Federal Atomic Energy Agency Archived Developments
FAAE Departments
FAAE Directorates
FAAE-affiliated Businesses
 
The Federal Atomic Energy Agency was established by Presidential Edict No. 314 of 9 March 2004, On the System and Structure of Federal Organs of Executive Power. It replaced the Ministry of Atomic Energy, itself established by presidential decree on 28 January 1992. The Ministry of Atomic Energy had replaced the Ministry of Atomic Power and Industry (MAPI), which in turn had replaced the USSR Ministry of Medium Machine-Building in 1989. The FAAE controls 151 nuclear production and research facilities.[1] The agency is responsible for the production of all nuclear materials and the development, testing, and production of all nuclear weapons, as well as the elimination of nuclear warheads and nuclear munitions.[2] It is involved in essentially all stages of the naval fuel cycle.[3] In addition, the ministry controls most of the weapons-usable HEU and plutonium not contained in nuclear weapons.[4] According to one estimate, the FAAE controls more than 98% of all nuclear materials in Russia.[5] According to one Russian nuclear official, the agency also has responsibility for safeguards in Russia, MC&A in particular.[6] The FAAE manages the Eleron enterprise, which develops and manufactures physical protection equipment.[7] 
 
The 1998 restructuring of the ministry resulted in the following organizational structure:  14 departments (Nuclear Fuel Cycle; Nuclear Munitions Development and Testing; Nuclear Munitions Production; Nuclear Power Engineering; Industry Economics and Planning; Social Policy, Industrial Relations, and Cadres; Security and Emergency Situations; International and Foreign Economic Cooperation; Nuclear Science and Engineering; Finances, Analysis, and Calculations; Protection of Information, Nuclear Materials, and Facilities; Construction of Nuclear Facilities; Regulatory-Legal Support and Regulation of Forms of Ownership; Nuclear Industry Conversion) and seven directorates (Accounting and Reporting; Social Issues and Production; Administration and Ministry Protocol; Optimization of Production and Economic Relations; Support of the Activities of the Scientific Council and Scientific-Technical Councils; Environment and Nuclear Facility Decommissioning; Nuclear Mechanical Engineering and Instrumentation).[2] This structure is expected to change in 2004.  The 28 June 2004 Statute No. 316, On the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, reduced the number of deputies from eight to four, and changed the structure of the organization from 14 departments and eight directorates to 16 directorates.[8] As of 23 July 2004, the agency had yet to issue a document detailing this new structure.

The FAAE is subordinated to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov directly.  Although Presidential Edict No. 314, which transformed the Ministry of Atomic Energy into an agency, had subordinated it to the Ministry of Industry and Energy, the 20 May Presidential Edict No. 649, Questions of the Structure of Federal Organs of Executive Power, brought it out of the Ministry of Industry and Energy. Its powers, duties, and responsibilities were further defined on 28 June 2004, with the promulgation of Statute No. 316, On the Federal Atomic Energy Agency. The new statute differs from the 1997 statute in the following ways:

Legislation: The new statute granted the FAAE the right to submit bills to the government for consideration. This was critical since the agency had lost that right when it lost the status of a ministry in March 2004. In addition, the agency has been given the right independently to issue regulations over a wide range of activities within its newly expanded purview.

Safety and Security: While the earlier statute made safety and security Minatom's chief task, this has now been de-emphasized. Nevertheless, the legislation does provide the FAAE some new rights that may lead to improved facility security. The new statute continues to include articles related to physical protection, control, and accounting (MPC&A). In addition, it gives the agency the right not only to organize the protection of its facilities but also to issue rules regarding cooperation between agency security forces and territorial security organs and Internal Ministry troops. Earlier legislation in effect gave Minatom responsibility for facility security but no right to give any direction to other organizations providing facility security. It is to be hoped that this legislation will allow the agency to improve security. The articles related to MPC&A have also been modified. The new statute states that the agency independently issues regulations regarding the control and accounting of Russian radioactive materials and radioactive waste as well as the rules for conducting control and accounting of foreign-owned nuclear materials temporarily on Russian territory, and the rules for the issuing of permission to transport radioactive materials.

