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All
the technogenic disasters in all the countries have some common
roots (natural calamities, human factor, etc), however, Russia’s
disasters have some specific traits rooted in our policies.
This refers to abrupt and ill-conceived commercialisation
of the spheres that had to be governed with professionalism
and rational conservatism. Thus, for example, there was not
a single professional power engineer in the RAO Unified Energy
System of Russia board since 2002, the board had only specialists
in financial flows.
By the way, the Ministry of Atomic Energy (Rosatom) demonstrates
the same picture. This was further aggravated by abolishing
of the old standards (GOSTs) and replacing them by new technical
regulations which has been still going on. This means that
a huge bulk of technological safety requirements was simply
abolished and nothing came to replace it for a long time.
One of the arguments was that it was allegedly unprofitable
to spend money on tiring preventive measures and routine maintenance
– it was compared with a slipknot on the energetic and dynamic
business.
This led to mass-scale violations of safety measures and,
in particular, to explosions at the Kuzbass mines, to speak
nothing of a frantic electrical energy sector reform YABLOKO
has been opposing from the very beginning.
This reform boosted commercialisation rates by many times
in this strategic industrial sector. Now it is over, the stock
is distributed and rests in someone’s pockets, however, we
still do not see investments into development. And it is obviously
the federal budget, rather than progressive honest investors
who bought the shares for a trifling sum, will cover the repairs
at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro electric power station.
So, where is the money, Anatoli Chubais [the ex-head of RAO]?
This gigantic fraud of the 20th century is prone of more disasters
for us. I shall say nothing about its atomic component. As
I dread even to think about what may happen.
See also:
Energy
Sector Reform
Sergei
Mitrokhin's blog at Echo Moskvi web-site
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