First Deputy General Director of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC, President of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Nuclear Power Plant Operation, Doctor of Engineering, Vladimir Asmolov held a press conference on May 19 in the ТKomsomolskaya PravdaУ press centre devoted to the ТSafety of the Russian nuclear branch: results of inspections of the domestic nuclear power plants. Lessons of FukushimaУ.

During the press conference with the participation of the representatives of the leading Russian and foreign mass-media, Vladimir Grigoryevich has appraised the accident on the ТFukushima NPPУ, and paid attention to the safety issues of the Russian nuclear branch.

Vladimir Asmolov has also reminded that the last stage of corporate partner check of the World association of the organizations running NPPs in Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC has just end in late April. Experts of the World association have inspected the Russian nuclear power plants and, according to Vladimir Asmolov, for the first time this report will become open.

The initiator of this partner check was Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC itself.