- Anatoly Dyatlov
Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov ( _ru. Анатолий Степанович Дятлов;
March 3 ,1931 —December 13 ,1995 ) was the vice chief engineer of theChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant , and the supervisor of the fatal experiment which resulted in theChernobyl disaster .Dyatlov was born in 1931 in Krasnoyarsky Kray, Russia (thenSoviet Union ). In 1959 he graduated from theMoscow Engineering Physics Institute . After graduation he worked in a shipbuilding plant inKomsomolsk-on-Amur , installing reactors into submarines. In 1973 he moved toPrypiat, Ukraine to work at the newly constructed Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.On
April 26 ,1986 , Dyatlov supervised a test at Reactor 4 of the nuclear plant, which resulted in the worst nuclear plant accident in history. In 1987 he was found guilty "for criminal mismanagement of potentially explosive enterprises" and was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released in five years. He wrote a book in which he claimed that poor plant design, not plant personnel, was primarily responsible for the accident. Dyatlov died of heart failure in 1995, largely dueFact|date=June 2008 toradioactive exposure of 390 REM he was subject to during the accident.External links
* [http://www.lib.ru/MEMUARY/CHERNOBYL/dyatlow.txt Anatoly Dyatlov, "Chernobyl. How did it happen?"]
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