The key figures in the Chernobyl accident include:
1. Anatoly Dyatlov – the deputy chief engineer in charge of the test at the time of the accident.
2. Viktor Bryukhanov – the director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
3. Nikolai Fomin – the chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
4. Leonid Toptunov – a senior engineer who was monitoring the reactor at the time of the accident.
5. Alexander Akimov – the shift supervisor on duty at the time of the accident.
6. Viktor Kibenok – the reactor control room operator who manually lowered the control rods during the failed experiment.
7. Valery Legasov – a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist who supervised the cleanup efforts after the accident.
8. Boris Shcherbina – a Soviet government official who coordinated the government's response to the disaster.
9. Mikhail Gorbachev – the General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the time of the accident.
10. Vasili Nesterenko – a Belarusian physicist who provided independent assessments of the disaster's impact.
Mention key figures in the Chernobyl accident
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