OREANDA-NEWS. On July 04-05, 2007 Federation Council Committee on Natural Monopolies hold a guest meeting in Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad region, reported the press-centre of Rosenergoatom.

On July 3 the Committee decided to set up an Ad Hoc Sub-Committee on Nuclear Energy to be chaired by Senator Grigory Naginsky.

Managers of Rosatom and Rosenergoatom, representatives of State Duma, Roskhnadzor, Atomenergoproject, Atomenergoengineering, Power Machines, Izhora Plants, local officials are taking part in the meeting.

They are discussing the problems of power machine building and licensing, regional policies on peaceful nuclear energy with special attention given to the federal nuclear energy development program and the need to create a necessary regulatory base.

The chairman of the Sub-Committee on Nuclear Energy, Senator Grigory Naginsky says: “The federal target program is a turning point from stagnation to development. We have a whole number of problems concerning design, construction and machine building and their quick resolution is a guarantee of the program’s success and the energy security of our country.”

Naginsky points out that the meeting will consider the most important problems and ways to solve them.

The recommendations of the meeting will be submitted to the Government and will serve as a basis for the Committee’s further work.