Rosatom

Headquarters in Moscow

Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation (Rosatom) (Russian: Росатом), is a state corporation in Russia, the regulatory body of the Russian nuclear complex. It is headquartered in Moscow.

History

The Ministry for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation (Russian: Министерство по атомной энергии Российской Федерации), or MinAtom (МинАтом), was established on January 29, 1992 as a successor of the Ministry of Nuclear Engineering and Industry of the USSR. It was reorganized as the Federal Agency on Atomic Energy on March 9, 2004. According to the law adopted by the Russian parliament in November 2007 and signed by the President Putin in early December, the agency was transformed to a state corporation.

Activities

Rosatom controls nuclear power holding Atomenergoprom, nuclear weapons companies, research institutes and nuclear and radiation safety agencies. It also represents Russia in the world in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy and protection of the non-proliferation regime. Rosatom manages the Russian fleet of nuclear icebreakers through Atomflot.

OKB Gidropress, which develops the current Russian nuclear power station range VVER, is a subsidiary of Rosatom.

Management

Rosatom was directed by Yevgeny Adamov until he was ousted by President Vladimir Putin in 2001. He was replaced by Alexander Rumyantsev (2001–2005). The current head of Rosatom is Sergei Kiriyenko.

See also

• Ministry of Medium Machine Building of the USSR
• Nuclear power in Russia
• Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
• Institute for High Energy Physics
• Atomenergoprom
• Tekhsnabexport
• Energy policy of Russia

External links

• Official website of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy (Russian)
• Old official website of Ministry for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation (English) (link broken, observed November 15, 2009)