Oversight: In the area of nuclear regulation, the new statute appears to weaken the power of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Oversight, and increase that of the FAAE. Article 6, paragraph b in the earlier statute required that Minatom provide necessary information on the activities of nuclear complex enterprises and organizations to the Russian government, the nuclear regulatory agency, other regulators, non-governmental organizations, mass media, and the public; Article 6, paragraph d of the earlier statute required that Minatom provide materials evaluating the influence of radiation on the environment near a nuclear installation, radiation source, or storage site for state environmental impact assessments. The new statute, however, gives the agency the right to issue regulations that delimit the functions of federal bodies involved in environmental impact assessments and the adoption of preliminary design and project documentation. This appears to imply that the FAAE will have an important role in determining how much power the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Oversight will have to regulate nuclear installations. One more change in the new statute is the omission of the provision that Minatom consider industrial and environmental safety in choosing the sites for new nuclear complex facilities.

Conversion: The previous statute mentioned enterprise conversion, whereby military enterprises become commercial structures, a half dozen times, while the term is not in evidence in the new legislation. The new statute, however, does mention that some state enterprises in the nuclear energy complex will be converted into joint stock companies, and that the agency will issue regulations governing the issuance of licenses for the operation of these companies.

Nonproliferation and Disarmament: Under the new statute, the agency continues to be a party to international agreements, cooperating with foreign governmental and international organizations. The agency will continue to coordinate the dismantlement of Russian nuclear submarines, and be a party to intergovernmental programs.

While the statute finally provides the basic outlines for agency work, this is only an intermediate step in the reform process. The agency will now have to formulate its own new conceptual principles and carry out internal reforms, converting 14 departments and eight directorates to 16 directorates.

[For more information on the 2004 reforms of the Russian government, see Cristina Chuen, "The 2004 Russian Government Reforms," CNS Research Story, http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/040713.htm. For some past developments related to the Ministry of Atomic Energy, please see the  Archived Ministry of Atomic Energy Developments section. For more information on the FAAE and export control, please see the entry under the Export Controls Administrative Bodies section.] 
Sources:
[1] Oleg Bukharin, "Nuclear Safeguards And Security In The Former Soviet Union," Survival, Winter 1994-1995, p. 58.
[2] "Postanovleniyem pravitelstva opredeleny novyye funktsii i struktura Minatoma," Atompressa, 18 November 1998, p. 1.
[3] Thomas Cochran, Robert S. Norris, Oleg Bukharin, Making the Russian Bomb:  From Stalin to Yeltsin (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), p. 32.
[4] Oleg Bukharin, "Security Of Fissile Materials In Russia," Annual Review of Energy and Environment, 1996, vol.21, p.469.{Entered 7/29/97, SA}
[5] Working Document to the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment Panel of the European Parliament, "Nuclear Safeguards and Nuclear Safety in the East," November 1996, p. 15. {Entered 10/2/97 JP}
[6] CISNP Discussions with Russian Nuclear Official, 4/3-5/96; "Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts From Soviet Nuclear Contamination," OTA-ENV-623, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 9/95, pp. 138-139.
[7] Oleg Bukharin, "Security Of Fissile Materials In Russia," Annual Review of Energy and Environment, 1996, vol. 21, p. 482. {Entered 8/13/97, SA}
[8] Postanovleniye Pravitelstva RF ot 28 iyunya 2004 g. No. 316 Ob utverzhdenii Polozheniya o Federalnom agentstve po atomnoy energii, FAAE Web Site, http://www.minatom.ru/News/Main/view?id=2266&idChannel=124, 30 June 2004. {Entered 12/26/96 KVY, Revised 1/23/97 MEW, 10/6/99 CC, 7/23/04 CC}

HOMEPAGE: http://www.minatom.ru (in Russian)

