India Trapped with Nuclear Mafia . റഷ്യ ഇൻഡ്യയ്ക്ക് വെറും പന്ത്രണ്ട് ആണവ റിയാക്ടർ നല്കുന്നു. ഒപ്പ് വെച്ചു. റസറ്റൊം എന്ന സ്ഥാപനം അഴിമതിക്കും കാര്യ നിർവ്വഹണ ശേഷിയിൽ പിന്നിലും കൊടുകാര്യസ്ഥതയ്ക്കും അനാസ്ഥയ്ക്കും വളരെ പ്രശസ്തമാണ്‌. നിർമ്മിച്ചു നല്കുന്ന ഉല്പന്ന ഗുണമേന്മയിൽ കൂടിയല്ല ഇവർ ഓരോ സ്ഥലത്തേക്കും പടർന്നു പന്തലിച്ചത് പകരം അഴിമതിക്കാരായ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർക്കും രാഷ്ട്രീയക്കാർക്കും കൈക്കൂലി കൊടുത്ത് തന്നെയാണ്‌. കൂടം കുളത്തിനെന്ന പോലെ ലോകത്തിലെ പല രാജ്യങ്ങളിലും പ്രശ്നമുണ്ടാക്കിയ ഒരു സ്ഥാപനം..... എന്തിനായിരിക്കാം ഇത് ഇൻഡ്യഗവണ്മെന്റ് ചെയ്യുന്നത് Adequacy of qualified staff In 2006, Rosatom had only approximately 5,000 professional construction workers, well below the number needed to scale up its ambitious programme to build new reactors.100 By 2012, Rosatom managed to considerably expand its construction staff. However, many of these workers were poorly paid migrants from the former Soviet republics. According to a local NGO working at the site of the Leningrad nuclear power plants, the workers were subjected to living conditions akin to slave labour. They lived in unhygienic, cold barracks, were paid very low salaries, and often Rosatom officers confiscated their passports to prevent them from leaving the site.101 Corruption in Rosatom’s activities Rosatom, and its predecessors, have had serious and widespread corruption problems, likely due, at least in part, to the structural lack of transparency and external accountability. Between 2009-2012, Rosatom fired 68 executives and 208 mid-level managers due to corruption charges.102 One recent allegation of corruption relating to the top management at Rosatom was the case of Rosatom’s Deputy Director General, Evgeny Yevstratov. He was responsible for nuclear safety. Yevstratov quit his job at Rosatom in April 2011, and was arrested in July on suspicion of embezzling 50 million roubles (around €1.2mn103).104 In November 2012, Yevstratov was released on bail but the case continued.105 Originally Yevstratov was only accused of collaborating with his staff in claiming that research material was his own rather than copies taken from the internet, and pocketing the money intended for research. Later investigators found that Yevstratov and another high-level Rosatom executive, Mustafa Kashka, the Deputy Director General of the corporation’s subsidiary Atomflot, may have embezzled an additional 60m roubles (around €1.5m106) intended for reprocessing of nuclear waste.107 The court case against Yevstratov is still pending as of June 2014. Besides its own corruption problems, Rosatom has also had serious issues with some of its subsidiaries. For example, in 2010, Transparency International Russia and a Kaliningrad-based NGO, Ecodefense, together conducted a detailed review of 200 orders that had been publicly placed on the Rosatom website. The NGOs found that 83 out of 200, or more than 40%, of the orders violated the Russian procurement standards regarding compliance with order placement processes, transparency, and/or use of public money.108 Some of these cases connected with the violation of procurement standards have gained publicity inside Russia. In December 2010, investigative journalists at the Kommersant newspaper reported that Alexei Votyakov, the Director General of the Rosatom waste subsidiary, RosRAO, and his Managing Director, Maxim Belyaev, had purchased nuclear waste containers at a cost of 450m roubles (around €11m109).110 This was estimated to be several times above the normal market price. Rosatom’s own investigation found that the containers were bought without a legally required tender, and in violation of Rosatom’s internal procedures.111 RosRAO’s archives also had letters of acceptance for some undelivered containers. Both men were subsequently fired and prosecuted.112 As of June 2014, there has been no final ruling in this case.
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