Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham

Although the industrious Ukrainian sportsmen would eventually manage to eliminate a total of twenty thousand agricultural and domestic animals inside the thirty-kilometer zone, it proved impossible to kill them all.72 Some dogs managed to escape beyond the perimeter and were fed and adopted by the liquidators they found camped there. The soldiers may have been heedless of the radiation the animals brought with them but nevertheless christened them with bitter new names, more appropriate to their changed environment: Doza or Rentgen, Gamma and Dozimetr.73