Andrei Malyshev has been appointed acting head of the Russian nuclear regulatory body, the newly formed Federal Environmental, Technological and Atomic Supervisory Service – the Nuclear Society of Russia (NSR) announced on 12th July.
Mr Malyshev was a minister in the former Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom) and head of the former regulatory body, Gosatomnadzor.
Minatom was abolished and replaced by the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency by Russian president Vladimir Putin in March 2004 – and Gosatomnadzor was replaced by the Federal Atomic Supervisory Service [see News No. 58, 12th March 2004]. Both bodies were placed under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Ministry of Industry and Energy.
Last week, however, Mr Putin further announced that the country’s three main regulatory bodies – in the fields of nuclear, environment and technology – were being united in one organisation: the Federal Environmental, Technological and Atomic Supervisory Service – “to reduce administration barriers”.