FAAE Head: Aleksandr Yuryevich Rumyantsev
Rumyantsev was appointed by President Putin on 28 March 2001, following the resignation of former minister Yevgeniy Adamov, who had headed the ministry since 1998.[1,2]  Adamov had replaced Viktor Mikhailov, head of the ministry since its creation in January 1992.[2]  Rumyantsev graduated from the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics in 1969, with a degree in solid state physics.  He then became an engineer at the Kurchatov Institute, where he rose through the ranks.  He has been director of the Kurchatov Institute since 1994.[3]  A specialist in experimental physics, he has continued to do research and teach students while managing the affairs of the Kurchatov Institute.[1,3]  Russian environmentalists have expressed hopes that Rumyantsev may not continue Adamov's push to legalize the import of spent nuclear fuel.[1]  However, the Kurchatov Institute supported the legal changes under review in the Russian Duma, which would allow the import of spent fuel.[4] The Institute has also been involved in a plan to build a repository for temporary storage of spent fuel imported from Asia.[5]  In an interview after his appointment, Rumyantsev did not say what his policies would be on the spent fuel imports issue.  He did say that he had spoken with Putin one week previously about his views on the future of the Russian nuclear branch.  However, he said that he would be working on a new plan with colleagues, concentrate on maintaining growth, and intended to "do no harm" to the industry.[6]
Sources:
[1] Sergey Ivashko, "Rumyantsev oboydetsya Rossii v $20 mlrd," Gazeta.ru electronic news, http://www.gazeta.ru/2001/03/28/rumancevoboj.shtml.
[2] "Yeltsin Appoints Yevgeny Adamov Minister for Atomic Energy," Interfax, 4 March 1998.
[3] "Biografiya novogo ministra po atommoy energii," Strana.ru electronic news, http://www.strana.ru/stories/.../985786574.html.
[4] Duma i kontrol nad vooruzheniyami, PIR Center electronic bulletin, December 2000.
[5] "Russia May Store Japanese Spent Fuel," Nuclear Engineering International, February 1999.
[6] Nina Savvina, "Ya sobirayus ne navredit," Strana.ru electronic news, http://strana.ru/state/.../985794562.html. {Entered 3/28/2001 CC}

MINATOM DEPARTMENTS (BEFORE 2004 FAAE REORGANIZATION)
 
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Department
 
Nuclear Munitions Development and Testing Department

Nuclear Munitions Production Department
 
Nuclear Power Engineering Department
 
Industry Economics and Planning Department
 
Regional, Personnel, and Social Policy Department (formerly the Social Policy, Industrial Relations, and Cadres Department)
 
Security and Emergency Situations Department

International and Foreign Economic Cooperation Department
This Committee is responsible for overseeing the  implementation of international safeguards.[3] 
 Sources:
[CISNP Discussions With Russian Nuclear Official, 4/3-5/96.]

Nuclear Science and Engineering Department
 
Finances, Analysis, and Calculations Department
 
Protection of Information, Nuclear Materials, and Facilities Department

Construction of Nuclear Facilities Department
 
Department of Regulatory-Legal Support and Regulation of Forms of Ownership
 
Nuclear Industry Conversion Department

MINATOM DIRECTORATES (BEFORE 2004 FAAE REORGANIZATION)

Accounting and Reporting Directorate

Administration and Ministry Protocol Directorate

Directorate for the Support of the Activities of the Scientific and Scientific-Technical Councils
 
Directorate for Environment and Nuclear Facility Decommissioning
 
Intergovernmental Cooperation and Information Policy Directorate

Nuclear Mechanical Engineering and Instrumentation Directorate

Optimization of Production and Economic Relations Directorate

Social Issues and Production Directorate

SITUATIONAL CRISIS CENTER
The Situational Crisis Center was created in accordance with Minatom Order No. 676, issued on 15 October 1998. Its goal was to increase Minatom's efficiency and improve the ministry's system for prevention and handling of emergency situations. The Center creates a single information space for the governmental nuclear sector and implements new computer and information technologies. The Center also monitors nuclear industrial plants and their territories to ascertain any potential dangers; reports accidents; and provides informational and analytical support to the Minatom Commission on Prevention and Handling of Emergency Situations and Minatom panels of experts. Within the scope of its routine tasks, the Center:
-monitors radioactive and environmental conditions at the sector's facilities and sites;
-monitors the technical condition of the sector's facilities;
-monitors fiscal and related activities;
-accounts for and controls nuclear materials;
-monitors the transport of nuclear materials, armaments, and radioactive substances;
-provides access to the Center's information database for the sector's businesses.
[Situational Crisis Center Web Site, http://www.skc.ru/skc.] {Entered 4/7/2003  SLK}

BUSINESS CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH FAAE
 
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Nuclear Power Plant Operation (VNIIAES)
Assembly and Construction Trust No. 3, Novovoronezh
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Atomenergoeksport
Atomenergoeksport is the commercial agent of the Ministry of Trade for nuclear contracts.  It is part of the Atomstroyeksport consortium (see below).
[ Interfax, 26 July 1999, "Russia to Help Overhaul Bulgarian Nuclear Station," FBIS Document FTS19990726000994.]

Atomenergozapchast, Novovoronezh
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Atommash Production Association, Volgodonsk, Rostov Oblast
Formerly the biggest Russian manufacturer of equipment for nuclear power stations, Atommash was placed in receivership in 1995.  It continues to operate in a reduced capacity.
Sources:
[1] Judith Perera, The Nuclear Industry in the Former Soviet Union:  Transition from crisis to opportunity (London:  Financial Times Energy Publishing, 1997), Vol. 1, p. 44; Vol. 2, p. 37.
[2] Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.

