Federal_Atomic_Energy_Agency

Federal Agency on Atomic Energy (Russia)

Federal Agency on Atomic Energy (Russia)

Former Russian federal executive body in 1992-2008


Ministry for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation and Federal Agency on Atomic Energy (or Rosatom), were a Russian federal executive body from 1992–2008 (as Federal Ministry in 19922004 and as Federal Agency in 20042008).

The Ministry for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation (Russian: Министерство по атомной энергии Российской Федерации), or MinAtom (МинАтом), was established on January 29, 1992 as a successor of the Ministry of Nuclear Engineering and Industry of the USSR.

On March 9, 2004, it was reorganized as the Federal Agency on Atomic Energy.

According to the law adopted by the Russian parliament in November 2007, and signed by the President Putin in early December, the agency was transformed to a Russian state corporation (non-profit organisation), the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation.[1]

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  1. "Rosatom State Corporation registered". Rosatom. 2007-12-17. Retrieved 2008-01-05.

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