FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF REACTOR DESIGNERS Academician Nikolai Khlopkin: "Anatoly Alexandrov trained reactor designers for detailed and permanent participation in solving of design problems, taught to see engineering particulars of marine plants and to know them, to know not only physics but also engineering, to thoroughly understand drawings and schemes related to a nuclear power plant and know its equipment, as he believed that a combination of calculation, experimental and design work yields important results. He himself carefully studied drawings, especially when problems occurred in structural concepts. Attention to details was an important feature of his character. He instructed them not to disregard minor items, which could conceal an unexpected result. Knowledge and potentialities to understand drawings and schemes helped staff members find a common language with workers of design offices and production plants: it was sufficient to say that they came on the instructions of Alexandrov, and all problems were solved without delay. Alexandrov entrusted everybody with work according to his abilities, he knew how to interest an employee and induce him to creative work. He possessed an unusual insight and instantly determined abilities and potentialities of man, what could be expected of him at this or that place. He was rarely mistaken." Yevgeny Burlakov, Cand. Sc. (Tech.) and Alexander Kalugin, Cand. Sc. (Phys. & Math.) (1938-2010): "As a research supervisor of commercial reactors Alexandrov took part in matters of their design, start-up and operation. Once at Industrial Complex No. 817 (today Mayak Production Association, Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Region.-- Ed.), the state of an in-core structure was under discussion (it was in the mid-1960s, i.e. fifteen years after the start-up of graphite-uranium reactors of the AB type). The matter was that the assembly unit in question was in an absolutely inaccessible place; th ... Читать далее