Atomprom, Moscow
Atompromkompleks Production and Assembly Concern
Atompromkompleks has the following branches:  the East Siberian Production and Assembly Enterprise, Irkutsk; the West-Siberian Production and Assembly Enterprise, Novosibirsk; the Northern Caucasus Production and Assembly Enterprise, Rostov-on-Don; the Northwest Production and Assembly Enterprise, St. Petersburg; and the Southern Urals Production and Assembly Enterprise, Chelyabinsk.
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Atompromresursy, Moscow
 
Atomredmetzoloto (mining of rare metals and gold), Moscow

Atomremmash, Kurchatov, Kursk Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Atomspetskonstruktsiya Testing Factory, Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Atomstroy

Atomstroyeksport

Atomtekhenergo
Atomtekhenergo is a nuclear power engineering company, and also has training centers for nuclear power workers throughout Russia.   It is a constituent of Rosenergoatom, and consists of the parent enterprise and six subsidiaries: Novovoronezhatomtekhenergo (NVATE), Smolenskatomtekhenergo (SmATE), Kalininatomtekhenergo (KliATE), Balakovoatomtekhenergo (BalATE), the Novovoronezhskiy Training Center (NVUTTs), and the Smolensk Training Center (SmUTTs).[2]
Sources:
["Samoye vazhnoye-- sokhranit potentsial,"Atompressa, No. 3, September 1997, p. 2.]

Central Urals Construction Directorate Industrial Construction Company, Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Construction Directorate No. 620, Protvino, Moscow Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Conversbank Investment Bank
["Interfax Financial Report," 22 December 1998, FBIS Document FBIS-SOV-98-356.]

Dimitrovgradstroy, Ulyanovsk Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Donatomstroy, Novovoronezh
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Elektronika (at Kurchatov Institute)

Eleron Association
Eleron is an institute under the control of FAAE which has responsibility for physical security and develops physical security systems. It installed a security fence around the Kurchatov  Institute’s Building 116.  For more information on cooperation between the US Department of Energy and Eleron, see Physical Protection Cooperation between US Department of Energy National Laboratories and Special Scientific and Production State Enterprise ("Eleron") of Russia.[3]
Sources:
["Russia Improving Protection For Sensitive Nuclear Sites," Nucleonics Week, 30 March 1995, p. 12."

Energospetskonstruktsiya, Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Energospetsmontazh, Moscow
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Experimental Electrical Equipment Plant, Moscow
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

First Construction and Assembly Trust, Moscow
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Gorkiy Kimry Plant, Kimry, Tver Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Izhorskiye Zavody Stock Company
Izhorskiye Zavody produces nuclear power plant components, as well as pipes and other equipment.  Much of its stock has reportedly been purchased by Uralmash, the Yekaterinburg machine-building plant.  Izhorskiye Zavody is producing the master engines and steam generators for China's Lianyungang NPP, as well as equipment for the NPP in Bushehr, Iran.
Sources:
[1] Saint-Petersburg Izhorskiye Zavody Stock Company brochure 1999, FBIS Document FTS19990823001418.
[2] Sergey Alekhin: "Izhorshkiye Zavody: We Shall Build Reactor for Iran," Rossiyskaya gazeta 13 February 1999, p. 3, in "Petersburg Plant To Supply Equipment for Bushehr," FBIS Document FTS19990215000317.
[3] "Russia's Giant Metal Wedding," The St. Petersburg Times online edition, www.sptimes.ru, 6-12 April 1998.
[4] "OAO 'Izhorskiye Zavody'," Delovoy Ekspress 24 November 1998; in National News Service, http://www.nns.ru.

Karimos, Inc.
[International Affairs, September 1994, p. 105.]

