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On 26th April 1986 the nuclear reactor of the fourth unit of the V.I. Lenin power-station at Chernobyl exploded. It was a catastrophe of historic proportions - many millions suffered, and continued to suffer, from the consequences. To chronicle this disaster and its aftermath, Piers Paul Read interviewed the engineers and operators who were conducting the fateful test on the night of 25th April; he talked to the director of the power-station, serving a ten-year sentence for negligence; and he went to the hitherto top-secret institutes once run by Berias Ministry for Medium Machine Building - the Kurchatov Institute, Moscows Hospital No 6, and the once-closed city of Obninsk. In this account, Read takes advantage of the declassification of nuclear information in the former Soviet Union and the loosening of tongues that followed the failure of the coup in 1991. He also gained access to the trial transcripts, the protocol of the hitherto secret Medical Commission, and other confidential reports. The result is not only the story of the catastrophe, but also a parable about totalitarianism and its collapse.

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Ablaze The Story of Chernobyl Piers Paul Read PART ONE THE NEW - photo 1

Ablaze

The Story of Chernobyl

Piers Paul Read

PART ONE THE NEW CIVILIZATION This fundamental transformation of the social - photo 2

PART ONE

THE NEW CIVILIZATION

This fundamental transformation of the social order the substitution of planned production for community consumption, instead of the capitalist profit-making of so-called Western Civilisation seems to me so vital a change for the better, so conducive to the progress of humanity to high levels of health and happiness, virtue and wisdom, as to constitute a new civilisation.

Sidney and Beatrice Webb

The Truth About Soviet Russia

(1942)

PART TWO

CHERNOBYL

For man must strive, and striving he must err.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Faust, Part I (1801)

PART THREE

RADIOPHOBIA

Ideas that have outlived their day may hobble about the world for years, but it is hard for them ever to lead and dominate life. Such ideas never gain complete possession of a man, or they gain possession only of incomplete people.

Alexander Herzen

My Past and Thoughts (1861)

The Founders of Soviet Atomic Power

Igor Kurchatov

Father of the Soviet atom bomb

Lavrenty Beria

Chief of the NKVD. Director of the atomic bomb project.

Efim Slavsky

Minister of Medium Machine Building

Nikolai Dollezhal

Designer of the first nuclear reactors. Director of NIKYET

Anatoli Alexandrov

Director of the Kurchatov Institute. President of the Academy of Sciences

Valeri Legasov

Academician. First deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute

Staff of the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station at Chernobyl

Victor Brukhanov

Director

Vasili Kizima

Head of construction

Nikolai Fomin

Chief engineer

Anatoli Dyatlov

Deputy chief engineer, 3rd and 4th units

Mikhail Lyutov

Scientific deputy chief engineer

The early morning shift on 26 April

Boris Rogozhkin

Chief of shift, 3rd and 4th unit

Alexander Akimov

Shift foreman, 4th unit

Leonid Toptunov

Senior reactor control engineer

Piotr Stolyarchuk

Senior unit control engineer

Igor Kirschenbaum

Senior turbine control engineer

Yuri Tregub

Shift foreman prior to Akimov

Valeri

Shift foreman, equipment

Perevozchenko

maintenance department, 3rd and 4th units

Victor Proskuriakov

Engineer under Perevozchenko

Sasha Yuvchenko

Proskuriakovs replacement

Alexander Kudriatsev

Engineer

Gennady Metlenko

Engineer from Donenergo

Alexander

Lelechenko

Head of the electrical workshop

Razim Davletbayev

Deputy head of the turbine section

Piotr Palamarchuk

Director of the start-up enterprise

The engineers from Komsomolsk

Anatoli Sitnikov

Deputy chief engineer, 1st and 2nd units

Vladimir Chugunov

Head of the reactor workshop, 1st and 2nd units

Vadim Grishenka

Deputy chief engineer, 5th block (under construction)

PRIPYAT

Vladimir Voloshko

Secretary of the city committee

A. S. Gamanyuk

Party secretary

Major Teliatnikov

Commander of the Pripyat and Chernobyl nuclear power station fire service

Lieutenant Pravik

Duty officer of the nuclear power station fire service on night of 2526 April

Lieutenant Kibenok

Duty officer of the Pripyat fire service on the night of 2526 April

Vitali Leonenko

Director of the Hospital

Anatoli Ben

Surgeon

Lubov Kovalevskaya

Acting editor of Tribuna Energetica

MOSCOW

The Central Committee

Mikhail Gorbachev

General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Nikolai Ryzhkov

Soviet prime minister (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR)

Yegor Ligachev

Secretary of the ideological department

Alexander Yakovlev

Secretary of the propaganda department

Vladimir Marin

Head of the nuclear power department

Defence and Civil Defence

Marshal Akhromeev

Chief of the Soviet general staff

General Altunin

Commander of the Soviet civil defence

General Ivanov

Second-in-command of the Soviet civil defence

Colonel General Pikalov

Commander of the chemical troops

Ministries and Institutes

Efim Slavsky

Minister of Medium Machine Building

Anatoli Mayorets

Minister of Energy and Electrification

Armen Abagyan

Director of the All-Union Research Institute for Nuclear Power Plant Operation (VNIIAES)

Yuri Israel

Director of the State Committee of Hydrometeorology

The Kurchatov Institute

Anatoli Alexandrov

Director

Valeri Legasov

First deputy director

Yevgeni Velikhov

Deputy director. Expert on nuclear fusion

Eugene Ryzantzev

Head of the nuclear safety department

Alexander Kalugin

Scientist responsible for RBMK reactors

Konstantin

Physicist

Fedulenko

Yuri Sivintsev

Physicist

The Institute of Biophysics

Leonid Ilyn

Director

Victor Knijnikov

Head of the laboratory

In-patient Department of Institute of Biophysics at Hospital No. 6

Angelina Guskova

Director. Formerly Kurchatovs personal physician

Alexander Baranov

Head of the haematology department

Georgi Seredovkin

Specialist in radiation sickness

Robert Gale

American bone-marrow transplant specialist

The Press

Vladimir Gubarev

Science editor of Pravda. Author of the play

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