Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Rosenergoatom to become joint stock company
Publish date: September 2, 2005
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Rosenergoatom to become joint stock company
The Russian Federal Nuclear Agency, or Rosatom, is to submit a draft to the government of the law development on Rosenergoatoms conversion into a joint-stock company until the end of Septemberá Vremya Novostey reported.
The working group intends to approve the final versions of the conception on converting into a joint-stock company and the draft by the middle of September. Then the documents will be submitted to the legislation governmental commission headed by the vice-prime minister Alexander Zhukov. The conception of Rosenergoatom reconstruction implies that all the current nuclear plants and the ones under construction will remain branches. The nuclear materials will also remain state property.
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