Wassil Neszjarenka
Vasil Baryssawitsch Neszjarenka ( Belarusian Васіль Барысавіч Несьцярэнка , Russian Василий Борисович Нестеренко Vasily Borisovich Nesterenko ; * 2. December 1934 in Krasny Kut , Ukrainian SSR ; † 25. August 2008 ) was a Belarusian nuclear physicists and nuclear reactor expert .
Before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Neszjarenka worked as the director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy in Minsk , where Soviet reactor concepts were developed.
Neszjarenka graduated from the Moscow Higher Technical School in 1958 . In 1968 he became a doctor of technical sciences and in 1969 a professor. Since 1972 he has been a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus . In 1979 he was honored with the title of Honored Worker in Science and Technology of the BSSR and in 1986 he received the State Prize of the BSSR. Wassil Neszjarenka was the author of more than 300 scientific papers, including 15 monographs.
During the reactor accident of 1986 he was a direct participant in the helicopter actions, which dropped various materials on the reactor in order to contain the release of radioactivity . Three of his companions in the helicopter at that time died in the medium-term post-accident phase of more acute radiation effects; he himself survived until 2008, whereby he attributed his illness, which ultimately caused death through surgery, to the radiation exposure at the time.
After a change of heart in 1986, Neszjarenka worked hard to help the radiation victims of the accident, especially the thousands of children who had to fight with radiation-related thyroid cancer , and in 1990 he founded the Belrad Institute with Andrei Sakharov for this purpose . On April 27, 2001, at Neszjarenka's request, the Franco-Belarusian organization Enfants de Tchernobyl Bélarus ( Children of Chernobyl, Belarus ) was founded, which he headed as Vice President until his death. He was also active as a journalist in the field of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ; accessed on January 17, 2018
- ^ The Truth about Chernobyl . In: Science in Society Archive ; accessed on January 18, 2018
- ^ Official website of Enfants de Tchernobyl Bélarus ; accessed on January 18, 2018
- ^ Death of an exceptional resister: Vassili B. Nesterenko . In: (PDF) Press release from Enfants de Tchernobyl Bélarus from August 26 , 2008 ; accessed on January 18, 2018
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| SURNAME | Neszjarenka, Wassil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neszjarenka, Wassil Baryssavich (full name); Несьцярэнка, Васіль Барысавіч (Belarusian-Cyrillic); Nesterenko, Wassili Borissowitsch (Russian-Latin); Нестеренко, Василий Борисович (Russian-Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian nuclear physicist and nuclear reactor expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnyj Kut , Ukrainian SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 2008 |