Anatoly Dyatlov

Anatoly Stepanovich Djatlow (Russian Анатолий Степанович Дятлов; born March 3, 1931 in Krasnoyarsk, † 13 December 1995) was deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and Head of the experiment that led to the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.

Life

Anatoly Stepanovich Djatlow was born in 1931 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia ( former Soviet Union). At 14, he ripped off from home. In 1959 he completed his studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics to then to work in a shipyard in Komsomolsk-on- Amur. In the yard Djatlow built nuclear reactors in submarines. It once was a nuclear accident, in which it has been exposed to a large radiation dose. There was evidence that Djatlow was responsible for the accident, what was it but not verified. Shortly after his son died from leukemia.

1973 moved Djatlow after Pripyat, Ukraine, to take up his new job in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. On 26 April 1986 Djatlow conducted a trial that led to the Chernobyl disaster. In 1987, he pleaded for " criminal conduct of a potentially explosive trial " guilty and was sentenced to ten years in prison, from which he was released after five years. Djatlow wrote in his book and in an article in Nuclear Engineering that is not the power plant personnel, but the construction of the reactor, was responsible for the disaster. Djatlow had been exposed to a radiation dose of 5.5 Sv during the alleged accident. He died on 13 December 1995 of a heart attack, a known late effect of high radiation exposure.