Boris Fedorovich Gromov. From a Student to Principal Scientific Leader
The article describes some biographical features of B.F. Gromov's activity and initiation of a principally new nuclear power installation with lead-bismuth liquid metal coolant. The complicated problems which had to be solved by many organizations and, first of all, by IPPE under B.F. Gromov's scientific supervision are presented. The causes of failures of reactor installations, the methods of elimination of those causes during the process of mastering the nuclear power technology, which was and is remaining unique in the world, have been considered.