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	CNS - Minatom Regional Policy: Rumiantsev, One Year Later
		To reach that goal, however, Minatom had to solve two tasks: (1) find a solution to the problem of spent fuel that has accumulated over the years and will continue to accumulate should the sector expand, and (2) find the resources to finance the expansion of the sector.
		Minatom is also trying to expand its markets to other countries and increase cooperation with former Soviet satellite states.
		Minatom's exports and the nuclear spent fuel project were also considered as good sources of additional hard currency.
	cns.miis.edu /cns/projects/nisnp/research/regional/wks02/sonia.htm (2079 words)

	Medicine & Global Survival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Data from Minatom are scanty; others, however, measured a rate of radioactivity of 0.4 milliroentgens (0.35 millirem) per hour on a highway 30 km away on the day of the explosion [3].
		Minatom, struggling to survive economically in the post-Soviet world, is trying desperately to complete the plant in order to compete with the British (Sellafield) and French (Cogema) reprocessing plants.
		Minatom is dangling jobs and playing the card of Russian national pride in trying to garner local, national, and international support for the project.
	www.ippnw.org /MGS/V2N1RushKras.html (3482 words)

	Asia Times: Moscow's nuclear dreams burn on
		Minatom also says efforts to retrieve the distressed submarine should be put off and the vessel should be left in the Barents Sea to forestall radiation leaks likely to occur during salvage operations.
		Minatom is planning a new nuclear waste storage site to be built either on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the far north or the Chukotka Peninsula in the far northeast.
		These days Minatom is trying to push through an amendment that will allow it to take in thousands of metric tons of spent nuclear fuel.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/BI15Ag01.html (1024 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Nation \| World / Nuclear Shadow
		But Minatom, the Russian atomic energy agency that is cash-hungry, has little regard for official Kremlin policy, and it seems to have no compunctions about any role it might have, or have had, in helping Iran to become a nuclear military power.
		The current head of Minatom, Alexander Rumyantsev, insisted during a trip to Washington earlier this month that the light water nuclear reactor under construction in Iran cannot be used to develop material for weapons and does not pose a proliferation threat.
		Minatom is unable to sell its goods to Western markets that remain closed to it, and nuclear scientists, no longer employed by the Soviet government, live in remote, impoverished communities, sometimes not receiving a paycheck for months, their desolation a source of constant worry for nonproliferation specialists.
	www.boston.com /globe/nation/packages/nuclear_shadow (2163 words)

	Minatom at the edge \| thebulletin.org
		Minatom has been trying to make up for some of the shortfall by promoting a host of commercial, profit-making activities that have generated controversy as well as hard currency.
		Minatom is increasingly charged with taking on new functions, which in the absence of adequate funding threaten to undercut even more its effectiveness in dealing with previously assigned roles.
		It follows that Minatom's overtures to attract Western nuclear power technologies and investments are worth serious consideration on their own merits--and as a way to win the trust of the new generation of leaders.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=mj99khripunov (4100 words)

	Russia to buy back spent nuclear fuel burnt in Iranian reactor
		Minatom has long advocated for the project to import foreign spent nuclear fuel to Russia for storage and reprocessing, claming that it may bring a profit of up to $20bn, given 20,000 tonnes of fuel is shipped in.
		Minatom has so far rejected such proposal, but at the same time has become more cautious in blatantly denying nuclear weapons ambitions of Iran as the ministry did before.
		Minatom stated earlier that the spent fuel would not remain in Iran after contractual documents between the two parties were made public by Greenpeace, where the return of spent nuclear fuel was not stipulated.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/apr/1134.html (1112 words)

	Minatom is Prepared to Illegally Import Nuclear Waste From the US
		Regardless of Minatom's discussion of such possibilities, Russian law strictly prohibits import of foreign radioactive wastes to Russia with the goal of reprocessing without return of reprocessing wastes to the country of origin (as regulated by the Resolution of the Russian President No. 773, from June 29, 1995).
		The Russian State Duma is currently considering an amendment to the Law on Environmental Proetection, which for all intents and purposes allows import of foreign radioactive wastes to Russia for long-term storage or disposal.
		Minatom's representative in the deal is the Tenex company; the Slovakian side is represented by Slovak Electricity Utilities SE.
	www.nuclear-free.com /english/minatom.htm (814 words)