Kontrakt, Moscow
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Kristall Instrument Factory, Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Lermontov Construction Directorate, Stavropol Kray
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Luch Scientific Production Association
[Nuclear Business Directory, Moscow: 1995, p. 119-121]

Malyshev Mining Utility/Ore Directorate, Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast[1]
Sources:
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Manufacturing and Technology Assembly Directorate (UPTK), Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Moscow Trading and Manufacturing Association
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Mospromtekhmontazh, Moscow
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Oboronpromkompleks State Corporation
Oboronpromkompleks has the following branches:  Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg, Tver, Yaroslavl.[2]
Sources:
[Russian government directive No. 738-p, O naznachenii predstaviteley Rossiyskoy Federatsii v organy upravleniya otkrytykh obshchestv atomnoy promyshlennosti i energetiki, 5 October 1999; in "The legislation in Russia," http://www.law.optima.ru.] {updated 10/28/99 CC}

Orgmontazhproyekt Design and Technology Institute, Moscow
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

OrgstroyNIIproyekt, Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Orgstroyproyekt Lermontov Research Institute, Lermontov, Stavropol Kray
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Perlovskiy Power Engineering Equipment Factory, Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Polyanka Joint-Stock Company
Polyanka handles imports and exports of nuclear industry equipment.

Priargunskiy Mining and Chemical Association Joint Stock Company, Krasnokamensk, Chita Oblast
The combine has Russia's only uranium mine.
Sources:
[1] Judith Perera, The Nuclear Industry in the Former Soviet Union:  Transition from crisis to opportunity (London:  Financial Times Energy Publishing, 1997), Vol.1, p.111.
[2] Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.

Progress Joint-Stock Company, Protvino, Moscow Oblast

Prommekhanomontazh, Seversk, Tomsk Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Promstalkonstruktsiya, Novosibirsk
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Rosatominvest Company

Rosenergoatom, the division of FAAE that oversees Russia's civilian nuclear power plant management.
Sources:
[1]"The Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation.  Structure of the Ministry of Atomic Energy,"Nuclear.ru, http://www.Nuclear.ru, 1 December 2000; in "Structural Directory of Russia's Nuclear Sector," FBIS Document CEP20001213000201.] {Entered 3/14/01 RG}
[2]Post-Soviet Nuclear and Defense Monitor, Exchange/Monitor Publications, 26 October 1998, p.9.]{entered 10/4/99 CC}

Sarov Construction-Industrial Joint Stock Company, Sarov (formerly Arzamas-16), Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Severatomkompleks, Yaroslavl
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Siberian Design Technology Institute, Novosibirsk
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Spetsatommontazh Concern

Spetsmontazhmekhanizatsiya, Moscow
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Spetsstroymaterialy Joint-Stock Company

Sredmashinvest Investment and Insurance Company

Strommashpolimer, Tovarkovo, Kaluga Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Stroyplastpolimer, Yekaterinburg
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Stroypolimerkeramika, Vorotynsk station, Kaluga Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Tekhsnabeksport (Tenex)
Tekhsnabeksport is a Joint Stock Company with 100% state ownership. Tekhsnabeksport carries out export-import transactions for many FAAE enterprises, primarily those involved in the nuclear fuel cycle. Tenex is the executive agent in the 1993 U.S.-Russia HEU-LEU purchase agreement. It also exports natural uranium and radioisotopes.[1,3] Its exports of nuclear fuel to foreign power reactors were taken over by TVEL.  For more information on the latter see TVEL Takes Over Fresh Fuel Export Business.[2]
Sources:
[1] Veronika Romanenkova, ITAR-TASS, 9/5/95; in "Nuclear Weapons-Derived Uranium Exported To US," FBIS-SOV-95-172, 9/5/95.
{Entered 7/10/2002 CC}
[2] Sergey Rybak, "Russia's TVEL to take over fuel export business," NuclearFuel, Vol.24, No.1, 11 January 1999, p.17.
[3] Tekhsnabeksport Web Site, http://www.tenex.ru {Updated 11/8/2002 ES}

Tomsk Construction Materials and Products Plant, Tomsk
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Trans-Atom Motor Transport Company, Moscow
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

TVEL
[Roman Shleynov, "Chernaya Dyra," Novaya gazeta, 29 January 2001; in  Integrum Techno, http://www.integrum.ru.]{Entered 3/14/01 RG}

Udmurtiya Construction Materials Plant
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Uralprommontazh Industrial Assembly Company, Chelyabinsk
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Venta Nizhnyaya Tura Machine-Building Plant, Nizhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Volga Electromechanical Plant, Dubna, Moscow Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

Vostok Industrial Construction Company, Zima, Irkutsk Oblast
[Russian Government Decree No. 851, O prodlenii sroka zakrepleniya v federalnoy sobstvennosti aktsii i "Zolotoy aktsii" aktsionernykh obshchestv, obrazovannykh v khode privatizatsii predpriyatiy Ministerstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii po atomnoy energii,  8 July 1997.]

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Page last updated 23 July 2004
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