1957 Kyshtym explosion contaminated a huge area and some areas are still contaminated today.

I’m sure that you are probably familiar with the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident, where nine explorers died very mysteriously.

The Dyatlov Pass mystery also took place in the Ural Mountains, although further North than the Atomic Plant explosion of 1957.

When they found the bodies of the Dyatlov Pass explorers, it has been said that a few of the hikers bodies were radioactive. I know the two incidents happened two years apart but the contamination covered such a huge area and lingered for so long that I was curious if you have considered the possibility that the explorers contracted Acute Radiation Sickness.

That would explain the radioactivity found on some of the corpses and one of the symptoms of Acute Radiation Poisoning is disorientation. The explorers could have been disoriented and in extreme pain, left their tent and suffered brutal, fatal falls.

I may be way off base on this one, but the Dyatlov Pass Mystery has always intrigued me and I wondered if the intense radiation from the Kyshtym disaster caused their deaths.

I’m just throwing that theory out there.