	Kremlin can't control secretive nuke agency / Stalin's creation making reactor for Iran
		Even though Minatom employs more than 600,000 people and has an annual budget estimated to be about $1 billion, about 1.5 percent of Russia's federal budget for 2002, it keeps many of its actions hidden from both parliamentary and government monitoring agencies -- and even from President Vladimir Putin.
		Critics charge that Minatom takes advantage of its secrecy status in order to engage in transactions that have little to do with Russian defense and pay little regard to the country's strategic interests.
		Minatom announced in July a 10-year, $10 billion plan to build five more reactors on the eastern banks of the Persian Gulf, drawing scathing criticism from Abraham.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/01/MN156594.DTL&type=printable (1566 words)

	Proliferating Profit - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Minatom wrote off the millions as "research" expenses, though embezzlement is widely presumed.
		Minatom's financial malfeasance gestures to broader indiscretions that have ramifications for global security.
		So long as Minatom continues to be blamed for exporting technological know-how and nuclear material, the Kremlin has no reason to end its tacit support for Minatom's projects.
	www.hpronline.org /news/2003/06/08/World/Proliferating.Profit-437679.shtml (1306 words)

	1999 Pulitzer Prizes-INTERNATIONAL REPORTING, Works
		Its domain includes 10 secret cities where Russia's nuclear weapons were designed and built; scores of research facilities and institutes; 29 nuclear-power reactors; uranium, diamond and gold mines, and even farms to feed its estimated one million employees and family members.
		On a recent evening, hundreds of Minatom stalwarts gathered to celebrate that past in Moscow's Hall of Columns, a majestic 18th century ballroom under whose chandeliers Lenin, Stalin and Brezhnev lay in state.
		Minatom officials admit that so far they have been paid only $50 million for their work.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/1999/international-reporting/works/fission_for_cash.html (2274 words)

	Minatom's results in 2001
		This event was accompanied by the information that Minatom did not pay to the contractors, and that the unit launch led to the excessive energy supply in the region.
		Minatom claims that works on filling in the Karachay lake are completed for 80%.
		Minatom, however, keeps forgetting that the plutonium reactors had to be shut down in 2000.
	bellona.org /en/international/russia/npps/23672.html (1291 words)

	Nuclear \| Greenpeace Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The continuation of the MinAtom's activity, of which we're the witnesses, and especially implementation of its "promising" plans of the nuclear complex development are leading to growing contaminated areas, health risks, and endanger country's future population.
		What MinAtom proposes is to enhance the number of nuclear objects (including nuclear plants), to increase the output of radio-chemical reprocessing facilities which deal with spent nuclear fuel, and so on.
		MinAtom's still blaming X-rays diagnostic devises in all the cases of the radiation sickness.
	www.greenpeace.org /russia/en/campaigns/nuclear (1446 words)

	ITS
		Officials with MinAtom, which has long been known as a lucrative feeding ground for corrupt officials and the resurgent Russian Mob, believe they can use the new stream of money to rebuild crumbling nuclear facilities and then reprocess the waste into weapons-grade uranium.
		MinAtom actively courted this very scenario in a December 1998 letter, in which Adamov shrewdly reminds U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson of the political, environmental and legal problems surrounding the Yucca Mountain site.
		Perhaps this is why the NRDC's partnership with MinAtom, the NPT and the former CIA men has not served to muzzle criticism of the plan by environmentalists in Russia, where it is fiercely opposed by all the leading green groups.
	marcosaba.tripod.com /its.html (2435 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today
		Minatom was in charge of producing and storing civilian and defense nuclear materials, the development and testing of nuclear weapons, and the elimination of excess nuclear warheads and munitions.
		Rose Gottemoeller, a key liaison with Minatom during the Clinton administration, said that one challenge will be to re-establish a rapport between the corresponding ministers, as U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham’s counterpart will now be Russian Minister of Energy and Industry Viktor Khristenko instead of Rumyantsev.
		Speculation that Minatom’s demise might lead to the cancellation of the Bushehr project was dispelled with the March 22 announcement by the Federal Atomic Energy Agency that a trip to Iran to finalize the agreement to transfer nuclear fuel to Iran was not canceled, merely postponed.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2004_04/Minatom.asp (640 words)

