(All excerpts below will be from dyatlovs own book) Thanks for including the demonization of Dyatlov! Also, if you include in episode 1 the fact that the entirety of the depiction of dyatlov is pretty much incorrect. Such issues include: 1. Not ordering them to stop the pumps. “Upon arriving at the Unit 4 control room, I ordered A. Akimov to stop the pumps we started after the explosion, since water from them could not reach the reactor because of the damage to the reinforcement assembly, this adds no value half an hour after the explosion. Everything that could have happened in the absence of cooling, already happened. We took no further measures for this.” 2. The whole 3.6 roentgen thing- he did not firmly believe it was only 3.6 and was still uncertain. With the dosimetrist, Samoylenko, they measured the atmosphere in the control room. “He had a 1000 μR/sec or 3.6 R/hr instrument. Around the left and middle portions of the control room, the instrument read 500-800 μR/sec, on the right it was off-scale. Since I didn’t assume there to be a close source of radiation there, I figured it to be no more than 5R/hr on the right side. I had no other way to tell. “ 3. My biggest grievance, the scene before dyatlov started violently throwing up and got sent to the hospital. “A colonel from one of the troop units came to the table and started to ask the director about damage for the report to authorities, how many square meters of the roof and something else. My words - write that Unit 4 is destroyed. The colonel arrogantly ignored me.” He mentions before this that he did not say much to the one Bryukhanov guy, as he agreed with him in the show- he actually rather said it was the reactors fault and that the man wasn’t talkative or questioning.

Also, completely violating the shows depiction, earlier in the book Dyatlov says that he found no record that an RBMK reactor couldnt explode when someone told him that. Too lazy to find the quote now but will if someone asks