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This is an archived page. Please visit the new Ukraine country profileUkraine: Chornobyl NPP Administrative Developments 
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5/4/98: CHORNOBYL CHIEF DISMISSED Serhiy Parashin was fired from his position as plant manager of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant for "crude violation of his duties and executive discipline."[1,3,5,7] The dismissal came partly in response to a letter Parashin sent to President Leonid Kuchma and to the Ministry of Energy in which he expressed his opposition to the operating principles of Enerhoatom, Ukraine's national energy company.[1,2,3,5,6] In Parashin's opinion, Enerhoatom was organized too hastily and violated nuclear legislation by failing to procure a proper license to run nuclear power plants.[2,3,5] In an interview conducted after his dismissal, Parashin stated that under the present system "no one bears juridical responsibility." According to Parashin, Ukraine's nuclear energy industry is ". . . returning to a system under which safety becomes a secondary thing and carrying out supervisors' orders is a primary thing."[6] In addition to these complaints, Parashin did not support plans by Enerhoatom to close Chornobyl by 2000.[6,7] Nur Nigmatullin, president of Enerhoatom, viewed Parashin's direct appeal to Kuchma as a violation of the principle of subordination, and stated that "by speculating on the notion of responsibility for the safety of a nuclear facility, Parashin groundlessly claimed that nuclear legislation had been violated in the process of reorganizing Ukrainian nuclear power plants and suggested suspending the regulating documents of Enerhoatom."[1,2] Parashin was replaced by Vitaliy Tovstonohov, a representative of Enerhoatom and former chief engineer at Chornobyl.[3,4,5] Sources: [1] Interfax, 4 May 1998; in "Chernobyl Chief Dismissed for 'Crude Violations' of Duties," FBIS-SOV-98-124. [2] Interfax, 5 May 1998; in "Chornobyl Ex-Director Views Reasons for Dismissal," FBIS-SOV-98-125. [3] Interfax, 6 May 1998; in "Political Overtones Seen Behind Chornobyl Manager Dismissal," FBIS-SOV-98-135. [4] Interfax, 5 May 1998, "Novyy i.o. generalnogo direktora chernobylskoy AES uveren v neobkhodimosti sushchestvovaniya kompanii 'Energoatom'." [5] Vitaliy Portnikov, "Chernobylskoy radiatsii dali novogo direktora," Russkiy telegraf online edition http://www.mosinfo.ru:8080/news/rtf/index.html, 6 May 1998. [6] Volodymyr Zamanskyy and Iryna Titova, "The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Director Has Been Dismissed. What is Next?" Kiyevskiye vedomosti, 11 May 1998, p. 6; in "Former Chornobyl Director on his Dismissal," FBIS-SOV-98-149, 29 May 1998. [7] Olga Musafirova, "Otstranen direktor Chernobylskoy AES," Komsomolskaya pravda, 6 May 1998, p. 1. {Entered 6/3/98 SP} Page last updated 12 June 1998 Comments or questions? Contact Michael Jasinski at MIIS CNS: Michael.Jasinski@miis.edu 
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