	Mystery Proposal Could Subjugate Minatom to Three Government Bodies
		Minatom's building — a masterpiece of Stalin architecture — may soon be out for sale.
		The document — whose authorship officially remains a mystery — was delivered to Putin on July 10 and deals in its opening with an analysis of Russia's looming programme to import, store and reprocess foreign radioactive waste.
		Then, last year, Minatom began leading a charge to abandon legislation prohibiting the import of radioactive waste to Russia, saying waste storage and reprocessing fees could net Russia $20 billion over the next ten years.
	www.bellona.no /en/international/russia/nuke_industry/25046.html (1011 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In addition, Minatom was presumably behind both an appeal issued to lawmakers by a group of prominent Russian scientists in favor of the legislation, and the circulation of reports saying that Russian environmental groups had also lined up behind it.
		Minatom has portrayed the plan as a possible savior for Russia's declining nuclear industry, claiming that it could earn Russia US$20 billion over the next ten years.
		That money, Minatom claims, could be used to help clean up Russia's own nuclear waste problem as well as to revitalize the nation's nuclear industry.
	www.jamestown.org /email-to-friend.php?article_id=18237 (806 words)

	Physics Today September 2001
		Minatom has only one train that can carry nuclear waste, and the decline in rail maintenance heightens the risk of a transport accident.
		Minatom's bookkeeping is hard to interpret, since part of the agency's budget is classified as secret.
		Minatom is already taking flak over some of its current international deals because of its lax financial controls.
	www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-54/iss-9/p24.html (1356 words)

	WISE NC; ACCIDENT AT RUSSIAN SOSNOVY BOR-3
		Minatom's chief operating engineer, S.P. Krylov, informed the IAEA that the release of Inert radioactive gases had only reached a level of 319 curies/day (the maximum permissible release, according to the IAEA, is 500 curies/day).
		Minatom reported the environmental releases were through the aerosol filters of the plant and that the reactor had been stopped and was cooling down.
		Even in the official press release from Minatom, the figures for the radioactive release of Iodine-131 are listed as "less than 0.2 curies/day" when the maximum permissible release is 0.05 curies/day.
	www.antenna.nl /wise/369/3619.html (1146 words)

	NEW ON THE SEPP WEB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the fall of 1991, as the Soviet Union was disintegrating, officials from MinAtom - the Soviet equivalent of our Department of Energy (DOE) - came to see Senators Sam Nunn, Richard Lugar et al.
		MinAtom was in the process of dismantling tens of thousands of Cold War-surplus nukes.
		MinAtom was determined to dispose of the recovered plutonium as MOX, but it didn't have the funds to build the necessary plants.
	www.sepp.org /NewSEPP/Radio-ActivePolitics.htm (638 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		To top it off, Minatom is financing what is says is a civilian nuclear program in Iran that US officials - and even one Russian scientist on the project - have said is a cover-up for a nuclear weapons program in that country.
		Though rumours of Minatom`s dismantlement were not discussed at the conference, Shingarev, in his presentation, was open about the public`s negative image of the ministry`s SNF import and reprocessing plans.
		Citing a poll conducted for Minatom, he said some 90 percent of the country was opposed to the imports, which are now beginning to trickle in from Eastern European customers.
	nuclearno.ru /text.asp?3904 (1787 words)

