Antoshkin, Nikolai. Major general, chief of staff of the Soviet Air Defense Forces’ Seventeenth Airborne Army, Kiev military district. Moscow. October 21 and 23, 2015; October 13, 2016.
Barabanova, Anzhelika. Chief of radiation burn surgery, clinical department, Hospital Number Six. Moscow, October 14, 2016.
Belyaev, Igor. Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building of the USSR; deputy head of Sredmash US-605, June – November 1986. Moscow, April 17, 2017.
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Bolshov, Leonid. Research physicist in the Troitsk branch of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy; director of the Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1988. Moscow, April 15, 2017.
Borovoi, Alexander. Head of the neutrino physics research group, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy; chief scientist of the Chernobyl Complex Expedition, 1988–2003. Moscow, October 15, 2015.
Breus, Alexey. Senior reactor control engineer, Second shift, Unit Four of Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, July 11, 2015.
Brukhanov, Viktor (director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant), and Valentina
Brukhanov (Chernobyl plant heat treatment specialist). Kiev, September 6, 2015, and February 14, 2016.
Champlin, Richard. Chief of bone marrow transplant surgery at UCLA Medical Center.
Telephone, September 21, 2016.
Daniloff, Nicholas. Moscow bureau chief, U.S. News & World Report. Telephone interview, September 26, 2017.
Dodd, Laurin. RBMK reactor expert in Nuclear Systems and Concepts Department, Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, March 1986 – May 1994; managing director, Shelter Implementation Plan Project Management Unit, Chernobyl nuclear power plant, April 2006 – March 2014. Telephone, May 4, 2018.
Drach, Leonid. Head of the Nuclear Energy Sector of the USSR Council of Ministers; member of the first government commission investigating the causes of the Chernobyl accident. Moscow, April 19, 2017.
Esaulov, Alexander. Deputy chairman of the Pripyat municipal executive committee, or ispolkom. Irpin, Ukraine, July 2015.
Flowers, Alan. Nuclear physicist and lecturer at Kingston Polytechnic, London; subsequently radiation protection officer at Kingston University; honorary doctor of radioecology with the International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University, Minsk. Telephone, February 25, 2016.