rogozhkin for 5 years, the most a serious punishment of 10 years awaited three chief engineer nikolai, his deputy anatoly dyatlov , as well as the director of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, viktory, he almost did not defend himself in court, a criminal case is being considered. viktor petrovich priest of the crimes stipulated by chance 2220 of the second part, providing for liability for violation of safety regulations on the ground explosive enterprises under article 165 use, they are performing grave. trial of the accused in chernobyl catastrophe passed through the scene of a crime in the city of chernobyl, 12 km from the exploded reactor, nikolai maksimovich dvorik was fenced so that he could drive up, about 60 soviet and foreign journalists allowed the hall, knowing that the unit was aging with radioactive substances, without taking measures to determine the level of radiation, dyatlov sent a subordinate personnel to clarify the situation in the danger zone without the accompaniment of the dosimetric control service, the press was allowed. shchena denmark and the sentencing of the hearings themselves in view of the special significance of the object were carried out in a cl