Half Lives: Aleksandr Akimov - At the Helm of Chernobyl

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The person steering Chernobyl unit 4 to its scheduled shutdown on the night of April 26th, 1986 was not Anatoli Diatlov as considered by many, but the shift supervisor Alexander Akimoff. It was he who made many of the difficult decisions that night, all of which culminated in the explosion and the race to prevent a worse accident from occurring, ul... Read More