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Both the Dyatlov and Akimov sections claim that the respective person was the one to press the AZ-5 button, which seems incorrect. Not sure if it is known who pressed it.
This article needs considerable work. People are referred to as if in passing, by last name only, before they are introduced; the order of events is not at all clear; and in at least one instance, the same statement, with only minor changes in punctuation, is repeated within the same paragraph. I have been known to edit Wikipedia for grammar and clarity on many occasions, but I have always tried to limit my contributions to only fixing minor issues. To fix this article, I would need to substantially rewrite the article's structure, and I believe that is a task best left to more experienced and registered users, if not staff editors.170.141.177.61 (talk) 19:19, 14 March 2011 (UTC) Section heading added. jonkerz♠ 19:42, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
I copied the table that had been on the "Deaths in the Chernobyl Disaster" page onto this entry, prior to deleting surviving individuals from the "deaths" entry, to eliminate unnecessary overlap. Also, I've updated the information on Aleksandr P. Kovalenko within that table. Based on the acknowledgements in <a href:="http://books.google.com/books?id=O36UC03ODtcC&pg=PR16&dq=Aleksandr+P.+Kovalenko&hl=en&ei=KLODTZz2C5DqgQeyjszeCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">Chernobyl Record: the Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe</a> by Richard Francis Mould (c. 2000 IOP Publishing Ltd.), the fact of Mr. Kovalenko's conviction, and the fact that a gentleman with the same name & generation is currently employed as DGD at the Russian state-owned energy company Zarubezhneft (http://www.nestro.ru/www/webnew.nsf/index/RukKAP_eng) provide convincing evidence that Kovalenko did not die in the mid-1980's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amelia Fotheringay (talk • contribs) 20:50, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
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After studying various documents and books, it seems to me that many facts, events and actions are lifted from the book by G.Medvedev. The book is a literary adaptation, a documentary novel, and does not pretend to be factually accurate. This article on the other hand does. I may point out things which appear to be fiction by Medvedev:
And on and on and on, details which can only have been lifted from that book. Personally, I would recommend the article for deletion, but if there are people willing to track down the sources and clean up, please go ahead. Kotika98 (talk) 00:32, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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I noticed that the source for the claim for "Scientists believe that once the reactor melted through its concrete slab and plunged into the accumulated water, the resulting steam explosion would have released much more radiation into the atmosphere than the original explosion" has a citation for the book "Catastrophe: A Guide to World's Worst Industrial Disasters". There is a single review on Google Books, and it claims that the book has been plagiarized from Wikipedia.
I haven't read that book myself, but it's worth looking into.
66.109.211.150 (talk) 02:52, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
I am planning on a purge of inaccurate, unsourced and fictionalized information from this page, replacing it with sourced eyewitness testimony where possible. The deletions may cause some excitement, so let's talk about it here first. Primarily, most of the material paraphrasing G. Medevedev's book needs to be deleted, where it cites no sources of its own and where it conflicts with directly quoted testimony by eyewitnesses. This will result in excising most of Dyatlov's section, as well as the well-known 'jumping fuel caps' scene in Perevozchenko's section. Is everyone OK with a proper hierarchy of sources where books quoting eyewitnesses are given more weight than discredited books that cite no sources?2604:6000:9F00:6200:746F:35E7:4742:62CD (talk) 02:25, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
1000 milliRoentgen per second are not 3.6 Roentgen per hour, they equal 3600 Roentgen per hour. About 500 Roentgen are fatal for humans. 1000 mikroRoentgen per second (μR/s) might have been meant instead of milliRoentgen, which would fit 3.6 Roentgen per hour. Also note that the "per second" (written in the sentence before) is missing at 1000 μR/s. (Without a "per second", 1R=3.6R per hour would make even less sense.) At the moment, the article's units are incorrect. --129.13.156.135 (talk) 12:12, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
When reviewing the citations used throughout the article to do my edits, I noticed that almost all of the citations for Anatoly Dyatlov's section are from his own book, which I feel should be updated. While it is certain that some information in the book will be factual, any claims made in this article should also be backed up by the IAEA INSAG-7 report into the disaster, as well as the Central Committee Chernobyl Commission reports into the disaster, as they also use the testimonies of other people present in the room that night, and many of those testimonies conflict with the claims Dyatlov made in his book.
BigBoiiLeem (talk) 11:24, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
BigBoiiLeem, I'm just a huge nerd who loves editing Wikipedia pages in his spare time
I think you will find that are very few conflicts with Dyatlov's tesimony, but certainly feel free to cite other eyewitnesses. So long as we don't cite books that fail to cite any sources at all. Sredmash (talk) 00:46, 16 September 2021 (UTC)