	Nuclear Engineering International: Adamov leaves under a cloud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		However, he had been coming under mounting pressure for alleged corruption, abuse of office and a controversial plan to import spent nuclear fuel for storage, and reportedly asked to be relieved of his post, His successor was another surprise - career scientist Alexander Rumyantsev, executive director of the Moscow-based Kurchatov Institute.
		Minatom hopes to earn $20 billion over 12 years by accepting 20,000 tonnes of spent fuel for processing and storage.
		He said Minatom should be headed by a "unique person", especially as it functions as "a state within a state" with its own closed cities, electric power stations, industrial production and scientific centres.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3829/is_200105/ai_n8936674 (1127 words)

	International Nuclear Safety Center Weekly Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The meetings were intended to discuss the structure and organization of the Russian International Nuclear Safety Center (RINSC) and to discuss proposals for initial joint projects for collaboration between the US and Russian INSCs.
		The role of the RINSC is one of coordination of safety RandD for MINATOM.
		MINATOM funding for activities of the RINSC was indicated to be 3 billion rubles (about $600K) for the year beginning 1 Jan. 1997.
	www.insc.anl.gov /insc/weekly/96_06_28.html (465 words)

	GREENPEACE CALLS ON DUMA TO REJECT CHANGES TO ENVIRONMENT LAW TO ALLOW IMPORT OF FOREIGN NUCLEAR WASTE
		MINATOM believes that over the next decade it could import up to 20,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel from countries including Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Taiwan, South Korea, China - in contracts worth up to $21 billion.
		Valentin Ivanov, MINATOM first deputy Minister, claims that the contracts would be for temporary storage and or reprocessing.
		MINATOM argues that by taking the world's unwanted radioactive waste it will be able to; upgrade its own nuclear waste storage, remediate some heavily contaminated land, and expand its nuclear reprocessing operations at the Mayak nuclear complex, 2,500 km east of Moscow in the Ural mountains.
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/nucwaste/2000dec21.html (436 words)

	Minatom Official Admits Iran is Hedging on Returning Bushehr SNF
		MOSCOW - An official at Russia's Ministry for Atomic Energy, Minatom, has said that Iran is balking at contractual agreements stipulating the return of spent nuclear fuel after Russia has for months assured the world — particularly the United States — that all such contracts were ready to be signed, a Russian news agency reported.
		According to the news report, the Minatom source said Moscow had asked Tehran recently to promptly sign the agreement — which had not been included as a clause in the original construction contracts — on the return of spent, low-grade radioactive material.
		The disclosure of Iran's stalling on the SNF contracts could be construed as an embarrassment in the wake of bold announcements last month by Deputy Nuclear Ministers Lev Ryabev and Valery Lebedev — and even Nuclear Minister Rumyantsev himself — that the SNF would be returned to Russia to prevent any proliferation risks.
	www.bellona.no /en/international/russia/nuke_industry/co-operation/26052.html (1017 words)

	AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND THE MINISTRY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR ATOMIC ENERGY ...
		MINATOM shall seek to deliver this uranium to the United States as expeditiously as possible in 1999.
		MINATOM shall notify DOE when it is prepared to deliver 3,082,774.87 kilograms of this feed component.
		MINATOM shall notify the DOE when it is prepared to provide the final 1,000,000 kilograms of feed component associated with 1998 deliveries.
	www.armscontrol.ru /START/docs/heu99t.htm (1408 words)

	News from the USIA Washington File
		The MinAtom, and/or its designated organizations, shall use all assistance provided pursuant to Article IV of this Agreement exclusively for activities related to the conversion of the cores of those reactors listed in Article I paragraph 2 of this Agreement.
		The MinAtom, and/or its designated organizations, shall take immediate possession of the materials upon arrival, examine the materials received pursuant to this Agreement, and provide confirmation to the DoD, and/or its designated organizations, within ten days of receipt that it conforms with the specifications established by the MinAtom.
		In the event that the MinAtom should fail to achieve an agreed project milestone or the DoD should fail to provide an agreed level of assistance, including funding, to support an agreed project milestone, either Party may request consultations to determine how best to achieve the objectives of this Agreement under those circumstances.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/russia/1997/97092324_wpo.html (1051 words)

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