Another contributing factor was that the operators were not informed about problems with the reactor. According to Anatoliy Dyatlov, the designers knew that the reactor was dangerous in some conditions but intentionally concealed this information.[citation needed] In addition, the plant's management was largely composed of non-RBMK-qualified personnel: the director, V.P. Bryukhanov, had experience and training in a coal-fired power plant[52]. His chief engineer, Nikolai Fomin, also came from a conventional power plant[53]. Dyatlov, deputy chief engineer of reactors 3 and 4, had only some experience with small marine nuclear reactors.[54]
Many or all of these factors probably contributed to the disaster. Medvedev remarked in his book, "The Truth about Chernobyl", that a potentially unstable reactor design, poor and inadequate safety features, poorly-trained or incompetent operators, and a lack of containment building each played their part.[55] Further to this, Medvedev felt that the underlying vulnerabilities and flaws in the Soviet nuclear industry which set the stage for the tragedy had been developing for as much as 35 years,[56] and
that the secretive, authoritarian Soviet bureaucracy, valuing party loyalty over competence, kept promoting incompetent personnel and choosing cheapness over safety. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster"ერთგულების ნიშნით" კადრების შერჩევა კომუნიზმიდან მოდის თურმე, მე ქართული ნოუ ჰაუ მეგონა.
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