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Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov (Ukrainian: Леонід Федорович Топтунов, Russian: Леонид Фёдорович Топтунов; 16 August 1960 – 14 May 1986) was a Soviet electrical engineer who was the senior reactor control chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl ...
Apr 26, 2019 · Vera Toptunova, the mother of Leonid Toptunov, who was a senior reactor control engineer at the Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant when it exploded on April 26, 1986, mourns over his...
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear disaster rated a level 7 accident on the International Nuclear Event Scale, alongside the Fukushima nuclear accident. The accident occurred at 01:23 MSD on April 26th, 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine.
Apr 26, 2019 · That same day, one of the members of the plant staff, 25-year-old Leonid Toptunov, the nuclear engineer manning the control desk of reactor number four at the moment of the explosion, sent a telegram from his room in the specialized radiological Hospital No. 6 in Moscow, to his mother in Estonia.
Apr 26, 2024 · That night, Leonid Fedorovich Toptunov unknowingly triggered the largest catastrophe in the history of nuclear energy. He was initially admitted to Pripyat Hospital but swiftly transferred to Moscow Hospital 6.
Jul 2, 2019 · Then the reactor control engineer who was at the desk, in control of the reactor, was Leonid Toptunov, who was only 25 at the time, had been in his position for only two months.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster of April 26, 1986, is one such moment. At the heart of this catastrophic event were two young engineers, Leonid Toptunov and Aleksandr Akimov, who found themselves in the control room of Reactor No. 4 on that fateful night.
