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A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: June 23, 2004
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Rumyantsev was optimistic regarding reforms in the Atomic Agency and promised to reduce its staff from 623 to 500 people and keep the dialogue with the environmental organisations, including radical ones. Concerning Zheleznogorsk Chemical Combine, Rumyantsev said about the intention to draw a plan for conversion of the production there. Zheleznogorsk is still a problem city for us added Rumyantsev.
Besides, the head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency, or FAEA, assured that the environmental situation is improving. Environmental issues are very sensitive, but we have begun to deal with them professionally he added.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
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